boof cooked for me once (salmon/asparagus/potatoes) and we had a picnic date where we each brought something (i made cheesecake brownies)
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
xp no and no
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
jason used to love to cook for me because i would get very excited and devour everything. i could never return the favor though. the best i could do was pay for the groceries.
i mean, i can make some mean french toast! and i used to be able to do a good job approximating my mom's mac 'n cheese, but i can't bring myself to eat that much dairy all at once anymore.
i would TOTALLY watch a show on A&E that just profiles people who try and boil rice but in the process break down and cry and nearly go insane
ha- haven't seen it but i'm pretty sure food network has something like this.
i've no idea how one even begins to bake chicken or indeed do anything with raw meat.
yep. plus raw meat makes me want to hurl. :) and marinating? i'd inevitably find a way to fuck that up real good. maybe i could learn! i'm as anxious about cooking as i am driving. i stress out if i don't know exactly what i'm doing, and my inclination is to panic as soon as i do something wrong. but once i've done it like 5, 6, 7 times, then i'm set.
― handy ban (lou), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. driving is the grown-up thing i still don't do.
parents split and cars became inaccessible partway through getting my full license (we have graduated licensing) and now I live somewhere where I never really need to. I know that I should but at this point it just prompts so much anxiety and i'm all about public transit and walking places.
I mean, future road trips with boy etc. want to be possible, but it's tricky. Boat may have sailed there.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I was wondering if lex drives.
lou, we should meet up and compare Brooklyn notes soon!
btw Veronica Peoples club bar in Greenpoint is closing this weekend! At least I got one gay metal night w/ Dr Druna there.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
i stress out if i don't know exactly what i'm doing, and my inclination is to panic as soon as i do something wrong
oh god, this is exactly it for me too.
i don't drive, i live in london! i think i know maybe two people who can drive.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know how people drive, what a ridiculous thing
― surm, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
selling my car was one of the better decisions i made in the past year. i'd much rather have the giant synth i bought with that $.
morbs- i'm down! i guess the EMP isn't too far off. maybe we can all arrange something then.
― handy ban (lou), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
I drive and dislike it but it's the only other way I can listen to new pop music on the radio.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
i don't drive. terrified of it tbh
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
sucks if i ever want to go to the desert tho
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
I don't own a car, but I love driving and do it at every opportunity. I never feel more at home than behind the wheel and on the freeway.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
I don't understand how I ever afforded. I owned cars for 11 years - since I was 17 years old - until I moved to Chicago and I always paid for my own gas, insurance, and maintenance. And tickets. So many tickets. And lawyers.
Now it seems impossibly expensive even though I'm making far more money than I was in my late teens.
Just counted: I've owned 8 cars.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
i love driving too i just find it terrifying, but one day i'm telling u i will be able to drive, and listen to music, and drive
one day
― surm, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
surm, if you haven't driven with the windows down and elbows to the breeze while smoking and listening to Mariah's "Someday" you haven't lived.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
I KNOW :( o god u just hit it home
i need to learn
― surm, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
oh u americans and ur driving culture
when i first went to atlanta and met up w/a friend who drove me round it did give me a whole new insight into hip-hop though - rap rhythms are MADE for driving
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
driving can suck and in the long run owning a car is a total pain the ass, but it can be really fun and freeing and yes i really miss listening to the radio
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
xp umm yeah
― surm, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes i'd find sitting in traffic on my way home to be very zen
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i have a thing, like whenever i first hear a big song on the radio, spesh in the summer, i know it's time
u can't even imagine Motivation in ny cars last summer
― surm, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
oh is that what you called it
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
sorry on a car radio i mean
Being driven around LA's environs by my friend last summer was a lifesaver, but I found no romance in it.
Need a driver-cook, actually
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
You need Henry Silva in The Manchurian Candidate.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
sitting in traffic is the most enraging thing
i used to get such bus rage when i had to commute
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
this is because whenever i am travelling around i am generally running between 15-115 minutes late
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
Me too, and some people think I'm challopsing when I say that.
Even when I'm not driving, a ride in a vehicle is nice. Sometimes my commute ends too quickly. Yesterday I was engrossed in a book so I stayed on to the end of the line and then rode back.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
when you're late and driving it's more aggravating cuz you feel like you have some control over the situation, but today i was running legit 30 mins late to work but i wasn't that stressed cuz once i got on the train there was really nothing i could do about it
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
it's like making out with a sow
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:38 AM (1 hour ago)
my bf told me that truffles supposedly smell like the sex organs of female pigs; I told him to never use it around me ever again
― tanuki, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
i've been biking a lot again lately
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
It seems the weight-loss method that most appeals to me right now is fasting.
Soto, I would probably get Henry Silva in CinderFella
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
there is a particular junction in london that would often take the bus up to half an hour to get past, a distance of a couple of hundred metres maybe.
my record is being 2 hours and 10 minutes late for work.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
I never stopped biking over the winter, but now I can at least enjoy it.
― tanuki, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
― lex pretend, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:50 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
did you get fired
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
i missed a film on friday because it took an hour and a half to move from the beach to fairfax (< 12 mi)
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
nah, my boss did sigh pointedly when i walked in but i don't think i ever turned up less than half an hour late. i stayed late most of the time though. flexible hours!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
- i am hardline w/r/t being controlled: my attitude is always "this is how i live my life, if you don't like it the door is that way". fuck a compromise!
ALSO THIS IS NUTS
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i still don't get how that is nuts btw
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
cuz that's not how relationships work?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
well i don't know... i feel like if most people like other someone else they're willing to make some compromises or small alterations to their lifestyle, and vice versa
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i don't understand the mindset of "i'm this way and if it means i'm alone for the rest of my life, then so be it" but i guess i can sympathize with it, but it doesn't seem particularly helpful to anyone including yourself
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
well there are some things i might be ok with changing but mostly not. i'm not gonna change myself to needily hang on to some guy, if they love me at all it'll be for ~who i am~
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
it's actually a very interesting conversation
somewhere in btw is obv the answer, but deciding where that line is is the bitch
i have given this a lot of thought tbh
― surm, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
cooking, aesthetic tastes, and pasta vs rice are areas of compromise, I think.
I think I've had enough of gays loving Victor Calderone remixes of Madonna though
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
a great thing about having a bf is evaluating yourself and how you live your life and do things and seeing how the other person can positively alter you, if you let him
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
I am a rock, I am an island
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
yah. Most of the changes wrought by companionship are subtle and take months or years to show.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
j0rdan otm. i think it's not fair at all to have huge expectations of other people while refusing to budge yourself.
― althea and (donna rouge), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
this is actually nuts
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link