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[which_chick]

Monday night is lj etiquette hint day. Also grocery night.

First, the etiquette hint. If the author (that'd be me) posts a picture of a pony about whom she is glowingly enthusiastic, the audience (that'd be you) will say something nice about the pony. You don't have to know anything about ponies. I don't need conversations like "That's an English bridle, but the noseband is missing. What happened to it?" or "You've got keepers on your full-cheek snaffle. How's that working out?" or even "That looks like a gen-u-ine Parelli bareback pad. Do you like it?" I have people that I can have those conversations with, though they are the same people who have conversations with me that go as follows: Look, we know you think the horse is wonderful, but your standards are too low. The horse has not killed you on three successive rides. We are no longer impressed with her not killing you on regular rides. If you want us to be impressed with her wonderfulness next time, she had better have carried your unconcious body safely out of a forest fire and then directed the helicopter search-and-rescue team to the location of the imperiled boy scout hikers through clever use of her body language and inspired barking. Er. Whinneying. *sigh* Anyway, here, I'm looking for comments like Omigod, that is the best pony 3V4R!!!11!!. You can say that the pony is exceedingly cute. (She is. This is like one's own baby being "cute". One's baby may have a face like a frog that's been run over and persons saying the baby is "cute" will probably not be corrected no matter how incorrect they are. Comparing someone's baby to a road-killed amphibian... well... just in case you weren't aware, that isn't something you are supposed to say NO MATTER how much the baby looks like one.) You can say that the pony is lovely and appears to be good-natured. You can say that the pony is a pretty color. Anything complimentary will do just fine and originality isn't important. So, then, gentle readers. Make a mental note for the next time there is a picture of a pony alongside glowingly happy discussion of same... if I do that, you're supposed to say nice things about the pony.

Old grocery budget: $1588.69
Amount spent: 25.11
New grocery budget: $1563.58

The green this week was bok choy because everything else looked like shit. The bananas were way, way, way too green so I didn't get any. There was no hint of yellow on these bananas. They were solidly green, the green of granny smith apples, all over. That's too green for me. Maybe next week there will be acceptable bananas. I bought yams (still very cheap) and mangoes (not cheap but I like 'em) and three red pears and some frozen mixed berries to put in the blender with yogurt.

Right now I'm trying very hard to avoid the fact that I have all the ingredients to make no bake cookies. electroweak, this is your fault.

Comments

[zhasper.livejournal.com]

So.. Umm.... The pony looked very.. equine..

I'd rather talk about mangoes though, they rock. I was lucky enough to grow up in a place where they literally fall from the trees and people cursed with a tree in their backyard are driven to distraction trying to give away the entire crop to friends/neighbours/family/random-people-walking-down-the-street before their tree gets overrun by possums/birds - or worse, before it all falls off the tree and starts rotting.

So. I love them, but I'm not a fan of paying more than $2/kilo for them.. which is unfortunate, as I no longer live there, and now I usually have to pay $2 each..

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Mangoes are pretty expensive fruit for me. These were $1.49 each -- doing a quickie conversion, that's about 1.92 AUD per mango, so mine cost about what yours do. They're also nowhere ready to eat when I buy them and have to be let to ripen on the counter for a couple of days. *sigh* I have the same problems all around with avocados.

Our "give it away to people" locally-produced food item is zucchini. Somehow, this doesn't seem fair.