08.19.08
Posted in Meme at 8:06 pm by Meg
This looked different, so I thought I’d try it.
Bold those you have tried.
Strikethrough those you wouldn’t eat on a bet.
Italicize any item you’ll never eat again.
Asterisk any items you’d be interested in trying but have not yet.
Underline anything you eat regularly (more than once a month-ish).
Questionisk any items you’ve never heard of (okay, this will be way too many things and I haven’t googled anything to help me)
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. ?Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht - My Dad’s mother would feed us beet borscht every time we came to visit. I hated it
10. ?Baba ghanouj
11. Calamari
12. ?Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. ?Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. ?Epoisses -
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. ?Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. ?Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. ?Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. ?Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. ?Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. ? Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal - I don’t think I’ve actually ever had a Big Mac, let alone it in a meal. I usually get a quarter pounder.
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8 ABV
59. ?Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores - okay, I’m weird (what’s new) I like everything that goes into S’mores - I don’t like S’mores (but I also don’t like roasted marshmellows)
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. ?Currywurst
65. ?Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or ?andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. ?Louche absinthe
74. ?Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. ?Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. ?Lapsang souchong
80. ?Bellini
81. ?Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. *Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. *Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. ?Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. ?Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee - yuck, NO
100. Snake
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08.18.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 10:47 pm by Meg
With all the flack about Tropic Thunder floating around, we decided to go see what was really the concern.
In a nutshell
Two characters (who are actors) are jerks. They care about nothing but themselves and getting important roles and awards (and the money and toys that go along with fame). They use “the word” multiple times in a conversation.
IMO - IT SHOWS WHAT JERKS THEY ARE!!
Using the word is not shown in a positive light, but to highlight their flaws.
Isn’t that a good thing?
BTW, the movie was funny.
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08.16.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 11:55 pm by Meg
but don’t blink or you’ll miss me
We got home about 2 hours ago and I’ve spent most of that time catching up on emails (waay to many…and way too many foolish conversations) so I just deleted most of them.
Hey, if people were talking about it last Thursday or Friday, it’s old news now and not worth my time to wade through whatever the point was. Did find out that I missed a quick visit with my sister P on Friday. She and her husband were on their way back to Maryland from Sturgis (and yes, they were riding his bike, not hauling it on a trailer) and came through here. oh well, we’ll (well, not Boy) see P next month.
And I’ve checked quickly at bloglines, but decided that I do not want to work my way through all that.
So, now I’ve got 3.5 days at home before we head out the door with taking Boy to Texas. In that time I need to:
- make sure he has what he needs (or a list of what we need to purchase in Texas) for college
- spend all day Monday with Boy getting medical treatments - they want us there by 9 AM and we won’t be done until about 4 PM. Then it is over to the State Fair grounds to pick up the leatherwork that I entered (didn’t do very well) and then we’ll hit the comicbook store before heading home (and remember that it’s over 90 mins. to get there)
- Have Girl start her Spanish class at the local high school on Tuesday morning (and Datter - a full day) and make sure they have the notebooks etc. ahead of time that they will need.
- Take Boy to the DMV to renew his permit - we never did fit in getting his license and it’s about to expire.
- Host a homeschool “Not back to School” swimming party at our house on Tuesday (Fuzzythoughts, you are welcome to come!!) afternoon.
- Pick up the dog from the kennel on Monday (actually Hubby is doing it) and drop her back off on Wednesday so Boy can have a last couple of days with her. She’s his dog.
- oh, and get Girl’s schoolwork ready so she can start the following Monday after we come back.
I’m thinking that I’ll be just a little busy.
Anyway, we had a great trip.
Our room in Wisconsin Dells was upgraded into a sort-of suite and we all enjoyed the extra space. From there over to Minneapolis and the Mall of America.
Boy and Girl both did some “back to school” shopping. Boy was on his own (called me with a $45 shirt to ask if he should be spending that much on a single piece of clothing - but didn’t end up getting it.) And Girl went with Datter. It sounds as if Datter had fun dressing her. (and even found her some things that weren’t BLACK - amazing!)
The highlight of the afternoon was my friend A (who was stopping by the house to check on the cats, mail, and newspapers)calling to say that the orange cat (Ribbons) was missing. We have a nice sized screened-in porch and the cats were closed up on it with their litterboxes, food, and water. It has two screendoors leading out and two wooden doors leading elsewhere.
When she went on Thursday, only the black cat, Catmandu, was around, but she didn’t worry. On Friday, she couldn’t see either of them, but when she called Catmandu came from the far end. (The end with one of the screen doors and both of the wooden doors.)
When she couldn’t see a cat door cut into either one of the wooden doors, she called me.
Her message to me (and I paraphrase, but I’m close) was that Ribbons had gotten out and she couldn’t find her. - now understand that Ribbons is my cuddling cat, but she is a scaredy cat about everything and will run if anything makes a sudden move. She also isn’t wearing tags because she doesn’t try to rush the front door when it’s open and her collar was rubbing on her neck.
I called her back (I missed the call in the depths of the mall) only to discover that the screen door was open and the cats had been OUTSIDE! not just out in the house (when they push the blocked catdoor leading inside open) and she had figured that we had wanted them to be able to go out. - NOPE, sorry but they don’t go outside except on a leash -
okay, now I panicked. Girl’s 9 yo. pet had been missing for two days and was somewhere outside (did I ever mention that we back up to a nature preserve?) with no tags on. I just envisioned the poor thing totally spooked and taking off and then getting lost and unable to find her way home. All because someone hadn’t closed the door all the way after he took the trash out.
While she went back to recheck on the cats, Hubby and I decided to have her move Catmandu into the house so the door could be left open for Ribbons to come home, and to have A’s oldest daughter come over for the night so she could watch for Ribbons and shut the door if she came home to sleep/eat.
Then A called back. Ribbons was sleeping on one of the chairs on the porch, the screen door was actually closed, and A hadn’t realized that one of the wooden doors was broken on the bottom and the cats could actually get into that closet.
I think I can milk this one for a looooong time.
And completing our trip, on Saturday we stopped in Chicago to see Jersey Boys and then came home. The show was okay, but not a top tier and our seats were in the serious nosebleed section.
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08.13.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 1:24 am by Meg
Before we run out of town for a quick last family vacation before Boy heads out next week.
Tomorrow we are heading north for a full day playing at the waterparks in Wisconsin Dells, then it’s over to Minneapolis to visit the Mall of America, and lastly on our way back home we’re stopping in Chicago to catch a play.
Datter will certainly see some of America at this rate.
Not much else, we had a good visit with step-mom and she and I played double solitaire every night. The last night Girl finally joined us for triple sol - continuing a family tradition. She must have had fun because the next night she, Datter, and I ended up playing.
Datter is buried in the Twilight series, but seems to be enjoying being here. Tonight she’s been playing games (Werewolves and Seers, Falling, and now Munchkin) with Boy, Girl, and their friends.
And I got my 5 minutes of fame this evening. I gave an Intro to homeschooling talk at the local library and it was covered by both the local TV stations and the paper. Not too bad.
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08.12.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 11:07 pm by Meg
because Teresa thinks I’m…
Okay, maybe I am going over the top, but I couldn’t resist.
What she did give me was this:
And now I’m suppose to past it on to 7 (why seven?) other people. (oh, the rules say that you also need to link back to whomever gave it to you)
So…(in no particular order)
1. Mind Games -PisecoMom and I met over spiedes (and if that doesn’t make sense to you, that explains why that’s important) and I’ve been reading her blog ever since. What gets me about her blog is the art projects she gets into with her children. I don’t know where she gets these ideas, but unless they are all coming out of one book, she needs to think about writing a book. I just wish I had little ones to try some of it with.
2. Dragons in the Flowerbed -Rose is a free spirit and I enjoy reading about her and her boys. I feel like our lives are so different and reading her adventures is like breath of fresh air.
3. Kitchen-Table Learners - Frankie’s was one of the first blogs I started reading and I still go back to see what they are up to.
4. Doc’s Sunrise Rants - Doc is always good for a clear look at issues
5. Relaxed Homeschooler -I love reading about Kim’s adventures and had a wonderful time hanging out at the Chicago conference with her. What I find amazing though is that she actually had a TALK Show for homeschoolers! Go check it out.
6. Tricotomania and more - JoVE doesn’t like memes and so I suspect she’ll ignore this entire thing. That said, I still feel she desires to get some recognition. I enjoy reading her take on education issues.
7. IndianaJane’s Journal -I’ve known Jane for years and have even crossed paths with her by being at the same event at the same time - but we’ve never met IRL. I enjoy reading her posts both on her blog and the Yahoo list she runs.
So, there’s my seven enjoy!
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