An "Ask Auntie Lowan" Digression.

Have a great one, Deb! Enjoy!

Possible holiday itineraries:

1) float about for three days in down booties simply sipping wine, smoking BC's finest, listening to Mark Knopfler's sublime guitar, with a daily sauna and backrub from Bruno.

2) instead of starting at the top of the list of chores like normal, begin from the bottom - make it an adventure.

3) go to the video store and rent all movies beginning with the word "Blossoming"

4) go to confession (but talk quickly, you have only three days).

5) eat a different animal each day. Optional: hang a new valence.

6) Imagine an asteroid tearing through the atmosphere and, like some cartoon missle, boinking you on the head and tossing you into a parallel universe where you are me. Scream. Segue into 'Amazing Grace'. Look for the door back.

LOL! Great ideas!

No money=quiet holiday

Debs,

Eat magic mushrooms and go on a virtual tour of the Universe. Meet god, play cards with him and see if he cheats !

If he does, let me know and I'll have a word with him next time I eat magic mushrooms or a bad pie.

If you don't already, take your shoes and socks off and spend a day feeling the earth with your feet, its a liberating experience.

Turn off the PC for a day and see how long the withdrawal symptoms take to kick in, then draw a graph and see if during the week it gets any better.

Learn a new language, Italian is really quite easy, I found these great CDs that I listen to in the car and I'm practically Pope now, oops he's Polish isn't he ? Oh well. If you can't afford it, I'll send you mine.

The man's name is Michel Thomas:-
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0658008242/qid=1049354058/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/002-7301622-5869644?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Meditate for as long as you can, just listen and when you find yourself thinking of any worries just accept the thought then let it go. If you pass out don't blame me, I didn't tell you to hold your breath, that's your fault.

Try all the recipes you can using the most basic ingredients, some of the best meals I have had have been using leftovers, you can use rightovers as well, you need to be a bit more dexterous, thats all.

Write me a letter telling me what a great human being I am, I 'll mark it out of 100 for sincerity and grammaticle mistakes.

Well get going, what are you waiting for ?

Big Al - some call him HIAMA :wink:

Nighty-night, Deb.

Heehheeee Hiama.

'Tain't night, Mr S!

Dear Aunty Lowan,

Why does no one believe me when I say that I am becoming a hermit ?

Dear Hermit, its because hermits hide away and don't talk to people, you are talking too us silly, which means you aint a hermit see

Gautam - what CAN you mean! Hermit? Why? How?

You need to get OVER that man!!!!! (If this is what is causing the problem....)

Hmmm - I confess I am a little the same - but with me 'tis the money thing......... not too much longer (I hope - a few months) and I return to normal! Tell us what you mean.....?

Er, has Gautam fallen in love with Herman?

(Admiring, envying blatham and hiama. Stultifying meaningless work has made the old mind so staid and linear and habitual. May need to do something to break that up this weekend... Mmmmm, eat mushrooms, wrestle with dogs. Mmmmmmm, could be good...............)

Patiodog,

I can certainly recommend wrestling with dogs, please don't get confused and wrestle with the mushrooms and eat the dogs or you'll be in big trouble.

As for your mind being staid, you do yourself a disservice, we all love you here and your comments are always interesting.

I think you are right Gautam is one of Herman's hermits, there was no milk today on his doorstep.

(a habit picked up from somewhere -- to compliment the other by devaluing the self. "i'm not worthy!")



Speaking of which: what the hell's a milk float?

Ok - not a hermit then - I am becoming a monk !

Its the fat in the milk-its less dense than the water, so it floats !

Seriously its a slow generally battery charged vehicle for delivering milk so as not to wake the patiodogs and hiamas (sounds like hyenas -are we related patiodog ?) of this world.

Gautam is a good name for a monk, Siddhartha Gautama was the name of the Buddha

Then Gautam is a lama.

Not a llama, mind you; I've seen a pic and he's considerably more well-groomed than that -- but a lama.

(your description of the milk float makes me think "with up so floating many bells down." the gf can't stand e.e. cummings, and that's her loss. so not-a-kid sometimes.))

e.e. cummings is permanently lodged in my brain this time of year, as it's particularly mud-luscious outside just now.

the sucking noise of rubber boots being pulled, reluctantly, from their native habitat.

worse, of course, is the feeling of one's foot coming out of the mud-stuck boot and squooshing down into the cold ooze.

Just caught up my reading on this thread and realize I had missed the entire diversion on the weinie mobile.

That creative bit of automotive design pales in comparison to a phoo I saw of a float in the famous Japanese penis parade. Try as I might, I have been unable to find this photo on line. Likely, some anxious male has destroyed all copies. But allow me to attach the following photo I did find, to give you a .... feeling for the celebration.