My interest in blogging has been overridden by my interest in eating and horsing around.

Reading books, eating lollipops and turkey...yummmm, playing chalk tag and game fish, watching Dora and Thomas... all seem way more important today, than the love affair I had been having with my computer. (I may participate in Cyber-Monday) but this is what I have been loving most over this holiday!

Our Lady of Charity might have been my mother.

I was adopted and today is 48th anniversary of the day that my mother (who was killed in a car crash before I could meet her) gave birth to me... She spent many months hidden safely away from society's scorn, in a home for unwed mothers (nicknamed Watermelon Hill) making rosaries, awaiting my arrival and the day she would surrender me.

Her very Catholic parents decided for her, that at 19 she was not fit to be a parent. I am not sure how she felt, except that I am pretty sure in the 50's, she didn't have the voice to decide otherwise.

I am going to play the Joni Mitchell album Magdalena Laundries today and think of her. Then I am going to eat cake and celebrate how many more choices we have as women today.

Ancient Chinese Secret.

(I am not drinking and my spelling isn't this bad... this is known as Chinglish.)

Three Snakes Wine
According to Chinese medicine major Dictionary , the fomer things have abvious functions to rheumatism.

This Liquor has been soaked for a year and a half,and it has been watered carefully. It is frqgant mellow tasty and no stench. Drinking reguraly can dispel the wind and Coldness, remove blood stasis, limber up muscles and joints, strengthen health, prevent from diseases and prolong life.

Just looking at it almost makes me not want to drink again.

Not trying to overdo the China blogs but...

I swear I am not trying to make this trip the beginning and end of the world. I do cool trips every year but this time:

1. I had a decent camera and took a lot of neat pictures.
2. I have been forced to switch to stupid ROADRUNNER
2a. When I get inspired to blog, my internet and email always seem to be down.
3. I just bought all brand new bedding. Beautiful soft down pillows, silky duvet, and 1000 thread count sheets. I am so happy to get in between them.
Oh and
3a. Cheri has taught me (in spite of a broken finger that made squeezing the limes ALMOST impossible) how to make the PERFECT GAY MARTINI and I have been drinking a few here and there. They do tend to make me want to go to bed even earlier than usual.

It can't still be jet lag that makes me want to crash early. Can it?

Sooo, if I am not boring you too much, here are a few more pictures. I am posting these for something different to look at, so you won't totally ditch my blog forever.