On the topic of the Universe sending me the occasional reminder that my approach to managing relationships with open and honest communication, though often difficult, is truly the only way worth doing it (despite recent evidence to the contrary): a guy I dated shortly after I moved here a couple years ago just invited me to his wedding.
The bamboo I knew was in there b/c I had to look up how to cook that. Who expects a bamboo shoot in their grocery delivery? Not me. The other stuff was most likely bok-choy, poblano pepper, and brocolli rabe (?) based on the vague descriptions on the box and some image matching. Added some almost rotten green beans from last week's delivery with ever-present onion and garlic. Again, results were not terrible.
- t-ra: not givin up
tonight's challenge is what to do with more sweet potatoes than a girl could ever hope to consume in a week.
- t-ra: not givin up
"How did we come out of such tan extroverts?" is my new favorite
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- t-ra: not givin up
from Bookmarklet
Biking map site BikeScore has released a new ranking of the country’s best cities for biking, accounting for factors like bike lanes, hilliness, route options, and number of commuters... But the truth about biking in the U.S. and Canada is more complicated than that headline suggests: there are some really nice places to bike, and some, well, are best approached with caution. A new expanded ranking of bikeability from biking map service BikeScore in U.S. cities gives a sense of the contrasts. At the top are cities like Cambridge, Massachusetts, Davis and Berkeley, California, and Boulder, Colorado--all rated "very bikeable" (or in Cambridge’s case, as a "biker’s paradise"). Then, at the bottom, you have Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Chattanooga and Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, and Birmingham, Alabama--all rated, gently, as "somewhat bikeable."
- t-ra: not givin up
from Bookmarklet
Well, that's that. Spent the weekend moving through the bummed, hurt, angry, over it phases with the help of some friends, acquaintances, dancing, great bands, good beer, and lovely weather. Next.
I couldn't help but send a stern message yesterday about how lame it is to make plans and then simply stop communicating, but that was it. That, and giving a few young male acquaintances unsolicited lectures about how cowardly it is to choose to be non-responsive rather than man-up and just tell a girl they've changed their mind.
- t-ra: not givin up
what's kinda sad is that most admitted to it, knowing it sucks, and yet being too lazy/immature/apathetic to bother having a simple "thanks but no thanks" exchange with someone they'd recently flirted/slept/hooked-up with. sigh. these are the times when hanging out with 20-something boys in bars can be depressing.
- t-ra: not givin up
RT @ianokparty: Everyone make sure you set your expectations of the new Arrested Development season super high so you can be total jerks about it later.