Fresh meat, lightly seared
- At March 03, 2009
- By Roxanne Snopek
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Fresh meat, lightly seared
End of our first full vacation day on Maui, and we’re both suffering from a sun overdose… it NEVER looks like a burn until it’s way too late. But we took a dip in the ocean outside our hotel, swam around in the pool, then lay in the sun at what was in BC time early afternoon. In fact, it was high-noon and we’ve got the skin to prove it. Dumb. Then we took the shuttle to Lahaina town and did a bit of shopping. Had dinner at Cheeseburger in Paradise – yum! Then walked to the shopping center at Hilo Hattie’s (or, as Ray calls it High-Lo Hooties) and caught our shuttle back. Now we’re ready to hit the hay. Tomorrow we’re taking the new snorkel gear into the water around Black Rock. Turtles, here we come!
Maui 2009 Saturday
- At March 03, 2009
- By Roxanne Snopek
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Maui 2009 Saturday
We got up “early” this morning to go to Haleakala. Really, we let ourselves sleep as long as possible, then lolled around eating cereal, checking our mail, updating our photos, etc., before getting on the road. Then, we stopped in Lahaina at a Barnes and Nobel that also has a Starbucks, so Ray and I could indulge our respective addictions. I got several novels set in or about the islands and now I can’t wait to start reading.
The drive to Haleakala is pretty straight-forward, except that for some reason I didn’t consider that I might get hungry. A bowl of Raisin Bran only goes so far. Especially at 10,000 feet above sea level. On the other hand, the brain gets a pretty fuzzy at that altitude; what’s a little hypoglycaemia on top of that.
Everyone is right about one thing: it’s freaking cold up there. But wow, can you ever see. We could literally see from one coast to the other. Navigating back was a marital trial, (“Left.” “No, right.” Screech of tires. “Why are you talking?” “Why are you listening?” A few miles of tense silence….) but nothing a Maui Mist or three can’t cure.
We had dinner at The Melting Pot, a fondue restaurant in Lahaina where we ate and drank like we’re on vacation. Imagine a cheddar and lager fondue with bread, veggies and apple slices. Then salads, then a mixed platter of steak, salmon, chicken, bbq pork and prawns, cooked at our table in a coq a vin broth. Then a plate of sweets – brownies, cheesecake, fruit and marshmallows – dipped in chocolate sauce. We had to roll ourselves out of there afterwards. Too decadent. I think I’ll have to check back in with my friends at Herbal Magic once we get back home. And maybe buy a muu-muu, while I’m here.
Beautiful words
- At March 03, 2009
- By Roxanne Snopek
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Beautiful words
I wish I could take credit for these beautiful words, but alas, I cannot. These are from the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational, which has once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary and alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
You’ve probably read some of these winners, but perhaps a few will be new to you. A couple of them were certainly spew-worthy for me.
1. Cashtration (n.): the act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who is both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high
8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions
to its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate
meanings for common words. And the winners are:
1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade, v, To attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.
6. Negligent, adj.Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.
8.Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.
9.Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle n. A humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon, n.A Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.