Daily Tasks

For breakfast this morning:  Homemade sweet potato gnocchi sauteed in butter and cinnamon with slices of banana.  Highly recommended.  Make the gnocchi from scratch.  Expect a mess.

Lesson learned this morning: Remove banana peel BEFORE freezing banana.  This I should have known and admit that I put the unpeeled half a banana in the freezer to find out if you could unpeel a frozen banana.  You can’t.

Tasks for the day:

Be utterly and absolutely lazy until I have to leave to teach my 11:00 AM Bikram yoga class.

I half wish that I had simply told people that there were no classes this weekend because there is quite a good chance that no one is going to show up.  After all, today is the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter and Monday is also a holiday.  People go out of town or get into the groove of relaxing.  I don’t really blame them since, honestly, yesterday was a perfect blend of sleeping in, reading and subsequently finishing Michael Chriton’s Pirate Latitudes, practicing yoga, prowling facebook and watching the new episode of Bones on Megavideo.  The evening followed suit with an easy dinner of garlic sauteed vegetables and gnocchi on a bed of spinach (along with a slice of cornbread that Chris made as part of his first attempt to make something resembling corndogs without a deep frier) and a movie (Bruno…not nearly as clever as Borat).  Back to why I offered class today: I felt that I should at least give people the option of practicing since Friday and Monday classes were canceled.  Besides, the worst that will happen is no one shows up in which case I am already half way to City Market and Starbucks where I needed to go today anyway.

That brings me to the second task for the day: Teach yoga.

I have already covered this one but I will take a few moments to cross my fingers that all my dedicated students decide to rally and vindicate my decision to offer class today.
So on to the third task:  errands.

I have everything I need for Easter brunch except broccoli, strawberries, bananas and possibly grapes (pending price).  The broccoli is for the quiche and the fruit for a fruit salad.  I am perhaps the most excited for the fruit salad, having little occasion to justify the purchase of all that fruit (especially the strawberries, hoping they are still on sale!).  So far the mix is bananas, oranges, kiwi, strawberries and grapes with maybe some pineapple thrown in there.  You might not think that is very glamorous but I am one excited fruit lover.  Before heading to City Market I have to swing by Starbucks for coffee because we killed the last of ours just this morning.  I have not decided yet if my willpower is strong enough to resist ordering an iced coffee or cafe misto.  I would love to sit for an hour or two upstairs on their lanai and write.  I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Now my next task is to bake an apple pie.  I decided to bake the apple pie tonight leaving all day tomorrow for the hot cross buns and quiche.  The question is can I keep Chris out of the pie until tomorrow?  Only time will tell.

Here is what I love about today:  Everything on my list of things to do is quite common place, but I get to carry them out on a gorgeous day in the tropics.  The wind is low, the sun is out and a good portion of my drive winds along the coastline where the water is sure to be a crystal sea of vibrant blues from turquoise to deep sapphire.  I will carry along my camera so that I can share with you the background of my everyday life.

Coming up: Island living photo essay.

Task one?  Check!