micro me

lack of updates

equal either too much or not enough going on. or in my case, both.

you know you’re pretty bitter when…

sweet potatoes taste too sweet.

tomorrow we will pour out the flat champagne and toss away the stale chips of 2011. armed with 2012 to-do lists we will lace up new sneakers and quasi-start fresh. i’m ending 2011 with shorter hair and lighter spirits. i have loftier goals, but heavier fears. i am further from normal, but closer to ok.

hot chocolate snob for life

even as a kid i wouldn’t touch swiss miss, was greatly offended when anyone heated up chocolate milk trying to pass it off as semi-homemade, and didn’t even much care for the fancy ghirardelli mixes. my favorite kind has always been the most homemade using bitter cocoa powder and mixing it with sugar (but never too much) and remembering to add a touch of salt and cinnamon. and the milk should always be steamed, not just merely heated up. now i use almond milk instead of dairy and have a lighter hand with the sugar (but heavier with chocolate), but somehow it tastes just how i remember it tasting.

trader joes

i’m searching shelves for pseudo health food and boxed comfort. annoyed at the self-sacrificing fatties buying “reduced guilt” potatoes chips and the semi-homemade balanced meal planners with their flavored “greek” yogurt and luna bars. i should have been a vegetable farmer. and i need to move to france.

trader joes

i’m searching shelves for pseudo health food and boxed comfort. annoyed at the self-sacrificing fatties buying “reduced guilt” potatoes chips and the semi-homemade balanced meal planners with their flavored “greek” yogurt and luna bars. i should have been a vegetable farmer. and i need to move to france.

quiet christmas eve

without too many ghosts. in some parallel universe i am watching my favorite christmas movie and pretending to like spiked egg nog. tomorrow i will pretend to be jewish.

Why Do People Call It “Xmas”?

mentalflossr:

Lots of people think the X in Xmas is a secular watering down of the word Christ. You know, “we love to celebrate the holiday but don’t believe in Jesus,” sort of thing. But that’s not the case.

The X actually comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of Χριστός. Now, if that’s all Greek to you, Χριστός, of course, means Christ.

[by David K. Israel]