Friday, August 27, 2010

iNCREDIBLE ISRAELI RAP SONG....YOU WILL LOVE IT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKLDQrgJEUI

bASICALLY..IT REPRESENTS A GROUP OF PALESTINIAN KIDS AND A GROUP OF ISRAELI KIDS...WHO GET ALONG..WANT PEACE.....AND ACHIEVE THIS THRU MUSIC AND DANCE. FOLLOW THE LINK..YOU WILL LOVE THE MUSIC....IT ISNT THE KIND OF RAP YOU ARE THINKING OF AT ALL...AND MAYBE...ITS NOT RAP AT ALL?

This summer sucked! NEW Salad Dressing! New Choc Muffins,Craigs List Fight

Lets startwith the fight going on Craigs List.....someone is trashing us...I do not think its more than one person, unless...someone else go in on the act. SOme jealous person, and we do have an idea who it is....is saying we are crooks, we do wire fraud,(what ever that is>?) We illegay advertise on CL when one is supposed to pay...but we are allowed too, by their rules. They conocted all kinds of lies...and keep them coming....
We will find out eventually who it is and prosecute..but it is upsetting....to say the least......but this too will pass.

This summer was the worst summer....no business...no fun....nothing exciting...7days a week in the store trying to make sales to pay the bills that continue to pile up...then we had a heat wave to make things worse...then to ad insult to injury. the cities....or county decided to dig up maple ave, from JUNE 3 to the end of JULY......So depression is based on reality....no mental issues.another year went by with no vacation....I had wanted to go to HUNGARY to visit my GOD SHILD and dear freinds SUSAN and Frank...and BENNO, who moved to HUNAGRY from HOLLAND.....but it wasnt possible....

And when depressed, as usual, I eat and cook. So tongiht I will share two new items of culinary delishousness..... I made a salald of fresh Jersey tomatoes...lettuce and a package of genuine fake lobster bites...The sauce was made with diet mayonaisse, crushed tomaotes, fresh garlie grated, mint,sale, pepper, a little vinegar....I poured the sauce over the entiure salad and tossed it....The after taste...of garlic....and mint..is so unusual.....and so good.

Muffins from heaven....oy... I took a box of Philsbury 50% reduced sugar....Devils FOOD Mix. I added half an apple chopped up.....and a small container of raspberries.... Followed directions on the box. The taste is heavenly.....try it.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Miss Universe/Miss Mexico, The Mosque Issue, BUDDA loves you,

Tonight, just by accident...i watched the very end of the MISS UNIVERSE contest....I watched as the 4,3,2,and Ist runner ups were eliminated...and MISS MEXICO was crowned MISS UNIVERSE!! I was thrill...for several reasons...firstly, she is absolutley gorgeous...secondly, it might lift the spirits of all the MEXICANS who are being so put down lately...from Arizona....and all over.. and since I was in MEXICO in February...i felt somewhat connected.
The MOSQUE DEBATE....I feel that half of me is for the MOSQUE, the freedom of religion,...and that it would be a good thing.....The other half of me is against it for several reasons. Deep down, I think that is a larger sense, it is like a victory monument to what "they" acheived. The original name of the place..also had the meaning of such Victory Monument and they quickly changed the name. I also do not trust the source of the money that will be raised to build it.Now I must admit that I just might be as brain washed as so many else are...but I think there is a deep seated plan to try to make the world all MUSLIM, regardless of what they have to do to achive it. Maybe I am paranoid.
Secondly, they do have a right o build a religous center...but I think under the circumstances of 9/11, they should have had enough sense not to build it so very close to the WTC, unless, indeed they wanted to rub it in our face. I would rather see them build it somewhere else.

Budda was a real man, A Prince...of the high class caste...a BRAHMIN.....but even back then, The Budda (not his name of course) didnt like the way things were going..he was stick in the palace, and he wanted to get a taste of the real world. He new of the concept of GREED, poverty, hunger, illness, corruptions...he didnt like it and it confused him.. He eventually set out to learn more about the real world....the searth for truth and elightenment...and he spent his life seeking spread of enlightenment. HE rejected his birthright....and evently had a giant impact on the world.
Budda attracted followers....who eventually brought his message of the search enlightenment from INDIA to CHINA.....where the IMage of Buddah took on image of a happy fat smiling many with a big belly....
In Buddism, Buddah is not a GOD....he is a philopsher showing the way to live a good life. There is no GOD (as such) in their religion.....so to me, I will look at Buddism as a philosophy.....a path...to travel.....a way to live....a way to act and a way to think. They are devoid of miracles, special diets, guilt and most of all the other nonsense of other religions....You can be married, eat meat or not, drink alcohol or not.....work any day of the week, and not burdened with rules and regulations. They advocate a life of no excesses. They advocate kindness...and the ten commandments would fit into their program....well, most of them. They study how to live, and how to be>>>> and how to think.
My Friend Phil, was just "ordained " as a Buddist Priest. Phil is JEWISH...and their is no conflict in being both a Buddist and JEWISH......you can called it Zen Judiaism and not be wrong...They work with each other.....as it did for 500 years in a JEWISH community in CHINA...in the Shanghai area..(I dont think they ate Lobster Cantonese)
Phil invited me to meet some of his Buddist Associates..who are all very special people....and the invitation is a compliment. I was told someof my poetry,actually is paraphrased concepts from Buddist writings....and that I am on my way to enlightenmnet...jsut think, another 500 years...and might arrive.
If the entire world were BUDDISTS.....it might solve most of the problems of the planet.. but then again, you might say that if all the People were Christians, or JEWS or anything else, the problems of the world...would be solved... But, I think there is a difference. To become a Buddist, one has to really want to become one...study....and you want to be good....and you find good in everything. And you dont hate...the search for enlightenment...doesnt include the necessity for giant riches.....Buddishts havent started wars......where they travel peace breaks out.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Went to SING SING TONIGHT WITH ITS MAYOR,FOOD,FUN NIGHT

THE STORE WAS ACTIVE TODAY....lost of people, but one one great purchase....most of the people didnt want anything, or werent ready to buy, or werent willing to pay a fair price. It was interesting to note, that half of the poeple who came into the store today...didt use English as their first language. 50% of the people were not Americans, or American born. This is not a negative statement....it might just be that Europeans (etc) have a great appreciation of art and antiques that todays younger generation. It just might be a cultural thing. And I am so happy that they come into the store.. Most of the people who sell me things, tell me their kids do not want their art and antiques and collectibles.
I only had one slight verbal run in with a customer....At the end of the day, a bunch of people came in with DOGGIE BAGS....which means, they just came from an early dinner from Scilian Sun or Kevins Thyme. DOggie BAg carrying people traditionally only stop in to take a quick look..they really dont come in to buy anything.....especially when them come enmasse. Truth to form, one of them priced a 19th century childrens push sled..in fairly good condition. I threw a quick cheap price of 225 at him.....he responded,"I will give you 100 dollars its all busted up.....i really didnt know what to say....I wanted to really say someting nasty....but i wated to calm down....finally I said.....calmly"I dont even hear offers like that" Not sure how it came over...nasty? firm? to the point?"
A lot of people brought things to sel me today..the Perve Psychologist was back with a few things....including a very nice CHINESE bronze vase, that was wired into a lamp...anotoher owman brought in a colleciton of antique small baskets, brass candleticks and about 8 fashion prints from 1850......bought them.... and three women came in with big plastic bagss filled with worthless silverplate.....wasted a lot of time opening the bags....nothingI wanted....and others brought in photos....or just came in to tell me what they have at home......Lots of people entered the door...to bad that Icant charge an entrance or exit fee!!!!
During the afternoon, I heard a great crash..something glass or porcelain broke into a thousand pieces.... None of the customers and employees came to tel me what happened....and I decided...not to even go and look and get upset...since I was in a faily good mood. What is interesting, i actually forgot about it until right now...almost midnight......so my blood pressure stayed low.....

Mid afternoon I got a call from my friend JIM, who is ot only a lawyer who looks like a HOLLYWOOD movie star at age 32///but who is very involved with politics in Westchester and Rockland COunties.. He invited me to dinner with him and the MAYOR of OSSINGING NY, his life time parter of 36years.... they were first taking me to the remnants of a METHODIST COMMUNITY.....what they used to be called a "CAMP" back in 1803.....the tents gave way to fancy tents on cement slabs, which eventually gave way to small houses in many styles. Some of the houses turned out to be miniature VIctorian Houses.....complete with fancy fretwork carvings...but not too much larger than playhouses that rich parents build for their children...The houses are big enough for adults to live in, but barely.....The reason for the tour is that one of the "TABERNACLES" or meeting halls, is being torn down on WEDNESDAY. Jim and the MAYOR thought I would salvage the glass and indow frames...originally built in around 1850...in buildings that look more like SWEDEN, than in the UNITED states. Then entire enclave seemed not in an American style. The entiure place reminded me more of Europe than America....The two Tabernacles were very delapedated..one ready to collapse... Johm and I felt the glass was not worth saving....the cost of retrival would supercede what it could be sold for. John took photos, outside and inside....If I can get hold of the photos....I will post them next week. The entire community...with no sidewalks, poorly maintain structures, buildings whose style do not match.. was really very quaint....cute....and very creepy.....A perfect setting for a horror movie.!!!
From the horror movie set....we went to a restaurant on the HUDSON RIVER.....traveling all over the town of OSSINGING.....was like driving in SAN FRANSCICO....the streets,roads...etc were extrememly steep, and driving took my full attention..both looking at the fantastic Victorian archetecture....and the difficult driving....We got down fro the top of the hills to the RIVER.....a wonderful restuarant built right on the dock of the river...The food was excellent....i had a simple dish of rigatoni, shrimp,chicken and scallops and vinegar peppers in a oilve oil and garlice sauce....hmmmm. JIM has smoked suck rissoto and side order of mussels in garlic sauce,,,JOHN and a guest of the MYOR from INDIA, an exchange student and vegetarian...had Portobello Mushroom burgers...with ozzerella nd roasted peppers....We all had the house salad.....with hardboiled egg, tomatoes, and mild curry house dressing.
The evening was most pleasant...and the converation was equally shared...no one dominated it...and we all enjoyed the company...A most pleasant evening....Good Friends, comradery, conversation and food. What more can anyone ask for. Those are the things that make me most happy.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Not Been Bloggin much, Got a virus, and the blues,TRIPE SOUP?

This week i came down with some virus..one day nausea and the next....the other end....I felt like one of those spurting foundtains in LAs Vegas, spurting forth colored waters. First I thought I got food poisoning from a local gormet restaurant....who is very full of themselves. I had a bowl of Short ribs,served on mashed potatoes...that was good.....not great, kind of fatty, and at 25dollars ala cart, i really felt sick.....the next day...was BARF day....but, the symptons later followed what so many people have around here now...so I cant blame the owner..except for the bill.
Business this week was encouraging....in some ways. August is traditonally a bad month, and it was almost good. But still not good enough to pay all the bills, and have the pressure off. But, I am in the same boat of millions of other small businessmen.
Customers have been impossible. One lady today priced half the store...and when finally, she priced a cobalt blue water pitchers....i told her 5.00...to see if she was just playing around...It should have been 50.00 She said.."OH, for 5 dollars I have to think about it...! I almost lost it.... My mind was creating scenarios, likee taking it out of the closet and smashing it at her feet...but that owuld have been juvenile, wasful and psychotic....I thought of trying to insert it rectally, but I am sure, she probably would have allowed that, if she was getting it free. I thought of saying something nasty......but, wisdom won out in the end. I waslk away. and said nothing. Later on I removed the pitcher... Put it in the kitchen.. If she comes back"after thinking about it" I will kindly say, you know MISS THING, for 5.00 I decided to keep it and use it to serve customers drinks....(eat your heart out) today, a hamburger adn frieds cost more than 5.00. what was there to think about...THIS annoying person priced: A 1500 Tiffany floor lamp, other lamps, coffee tables(and wanted all the details as to size, wood, age...style....and of course none of them would work in her house, She had John show wher jewelry, also priced cutrglass, Waterford and a myriad of other things. I think she was looking for yesterday...and it just wasnt there.
I really havent been following the NEWS. I know there is abig controversey about the MOSQUE in NYC.....in reality, if we are to really be a country where we say there is religious freedom.. how can we deny them to build the mosque on relgious issues alone. TERRORISTS ATTACK THE WTC, NOT ALL MOSLEMS. AND ARE WE TO ASSUME THE MONEY FOR THIS MOSQUE IS COMING FROM TERRORISTS??? IF SO AND IF IT CAN BE PROVEN, THEN IT SHOULDNT BE ALLOWED. IF THE MONEY COMES FROM CONFIRMED SORCES OF PEOPLEFUL ENTITITES..HOW CAN WE FORBID IT.
BUT, i certainly inderstand the emotional ties we all have to MOslem Terrorist and the wtc 9/11 bombing. It seems as it is a Victory tower for them...it sure does....and I am not trying to be prejudices....but i am letting my emotions go and being honest with you and myself.. I would rather them build it elsewhere too, and NOT TEAR DOWN a 110 year old historic landmark....even though the cities landmark commision, who must all be shit for brains...said it was ok to demolish it...
On the PRO SIDE, It was BUSH and his boys, that LET 9/11 HAPPEN. HE WAS WARNED BY 11 DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS AND OCUNTRIES...AND ALL THAT ASSHOLE DID WAS GO ON VACATION FOR A MONTH.. THEY NEW IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN....AND THEY WANTED IT TO HAPPEN..SO THEY COULD PLAN THEIR WAR TO INVADE THE MIDEAST......AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED....CONSPIRACY THEORY???? YOU BETCHA!!!
TRIPE SOUP ALA MAURY.....WHO IN HELL EVER THOUGHT,THAT I WOULD EVER LIKE TRIPE, AND YET COOK IT.??? i HAVE HAD IT IN THE PAST, AND IT WAS SORT OF LIKE EATING RUBBER BANDS...BUT NOT AS TASTY...BUT TONIGHT...I BOUGHT A LITTLE PIECE OF IT...JUST O EXPERIMENT...AND A SHOCKER CAME OUT OF IT....I MADE SOMETHING REALLY VERY GOOD...HER IS THE RECIPE.
I FIRST BOILED THE PIECE IN A FEW PIECES FOR TWO HOURS WITH A LITTLE VINEGAR AND SALT IN THE WATER...THEN CUT IT UP INTO TINYPIECES AND COOKED IT AGAIN FOR HALF AN HOUR...DRAINED THE WATER....ADDED SOME DICED TOMATOES, AND JARRED TOMATOE SAUCE(RINALDO BRAND) AND WATER 50/50 A HIT OF GARLIC POWEDER, SOME VIRGIN OLIVE OIL, A HIT OF TOBASCO, SOME CHOPPED ONION, TABLESPOON OF CHOPPED PARSELY, FOR SWEETNESS A LITTLE GRATED CARROT.....AND COOKED IT ALL FOR ANOTHER HALF AN HOUR. IT WAS THEN TENDER.....IT WAS MORE OR LESS A SOUP...BEFORE SERIVNG I ADDED THE JUICE OF HALF A LIME.. AND IT REALLY WAS DELICIOUS.....HARD TO BELIEVE.
NOW IF YOU THICKEN THE SAUCE....YOU CAN SERVE IT ON PASTA OR RICE AS A MAIN DISH AND NOT RICE..IF YOU CUT IT UP SMALL ENOUGH, NO ONE WILL RECOGNIZE WHAT IT IS AND JUST LOVEIIT.
I JUST REMEMBER THAT I HAVE BEEN FORGETTING TO USE MY GLAUCOMA DROPS AT NIGHT.....AND ITS SERIOUS TO FORGET THIS....tHE DROPS HOWEVER MAKE ME DIZZY>>>I THINK THEY ARE BETA BLOCKERS AND LOWERS MY BLOODPRESSURE...
i REALLY HAVE TO GET BACK INTO BLOGGING..AND WRITING....THE MORE I STAY AWAY, THE HARDER IT IS FOR THE WORDS TO FLOW....AND BE SOMEHWHAT CREATIVE..WHICH i HAVENT BEEN IN A VERY LONG TIME...OR FUNNY. i WAS THE CLASS CLOWN, EVEN IN THE 2ND GRADE, AND NOTHING HAS REALLYCHANGED....EXCEPT,....THAT HUMOR CAN BE BASED ON REAL SERIOUS STUFF.....AND THE JEXTAPOSITION OF SERIOUSNESS AND SITUATIONS..IS WHAT MAKES HUMOR HAPPEN.
sOME HOW...i SAT DOWN IT WAS LIGHT OUT....AND NOW ITS 2 IN THE MORNING....I SPENT TIME ON CRAIGSLIST...LOOKING FOR CUSTOMERS.....COOKING, A LITTLE TV.........AND NOW GOOD WORLD i WILL GO TO SLEEP.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Being Bashed on Craigslist, WOnderful art show SAT NIGHT,ETC

Tonight I am being bashed on craigslist by an unhappy person who couldnt rip us off on SAT. She wnated an Emprie or MISSION dresser for 2 or 300 dollars. I told her that SO DO I......but they are not available in these parts for that price...she bitched and moaned...how she can get them upstate or at the NYC FLEA MARKET...I asked her then if they are available in those places, why she didnt go there instead......and I reminded her that SALVATION ARMY, would gete more than that these days. She was a nasty, mean spirited person..with an attitude.
TOday, she just had to comment on Craigs list how terrible we are...OVer priced,and that she thinks that we look at the people and just make up a price...since many of the items are not priced..which they are not. Some, the prices have been pulled off my other miserable customers...hoping IO might forget the price and charge them less.
I replied to this person.....that we are not upstate in a barn where they dont pay rent...and the mold makes everything stinky..I pointed out the incredible selection..here ..and that we dont find this stuff. we buy it....Flea market dealers do not have stores, employees, and do not pay 15,000dollars a month rent....and some of them garbage pick. Comparing our merchandise and our operation to those other people is like apples and oranges...... This person picked out a very high end dresser and priced it. I told her it would run about 1100. Now a new one of this quality would cost about 4000 made in AMERICAN....The price made her angry..and now she started a pogrom to punish me for having a nice store, with great stuff that she cannot afford, or is too cheap to open up her wallet, lest the moths fly out.
After I replied that this woman was just an unhappy yenta who like to kvetch, I got another bashing on Craigs list..that I am a NAZI and an AntiSemite for using the words YENTA and Kvetch. SO I had to reply again. that a yenta, doenst have to be JEWISH...just a busy body...and no element of antisemitism is involved...and to say she was kvetching..means she was complaining.....neither of the words have any horrible anti anything significance. I reminded her that the NANNY (fran dresher) was a wild enta on tv and i just adored her....and Howard Stern on the radio, called everyone a yenta, and no one called him antisemetic....that this person was ignorant of the words, and just plain mean spirited...and I am sure....the author of that post on Craigslist was the very same unhappy yenta....that I refered to
The bashing and harassment contineued.. The another post said that it is a state law that everything msut be priced... a STATE LAW.....THAT THIS PERSON INVENTED ON THE SPOT.There is no state law of any kind that antique dealers have to have everything priced....they made it up..and you know, some people will beleve anything they read....one of the reasons we do not price everything is that we get in so much stuff...sometime an apartment or house will have 500 indiividual items....a few weeks ago, we got in three houses in three days. maybe a total of 1500 items...small and large...how in hell are we expected to price every item..IMPOSSIBLE>
The next bashing is that we are not only rediculusly ovepriced, but our merchindise is so "hideous" that they dont understand how we ever sell anything....that was almost too funy to bear..i laughed out loud......and responded. that we have so many different tastes in the store.....people love something....and if she didnt like anything in a 30,000ft store..she really has a problem.......
ANd so it continued into the night....finding straws to grasp to knock us......and it most likely only one crazy person...who couldnt rip us off and was pissed....

Will have to contineu this tomorrow I am getting to tired now....but have to tell you about the great artist PHIL SMALLWOOD and his art show last sat night...

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Inquisition:CHURCH SURPRISES, Glacoma, meds,foods..etc

Last night I watched a very long program on teh INQUISITION...not just the Spanish inquisition,,,,but the INQUISITION of and by the Catholic CHURCH....now I new about the SPANISH ONE, but it really started a few hundred years before SPain started their own pogroms....
My disillusionment shouldnt be that surprising.. Some of you might know that I wrote a book about the reincarnation of JESUS. The book of course is fiction, but based upon my admiration of the Person, or Ideological Person that Jesus was, or was invented to be. He stood for all there is that is good. But what the so called Church created in his name, has nothing to do with what JESUS would have wanted. NOTHING AT ALL. In his name they created a government...which capitals in every CHURCh and Cathedral in the world. The Vatican was the central office and bank...the POPE was the dictator, who called all the shits, and had his own armies...to control and conquer other lands. They had the power to tax, create laws, jails and punishments....THEY HAD THE POWER TO DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THEY WANTED TO DO....POPES GOT MARRIED AN HAD CHILDREN...THEY HAD AFFAIRS, THEY ROBBED, AND MURDERED..THEY WERE THE MOST HORRIBLE GORUP OF PEOPLE THAT EVER LIVED....AND SOME OF THEM WOULD GIVE HITLER AND THE 3D REICH A GOOD RUN FOR THEIR MONEY.
POPE PAUL THE 4TH, WHOSE NAME WAS SOMETHING LIKE CARIFA....WAS BLOOD THIRSTY. HE WAS THE HEAD OF THE INQUISITION, AND WHEN HE BECAME POPE.....TOOK EVERYONES RIGHTS AWAY. IF YOU DIDNT BELIVE IN THE CHURCH AND THE POPE, YOU WERE A HERETIC AND MOST WERE CONDEMED TO DEATH...BUT NOT JUST AN ORDINARY DEATH...THEY CREATED SOME OF THE MOST HORRENDOUS TORTURES PRECEDING DEATH.....ONE INCLUDED BEING BOILED IN OIL AND TAR IN PUBLIC...BEHEADINGS, BEING TORN APART BY ANIMALS, AND THE MAJOIRTY WERE BURNED AT THE STAKE......ALL IN THE NAME OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND IN THE NAME OF JESUS.....THEY WERE AS BAD AS THE NAZI, BUT WENT ON FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS UNCHECKED..PROTESTANTS WERE MURDERED, TORTURED.....JUST BECAUSE THEY DIDNT ACCEPT THE POPE, THE VERY POPE WHO ORDERED THEIR EXECUTION.....MAD MEN
IN TOLDEDO SPAIN, IF THE JEWS DIDNT CONVERT....THEY WERE EITHER BURNED ALIVE, OR THROWN RIGHT OFF THE MOUNTAIN!!! in ITALY JEWS WERE FORCED TO LIVE IN GHETTOS FOR 300 YEARS...AND WHERE FUNNY YELLOW HATS.....THE GHETTOS WERE LOCKED AT NIGHT SO THEY COULDNT LEAVE....ITALIAN JEWSISH CHILDREN, WERE OFTEN KIDNAPPED AND BRAIN WASHED TO BECOME CHRISTIANS....IN THE EARLY 1800S NAPEOLEAN HEARD OF THIS AND FOUGHT WITH ITALY TO STOP THE PRACTICE...BUT IT WASNT STOPPED UNTILL THE LATE 1800;S.....THE LAST KIDNAPPED CHILD, DIED AN OLD MAN IN 1940......RIGHT BEFORE THE NAZI INVASION.
THEREFORE.....THE CHURCH IN THOSE DAYS, WAS WORSE THAN AL QUEIDA AND THE TALIBAN TODAY.... NOW THEY JUST QUCIKLY CUT OFF YOUR HEAD......BUT IN THOSE DAYS, THEY PLAYED WITH THEIR PRISONERS AND TORTURED THEM HORRIBLY.....SO THEY WOULD REPENT....REPENT FORM WHAT...REPENT FROM BEING PROTESTANT, OR JEWISH.....THEY EVEN KILLED PEOPLE WHO DIDNT FAST...ON A FAST DAY......THAT MADE THEM A HERETIC....oy!!!

IN THE MORNING I AM GOING TO THE EYE DR FOR MORE TESTS...I WAS TOLD I HAD GLACOMA...AND SINCE THE DR GAVE ME MEDICATION, I HAVE BEEN EXTREMEMLY SLUGGISH AND MY VISION HAS GOTTEN BLURRY...WHICH IT WASNT BEFORE I WENT AND GOT MEDS????

hERE IS A QUICK DOUBLE MEAL. i TOOK A BUNCH OF LAMB, THREW IT INTO A POT WITH WATER, ONION, PACKAGE OF MIXED FROZEN VEGGIES, LOTS OF GARLIC, MINT, A LITTLE TOMATOE PASTE, TWO CHOPPED ITALIAN TOMATOES, SOME COUS COUS DRIED, WORSTERSHIRE SAUCE,HINT OF TOBASCO, FEW TABLESPOONS OF RED WINE... COOKED IT FOR TWO HOURS....SEPARATED THE MEAT FROM THE LIQUIDS. RFRIGERATED THE LIQUID, THEN REMOVED THE FAT. ADDED A LITTLE CORNSTARCH TO THICKED INTO SOUP THICKNESS..ADDED SALT, AND A LITTLE MORE WINE..AND IT WAS A REALLY GREAT LAMB SOUP. SERVED THE LAMP CHOPPED WITH SOME MAROOCAN HARISSA SAUCE...HMMMMMM
i HAVE BEEN EXTREMEMLY TIRED SINCE MY EYES HAVE BEEN GIVING ME TROUBLE...SO TIRED THAT i GO TO SLEEP EARLY......USUALLY...AND NO ENERGY TO DO MUCH. in THE STORE, i HIRED EXTRA HELP AND THE GUYS ARE REDOING THE ENTIURE THIRD FLOOR. wE ARE CHOPPING UP SOM EFURNITURE....TO MAKE ROOM. gAVE A WAY A PIANO, THREW OUT A DOZEN PIECES OF FURNITURE. DO NATED A BATCH..AND NOW, ITS STARTING TO TAKE SHAPE...ANOTHER FEW WEEKS AND IT MIGHT BE ALMOST WONDERUL UPSTAIRS....
I THINK WE SHOUL HAVE A REUNION...OF ALL AUCTION CUSTOMERS........FREE FOOD AND A SALE......WELL NEED SLEEP BEFORE THE MORNIG EYE DR APPOINTMENT...

Monday, August 9, 2010

I havened blogged in a while see why!!!!

About two weeks ago, I went with the urging of a friend to an eye DR....I kept seeing an eyelash in my field of vision..and there was nothing there....Well, to make a long story short, i have glacoma and cataracts..and my vision, after starting on a reginmen of drops has become blurry, furry, and fuzzy. (arent those three of the Dwarfs from SNOW WHITE?)
ANd although I am now living again in WAYNE, and getting many more hours of sleep....i am more tired than ever...as if the drops the Dr gave me for the eys contain some magic sleeping medication......therefore, i dont have the energy to stay up late and write my blog, even though the WORLD is clamouring for me to write more. SORRY WORLD, i needed som etime off.
I went on a cleaning rampage in the store on the third floor. and started chopping up furniture...we started iwth two antique fabulous pump organs that i hav ehad for a decade..NO ONE WANTS THEM...AND I NO LONGER WANT TO SAVE THEM....WE NEED THE ROOM. After their demise, we threw out at leadt ten to 15 beds that needed fixing and refinishing....then we thew away some dressers, and cabinets and closets,,,and some tables. I gave a away a small truck load of furntuire to an antique dealers on who now does flea markets...and i even gave away a spinet piano to a good customer....The outcome of all of this is now we have an area upstairs that is walkable, browsable,,,and will generate more business..than if we had kept al that crap. I should have done this years ago, but better late than never....we will continue this....and my attiude for selling furniture has changed...give better deals, especially on stuff that has been here since George Washington slept at the HOHOKUS INN.
During this period of fuzzyness, I havent cooked anything special and havent written any poetry or anything else.....I feel like a computer whose hard drive has been overloaded and needs to be defragmented.....I need a vacation and I am thinking of going to HUNgary......to visit my GOD CHILD and friends......a well needed pick me up.....I think of their smiles....and now, I think the sunflowers are in bloom......where you can see them smiling....in egvery direction as far as you can see......its a muystical event... and then, I am almost smelling all the delicous HUGARIAN FOOD< and davoring the delicious hungarian TOKAY WINE>.....hmmmmmmmand when in HUngary i dont drive...so I can drink to my hearts contents....which isnt really very much anyway.....WWI....yep I probaly could get a wwi, Walking while intoxicated.
Maybe we can take a ride to ROMANIA...and again visit the town which was once Hungary when my grandmother was born there..but now...its a haven for Hungarian speaking Gypsies and other wild people....and the food there is beyond delicious and cheap..
I have to get back into writing this blog......I have stopped reading most of the news.....and can comment on that.....I know everyone on the RIGHT is blaming OBAMA for eerything...but they so soon forget that it was BUSH and CHENEY who put us into this position.....and OBMAA inherited all their shit......I remidn people, when a train tries to stop....and slams on its brakes, it takes a long while to stop...and the train wreck that BUSH caused...although slowing down, cannot be stopped immediatley..so stop blaming OBAMA....and still blame BUSH