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As food prices rise, we show you how you can still eat well

I put this together tonight and it came out pretty good. Kristin went back for HUGE seconds…

Steaming brown jasmine rice from Trader Joe’s, mixed with a little of their basmati mix. Yumm.

Then olive oil in sauce pan, slice 4 cloves garlic and saute. Add yam, beet, carrot and broccoli stalk. Saute for 3 minutes, then turn heat down, add 1/2 cup water, cover and steam for 10 minutes.

Then add in cubed tofu, broccoli, and mushrooms. Continue to saute, occasionally covering to steam. About 10 minutes of this.

Then add in Trader Joe’s green curry sauce and stir. Simmer for 10 more minutes.

The red from the beets and the green curry blend to create the richest, most majestic purple hue.

Serve over rice.

The fun thing about this is everything ends up looking purple. But beets, yams, broccoli and tofu all look the same. So when you take a bite it all looks the same, but the flavors are so different.

Enjoy!

Magenta Curry
1 medium beet, peeled and diced
1 small yam, diced (unpeeled - the skin is yum!)
1 medium carrot, sliced
1 broccoli head (remove the florets for adding later, dice the stalk)
1 package tofu, diced (or pre-diced)
1.5 jars Trader Joe’s Green Curry
1/2 cup sliced crimini mushrooms
4 cloves garlic

Time to taste - I had time for the rice to cook so I let it simmer longer. Cook hotter, faster and steam more up front to shorten cook time.

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I don’t blog nearly enough. I’m just not that good at writing what I’m thinking about.

But today I have something relevant to say. I’ve been back together with Kristin for a couple of months now and things couldn’t be going better. I mean, I’m so happy with everything that is going on.

Today I got to spend the day with Kenzie. We went to the dog park, the beach, and drove around a lot. It was fun.

Shoot. Life is good. I’m tired now though. I gotta start saying more here.

The geoster needs to start blogging with regularity. Someone said he needs practice.

I think it’s interesting that I can’t think of anything to write when I am sitting in front of the computer, but if you get me one on one I can talk your ear off for hours and barely repeat myself.

How to tap that energy and channel it in to written word? That’s my conundrum.

This is a test to see if she actually checks this.

This is my shameless self image admitting to being completely and hopelessly whipped.

This is a de facto admission that I should have paid more attention to the time tonight, BUT I was on the phone pretty much the entire time and I’m not going to jump through hoops already.

I’m really fucking bummed though. You don’t know how much I wanted to see you. Yes, it’s true.

Boys are pretty dumb, but still, I’m not going to be held to a schedule that I didn’t know I was being scored on. If you want me to communicate and keep you informed on things, let me know that you are planning your activities based on what I’m telling you. Lord knows, I want that kind of power.

Goddammit though I sure do hate that I feel even a little bit bad about what happened. You are definitely under my skin. Shit. You can own me if you wanted to. Do you want to? That’s up to you…

If you want to own me and forgive me for being a bad time manager/communicator, simply text me with the message “I own you!” to which my response will be “Duh.”

And if you do……then you probably already know that my heart belongs to you. Cute and sexy YM.

So of course I had to post it here. It *means* something for me to influence another…

I put this over on Tribe.net’s ENFP page…

Re: ENFP CAREER CHOICES?? DECISIONS! DECISIONS!!

Thu, December 21, 2006 - 2:49 PM

I’m chiming in to this thread instead of spawning another. I stumbled upon this and it is very timely.

I’m going to share some stuff I’ve recently written up regarding my dilemma. I think many of you may find it useful. I’m 36, and I WISH I had someone to talk to about this stuff when I was younger like many of you are. I am not going to jump into analysis here (like you all know I can and you will try to as well…) but just put it out for you to read. Your comments will invite my comments and we can analyze the bigger concepts together.

This was instigated by the comment on here: www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html that says:

“An ENFP needs to focus on following through with their projects. This can be a problem area for some of these individuals. Unlike other Extraverted types, ENFPs need time alone to center themselves, and make sure they are moving in a direction which is in sync with their values. ENFPs who remain centered will usually be quite successful at their endeavors. Others may fall into the habit of dropping a project when they become excited about a new possibility, and thus they never achieve the great accomplishments which they are capable of achieving.”

Specifically, the part about time alone to center. It’s one of those traps that if you don’t learn to do (I haven’t yet!!!) then the bad parts of being ENFP really bubble up. So here is my response to that comment I received on this topic:

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Yes, center = comfortable with meaning/path/passion/purpose in life. Hard to center when I am fundamentally eccentric. Need to get that piece taken care of, no matter how nuts people think I am.

Perceptive = yes, especially towards myself. Judgment would be better with a specific point of reference, i.e. center.

My values are strong, but my purpose in life, while moving essentially in line with my values, has failed to manifest for me in a measurable way. This is why I go down the path of “corporate anthropology” or “business life coach” or some other way to factor out everything I have done to end up with the core of my being.

But that might not be the end-all either. I need to understand myself, know myself. And this is where I am seriously lacking direction, support or vision. I am blind to most of my own limitations because I’ve been exposed to them for too long. Here’s how I see what I’ve been doing:
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Here, I listed all the jobs I have had, and 1) why I picked it and 2) why I failed at it (or didn’t stick with it). To a job, I took them all for $$$ and survival, not because they were my passion, and once I got bored, since it wasn’t aligned with my passion, I moved on…

For this post I’ll just share the job titles to give you an idea: Legal Assistant, Systems Administrator, Database Manager, Information Specialist, Entrepreneur, Record Producer, Consultant, Tech Support Rep, MIS Manager, Entrepreneur (again), Business Development Manager, Tech Guru, Instructor, Telecommunications Specialist, Executive Assistant, Business Alliance Specialist, Tax Preparer, Channel Partnership Manager, Entrepreneur (yet again).

Net-net, I LOVE problem solving and working with people. I HATE DOING ANYTHING (in the do to get done sense). I hate administrative mundanity, and I hate having to pay attention to time/tasks. I LOVE to think about ideas and complex concepts. Which is why I keep going back to being an entrepreneur. Sooner or later I’ll fix my weaknesses and make them strengths and launch a successful business instead of one I give up for the next exciting idea…..
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I have yet to do any work that has inspired me. I have been able to leech off other’s passions and vicariously go down the path, but ultimately I falter because I understand my fraudulent nature. I am doing these things for the money to survive, not because they are things I would choose to do in an ideal environment.

My perception allows me to see things for how they are, and usually quite accurately. This helped in any computer/support role, building systems (database, etc) and taxes too. I am really good at finding new things to do and really understand them and be able to communicate the complex to people in the simplest manner possible. I am really bad at doing mundane, repetitive work, following up on things, and anything requiring ongoing execution.

I am a dreamer who can realize big ideas without much effort, provided I have resources who can do the dirty work.

My goal is to identify a way to productize this talent of mine somehow, and pitch it into a world that is aligned with my values and my beliefs in general. Once I figure out what I should be doing and who I should be doing it for, (even myself!) I will feel much more grounded on my path. Then I will have a point of reference to center on.

Even in my current project, my business partner knows my work for him is FOR him, and not of any personal benefit to myself. On paper, it makes me money in the long run which I can use to back myself in a way that is centered on my path. In practice, it is the dynamic, the fact that he needs what I bring to the table. If I weren’t doing this with him he’d still make money, but not have longevity. For me though, it is about enabling him to realize HIS dream.

That is as close as I have to a mission: I have the ability to get others to get the most out of themselves. My reward is in seeing them actualize into what they are supposed to do. Essentially, it’s about pushing others to realize their potential, and my potential is in being that linchpin who can identify potential in others and can see the path to make it a reality. Everything I do is in making others become more. I just need to find my own reflection within that context.

I’m adept at surviving, but not very adept at planning for my own growth. I am best when working in a reactive mode, not proactive, but the irony is that I can bridge reactive results into something that can be proactively expanded. This is why my friend’s idea of a business psychologist is interesting: I am brought in to a business in trouble, determine triage, and then give it a prescription for recovery and growth that will work in line with what its’ own purpose is….I am a hidden-potential actuator. Something to expand on.

Does my appearance to please people stem from a latent desire to help others become? Or is my desire to help others actuate developed due to my overriding urge to please people?
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Thoughts? Comments? Observations?

Cheers,
Geoff

I found something I started a few years ago. Time to blog it and get to writing it…

Sometimes you imagine something so fantastic that there is no way to prove it but to show the world what you see. I have seen insanity, chaos and serendipity that boggles the mind - even causing me to doubt MY own sanity. Whence? The mind of a mad wizard.

In 1998 the “matrix” was described to me by someone I trusted without proof, followed without reason and supported without gain. Danichi claimed to be former Navy SEAL, ex-CIA, actor and uber-musician. I proved the latter, never the former. Well never proved it with fact - only circumstance. What I will describe here is absolutely 100% true from my perspective. If the information given to me was false or misleading, so be it, but for what I know and what I’ve seem, this is one fantastic story.

transient learning
above the twilit crown
a blip of hope
naught but a hope
breaking in my path
with a new equation
mind over nothing
heart runs the show
how will I think it
now that I know?

show or just need love’s way
bewildered
tumultuous
beside myself
unwilling to yield
surrendered asunder
plundered of logic
beaten by angst
blissfully giddy
a whim a fancy
tenfold
the template was
insufficient
Nothing beats my reality

Analog love
beats in my heart
Digital love
courses in my mind
becoming giddy
2 nice 2 leave

Obsession session
pu dnuow lla
borrowing from my
subliminal
denouement
pilfering my will
overtly
and with malice
to derail
complimentary
contradictory
because of glowing
unknowing

Is it time? Is it time?
Is it time? Is it time?
Is it time? Is it time?
Is it time? Is it time? Is it time?
Is      it      time?

What was I waiting on?

passion session
a break in the obsessed
grieving for errors
now seen to be
needed
for growth

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So I was enjoying a nice MLK day off. Evidently the city of Seattle didn’t have the sense to 1) give the trash drivers the day off, or 2) to continue halting pickups until the ice melted on all streets. Someone made a bad call on this and now they have two tow trucks trying to get this sucker out of my yard.

Yeehaw!

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Well I finished the fast with no ill effects. Actually came through with a great deal of energy and motivation. I just haven’t been able to collect my thoughts long enough to sit and write. I’m going to alter that ASAP. I’m working on a bunch of other things now… More later.