Ok, not the best week ever.
Monday – 15 minutes with Dave after work.
Tuesday – No. I had dinner plans at 7:30 and was busy until then.
Wednesday – Yoga, but no walking.
Thursday – It was our Friday night! And I didn’t feel like cooking, so we went out to dinner. So no, we didn’t walk.
Friday – Nope.
Saturday – Heh. No.
Sunday – Um, no. But I did rollerskate for 3 hours!
I love this song. I love how it starts so low, and builds to a crescendo, and then ends slow again. And I love watching him sing it in this clip from the Old Gray Whistle Test. Though I have to question the screen freeze for this clip, who’s idea was that?
Right about 1:59 he starts to look straight into the camera. You can see his snaggleteeth well, and he’s mesmerizing — I like to watch his lips move as they negotiate his pointy canines.
Perhaps I should get a life, but I know Cristin will love it, too!
Five Years (David Bowie)
Pushing thru the market square, so many mothers sighing
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.’s
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought I’d need so many people
A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
If the black hadn’t a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don’t think
you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you’re beautiful, I want you to walk
We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that’s all we’ve got
We’ve got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that’s all we’ve got
We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that’s all we’ve got
We’ve got five years, what a surprise
We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that’s all we’ve got
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
Jenny came to skating Sunday night, yay!! It was awesome.
Jenny, you left 2 minutes too early! One of those two trick skaters propped himself upside down on his hands and head, tripod style, and put his legs out parallel to the ground in a wide-angle split. Impressive in and of itself. Then his buddy came by and jumped over him!
Here’s some video footage of shuffle skaters in a rink, except we don’t have any obnoxious kids skating around.
Thanks, guys!
Damn it was crowded. Maybe 150 people, plus a grandma and one gnarly dog. Or was it a gnarly granma?
Tyra and Mike!
Bottler machine!
Dave!
Me and one of the brewers!
I was inspired to make turkey pot pies. I had made a bunch of turkey stock last weekend and pulled the leftover turkey bits out of the freezer, along with some cranberry sauce. Here’s what I envisioned – light pasty crusts filled with chopped turkey, diced sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, pearl onions and a heavenly cream sauce, served alongside bright cranberry sauce. Here’s the “Making of.”
Cutting the dough to fit the pie pans.
Forming the dough in the pie shells.
Sauteing the sweet potato and onions.
Mixing the chopped turkey with canned peas and carrots. 
Whisking the cream sauce at a high boil.
Finished pie pans, with “lids” to the left.
Pie pans filled with turkey, sweet potato, carrots and peas.
Topped with cream sauce.
Putting the lids on the pies.
One hour since I started, they are ready to go into the oven.
Fifteen minutes later, they are out of the oven, nice and brown. 
The finished product, served with cranberry sauce on the side – it was all very yummy!!
Here’s how my walking plan shaped up this week:
Monday — I went shopping after work and walked from the Target at Brier Creek to the Michael’s at Brier Creek, and back. I think that counts.
Tuesday — I can’t remember. I think Dave and I took a 19 minute walk after work.
Wednesday — No walking. I went to yoga, though.
Thursday — I took my 15 minute walk after I got home, before Dave got home.
Friday — I went to a yoga workshop, but no walking.
Saturday — W00t! I took a 2.3 mile powerwalk with Tyra.
Sunday — I spent about three hours rollerskating tonight, so I think that counts, too!
Dave and I got new license plates this year, rather than just renewing our old plates.
I looked through the available choices and just had to have this one:
I couldn’t believe this option was available. I’ve never seen it on the road before and I love how unique it is. Sweet!! (pun intended)
Dave got a Blue Ridge Parkway license plate. It costs an extra $30 but $20 of that goes to the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation so, cool.
Replacing license plates should be a 10 minute job. Not today. Mine was quick and easy but Dave’s was not and required a trip to Lowe’s.
His BMW has a bracket that affixes to the car, and the license attaches to the bracket. The license attaches to the bracket by way of four screws pockets built into the bracket. They contain threads appropriate for the screws and have a cushion on the back that prevents the paint from being damaged by the screw tips.
The screw pockets had aged and did not stay in the bracket when I tried to remove the screws – I took out three of the screw pockets along with the screws. You can see this in the left side of the picture below. The right side shows the only screw that came out properly.
So I had to improvise. I forced the fourth screw pocket out of the bracket and then I glued new screw pockets in place. I glued bumpers on the back sides to replace the worn-out cushions. I also had to buy new screws to fit the new, smaller screw pockets.
It worked really well! Here’s the finished product.
A close-up of the new screw pockets in place (on either side):
A close-up of the bumper:
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