What we call crock-pot veggie soup.
My sister is vegetarian and came up with this one - gather up your fave veggies in proportion to your crock-pot. We like potatoes, celery, rough-cut carrots, somtimes chopped tomatoes, sometimes beans, always some frozen veggies like green beans and peas. I have a tendency to grab way too many potatoes, since I ( Read more... )

Theater. For all that I hate crowded, close conditions, and love being outside walking my dogs for up to four hours straight, that is in winter. Heat is harder to deal with than cold - in cold you bundle up and keep moving, but in heat, you can only be so still. Also, I have a few too many family members who've had cancer of one sort or another. I' ( Read more... )

"In your endevors today, the pain of failure can be no worse than the pain of 'what-if-I-tried ( Read more... )

When I'm singled out in a public way, I balk first and think later. I'm certain I would look for reasons to veto it to begin with, but I'm equally certain I'd rather die than be resposible for anothers death. I don't have moral problems with donating body parts, especially vital organs/pieces of such like kidneys and bone marrow, so I wouldn't ( Read more... )

When I got the first kick-me sign on my back in sixth grade, my guidance counselor told me that people only do that if they have low self-esteem and next time I should just throw away the sign, find the person responsible, and compliment her.

Need I say more?

(thought about 'oh, Shatoya, I didn't know you could write!' but it seemed too snarky.)

Yes, because the true scientist knows that the laws as written in textbooks are not incontrivertible - if reality and the written law disagree, then reality will win and the written laws will be re-written.

Hanging out in a Barnes and Noble I haven't been to in years, drinking the first Starbucks drink I've ever had (ignoreing the bottled stuff in ( Read more... )

Well, with time I could probably give a thousand answers, but lets stick with the one I can type without spraining something.

I'm a magpie.
I don't spend more than fifty bucks at one store ever, unless it's for someone else or I have no choice in the matter, but I like certain things too much. Journals with just the right mix of practical desing and ( Read more... )