Posted in Food & Snacks, Sensual Pleasures, tagged rooibos, tea on February 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I grew up out in rural Northwestern Nebraska, out on the high prairie. In the summers, by July, the ground everywhere is a light yellow-brown with dried-up prairie grass. Typically, you get a couple-three thunderstorms per week in mid-summer out there, to wind up an otherwise hot-and-windy day. When there’s ging [...]
Posted in Burley, Imports from old blogs, Sensual Pleasures, Trek 800, biking, videos on June 16, 2006 | No Comments »
Last night, on my way back home from the Blue Moose ride, I had a hell of a stiff neck. I rode in the drops most of the way down to Prairie Village and most of the way through the group ride, because I can brake WAY better in that position, but in the [...]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Imports from old blogs, Sensual Pleasures, nostalgia on February 10, 2006 | No Comments »
A while back, Sars over at Tomato Nation wrote a nostalgic piece about being a giddy junior-high girl and the candies we all liked back in those days. Spree was the confection that had kicked off her train of nostalgia. Spree, as anyone between the ages of 25 and 35 may [...]
Posted in Fashion, Imports from old blogs, Sensual Pleasures, Shopping on December 4, 2005 | No Comments »
Is not usually a rationalization for buying a bottle of perfume. The pull of nostalgia took me over today when I was at the drugstore picking up a prescription. My sis and I had been talking about Jovan Musk a while back, a perfume which was our Aunt Debbie’s signature scent for many [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Sensual Pleasures, nostalgia on July 15, 2005 | No Comments »
Hot summer days on the high prairie smell like honey and hay. A haze of dust hangs on the horizon, but if you look right, straight up, the sky is such an intense blue you can hardly stand to look at it. Puffs of hot, dry wind punch into you, drying your sweat, [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Sensual Pleasures on July 11, 2005 | No Comments »
So, some ten years ago or so, I was a teenaged wannabe-intellectual asshole, and I tried to read “Remembrance of Things Past,” didn’t get it, didn’t get past the first book, and later made a complete asshole of myself in a class by commenting that I didn’t get it, found it boring, and couldn’t understand [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Numbered Lists, Sensual Pleasures, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on November 6, 2002 | No Comments »
10 Things:
Lists seem to be a popular journaling diversion, and I feel diversionary today. 5 things I like, 5 things that drive me screaming around the bend, respectively.
Good Stuff!
1. Going up to the top floor of a very tall building and looking out of the windows. I adore looking out over the city. [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Recommendations, Sensual Pleasures, bike commuting on March 6, 2002 | No Comments »
A good bath is one of those things that just caps off my day in a spectacular way.
Finally we have reliable hot water again, it seems. Whatever the hell they were doing to the water-heater and general water supply, it seems they have stopped. I tell you, lukewarm water baths in the midst [...]
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