Monday Musings.

The love in my life.

...and I can write in Cursive!

I do!

Sounds good to me.

Fake it 'till you make it.

More like a new country!

A vacation is a vacation.

Where was I going with this?

We have eachother.

Never pass by an opportunity.

The cracks are where the light comes thru.

Music is life.-Bob Marley

The shart.

Gotta love the Scots!😂

Roger is my hero.

Climate Change is a hoax.

...and yet here you still are...

Find us a home where she could rest her wings But all an eagle wants to do is fly.-Lenny Kravitz

 

Tuscan Tortellini Soup.

Tuscan Tortellini Soup

Ingredients:

9 oz store-bought cheese tortellini (frozen is fine)

4 links Gilbert’s Caprese Chicken Sausage, sliced into ¼ inch pieces

32 oz (4 cups) low sodium chicken broth

1 15oz can Italian-style diced tomatoes (pre-seasoned with Italian spices)

1 15oz can crushed tomatoes

1 15oz can cannellini beans, rinsed and drained

2 large handfuls of fresh baby spinach, roughly chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 tsp olive oil

pinch of crushed red pepper, optional

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salt and pepper, to taste, if needed

Instructions:

Step 1:

Heat olive oil over medium heat in a large, heavy soup pot.

Add chicken sausage and saute until the edges are slightly browned, about 3 minutes.

Add minced garlic and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.

Step 2:

Pour in chicken broth, diced tomatoes, crushed tomatoes, and beans.

Add a pinch of crushed red pepper, if desired.

Bring to a boil.

Step 3:

Once boiling add in the tortellini and simmer until the pasta is cooked through and plump, about 10-15 minutes.ad

During the last 3 minutes of cook time add in the chopped spinach and stir until wilted.

Step 4:

Season with salt and pepper to taste, if needed.

Enjoy!

 

Thought For The Day.

 

Squid Ink.

This morning I used another of my bath-bombs. This one was tie-dye but mostly purple and it smelled nice, sort of like bubble gum or candy.....but it turned the water a gross almost black colour( seen here) and I felt like I was marinading in squid ink! As my friend G always used to say, That's f*ckin' gross! I also still have that weird nail on my baby toe on my left foot that always peels and falls off so it makes me wonder if I have a melanoma under my toenail too just like Bob Marley did and I'd gladly get that toe amputated though as it's always been deformed(and bumps into everything) and my hubby's always made fun of it and calls it my Retarded Toe. Yesterday that butterfly was also back and kept flying around Buddy and I making me wonder if it could even maybe be a deceased relative stopping by to pay a visit, perhaps Babushka or someone?

Yesterday I also fed my fat face with KFC as I ordered-in food for our dinner and as always I had issues, just like last time; at first it said it was unable to validate my credit card....oh, great, here we go again....but I kept trying and then it said it had to send me a verification code thru the phone so they phoned me and I got that and then it finally went thru but WTF though? All that just for 28$? You'd think I was trying to buy a car or something! I got specials,too; the 29 YR old and I shared a special where we got 2 sammiches and 2 popcorn chicken for 14.99$( usually just one  sammich is 9.99$!) and the 17 YR old got a meal deal with hot wings, fries and a side for 7.99$. They were idiots though and never even rang the doorbell( even though I told them specifically to and it was even noted down on the receipt) and just left the food on the veranda.Why is it always so hard for me though and why can't things just ever go easy and work out the first time? Why does everything always have to be a struggle for me all the time?

I also love this shirt but I'll bet if you ordered it once it actually shows up it won't look anything like in the photo but some cheap rag and now the dishwasher's broken,too; the thingy that holds the soap won't close so I just shoved the soap pod in anyway and shut the door and turned it on anyway. Even if it's just the water it should still clean it enough anyway. I hate it that everything we have is always such a piece of shit.Being poor really sucks! I also heard Don Henley ( the Eagles) talk during an interview the other day and I'd never heard his voice before( just singing) and it's awful and he sounds like a dumb redneck and I was shocked and surprised because he sounds so good singing but alot of them seem to be like that, like Paul Stanley and Sammy Hagar, for instance.

I also saw this the other day, hair barrettes from the 70's and I had the exact same. It brought back happy nostalgic childhood memories. I loved them but they always kept slipping and falling out of my hair because it's so thin and fine.That's one reason now too I love my dreads so much. I love my locs!It's also sad to realize too that I will forever be that ugly girl that will never fit in and that no one likes and yesterday the 29 YR old also went to a singing workshop with a famous Filipino singing group only it was in another town and my hubby's away and can't drive him so he had to take a taxi which cost 35$ the one way but luckily someone took pity on him and his poverty and gave him a ride back home which was nice.

Other days are filled with so much anguish, despair, and agony that I can’t believe I’ve managed to stay alive this long.-Mel Jones

 

Today's Pondering.

 

This For Now.

Yesterday the 26 YR old ( one of the Edmonton Boys) sent me this photo of lilacs he took just because. Just because he knows I love lilacs. Wasn't that nice? I only wish I could smell the photo,too. He also said he's been working in BC for the past month. My hubby also sent me a photo by e-mail days ago too but I still never got it so I guess it must be lost floating around cyberspace somewhere. Yesterday I also had to pick yet another tick off Buddy again and this year there's more ticks than ever; it's really bad this season for some reason(maybe the mild winter?) and a big butterfly also kept flying all around Buddy and I yesterday as well as we sat out in the backyard. It looked almost like a Monarch,too, but not quite.

Yesterday I also saw robins and bumble bees mating( at least somebody got laid!!) and the 17 YR old went to the dinky little fair that's in town this weekend with his friend that has something like only 6 rides( how  sad and pathetic, I know) yet still charges something like 35$ for a ride pass which I think is a huge rip-off, and the 29 YR old went to a place with his "Artsy" friends, which I must say I prefer over him going to bars! Now it also doesn't get dark until after 9pm,too, so you know what that means......

summer,baby!

We also safely made it thru May but now it's June we have to put up with this (see above) propaganda and indoctrination for an entire month, and I think do what you want in private but don't be so in-your-face and shoving it down everyone's throats. No one cares about your sex life. Really. Just keep it to yourself and keep the kids out of it.There's really no need to advertise it and force everyone to accept it.You just do you and leave the rest of us alone. Some things should just be kept private.Lately I've also had my cousin( who is a few years older than me and I saw as my brother when I was younger and we lived with them a couple of years when I was in Kindergarten) on my mind, in my heart,and in my thoughts alot lately, and almost as if a "message" is trying to be sent to me so I hope he's ok, and I think Yorkies are ugly,too, with that shaggy long fur; they look like little miniature Chewbacca dogs, and it's funny,too, my hubby only ever had mixed-breed "mutts" growing up and I've only ever had purebreds.

My hubby's also at the chess tournament in NY this weekend, either that or he just said that and he's  really actually away with his mistress, but either way I don't care because I still get a break too just the same, and tonight I'm going to order-in food for The Boys and I so we get a treat,too, and it's just mind-boggling how with Trump even convicted his followers are still sending $$$ to his campaign and supporting him; even comparing him to Jesus saying he was "wrongly convicted"(spare me!)it's almost like they're brainwashed cult follwers and he can still run for president,too, even being convicted doesn't disqualify him,oddly.even though you'd think it would(and it should) Man, what a f*cked-up country! He won't even be allowed to enter this country though as anyone with a conviction or criminal record is barred entry so even if (God forbid!) he's re-elected he still won't be allowed here even so.

Disappointment makes you detach from everything.-Yahiya Ali