I love Korean food. Here’s a recipe for greens that I cooked for lunch today that was absolutely delicious. I used stock that I made from fish heads instead of dried anchovies and brown rice miso instead of Korean soy bean paste. Try it. You may like it.
I just saw this video of the cutest…I mean the second cutest bass player ever. Enjoy.
I’m back in the UK. During the trip we managed to go a full 24 hours without sleeping. No jet lag cure will remedy that situation. I feel like my brain will fall out of my head. So, here’s a song I like. It’s Sly and the Family Stone, not Doris Day. I’ll post tomorrow.
My husband had to use my computer yesterday morning to get some work done before going to a recording session. I was able to get onto my father’s computer for 5 minutes, but after that I had no computer access from 8:30 to 11:30. A normal person could go 3 hours without going online and be fine. There are plenty of things you can do that don’t involve a computer, like wash dishes or clean the bathroom. Unfortunately, I’m not a normal person.
Figuring out what to do without access to my computer was difficult. I spent some time reading an actual newspaper made of paper and ink. It was really awkward to hold. I thought about writing a story old school with a pen and paper, but I couldn’t find a pen that worked.
Frustrated, I finally ended up walking to the bank to make some deposits. I thought that by the time I got back there would be a computer available for me to use. There wasn’t. So I sat on the bed and stared at the wall. I should have read a book, but all the books here don’t belong to me and I’ll be leaving soon. Why start something I won’t finish?
If you had asked me before yesterday if I was too dependent on my computer I would’ve told you no. Now I’m not so sure. I’d like to say that I don’t need it really. I can stop any time. I’d like to be unplugged for an entire 24 hour period to prove that I’m not a computer junkie. I’d like to, but I can’t. How would I work, write, listen to music, find out about what’s going on in the world, and watch Maru videos without my computer?
My dad has a YouTube account now. Here’s a concert he recently played. He’s the bouncing bald head behind the Hammond organ.
These days I’m terribly into hypnotherapy. I used to be quite a hypnosis sceptic. It just didn’t seem plausible to me that you could make someone cluck like a chicken every time you snap your fingers. My only exposure to hypnotism was from television shows, but I did work in a health clinic owned by a hypnotherapist before and some of my best friends have been hypnotized.
A friend of mine got hypnotherapy once. Her experience also led me to believe it was a load of hogwash. She said that the whole time the therapist was trying to hypnotize her an ice cream truck was driving around the neighborhood playing ice-cream-truck songs. It was so distracting that she couldn’t go into a trance. Finally, she pretended to be hypnotized so she could leave.
My mother also had a friend who used hypnosis to stop smoking. She still smokes.
Now, you understand my scepticism, don’t you?
Recently, I started watching hypnosis videos on YouTube and I’m completely fascinated. I don’t have a television most of my entertainment comes from YouTube.
There’s this thing you can do called instant induction. From what I’ve seen on the YouTube videos to put someone into trance via instant induction all you have to do is grab them and say sleep in a jarring way. We’ve been trying it around the house. So far neither of us has gone into a trance, but I’ve been scared half to death on several occasions.
Since our instant inductions weren’t working out, I decided to try watching videos about how to put someone into a trance. One night, I was engrossed in watching one of these videos with my husband. When I paused the video to as something about it, I was shocked to discover my husband was in a trance. I kept hitting his leg and saying, “Stop messing around and open your eyes.” He kept trying to open them, but couldn’t. Finally, I hit him enough times to snap him out of it. I’m still not sure if he was lying or not. Anyway, here’s the video.
When my husband isn’t working he usually goes with me to church on Sundays. This past Sunday he was working. When he got home I told him that people asked about him at church. He immediately picked up the guitar and started singing this.
Not too long ago I mentioned that I was planning on making videos. Since then I’ve been agonizing over what to do exactly for those videos.
When I woke up this morning I had something in my eye and that was all the inspiration I needed. The resulting video was supposed to be funny, but ended up being a little scary.
I went to a barbecue earlier this week. It was quite nice. I always like good food and good conversation and good food. At one point in the evening the conversation turned to Jane Austen. I can’t stand Jane Austen. I don’t understand the appeal at all. I’ve tried to read a few of her books and I just can’t do it and the movies…don’t even get me started. Anyway, I saw this video today on Feminist Mormon Housewives and I just had to post it. Apparently it was made by a YSA ward in LA. This is one way to make Jane Austen more interesting.
