j: “you always have the snappy comeback. i wish i could be more like you. i want to have the snappy comeback.”
m: “well, i could write them down for you. you could think about it and then we could have the conversation again.”
Category Archives: friendly banter
coping
m said, and i quote: “i don’t think of anna as gone. i just think of her as invisible.”
digging into the past
i am a bit of a hoarder. i collect little bits and pieces. i collect quotes. notes. design elements. comic strips. if i actually scrapbooked, i would be a junkie. i found this recently when i rummaged through a pile of papers…
tartar sauce
the date is 9 jun 2011. it is late afternoon. scene opens. m and j are seated at a table at santa monica seafood. m asks: “do you ever wonder how did tartar sauce got its name?” j replies: “no.”
N.B. per wikipedia: “The name derives from the French sauce tartare, named after the Tartars from the Mongolian Steppe, who once occupied parts of the Ukraine and Russia. Beyond this, the etymology is unclear.”
(wow. that was really helpful.)
hot button mushroom
is my new nickname
english shelling peas
to m: you are right. when you microwave them, not only does the mint become flaky like baked kale, but the outer shell of the peas gets harder. they are like little green rocks with a bit of pea flavor accompanied by flaky, crunchy mint.
Nicknames
J
J_bean
JB
Bean
Muffintop
Sugarmuffintop
Pumpkinseed
Pumpkin
P seed
Seed
Sweetpea
Pea
Popo
Po dog
J dog
Poodoo
Poopoohead
Pumpkin dumpie
Pumpdump
My little asian
The little asian
Twinkie
(they just get more and more derogatory…)
Nicknames
J
J_bean
JB
Bean
Muffintop
Sugarmuffintop
Pumpkinseed
Pumpkin
P seed
Seed
Sweetpea
Pea
Po
Popo
Po dog
Poodoo
Poopoohead
Pumpkin dumpie
Pumpdump
My little asian
The little asian
Twinkie
(they just get more and more derogatory…)
tweet indulgence
j: “when i was growing up, i used to put butter on my croissants.”
m: “you know that croissants are half butter…”
j: “yeah. so?”
if i add enough sugar and half and half to taster’s choice i can almost get it to taste like those awesome vietnamese coffee packets that KCL regifted to me. but then i eat some grapes and some pancakes with syrup and it goes back to tasting like taster’s choice…
kasia the squirrel
after almost 15 years of being together, i learned two things about my other half: [1] i can still learn new things about her [2] when she was 5 years old, she befriended a squirrel and named her kasia