Making Pelmeni . . . .

Yesterday we had a pelmeni making party. It was fun but took absurdly long! It was difficult to roll out the dough, my abs actually hurt today. I don't remember it being so hard in the past! In the end we made about 70 the first day and then my friend made another 70 or so the next day. Pelmeni are delicious little dumplings originating from Siberia.

Yusef a.k.a Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens was on the Tavis Smiley show last night and it finally all made sense to me. He had enough to make his own future and choices. Nothing wrong with that. He still has a fabulous voice but is barely recognizable to me. So Tavis Smiley . . his show looks like it was totally produced in 1985. The set, the lighting, the clothing, music and so on. It's so 1985. Check it out.

Happy New Year!

Yes, it's January. It's 2009. Hmmm . . .add all appropriate incredulity here. I had a great New Years with the Georgian girls. how fun they are! They undoubtedly always out drink me for sure but we danced and drank and laughed at people, yay! A random dumbass claimed he was a Titans football player to impress me? I wonder if that really works for him. I asked him what the Titans were, just to be a jerk. :)

Last night I went to the art crawl. This opened up a whole new world for me in Nashville. I had no idea and was so glad I went. I am not a critical lover of art but definitely a lover of the process to create art. There was one artist, Jordan Eagles, who was working in blood. Very cool, but I wish I knew why he was working in blood. Also, I saw works by Steven Knudson. I would like to shrink them down to quarter size to carry around with me. That way whenever I wanted I could look at them with a magnifying glass. The paintings weren't super detailed but somehow I kept finding new things in them.