By: Revanche

Gratuitous Lists

December 8, 2014

I love the little things…

Office supplies: awesome pens, planners+calendars. Sometimes it’s nice knowing what day it is.
Mailing supplies: labels.
Brown kraft paper: for wrapping parcels.  Also, I love that word. Parcels.

Foods I’m Missing

(Obligatory disclaimers: Yes, these are the “not-recommendeds”; yes, I know I don’t have to religiously adhere to it; yes, I’m choosing to do so anyway. I love food but given my craptastic and unpredictable medical history, I’d rather avoid even minimal risk for LB where possible for some months. I’ll be grumpy but it’s still my choice. I have no judgment or opinions on what other pregnant choose or don’t choose to eat. And I reserve the right to have a wee whine about it.)
Brie.
All the runny eggs. Poached. Sunny side up. Soft boiled.
Raw fish.
Sprouts for my sandwiches.
Rare roast beef.
Steak. Medium rare.
Salami.
Prosciutto.
Corned beef.
Albacore tuna. Cooked. Raw.

Where’d you go?

My Toes: I know they’re there, and I guess basically everything else is still there too, but I can’t really see the rest of myself below the top hemisphere of this globe I call my belly.

Dexterity: As if there was much before but the toppling over like a felled tree is happening more and more often. Falling off curbs is nothing new.

At least once a day, trying to work: In the chaos of cleaning and purging, I can’t figure out where anything lives anymore.

Feels like…

I have been congested for six months straight.
I’m smuggling a globe/There’s a madly spinning rotisserie in my midsection/I’m hosting a swim meet.
There’s a squirrel nesting in my head, occasionally taking my brain off for a stroll.
We’ll never finish this organizational kick.
We may actually get a winter around here… Maybe?
It’s time to wrap All The Things. For Christmas, for birthdays, for anything! Send me your parcels, I will wrap them!

12 am to 2 am snacks

Half an orange.
Two string cheeses.
A basic quesadilla.
Cheesy toast.
Popcorn. (479 degrees may be a pretentious-ish brand but I loooove their sea salt caramel flavor)
A fried egg on toast.

Things I say a lot now…

What is going ON?
I’m going to squish the dog now. I can’t squish the dog now. I shouldn’t have squished the dog, I’m stuck.
Seamus, stop licking!
I need a quesadilla.
Geezus, Wesley!  #AngelRewatch
Aggravating person, I HATE YOU.
If I were to create a new job, what would that be?

None of these are productive lists, really.

14 Responses to “Gratuitous Lists”

  1. Emily says:

    Aww I love runny eggs, I don’t know if I could ever give them up!

    Everytime I see these lists of “recommended foods to avoid for pregnant women”, I always discover more things that should be avoided and I decide to procrastinate on motherhood a little bit more. 😛 Why sprouts? They seem so harmless!

    Jemily Life

    • Zenmoo says:

      I went ‘lalalalala I can’t hear you’ on the poached eggs. They’re too goo. However, I did eat quite a bit of liver wurst after I’d had the baby

    • Revanche says:

      Raw sprouts, I should have said. It turns out, from what I’ve read, that sprouts can easily harbor e-coli or salmonella bacteria that can’t be easily removed (rinsing doesn’t work). Apparently since they’re grown in warm environments, that’s the perfect breeding ground for the bacteria if they have any. I had a bit of a panic when I realized it after I ate a whole sandwich stuffed with alfalfa sprouts but it’s really just a risk reduction thing, not ALL sprouts are going to be infested.

  2. ha ha I’m a big fan of office supplies myself. I love the smell of paper and I prefer pencils over pens. There is a mom and pop office supply store directly behind my apt and I have to avoid going in there because I’m like a kid in a candy store. Hang in there with the food!
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  3. Sally says:

    I love quesadillas 🙂 and the globe-smuggling is too cute.
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  4. Sense says:

    I LOVE this! 🙂

  5. Glad I didn’t know about any not-recommendeds back in the day when I wuz pregnant. We didn’t even know we weren’t allowed to have a glass of wine! Thank goodness… 😉
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  6. YES. RUNNY EGGS. RAW FISH. I was dying for all of that at the end…

    Raw beef too.

    I too, felt like I was smuggling a globe. A big one.
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