Digesting Digestive Systems, Quirks, Bouncers, and Sayings.
1. Tomorrow night, I’ve been invited to, and will attend, a tasting at a seafood place. The last tasting I went to I was served 5 appetizers, 9 entrees and 4 desserts. I’m not sure I want to contemplate eating that much seafood. I think shrimp are over-rated. I realize this is blasphemy to some but, there you have it. I am so-so about shrimp. I like scallops and oysters. But here’s the thing with oysters - and mussels, too, for that matter - I sometimes have to not think about the fact that I’m eating its digestive system. Like, the things that were on the way out.
I figure that if the mussel has eaten it and I’m eating the mussel…I’m too high on the food chain to be eating the parts of its food that even it has declared as waste. It’s clearly a matter of how large the animal is and how difficult it is to clean and perhaps how offensive the taste must be - but it still strikes me as odd that at some point, we simply shrug and swallow it down. It’s a little disgusting, quite frankly.
2. I read through the Sleep Quirks comments again. Good God, you guys are a bunch of weirdos. I shouldn’t read them a third time or I’ll start trying half of them just to see how they feel.
3. As I walk to work, I often watch the feet of the people in front of me. The women in their heels avoiding the grates, etc. Okay, so maybe I’m looking at some of the legs attached to the heels since it is summer. But I’ve noticed something that only men seem to do. Some guys bounce up on to the balls of their feet, lifting their heel, immediately after taking a step. As a result, they appear to bounce along as they walk. It isn’t always dramatic, but their heel leaves the ground long before it is getting ready to take the next step. Women never seem to do this. Probably because it looks a little stupid.
4. I sometimes say some things that I think are ’sayings’ but may, in fact, just be stupid things I say. Like:
a) Don’t drop your blob.
b) Sleep faster; we need the pillows.
c) She’ll smoke your sausage and eat your cigarettes.
Surely I didn’t make this kind of nonsense up.
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Just a random attorney writing about daily life with Little Filthy, my rotten dog.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Great sayings! I think you should find out which ones you can patent. I will personally make it my mission to incorporate them into my daily vocabulary!
July 30th, 2008 at 12:26 am
My favorite RandomEsq-ism is “dropped your blob.” That just rules.
I had a friend that would say, “Stop yer grinnin’ and drop yer linen!” That just sends me into a fit of giggles.
July 30th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Don’t drop your blob.
I have made it my mission to say that to someone in my office today. : )
Crossing my fingers for a spaz out.
July 30th, 2008 at 7:34 am
I think you’ve talked me out of eating mussels. I also have a hard time eating hamburgers if I get a tubule.
Nothing grosses me out more than the thought of the life sustaining blood that had once pumped through that artery. And they’re so dang chewy and rubbery.
{{{shudder}}}
July 30th, 2008 at 7:50 am
1. I’m there with you on shrimp. Cole on the other hand, loves it. But shrimps doesn’t do a whole lot for me. I like it and eat it, but I could do without. Unfortunately shrimp is super high in protein, which means I should eat more
2. Heh. I just was reading that post right before this one. Agreed. You may want to consider a quarantine for that one.
3. I often times watch how people walk as well and sometimes I’m amazed by how goofy some people walk. It’s such a simple thing but I don’t get how some people can bring along the grace of my beloved pug at feeding time while others stride like a gazelle. Hrm.
4. Drop your blob! Drop it! I even can imagine what the SOUND of blob dropping would be… and I have to tell you… it’s not pretty.
July 30th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
to me, eating shrimp is like chewing on someone’s ear cartilage
July 31st, 2008 at 7:44 am
Kez - Theeennnnkew.
Avitania - I’ve never heard the grinnin’/linen one! Naaace.
MsSingleMama - It just sounds sort of filthy, doesn’t it? But I think it is confusing enough that no one entirely knows what to make of it.
Pajama Momma - Oh man. Tubule. It’s insane what we shove in our mouth and chew up.
LynchSeattle - You don’t have any sleep quirks? Dinner next week, I want you to make Bev’s MEW sound.
Janet Reno - I don’t even know what to say to you sometimes. I might have to do an entry on how Sitcom and I think you’re crazy. (In a good way.)
July 31st, 2008 at 8:14 am
No mussels for me. Or shrimp. I can’t get past the texture, which is probably a good thing…I wouldn’t want to think about what exactly is involved. Ew.
Don’t get me wrong, I love me a good steak, but maybe we’d all be happier if we ate less meat and more cookies.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:05 am
My friend Becky has a saying similar to drop your blob - She’s having a “come apart.” Heh, I love that.
Seafood - mmmm not so much. Amazing since I live in the Seattle area but really the only seafood I like is salmon. Oh, and pretty much anything deep-fried.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:44 pm
1. I’m allergic to seafood, so I’ll never have an opinion on this one. It all looks nasty to me though, and the very though of eatting something slimy like that makes me gag just a little. I have texture issues as it is.
2. I liked that post…I feel sort of normal now. Well more normal than I did before.
3. I like to watch people move as well. I saw someone last week who lifted their feet up fairly high while they walked and their feet sort of slapped down - hard to describe, but it was odd. Also woman who take tiny little steps because they wear retardedly high heals crack me up. Now I kinda wonder what I look like when I walk, I’ve never thought about it before. GREAT…I may develop a new complex….
4. I’ve picked up sayings over the years from family and friends and they’ve just merged into my vocab. My mom always said, “Don’t get your panties in a bunch” and a coworker’s was , “Boy Howdy” like , “Boy Howdy I drank too much last night” No idea why they stuck in my head but they did.
I do have to agree that “Don’t Drop Your Blob” is a pretty good one. My psycho step mother in law always says, “cry more…pee less” when the kids are throwing a fit. That one has kind of stuck too I’m afraid.
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Bev - I had a friend who used to always say that someone was having a high speed come-apart.
You like salmon? That’s one of the few fish I don’t really like. Exception: Salmon when I was in Seattle last. Man, that was awesome.
KT - MMMM. STEAK. RAWR!
Tiffany - Whoa, Cry more, pee less?! Where did she come up with that one?