A humble poet, yet
A crafty mind, sat
At her desk to
Write a love poem.
She began,
“To the noise at dawn
Of deep gurgling,
To the spew of liquid
Into the pot,
To the stained edges
Of plastic and glass.”
And did not finish,
For the coffee was ready.
© 2007 Beck Forsland
So what do you think about this? 
I have a limited time to write, but I wanted to write something happy. Well, of course! Write a top 10 something list. Hmmm what to write …well, Top 10 Pet Peeves is not happy. That’s called “complaining” in parent terms. Top 10 Thing Elav Does To/For Me isn’t always appropriate for public blogs so here are my…
Top 10 Reasons to Live in River Falls, Wisconsin
*sometimes just referring to my situation*
1. There is a university in town.
2. With a clock that chimes at every hour for a few seconds and much longer if it happens to be a Sunday afternoon and you are taking a nap… or trying at that point.
3. There is a river that goes through the town (River Falls people…).
4. The Whole Earth Grocery, commonly known in my blogs as the Coop, is half a block away and I have the key so I can midnight shop!!!
5. It is considered big enough to be a city.
6. The city-center consists of an actual Main Street.
7. The city-center is thirty miles away from St. Paul.
8. It is thirty miles away from the majority of my friends.
9. It is thirty-three miles away from where I used to live: Patagonia, the Tea Garden, the Art store, Whole Foods Grocery, the Thai Restaurant, Starbucks…
…and lastly…
10. where I live is on Main Street and and I can get around without driving!
This is my new easel although some may call it an ironing board. I found it on the side of the road while I walked on my way to school so on the way home I had it under one arm and my canvas under another.
Yesssss!
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
: )
12. You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t a #9 on this list
AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.
A girl contacted me twice in my old site about finding a person she knew a long time ago–Scott Ramsden, my friend who died in March of ‘04 (if it is the same person). I googled his name and this site came up… she is trying to locate him and he is no longer.
Wednesday night at work someone called for Tom and I had to let that person know that Tom had “passed away”. I cannot believe I used that terminology, by the way.
Is that what it will be like a lot? Somebody is always bound to not know that someone has “passed”.
On a funny note, I read a little story in a Reader’s Digest or a journal akin that said approximetly this:
A woman was sending out wedding invitations for her sister to the groom’s side of the family. She decided to go the the philosophy of RSVPing if you are unable to come. The night or day of the wedding everyone had come except the groom’s Aunt Bertha*. Afterwards a couple of now-in-laws informed her that the reason Aunt Bertha had not responded was because she had died a few months prior. The poor now-in-laws had been forced to stare at Aunt Bertha’s empty plate and name tag the whole night yet were able to find humor in the situation, thankfully.
*names have been changed to protect the identity of the persons involved.
Tonight I invited my parents over so I could make them the kind of hot chocolate that Becca made last Saturday. So, I buy Cayenne pepper powder from the Coop, some cocoa powder and head home to heat up some water and guess at what else Becca mixed in with the drink and how much of “what else”.
When my parents came over, I had one drink cooling (the temperature was a little too hot from the water) and I started making the other two drinks, adding a little less Cayenne at my mom’s insistence. My dad took a big sip from the first cup I had made –that is the one with a half a teaspoon of Cayenne pepper– and practically died.
In fact, his stomach really hurt for a while afterwards. DO NOT put too much Cayenne pepper into this drink!
Spiced Hot Chocolate
Mmmm finally a chocolate drink with some depth!
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 1/2 tablespoon pure cocoa powder
1 tiny pinch Cayenne pepper powder
1 mug of warm/hot milk
Directions: mix all together… usually works best if you add dry ingredients together before the wet. Enjoy! Drink!
And, please, let me know what you think!
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