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It’s been a long year.  I’ve lost a lot of weight, been to Disney World, watched friends move away, made new friends, started a new job, got a Wii, and learned to cook far too many dishes by adding Sailor Jerry’s Spiced Navy Rum.  It’s been a good year.  I hope the next one is even better.

I struggled and struggled
thinking I was all things.
I grasped at chaos
and practiced elegant stances
until seven came along.
I disregarded him
saying “I have no time for you as I am all too important”
and he said, he would be back.

I searched the cosmos
I wore meaningful beads
and performed the rites of ancients.
I read the great philosophers
and memorized the words
so I could repeat them with eloquence.

I clothed myself in the world’s greatest thinkers.
I danced before the fire.
I bathed in the river of time
and then I met nine
who asked what I was doing.
I said “look on me and behold my glory! for I am infinity!”
Nine smiled and called seven to her side.
They took me by both hands and
held me like a lover between them
and suddenly, my confusion melted.
I had a purpose
and my burden was no more.
For I am not infinity.
I am eight.

I have been unmade by nothing
and nothing shall be my unmaking.
For the king of fairies mocks me and does not know it.

He, with his world of knowledge and plastic beads
laughs at my simplicity.

He, with textbooks of incantations and useless spells
mocks my energy by comparison to the horned toad.

I also have words of Latin and the rack of a first kill,
but they mean nothing.

They are merely symbols used in time by men who know no better.
Teddy bears of the intellectual man who cling to words
and have forgotten the old ways.

But how can I resist the dance?
What glamor has the fairy king.
But I will not tango, nor drink but my own wine.
And for all his beauty, passion and poise
the fruit on his table is always rotten.

Enough of my friends have asked me for this one I decided to post it. This way I also won’t lose it. It’s a variation of something I found at allrecipes.com and it is quite yummy.

• 3 cups mashed sweet potatoes
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1/3 cup Sailor Jerry’s Spiced Navy Rum (seeing a trend yet?)
• 1 cup chopped pecans (Optional but yummy)

Mix sweet potatoes and sugar, mix in eggs, milk, vanilla, butter. Gradually stir in the rum.  Mix in the pecans if you like.   Pour into a 9×13 greased baking dish and bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes. Add some of those jumbo marshmallows on top for the last 5 minutes or so or until they’re browned if you like, that’s what we decided to do next time.

Here’s one that’s totally NOT on my diet.  It’s incapacitating though, and a combination of other recipes I found plus a bit of a secret ingredient.  In a bowl, combine:

• 3/4 c sugar
• 1 1/2 T butter
• 3 T flour

Mix this up pretty good, then add:

• 3/4 c Light Karo
• 3/4 c Dark Karo
•  3 eggs
• 2 t vanilla (more isn’t bad)
• 1shot of Sailor Jerry’s Spiced Navy Rum (*Secret Ingredient)

Mix this up, and then stir  in 1 1/2 cups of pecans.  Pour this into a pie shell and bake it for 50 – 60 minutes at 350 degrees.  Let it completely cool, for at least an hour.  DO NOT eat it all in one sitting.