Dancing with the Fishes

Today was a great day. We took my birthday money and went to the Tennessee Aquarium. Awesome. Between the River Journey building and the Ocean Journey building, we decided to grab some lunch and noticed a crowd gathering down on the riverwalk. We noticed news cameras, so we went down to see what was happening. It turned out that a group called Project Bandaloop was about to perform a 'dance' from the bridge.
http://www.projectbandaloop.org
It was something to see-definitely not your everyday dance!
At any rate, we enjoyed the trip immensely. On the way home, we stopped at Red Lobster for dinner. It was a nice birthday celebration.

Happy Birthday to me

Today is my birthday, and I am a mess. Yeah, I am getting older, and that is playing a role in my present mood, but it is more than that. Since I am adopted, the whole birth day scenario plays through my mind and I start thinking about my birthmother. I found my birthfamily in 1989, and discovered that my birthmother had died back in 1976, so I never had the chance to meet her. I always try to imagine what my birth day must have been like for her and I always get a bit sad. My birthfather is 84 and lives over 3000 miles away in Oregon. It always seems like God's cruel joke to allow me to find unconditional love and then to put him on the other side of the continent where I can't visit him very often. Neither he nor I have the money to fly back and forth, and besides, he is almost blind now and can barely walk. There is no way he can visit me, and I just don't have the money to visit him.

Anyway, today has been rather leisurely. I didn't have to go anywhere so I bathed the dog, handled animal chores, planted some hot peppers, and began entering recipes into a little print template I created for recipes. Basically, I just enter the information on the template and then print the recipe onto a 4x6 card. I am not saving the recipes on the computer, just printing them. I don't even have a recipe box yet, but I am tired of having to sort through odd scraps of paper to find a recipe. I think having them all on the same sized card will make organization easier.
DH brought home Italian beef hoagies which were good, and I talked to DD for a long time today, so it really wasn't a *bad* day, just a day with nagging undertones. Oh well, to quote Scarlett, "Tomorrow is another day."

The Best Kind of Shopping

Today I stopped by the hardware store and nursery and bought some plants. Happy Birthday to me. I got some squash, both crookneck and zucchini, some peppers, 4 different varieties of hot peppers, some sweet potato slips, and some kitchen herbs. I also bought one Stevia plant just to be a risk-taker. They are rather hard to grow here, but I am going to give it another try.this year. I already have cabbage growing, some carrots and radishes, potatoes, spinach, gourds, and a few other things like basil. It's a makeshift garden as I never got anyone to plow mine up. I just have plants stuck everywhere-in flowerbeds, wheelbarrows, deck containers, and compost piles. It's edible landscaping at it's crudest.

Straight into the Hole

I resist change for the most part. I suppose I have always been a blogger at heart-in email lists and personal notes, but actually publishing my thoughts somewhere has always scared the crap out of me. I equate it to standing naked in a crowded department store. Yet, here I am, heading towards the point of no return, the Event Horizon, as I am sucked further into the Black Hole of cyberspace. I suppose I am just trying to expand, um, spaghettify, my horizons and find some new direction in life now that I have successfully procreated and am heading into the uncertain future.