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[perkyrusalka]

Let us rise up and be thankful,
for if we didn’t learn a lot today,
at least we learned a little,
and if we didn’t learn a little,
at least we didn’t get sick,
and if we got sick,
at least we didn’t die;
so, let us be thankful.

-The Buddha

Why worry?
There are only two things in life to worry about: either you are sick or you are well.
If you are well there is nothing to worry about.
If you are sick there are two things to worry about: you will get better or you will die...
If you get better there is nothing to worry about.
if you die then you have two things to worry about: either you will go to Heaven or you will go to Hell.
If you go to Heaven there is nothing to worry about.
If you go to Hell you will be too busy shaking hands with all your friends to have time to worry!

~Irish saying

I was skimming through Bartlett's Familiar Quotations earlier (Yes, really. I had my reasons.) and I noticed how many of the quotations refer to other things-and sometimes not so much a reference as two or more people having kind of the same idea. And then I stumbled across the latter quotation in a catalog, and the former on someone else's blog, and I just kind of felt like sharing. They're sort of variations on "Don't sweat the small stuff, and it's all small stuff", I guess.

In other news, I'm not allowed to buy any more books this month. Or until I read some of the ones I've got, at least. Also, I'm terribly excited to discover that Borders has started carrying Pocky-I got blueberry.

I made banana nut bread tonight. I used the same recipe I always use, but it was so salty-I don't know what went wrong. Well, obviously, too much salt, but I don't know why it would be different this time.

Comments

[turtledawn.livejournal.com]

Have you been cutting back on salt in the rest of your diet due to your parents' health conditions? If you haven't had much salt at all for a few weeks and then you have something "normal" it can be quite a shock just how salty it is.

Or maybe somebody put the salt away in the sugar canister. It could happen.

[perkyrusalka.livejournal.com]

I do wonder if in the past I've left the salt out altogether-you wouldn't think 1/4 of a teaspoon would be that bad, but maybe it is.

I also was pretty sure I had used self-rising flour instead of regular, and I wondered if that would make it weird. You wouldn't think that would be salty though, would you?

Mom's theory is that she's angered the voodoo gods somehow. She took her voodoo doll out to show her book club, and nothing we've baked since then has come out right.

[turtledawn.livejournal.com]

self-rising flour does contain some salt, yes. I don't know how much, through, since I've never used it.

I hope you have better luck with your baking soon! I also hope that your students become less dumb, but I think that is probably asking for too much at once. :-(
I don't know what the voodoo baking gods would ask for as sacrifice.

[hida-jiremi.livejournal.com]

My favorite version of "Don't sweat the small stuff" is from Stephen King: "It's a long way back to Eden."