I like my meat rare and my oysters raw
I have been away from the computer a long long time now. I have not checked my email in 2 days! It's just been crazy. The end of the school semester before Christmas Break had me super busy...thank goodness it's all over. Yesterday I had a bazillion errands to run....and I can't even remember what I did on Wednesday but I know I wasn't working.
I opened my email to find I got a LJ nudge from Lexi telling me to update already! That made me giggle and I promptly...ok, that's not true, but first chance I got I signed on and here we are. What did I have to do before posting on LJ that was more important?? Well, I'll tell you. Actually it's not all that important, it's just that it was in my email and why leave it just to come back??
The other day I was looking at the Travel and Leisure magazine and flipping through it like I usually do, circling the places I want to go...just so chris will get the point that vacations that are not sports related are ok. Well, I came across this article called Flirting with the Forbidden. It was all about foods and drinks that are banned here in the US for one reason or another. Some I can see why not....eating an endangered species is wrong. Wait...build the species back up and then we can eat them again. I have no problem with that. You know what...God gave us the animals to eat. By nature I'm an omnivore (is that spelled right?) and based upon that fact alone I can chose what I want to eat. As long as it doesn't get me high and I have no moral issues with consuming it, why not eat it? Who is the FDA to tell me what I can and can't eat. Now there are certian things that I'm ok with them monitering...like the endangered species, just as one example.
But to forbid the import of a fruit because its a fruit fly breeder is just crazy. I know there is probably a bit more to the story, but on the surface that seems insane! It's a fruit for godssake! And ok...maybe the deeper issue has something to do with public health safety (I don't know that, it's just a guess) but what I have a bigger problem with is forbidding the import of a type of ham from Spain because the USDA cannot approve the Spanish slaughterhouses. I should be able to chose if I want to eat it or not.
Anyway, what is the point of my tiny not so good editorial....I wrote the magazine. I have never done that in my life...about anything. But I thought it was great. The writer was sarcastic and funny and hit on a billion points that no one ever thinks about. We just bop along thinking well, if it's USDA approved then it's ok. Wait...that cheese isn't pasturised...I can't eat that! It's amazing that people survived before the USDA. It's ridiculous. All I wrote in my email was that I thought it was a fantastic article and thank you for printing it.
The editor wrote me back and wanted more and wanted me to expand on my thoughts. So I did. I'm acutally liking what I wrote here better, should have done LJ before I sent my email huh! Oh well. We'll see if the print my comments.
That's all on that. Christmas is almost here. ANd I'm done with my shopping for Chris...whoppie! I mean, I could buy a billion more things but I didn't. I can't. I need to control myself a little bit. I can't spend all my money on him. Today the dog gets a bath, I look for pictures that Chris wants me to find and clean a bit. I'm still debating calling my grandma and going there on Christmas Eve...we'll see.
Hey, Kristin...hows all that snow treating you? Snowstorms are exciting. But I'm sure that's easier to say from 80 degree sick and tired of the heat Florida than snowed in Denver.
CSI Miami is on A&E all day. I like that. Not that I'm going to watch all freaking day but I do have the DVR set up to record a bunch so that when I am bored and nothing is on I can flip on an episode. Good times!
Shower time.
I opened my email to find I got a LJ nudge from Lexi telling me to update already! That made me giggle and I promptly...ok, that's not true, but first chance I got I signed on and here we are. What did I have to do before posting on LJ that was more important?? Well, I'll tell you. Actually it's not all that important, it's just that it was in my email and why leave it just to come back??
The other day I was looking at the Travel and Leisure magazine and flipping through it like I usually do, circling the places I want to go...just so chris will get the point that vacations that are not sports related are ok. Well, I came across this article called Flirting with the Forbidden. It was all about foods and drinks that are banned here in the US for one reason or another. Some I can see why not....eating an endangered species is wrong. Wait...build the species back up and then we can eat them again. I have no problem with that. You know what...God gave us the animals to eat. By nature I'm an omnivore (is that spelled right?) and based upon that fact alone I can chose what I want to eat. As long as it doesn't get me high and I have no moral issues with consuming it, why not eat it? Who is the FDA to tell me what I can and can't eat. Now there are certian things that I'm ok with them monitering...like the endangered species, just as one example.
But to forbid the import of a fruit because its a fruit fly breeder is just crazy. I know there is probably a bit more to the story, but on the surface that seems insane! It's a fruit for godssake! And ok...maybe the deeper issue has something to do with public health safety (I don't know that, it's just a guess) but what I have a bigger problem with is forbidding the import of a type of ham from Spain because the USDA cannot approve the Spanish slaughterhouses. I should be able to chose if I want to eat it or not.
Anyway, what is the point of my tiny not so good editorial....I wrote the magazine. I have never done that in my life...about anything. But I thought it was great. The writer was sarcastic and funny and hit on a billion points that no one ever thinks about. We just bop along thinking well, if it's USDA approved then it's ok. Wait...that cheese isn't pasturised...I can't eat that! It's amazing that people survived before the USDA. It's ridiculous. All I wrote in my email was that I thought it was a fantastic article and thank you for printing it.
The editor wrote me back and wanted more and wanted me to expand on my thoughts. So I did. I'm acutally liking what I wrote here better, should have done LJ before I sent my email huh! Oh well. We'll see if the print my comments.
That's all on that. Christmas is almost here. ANd I'm done with my shopping for Chris...whoppie! I mean, I could buy a billion more things but I didn't. I can't. I need to control myself a little bit. I can't spend all my money on him. Today the dog gets a bath, I look for pictures that Chris wants me to find and clean a bit. I'm still debating calling my grandma and going there on Christmas Eve...we'll see.
Hey, Kristin...hows all that snow treating you? Snowstorms are exciting. But I'm sure that's easier to say from 80 degree sick and tired of the heat Florida than snowed in Denver.
CSI Miami is on A&E all day. I like that. Not that I'm going to watch all freaking day but I do have the DVR set up to record a bunch so that when I am bored and nothing is on I can flip on an episode. Good times!
Shower time.