Asha Anujeeva

Today I decided to try my hand at baking some banana bread.  We had three over-ripe bananas that no one wanted to eat.  They were pretty black!  Well, I hate to throw away food, so I looked up a banana bread recipe and decided to give it a try.  Most of the recipes I found only called for two bananas, but after some digging I found one that called for three.  It was a lot easier to make than I thought it would be!  It sure smelled heavenly baking in the oven!  It was hard to believe I had to let it bake for a whole hour!

Well, it was worth the wait – it came out perfect.  I let it cool for a few minutes and then sliced off a hunk, slathered on some butter (yes, real butter) and gave it a try!  A big thumbs up, but I think I would have enjoyed it better if I had thrown in some nuts!

Now I’ve heard that there are some new chat line services that are set up so that people can call in and talk for free with other people.  From what I understand the service is going to be a local one down the road, so people will be able to call the Dallas chat line or the Houston chat, or even the New York chat line and be able to make new friends in different areas of the country.  I think that would be rather fun to do, don’t you?

My aunt Jillie likes to talk about how different things were when she was younger.  She talks about how she used to have to walk to school 1 1/2 miles (one way) every day.  Nowadays even the kids that live two blocks away ride the bus!  The school systems think that the children are safer if they don’t walk.  What a sad commentary that children aren’t safe even walking a couple of blocks to school anymore!

Jillie was telling me about how one day she and her sister found out about a phone chat line where people could call in anonymously and chat with other people.  She said that they actually met up with a few people a couple of times, but that most of the times that they arranged a meeting place no one else showed up.  That must have been disheartening!

My brother wants to buy some Tickets to the 2010 NFR Rodeo and take the whole family to the Rodeo.  I can remember going to some local rodeos in our youth, but I haven’t been to one in many years.  My brother, on the other hand, enjoys going to as many rodeos as he can.  I think that if he had been able to learn to ride and rope he would have been a cowboy too!

I never really even realized that there were National Rodeo competitions!  I don’t know why, I just never really thought about it very much I guess!  I told my brother that if he was willing to pay for the tickets, the travel, and the hotel room then I’d be glad to go!  But I did offer to split the cost of my parents tickets with him.  I think that would be a pretty good present for the two of them.

In the meantime, I guess I’ll try to find some sports channels on television that have rodeos to watch.  Before we go that far to something that big I’d like to learn a little bit more about the sport.  I don’t think I’d enjoy watching the bull riding; watching someone get gored would really scare me to pieces!

I was at work the other day when a man came in and said that there had been a terrorist attack in Texas.  An small plane had crashed into an IRS building somewhere in Texas!  My immediate thought was that was no terrorist attack; it was a disgruntled taxpayer!  Later on I heard on the news that it was, in fact, a disgruntled man who had been at war with the IRS for thirty years!  The man had set his house on fire first!  I heard that his wife & son escaped (good grief, he wanted to kill his own family?) before setting off to crash his plane.  I have to say that I’m glad it wasn’t a terrorist attack, but I’m sorry that the guy went so crazy that he went to such drastic actions of violence!