Day 96- Feb 27
Listening to: the Oscars (too boring to actually watch)
Thought for the day: History never looks like history when you are living through it. ~John W. Gardner

You are looking at an accounting ledger turned cookbook that I found in a piece of furniture I inherited. For some reason I decided to look at it for the first time today. It belonged to the family of my step great grandmother. My grandmother’s mother died when she was six. She was raised by my step great grandmother who was as much a part of my blood as any blood relative could be.

Originally, the ledger was used to document weekly purchases. This page is from 1901 and contains everything from a hog for $10.70 to a pair of shoes for $1.25. At some point in time it morphed into a make-shift cookbook when someone started pasting newspaper clippings of recipes on top of the original ledger pages……………to conserve paper no doubt.

My grandmother obviously had value for it since she kept it. I’m considering going through and cooking all of the recipes ala Julia/Julie. The recipes, however, are a bit foreign compared to what I am use to seeing.

At the time of its origination, I imagine the owner had no idea that something so mundane/ordinary would mean something to someone 110 years later.

Day 96- Feb 26
Listening to: Hold the Line
Thought for the day: "Sometimes me think what is love, and then me think love is what last cookie is for. Me give up the last cookie for you. ~Cookie Monster

Jonesin for Girl Scout cookies and can’t find them? There’s an Ap for that…..

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/girl-scout-cookie-locator/id412442982?mt=8

I have no need for an Ap. I knew exactly where the girls in green would be today. I thought I was going to Kroger late enough to avoid them…………NOPEY. I’ve actually done well and have not committed GS cookie gluttony this year, well, not yet. The same cannot be said for my dear friend whose name starts with R and ends with K. He has plowed through 9 boxes of Samoas and I don’t think he’s done. NINE BOXES! He IS the champ. We may need to do an intervention before Girl Scout cookie season ends.

I’ve nom-nom’d two boxes………and I DID share. Girl Scout cookies aren’t as good as I remember them growing up and if they shrink much more we might need to call in Willy Wonka to find a way to save them.

Day 97- Feb 25
Listening to: In My Life
Thought for the day: And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles. ~Tim Holden

Gas has gone up 20 cents in two days all because some crazy dictator who reminds me of a singing raisin is being a total lunatic ASS. This is not a political rant. With the exception of the truly devout green people, we ALL carry the burden for our dependence on foreign oil. When is it going to stop? I could sit here and rant about big oil, greed, the Republican Party, or President O, but until I do something to curb my own use of gas………….I can’t say a peep……………and neither can you. @#$**% It is so FRUSTRATING. We put men on the moon. Why can’t we wean ourselves off of liquid gold? It is the most addictive of drugs and we don’t even recognize it. It has been a topic of conversation since the day I was born. I truly wonder if I will see society switch to an alternative energy source in my lifetime. There should be an uprising with the same zeal as the Egyptians, Libyans, and Wisconsians over this matter!

Day 98- Feb 24
Listening to: Girls on Film
Thought for the day: It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.

I live a mile from Cubicle Caverns. Getting to and from work typically requires no thought (unless I have to take my daughter to school). Today I had to go downtown at a time that would put my trip home smack dab in the middle of rush hour. EWWWWWWWW. Let me just say God knew what he was doing when he put me down the street from my employer. I would be a Road Rage Rita if I had to drive in rush hour every day. Those who do? I AM NOT WORTHY……..ya’ll are brave souls. The experience renewed my appreciation for my boring/dead-end job.

Day 99- Feb 23
Listening to: You Can’t Hurry Love
Thought for the day: A woman by the name of Rebecca Webb Carranza invented the tortilla chip in the 1940s. I love her.

Wednesday Night Dinner Group – La Hacienda

I have never eaten at a bad Mexican restaurant. Between the free chips and swimming pool-sized margaritas who remembers the food? I didn’t dive into a mongo margarita tonight, but I did behave like a chip pirate…..argggh.

After 2 years as an esteemed member of the Wednesday night dinner group, they finally revealed to me how they evolved. I have finally earned the right to be in possession of such knowledge. A Mexican restaurant gave birth to the group ……………..in a galaxy far, far away. It wasn’t just any Mexican restaurant either. It was El Chico………….which happened to be the site of my first experience with Mexican food (yeah I know EC is not necessarily legit Mexican food, but play along like it is). El Chico was also the site of many of my outlandish high school ………ahem……..incidents. I love it when worlds collide.

DAY ONE HUNDRED - Feb 22
Listening to: One Hundred Ways (sang it Quincy)
Thought for the day: Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. ~Psalm 100

The Story of 100

The 100 first days
100 bottles of beer on the wall
100%
100 days of summer
Billboard Hot 100
Fortune 100………oh wait that’s 500
Curious George Learns to Count from 1 to 100
100.com
100 days, 100 ways
100 degrees
Living to 100
Year 100 was a leap year
100 Best Companies to Work For
NASDAQ 100
Insert a radio station name 100
My Father at 100
50 Ways to Leave your Lover played twice = 100 Ways
The first official air mail flight took place 100 years ago
Ben Franklin and Independence Hall are on the $100 bill
And best of all……….

ONE HUNDRED DAYS UNTIL I AM DONE WITH THE 365………………..and celebrate a birthday shhhhh.

** Please note that I am not 100% sure that my daily countdown is correct. I am prone to error!

Day 101 - Feb 21
Listening to: Respect
Thought for the day: A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse

Tonight I attended a fundraiser to kick off Darren Jernigan's campaign for re-election as Nashville's District 11 Councilman. In case you are wondering, I endorse Darren 510%. He is a dear friend and one of my heroes.

The perk of attending tonight’s fundraiser was getting to see people I adore that I don’t see very often. Let me introduce you to Greg Comer and Dinah Turner. They both flat out make me smile at life………….always have, always will. I have known Greg since high school and Dinah is the mother of one of Christian’s long-time friends (one of my faves).

Dinah came up to me tonight and said, “Kris, I bought you a bag of Tootsie Rolls, but ate them all before I could give them to you.” Obviously we are Tootsie Roll fiends at heart, but Dinah had no idea when she confessed to me how many times I have bought candy for someone and eaten it before it reached its intended destination. Dinah is a kindred spirit. I suspected it before, but now I know without a doubt!