coco for ...

[susandennis]

I've always hated coconut and lima beans. But lima beans aside, coconut has never done it for me. I hate the texture and the taste and so also the smell. Always. Until recently. I still hate the texture and the taste but I've developed this 'thing' for hand lotion with a coconut aroma. I don't understand it. There about 798 different varieties of hand lotion that feature coconut so it's not a problem, just a curiosity.

I need a couple of things at the grocery store but not enough to actually go. Plus, if I go, I'll buy a lot of crap I don't need. I don't need anything frozen. Maybe I'll pop into Safeway tomorrow while I'm waiting for the pool to open. Yep. That's a good plan.

I did make an appointment to get my hair cut tomorrow after my swim. It was perfect on Wednesday. Yesterday it was a little shaggy looking. Today it got caught in my goggles AND got in the way of my earbuds. So time.

And then after that, I'll stop at the SODO Flea Market they have on the 2nd Saturdays. I need to find stuff I can use for big buttons. Like half dollar sized. I have some sewing ideas that will need one off gynormous buttons and I'll bet I can find stuff there that will work. If not, I'll get some clay and make some.

But, today will be another in house day, I think. Still too warm and the air is still too shitty to make a frivolous venture out worthwhile.

I have a couple of projects that need to get off the ground today so I think I'll go get dressed and get started.

Comments

[hopefulspirit.livejournal.com]

I used to be the same way about coconut, I've never liked the taste and I used to hate the smell too, but after working at a water park that changed. Most sunscreen (at least at that time) was coconut scented, you couldn't get away from it, so it grew on me and now I like some of it a lot. Still hate the taste though.

[susandennis]

omg, i totally forgot about sunscreen. i HATE the smell of sunscreen. my nose is just so weirdly wired.

[howeird]

I hear you about coconut. I was that way until I moved to Thailand, and found out that what we think of as coconut is what they think of as pig food. They harvest young coconut, there is only a thin coating of meat, it's mostly water. Young coconut water may still tweak your nose, but not nearly as much as the old stuff. But you already may know this since coconut water is everywhere these days.

[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

There's something about the texture of coconut in stuff, like German chocolate cake, that I can't stand either. In the meantime, I love coconut rum and pina coladas.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Agreed on the coconut, but please pass me your lima beans. :-)

[susandennis]

They are totally ALL yours!! You can also have the butter beans.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Done!

And I should add that, oddly, I adore things made with coconut milk, like panang curry and sopa de mariscos.