Made baked ziti, eggplant parmigiane, tilapia, salmon, gefilte fish, chicken soup, stuffed baked potatoes, strawberry soup, sweet potato mini pies and broccoli mini pies. The man of the house made the meats. Turkey roast and beef roast and beef kebabs. We’re going to have guests on Shevuos, hence the abundance of food. If I was just cooking for my husband and myself and our toddler I’d have made considerably less. :)
Busy planning and cooking for Shevuos. Finding my 550 word daily goal easier to keep up with, but still don’t stick to it daily. Story of my life.
I poached some carp roe today for Shabbos (along with salmon and gefilte fish), and snacked on some right when I took it out of the pot. I looove roe. It’s better cold than warm, but I’m always too impatient to wait for it to cool.
The best part is, the fish stores here give it away for free. Maybe one week I’ll try a caviar recipe.
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
perspective is everything.
That top picture is something I absolutely love doing. I used to sit and do that for ages in my grandmother’s pool when I was younger.
Spoilers below. Let me preface this by saying that I LOVED the other movies from Marvel, and was REALLY looking forward to this one, especially considering all the hype around it.
It was 2.5 hours of punching and/or shooting, the superheroes rolling around and punching each other because, no doubt, all the boys directing and writing this thing have been debating all their lives which superhero would win in a fight. With 2.5 hours of playtime, I expect at least a little plot development. A little backstory. We had a couple new characters here, and their backstories weren’t even touched. So many threads were left hanging (is the Hulk aware and able to remember which team he’s fighting for when he’s the big green guy? One scene said no, the other said yes.)
What were the big lizard things? Spaceships? Monsters? Sentient spaceships? Genetically engineered monsters? Oh, right, who cares. Doesn’t Loki realize that once the evil guys had the tesseract they’d probably renege on their agreement and conquer the earth anyway? Of course not, bad guys are totally trustworthy. Shake hands.
Speaking of which, TESSERACT?? Really? That was interesting when Madeline L’Engle wrote about it. In 1962.
Of course no one interesting can get killed off because they all need to appear in future movies. Let’s keep our options open, people. But they could have at least gotten really badly injured. That would have been interesting. Speaking of the ONE death that did occur - this annoys me every time it happens - if someone is conscious and speaking, and ten seconds after he stops breathing a team of medics shows up, and they are on a superhero spaceship - THEY CAN SAVE HIS LIFE. CPR. Oxygen masks. Blood transfusions. Super-crazy-whammo-advanced-scientific-resuscitator. Oh, and before a team of medics shows up - when someone is bleeding to death, you don’t just stand there making small talk. You whip off your tie or belt or socks and tie a tourniquet. Honestly. Is it too much to expect a little realism in a superhero movie?
Oh. Never mind.
Yes, I enjoyed seeing a great big party with all the superheroes gathered together. I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I came out of the movie thinking, as the other movies made me think. About responsibility, about the consequences of our actions, about making a difference, about overcoming the past. About anything at all. Instead I came out of the theater blinking, little black spots dancing at the corner of my vision, my gait a little unsteady because my eardrums had swollen from the endless explosions.
