brad pitt for breakfast

lazy sunday started off this morning with a bang. a brad pitt jesse james bang. i rolled out of bed just in time for ray to tell me that the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford was just about to start on our free HBO weekend. ya know, i enjoy the movies as much as the next guy, but lately we have been fairly disappointed with them (i.e. batman). but when we saw jesse james in the theather it was one of the most breathtaking gorgeously filmed movies that i have seen in a long time, if not ever. i missed half the plot and dialogue because i was to busy just staring at the movie. so this morning it was nice to re watch it and i was able to follow it a bit better. i'll admit that the movie is a tad long and fairly slow moving at times, but who cares, just turn the sound down and watch the visuals, and of course mr. brad pitt. yummy. half way through the movie i made a nice little breakfast of pork sausage scrambled eggs and toast with butter and spun honey. i would have taken a pic, but i was hungry and has to get back to the movie.
after awhile of just hanging around and cleaning the office, we got up and went out for a few errands.

the clean little office

we dropped off the recycling at earthfare, stopped at starbucks (i got a coffee and ray got a tea)... ok, now i have to go off on a tangent here for just a minute. let me say now, that after i spend what is left on my starbucks gift card, THAT IS IT......NO MORE!!!!! starbucks has slowly but surely poked it's way onto my devil shit list. (this list currently includes McDonalds = the devil's restaurant, and Sams Club/Costco = the devil's warehouse) first of all the coffee. who knows where it comes from or how it is grown. and now they have discontinued WHOLE MILK! WHAT THE F&$@^%*()*&^%#%*K!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2% and nonfat milk is crap...complete crap. but we will leave the milk rant for some other time. so onto the devils list they go.
so, after a stop at the devil's cafe we went to circuit city (puke in my pocket book - but ray wanted to look at some phones, none of which he will ever part from the necessary money to buy them), over to wholefoods for lunch, swung by the library to get some cookbooks for me and cds for ray, back to earthfare to get groceries for the week (we spent a whopping $34 and a good portion of that was spent buying my unbleached cotton famine products - no chemicals are going there folks....my uterus likes it all natural. did i go just a bit to far??...nah..) and then back home to hang with the puppies.

lazy maisy

mr. keebs comfy on the couch

cool globe at the library

there we are. everyone wave.

library loot

our grocery purchases are as followes... famine products, 2 onions, loose leaf tea, gallon of happy cow milk, big eco size bag of organic bran flake cereal, and 2 bananas (i debated on the bananas for awhile - not even close to being local or grown in the US and they are from Dole. but i gave in. i really wanted some banana on my cereal. i know.... i know... hypocrite central. but at least they are organic). since we, i mean I, have started to make a bit of our food at home, there really wasn't much that we needed. i was going to buy a loaf of bread, but after ray told me that my homemade bread was better than any store bought bread, why would i.
so once we got home i had a very short adventure in the kitchen. pictures are as follows.

cooking the fig, honey, brown sugar, butter, and vanilla glue to hold together the granola bars that i am making.

granola bar dry ingredients. rolled oats, puffed brown rice, shredded unsweetened coconut, dried cranberries, and sunflower seeds.

finished granola bars the need to sit and harden and milk that needs to hang out till it is room temperature and will go into the yogurt maker overnight.

now i must go and water the garden a bit. then we are going to watch an episode of john adams.