mostly food

usually people love the food they grow up with. like your home cuisine will typically always be one of your favorites, more less. makes sense, you grow up with it etc. but i wonder if you can grow up not liking the local cuisine? is it possible to not like thw food your parents cook, the food in school, the food at your friend birthday party...? and what if you lived there all your life and there was no variety available? im just not sure if its even possible, to widely dislike your cuisine in a situation where you don't have alternatives.

something i know about myself is that i learn things quickly, but i also forget just as quickly. this is especially frustrating with work and language related things. language learning requires repetition for anyone, but i feel like especially for me. its like i pick something up but tomorrow its gone.

i caved in and put this star on the window last week. its just so sad and dark! and then i bought this little christmas tree thing which was nicely potted with a spruce cone and all. add to that Yankee Candle's Home Sweet Home which is my favorite scent.

i found these shoes but they were the wrong colour...  dark brown. i wiped them with alcohol which made then...light brown. and then painted with a faux leather dye and got black laces... almost ready now. just the heels are brown but i dont think the shoe dye will woek on the rubbery material, i will wait until i dye my hair next week, that will stick on pretty well im sure.

this week has been tiring. just cos "life". everyones talking about the weather dampening the mood so lets blame the weather then. i finished work early today and went out for some mini shopping and a walk. walks have become a staple, i go at least once to twice a week. the park we live next to is perfect for that. the shopping was as exciting as getting a hose clamp to fix my office chair and some hair dye.

reading:
Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films by Matthew Field

listening:
History of Japan by RHP mason

(i didnt buy from the sevices i linked to, they just seemed easiest)

i started watching another reality show, Aldi's Next big Thing, where Aldi is looking for a new product to add on it's shelves. they make it sound big and grand but im pretty sure they give it a month or so and if it doesn't sell then its out like any other new thing they try. and supermarkets try probably hundreds of new products a month...   anyway they start by saying they want something new and exciting, not just the same old. there were "contestants" offering chinese sauces and cricket burgers etc. and the final two? frozen indian meals and some pies. like, the most bloody standard thing already on the shelf. whether i go to Sainsbury's or Waitrose or Iceland, it's all curry this and that, tikka masala and so forth. and then the pies, oh lord. im not a fan of indian food but to make it worse, they are all with meat... although india is famous for its vegetarian dishes, no?? some things have not changed i guess. anyway so nothing surprising about this show of course, this is how they are, i know. but im hoping to see bug/cricket products *somewhere* soon, would love to try. doctor said he is slightly skeptical but i guess he would be willng to try too. currently we are testing a receipt meal package from GreenChef. its similar to HelloFresh...tbh not sure if there is a difference, doctor found it and ordered. he likes to cook these things. for which i am grateful.


the park this afternoon. 

tapas bar Barsiro nearby. we went there for dinner tonight after a film (Knives Out 2).

the first GreenChef meal. the salmon is dark and crunchy cos thats how it was supposed to be done.

a week ago a Fat Pundit with my "reddit friends" Aleks & Raissa. the food was really good.

i also read youre supposed to eat 0.75g of protein for ever kilo you weigh. umm. does not seem realistic unless i ate like a whole salmon or otherwise ridiculous amount of food, or only protein, skipping veggies... i feel fine, so i think it cant be THAT crucial...