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Oyceter ([personal profile] oyceter) wrote2005-12-28 01:23 pm
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Notes from the long weekend:

1. Coming back to work, even for a very short week, really sucks.

2. "Jicama" is actually pronounced "HIH-cuh-muh," rather like "hiccup." (I learned this by puzzling a grocery store person by asking for "ji-CAH-mah.")

3. Raw black radishes are very spicy.

4. Raw jicama is very tasty

5. My mom will inevitably try to order California rolls, no matter how high the table has been heaped with sushi. (I won the bet with my sister, by the way)

6. White bean and rosemary soup is extremely tasty.

7. Knee-high, black, lace-up boots with round toes and clunky heels are impossible to find when one goes to outlets specifically looking for them.

8. Alternately, when one does manage to find the perfect pair of knee-high, black, lace-up boots with round toes and clunky heels (on sale too!), the store will not have one's size. Also, said boots will be impossible to locate online.

9. I am now apparently drawn toward random kitchen gadgetry (Oxo Good Grips brand, how I love you!), despite being a very, very amateur cook at best.

10. Having not enough shelf space has apparently dampened my desire to buy books. This is probably an extremely temporary situation.

11. My rats have the uncanny ability to read my mind and go precisely where they should not go. Bad rats!

12. My rats probably phrase this differently: "To boldly go where no rat has gone before!" While all of ratkind may appreciate their explorations, my mother most certainly does not.

13. I am very tired.

[identity profile] fiveandfour.livejournal.com 2005-12-28 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Knee-high, black, lace-up boots with round toes and clunky heels are impossible to find when one goes to outlets specifically looking for them.

As are knee-high, black leather, zip up boots with a square toe and a moderate heel :).
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[identity profile] gwyneira.livejournal.com 2005-12-29 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
I love jicama (which Liam calls "HEEKma"). We mostly eat it raw, but we also use it in fried rice instead of water chestnuts; it's very nice lightly stir-fried.
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[identity profile] cychi.livejournal.com 2005-12-29 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Having not enough shelf space has apparently dampened my desire to buy books. This is probably an extremely temporary situation."

... I am speechless! What ever happened to bags? Or the floor? Don't give up the dream Oyceter!