Little Goodies
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lls_mutantFirst, a double happy birthday, and to two of my favorite writers! Happy birthday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
topaz_eyes and ignipes!!!! Hope you both have fantastic ones!
Because I am a total foodie, I stole this meme fromthistlerose
TOP 50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD TRY A BITE OF IN THEIR LIFETIME
Bold the ones you've eaten. Italicize the ones you dislike.
01. Alligator (Best in sausages)
02. American diner breakfast
03. Australian meat pie
04. Barbecue (Very tasty. Everyone should try.)
05. Barramundi
06. Burgers
07. Caviar (Call me uncouth, but fish eggs are just icky.)
08. Cheesecake
09. Chinese food
10. Chocolate
11. Clam chowder (Manhattan style)
12. Cornish Pasty
13. Crab
14. Cream tea
15. Curry (Depends on the curry if I like it. I HATE the curry powder spice.)
16. Durian fruit
17. Fresh fish
18. Greek food (as long as it's not seafood, I adore Greek food.)
19. Guinea pig
20. Haggis
21. Ice cream (Especially Godiva, or homemade stuff. Homemade vanilla with fresh strawberries...)
22. Jerk chicken/pork
23. Kangaroo
24. Kebab
25. Lamb (I love lamb, and really wish I could eat it more often!)
26. Lobster
27. Mango
28. Mexican food
29. Moreton Bay Bugs
30. Mussels
31. Octopus
32. Oysters
33. Paella
34. Pancakes
35. Pasta
36. Pizza
37. Prawns
38. Reindeer- I've never eaten reindeer, but other game I've tried includes elk (not my favorite), ostrich, and wild boar. (Wild boar is excellent.)
39. Ribs
40. Roast beef
41. Salmon
42. Sandwiches
43. Scallops
44. Shark
45. Squid
46. Steak
47. Sushi
48. Tapas- We went to a tapas restaraunt in Napa Valley. I wish we had a chance to try it again. It was so good, but they were rearranging their menu and didn't have a lot of the things that pulled us in.
49. Thai food
50. Venison
I'm very adventurous, but I REALLY don't like seafood. Can you tell? Shrimp is about the best I can do, and that depends on my mood. I went to Greece when I was in 10th grade, and I tried a TON of seafood over there, hoping to find something I like. No dice. :P I really wish I did!
I'm finally getting back to where I can be more adventurous again. I love trying new things, and there's this restaraunt we really like that serves game. But I've been avoiding any meat I'm not familiar with, because pregnancy and new meats don't go together well if the meat doesn't agree with your system :P I notice frog isn't on here, or dog, or snake (I haven't tried snake yet).
Last night, I posted my response to a silly question about would you rather be in a relationship like R/S or R/T. For some reason, I never considered one answer: I'd rather be single. I suspect this is because of how the question was worded. But it got me thinking, and it got me thinking about some of my friends.
I wonder if one of the reasons I didn't even consider "single" is because it's been years since I've been single. I met Howard back in 1996, and we started dating in 1997. We got engaged in 2000 and married in 2002. We've had what's from the outside been a very dull, boring relationship and from the inside has been an extremely satisfying and happy one. We're incredibly well suited for each other, and while he's not everything I ever dreamed of in a man, that's GOOD, because I suspect that I'd not be as well suited for my dream-man, or he for me.
But I was talking to one of my best friends last night, and she was telling me of the pressure she gets from her married friends to settle down and get married. I'm not sure if I have the right to rant on this subject or not, but I'm going to anyway. :P
I haven't gotten that pressure, I admit. I've been with Howard since right before I turned 23. But I certainly understand the frustration of someone sticking their nose in and telling you how to run your life. (So do most people who have a mother ;) ) Why is there this societal pressure to get married and have babies? Why do we as a society treat women who are single as missing something?
Both of my best friends are single women, and I can't imagine pressuring either of them to find a husband. For the first part, they were both in relationships that weren't good for them at one point. I would much, much rather see them single and not in relationships that make them miserable than stuck back in those days. But more than that, both of these women would like to find someone. But apparently- and this I believe- it is very hard to actually meet someone suitable. Where do you go? (And once you've hit the places where you might find nice men, like joining a church or taking a class, what do you do when you don't meet the right man?) My brother-in-law actually had the same problem. No girls the right age at our church. Meeting women at the gym was harder than he thought. And when you go out to bars, you're more likely to meet the right person for the night than the right person for a lifetime, although you never know. (It's that gambling thing that makes the bar scene attractive. I know of two couples that got married that DID meet at a bar. It's not unheard of.) But even beyond the better-off single and how do you meet someone issues, it seems very rude to pressure a friend to find something that she might want to find already, and just hasn't had great luck in finding the right person. Or maybe she just doesn't want that. Maybe she's happy not being married.
So why is marriage still the default? I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't get married. Not at all. I'm also much more prone to monogomy, myself. But I look at some of my friends who are still single and what they've accomplished in their own lives, and how some people think they've yet to become a true adult or settle down or whatever because they don't have that ring on their finger. It's that unspoken assumption that society has that "if you have not married by X age, you are a FAILURE" that bugs me.
I think that's the reason the pairing frenzy in HBP bugged me, too. Not among the kids, because the kids weren't talking lifetimes. The kids were talking for now, and that's how teenaged relationships should be. And actually, I suppose there weren't THAT many adult pairings- Tonks/Remus and Pince/Filch, who, I totally admit it, I kind of giggled over a bit and thought it was cute. But I'd like to see more adult characters standing single in literature, and not upset over the fact. And I'd really like to see it in kids' literature, because I think it's something our society needs to change.
Marriage IS wonderful... but only if it's what you want and you have the right partner.
In other news, I think I'm not going to be able to wait for Christmas to get myself paid time :) My birthday is soon, and I looked at the cost and it was a lot lower than I thought, and someone actually made me Accio Banana icons that I want to use, and I'm cranky because I just feel big and miserable and icky, and screw it, I'm not waiting! :) So don't be surprised if this journal changes appearance a bit in the next 48 hours! Wheee!
Okay. Must stop procrastinating and write my paper!
topaz_eyes and ignipes!!!! Hope you both have fantastic ones!Because I am a total foodie, I stole this meme from
thistleroseTOP 50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD TRY A BITE OF IN THEIR LIFETIME
Bold the ones you've eaten. Italicize the ones you dislike.
01. Alligator (Best in sausages)
02. American diner breakfast
03. Australian meat pie
04. Barbecue (Very tasty. Everyone should try.)
05. Barramundi
06. Burgers
07. Caviar (Call me uncouth, but fish eggs are just icky.)
08. Cheesecake
09. Chinese food
10. Chocolate
11. Clam chowder (Manhattan style)
12. Cornish Pasty
13. Crab
14. Cream tea
15. Curry (Depends on the curry if I like it. I HATE the curry powder spice.)
16. Durian fruit
17. Fresh fish
18. Greek food (as long as it's not seafood, I adore Greek food.)
19. Guinea pig
20. Haggis
21. Ice cream (Especially Godiva, or homemade stuff. Homemade vanilla with fresh strawberries...)
22. Jerk chicken/pork
23. Kangaroo
24. Kebab
25. Lamb (I love lamb, and really wish I could eat it more often!)
26. Lobster
27. Mango
28. Mexican food
29. Moreton Bay Bugs
30. Mussels
31. Octopus
32. Oysters
33. Paella
34. Pancakes
35. Pasta
36. Pizza
37. Prawns
38. Reindeer- I've never eaten reindeer, but other game I've tried includes elk (not my favorite), ostrich, and wild boar. (Wild boar is excellent.)
39. Ribs
40. Roast beef
41. Salmon
42. Sandwiches
43. Scallops
44. Shark
45. Squid
46. Steak
47. Sushi
48. Tapas- We went to a tapas restaraunt in Napa Valley. I wish we had a chance to try it again. It was so good, but they were rearranging their menu and didn't have a lot of the things that pulled us in.
49. Thai food
50. Venison
I'm very adventurous, but I REALLY don't like seafood. Can you tell? Shrimp is about the best I can do, and that depends on my mood. I went to Greece when I was in 10th grade, and I tried a TON of seafood over there, hoping to find something I like. No dice. :P I really wish I did!
I'm finally getting back to where I can be more adventurous again. I love trying new things, and there's this restaraunt we really like that serves game. But I've been avoiding any meat I'm not familiar with, because pregnancy and new meats don't go together well if the meat doesn't agree with your system :P I notice frog isn't on here, or dog, or snake (I haven't tried snake yet).
Last night, I posted my response to a silly question about would you rather be in a relationship like R/S or R/T. For some reason, I never considered one answer: I'd rather be single. I suspect this is because of how the question was worded. But it got me thinking, and it got me thinking about some of my friends.
I wonder if one of the reasons I didn't even consider "single" is because it's been years since I've been single. I met Howard back in 1996, and we started dating in 1997. We got engaged in 2000 and married in 2002. We've had what's from the outside been a very dull, boring relationship and from the inside has been an extremely satisfying and happy one. We're incredibly well suited for each other, and while he's not everything I ever dreamed of in a man, that's GOOD, because I suspect that I'd not be as well suited for my dream-man, or he for me.
But I was talking to one of my best friends last night, and she was telling me of the pressure she gets from her married friends to settle down and get married. I'm not sure if I have the right to rant on this subject or not, but I'm going to anyway. :P
I haven't gotten that pressure, I admit. I've been with Howard since right before I turned 23. But I certainly understand the frustration of someone sticking their nose in and telling you how to run your life. (So do most people who have a mother ;) ) Why is there this societal pressure to get married and have babies? Why do we as a society treat women who are single as missing something?
Both of my best friends are single women, and I can't imagine pressuring either of them to find a husband. For the first part, they were both in relationships that weren't good for them at one point. I would much, much rather see them single and not in relationships that make them miserable than stuck back in those days. But more than that, both of these women would like to find someone. But apparently- and this I believe- it is very hard to actually meet someone suitable. Where do you go? (And once you've hit the places where you might find nice men, like joining a church or taking a class, what do you do when you don't meet the right man?) My brother-in-law actually had the same problem. No girls the right age at our church. Meeting women at the gym was harder than he thought. And when you go out to bars, you're more likely to meet the right person for the night than the right person for a lifetime, although you never know. (It's that gambling thing that makes the bar scene attractive. I know of two couples that got married that DID meet at a bar. It's not unheard of.) But even beyond the better-off single and how do you meet someone issues, it seems very rude to pressure a friend to find something that she might want to find already, and just hasn't had great luck in finding the right person. Or maybe she just doesn't want that. Maybe she's happy not being married.
So why is marriage still the default? I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't get married. Not at all. I'm also much more prone to monogomy, myself. But I look at some of my friends who are still single and what they've accomplished in their own lives, and how some people think they've yet to become a true adult or settle down or whatever because they don't have that ring on their finger. It's that unspoken assumption that society has that "if you have not married by X age, you are a FAILURE" that bugs me.
I think that's the reason the pairing frenzy in HBP bugged me, too. Not among the kids, because the kids weren't talking lifetimes. The kids were talking for now, and that's how teenaged relationships should be. And actually, I suppose there weren't THAT many adult pairings- Tonks/Remus and Pince/Filch, who, I totally admit it, I kind of giggled over a bit and thought it was cute. But I'd like to see more adult characters standing single in literature, and not upset over the fact. And I'd really like to see it in kids' literature, because I think it's something our society needs to change.
Marriage IS wonderful... but only if it's what you want and you have the right partner.
In other news, I think I'm not going to be able to wait for Christmas to get myself paid time :) My birthday is soon, and I looked at the cost and it was a lot lower than I thought, and someone actually made me Accio Banana icons that I want to use, and I'm cranky because I just feel big and miserable and icky, and screw it, I'm not waiting! :) So don't be surprised if this journal changes appearance a bit in the next 48 hours! Wheee!
Okay. Must stop procrastinating and write my paper!
