Food Poison'd!

Back a week now, from our trip to see my mom for her 75th birthday. My sister did a fantastic job of rounding everyone up for the party. Even though the snow in DC brought the party numbers down, the calls from friends have kept coming & mom has enjoyed that tremendously. So much fun!!

In other mom news, J's mom is much better after wrastling a nasty bacterial infection. After two months of losing weight & not feeling well at all, she has taken a turn for the better & is sounding wonderful. J & I have been very concerned about her & so this is terrific news.

Whoa! Blogger's linking abilities have bombed, so no pics here. I'll update the sidebar, so's you can see pics from the recent trip. Egads...here's a link to the album for now.

The snow was beautiful. It did stop flights out of National & so we took advantage of the extra day to hit the Mall & see as many monuments as we could. Good times. We capped it off with dinner from the marina - fresh, steamed crabs. They were out of season & my brother was lukewarm about partaking, but I bought a half dozen for fun & a taste of home & headed to my brother's house.

J & I ate the first two out of the bag. Mine was off, so after a nibble, I tossed it into the garbage. Crabs can be watery when cooked, which ruins the experience, but I didn't think much of it as I went on through dinner. J stopped after one, we wrapped up dinner & hung out with my brother, his wife & son. So much fun!

I started feeling rough around midnight. I laid out, trying to figure out what was wrong. J got ready for bed & joined me. That was the last of the awesome trip as I began a 7 or so hour spat with food poisoning. I missed our early flight home & spent the next day (and a good portion of last week) exhausted and nauseous. Fortunately, the seventh day adventists had a store nearby & so I was able to get charcoal tablets to rid my body of the poison. It was a relief to get home the next evening.

Well, onward & all. I plan on regaling soon with tales of astrology & art. In the short term, this will have to suffice.

Awesome show on KEXP tonight. Roadhouse is doing a show on Martin Luther King, Jr, called: Martin Luther King and the Songs of Freedom - How Gospel Music Inspired a Movement

-Snippet from 1/11 post I never finished/posted

Tonight, I'm home. Jason's playing accordian & in between practice, we're watching West Wing. We ate left overs tonight, from last night's dinner with Christina & Jeannie. Glorious stuff to eat; chicken with bok choy & celery, quinoa with walnuts & red pepper flakes, brussel sprouts and bacon - some crazy Larsen's bakery danish product for dessert. I'm acclimating to cooking more at home. The brussel sprouts were an unexpected treat, I guess my taste buds have grown into the flavor.

It was a blast to have Christina & Jeannie over - even though we live in the same town, it's been too long since we've spent time together. We topped our evening off with a walk around the neighborhood. In the 2-3 days without rain, the sky has cleared and the stars, remarkable.

The moon will be full over the weekend, in Cancer - astrologically speaking, it's stronger (more emotional - as it's in it's own sign). I'd write more on the current astrological temperature, but I'd have to look it up & that feels like cheating.