just got my own bac!

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

lo siento, pete. you're right. i'm just so scaredey of leaving anyone out! silly me. won't do it anymore. folks will have to get their dictionaries.

pete, pm me, sure, but also try pandora.

oh yeah, and mom, about your email subject line: it's 'self esteem' not 'selfesteem'.

[Isolde]

just got my own bac!

RudyB;1198576 wrote:
just dive right in and make it! it isn't hard and you won't fail. keep bottles in fridge till you use it. drink off the top and use the bottoms of the two jars to start your mother, don't remember the proportions but doesn't have to be exact anyway (try that link). yeah, see if you can trade some for some dog time! the ceramic crock is perfect! you remind me, i have one in the garage i could use. yay! kombucha on tap! frickin far out! i'm going to the right store tomorrow so i'll get the goods and be right behind you>
I checked on my little starter batch yesterday. Doesn't like like anything's going on yet. I went through every bottle of GT's original at Whole Foods, and unfortunately none of them had a lot of mother floating around. I bought the 2 that looked like they had the most, and used all of the mother from the both of them. I think it'll take awhile to get going, but that's ok. I like that I don't have to think about it every day like I did w/the kefir. I could NOT keep up with that stuff!

RudyB;1198576 wrote:
hi is! love you!

Whee, thanks for the double love!:h
Love you too, Roo! :l

Will have to read the rest of the posts at work a little later. I got up early to oil pull, thinking I would have so much extra time. Well, the more extra time I think I have, the later I end up being! :H So I'm off, wishing you all a happy Thursday in the meantime!!

[Isolde]

just got my own bac!

RudyB;1198624 wrote: (long distance love is so hard. and a woman misses the hard, if you know what i mean.)

Oh, how I KNOW! :H

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

teee heee

is, the same exact thing happens to me with time and being late; i dawdle much more when i've time to spare, and look what happens!

speaking of, i'm supposed to be fetching my boy (on his birthday!) and rushing to get money from the bank so i can pay the property tax bill (five fuckin' grand!), but i had to stop at home to build a fire so my house isn't an icebox when i return. so here i am, letting it get going, before i get going. i just bought a quarter of an hour from the bank, so of course i think i have aeons! it's very cold and rainy out there, and supposed to turn to sleet. yuck. but, true to form, this morning when g learned that it would snow later (up to half an inch only), he said, 'oh yay! winter starts on my birthday!'

today's Obvious: it's the bronkaid! it has got to be the bronkaid that is making me this manic! sure, it's the bac, too, and the sobriety, and the love of life, and the exercise. but, wow! just, wow!

enough mamadas (triflings - though they really are not; i just wanted to use the word and give it to you)!

xo rudy

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

otra cosa obvia (another Obvious): i could never do all that i do if i were still drinking.

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slp_MXxqqbA[/video]]macaco - giratuto - YouTube

can't believe i forgot there's a great video to this one! this song rocks my way to and from work often lately.

rememos por el camino que hay que recorrer
no por el lastre que nos cuelga

let's row the way that we need to travel
not the ...god it's hard to translate... not inspired by the ...not controlled by the
burden that hangs us

(if there is a native spanish speaker lurker out there, could you please help me out!)

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

...not the way of the burden that hangs us? yeah, that's best.

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

'coge carrerilla' means to take a run-up, but what does that mean? i was about to rattle off my narrative, but i got sidetreacked translating 'giratutto'. help me out with that one, would you? does it mean to be a runner up in a race?

[Isolde]

just got my own bac!

RudyB;1198999 wrote:


enough mamadas (triflings - though they really are not; i just wanted to use the word and give it to you)!

xo rudy

Love the word (it rolls nicely off the tongue) and the meaning!! Thanks for sharing.

Happy Birthday to G!!! :bday1: :bday7: :bday2:

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

things for which i feel grateful at this very moment: spanishdict.com; good kombucha (the stuff i'm drinking sucks! sorry brooklyn kombucha (bk), must've been a bad batch: way too sweet and not fermented enough.); firewood; sleep aids; the knowledge that it was bronkaid that was making me manic and have no appetite (thanks murphy).

my day was off to an auspicious start when genesi* came to me this morning and said, with a gleam in her eye and the most sincere smile imaginable framing her bright white teeth, 'ms c, what got me out of bed this morning and onto the bus was the thought of coming into your classroom and watching more of that movie.' you see, we're watching volver ~ to return in my native speakers class. it's one of my favorite almodovar films. (he's from spain, and he is brilliant! with his use of intense color, his peppered-in graphic-novel shots, and his eccentric and ordinary characters -and everything else- he creates masterpeices. some i don't like, but some i love, like this one. anywhoot, it's a great way to start the day: with 15 of the coolest kids you could imagine. they sit and converse with me, the older ones encouraging the youngsters to stay focused, about all manner of things related to the spanish language and being hispanic, with me as their leader, bringing my perspective that comes from study and travel. it's so rewarding!

* i don't know if it's okay to use names of my students; please advise. it's hard not to, as they color the picture so prettily. i really think it's fine, but i can be un-cautious at times.

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

oh, hey, is, i'm glad you mentioned that. you remind me that i meant to come back and tell all of you the other meanings of mamadas: sucklings of a babe on mama's breast; blow job; cinch; drunkenness. of course, what it means depends on where you are, so unless you have unbeatable and well-oiled bilingual graces, it might be better not to use it at all. (but you'd be pretty safe with salvadorans, for whom it means the first thing i said -triflings, nonsense- according to 15 yr old amado.)

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

god, i feel like i accidentally drugged myself with bronkaid. i did not for a sec give any thought to possible side effects. in fact, i don't think i even read the label. duhhhhhh! i might've thought to do that when they asked for my license before letting me buy it. anyway, water under the bridge, and now i know. phew. if i use it again, which i probably will, i'll be sure to take it earlier in the day. i didn't realize it was amphetamine, and i'd forgotten what that meant (still don't really know); the stuff was such a small blip on my radar. now murphy reminds me that it's an appetite supressant. good golly, the good man just saved me the price of a new wardrobe! i've been getting skinny! shit! god. drugs are no joke!

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

godddamit!
i was just telling you all about my night with my son and it disafuckingpeered! fuckity fuck!

ahh, well, i can thank myself that i posted all of the above in little stints. deep breath. be glad the big things are getting resolved, and let it go. (fuckin annoying though.)

i was telling you all the things i bought at the health food store. ok, shopping list not so exciting usually, but this time each item told its own little story. like the shitty kombucha that was too sweet and not fermented enough; word to new brewers: let it do its thing for long enough, or it will taste like flat soda pop. like the plain black tea i couldn't find, then realized i have a full box of pg tips -an esteemed english tea- at home. like the big box of sleepytime tea that my birthday boy snatched off the shelf; he knows what time it is!

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

the guy who gave me the money at the bank lives in the most unfortunate body. it was hard for me not to judge him, especially as, looking around me in his workspace, i saw all kindsa junk -there by his own invitation- that would put him in that body: chocolate and corn syrup crap-oil deserts; shit bag coffee; powdered creamer; gallon jugs of chemical soap. i kept having to yank myself back to the twinkle in his smile and the fact that he relished talking about his son. it helped that he handed me a check for thousands of dollars.

[RudyB]

just got my own bac!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft-kTVS27HA[/video]]se acabo el baile-macaco - YouTube

there's a bunch of portugues in this one. and french, english, and of course, spanish. there's also some unique percussion that sounds like a fast, hard rainshower. the phrase 'bienvenidos al mundo de los sueNos ~ welcome to the world of dreams' appears here in a child's voice, as it does throughout the album. the title of the track means 'the dance has ended'. i am trying to put myself to bed. it is ten pm.

nite all. les quiero. (love you.)
xo rudy