I am doing BEDA with the rest of the world [it seems like ...] and so far I've actually been doing it on LiveJournal ... so most of my posts are on that site!
So I will just post the blog from Easter and start from there:
Happy Easter! I like Easter, even though it has the worst candy ever ... because I visit my family and have dinner with them, and go to the beach.
Let me explain.
My cousin, my sister, and I have a tradition. On holidays when we get together [no matter how freezing it is out] we take a walk down to the beach. Mind you, it was about -345 with the wind chill, and we spent about an hour on the beach, talking and watching the waves. If I hadn't been wearing my leather jacket I would be a Popsicle right now.
But I made up for it with overeating. Speaking of eating - !
My uncle is a college professor [don't be fooled by the title. He's a skinny little guy with short-cropped hair and wire-rimmed glasses] and he lived in Japan and I think Korea for a while. And I mean a while - he was gone for years. Anyway, he developed a taste for foreign foods.
We began talking about fish for some reason. He takes out a two bags of something. It looks like a normal package of snacks - except for the Japanese writing all over it. We open them and what do we see?
FISH.
WITH EYES.
LOOKING AT US.
Well, you should be comforted by the fact that since I already hate fish, this did not turn me off the species.
He was amused, of course, and encouraged us to actually try the snacks. There were other crunchy bits in the bag, so I just ate around the anchovies. The crunchy bits, I learned later, were shrimp, seaweed, squid, and an assortment of other disgusting foods. However, they were tasty when I was eating them. Making something crunchy makes it better.
Unless it 's Jello or something.
So I will just post the blog from Easter and start from there:
Happy Easter! I like Easter, even though it has the worst candy ever ... because I visit my family and have dinner with them, and go to the beach.
Let me explain.
My cousin, my sister, and I have a tradition. On holidays when we get together [no matter how freezing it is out] we take a walk down to the beach. Mind you, it was about -345 with the wind chill, and we spent about an hour on the beach, talking and watching the waves. If I hadn't been wearing my leather jacket I would be a Popsicle right now.
But I made up for it with overeating. Speaking of eating - !
My uncle is a college professor [don't be fooled by the title. He's a skinny little guy with short-cropped hair and wire-rimmed glasses] and he lived in Japan and I think Korea for a while. And I mean a while - he was gone for years. Anyway, he developed a taste for foreign foods.
We began talking about fish for some reason. He takes out a two bags of something. It looks like a normal package of snacks - except for the Japanese writing all over it. We open them and what do we see?
FISH.
WITH EYES.
LOOKING AT US.
Well, you should be comforted by the fact that since I already hate fish, this did not turn me off the species.
He was amused, of course, and encouraged us to actually try the snacks. There were other crunchy bits in the bag, so I just ate around the anchovies. The crunchy bits, I learned later, were shrimp, seaweed, squid, and an assortment of other disgusting foods. However, they were tasty when I was eating them. Making something crunchy makes it better.
Unless it 's Jello or something.
FISH SNACKS.
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