Meandering is more efficient than a straight line anyway, isn't it?

[cherydactyl]

On Saturday, I went to visit my friend A. A and I have been friends since middle school. In high school, she turned me into a movie watcher with numerous movie nights which inevitably included Little Caesars "garbage can" (everything) pizza. We lived together my freshman year at UM, which was her sophomore year, and lived in apartments together the next two years after that. But we haven't seen that much of each other in the last few years, partly because I have kids and she doesn't, partly because her work life has largely been drama-filled in the last several-to-many years (which appears to be well and truly over, yahoo!), and partly because it's a pretty far haul between our residences (especially if you don't use the freeway, like I didn't on Saturday).

Anyway, the reason I went was to pick up a very important item for our family Christmas... they gave us an extra Wii they had, which came from a misunderstanding about who was buying a group gift among some other friends. Shhhh. Rock Band 2 is in the closet, along with an extra controller and some other accessories. Double Shhhh.

In any case, as is common when we get together, I had to make myself leave, several hours later, because we can talk for hours and hours. I told her and her husband of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, of which they had not heard. They showed me some Top Gear video (of their amphibious cars episode). We talked and talked and talked. About Tibetian Buddhism and roleplaying and movies and our lives and many other things. And there was tea.

Which leads to the revelation of the day: Agave nectar is a low glycemic sweetener. Score!

Comments

[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

Man, I haven't seen her in way too long.

and I love the icon.

[theliel.livejournal.com]

be carefull though, the agave nector CAN be sweet, but it's aftertaste is bitter as hell and awefull.
have to use it in a complicated flavour set, so not so good for coffee and the like, but ok-ish for suaces and other cooking things.

also, top gear? awesum. I work with a bunch of car guys so i've been in the loop for awhile, but still. it's crazy.

also, watching the various doctor's try to drive? awesum.

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

I've now had it in hot ginger-lemon tea and cold iced tea with lime, and liked it both ways. I got both standard ("mild") and raw ("molasses overtones") versions when I purchased it, and plan to try it out in various applications.

I wonder if NetFlix has Top Gear.

[theliel.livejournal.com]

just my epxerince with Agave necter. note that my taste buds vis-a-vis plant matter are "downright weird" as most fruits and veg taste semi-sweet or exceedingly bitter to me, so it could just be my taste weirdness.

as for top gear, possibly, it's also sometimes avilable via the bbc and huluu.

it's a good show assuing you can get over what a smarmy arse jeremy clarkston is, but the other co-hosts make up for it in awesum.

[shekkara.livejournal.com]

I have not noticed a bitter aftertaste. I primarily use agave nectar on my hot cereal, but have used it ocassionally on french toast.

[pattimst3k.livejournal.com]

That's the best kind of friendship, isn't it?
I hope you have a good holiday season--and I still miss you!!!! :)

[sorcycat.livejournal.com]

So, you didn't convince her to join LJ? ;)

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

She has an LJ...cirantonia, which I convinced her to get a while ago. She just doesn't use it. And you know that...she's your mutual friend!

[sorcycat.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I mean, like, you didn't convince her to /use/ LJ? ;)

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

Not yet...that's the long term plan though. ;^) She and R bookmarked *my* lj...which is a start.