7 quick takes

Last updated on: November 3, 2015 at 12:28 pm by Anne Kennedy

7 quick takes 2015-11-03T12:28:20-04:00 Anne Kennedy

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The pouring rain gets us out of going on any kind of outing today. You know. You ought to do something “fun” with your children but the idea fills you with a nameless dread and you would much rather spend the day cleaning the children’s rooms because you went up there once last week and realized one child was hoarding paper and another child was hoarding what looks to be actual garbage and the babies had got hold of some kind of book and shredded it to a fine dust and so you feel really bad, as a parent, and know that if you get up there and actually clean, you will feel better about yourself. And that’s what its all about anyway–feeling good about yourself–isn’t it?

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I know that its all about feelings because I happened to watch a little TV yesterday, which I don’t often do. I just turned it on and flipped around and watched a bunch of commercials. There’s a commercial for something called Beneful Dog Food. I don’t know what they’re trying to achieve with a name like ‘Beneful’ but I can, of course, imagine. So anyway, there’s the big golden retriever running through a meadow chasing a ball and we get to hear what the dog is thinking. Turns out he doesn’t know the word for ‘ball’ but he does know words like ’round’, ‘object’, ‘what makes me happiest is that when we’re playing out here in this meadow my beloved friend and parent smiles and is happy whereas normally, when we’re not playing in the meadow, he is a grim horrid man.’ My own paraphrase. How remarkable to have advanced so far that dogs, once our obedient, if slightly less intelligent than cats, companions, now care more about how we feel than they do themselves.

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Speaking of intelligence, our white “dog” barked loudly at the tv during this commercial and then this morning refused to go outside because it was raining.

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Part of the flipping around landed us on The Real Hutterite Wives of some Wind Driven Snowy Location. I don’t know what the program was really called but it was totally strange. Who are these cursing, gossiping, lard eating, education eschewing Hutterites? Elphine and I were entranced as acres of pie were churned out and many many women talked about how they had ditched their education to cook for the community. And the swearing. wow. No more TV for us.

five

Because I really feel like I oughta read more books. Other than blowing through Grace Livingston Hill’s The Old Guard I haven’t read anything in at least six weeks. Matt’s idea of an ideal holiday was to lay around “reading books and watching movies”. This idea brought tears of rage and frustration to my eyes because that’s what he does when he’s working, except for the laying around. He reads All Day (imagine) and then watches a movie while he makes dinner. And then he reads some more. Whereas I wander around picking up toys and yelling at children and then, on the rare occasions when I do pick up a book, fall asleep almost immediately, deeply enough to drool. On my vacation I’d like to…actually I have no idea. If Matt wants to read more that sounds fine.

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I have a lovely artist friend who has taken up blogging. Go check her out! We don’t agree about almost anything, well, except food, which, for me, trumps everything, so I hope you’ll go read her! Now! Go! Skip Number Seven!

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Because I have to go take breakfast out of the oven anyway. Six cups of cooked oatmeal, whipped together with four eggs, 2T of baking powder, fat pinch salt, some sugar (or whatever), a couple of mushy peaches, some handfuls of blueberries, 1/4 cup oil or melted butter, 3 cups flour. Mashed into two buttered pans and then topped with great slabs of butter, a whole lot of cinnamon and some more sugar. Then into the oven at 350 for awhile until a toothpick comes out clean. And for a brief bright moment the whining stops and I can go back to sleep for fifteen minutes.

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