Sleeping in...

[susandennis]

I rarely am still asleep when the alarm goes off. I usually wake up about 10 minutes before it does (4:40 am). Five days a week. On weekends, the alarm isn't set and I don't wake up at at 4:30. Today, a weekday, I did turn off the alarm but fully expected to wake up anyway. I woke up at 6. I'm kind of impressed by my ability to wake up when I need to and sleep when I don't. Nice work, brain!

As often happens to me, when I order a replacement for a thing that isn't dead yet, it immediately dies. It's like in the movies when a loved one tells a dying somebody that it's ok to let go. My Keurig is clearly letting go. It now has to be turned off and turned back on again to make coffee. It's replacement will be here before 10 and then it will be End Of Watch for this one.

missdiane has been posting pics of women's magazines of old, i.e. my youth. Today she posted a photo of salads of old... they look delicious to me but she labels them as gross. I suspect most of what I eat now would be called gross by the youngins today. There's a new place that just opened up in the neighborhood that is causing a lot of excitement for everyone but me Jujubeets sells small bottles of artisan juices for $10 and they all - ALL - look gross to me.

A while back, I first heard of the 1 Second a Day app. It was only for iphone so I didn't pay any mind to it. But this morning annabelle50 posted a video from the app that is perfectly delightful so I looked again. I've been thinking a lot about tracking stuff since working with that group at the university about home data collection anyway so I was delighted to see that not only do they now have the app on android, it is a perfectly beautiful, functional and nearly elegant app. What fun. My first second was, of course, of LJ.

This morning's project is to list all my parking passes on Stub Hub. With each of my Diamond Club Mariner tickets, I get an assigned parking space in the garage next to the stadium. Since the ballpark is down the street, I do not use those passes and so can sell them. Last year, I make a nice bit o' coin via Stub Hub. The listing of each is fiddly but well worth the effort. Most sell for about $40 and I have 20!

Ok, the new coffee maker just arrived. For once I'm glad our elevator is so slow. I had to get dressed between the time the driver buzzed and he got up here to the 4th floor. Made it. New coffee is delicious and only now do I realize how freakin' loud the old one was. It was screaming at me. RIP

I also need to do laundry today. My new rule is, when the hamper gets full, laundry. And my new washer removes the hated part of the chore.

Time to get to work!

Comments

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

Poking fun at vintage recipes has been a trend for a quite some time.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/truly-upsetting-vintage-recipes
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicaprobus/throwing-up-in-rewind?utm_term=.ak94ZenBL#.ktyEdVYOy
https://jezebel.com/taste-test-from-hell-we-cooked-a-bunch-of-gross-recipe-1520925733

There have even been books published teasing about the food
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101359.The_Gallery_of_Regrettable_Food
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131466.The_Amazing_Mackerel_Pudding_Plan

Oh and I find those juices to be gross too.

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

It also reminds me of a Twitter feed I follow called 70s Dinner Party (https://twitter.com/70s_party). I can't believe that people cooked some of that food - most of it looks like a drunken dare.

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Will follow that!

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

You might also like We Want Plates (https://twitter.com/WeWantPlates), dealing with the current trend of serving food in ridiculous ways.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Things in jelly (Jello) were not big in Britain - we were rocking prawn cocktail, steak Diane and Black Forest Gateau, and discovering yoghurt and coleslaw. But I reckon no-one in the current century can complain about the foods of the 1970s if they actually regard kale as food.

If you had told me back then that people actually ate it from choice in the 21st century I would have thought you were mad. It makes me laugh every time I see recipes for what was the last resort cattle food in the 1970s. Even the cows weren't keen, and it made their milk almost undrinkable so that we couldn't sell it to the public :(

[susandennis]

omg yes. yes. yes. It is still huge here in Seattle. I have actually two restaurants off my list of goto places because of Too Much Kale on the menu.

[xina-g.livejournal.com]

I have quite a few food likes (some have become popular now, but) I totally remember being labeled as "gross" or being told "eww, you're weird" when I was a kid and ate them. XD

I'm not a fan of artisan juices... some taste ok, but I've had some that tasted like lawn clippings, and UGH no thank you.

LOL yay for slow elevators and quite coffee makers. I am a Huge fan of quiet appliances. That shrieking toaster we had has been curbed.. and we have a nice quiet Oster toaster now. Heaven!

[maju01.livejournal.com]

A lot of food that's popular among young people today looks gross to me.

[underwear-slave.livejournal.com]

I bought theatre season pass and want to sell half of them. Is Stub Hub decent to sell? Do they charge fees and what not?

[susandennis]

i've bought and sold tickets on stub hub with no issues. and, of course, they charge fees! but, totally worth it to me.

[siobhan63.livejournal.com]

There's this thing going around posted by some of my British Twitter folk about milk coke -- adding milk to coke. With some saying it's a thing and other being horrified by the very thought. I do remember it from back in the 1970s, but didn't think anyone still did that. Sort of like rootbeer or coke floats (which also grossed out a lot of people).

[susandennis]

I love a coke float or, even better, a Diet Dr. Pepper float and have them often in summer so milk in coke doesn't bother me but ice cream... way better.

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

Ha, ha, the youngins of today have things like those ghastly bilious green wheatgrass and kale smoothies, so they can't talk about imbibing gross things :-)