From Bookmole:
Instructions:
- Grab the nearest book. *
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the next three sentences on your blog along with these instructions
* 'nearest' means you can't rummage around for a 'cool' or 'intellectual' book. Really, whatever your hand falls on first. Let's hope it's not porn. (Or should we hope it is?)
Okay, so I dug under my coffee table and the first book that I found was (the yet unread) Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
On page 123, the fifth, sixth and seventh sentences read:
"Did he say anything?"
"No."
"Was he scared?
Earlier today, Nava Atlas posed the following question to her blog readers: "What's Your Favorite Food Movie?" Though I had never considered this question before, the answer came to me almost immediately. My favourite food movie (broadly defined as a movie that has something to do with a type of food) would have to be the Peanut Butter Solution (1985).
Did anyone else watch this as a kid? No?! Are you sure? Maybe this summary will jog your memory:
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two 'friendly' ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael looses all of his hair when he gets a 'fright' and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit 'hairy'.
As you might have guessed, it really is a bizarre movie. I recommend it to anyone who likes weird, kid's movies from the eighties.
I'll be the first to admit that I have boring dreams. Like my life, my dreams are often filled with mundane tasks and ordinary occurrences. Last night's dreams were no exception. For the most part, they focused on work and what had happened throughout the day. There was one dream, however, that stuck out from the rest - not because it was interesting but because it was completely uninteresting and seemingly unnecessary. In this dream, I put on my eyeglasses and realised that they were broken (the pin was missing out of one of the arms). So, I took the glasses off. After examining them for a few minutes, the dream was over. Sounds exciting, huh?
According to this dream dictionary,
To see broken eyeglasses in your dream, indicates that your vision and perception is impaired. You are not seeing the facts correctly.
I can't imagine how this could apply to me. I'm more inclined to believe that this dream was simply meaningless and came about because I saw some eyeglass repair kits at Shoppers Drug Mart last night.
What's your favorite thing to shop for?
Submitted by JadedButterfly.
Not surprisingly, my favourite things to shop for are food and books. While I really, really dislike shopping for clothes, I can spend hours browsing grocery and book stores. This is especially true for overstocked, seemingly chaotic used book stores, which are my absolute favourite stores to visit.
Game LV: Standard
Completion of Journal: 84%
Completion of Gummi Routes: 5% (Ha! I really don't like the gummi routes)
Healed Party Members: 65 times
Saved by Mickey: 3 times
Most Used Form: Valor, 12 times (I only used forms when I absolutely had to use them)
Used Antiform: 1 time
Most Used Summon: Chicken Little, 0 times
All in all, I had fun with this game. I'll admit that I dreaded the first five hours or so, but the game really did get a lot better and those five hours were long forgotten when I finished the game (the whole game took me around 37-40 hours). While it lacked the exploratory charm of the first game, it still had likeable (and detestable) characters, memorable worlds, and an intriguing (albeit confusing) storyline.
And this brings me to the bitter part of the sweet: now that I have finished Kingdom Hearts 2, what am I going to play?! Sure, there are plently of other games but none of them hook me the same way as Kingdom Hearts. And now that I have finished Kingdom Hearts 2, it will likely be years before I will be able to play another Kingdom Hearts game. *sigh*
In the meantime, I guess that I should try to finish some of the other games that I have hanging around the house. I am going to start with Harvest Moon: Melody Maker and then move on to (in no particular order) Ape Escape 3, Katamari Damacy, and We Love Katamari. I might also give Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic a try, as my boyfriend thinks that I might enjoy it (I personally think that it sounds too involved and complicated for me).
Convenient foods aren't the same as convenience foods, which are already prepared and need only be heated up (like frozen pizza, frozen egg rolls, ready-made veggie burgers, or the like)...our most frequently used convenient foods are products such as canned beans, quick-cooking grains, and certain frozen or good-quality canned items...ready-to-use fresh vegetables...
Like Nava, I too like to save time by using products such as canned beans, frozen veggies (especially peas, carrots, spinach, asian stirfry mixes, young beans), and pre-packaged salads.
In recent years, I have also started to use pre-chopped/minced garlic. Now I know that some real foodies turn their nose up at jarred garlic, but I have always found it to be a decent substitute for the real thing (and it has the added benefit of not stinking up your fingers from all of the chopping). And while I stand by this belief, I am here to report that I have discovered that not all jarred garlic is alike and that some brands are definitely better than others.
Last week, I bought organic chopped garlic for the first time - Green Organic Chopped Garlic to be exact (shown in the pictures above) - and it was so much better than all of the non-organic brands that I have tried. When compared to the non-organic brands, this brand was much closer to fresh garlic, as it had larger, more fragrant pieces of garlic and much less juice. All in all, if you are a fan of convenient food (like me) and/or if you like to avoid pesticides, I highly recommend that you check out this product (or if you can't find this brand, try another organic brand).
As some of you might know, Thanksgiving comes a little early in Canada. Rather than celebrating in November, we celebrate on the second Monday of October. And while I am not big on celebrations and big family dinners, I do love fall foods. As a result, I decided to make my own small Thanksgiving feast. Since I was just cooking for myself, I did not make all of the things that I would have liked to have made (e.g. a fancier rice dish, some squash, parsnips, sweet potatoes, etc.), but I enjoyed it nonetheless (well, I enjoyed the food - not the cooking it or cleaning up after it).
After thinking about it for some time, I decided to make:
- Brown rice with nuts (almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds) and raisins
- Orange roasted asparagus
- -Steamed baby carrots
- Bryanna's cranberry sauce
- -Mashed potatoes
- -Punk Rock Chickpea Gravy (from Vegan with a Vengeance)
