butter notme a weird dream i had 040617 ... nom i used to eat a lot of peanut butter sandwhiches when_i_was_small i liked the way my dad made them with butter peanut butter and butter 060420 ... tender_square i didn't leave enough sticks to soften for shortbread. two whirled in the microwave side by side in a ceramic dish for forty-second intervals, yet they looked the same: angular and tough. i increased the time and temperature and made a soup of white sediment and golden butterfat. i needed the consistency of cream, whirling through the metal arms of a handheld mixer. it's crystalline properties were ruined; how could i transform what had been lost without waste? a test kitchen said refrigeration wouldn't yield the right result, but a few ice cubes would. palm-sized glaciers cracked inside the gilded lagoon, points softening into smooth stones. slowly, the texture thickened, and the pieces of orbiting quartz rose to the surface, separating from salt. 221220 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Funny that this word showed up today! Before I came home, Shiloh had eaten a block of butter - a POUND of butter - off the kitchen counter and then vomited on the floor near the door. Dad said he'd just finished cleaning it up when I came in. Good timing then? Even better if I'd been there to prevent the butter-pinching. But yes. 221220 what's it to you? who go blather from