*Or*....Are you just really far away from us?

Are you implying that the Universe doesn't revolve around me? Because if you are, I may just have to smite you.

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I use powdered milk in my tea because it's generally non-fat and I hate the taste of non-dairy powders. Oh, and because I really don't use enough to keep fresh milk on hand, and fresh milk cools down the drink anyway, so...

But I grew up with powdered milk, so I'm used to it. Some people have an incredible aversion to the thought of powdered milk.

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Are you implying that the Universe doesn't revolve around me? Because if you are, I may just have to smite you.

Posted like someone who's never met Julia.

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Some people have an incredible aversion to the thought of powdered milk.

Me. I grew up on whole, unpasteurized milk. Sometimes with extra cream.

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I grew up on whole, unpasteurized milk. Sometimes with extra cream.

Oh, that reminds me of this Jersey milk I used to drink in London that was a meal in a bottle. Damn this 3.25% crap here.

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What's wrong with the West Coast? Hmm?

The ocean is on the wrong side!

Seriously, it trips me out -- I never get used to it.

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Me. I grew up on whole, unpasteurized milk. Sometimes with extra cream.

Mmmmm. I so miss the milk from my cousin's dairy farm.

I cannot drink powdered milk. When I was a kid, my mother bought it once during lean times, to mix with regular milk, and it almost put me off milk. Then another time, after I'd been hospitalized for dehydration, she bought it to give me watered down milk for the first few times I had milk. I think I finally just said, "Can't I just skip it altoghter until my stomach can handle it full strength?"

I drank 2% milk as a young adult, and then 1% milk as a newlywed. But it was mostly a base for cereal, and I hardly ever had any milk otherwise. When I got pregnant, I knew I had to go back on whole milk, if I was going to be able to drink enough. That baby is going to turn ten years old, in a week's time, and I'm still drinking whole milk. But I actually drink it, as opposed to grimmacing and pouring it on my cereal.

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Portland is always at the top of my dream-cities list, but then the West-Coastiness of it comes and slaps me in the face.

There were cities that kept intriguing me but their lack of West-Coastiness slapped me in the face. So I get that.

The ocean is on the wrong side!

It is not! It is exactly where it should be for optimal sunset viewing.

Can I stay in a hot shower for the rest of the day?

Yes. I lived in mine when the drug-immune allergies hit me last week.

Yay! Enjoy, Cass.

I am showered, dressed, lipsticked (it translates to made up for me) and my hair is sort of dry-ish. Wheeee! Now to plink here and check email until she shows up.

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When I'm good low-carb girl I put half and half on my flax-based granola.

sooooooooo good

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It is not! It is exactly where it should be for optimal sunset viewing.

That's actually my theory as to why west-coasters are more mellow -- to see pretty colors over the ocean they don't have to get up at the crack of dawn and everything just falls into place after that.

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