Thinkin' bout stuff

[sarahfae]

These are the things on my mind this morning:

Spam - why is it SO loved in Hawaii?

Life, Death, and the concept of heaven and hell. Who really, truly knows?

Bill Maher's "Religulous" - it was good, not great, but good enough to own and watch a few more times --- I need to take note of certain
topics that I'd like to look deeper into.

The anonymous person in the office, who's ringtone is "Lola" by Barry Manilow --- so fitting.

The really yummy pear I had as part of my breakfast this morning: pear, banana and kiwi salad.

My snack today: dried apples, raw cashews and almonds.

My lunch today: Kale salad, topped with black beans, carrot, celery, red onion, and vegan cottage cheeze (with dillweed) for the dressing.

Rawfood: Keeping up with my gradual transition back into the lifestyle. It's been good so far. I think my downfall the first time was jumping to quickly into it. I'm pacing myself now, and it seems to be working out much better this way.

Tea Parties: D thinks I'm silly for wanting to host them. "What do you DO at a tea party? It sounds so boring!" I called him a poopiehead - as I often do when he teases me.

Running: I'm debating on whether or not to push myself up to 3 miles by the end of this week...next week I'll start running in the morning (before work) and afternoon.

How many people that are reading this blog that I know, but don't ever speak to (sneaky spies!)

How many people that are reading this blog that I don't know, and for some silly reason won't introduce themselves.

...That's all for now.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

*waving* Hi. Not being sneaky. I leave comments, but don't usually hear back from you. Anyway, love your blog... always to the point and refreshing. It sounds like you're loving your new addiction to running like I am! Who would have thunk it!?!

~Jana

[nuhnuhnamita.livejournal.com]

I theorize that Spam is popular because most Hawaiians are pretty poor, and pork has been a diet staple there for ages, and Spam is cheap.

If I got to come to one of your tea parties, we could speak in person for a change :D Are you going to wear white gloves and eat buttered scones?

[sarahfae.livejournal.com]

Um, of course! You and Andrea are totally going to be invited to my future tea parties! I hope to have white gloves --- and the attire for the tea parties is going to be totally cutsie-dresses...I may even try to enforce a color theme...
Oh it's going to be SO fun!

[lilhappyfamily.livejournal.com]

No idea if this is true but supposedly pork is super popular there and everyone ate the boars. Tourism turned the boars into big $$$ so the natives sold the boars to the hotels and Spam got more popular. My parents live there and one of their neighbors told me that. Spam and gravy. It's everywhere.

[lilhappyfamily.livejournal.com]

Last night we watched a Bizarre Foods marathon on the Travel Channel and they addressed this! I totally thought of your post and, even more amazingly, remembered it this morning. Supposedly the GI's brought Spam over to the islands during the war and it got super popular and still is. They ate a pineapple upside down spam cake on that show. =(

[sarahfae.livejournal.com]

I love the timing of that. That's seriously RAD. Thanks for remembering to tell me. :]

And Pinapple upsidedown Spam cake???? Wow.

Jess Fouche

[(Anonymous)]

When I was living on the big island I once went to a 'midnight madness' sale at Wall mart and there was seriously a stamped for the on-sale spam and huge bags of white rice. It was crazy.

And I think tea parties sound so fun. Let's have one when I come to visit!:)
xox Jess