100 Foods that you must eat

So I'm a slacker...I was a 90's teenager, what do you expect? I stole this off of my favorite blog (lemme give her a shout out here...http://www.thedouglassdiaries.com/ If I could ever be a blogger like Brandi D, I could die a happy woman!)

100 Things You Must Eat Before You Die

The directions:

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

Here are the hundred foods.

You can click on the links to find out more about what that food is (I didn't know many of them).

Oh, and I'm breaking the rules. 1. I don't know how to cross out stuff. 2. The links are bold, making my list of eaten items inaccurate. So, I'll just comment next to them...

1. Venison--
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros--
4. Steak tartare--
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding--
7. Cheese fondue--Yes
8. Carp--I think so....
9. Borscht--Yes
10. Baba ghanoush--
11. Calamari--Yes, it's like eating snot!
12. Pho--
13. PB&J sandwich--Of course
14. Aloo gobi--. 
15. Hot dog from a street cart--
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes--yes, peach. it's not that good.
19. Steamed pork buns-
20. Pistachio ice cream--Yes, not a fan
21. Heirloom tomatoes--Yes
22. Fresh wild berries--Yes
23. Foie gras--
24. Rice and beans--Yes
25. Brawn, or head cheese--
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche--yum, yes, please may I have some more?
28. Oysters--.
29. Baklava--Yes
30. Bagna cauda--
31. Wasabi peas--Yes
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl--Yes
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut--Yes
35. Root beer float--Yes
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea--I've had (and love!) clotted cream fudge!
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O -- Yes....
39. Gumbo--yup
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat--
42. Whole insects--yes, I have eaten chocolate covered crickets. Not bad.
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk--Yes
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala--
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut--Yes, but I preferDunkin Donuts
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear--
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal--Ummm, yes.
56. Spaetzle--
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV--I'm pretty sure
59. Poutine--
60. Carob chips--yes, not bad, but doesn't fix a chocolate ned!
61. S’mores--Yes
62. Sweetbreads--
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst--
65. Durian--
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake--Heck, yeah.
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain--
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette--
71. Gazpacho--Yes
72. Caviar and blini--
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost--
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie--Yes
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini--
81. Tom yum---
82. Eggs Benedict--Yes
83. Pocky--yes
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.--
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare--
87. Goulash--Yes, yum!
88. Flowers--Yes
89. Horse--
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam--Yes
92. Soft shell crab--yes
93. Rose harissa--
94. Catfish--Yes
95. Mole poblano--
96. Bagel and lox--no, but it is fantasy of mine to eat it in NYC
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta--Yes. 
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Happy birthday, baby!

So today is my hubby's birthday.....Tomme is old now, he's 32 (I joke because I'm older....) Tomme doesn't really like pictures of himself, so I decided that I would showcase his obsessions! :)

A letter to my cat.....

Dear Alice,
I am placing a formal request that you refrain from jumping on my back in the middle of the night and trying to sleep there. Also, it is very creepy to wake up in the middle of the night to you staring at me, 3 inches from my face. I'm aware that you are plotting my demise, but do you have to be so obvious? Thankfully, I moved as you scratched me this morning, so you missed a vein! I guess throwing up this afterwards was your retribution?

Signed, the person who cleans your litter box and buys your food

My one and only New Years resolution

I wasn't going to make any New Years resolutions this year, because I just break them within a month or so, but I've decided to make one. I'm going to blog more regularly. It's not that I don't have things to blog about...since this blog went live my wedding anniversary, Christmas shopping & decorating, Christmas, and New years has happened, no blogging about it. Hell, when I'm out running errands I see and deal with things that I think "I should blog about the crazy librarian I dealt with today" but by the time I get home I have forgotten.....so it is just a matter of getting into the habit of doing it, and a lot.

So, for my 3.6 readers out there, yes I will blog more often, and hopefully more interestingly!

BTW, I hate that auto correct on my phone has gotten me out of the habit of capitalizing "I".....damn auto correct!

I'm a bad blogger and insomnia...

Yup, I complain when the blogs that I read don't update regularly, but I don't update here enough.....I'm trying to get into the swing of things with it.

So anyway, it looks like my insomnia is back.....I don't have trouble falling asleep (with the help of my doctor approved Advil PM), but staying asleep is harder. For the past two nights I have woken up over 10 times each night, and that makes it really hard to get into REM sleep. t's probably from stress, but you know what? I could maybe cope with my stress if I got some sleep! I think I'd rather have the insomnia where you don't sleep for a few hours, at least I could catch up on some stuff I need to do!

Baby, it's cold outside.....

...no it's not. it's 72 degrees as we speak (actually, as we spoke at about noon, I haven't checked it since). It is December. It has been in the 60's and 70's for 3 days. I like the weather, but, you know, it's December....it should be cold, dreary, and there should be gray skies and boots, not sunny days and flip flops....

It will be 48 in 2 days. October was colder than December!

I'm getting old

My daughter has always been a girly, glittery, dress wearing girl.....and then a few weeks ago I let her watch some music videos from the early 90's, Letters To Cleo and Belly to be exact...... and now, my 7 year old little girl looks like a 14 year old at Lollapalooza circa 1992..... band T-shirt (at her age, the cast of "Victorious" is about as close as you get!), baggy cut off shorts, tights, and converse.....yup it's me as a teen, all she needs is a flannel shirt and black nail polish and she is good to go!