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Tag Archives: food
New Year’s Resolutions
I have mixed feelings about this post. Part of me doesn’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions because I don’t believe that we need one more thing in our lives to beat ourselves up over for not “getting it right.” But, … Continue reading
A Semester of Soup
I really should be studying for my last exam today, but let’s pretend that, by taking a break, I’m somehow consolidating and committing that information to memory. One of the big changes for me this semester was learning how to … Continue reading
U-Pick
For a while now, E and I have been talking about going down to Half Moon Bay to do one of those berry u-picks. The idea is that you pay a small fee for the novelty of it all, pick … Continue reading
Market
Yesterday I tagged along with E on his market runs. Ever since we fell back, I’ve fallen out of the habit of waking up at 6:30 in “get shit done” mode, so 7 am felt a little rough to me. … Continue reading
Food Poisoning
Wednesday is E and my day together, so we went to lunch at Chow. We’d been there before and the food is pretty good and it was such a beautiful (for once) day that we decided to get a mussel … Continue reading
Peanut Butter Experiment
Introduction Yesterday’s schedule was supposed to go something like this: 12:00 – Drive to Nishinoomote to buy peanut butter (most of the groceries sold in Nakatane are acceptable, but nobody sells peanut butter down here and the foul product known … Continue reading
Daily Life
With Family: This last weekend, I went with everyone to go see Nao get her pictures taken for her coming of age ceremony. Every year in January, there is a ceremony for the people who turned 20 during the previous … Continue reading
National Cookie Month
Dude…October is NATIONAL COOKIE MONTH!!! It is also apparently National Dental Hygiene Month. I wonder which idiot decided to put those two together.
Ode to Cookies
According to my new pair of heather-gray (who is heather and why is she gray?) boxer shorts, I dropped everything to donate blood today. Overall, not a bad experience. My body reluctantly relinquished the last two tubes of blood, nearly … Continue reading
