Well, now, that's an attractive image.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Jul 25, 2005 7:04:25 pm PDT #2831 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Allyson - Jul 25, 2005 7:17:25 pm PDT #2832 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I spent an extra 12 bucks on groceries to buy organic strawberries, bananas, blackberries, and tomatoes.
And I'm never going back. I'm budgeting it in. I have tasted good produce for the first time in ages. I'll pay more for fruits and veggies that taste like, like, fruits and veggies. I don't care if they're not the perfect shade of red or yellow or green. I don't care if I have to cut off bruised bits.
Strawberries are sweet. Who knew?
Lee - Jul 25, 2005 7:19:01 pm PDT #2833 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Have you been to the big ass farmer's market on Ivar, Allyson?
You can get organic stuff there.
tommyrot - Jul 25, 2005 7:19:43 pm PDT #2834 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh yeah. Organic strawberries are a gazillion times better than the other kind. And organic tomatoes actually have flavor (who knew?)
Allyson - Jul 25, 2005 7:25:40 pm PDT #2835 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I haven't, Perkins. But I shall! It's the one right after Bed Bath & Beyond, right?
Lee - Jul 25, 2005 7:28:59 pm PDT #2836 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I think so, Allyson: [link]
Cass - Jul 25, 2005 7:45:04 pm PDT #2837 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Once you try something that actually tastes like it is supposed to, or tastes like anything really, it is so hard to eat otherwise.
Which might explain why I order things without tomatoes.
On a pendant note, it costs a fortune to get registered or declared or whatever as "organic" so at a farmer's market there are a lot of fruits and veggies grown without the pesticides and such that aren't labeled "Organic." It can be worth asking how things are grown, even without the signage. I have a thing for my farmer's market and the food and flowers I can get there. I end up talking to the people there sometimes even. Voluntarily.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 8:21:12 pm PDT #2838 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm so glad I've never really had good apples or cherries or pears. Sadly, the bananas I buy from Ralph's taste like crap, the oranges are unremarkable, and the mangoes untouchable.
Lee - Jul 25, 2005 8:25:19 pm PDT #2839 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Maybe we should all go to the farmer's market on Sunday.
Consuela - Jul 25, 2005 8:48:51 pm PDT #2840 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My folks bought a cottage in New Hampshire when I was about 8. It's a year-round house, though, so we used it summers (it's on a lake) and winters (for the skiing). And now they're retired and they stay there in the summer and in Florida in the winter.
And even though I'm on another coast I really miss having easy access to a weekend place where I can lounge on the back porch and read all day and watch the beavers swim around, and sit on the dock in the morning with a cup of tea and watch the dragonflies. ::sigh::
On the good side, I'm in a ski club with a lodge in the mountains that I can use any time I want in the summer, and I don't have to pay taxes on it. So, it works out.