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Please don't tell anyone how I live.

Started by Sophie90, February 26, 2009, 10:34:18 PM

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Dennis

Funny, on the bugger thing. I use that all the time and I had a Brit call me out for it once. I live in Canada, but was raised English, and never have given it a second thought. Nobody in Canada has taken offence to it, but I have had people say "oh you must be English, you use that word a lot"

And for the OP, back to that topic. I live like that and haven't the excuse of being a student. I do have a very understanding girlfriend, who wades through the piles of laundry, both clean and dirty, and pet hair (which makes the clean laundry somewhat less than clean by some standards). And I do keep my ->-bleeped-<-s in my pocket too :) Not my ->-bleeped-<-gots though, that would be messy.

Dennis
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tekla

Does anyone else consider handfuls of dry cereal a legitimate, cheap and healthy snack?
Cheap sure, and awesomely good too.  I would sit in Dead Concerts dreaming of the box of Coco Krispies sitting out in the car.  But healthy?  Nah.  Never thought of them in that way, but they will fill you up.  Odd though the cereal companies Kellogg and Post both started out as health food companies back in the day.

On returning from a night out, does anyone else just sling clothes, bag, etc, on the floor in random places and not pick it up again until it's next needed?
Nah, I love my chair for all that.  Forces me to put it away in the morning, try it, it works. you have to clean up before you sit down.

Going to laundrette late at night ensures a free machine, but putting the sheets back on the mattress takes so much more effort than slinging it on there in a disorganised pile, and then sleeping on it.
The only reason I wash the sheets is because I like the feeling of clean sheets on my flesh.  So I would always put them on, though I like the off hours laundry deal too.  I do however prefer an unmade bed.  It's like I could just get back in it and resume where I was before the alarm clock so rudely went off.

And iron? ... What on Earth is that?
No idea, I grew up in a permanent press world never used an iron - except to hot wax during ski season - and its only once a year, if that, that I would need to wear anything that would have to be ironed, in which case I send it to the cleaners to get it done right.

Beans on toast is a square meal.
I'm totally buying that.  The toast of bread is pretty much a square. 

Why open those tiresome wardrobe doors when you have the option of storing clothes in a pile on a chair?

See above for my reply, a chair is good, but only if you have to clear it the next day.

Shower = less sleep. Ergo; deoderant > shower.
Of all the things in the modern world I would miss, hot showers would be at the top of the list.  I have to go a few days without sometimes and even I'm hating myself by the end of it.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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Alyssa M.

Coco Krispies?  :icon_blah:

My sisters and I were always weird -- it's my parents' fault. They fed us Cheerios and shredded wheat and puffed rice cereal and corn flakes and muesli and rasin bran. And we loved it. I know, how can we even call ourselves Americans? It's shameful.

I'm pretty sure that Iron is an element in the periodic table.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

   - Anatole France
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placeholdername

Frosted mini wheats are the best.  Healthy and delicious but your kids will never know!
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Alyssa M.

I think we got a box of frosted mini wheats one time in an attempt to cave to American commercial culture .... I don't think anyone ate it.

But when I was about twelve or thirteen, I'd eat bowl after bowl of Chex or the like. Yuuummmm....
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

   - Anatole France
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Lutin

Special K is a good one. I'm the only one in the house who tends to eat it, and 'cause I don't do brekky we never have it, but when we did, it was awesome. ;D And yummy.
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Pica Pica

there was a gorgeous and short lived cereal i adored called 'berry berry nice' it was lovely.
'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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Nero

my favorite cereal is Peanut Butter Captain Crunch. pure heaven.
Nero was the Forum Admin here at Susan's Place for several years up to the time of his death.
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Jeatyn

I miss lucky charms cereal  :( you can't get it in England anymore
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Nero

why? how could her majesty deprive her people of lucky charms?
do you get captain crunch there? the peanut butter kind?
Nero was the Forum Admin here at Susan's Place for several years up to the time of his death.
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Jeatyn

I've never heard of captain crunch

we only just recently got oreos over here

and you can get reese's peanut butter cups in very few places occasionally
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Nero

mmm reese's peanut butter cups! my favorite candy.
Nero was the Forum Admin here at Susan's Place for several years up to the time of his death.
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Jeatyn

man I love peanut butter cups

I always buy a bunch if I ever spot them because they're like freakin gold dust and I know it's gonna be months and months before I find them again :P
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Nero

ever tried them chilled? i like mine frozen.
Nero was the Forum Admin here at Susan's Place for several years up to the time of his death.
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Jeatyn

I can't imagine them frozen, I'll have to try it
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Lutin

OK, I feel like we're seriously missing out on something down here. *pout*
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Alyssa M.

Okay, peanut butter cups are pretty tasty (they used to be my favorite candy) and freezing them is a great idea, so they get extra-crunchy ...

But they don't even hold a candle to frozen Thin Mints. Oh my God, I think I bought four boxes last year, and they were gone by the end of April ... I tried so hard to resist. Someone opened up a box about a month ago, and I was just agape. I couldn't believe they had Thin Mints in January. They told me, "oh, it's easy, you just freeze them." Well, OF COURSE, you freeze them .... but how does that prevent them from getting eaten? I couldn't figure it out.

I just realized it's that time of year again.... I must locate some entreprenurial Girl Scouts!!! Okay -- they'll be at my grocery store tomorrow, says the local web site.

Mmmm ... Lemon Chalet Cremes too ... Trefoils, Do-Si-Dos ... Just keep those vile, vile, vile Samoas away from me!!!

Okay, blood pressure falling ... breathing normalizing ... I think it'll all be okay.

~Alyssa
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

   - Anatole France
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Lutin

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krptcmschfmkr128

Yumyum! Reese's! I love living only about 30 minutes away from Hershey's haha. We rarely go out of stock.


And I've found that if it's something I absolutely NEED to know where it is, I'll throw it in my purse. That way I've always got it (even if it does take me 15 minutes of digging through crap to find what it was I was looking for before)
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sd

Quaker Oats 100% Granola or Honey Nut Cheerios... I can eat either for hours wet or dry.
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