toaster ovens are cool, baby. cool.
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brightbluegirlMmmmm pasta salad with green peppers, sundried tomatos, artichoke hearts, and black olives...
mmmmm YUMMY!!!!
I found out that the company I work for has a yearly budget of ~$1000/employee for employee training. I'm going to get some QA certification. It will look good on my resume, AND look good with the company.
I doubt I'll learn anything that I'll be able to use in practice - most software companies think so little of the QA folk, and have such shitty process, that what I learn won't be useful in a physical way.
But, our society DOES work mainly based on perception, after all. I may not agree, and I may strive to work against that, but I might as well use it to my advantage in this situation.
And... I've been hankerin for some larnin, and although this isn't FUN school, it's school nonetheless. w00t!
I'll probably research it and get approval and etc before July, but won't start going for the actual certification until August. It would be purely foolhardy to try and fit yet another thing into my life.
Heh. People say I'm busy, but my mom has always been CRAZY busy. This is sedate, compared to her.
I used to eat because I was afraid of being hungry. I'd eat before I was hungry, to forestall that.
I've worked on that now, and now I eat when I'm hungry. Sometimes, depending on HOW hungry I am, I can even handle waiting.
But now, I've noticed, the action of filling up before I'm empty has moved to other areas.
Groceries.
Only 1/4 cup of cardamom pods left? Gotta get some more!
Only 1 package of soba noodles left? Gotta order 4 more!
Only a cup of margarine left? Gotta buy another tub!
It leads to having all this damn food in the house, ALL THE TIME. Sure, we never run out, and that's good. But would we really suffer if we had less than 4 lemons in the refrigerator at any one time? Would the world end if we ran out of peppercorns? Would it really be so bad if we didn't have any bread left?
It must be healthier than overeating - but I'm not so sure it's all that healthy even so. At the very least, it probably keeps more $ in our groceries than is absolutely necessary.
I like it, though. I like seeing a well stocked pantry, and spices in the jars. I like feeling as if, even if we had a really bad month of money, I could feed us both for several weeks. And it doesn't cause me any REAL extra stress, you know. My refill line is just higher than other folks.
So on Tuesday night Andrew was feeling goofy. Ok, Andrew ALWAYS feels goofy, but this was just as we were going to bed.
I don't know how it started, but he started creating metaphors, or analogies, or something.
It started with some that were sorta funny, but then he came up with:
"I am the PAPERWEIGHT on your office desk of SEDUCTION!"
And I don't know WHY it was so god damned funny, but it was. So of course, now we're BOTH laughing like idiots, right?
So he tries one with a rolodex in it, and I don't think it's that funny, so I say "I wasn't a big fan of the rolodex one", and he says
"I'll flip through YOUR rolodex, baby"
Needless to say, helpless laughter ensues.
Then he turns to me, very soberly, and says "Aw, come on, I'm turning you OOOOOOOONNNNN, admit it!!!"
Oh my GOD I nearly fell off the bed.
You mighta had to be there, though.
Anyway, so I just got an email from him, and it said "I am the cold sprouted grain bread in your TOASTER OVEN OF LOVE!!!"
And my coworkers wanted to know why I was laughing out loud...
mmmmm YUMMY!!!!
I found out that the company I work for has a yearly budget of ~$1000/employee for employee training. I'm going to get some QA certification. It will look good on my resume, AND look good with the company.
I doubt I'll learn anything that I'll be able to use in practice - most software companies think so little of the QA folk, and have such shitty process, that what I learn won't be useful in a physical way.
But, our society DOES work mainly based on perception, after all. I may not agree, and I may strive to work against that, but I might as well use it to my advantage in this situation.
And... I've been hankerin for some larnin, and although this isn't FUN school, it's school nonetheless. w00t!
I'll probably research it and get approval and etc before July, but won't start going for the actual certification until August. It would be purely foolhardy to try and fit yet another thing into my life.
Heh. People say I'm busy, but my mom has always been CRAZY busy. This is sedate, compared to her.
I used to eat because I was afraid of being hungry. I'd eat before I was hungry, to forestall that.
I've worked on that now, and now I eat when I'm hungry. Sometimes, depending on HOW hungry I am, I can even handle waiting.
But now, I've noticed, the action of filling up before I'm empty has moved to other areas.
Groceries.
Only 1/4 cup of cardamom pods left? Gotta get some more!
Only 1 package of soba noodles left? Gotta order 4 more!
Only a cup of margarine left? Gotta buy another tub!
It leads to having all this damn food in the house, ALL THE TIME. Sure, we never run out, and that's good. But would we really suffer if we had less than 4 lemons in the refrigerator at any one time? Would the world end if we ran out of peppercorns? Would it really be so bad if we didn't have any bread left?
It must be healthier than overeating - but I'm not so sure it's all that healthy even so. At the very least, it probably keeps more $ in our groceries than is absolutely necessary.
I like it, though. I like seeing a well stocked pantry, and spices in the jars. I like feeling as if, even if we had a really bad month of money, I could feed us both for several weeks. And it doesn't cause me any REAL extra stress, you know. My refill line is just higher than other folks.
So on Tuesday night Andrew was feeling goofy. Ok, Andrew ALWAYS feels goofy, but this was just as we were going to bed.
I don't know how it started, but he started creating metaphors, or analogies, or something.
It started with some that were sorta funny, but then he came up with:
"I am the PAPERWEIGHT on your office desk of SEDUCTION!"
And I don't know WHY it was so god damned funny, but it was. So of course, now we're BOTH laughing like idiots, right?
So he tries one with a rolodex in it, and I don't think it's that funny, so I say "I wasn't a big fan of the rolodex one", and he says
"I'll flip through YOUR rolodex, baby"
Needless to say, helpless laughter ensues.
Then he turns to me, very soberly, and says "Aw, come on, I'm turning you OOOOOOOONNNNN, admit it!!!"
Oh my GOD I nearly fell off the bed.
You mighta had to be there, though.
Anyway, so I just got an email from him, and it said "I am the cold sprouted grain bread in your TOASTER OVEN OF LOVE!!!"
And my coworkers wanted to know why I was laughing out loud...
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Date: 2004-05-06 07:43 pm (UTC)That rocks! lol
And I totally understand the full pantry thing. Like, making a list of everything that's not fully stocked, buying it, and standing back to view the fully stocked pantry. I love that feeling. Like, I could make whatever I want right now. (Not that I ever really do though). I had to stop doing that, cause I was just putting too much money into groceries.