quick, he's black... what's our gimmick?

seriously?

these things piss me off.

Roasted Garlic

Ingredients:

garlic bulbs
salt (I recommend kosher)
olive oil

Tools:

knife
cutting board
foil
oven
a glass of wine

Instructions: Preheat oven to 350. Remove excess paper from garlic bulb and cut top off so the tips of bare cloves are visible. Take a sip of wine. Drip olive oil lightly onto exposed cloves and sprinkle with salt. Wrap bulb in foil and roast in oven for one hour. Take another swig of wine. Repeat. Variation: roast bulbs prepared as above in hot coals from a camp fire or charcoal grill.

Use roasted garlic in potato salad, spaghetti sauces, on french bread or simply eat as is. Yum.

totally not-vegan but totally delicious salad

ingredients:
* mixed greens
* two hard-boiled eggs
* one avocado
* shrimp
* lime juice
* olive oil

cut up eggs and avocados and put into greens. grill shrimps. just before you take them off the grill, sprinkle shrimps with lime juice. throw them on the salad. pour olive oil and lime juice over salad. serve while shrimps are hot!

life lesson: relationships

he was getting upset, and i didn't know why. asking over and over if it was okay if he went out to hang out with his friends this evening, like he has for every saturday evening for the past decade or more. asking again and again if i'm okay, if he can have a hug, if i'm sure it's all right. meanwhile, i'm feeling perfectly content with him going out, so i'm sure there's nothing on my face or in my demeanor that would say otherwise. i look for another clue as to why he's getting upset, but there's nothing, no logical reason.

and then i remember something i heard a couple of years ago: humans, when they choose their mates, have a chemical release in their brains that makes them desire to be with their mate 24/7 for the first year of the relationship. and i remembered that last week, we went through the same thing. and of course i did the same thing to him when i left for spokane, and occasionally even feel distraught in the morning leaving him. of course it feels pathetic wanting to be around him all the time, but knowing that there's a biological explanation to it makes it somewhat easier.

the question i would really like answered, though, is if humans are naturally monogamous, or if it's a social construct. are we really polygamous without our high-capacity brains?

my response to the challenge!!

a - alien ant farm
b - breaking benjamin
c - chevelle
d - disturbed
e - the exies
f - five finger death punch
g - garbage
h - hinder
i - incubus
j - jimmy's chicken shack
k - korn
l - limp bizkit
m - metallica
n - nine inch nails
o - offspring
p - a perfect circle
q - queen
r - rise against
s - sevendust
t - three days grace
u - uncle cracker
v - violent femmes
w - weezer
x - xtc
y - yellowcard
z - ziggy marley

by the way, i LOVE etsy!!!!

my response to the challenge

"a" as in animal collective
"b" as in beck
"c" as in cat power
"d" as in drive by truckers
"e" as in eurythmics
"f" as in foo fighters
"g" as in gillian welch
"h" as in (the) helio sequence
"i" as in iron & wine
"j" as in jolie holland
"k" as in kaiser chiefs
"l" as in ludacris
"m" as in (the) mountain goats
"n" as in neutral milk hotel
"o" as in ozzy osbourne
"p" as in (the) postal service
"q" as in queens of the stone age
"r" as in radiohead
"s" as in spoon
"t" as in tool
"u" as in uncle tupelo
"v" as in vampire weekend
"w" as in wilco
"x" as in xoxo, panda
"y" as in yo la tengo
"z" as in (the) zombies

challenge

make an a-z "as in" list using band names, e.g. "a" as in abba. you make one, i make one.

let the fun begin!

wedding weekend

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