Josie's Cabaret

Hakubaku Udon noodles

So good, and easy to cook!

Doodles, circa 1999

(Untitled, ball point pen on paper, pencil on paper)

Red, White, and Blue

These Starbucks sleeves were part of their 2008 presidential election promotion. I can't believe that 3 years have already passed, and the race for the 2012 presidency is quickly getting into full gear.

Just in case you can't read them, here are the quotations from the sleeve:

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."

President John F. Kennedy
Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

"With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

President Abraham Lincoln
Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

Dental X-Ray

Not sure why I held onto this so long (it's over 6 years old and I only went to this dentist once!)

You can't keep everything

I always knew that you can't hold on to everything in life, but that didn't mean I didn't try to do just that! I mean, is it really better to just think that "everybody leaves, if they get the chance" (Radiohead)? Okay, so talking about things doesn't compare to talking about people.

I'm finally ready to let these stuffed turtles go, and wanted to give them a goodbye post...

Stamped Turtle

I love turtle-themed things. I love the multivalent symbolism of turtles: slow but steady/reliable like in the story of the tortoise and the hair; a hard outer shell, but soft inside; self-containment; etc.

Over the years I've accumalated LOTS of turtles--some I've chosen for myself, others given to me by friends, and ones that come to me by chance.

A baby shower invitation I recently received bears the latest turtle to come into my life. I'm pretty sure it's a stamped turtle.