Sunday Spo-bits

I found some frozen bison in the freezer the other day,* so today I make chili. Whenever I want to make some, I rummage through the recipes and settle on one of them, hoping ‘this one will be the best one yet’ and end up making it from whatever ingredients are at hand. After all chili is basically meat, beans, chili, tomatoes, and spices.** It’s sort of fun to wait the day to see how this chili turns out. Someone likes to eat his with cornbread; Urs Truly likes his with tortilla chips and grated cheese on top.

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Today is 1 February and there is a full moon. I like full moons but many do not; t think it means mass hysteria and shenanigans, more than any other time of the lunar cycle. The explanation is either the moonlight drives people to distraction or the moon’s pull on the body is at its worse (rather than the closeness of the moon). Despite studies debunking the ‘full moon ER phenomena’ , thems who believe are recalcitrant. I worked with someone who was a stance believer in this; she was also into Mercury in retrograde. Whenever we had a hectic day I would ask her if there was a full moon out or was Mercury in retrograde today (knowing full well neither was true). She was annoyed by my impudence but not enough to see daylight on the matter – or in this case moonlight. Regardless I celebrate the full moon by eating a bagel.***

Another thing I am doing today to herald the arrival of February is filling the candy bowls at home and at work with candy hearts. This year’s crop seems harder than usual and I worry if I bite down on them I will crack a tooth. Candy hearts the ones with stupid statements on them must be consumed at this time of year, like candy corn at Hallowe’en. Do not dare to question this.

This month sees two times off from work: one for a medical conference in Lost Vegas and the other a week-long holiday with chums in Puerto Rico. It will be my first vacation in twenty years in which I won’t check into work on a daily basis to renew prescriptions and put out fires. The prospect is exhilarating and unsettling.

Patience above! On 8 February Spo-reflections turns twenty, can you imagine? The Board of Directors Here at Spo-reflections asked me to write something substantial that day, no rubbish. They hinted in the last board meeting they may reach out to my fellow bloggers to get some words of congratulations or praise. I asked them not to, knowing they stop at nothing and if folks say yes, The Board is likely to return with outstretched hands asking for money. Oh the horror.

*It was frozen ground meat from bison, not an actual bison.

**I know some Spo-fans will take umbrage with this list, particularly the beans. One of my favorite chili recipes ‘Big bowl of read, is from ‘The vegetarian times’ and is sans meat (that means without). People get awfully queer about chili.

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