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Moderation hell. Go for broke if ya gonna do it. Heart attack by six.

Is that six years of age or six p.m.?

Getting older. I don't buy any of that hyper-expensive "anti-aging" perfumed Crisco face crap and I don't squeeze my middle-aged flab into "foundation garments," except on formal occasions, maybe.

When other women tee-hee about what their real age could be, like being both female AND living past the age of 21 is an affront to decency, I just roll my eyes.

It's both sad and hilarious that a woman's actual age is still so taboo that you can make other people's eyebrows raise just by saying, "I turned 45 years old today."

Ppphht.

Miley Cyrus's "Party in the U.S.A"
lately when i'm in my Cab and i'm station surfing and if it comes on i find myself bopping my head to it.

It's okay, John. They have a patch for that.

Liver. I love liver. Longhorns has a deal where you get all the liver you can eat for 5 bucks. I definitely get my money's worth.

In Oklahoma, you could get a box of 20-ish breaded chicken livers at the KFC (or a box of breaded gizzards). Yum! That particular menu item doesn't seem as popular east of the Mississippi...

That sounds a lot like chicken gizzards, Set.

There's a Turkish dish that includes boiled chicken gizzards diced up and served with chicked broth boiled rice.

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it!
mmmmmmm - mmmmmmmm!!

FK, there's a Turkish restaurant across the corner from my office. What's that dish called? I'll try not to order it.

;-)

So would I, if were fixing a decadent snack for three dozen housecats.

The sun / sun bathing.

Yes, yes I know ALL about the warnings and whatnot regarding the sun and it's effects on our skin, blah blah blah ...

Sorry but after such a cloudy, rainy spring and late summer I am looking forward to getting some colour on my first vacation of this year.
Health Canada warnings be damned!

Besides, this is the longest I've gone without some colour by the first week of July (where I'm usually tanned by about the 1st of June). Everything in moderation of coarse.

Right now I'm whiter than Casper's ass.

The smell of a skunk. So long as it is not on me and so far it hasn't ever been on me.

Salads. My friends think I'm dieting too much, but I hate feeling all full and heavy. And it's not that hard to get raw vegetables to taste good!

Meow.

Learning. As a kid I hated school and that hasn't changed. Lots of folks from where I live think it cool to hate learning. They've said things like " 'x' thinks they're better than they are. I know where they come from..." about others.

I like learning new things. True, most of it is practical stuff, but to me, one day, when the asteroid hits, all the cyberheads will be locked in their hermetically sealed domestic chambers, but I'll be outside, building shelter with my own hands.... and possibly shooting zombies that spring up outta the Apocalypse.

I'm blue collar, but I gots skills.

^^I like learning, too. Thing of it is, much of what I've learned has no practical use, but they're just fun to know. For example, the entire history of personnel changes in Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starhip has no practical value whatsoever (though I did get a paid article out it when I interviewed the Airplane's original bass player), but it's fascinating nonetheless.

Besides, learning stuff leads to learning other stuff which can have practical uses. All the Legion trivia, for example, is good for memorizing details or understanding complex theories and histories. It can even lead (gasp) to a curiosity in things that have nothing to do with comics -- literary analysis, for example. Greek tragedies don't seem so strange when one has spent years reading the comic book adventures of Thor and Hercules.

"X thinks better than they are. I know where they came from." Yeah, I've gotten that, too. I came from a working class family. My response to that is, "I hope I'm better than I was and am getting better than I am. Don't you?"

Manual labor. I'd much rather haul boxes and fill orders in the warehouse than sit reception all day.

It's funny that the temp agencies always use the latter type of job as a "lure" to get you calling them every week. It's more upscale and "womanly" to sit at a desk taking calls all day, but I've never cared for it. You have to dress up, which means looking like an exec without having an exec's income. (Then there's the dry-cleaning bills. Yarrgh!) In a small office, it also means juggling tasks like a manager without any salary compensation or cool title.

I'd rather be allowed to just dress down and move stuff all day. If only the locales of most warehouse jobs weren't so damn impossible for a car-less person! [grumble]

^^ I know what you mean about missing manual labor. Before I got my LPN license I worked mostly factory and warehouse jobs. I miss being able to punch in, do my thing, and punch out. And this might sound weird, but I also miss being able to "zone out" while working. I always have to be 100% "on" at my current job. I'll take physical labor over stupid doctors, angry family members and lazy CNA's.

My old friends at the factory always seem so stress-free after work, I get a little jealous.

Ditto on the manual labor. Where I'm working now, there's a position where you stand around figuring out what labels to put on stuff that's wicked easy (but requires a lot of thinking), a position where you attend to a giant robot machine that has a dozen blinking lights and warning sirens for the dozen different things that can go wrong, and you spend the entire shift trying to diagnose what it's problem is *this* time, and a position where you mindlessly move heavy packages onto a conveyor belt for eight hours.

I love the conveyor belt. I can stand there doing heavy lifting for eight hours, while my mind is off in fantasy-land.

That and loading the trucks at the end of the night. I can load four trucks in an hour, and everyone else whines about how it's cold, and the rolling stock is heavy (175 lbs *empty,* plus up to 400 lbs. of mail inside), but it's so nice to not have to figure out what's wrong with the machine, or which sensor is blocked, or which tray is stuck, or which roller is tangled up, or which tech or mechanic needs to be called in to fix something even more esoteric.

I'm all for stress-free work, and manual labor is where it's at!

Burning sulfur matches.

Pepto Bismol! If I have even the HINT of a tummy ache, I'll gladly take a swig! What can I say? I think it's yummy!

Wow, me too Lardy! You're the only person I've ever known to feel the same about Pepto!

That. Is. Just. Too. Weird.

Just sayin...I feel the same way. Also love the taste of Nyquil.