MsTiara’s Thoughts

When I was young… You know you are getting old when you start out a blog with THAT comment. Every Saturday morning I would sit in front of the television and watch HR Pufnstuff, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (I was always Dyna Girl), and Isis.

A friend of mine was talking a couple of months ago and I asked her who her favorite super hero was, she said Isis. I became awash in small flashbacks, me sitting in the middle of the apartment building with my arms wide calling down the power of Isis, thinking I was running around in a purple outfit saving the world as Dyna Girl and the darkness and fear of the world of HR Pufnstuff. I couldn’t remember any specifics, just little tiny moments. Now, I put myself around 7 or 8 in all of these moments in time and I couldn’t help myself but start to do some research on that time from the past.

First thing I looked at was when these were aired. 1969 – 1972, that would put me at 1-4 years old! Huh? That just doesn’t seem right, but this wasn’t a world of DVD or Tivo so wow, I was very, very young when these memories were around. The next thing that I found out was it was on DVD! LOL, I am now the proud owner of the complete series – Secrets of Isis and HR Pufnstuf.

As I watched the first episode, when they were running through the forest I could understand how come I thought it was so very scary, the trees trying to grab you and the dark colors and shadows. I also realize how come I have this wonderful ability to give thoughts and emotions to trees and houses and my absolute adoration of dragons. I also found myself falling back in love with the whole world. It is wonderfully done, I want to be Witchiepoo and I also want to create one of the magical houses on my property in fun colors.

I find myself sitting here on a Saturday morning laughing, smiling and singing along with the songs.

What a wonderful way to spend a Saturday morning J

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

HAVE EATEN
1. Venison

2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare

5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari

12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava

30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float

37. Clotted cream tea
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat

44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin

51. Prickly pear

53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini

58. Beer above 8% ABV

59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores

62. Sweetbreads
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini

81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky

84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab

94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta

99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee

100. Snake

FOODS I HAVEN’T YET TRIED

25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
38. Vodka jelly
46. Fugu
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
68. Haggis
89. Horse

90. Criollo chocolate

FOODS THAT I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY WERE
16. Epoisses
43. Phaal
52. Umeboshi
63. Kaolin
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
76. Baijiu
93. Rose harissa

FOODS I WOULD NEVER CONSIDER EATING
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
42. Whole insects
75. Roadkill

Have you noticed that there seems to be a lot of bank robberies lately? Okay, maybe it is just here in Arizona, but it seems every day they are talking about another one.

I know that when the economic times are ‘bad’ that people supposedly get desperate and do desperate things. But rob a bank? I would think that there were much better places to rob if you were going to do it. First, its high profile, second they have been set up to have higher security than most places. It just doesn’t seem to be a smart choice if you are just a petty bank robber (and yes, that is what most of the people are that are doing the robberies). It is just tickling my brain today making me go, why a bank?

The other thing that is running around in my brain is the bad economic times we are having. Companies are freaking out, putting jobs on hold. People are starting to hoard money, afraid of being laid off. But, when you look at the bottom line of these companies? They are still making ten to hundred million dollar profits, in a quarter! I truly do believe that the news is self fulfilling their own prophecies, creating the bad economic times.

Dislocation
by Marge Piercy

It happens in an instant.
My grandma used to say
’someone is walking on your grave.’

It’s that moment when your life
is suddenly strange to you
as someone else’s coat

you have slipped on at a party
by accident, and it is far
too big or too tight for you.

Your life feels awkward, ill
fitting. You remember why you
came into this kitchen, but you

feel you don’t belong here.
It scares you in a remote
numb way. You fear that you–

whatever you means, this mind,
this entity stuck into a name
like mercury dropped into water–

have lost the ability to enter your
self, a key that no longer works.
Perhaps you will be locked

out here forever peering in
at your body, if that self is really
what you are. If you are at all.