Namaste

Well yesterday was the party in Cincinatti for my co-worker, P. It was a surprise birthday/retirement party...only P changed her mind about retiring. Undettered Hindus from around the globe came to this party, including her brother from India. She was stunned.

Me and my coworkers made a day of it shopping first then over to Cinci. I can not tell you my love of Indian food. It was heaven and her relatives were so sweet and concerned though I'm like seriously I'm fine. The food isn't too spicy. I can get my own water. Please sit and enjoy yourselves. Lovely little potatoe pancakes with a sweet chutney and a green sauce that could strip paint with its heat. Sag Paneer (my favorite), vegetable korma, channa masala and more, including a ricotta cheese dumpling in a sweet milk sauce (Okay so I drained that out of my spoon)

Music and traditional dancing. What fun. P has always told me she comes from a big family and has always treated me like one of them since I've been here (concerned with my health, helping me do yoga, feeding me INdian goodies). Well I found out she understated that. She's one of FOURTEEN kids. Wow. And all the grand nieces and nephews are in schools like Carnegie Mellon to be engineers. Impressive.

I accidentally hit the fastest route on my magellan instead of shortest and ended up in Dayton. COuld have stopped in and scared someone on my flist.

And today I felt hungover without the joy of drinking. (I think the heat in the park screwede my metabolites thank you sweat). But I did break my own record for coupons. 52$ between my plkus card and coupons. Last time ishte asked what the heck I was buying that i could save that much. Vitamins for one, Krogers has for three weeks now, buy one get one free vitamins so yeah I've been stocking up AND diabetic food is highly expensive. Much of what I can eat if I want to eat healthy is very expensive. Bah. But I think tonight I'll be having swiss chard right out the garden and my ichiban eggplant are about ready and ditto the gypsy peppers (hot pepper shape, bell pepper taste)

ETA save the dragons ishte has a link to all the dragons needing saving (except mjules since hers were snagged after this post). Mine look beautiful but some, especially ishte's are in trouble. click away

for open on sunday's 'quick' prompt, triptych of drabbles

( Dawn – Post gift Freefall )

( Spike/Dru 1800’s Deflating )

this last one could be seen as a sequel to last week’s drabble, WHam Bam

( Connor/Faith Post series – Here Comes the Judge )

August Birthdays

Happy Birthday Glitter




To all my August baby friends. Have a great month to tinpanalley, angelbuffy0, stars91 & lilachigh

And to sita_137