This Post Shall Remain Nameless to Protect the Silly

Pineapple juice for breakfast...best yet. Maybe I added a tad more ginger, dunno...it rawked pretty hard. As Larry David would say...Prit-tay, prit-tay, pretty hard.

Today wasn't a big activity day, just putzed around the house,drank a green smoothie, made the savory nori rolls for dinner, and watched last night's Desperate Housewives episode online (ctv.ca).  It's "my show" (wait, I've said that about a couple shows now...hmmm...) and we went out last night, so I caught up with it today.  I'm like my sweet mom and her soaps.

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Did I tell you the story about The Girl Who Forgot to Practice Mindfulness and Vitamixed Her Tamper to Shreds?  No?  Oh silly me.  I thought everybody knew.

I have this friend.  Ok ok it's me!

There I was all set to make a smoothie last week, when I realized that the lid was in the dishwasher, in the middle of a soapfest.

What did Einstein do?  Used a plate to cover the open top and turned the Vitamix on.  Sketchy as that sounds, it worked.  I noticed that the smoothie was not splashing about, but whirring away in the bottom half of the container.  But there were some spinach leaves that were just not joining in, so without thinking, I took the tamper and poked at them and heard an ugly noise.  Well suddenly I was thinking again.  Chewed the bottome right off the dang thing.  (That circular ridge is there for a reason!  So is the lid!)

The thing they say about blocks of wood in the Vitamix?  I'd believe it.  It wasn't pretty.  So I waited a day or so to shake off the utter DOHness of it all, and I phoned the Vitamix Corporation.  I saw online that tampers are 16 bucks, plus shipping, but I wanted to know if I could use a money order instead of a credit card.  She asked me when I'd purchased my machine and I told her April '09, then she asked me if I had ever ordered replacement parts from them before, and I told her no, and she said, "Well then the first one's on us!  We can ship that out to you this week."  I was all, "Just like that?!"  She laughed and said, "Yes, just like that!"

Well I'll be.  Rewarded for my stupidity. lol  We all do shit like that, just not thinking, and this time, it manifested in chewing off the end of my nightstick, as I usually call it.  Well I call it something else, too, but this is a family show.

Anyway, Yay Vitmix! Harkens back to Mike at Whole Foods... twice in a very short period of time, I've experienced way cool customer service! 

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The nori rolls were as fantastic as the last time we had them a few days ago!  Better, even, since I thickened the pate on each sheet.  I doubled the batch this time, too.

I had an EFT client at 5 pm today (please don't tell them about the tamper) so I had to leave the nori rolls with about an hour left to go in the dehydrator, but I took a little so I'd have something in my stomach.

Later on my way home, I was sure ready for more, and I phoned Steve, and he said he'd been munching on them, loving them, and thought they'd be great with hummus.  It made sense to me, so I stopped by the store on the way home and bought a couple things I needed to make it.

I made us a big salad, the hummus (he was right!  the hummus compliments the nori rolls in a big way.  I think that will be a combo from now on) and some o' dem brownies.  My name is Rawkin' and I'm a rawveganbrownieholic.

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So I was telling my friend about my idea for Raw Dinner Party Workshops and the more I told her, the more excited she got until she blurted out:  "Have one at MY house!"  And she named off several people who would likely want to attend.  I said I had a couple, too (you online girlies who expressed interest) and she asked me if a Saturday evening in January was too soon.  And I was on a roll, so I said, "Sounds GREAT!"

*gulp*

I can doooo eeeeeeeet.  right? :)  So stay tuned, 'cause it's-a happening!  I'll be working out details.

Let me know if you still want to come! 


Onto (other)  things that rock my world:

My 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' CD...I adore sad orchestral pieces and sad, sad arias...it just kills me...in a good way.  Also loving my Cello Concertos CD.  Things that make ya go Aaaaahhhhhhh.


The other thing I'm going to include is a Wheatgrass book that came to me out of the blue, as a gift.  You remember Vera, the lovely lady who sold me the Greenstar off craigslist?  Remember how we hit it off?  Well, she emailed me yesterday and asked me if I'd like to have a book called "Wheatgrass...Natures Finest Medicine" by Steve Meyerowitz.  She and her husband are moving (hence the greenstar on cl) and she thought of me when unloading this book.  It coulda gone with a pile going to the Sally Ann or to someone else, but she said she wanted me to have it.  Is that sweet or what?  :)  I'm a blessed woman!!  Thank you, Vera, you sweet thing ya!


Life is good!


xo
Rawkin'