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The Memorial Bra

Everything is all in the mail for the Bras Across the Mississippi event in Vicksburg next week (details are here at Filterless or here at the SPQ blog).  The priority package was dropped at the post office on Sunday.   Both Mom and I included multiple other bras to send with the Memorial Bra (at 38DD, and still a size too small, it deserves capitol letters). As I was packing the box, I had to ask Mom if she was sending kiddy bras or something, they were just so small.  Apparently, my current bra size has warped my view.  These itty, bitty, "kiddy" bras were 34Cs.  Whoops.  They look like amateur slingshots compared to mine.

As promised, I have pictures of the Memorial Bra.

From the front:

The left cup:

The right cup:

Full back:

Detail on the sides:

I was a little lazy on the bottom beaded ribbon.  I used Modge Podge to attach it.  The sequin ribbon and the beading were hand stitched on.  I used almost 3 yards of that green sequin ribbon which is kind of scary.

Anyway, plenty of bras including a few with tags still on (don't you just hate going up a bra size just a few weeks after a Victoria's Secret semi-annual sale?) are there in support of breast cancer research and to help women in shelters.

The handstitching gave me ideas though.  I need to find either a black or red bra to bead for DragonCon next year.  It would look great with the black underbust corset.

The experiment is on

After getting back my last cholesterol test, I've decided to go vegetarian Monday through Thursday for lunch at work. So I've been scouting out recipes and just making some things up as I go along.  The scary thing is that I think I've doubled my protein intake by going vegetarian.  Each week, I'm putting together a new dish that I'm taking in to eat for those 4 days.

Week One: I had wheat couscous with great northern beans, light red kidney beans, and zucchini sauteed in olive oil with black pepper.  It was incredibly simple and quick to make.  I think dicing the zucchini took the longest.

1 box of Near East Roasted Garlic and Olive Oil Wheat Couscous
1 can Great Northern beans, drained and rinsed
1 can Light Red Kidney beans, drained and rinsed
2 zucchini
2 tsp olive oil
fresh cracked black pepper

Prepare couscous according to box directions. It takes about 5 minutes total. Wash and dice the zucchini.  Add olive oil to skillet over medium high heat and toss in zucchini.  Crack pepper over zucchini and saute until preferred doneness. I like mine still a little crispy since they'll soften in the leftovers. When the zucchini is done, toss everything together in a container with a lid.  It's good warm or cold and will keep for several days.

Week Two: I tried a Giada de Laurentis recipe from the Food Network for the second week. It was Zucchini and Garbanzo bean salad (the picture with the recipe is the wrong one). I served it with a hunk of pumpernickel each time that I had gotten from the Publix bakery. Bless the Publix bakery. They make some damned fine eats. The salad was light and tasty but started to go off by the third day so I'm not going to plan on it for 4 days of eating again.

Week Three: This is the current week.  I had leftovers of chicken fried rice from Sunday for the first night but beyond that I have Roasted Sweet Potato and Carrot couscous.  I made this one up because I haven't been finding good zucchini at the store. Sweet potatoes are in season though and I love them as much as I do zucchini.  Uncooked sweet potatoes would have been unappetizing so I decided to go with roasting.

1 box Near East Roasted Garlic and Olive Oil couscous
2 small sweet potatoes
3 carrots
2 tsp olive oil
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground coriander
1 can Great Northern beans
1 can Light Red Kidney beans

Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Prepare the couscous according to box directions.

Peel and chop the sweet potatoes and carrots into similar sized pieced to ensure even cooking.  Place the pieces on a foil lined cookie sheet (hey, I like easy clean up). Drizzle the olive oil over the carrots and sweet potatoes and then sprinkle on the cinnamon and coriander.  Toss to coat.  Bake for about 10 minutes with regular checks for doneness stirring once in the middle of baking.

Once you pull the sweet potatoes and carrots out of the oven, toss them with the couscous and beans.  It's gotten rave reviews both warm and cold.  I'm thinking of taking it to our Halloween luncheon at work next week because of that.

Hopefully when I have new blood work done before Thanksgiving, all this will have made a difference. At the very least, it should make a difference in my waistline. If you've got any suggestions for quick, high protein and fiber vegetarian dishes that are good as leftovers, I'm all ears.

Bras Across the Mississippi

For the second year, Jackson DJ Jan Michaels of Q-105 FM is joining up with Riverwalk Casino to show support for cancer awareness and will be stringing bras across the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, MS.  Riverwalk Casino is being ever generous and donating $1 for every bra received to the American Cancer Society.  At the end of the event, all bras in good condition will be donated to Women's Shelters who frequently have to flee violence with only the clothes on their backs.  The goal this year is 10,000 bras.

The very stately HRH Jill Connor Browne of Sweet Potato Queen fame is helping out and encouraging our support.  So, ladies, we need to whip it off and stick our bras in the mail to help this great cause. The deadline for the lingerie to be received at the station is Friday, October 30th, so we need to get moving.  The event will happen on November 5th in Vicksburg, MS.

Send the bras to:

Jan Michaels
Q-105 FM - Clear Channel Radio
1375 Beasley Road
Jackson, MS 39206

Check out the pictures from last year's event here.

For more information, try the links below.

2nd Annual Bras Across the Mississippi

American Cancer Society

DJ Jan Michaels blog

Riverwalk Casino

The Sweet Potato Queens

HRH Jill Connor Browne's blog

 

Link to 2010 event: 2010 Pull out the over the shoulder boulder holders

Restraint isn't going to last

I swear, I'm going to tackle that boy someday and roll all over him. He smells that good.

The subconscious will let you know

It shouted out "he's an ass who would make you miserable," or at least, I assume that was a major point of the dream I had last night. 

I frequently don't remember my dreams past an hour after waking.  I might remember bit parts or familiar players on occasion, but rarely. Usually, I dream in full color though there is the occasional black and white (which tend to be doozies).  I have one reoccurring dream that I can't even describe because I never remember it but even in the dream I think, "I've dreamt this before."  There are also two people that show up about once a year (in separate dreams) that I haven't seen in person for over a decade.  Yes, they're both guys, and yes, they're it's always a sex dream.  One of the guys always makes me feel like a Reba song (She thinks his name was John) because his first name was John but I can't remember his last name anymore.  You know, that is something for a shout out to people I went to middle and high school with; what was John's last name?  For some reason, I think it starts with a "B." He was around average height for a guy, dark hair, kind of pale, a gorgeous smile, dimples to die for, and he usually wore jeans, a white t-shirt, and a black motorcycle jacket. I don't think he was in high school with us the entire time though. Oddly, his dreams are always in black and white.

To last night's dream...it took place in a dorm but it didn't look like one I'd ever lived in.  The walls were painted warm colors. Now that I think of it, they were the same colors that the corridors are painted at work. No overhead lights were used, only warm toned lamps.  He and I were reclining back on a bed being used as a couch watching TV (no idea what we were watching though).  Suddenly, without doing more than shifting the boxer shorts we each were wearing, we were having sex and he transformed into "the man who would not move."  If you haven't read, Jill Connor Browne's Sweet Potato Queens Book of Love, you really should.  It's hysterically funny and part of it has the story as told to her by a friend of "the redheaded man who would not move."  In my version of it, he has dark hair and isn't heavy but he was very much "the man who would not move." Bam, that was the sex.  Well, I guess not "bam."  There really was no "bam" involved.  He got up to clean up and I told him I was heading back to my room to clean up too.

Once there, I wiped up with some tissues and handy wipes from a pop up dispenser (kind of like the ones used for Clorox wipes).  The handy wipes had something written on them but it was blurred (duh, marker on damp cloths will do that).  In the dream, I knew what it was.  That's gone now though. A couple of friends came in at that point and we got to talking.  "The man who would not move" wandered into my room looking for me and I told him that I got distracted but the guys coming in. Shut up, Soli, that's not a double entendre. He was looking for praise and I essentially patted him on the head while thinking, "he's 'the man who would not move'."

The funny thing is I know this guy in real life.  I had the chance to get involved and it didn't work out (we never even kissed). My subconscious seems to have fully ensconced the idea that it will never happen which my conscious mind realized long ago.  Now every time I see him, I will think "there's the man who would not move."

Note: I have never dated nor been intimate in any way with the 3 guys mentioned above. I've hugged them and I think that's it.