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In
Tokyo Flash watches (neat looking but pricey)
Vintage Scarab Bracelets
Toast-The innest thing in the world is to have your vintage toaster on your table so you can have toast anytime with real butter,honey,yummy homemade jellies and jams or just yummy jellies and jams
Fresh peaches from the farm-or so the sign says-sold by people in my hood
Yard work and planting flowers
Painting and being artsy with wood
Cake-with or without frosting
Sidewalks
Casseroles to match the cupcakes
Hazel-The TV Show, I know, but whatever , it's like comfort food and I gotta be me

New Tapioca Recipes-C. from Nebraska, that was uber delicioso!
Here it is printed with his permission:

1/3 c. lg. size pearl tapioca (not instant)
2 1/4 c. milk
1/4 tsp. salt
2 eggs
1/2 c. sugar
1/4 tsp. vanilla
Soak tapioca in water for 4 to 12 hours. Add milk and salt. Heat and stir until boiling. Simmer at low heat, uncovered, for 50 minutes, stirring frequently. Add sugar gradually. Beat eggs. Mix with some of hot tapioca. Return slowly to rest of mixture. Bring to boil, stirring constantly for 3 minutes to achieve pudding consistency. Cook 15 minutes. Add vanilla.

Mexican Food: From my new cookbook
Full moon dining outdoors
Olives
The Paramount: I totally dig it this year!
St Benedict

Out
The 200,000 sqft WalMart-Heard Northcross will house the smallest Wal-Mart in Central TX? Sort of Yay !
Staying in and letting the yard get ugly
Chocolate-just haven't been in the mood, it's been weeks, crazy, huh
Amtrak-UGH! why do they depart in the wee hours every time?!
Soy-It's so, uber,ugly, bad for you!!!!!!

Wanted:
Working 16mm Projector
More days off so I can work on projects
More Tapioca Recipes
Impatiens in the backyard
Yoga class
The Champions on DVD-UGH! Cannot get this show anywhere right now

Found:
Cool vintage scarab bracelet
**NEW** Julie Christie Film-Thanks, Paul!

Am I A Luddite?

I found  this website packed with more information than I can take in but it got me thinking about things. Despite working with computers daily and owning one myself, I find I am more Luddite than anything. Yes I own a digital camera but no cell phone, I have a rotary and push button landline. I also own several vintage cameras that still work and that I use as well as cameras that use film. Then there are the turntables, movie projectors (16mm and 8mm would like a super 8mm), 8mm film camera and transistor radios, typewriters (portable and table) and pencils. Pencils and pencil sharpeners that you crank. I love how pencil looks, how a typed letter looks and how a Land Camera photo looks. I like how a rotary phone feels. They are heavy and the way the dial goes around. Can you say dial a number anymore?

Tapioca Sidewalk Art

YES! We are getting sidewalks up and down the street,plus, a paved driveway. Right now the place is a huge mess and we have a mound of dirt and asphalt on our lawn. Looks like that mess is staying awhile but whatever, eventually, I hope, it will go away.

Can't wait to etch our names in the cement. Actually, I am uber excited about this, really can't wait for that!!! Once all this is out of the way we can start talking landscaping, like take down the scarybighuge dead tree and add three cute trees to the front yard. Make that retro driveway etc...

I can't seem to shake this lil obsession with tapioca pudding. I have tried it several different ways. I did coconut, almond and Mexican vanilla (bad, unappetizing color but tasted great) flavors, used evaporated milk, skim milk and let it boil anywhere from a few seconds to 10 minutes. Each time a different tapioca. So far the best was almond, skim milk and let it boil for only seconds. It took longer to set but was light and fluffy.

Want us to try your uncomplicated tapioca pudding recipe? Send us an email! If we love it we'll send you tchokes!

OOOOOOH some Robert Franks and Stieglitz's will be in town??? I checked it out and AMOA states: Key moments in that history are represented, such as Alfred Stieglitz’s The Steerage, 1907, selections from Robert Frank’s The Americans, 1955-56.... starting 5/19 I am there!

Gifties!

Wm gave me the Barry William's Presents: 70s Music Explosion CD set!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, SWEET! 70's am radio flashbacks like: Indian Reservation playing as I am being driven to kindergarten, looking at comics at the Piggly Wiggly with December 1963 playing over my head, sitting in a car wash with my Grandparents listening to Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, one of my first 45s, listening to  the Bay City Rollers in my dance class......
The set comes in a cute 45 record case.
Don't know how much listening to this had to do with me dreaming that William Demarest was my boss and something about a project that would bring Solid Gold back. I was still working in a library, so weird. My cubicle mate was Elinore Donahue and I was excited about having lunch with her and trying to not to ask her about everything from Father Knows Best to Get A Life then being embarassed that I brought a PB&J in an orange and yellow plastic lunch box with missing thermos. Totally random...

Weekend

Man! It's May and that means students return to their homes and the streets are a bit thinned out in the mornings and Paramount movie time begins and there is parking at work as late as 7:30am!!!!!!!


1. Yay! Got the LP copy of the infamous Velvet Underground acetate! Cute, has a green banana. SOOOOOOOOO loving it! Can never, ever tire of the VU

2. Went to the Violet Crown Festival but they had no funnel cake and that is what I wanted to try. Yeah, I have never had funnel cake.

3. Had Lima beans for the first time in a long  time. They were really very yummy and I have Lima bean fever now.

4. Need Jute! Realized that I am out. I use it to make bamboo lamp shades for the Tiki Lamps I have been making.

5. What A Way to Go-one of my favorite films ever! Got to show it to some friends who have never seen it and now they love it too! Actually want to see again. I can get the fever for a movie and just watch and watch over and over. I did this with Rosemary's Baby, Casino,Goodfella's, Bonnie and Clyde, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Darling, Funny Face, The Apt, Corrina, Corina, Giant...

6.Hmmmm I have an aptitude for constant repetition though I have never felt like I am in a rut.

7. The last thing I thought of before I fell asleep on Sunday was Ken Nordine and how I had not thought of him in awhile. In a Ken Nordinemood, jonzing for Ken Nordine. I was after the LPs for awhile, yeah right! But I'm ready for them on cd now. I really love Colors and Wink.

8. Been obsessed with this page.

Chelsea Creekside Apartments

I used to live at these apartments and what a hell hole. One evening I had guests come over for the first time. It began to rain as they entered , as soon as they sat down the entire living room had to be moved into the kitchen. Water had begun to seep into the room at a rapid pace threatening my flokati, the entire living room and the soiree. All my towels had to be brought out to keep the water from damaging my furniture. The party continued but the ambiance sucked.

The laundry room was a place I never used or entered. One morning I passed it by and saw the table broken on the floor, the windows had been broken and glass and blood were everywhere. UGH! It was a crime scene with blood on the ceiling, broken windows, dents in the machines and holes in the walls where you could tell heads and fists went through and drops of blood down the sidewalk leading to the victim or the culprit. UGH!
To make it worse, nothing was ever cleaned up, fixed or replaced and remained this way until I left in 2005.

I came home one day to find the living room ceiling on my floor (not on the flokati). A pile of sheet rock and ceiling and a broken piece of furniture(nothing of value). It was at this point that my blood boiled and I exploded all over the staff. With this I moved out. The place was left as spotless as could be but they had "lost" my deposit. Still, I was more than happy to sign off and move into my own house.

Amazingly, it still stands, by a hair no doubt. It's a lousy and somewhat dangerous place. Loads of cops were at the building at least 4 times a month. The pool was declared a bio hazard at one point and management treats you like a deadbeat even when you have paid your rent in full, months in advance. It was the roughest year I ever spent in an apartment in all my years in Austin. Last due paid before I became a homeowner.