If You Ever Get Annoyed, Look at Me, I'm Self-Employed

[xifeng]

Well.

I appear to have agreed to do a few extra counties, with the understanding that I may have to drop them once I get my E&O and can take on other clients.

Today was nothing special. Drove all over God's green acre (i.e., up to Washington and then over to Vincennes; I was going to try to make it to Jasper, but thankfully those searches were pulled because I'm needed elsewhere). I hate the street layout of Washington, because I think it's been specially designed to keep people in. Most importantly, however, I went to THE BIG PEACH, because it's open only seasonally and one should make hay while the sun shines.

THE BIG PEACH is a real country store, as opposed to that Cracker Barrel nonsense (not that I don't like their food), and I took one look at the produce and wanted to buy out all their stock. Srsly, I told teh m0mmy not to get tomatoes at the store last night because THE BIG PEACH'S were so much larger and more appealing. I may also have gone totally nuts in the canning section.

Also, the eponymous Big Peach (which is right out front) has gotten a paint job. It used to be a flat orange, but now it looks like a real peach with some more red and yellow added in, and it's gotten a better stem and some leaves. Yay Peach!

(...with apologies to aeromancy.)

Also also, am re-reading Henry VIII by Alison Weir. Squeeyay. faire_damsel, if you haven't read Alison Weir, you're in dereliction of duty. ^_-

Not much to report. Am looking forward to weekend, bounceyay.

Comments

[dethorats]

Agh, peach type!

XD Farmer's market type places rule. The one we go to is called...Mr. Natural's. Yes, it is the butt of many many jokes but it is also home to delicious produce. Of course, living on the set of Children of the Corn every year, I am occasionally tempted until I remember that field corn is just not that tasty.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I had to. Because that is how truly kickass is. :D

Farmer's market places 0WNZ0R SO HARD. XD I seem to recall Mr Natural's, but I could be addled.

When I was a kid, there was a hymn we used to sing in church called "Children of the Lord", which began, "We are children of the Lord..." My father used to sing, "We are children of the corn."

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was totally intentional. ^_^ That song has become my anthem since I struck out on my own.

Random.

[tara]

Cracker Barrel is a brand of cheese here.

Re: Random.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I think it might also be here. It's not associated with the chain restaurant, though. At least not to my knowledge.

[tara]

I don't think I'd be able to go to the restaurant, because I'd expect the only thing on the menu to be cheese *g*

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Now there's an idea. An all-cheese chain restaurant! They could serve Welsh rarebit, and mozzarella sticks, and the Cheese and Cracker Plate...*g*

[tara]

Ooh, Welsh rarebit. Yummyness :) I haven't had that stuff in years, which is a damn shame given that as someone who's 1/4 Welsh I should be fed it all the day long. Or something *g*

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

There are also Welsh eggs. :D

[tara]

I hope those are nothing like Scotch eggs, which I refuse to eat, because EW.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

They kind of are, except I think they have leeks in the filling. Scotch eggs sound rather good to me, as I am pro-sausage and pro-egg, but I guess they're not everyone's thing.

[tara]

Leeks are nice, but I'm not big on sausage meat. I cannot stand meatloaf.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Don't move to the Midwest, then. Srsly, they're about ye loafe of meate here. I like m0mmy's meatloaf, but I won't order it at a restaurant or anything.

[tara]

Hun, I have never had any intention of moving to the Midwest, and I doubt I ever will ;)

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

ANGST. ;)

[tara]

If the Midwest moves to northern England, I'll reconsider :)

(PS: This conversation has proved that google adsense is ill-advised at times, because the ads are offering meatloaf recipes in response to me stating that I hate the stuff *g*)

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I could bring Lutherans and Jell-O salad. That would be like a little bit of the Midwest. ;)

[tara]

Jell-O salad? I'm intrigued.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Contrary to popular belief, Jell-O salad is not actually fit for human consumption, though it is immensely popular at Midwestern church suppers (we have been infected by the heathen Protestants, it seems).

Jell-O salad is the reprehensible, Godless, and unnatural practice of putting vegetables in Jell-O (usually green or yellow, as though it weren't lurid enough), slapping the whole thing into a bell-shaped (or ring-shaped) mold, and putting it out on the banquet table for the parishioners to ignore. Depending on the vegetables, it can sometimes look like heave-in-a-tasteful-bell-shape.

The faithful may, however, put fruit in Jell-O and consume that without censure. :D

(Oh dear Lord, I've started to sound like my father.)

[tara]

Ew. Ew ew ew. Vegetables and jelly (as we call it) should never be mixed. I think it would almost always look like someone accidentally threw up in it while it was setting in the fridge *g*

I'm with you on the fruit count, though. I'm always dreadfully tempted by cups of fruit in jelly at the supermarket, even though the logical part of me realises it costs about four times as much as it would to buy the fruit and jelly crystals seperately and do it myself.

[momo.livejournal.com]

Check.
.ruoY
E-mail.
.riS
:D

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Okay.
.yelhsA
I.
.lliW
:D