I ate'nt dead.

[pepper_field]

Hello world. Well, hasn't it been a long time? I have many things to update you on, but I keep starting posts and then running out of steam before I finish them. Someday I may go into all these things in detail, but for the moment, to sum up:

• Christmas was great.
• Work continues to suck.
• I saw a fabulous version of the Robin Hood legend at the RSC

Comments

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I'm glad you're not dead!

I have a friend who similarly loves fruit and loves chocolate but will not allow them to be together. That's okay.

I did couch to 5K. I think I actually ran 5K on Monday (last week of the program, when I'm supposed to run 5K). I was slower today and just ran 30 minutes (instead of the 32.48 it took me Monday to run what I think was 5K).

If you run a 10k, I will cheer you! (If you don't run a 10k, I will cheer you anyway!)

[pepper_field]

Thank you - me too. :D

Oh, well done, go you! I'm at about that speed, too - 30-and-a-bit minutes for 5k (or I was, before I stopped running towards the end of last year). I think it's a very respectable time.

And thank you again. :D

[a_loquita]

That sounds like a very interesting play, wow.

Castle is the best thing on TV right now. And what is especially great? Is that I actually have confidence in these showrunners that they *will* get these two character together at some point. They won't leave us hanging like *cough* some people *cough* that we know.

I will, however, have to firmly disagree with you as chocolate covered strawberries are my favorite treat in all the world! I'm a strawberry/chocolate shipper and you want to stay gen on the situation, that's OK, we can still be friends. Just don't read my fanfic ;)

[pepper_field]

It was fab. There were so many other good things - that's one of the posts I keep starting and running out of steam on. :) I'm just sad that I can't watch it again - the peril of live theatre.

Yes! Hah. Yeah, I was thinking how great it was to be watching a relationship that actually might go somewhere before, you know, a decade has passed and all the passion has (possibly) gone.

:P Well, you can have all the chocolate-covered strawberries, I don't mind. Even though you're clearly WRONG. Strawberry/cream 4eva. ;)

[thothmes]

OOOOOH! Can I have all your coffee/chocolate things that you get by mistake?

Just kidding. As a diabetic I don't get to eat a lot of that sort of stuff unless all the fun fat and sugar are stripped out.

Still, I understand and defend to the death your right to have the two tastes separately. I'm the only person in my family, and one of the few among the people I know that prefers my french fries (chips to you) without benefit of ketchup.

[pepper_field]

Hee, yes, if you could, I'd gladly give them to you. :) Still, I can usually find someone to swap with.

Do you ever have chips with vinegar? I love that - although it only works with the chunkier, unashamedly deep-fried sort of chip.

I used to eat chips "with all the sauces" back in the day, stopping at the chip shop on the way home with friends from our favourite nightclub... I'm not even sure what half those sauces were... Happy, happy, disgusting days. *g*

[thothmes]

Chips with vinegar are nice. It kind of cuts the effect of the greasiness, but I agree with you that it has to be the big what we in the States call "home fries" to distinguish them from the stick-like hardly-any-insides type that the fast food places pioneered.

I went through a phase in college where I craved the wonderful, fluffy, soft, bland insides of the french fries, but my tummy was delicate enough (probably stress that I wasn't acknowledging even to myself!) that I really didn't want the crispy, greasy outsides. My boyfriend (now my husband, he was definitely a keeper!) would go down to the College Inn and bring back an order of french fries and a straw. I'd stick the straw through the center of the fry and extract it, and he'd happily eat the crispy husks. Oh, to have the metabolism of a 20 year old again!

[lolmac]

Hey, I like my fries without ketchup also! And my chocolate and fruit separate. I'm willing to read the chocolate/fruit fanfic, as long as I can find someone else to actually eat them when combined.

[abyssinia4077]

PEPPER! *hugs

[pepper_field]

ABYSSIS! :D *hugs back*

Yeah, work can bite me, right now. *flails hands at the whole big mess*

Yes, definitely popcorn entertainment, following the tradition of Murder, She Wrote and all that (Castle might not appreciate the comparison). I had a day off sick in January, and it was the perfect thing to lie around on the sofa and watch on my laptop. :)

Oh how I love how Pterry writes the witches. I was just thinking, part the way through one of them, that, like, 80% of the characters in the book were women (unless you count the Nac Mac Feegles individually), and it didn't feel contrived, or like a book-for-girls... it was just the society that Tiffany moves in.

Go easy on your knees, hon.

And heh, I have a lot of volunteers to take away these evil strawberries+chocolate, it seems... I don't hate them together, I just think it's a bit of a waste of two wonderful ingredients

[abyssinia4077]

Oh how I love how Pterry writes the witches. I was just thinking, part the way through one of them, that, like, 80% of the characters in the book were women (unless you count the Nac Mac Feegles individually), and it didn't feel contrived, or like a book-for-girls... it was just the society that Tiffany moves in.

*nod nod nod*
Some of his earlier books are....less good when it comes to female characters, but eventually he learned to get it right and damn did he get it right.

Go easy on your knees, hon.

I'm trying! They don't seem to generally mind badminton or hockey (okay, I twisted one very slightly in last night's game, but I think it's okay) and I'm trying to be good about my PT exercises. I just want to run, but the past year or two there's been a very strong correlation between times I've tried to start running again and times my knee(s) is/are flaring.

I don't hate them together, I just think it's a bit of a waste of two wonderful ingredients.I can understand that. I am often a "mix the flavors" kind of person, but I

[sjhw_tolerance]

Go for the 10K! I just did a 5K in a pretty decent time for fast walking--45 minutes. We (my sis and I) had such a great time we're going to go for a half-marathon at the same event in a year. Of course, this means I will probably have to run as well as walk real fast (need to do at least a 15 minute mile), but I have a year to train.

[pepper_field]

Thanks for the encouragement! I always find I'm more likely to stick with these things if I've told you lot. :)

Eep, a half-marathon... good luck with that! I found when doing 5k that running interpersed with walking wasn't half as bad as I'd expected - it took less and less time to get my breathing back under control, as I went along.