Thanks for the welcome, Nilly!

Toddson, I'm with you on fresh tomatoes only. If they're pureed, I can eat them cooked in sauce and ketchup forms.

Someone cooked Nilly!?!

Considering the weather we've been having last week, I'd say that the sun did, indeed, at least try. My sister's biggest worry before the wedding was that air-conditioners would stop working, or that there would be electricity breaks due to the huge load from all over. Thankfully, none of these scenarios took place.

For posterity:

I like almost everything that's been discussed (cilantro, olives, grapefruit, calimari, bacon) with the exception of root beer. I've never been much of a soda drinker even as a kid, and root beer is also too sweet to my tastes and real ginger beer is (sadly, as I love ginger) too spicy for drinking.

The silverware thing: I tend to switch but I can fake it not switching if I feel I may look declasse on front of whoever I'm eating with.

Beer: I like about 90% of the styles out there, except for lambic (fruit and non-fruit) and other belgian-style sour beers (though Dogfishhead has a seasonal peche out that proves the exception to this rule); macro-brewery lagers; and for some reason I'm highly suspicious of bocks, although they are usually OK. I won't ever order one or seek one out, though. I'm trying to get over my lager prejudice and branch out to drinking microbrew lager styles. Whisky: where!??!?! yes, though I don't drink it much anymore, just due to lifestyle shifts.

Tomatoes: I used to hate them and I still won't eat them raw except in tomato season, when they are just awesome and sweet and flavorful and full of Teh Yum. But during the other 10 months of the year I tend to avoid them (raw) as they are tasteless. (so excited for tomato season!)

cilantro, lime and ginger: made to go together.

Particularly cilantro and lime.

Yummy.

And Dana, too, right? And more people I forget

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It bugs me when right-handed people wear watches on their right arm. Have no idea why, but this goes back to when I first wore a watch in 1st or 2nd grade....

Come to think of it - maybe it's because wind-up watches have the winding knob on the right, so it's a lot easier to wind (and set) if it's on your left arm.

I ate something that upset my tummy yesterday. I haven't barfed, but I can feel the ick passing through my digestive track.

NPR did a story on Lindsay Lohan this morning.

NPR.

Lindsay Lohan.

World ending?

World ending?

It was a piece about how she's reallytruly a serious actress. I'm'a vote yes.

Dammit, why can't Bush get arrested for drunk driving?

Wait, he already did. I think some attorney named Gonzales got him off....