The Lazy Blogger

I ordered an item with Prime shipping on the 23rd and now Amazon is saying it is not going to arrive here until the 29?!!?!? WTF Plus the items was $2 cheaper via the seller who is sending it non-2day to me. This is not like a book, this is an item I desperately need and counted on arriving on the 25th. If I'd known it wasn't going to happen I'd have just gone to Target to buy it and skipped Amazon, or tried to put an order together at Diapers.com. This is so unacceptable.

Someone in the damn complex turned us in for HAVING A SUKKAH! GRRRRRRRRRRR

So now we have to convince them we should be allowed to keep our sukkah, my beautiful precious sukkah! ~.~

I want to preface this rant by saying I like children, even small children. I also am a pet owner and adore my cats. Anyone who knows me, knows that Cookie and Basil mean the world to me. So this rant is not a diatribe about pet ownership or having children, this is about being responsible and respectful of other people.

As usual Passover has been a huge mess. My parents have kept with family tradition and managed to have a huge fight. One of the issues, was the surprise invitation of the small children of a close friend of my father's. Said children are 4 and 6 respectively. The older one, tends to behave while the younger one does not. My parents have no grandchildren and their youngest child is older than many people who read my LJ lol Their house is not even close to being childproof an it currently has 8+ inches of water in the basement because something has gone horribly wrong.

My father's perspective was that if you invite his friend since she has young children of course said children are invited.

And my perspective, is young children, like pets or any dietary restrictions are something that must be warned about BEFORE you show up at a house unless you know said house will be accepting of said issues in advance. If you know someone runs a home day care for toddlers than yeah, they can probably deal with your kid, just like if they have a child close to the same age as your child, their house has probably already been child-proofed.

I've had someone show up at my house and then become upset because I would not let her tiny dog into my house. They did not warn me ahead of time and just assumed since they adored their dog and their dog was so good that of course it could just come to my house. The problem with this, I own cats. I own cats that are terrified of any and all dogs and most other cats as well and I was not going to put my cats out just because someone was being rude and had not asked ahead of time if it was OK to bring her dog.

Small children are no different. If they're under 3 months old, one can make the strong assumption the mother is likely to bring them, just because if they are nursing it is sort of hard not to bring them with you somewhere. However between newborn and even up to 1 year, most kids can be put in a playpen and will stay where you put them to some extent. Toddlers and children under 5 need child proofing. They need constant supervision. Just looking at my house I have, perfumes that smell wonderful but I am sure are not wonderful to taste in an easy to open cabinet under my TV, lots of cleaning products in easy reach of small children and not locked away and many many expensive dolls that are very tempting.

And again, it is like another issue near and dear to my heart, being a vegetarian. As a vegetarian, unless I know the other people I am visiting are also vegetarian. I owe it to my host/hostess to warn them about my dietary restrictions when I am first invited and to allow my host/hostess the chance to back out. However, if they accept our company, they owe us something we can actually eat.

In the end, I guess I think people need to be responsible and take responsibility. It's not about not valuing choices, it's about being respectful of others as well.

It looks like I am going to have to look into themes and how to do one, as well as making a few icons. It's a bit odd getting used to a new system but I suspect I can manage it.

Entries here are more than likely NOT going to be cross-posted to my LJ. Non Fanfiction/Fanart entries will most likely be locked.

I've realized with my LJ I'm too often afraid of making waves and I don't often voice my opinion anymore after that little wankfest from a few years ago. I also find I'm not always good at being confrontational when people I know in person are making me want to rip my hair out, so quite a few of these posts are going to be about my actual opinions. Some of these opinions are controversial and you might not like them. Such as...

I think high corn syrup for the most part is evil and I'm trying in 2009 to eat as little of it as possible. I'm not against sweetners, I just believe in using actual sugar or honey or maple syrup or... I believe that high fructose corn syrup is one of the contributing factors to weight gain among people in the US. It's not a natural product and was created and added to things to help with the overabundance of corn.

I decided to look into getting more flatware since we seem to always be running out whenever we have company as I think we only have service for 12. I decided to be smart and visit the Oneida website and lo and behold not only is out pattern discontinued it was only made for 1 year, so a single place setting now costs about the same as i paid for my service for 12 ~.~ Plus Oneida had no recommendations on complimentary patterns since mine is so different. GRRRRRR GRRRR GRRRR Why only produce a pattern for a single year?!?!

On the happy side, for our last CSA drop off we actually got a great selection of things! We got apples and carrots (apple crisp and carrot cake anyone?) as well as potatoes, kale and onions. I'm excited thinking about food for Thanksgiving now. Once I find it again I shall share my recipe for apple crisp of a sort. I tend to put a crust under my crisp as even though it ups the calorie count it makes it ever so much easier to serve. I want to bake pumpkin cookies. I need something sweet in the house and I'm in the mood for them or maybe chocolate chip, or maybe both. >>;

On the less than happy side, I promised to test some recipes for the Synagogue cook book. I picked ones that sounded interesting without first seeing what was in them. For Hubby's Office Potluck I made the Mexican Lasagna which was simple and easy to make and full of lots of calories and salt. I tried to cut down on the sodium by not using an instant taco packet, but even so! I'm not sure what I would do to lighten it if I was to make it again, I definitely would try to use less canned items and maybe switch to whole wheat tortillas? My next up recipe is scones which present a problem as I realized I do not own a cookie/scone cutter. I am so going to go search back through my random baking things. Finally, I volunteered to make a carrot souffle since I think that sounded good but the more I look at the recipe the more I am doubting that. It uses corn flakes. Corn flakes. I don't even like eating them in parfaits if I can help it. Ugh. I am not sure what I am going to do.