Birthday market!
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oyceterOk, not really a market just for my birthday, but it is a farmers' market on my birthday!
I do actually still have IBARW posts, but I haven't gotten around to writing them because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sophia_helix and actoplasm are visiting me! Yay!
I dragged them all off to the market, despite the fact that it's around a hundred degrees outside. I think they were both a little overwhelmed by the blitzkrieg approach I take and the sheer amount of stuff I get.
"How in the world do you carry all this?" askedsophia_helix.
"Um," I said. "My arms get tired a lot, and my mom suggested that I buy one of those baskets on wheels so I'll look just like the old ladies at the traditional Taiwan markets."
Thankfully, even though we got out of the house late, the pea guy still had peas!
I suspect it's because most sane people don't go out to the market when it's a hundred degrees outside.
But! More peas for me! He also convinced me to try the romano beans, which were cute and flat and green and fuzzy. I also got heirlooms (WHOO!!), lemons, seascape strawberries, raspberries (must see if they're still tasty), the last of the cherries just for the heck of it, blueberries, peaches, corn and cucumbers for cucumber-dill-yogurt sauce. Must remember to buy yogurt and dill. And soy milk.
Mmmmm. Fruit and vegetables!
Next, birthday plans involve going to the Best Burger Place Ever, going to Kitchen Porn Store (aka, William Sonoma) and buying myself my pink stand mixer. And then, maybe, going to see a movie (air con!), sitting in Borders and reading manga (air con!), sitting in other places and being cheap and not buying stuff (air con!).
Yay! I am a quarter of a century old today! I can rent cars! How exciting...
I do actually still have IBARW posts, but I haven't gotten around to writing them because
sophia_helix and actoplasm are visiting me! Yay! I dragged them all off to the market, despite the fact that it's around a hundred degrees outside. I think they were both a little overwhelmed by the blitzkrieg approach I take and the sheer amount of stuff I get.
"How in the world do you carry all this?" asked
sophia_helix."Um," I said. "My arms get tired a lot, and my mom suggested that I buy one of those baskets on wheels so I'll look just like the old ladies at the traditional Taiwan markets."
Thankfully, even though we got out of the house late, the pea guy still had peas!
I suspect it's because most sane people don't go out to the market when it's a hundred degrees outside.
But! More peas for me! He also convinced me to try the romano beans, which were cute and flat and green and fuzzy. I also got heirlooms (WHOO!!), lemons, seascape strawberries, raspberries (must see if they're still tasty), the last of the cherries just for the heck of it, blueberries, peaches, corn and cucumbers for cucumber-dill-yogurt sauce. Must remember to buy yogurt and dill. And soy milk.
Mmmmm. Fruit and vegetables!
Next, birthday plans involve going to the Best Burger Place Ever, going to Kitchen Porn Store (aka, William Sonoma) and buying myself my pink stand mixer. And then, maybe, going to see a movie (air con!), sitting in Borders and reading manga (air con!), sitting in other places and being cheap and not buying stuff (air con!).
Yay! I am a quarter of a century old today! I can rent cars! How exciting...
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Sun, Jul. 23rd, 2006 07:37 pm (UTC)If you don't mind a present that will probably arrive right on time for your next birthday, I could attempt to write you some fic.
Bizarrely, it is now overcast and not hot (though not precisely cool), and I saw lightning strike twice in the distance. "Must be the apocalypse," I thought as I headed for the cafe. The Sunday paper was open on a table as I walked in, and the headline for the editorial page read "ARMAGEDDON."
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Mon, Jul. 24th, 2006 09:31 pm (UTC)Fic any time is good ;).
I think the apocalypse is an excellent explanation for many things, including but not limited to the failure of my AC to work.
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Sun, Jul. 23rd, 2006 07:46 pm (UTC)And I am amused by the blitzkrieg and the wheeled carts in Taiwan, because little old Jewish ladies in Brooklyn, like my grandmother, do the same thing.
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Mon, Jul. 24th, 2006 11:39 am (UTC)Wheely trolleys: bringing the world together *g*.
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Mon, Jul. 24th, 2006 09:32 pm (UTC)I suspect little old ladies everywhere are united in their use of wheeled carts. Soon, I shall join their numbers!
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Mon, Jul. 24th, 2006 01:25 am (UTC)Happy Birthday!
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Mon, Jul. 24th, 2006 09:40 pm (UTC)The beans are so cute and fuzzy! I'm planning on cooking them with shallotts, just for the heck of it, and seeing how it turns out.
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Mon, Jul. 24th, 2006 09:41 pm (UTC)Actually, I seriously doubt the pink matches anything in the kitchen, but I care not! It's pink!
(It has been aptly named "The Brain" by
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Mon, Jul. 24th, 2006 05:18 am (UTC)But now we're home, still hot. I took a swim in the pool that was more like a hot tub, and didn't get any cooler. Lily is alive and well and bitching that we'd left her alone for so long. She's now out and about getting just as hot as us. It's still in the upper nineties outside!
Thanks for a great day and Happy Birthday one more time! We'll have to do this again, very soon!!
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Mon, Jul. 24th, 2006 09:44 pm (UTC)Poor Lily! The rats have now realized that when I open the window slat things, they can actually just crawl between the slats and lie down next to the screen. It's very weird seeing rat noses peeking out like that!
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Mon, Jul. 24th, 2006 09:45 pm (UTC)I'll take the advice to heart ;).
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