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gretazreta

Spartans! Tonight we dine on steak!

Jul 01, 2008 20:04

Today I was feeling all wintry and kind of hibernational, so I went swimming! In a public pool rather than in the sea or anything, because it's all of about 4 degrees outside. I'm totally out of swimming shape, so I did some lengths and then sat in the sauna for a while, and now I feel completely awesome. I'm back home now and I feel all tired and ( Read more... )

life's rich tapestry dude, swimming, funny weird people at the pool, random, rl, cooking to wagner

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dodificus July 1 2008, 09:25:32 UTC

I can't stand being in a sauna with other people. Usually it's a tiny little room and I just feel really awkward sitting there in my bathers trying to avoid eye contact. But then awkward is usually my default setting so probably this is just me:)

gretazreta July 1 2008, 10:03:11 UTC

Ha! I'm so short-sighted without my glasses that I couldn't make eye contact in there with people if I tried. In fact I don't even see people, just blurry blobs. It's very peaceful because I feel like it's private even if it's not.

I have special goggles for swimming which have vision lenses in them, but I take them off because otherwise they'd steam up. It's win/win!

redlighthouse July 1 2008, 11:01:51 UTC

OMG those rare and beautiful moments when everything turns out just right! I'm a terrible cook and thus don't enjoy it very much (or vice versa) so I understand perfectly your glee! Mmmmmm. Steak.

gretazreta July 5 2008, 11:45:20 UTC

It was a close-run thing. I decided to steam the broccoli in the steam from the boiling carrots. And so I didn't notice that the carrots had boiled dry. And then I did, and I was so busy running around rescuing those (actually the slight taste of char actually worked for me) that I over-did the steak. But only by a little bit. So it was all right!

tj_smartz July 1 2008, 12:27:29 UTC

people are really very beautiful and different and strange. And I like that a lot.

Me too. And I love having moments of realisation such as this.

Nothing like a nice night at home. Or being able to cook a meal just for yourself. Hmmmmm steak.....

gretazreta July 5 2008, 11:47:21 UTC

I really put things into a new light for me. I spend a lot of time thinking OH WOE I'm a funny shape and my ankles are weird and my eyes are googly and my hair is too crazy and yadda yadda. So finding I really loved the way these funny looking lovely other people looked was kind of an epiphany.

And I'm home again tonight! It's so wintry and blowy and cold :((

tj_smartz July 7 2008, 11:23:02 UTC

Its so silly how accepting of others we are but that we forget to apply the same to ourselves.

And oh man can it get wintry and blowy and cold in NZ. Its cold enough here in Byron Bay for me thanks. *rugs up further* And we are still having 18+ degree days but 2 degree, crystal clear and frosty nights.

tahirire July 1 2008, 12:58:51 UTC

Yay for really good steak.

I read the book 'Seabiscuit' once upon a time, and if you haven't read it it is kind of a documentary, I was shocked to see what it was like being a jockey, especially back then. Kind of horrific life, really. I still remember reading it and feeling really sorry for those guys.

ps - Hi!! *waves*

gretazreta July 5 2008, 11:49:01 UTC

I didn't even know there was a book of Seabiscuit, but I'm inordinately fond of the film. And... yeah, it must be a weird and strange ol' life. *waves back!!!!!*

kuromatic July 1 2008, 15:58:47 UTC

Steak! *laughs* I was living a Europe for a while and the mad cow thing (which of cours eis EVERYWHERE but I was not being rational!) made me nervous about eating beef - so I didn't. I ate rabbit and ostrich and horse and duck and anything that swims and... well every other one of god's creatures *grins* And then I got back to Canada and the beef was frickin hanging off the trees (wow - how's that for gruesome imagery???) and I found myself chowing down on steak within minutes! So I KNOW your meat orgasm! *shakes head* I am such a goddamn omnivore - there's just no hope for me!

people are really very beautiful and different and strange. And I like that a lot.
Yeah. It catches me sometimes too. How we're all just oddities. Rattling around. Trying to appear normal... It's strangely comforting.

gretazreta July 5 2008, 11:51:40 UTC

We're probably the one place anywhere that really didn't freak about mad-cow because we don't import any meat, really, and all our cows live mostly off grass! Although even now if you lived in the UK in the eighties, you can't give blood! It's weird actually. I don't know if I'd eat meat in Europe anyway, because there's so much cruelty involved. But I think I probably would. Because... meat. MEAAAAAT. Yus! :D

*rattles at you* :D Exactly so.