I'd post resolutions for the new year, but I feel like that would be so cliché and I'm not feeling very cliché at the moment. So, thus far, 8 days into 2009, nine months away from a ridiculous birthday, I feel like this is going to be a year full of good intentions and sentimental feelings. All signs have pointed this way.
When I left home on the 2nd, it was one of the hardest partings I've had to endure. It definitely made top three. It's going to be a long while before I see the parents again, and that will never get easy for me. Being in Oregon makes me miss my parents and brother, but not in Oregon. It's a place that we all fought hard to make the most of, watched it all fall apart, and then made plans to become something more. Being here reminds me of that. But, in a good way, it's making me make plans to do more, something that both my parents and I are excited about.
In essence, the only goal I have really set out for 2009 is to lose weight (duh and cliché). But all the goals and 'resolutions' I have are not worthy simply for 2009. They're things that I need to make happen, so I'm not marring them as NYRs and watching them dissipate into good intentions by March.
I keep finding myself in an awkward grey area of life. With friends finding relationships, engagements, careers, graduations, marriages, houses; I'm starting to feel like I'm lagging behind. No, it's not that I want every single one of those things, but there are things that I want to see myself accomplish before all those things land at my feet. I need to do so much more before I find a place to put my roots down. I'm learning about the things I love. I'm discovering poetry and falling in love with Robert Frost and Robert Browning, again. I'm figuring out who Elenor Rigby is and I'm letting her go away from me, because I've kept her in my mind for far too long. I'm learning about books and the voices that I love. I'm discovering the genius of Tolstoy and following the tragic life of Anna Karenina. I've rediscovered my French and how much I really love speaking the language of romance. The part of me that has wanted to wander the streets of Paris on cool Autumn days has re-awoken.
So, I don't have any resolutions. Good intentions and sentiments for this year. But I have plans for more than a year. I'm making plans for more than this year. I'm finding ways to see those plans out into something bigger than I could have expected. I think that that's more than enough to be excited for the next year...plus four.
good girl!
Love you
Mom
Posted by: GZ Tai-Tai | 08 January 2009 at 03:52 PM
Let's go to France.
Posted by: Kirsten | 15 January 2009 at 01:56 PM
I say yes to that! We will have to plan on it.
Posted by: FlyRice | 15 January 2009 at 05:44 PM
Wait, where are you originally from? Hawaii, or Oregon? haha, can't figure this out.
Posted by: MSG | 19 January 2009 at 03:17 PM
Born in Portland. Grew up in China. Lived in Hawaii for 2 years. Back in Portland.
Posted by: FlyRice | 20 January 2009 at 07:00 AM
I am so jealous of how free flowing your entries are you really captivate your readers well especially me.
Posted by: Barry - acigarsmoker.com | 25 January 2009 at 11:00 AM
Hi Sue,Thank you for posting this infoamrtion. I fell in love with Rice Sticks at a Chinese restaurant in Cambridge MA in th 1980s. I could almost never find them again until I moved to Oakland CA and went to Korean restaurants several times, until I found the dumpling soup with rice cake.In any event, I just made my first rice cake stir fry 30 minutes ago. I used dry Egret Brand White Rice Cake, which I soaked for 10 hours in cold water and then boiled for 1 minute and stirfried for 1 minute. The came out great!!! First rice cake stir fry I have had since 1986! I know the fresh is supposed to be better, and I think I can get that in Oakland, but the dry was available at the Chinese grocery store. It took me several trips to find it. I finally went with a friend who speaks Madarin. When the clerk understood that I wanted Korean Style Rice Stick she found the bag immediately and I paid .99 and just used 1/2 bag for a great meal. Thanks again for your infoamrtion. I stir-fried my cakes with a little salmon, dried black mushrooms that I put in the boiling water, fresh ginger, fresh shallots, green onions, and soy sauce .they were great.
Posted by: LaUpe | 27 July 2012 at 09:25 PM
Hi Sue,I had recently made shi-ru dduk in the oven based on a rcpeie from Wikicookbooks.com. It turned out decently, but little too salty. Now, I can't find it.Do you know of any rcpeies that produces dduk without a steamer?. Basically, the rcpeie I used before had me layter a 13X9 in pan with ground, cooked Pat, pour a very watery sweet rice batter, then top with more ground pat. I sealed it with aluminum foil and baked. I can't remember what ratios of ingredients to use and what time and temperature I needed to get the right consistency.Appreciate your help.Linda
Posted by: Dayana | 27 July 2012 at 11:03 PM