Another summer story problem

I really liked Jill's story problem, so I decided to make my own. Mine is much more simple of course.


24 Hours
+Clear liquids
- Solid Foods
+ Entire bottle of Fleet
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= One Very used toilet




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How to make Goop

Ok... I decided to share with you the family secret of goop. I hope that you aren't too dissapointed to see how easy it is to actually make. I asked my dad the other day where the recipe came from and he said that our grandmother had read it in a magazine when he was a boy. The original recipe also had pistachios in it, but the goop I grew up with never had pistachios. Apparently because of the supply and demand at the time pistachios were extremely expensive. While I do like to eat pistachios, I do not like it in my goop.

Goop recipe:

two packages 8oz cream cheese
two cloves pressed fresh garlic (garlic lovers might want to add more!)
two heaping tablespoons sour cream
one bunch green onions chopped

In a large bowl add cream cheese, pressed garlic and sour cream. Mix with electric mixer until combined and creamy. Add chopped green onions and mix just until green onions are equally dispersed in the goop. (If you mix the green onions for two long, your goop will turn green.... YUCK!) Refrigerate (if it makes it to the fridge) for a couple of hours for best taste. Eat with pretzles.

Some advice... If you are trying to make it lower calorie, you can use the 1/3 fat cream cheese. I use one package of 1/3 fat cream cheese and one package of full fat cream cheese myself. You can use nonfat cream cheese, but the taste is terrible to me.

Please do not try to substitute the fresh garlic with garlic powder or garlic from a jar. You will not get the same flavor. All ingredients should be as fresh as possible for optimal taste.

Some of my relatives will eat goop with other kinds of chips. My dad likes corn chips, and some people like regular potato chips. My sister and I prefer to stick to pretzels which is how we always ate it as kids. My mom likes to use goop instead of mayonaise on her BLT sandwich.

Let me know how it turns out!

I am loving Face Book

I am loving Face Book lately. I have come across people who I haven't seen in years. It is really neat to see how people are doing, and to get back in touch with people. Through Face book I have been able to reconnect with friends who I met in Japan who are now living in other countries, high school friends, and old neighbors who lived down the street from us more than 20 years ago. How cool is that?

Home Sick

I am not sick for home, but I am home sick. I hate being sick. I know that probably surprises most people because I know everybody loves to be sick. (Being Sarcastic) I would way rather be at work. Of course, I do love my job. I haven't been able to say that for a really long time. The last job I had that I really loved was teaching in Japan. It was a very busy and hectic lifestyle. I would take the train from location to location where I would teach. Many times I would teach the same lesson eigteen times a week to eighteen different classes. The hardest part was keeping the lessons fresh every time I taught it. It was a new lesson for the kids, but for me it kind of got boring. Since I have been home in the States, I refuse to play Uno or any other of the games I played over and over and over and over and then one more time in Japan. The fun part about being there was that everyone was always so glad to see me. My classes were glad to see me, and my family was really glad to see me when I came home to visit. It kind of felt like I was a star. I couldn't go anywear without coming across someone who recognized me. Even when I traveled out of the country, I ran into different students at international airports across the globe. People gave me gifts all the time, took me out to dinner and treated me special.

Of course the money wasn't too bad either. I got paid in cash every month. I budgeted by laying the money in piles. I had a pile for electric, phone, and other monthly expences. There was a pile of money to send home and then the pile left over was my fun money. If I was going out on the town, I would grab a bill equal to about a hundred U.S. dollars and spend almost all of it that night. When I think of that now, I cannot believe how much money I spent on having fun. I wouldn't even dream of that now. Well I guess I would dream of it, but I wouldn't do it. That was back in the day when a flight for a thousand dollars seemed cheap and something I didn't want to pass up. I didn't think anything of hopping a train to Tokyo to visit some friends and travel around. Eating out every meal seemed pretty normal, and I didn't have much groceries in the house. If I did, they rotted very quickly anyway.

So, now I do love my job. I don't feel so much like a star anymore, but my neice Grace makes me feel pretty special. She pretty much jumps for joy every time she sees me. Even though she is a walking germ factory, I am glad to see her too. Kids her age are so brutely honest that I know she really thinks I am a great being. The other morning I was laughing and tickeling her in my bed. She got a whiff of my breath and said, "That Stinks!". She plugged her nose and tried to get away from the offencive smell. I love her.

Bob's Red Mill

Almost every Saturday morning, my mom and dad have breakfast at Bob's Red Mill. My parents will sometimes also go during the week and often... very very often invite me. I rarely go, but I do enjoy it once in awhile. They serve fresh whole grain foods like grits, oatmeal, biscuits, toast, and a variety of other foods.

My favorite is the french toast which I lather with freezer jam. Before I started eating gluten again, I would buy my gluten free breads and mixes at Bob's Red Mill because they were one of the few places I could find such a wide variety.


After Mom and Dad eat, they will read the paper, do some puzzles or read. I like to walk around and look at the water features including a real water wheel and a fountain built using an old grinding stone. If you are lucky, you can see the geese that hang around there. They have their little babies with them at this time of the year, and we got to see them today and also a couple of mallard ducks.


Another lucky sighting is to see Bob (owner) and his wife eating breakfast with some friends. You will know he is there when you see one of his really old black Ford cars parked in the parking lot. Bob looks exactly like the picture of him at this link. We have been going there for years, and I don't think Bob has aged a bit. He always looks exactly the same.