friday thoughts

do you ever feel like everything is coming down on you all at once?
it doesn't even matter when it's going to happen- but when it does it's like the only person/people you can depend on can give two shakes of a rats tail about you.

and you know you're being unreasonable but you can't help it...you have nothing that you can offer in a conversation to someone who thinks they are above it all, or above you, or who won't listen anyway...

it seems to be the theme of this year. i started the year off with it, and i am ending the year with it.

that being said, I am not a miserable person. i like to be optimistic and see the glass half full so to speak.
i don't like to play games, and i especially don't like to be the one in the middle of someone else's game. i think more of myself and i expect more out of people. i like to be around people, and usualy when i don't have anything nice to say i don't say anything at all...

when people are scared, they tend to pick on you. YOU'RE crazy. YOU'RE miserable.
meanwhile and at least in my case: it's when you are at your happiest they begin this crap again.

what's the point, really? to see how far they can take you?
how much they can push your buttons?

how they can continue to hurt you in the future?

or it must be an astrological thing.

thankfully: i have had and will have time to think, and plan and go on the way i always have been. i don't care about the games, people can play them...and think what they think...and do what they do...

god's speed.

i am sorry to bore you lovely bloggie friends with my rant, but thank you for listening.
having a million and one things to complete today, i have gotten all that i have wanted to say pretty much off my chest.

the miracles of having a blog :)

much love to you all and have a beautiful weekend

love me,
the globetrotting gamine

what a weekend...

i hope all of you had a wonderful weekend.
ours started off on the right foot...

but prayers would be appreciated...my grandmother is in the hospital having her lung drained.

though things seem to be getting better but there's so much stress in the fam right now that any prayer or happy thought is appreciated.

thanks...

love,
gg

To Organize One's Thoughts

Did any of you ever feel like your mind was a ticker-tape going at full speed? This morning, mine sounded a little something like this:

Iwonderifmygrandmotherisgoingtocomeoutofthehospitaltodayohyeahitsmeandmyhusbandsdating
anniversarybothofmynephewsfirstdayofschoolthankgodideletedthesepeopleoffoffacebookwhatdoi
writeaboutonmyblogwhenistherighttimetogrowgarlicinmybackyard?

Well, you get the picture. Either that, or you think I am insane, because I'm too complicated to understand even myself. I thought that maybe a blog would help me out, but to no avail- YET!

I would love to combine my interests so as to find a career better suited for me. It's just that I have too MANY interests to probably do such a thing. Shopping, Traveling, Wine, Cooking, Gardening, Reading & Writing, Photography. A wonderful friend of mine had said that I should just do one thing at a time- but then I wouldn't feel as whole. The books that I have written would combine a few of those things...I guess.

I'm still waiting to get the copright certificates back so I can start sending out query letters to publishers, and have no idea what I want to do in the meantime because I want to do SO MUCH.

I'll start off the day with watching Practical Magic (as motivation to leave the house), and make black bean hummus and brownies (seperately)

Recipe for Black Bean Hummus:

1 clove garlic
1 (15 ounce) can black beans; drain and reserve liquid
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 1/2 tablespoons tahini
3/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon paprika, optional
10 Kalamata olives, optional


DIRECTIONS
Mince garlic in the bowl of a food processor. Add black beans, 2 tablespoons reserved liquid, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, tahini, 1/2 teaspoon cumin, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper; process until smooth, scraping down the sides as needed. Add additional seasoning and liquid to taste. Garnish with paprika and Kalamata olives, if you please.