live a more simple life

I love complex flavors; I hate complex recipes.
I’ve been working on making simple, yet elegant, awsome tasting foods. Removing steps, and flavors that are unnecessary or the ROI is just not worth it. Simple is better.
AO

I had the week off. So it did the simple thing, stayed up late, slept in, and loved it. Is that simple enough?

Sometimes it takes something tragic for you to step back, and examine your life. I’ve always loved my friends dearly. I’ve always been a very out going, on the verge of over bearing person. Making new friends, and being so social I, I can end up ignoring (T) at times, and often friends fall to the wayside as I move on in life. As of late we had taken a more close to home approach, and didn’t get out and spend alot of time with our friends. Our recient loss has made us reevaluate what whe hold dear. I realise to me, its our friends and family. So, this thanksgiving, take some time to spend with friends and family. And be thankful for every day you can spend with them.
God bless(1)
AO

1(PC religious disclaimer: My your, not necessarily my god, or what you deam to be your higher power bless you, if you don’t believe in a higher power, Please read this as ‘I wish you good fortune’)

PS I was going to attach a family photo, but relised I didn’t have any handy… time to post/host some family photos.

Decluttering my life. Not so much living simpler, but not hording stuff, getting rid of stuff I’ll never use, don’t need, and that is taking up space. This is what I can do now to live this life.
AO

Talk about simple life. No tv, no cable, no intarweb. Books, radio, charged by sunlight, and ran off battery. Wood powered stove, semi running water. Drinking mate, and enjoying goucho life. I don’t care to go to that extreme, but there is certainly a happy medium. Where just enough is enough. Where there is no need for extra stuff, and life is good. I think I’ll need to do some maturing mentally for that to be my future.
AO

Some times family complicates things, others it’s great comfort.
The past few weeks would have been imposible with out them. Simple things… I was very content with a very simple life over the last few weeks. I think I’m getting the grasp of this goal.
The more I unplug, the more I enjoy it.
AO

Smoking a cigar, drinking sangria, with the smell of braising ribs wafting through the air. It doesn’t get much better than that. Not eactly simple, but damn good none the less.
AO

Remove clutter, and excess stuff. I was forced to take some stuff from my parents house when I was home yesterday. So, todays task was going through it, and tossing what I didn’t need, getting rid of stuff it duplicates.
AO

No tv, no internet, no stores, very few other people. Lots of time to enjoy the simple pleasures in life. Runs in the woods, kayaking on my own, sitting on the porch sipping sangria enjoying the sunset. Coming back to the ‘real’ world has been a little harsh… ;)
AO

I’ll be away from the real world on an island in Maine from wednesday, till sunday. This means, I won’t be posting, cheering, or commenting. It will mean, I’ll be having loads of fun, prolly struggling w/ dieting / exercising, and not missing the real world much. I’ll c-yall on monday.
AO