Body

Did you know these weird/odd things about your body? I only got 4/10 correct. Did you do better?

I love slice of life

If you have ever been to the developing world, you know how life is a bit different...to say the least. Well this video is really a spectacular slice of life from India. Enjoy

What happened to Ricky...

The Wall Street Journal has an absolutely stunning, at times both sad and heart warming, story up about people turning their children over to be wards of the state. It is generally story focusing on when parents knew they could no longer care for their mental challenged children. It is specifically about one families journey to reconnect. It is from a different day and time than most people live in today, but one from our past. Give it a read, then watch the video that is posted with the story when you are done.

Sung stuck in my head...

Just take a listen to this group, more after the video...

The group is called Libera (here and here) and they are a boy choir from London. I cannot seem to get their music out of my head, so I thought I would share their music with you, then I won't be the only one with their songs on repeat within my noggin. Enjoy

Rest in Peace

As I mentioned last weekend at Mass, Fr. Leo Holleran's mother Rita passed away last week. If you would like to send him a note with your thoughts and prayers I am sure he would appreciate it very much. May her soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace.

Rev. Fr. Leo Holleran, M.S.
6618 Granville Court
Frederick, MD 21703

The Pope...cometh

Being away for a few days, I wanted to make sure you knew where to go to find some good coverage of the Pope's arrival and visit. I cannot recommend more highly the Whispers in the Loggia. Rocco has tons of stuff and a good eye for a good Catholic perspective. Enjoy.

Bulletin & Insert for 13APR08

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Karen Foust

Happy Birthday!!!

Well today is the birthday of my sister, Karen Foust! The photo below is from the ING Half-Marathon from last year, just before Karen crossed the finish line, her second half marathon (I think she is doing the half again in OKC in a few weeks as well). Karen is a frequent commenter in here, her nick is kgf. If you would like to wish her happy birthday, you can leave her a comment on this post, she will read it there. I will not tell you how old Karen is today, but I will tell you that if she had been in Memphis, Tennessee for Martin Luther King's Mountaintop speech she would have been 8 years old.

I love this stuff...what a relief

Click on it and enjoy the popping goodness.

I love to play

I love to play. Games, race, just goofing off...I love to play. I frequently listen to Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett on Sunday mornings when I am getting ready for Mass. I got sent a slide show about a polar bear, from a show from August 2007 dealing with Play, Spirit & Character. You can listen to the show from their site, a nice show. I remember listening it to it last year, so give it a listen in you like. My favorite show was the show about Money and Moral Balance, give it a listen. As for the show in general just know that I really enjoy listening to SoF, so if you hear it know that I am probably listening to it as well, we can enjoy it together. Peace

Food

I ate a tremendous amount of good food this past weekend. Here are a few photos. Notice the kids having a picnic on the floor, that is what happens when your new furniture has not come in yet.

Mile High Biscuit

This is for my lovely sister Karen Foust...we will enjoy some with butter and rasberry jam, and the coffee as well (not me of course), love and miss you Karen. Ruth's Diner SLC (Emmigration Canyon).


Update: More photos from Ruth's

Wadda-ya think?

So yesterday I went to the local Mini Cooper dealership to see about driving one of their cars for a day or so, well you can see it below. So tell me honestly, what do you think? I am kind of in the market for a new car, maybe. Just surveying my options right now. Deacon Bill thinks I would not like the car, for what it is worth he is not the only one who thinks this...thus the reason for my extended test drive. So hit the comment box and tell me what you think.

First Friday of Lent dinner

Well it was the First Friday of the Lenten season and there was an ordination in Atlanta to attended, so the Deacons and I invited Fr. Michael and Fr. Bryan out for dinner. Since it was still kinda Chinese New Year we went for Chinese. We went to my favorite Chinese restaurant in Atlanta, The Green Sprout, they did not let us down. I had the Sweet and Sour Ginger Chicken with the coconut bubble tea, de-lish! Deacon Bill had vegetables and rice, Deacon Gayle had chicken and eggplant, Fr. Bryan had Chicken Fried Rice and Fr. Michael had Cashew Chicken. We had full bellies and we were off to the Ordination.

Kiku

I went to Kiku with Fr. Bryan last night for a quick dinner before a movie (Untraceable...more like Unbelievable or Unbearable don't waste your time with that movie). The show at Kiku was much better. Here are the photos so you too can enjoy the fun!

Rice

Seems as if there is lots out there about rice so here is a quick post gathered from recommendations of others and stuff I have found myself. You know how much I love rice and have even posted about my new favorite forbidden rice. Well Jim Immel sent me this link to a project that donates rice, with a small catch. From their website:

FreeRice has two goals:

1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.

I thought this sounded fishy so I checked it out and it all seems to be on the up and up. I have a personal best, so far, of 1100 Grains donated on a Vocabulary Level of 40, can you top that? Freerice also has a sister site Poverty.com, I would encourage you to go read some of their stuff on poverty...find out where the US falls in a list of countries who give to help the poor of the world. Find out the different diseases that are made worse (or deadly) because of poverty.

Then the boingers had a vlog about rice used to show demographics. It was done by a group called Stan's Cafe, a theatre company. Here are some links about the display: here, and here , and of course here is a video. Enjoy

Fritti

Fritti is the best place for Italian style pizza in Atlanta. In fact they are the only people in Georgia with Certified by Verace Pizza Napoletana, and mmmmm is it good. They are the sister restaurant to Sotto Sotto, which is probably one of my over all favorites in Atlanta. Anyway I had dinner at Fritti the other night and it was spectacular as usual. If you go, try the fried mushrooms and the fried calamari. As for the pizza it is the Fungi di Bosco, or nothing else. Enjoy

My new favorite store in Atlanta

I love H Mart in Riverdale. It is a Korean grocery store with load and loads of cool food stuffs, and I love 'em, ok that might be a bit much but I love this place. I found a place that carries forbidden rice and natto, all in one store. They have a total section devoted to rice, variates of white rice you have never heard of. Since it is Korean, a whole section of kimchi, if you are into that stuff. (anyone work for a Korean company? Millers?) Anyway, you should go for a few reasons, whanna hear them? here they are:

1. Fresh Vegetables, all sorts
2. Fresh Fish, pick them out of a tank and have them cleaned before your eyes
3. Rice
4. Any type juice you want
5. Natto
6. Different types of sweets from all over Asia
7. Variety of hot sauces
8. Yogurt Scotch
9. Fun things you have never seen...trust me.
10. Tofu all varieties
11. Frozen swamp eel!
    

They also have a food court with all types of Oriental food, yummy! Here are my photos of the expedition to the H Mart (I have added captions for your enjoyment). Enjoy

Breakfast

Here ways todays fare at J. Christopher's in PTC. I love their blueberry crunch cakes, yummy.

Day Off

Nina's crepes in PTC...more later...mmmmmmm

UPDATE: Nina's Crepes in Peachtree City was nice. Go try them out, they are open from 10am-10pm. It was good stuff. Don't worry about its location, just think about the tasty food.

Further UPDATE: Well some astute reader (who remained nameless) pointed me to this ad, guess the place is for sale. Enjoy it while you can.