Haven’t posted anything in a while. Bad me. In fact, I’m barely posting this. This page has been sitting here for an hour now. blah.
I remembered one reason why I don’t daily click on The Hunger Site, The Rainforest Site, etc. It makes me want to buy things. And I keep thinking, a portion of my money spent goes toward whichever charity is listed on the page! So my defenses against letting go of precious and rare money are lowered.
Must … stop … looking …
I’m currently drawing up plans for a shelf that I want to put at the foot of my bed. It’s so frustrating!
I’m trying to figure out how much space I want to give to the CD/DVD area, and how much space I want to give the talls books (i.e. my comic books [graphic novels?], Neil Gaiman-related books, and art books). But it really seems like I only have space on the shelf for one or the other, not both! If I want to keep space for both, it means I’ll have to divide collections. CDs on the shelf as well as on the CD racks where they are now; DVDs on the shelf and on the small bookcase (some) are on (… a lot are currently sitting on my desk beside me >_>); talls books split between the shelf and the big bookcase.
It sounds like a good idea, but I don’t like it! Collections … must … be … together! (Well except for CDs; they can be split since that’s what I’d already planned…too many CDs. *_*)
Grr, arrgh. Back to square one. Maybe I should consider a second/third shelf on top. Would that look odd? (I have a roughly 18″ tall, 39″ wide shelf divided vertically, then the right section divided horizontally, giving three areas to shelve things.)
Hmm, gotta think.
I am still surprised, after almost a year, how gross ocha can be if made with tap water here.
I’ve probably been spoiled, living in L.A. where water comes from high up in Colorado. Here, it comes from groundwater, where there’s lots of minerals.
Although I can tell when I’ve been served tap water in restaurants in L.A., it just doesn’t compare to the tap water here. In L.A. it’s fine using tap water for instant ramen; I don’t drink the broth, and the taste of the water isn’t intrusive enough to ruin the noodles. Here, tap water makes the already salty noodles noticeably more salty. Which, yes, tastes just as bad as it sounds.
But honestly, I probably would not have noticed the difference in the ramen if it hadn’t been for my beloved ocha. I can use the tap water fine to make rice, tortellini, wonton soup. It’s the ocha where I really, really noticed a not-so-subtle disgusting taste that ruined the green tea.
Now I buy distilled water, specifically, at the market to get nice ocha. I use it only for ocha and ramen. I also buy water with “minerals added for taste” just for drinking. (That’s the one at the market I go to. I have to go to another market entirely for distilled water. And non-molassassed bread.) I can taste when C has used the water kettle for instant ramen, it makes my ocha bad. boo. But I can’t tell him, Use the expensive, nice-tasting water! If he doesn’t notice a difference in the ramen, there’s no reason I should waste more money keeping my ocha nice. I just have to remember to empty the kettle of water before I add my own.
Just two more weeks, and I get to go home to nice water.
Normally I don’t post quiz results on my blog, but since I have past results recorded here (first quiz results, second quiz results, third quiz results), I’ve gotta keep up the continuity.
Grain of salt: I didn’t do the “priority” part of the quiz, and not all aspects of my beliefs were covered, or worded in a way that I completely agree with, so the percentages can be off (compared to previous results).
New layout. I can assure you that I have no clue where the inspiration for it came from. I was just doodling in 452 while he was going over CSS. XD;
Last part on life: Lately I’ve been getting flashes of memory randomly. One I remember, Saturday night Daddy was watching some post-game yakking about a basketball game, and when one commentator said “stood” (or “still,” not quite sure) I saw the exhibit at the L.A. Zoo with the meerkats (?), and how they all stand on the top, and then there’s this cave-y “underground” maze you can wander through.
I think yesterday, I don’t remember what brought it on, but I remembered Jichan and Bachan’s house, the driveway by that tree with the orange fruit things. Persimmon. I remembered it from the perspective of a child, when the yard was bigger and everything.
I’ve heard that your life flashes before your eyes before you die, but I’m sure that’s all in one instant, right? So what does it mean when you get bits and pieces of it over some course of time?
