Roar!
Sarah Palin is the source of most of my laughs these days. Between this youtibe clip and SNL’s Tina Fey’s version, I’m set.
I have to laugh about it all, otherwise I go insane with anxiety about what the outcome will be on November 4, 2008.
Peru on Picasa
For those with some time to kill, here are all 454 photos from our trip to Peru. I have some of them titled and explained, finally.
Enjoy!
A school against homework
I know I’m dreaming, but I’d love to see American schools following this trend:
UK’s biggest school scraps homework
Four
Tagged by Lee!
Four jobs I’ve had:
- Legal Assistant for a divorce attorney
- Supplement/body care department manager for Alfalfa’s/Wild Oats (now known as Whole Foods)
- Front desk receptionist for an office building, answering phones for over 20 of the buildings’ businesses.
- Midwife
Four movies I can watch over and over:
- Sunshine (the one with Ralph Fiennes)
- Happenstance
- The Tiger and the Snow
- Say Anything
Four places I’ve lived:
- Salem, OR
- Boulder, CO
- Redondo Beach, CA
- Seattle, WA
Four TV shows I have seen:
- My So Called Life
- The Office
- The X Files
- Seinfeld
Four places I’ve vacationed:
- Cusco, Peru
- Baja California, Mexico
- Olympic National Park, Washington
- St. Petersburg, Russia
Four of my favorite dishes:
- Really good vegan pizza (like Isa’s Pizza in VWAV)
- The Buddha Bowl at Van Hahn Vegetarian Vietnamese Restaurant in Portland, OR
- Garliky eggplant that has been baked or fried (not soggily sauteed)
- fresh green figs
Four sites I visit daily:
- Gmail
- Bloglines
- BBC News
- MotheringDotCommune
Four places I would rather be right now:
- At a hotspring
- Somewhere warm (but smogless)
- Alone in a bookstore
- In the future, with Obama as our president.
Home
Home we are. Finally! We arrived back home late Thursday afternoon. Thursday night, I found myself sick with an intestinal bug. Real fun. I’m pretty sure it was from our first meal back in the states that we stopped for after arriving at the airport. Today is the first morning I’ve woken up feeling myself since I left Peru.
We have about 250 pictures of our trip, from start to finish. I’m uploading them at the moment to Picasa, and will share the link. In the meantime, here are a couple:
San Blas neighboorhood (where we stayed) in Cusco, Peru
getting ready to board the train to Aguas Calientes (to visit Macchu Picchu)
at Macchu Piccchu (shot by River)
feeding the alpaca
Peru!
We´ve been here now three days.
The poverty is unbelievable and overwhelming. (Especially in Lima)
The food is excellent. (Especially the fruit!!!)
The cost of living so reasonable. (Well, for us Americans, anyhow)
The Ergo I have with me is getting much use. (Thank you Tracy!)
The wine is delicious.
We are in Cusco today. A beauitful city. Probably the only city I would live happily in Peru, in the small chance that we were to move here.)
We are off!
We don’t actually leave until early Thursday morning, but I doubt I’ll have any time to make a blog post tomorrow.
Since my cat has predominated my recent blog posts, I thought I may as well share just one more cute cat shot.
Ok, not just one. Let’s make it two:
Oh, I almost forgot….
I PASSED!!!!!
Preparations
We leave for Peru in just 3 short days!!! I have been waiting until today to begin packing, but I think we have most everything that we need. I’m still busy trying to figure out what sorts of food to bring along with us for the very long day of travel. Airport food is so pathetic, especially when you’re vegetarian. We’ll leave home around 7am, and won’t arrive at Walter’s parent’s home until the following morning around 2am.
I’m looking forward to the trip. All of us are, I think. It shall be River’s first time out of the country, and my first time back to Peru for 9 years!!
Just for fun, here’s a photo of Athena, taken last night. She’s back to herself now, and I feel so grateful!!
She’s still alive….
So, my fear of finding her dead the next morning didn’t prove to be reality. Athena has been healing quite nicely. She’s not back to herself, but I don’t really know if she ever will be.
Everyday, her eye looks slightly better, and she can close it slightly more. It’s a very sad sight to see her sleeping, as her damaged eye cannot close, and is constantly open. The vet yesterday, at her follow-up exam, suggested we begin bathing her eye in artificial tear drops. Oh yeah. She really love it when I put those in her eye. But, it does seem to be helping, so I persist.
This photo was taken yesterday:
And this one I took just 10 minutes ago:
Much improved, yes? She’s not happy at all about not being able to go outside. But, even if I do end up letting her go outside occasionally, I am not doing any such thing at least until her leg is all healed.
