belated requisite new year’s post! January 20, 2007
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it could also be early…if i were following the chinese lunar calendar…it all depends on who’s keeping track.
first things first! I posted my Paris pictures on flickr! (and some of bean’s because she had more people shots and my parents are always demanding more people shots) it almost seems pointless because probably more than half of my paltry readership was WITH me on the trip, but oh well..tis good to keep a record anyway i suppose. well actually i was going to post up a slide slideshow directly here but wordpress sabotaged my plans, threw me a bombshell, and did not support the code, but i tried!
now the meat and bones…
1.new year’s resolution #3 is to update this thing regularly (cue dubious laughter) so here i am. i promised myself that if i succeed by year’s end, i will buy myself an upgrade. so here goes…
2. another british quirk: cigarette cartons that have these large white labels smack dab over the sides and they say things like “SMOKING KILLS” and “SMOKING IS ADDICTIVE, DON’T START” in black, bold letters. Then yesterday i found a discarded carton that said “SMOKERS DIE YOUNGER.” it’s like they’re buying a guilt trip or moral lesson everytime along with their cigarettes…but it must be annoying to them, or at least slightly disheartening…especially if they’re already regretful or trying to quit and you get hit with these messages each time you light up. anyway…just thought that was funny.
3. McVitie’s is my new best friend. i’ve found another biscuit to keep chocolate digestives company in biscuit heaven. Hob Nobs flapjacks! they’re so yummy and because they’re oaty, they give the illusion of being healthy and good for you. =) i must stockpile these before i go back to the US, land of the boring cookie aisles. but maybe i’m too harsh…
4. in a flash of martha stewart/rr brilliance, i decided to haul my butt into the kitchen and make salmon burgers (from my japanese cookbook), shown here in all their burnt, crumbling glory. i think they would’ve been better if i’d remembered to consistently half the recipe instead of halving part of the ingredients and then forgetting to for the rest…but topped with okonomi sauce (i knew that bottle i randomly bought would come in handy!!) and kewpie mayo they weren’t half bad. =)
5. while there hasn’t been much going on snow-wise, and the weather has been weirdly warm, it’s been freakishly windy so i’ve mostly stayed indoors for fear of being blown away. you laugh, but i’m serious!! one time i looked outside and this guy was grabbing onto a tree to avoid being carried away. tube stations have been closed because parts of the roof have fallen off and the millenium bridge has been closed for fear of people being blown into the water. i cracked up the first time i read those words on the release haha. so hopefully by my next post, the wind will have died down and i’ll have pictures that aren’t of food shot in my room. starting to get cabin fever..must…venture…out….
