Learn and cook

Being one of my grandmothers from the State of Guerrero in Mexico and having myself grown up on pozole, it’s embarrassing that I have never learned to cook it —a delicious soup with corn and pork. There are a few varieties on how to make it, but my favorite one is the green pozole —sooo good and sooo non-diet :P

But today, I offered to cook some of the white kind. So I’m sort of inventing it —with educated guesses ;) Right now, I’m cooking some stock that I’ll be using with some of the chicken to add to the canned corn. We’ll see how it turns out.

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Why I recommend Rainier Veterinary Hospital to locals

Dr. Heino is the sweetest and caring vet I’ve met in Seattle.

The hydrants he has outside the clinic say it all —too cute ;)

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First intent

Yesterday was seven months since Gala’s passing, and somehow, I still feel a bit uneasy about this goal. Yet I feel better in many respects, and my daily walks with Uma and her mingling with other dogs have certainly helped me overcome my sentiments.

While at the vet’s office yesterday, I finally got the courage to volunteer to weekly walk one of their shelter dogs. Unfortunately, they don’t have any dogs at the moment, so I guess that’s fortunate really :) I left my phone number, so they can call me anytime they need me.

I won’t check this goal just yet until it really happens… but at least I made my first intention towards it and, especially, towards the dogs who need it :)

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Good, healthy dog :)

I finally took Uma to the vet yesterday —just a week before her yearly shots were due. The doctor was very sweet with her, and commented on her overall good health :) Because of Seattle’s weather, she doesn’t need anything for heart worm and ticks ::YAY!!:: She got her “medal” for her rabies shot.

So she’ll be in tip-top shape, I’ll just need to follow his advice on:

• applying a preventive for fleas
• brush her teeth more often
• trim her nails
• help her lose some weight (about 3kg)

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Aug. 30, 2007

I’m grateful for:

1. Lightly caressing oregano so that its leaves rub against each other exuding their fragrant aroma
2. The exercise I got from gardening and cleaning
3. Being on top of the housework
4. Giving myself a pedicure
5. Watching films that I’ve wanted to watch for a long time

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Aug. 29, 2007

I’m grateful for:

1. Hogwarts magic (and not a 43T glitch) being the culprit of all the weirdness at 43T for the past two days —how else can it be explained that I double-cheered the same goal, and particularly thisgoal!! LOL!!
   
2. The library tracing and locating two items that I had claimed returned
3. Getting supplies for my photographs
4. Sitting at a park bench to read
5. The wonderful vet that attended Uma

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Meditative

Contemplating a lunar eclipse is literarily out of this world ;) And making a little collage about it is phenomenal:

This is my third time I’ve watched a lunar eclipse, but it’s my first time that I follow it more closely while photographing it. Just before totality, the moon appeared to be a red balloon hanging from the sky; it also seemed quite smaller compared to its uneclipsed form. Unfortunately, tiredness and my soporific state prevented me from watching the whole length of the eclipse back to a bright full moon, yet the most part that I witnessed was a surreal experience —a yin version of a solar eclipse.

The subtleness and length of the eclipse permitted to appreciate different aspects of it. At times, the event absorbed me into almost an hypnotic state that I began divagating… the space and distance between us became variable… seeing the textures, and the lights, and the shadows… and then the awareness of the masses of the bodies of the Earth, and the Moon, and the Sun, and the event we were witnessing… It was beyond comprehension… so surreal…

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Aug. 28, 2007

I’m grateful for:

1. A spectacular total lunar eclipse
2. My film camera, my digital camera, and my tripods
3. The pixelated photos of my digital camera —which give me an idea of how my film photos will come out
4. The suspense until I develop the photos from my film camera
5. Not giving up on 43 Things in spite of the confusion due to the temporary virtual limbo where entries, photos, and cheers went into today

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