Decided to do this after reading about how Lucy sleeps with her teddy bear and is obsessed with Jessica Simpson. Don't worry Luce, I love Newlyweds too.
1. I have to eat curry or other rice+runny food dishes with a teaspoon. I mean I can eat it with a larger spoon but I just don't want to if I have a choice.
2. I am obsessed with dried salted plums. My family calls them salty lols. My dad used to keep a jar of them in his personal cabinet space next to his seat at the dining table. I was constantly accused (correctly...) of stealing them and eating too many. I was sometimes teased at school for eating them - kids would ask me why I'm eating dog food (kids are so sweet, huh), but all of my BEST friends and husband have loved salty lols from the first time they tasted them and most of them (my friends and husband) aren't even Asian. That is true love.
3. I have a clothes pile. Darin can attest to that. Actually so can my mum. It can accumulate for weeks and it's not all necessarily dirty clothes, it also includes clothes that I have tried on and then decided not to wear. Way too much trouble to fold them and put them away. But when I clean, I really, really clean. You know like the poem, 'Good little, Bad little girl' My mum used to read it to me and kind of said I was like that - when she was good, she was very, very good, but when she was bad, she was horrid!
4. I am a complete warm weather person. I think snow looks cool and all, but essentially we don't get on. I can't stand it when my extremities are cold. It renders me useless actually. I guess it's to be expected when you were brought up in the Sunshine State! Way spoilt.
5. I had two major celebrity crushes in high school - River Phoenix and Ayrton Senna (F1 driver). Both died young.
ha ha :) I am embarrassed about the teddy thing now! (but somehow not embarrassed about the Jessica Simpson thing!) hee hee.
Interesting about the salty plums you speak of... I think maybe I had one in Tokyo at the Hanjiro cafe... it was inside one of those triangle rice things? Would that be right? (sorry I feel silly for not knowing what they are called). Yes anyway it caught me a bit off guard! (as eating in a foreign country often does!). It was a bit much all in one bite... I quite liked it though... I just had to nibble slowly :) xxx
Posted by: Lucy | August 30, 2005 at 06:55 PM
I have a clothes pile too!! I am so bad about that. When we decide it's time to clean, I move the clothes pile to the bed and hang everything up. It sucks.
I also *heart* Jessica Simpson. I get a lot of crap about that from my friends.
Posted by: Carrie | August 30, 2005 at 11:08 PM
Don't you love how salted plums make your mouth water just thinking about them. In Hawaii, we make tons of things with them...gummy bears, margaritas, I made a sorbet recently. Hmmm, I think I need to go eat on one now :).
Posted by: sharlyn | August 31, 2005 at 01:17 AM
Ahhh, the clothes pile. I just put all those clothes away. The one bad thing about the clothes pile is that if you're sloppy about it, the clothes that are in there that you want to wear, might be wrinkled.
*rasies hand* Fellow Newlyweds watched over here, too! =)
Posted by: angela | August 31, 2005 at 02:44 AM
1. I too love the dried, salted plums. They're really hard to find here though. They're so, so, so very yummy.
2. I'm also a warm weather person. I'm a little afraid of this move to NY. I'm not sure I'll be able to survive the winter. All because I'm also from the Sunshine State. Only, you know, Florida, not Queensland. ;)
Posted by: Jenn | August 31, 2005 at 04:28 AM
I like salted plums too, but I'm asian-american. Onigiri are super-yummy, too. Mmmm.
Your piles can't compare to my piles. Mine is definitely genetic. I visited my uncle and he piles his books. My mom (his sister) piles everything. My aunt (mom's sister) also piles her mail. In an asian way, I can totally accept piling as a genetic trait.
I'm Californian and my concept of cold is 50 degrees F. Without snow. This is enough for me to pull out the long johns, down jacket, and turtlenecks.
And oh, I eat rice with a fork. Not that I can't eat it with chopsticks but I just feel that it is inefficient and takes all the yumminess enjoyment out of eating white rice (which I do love plain).
Posted by: freecia | August 31, 2005 at 07:20 AM
I used to like River Phoenix too.
Posted by: marjorie | August 31, 2005 at 01:42 PM
Oh, River. So sad. One of the best compliments I ever received in high school was that I looked like River Phoenix. I don't know that it was meant as such, but took it as such I did!
Posted by: neysa | September 01, 2005 at 02:35 AM
I have a clothes pile, too! No matter how hard I try to be more diligent about hanging up clothes, it just doesn't go away. The amazing thing is that I always know what's in it! (I'm sure all you other clothes-piling people can identify, too...)
Posted by: drh | September 01, 2005 at 07:07 PM
My mom used to quote that poem to me as well! You and Darin are a fantastic couple- so glad to have found you!
Posted by: Anna | September 04, 2005 at 08:37 PM
I spent half my childhood in Brisbane in the '70s and got heavily into 'salty plums' too. much prefer the red ones (white also available but less sweet). where can i get them from over here (UK) or import them from? been back in england since '79 and only had them once since (after a friend returned from OZ) with a desperately requested cargo for me.
Barton
Posted by: barton | September 06, 2005 at 09:41 PM