Well!

I haven't been posty much lately, but yesterday was the anniversary of my foray into blogging. I thought it was today, but apparently today is simply my mother's birthday and not my own anniversary. You see, it really is all about my mother.

Anyway, I have been reflecting on my blogging lately and I have decided it is a good thing. I hope my faithful readers (all 4 of you) have enjoyed it as well.I will write more later, but I am off to school in about 5 minutes and off to the boat right after work.

Happy belated anniversary to me!

Oh and Happy Birthday, Mom!

A confession

I have not seen Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Nor have I seen... *searches brain frantically for a title*...the second one either.

Should I?

Cravings

If Trader Joe's had a store in my town (or my country, for that matter!), I would be eating a New York Style Cheesecake even as I type these words.

In other news...

I went shopping the other day for my essentials, one of which is pistachios. I look forward to my South Beach-authorized treat of 20 pistachios each night after dinner. It satisfies the salt-munchy craving very nicely.

I usually buy the "natural" pistachios, as opposed to the "red" pistachios, but for some reason, my store was all out of natural. So, I bought the red ones, same price, same difference,right?

Wrong. My fingers are a virulent red from eating these dyed nuts. I don't even want to consider what it might be doing to my insides. Why in the world would ANYONE want to dye a shell a bright red that comes off??

Still, if I ever forget to bring lipstick and want an indelible shade to last all day, I now know I should rub my lips with a red pistachio. And that's your fashion food tip for the day.

"Brink of Doom" and other memories

One of the things I like best about eBay is that it allows me to revisit my youth in unusual ways. The primary way I do this is by buying books that I read on my frequent visits to the library throughout my childhood and teens. My particular passion was to read "teen" novels written in the fifties. Books by Betty Cavanna and Rosalind du Jardin and the like.

My particular favourites were a four book series about twins named Penny and Pam. A few summers ago, I haunted eBay to search out those books. I found the first three without too much trouble, but the third in the series proved to be rare. A ridiculous amount of money later, I owned all four. And it was worth every cent!

Another memory revisited courtesy of eBay was a television movie version of Jane Eyre starring George C. Scott and Susannah York. I had seen it when I was 12 or 13 and fell madly in love with Edward Rochester on the spot. I read Jane Eyre nearly immediately and have reread it regularly over the years. Still, it all began with that movie, which I found on eBay last year and bought.

It was dreadful. So what? It changed my life...or at least expanded my reading habits. And revisiting it was fun.

So...

Currently on auction is an extremely rare DVD of Brigadoon, another tv production, this one starring Robert Goulet and Sally Ann Howe. I wore out my parent's LP of this production, back in the days when I dreamed of being a soprano. I remember seeing the program, but only in dim memory. I can't honestly say if it was any good at all, although I know the music was. I want it, badly.

It is presently at $61.00 US, with 19 hours to go. Those experienced in eBay will know it will likely go much higher.

*Sigh*

I told myself (back when it was still only $31.00) that I would forego buying the skin cream that would set me back $75.00 and let myself bid. But, now, I just can't justify it. Nostalgia just exceeded my credit limit.