Speedy's Cafe - General Chat about anything you like!

[Pseudonym]

It would be brilliant, think of all the moss you could eat and the minerals you could lick. 

 

I found out I was an inch taller than previously thought this morning. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

I found out I was an inch taller than previously thought this morning. 

Yay! Savor it. :D

[Arcadia]

I wish I could be an inch taller. That may be a good reason to get hooves. The moss, not so much.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Just have a quick drop by to let you guys know I'm not dead. I'm back to usual schedule after family visit (read: work = I have steal time to sneak here).

 

I will need sometime to catch up.

But for quick update, this is my upgraded version of Arcadia, take your pick:

With lousy hoofs.. wait..is that why you are so against shoes??

 

And Pseud, we don't get taller when we get older. XD

The measurement device is broken or you had been reading it wrong all this time. (But if none of the above, pssst, let me know the secret, and please, don't let it be sunbathing nakkie :p)

[Pseudonym]

Wow, VBS have you been leaping out of bushes to take candid shots of Arcadia again? You know she doesn't like it!

I don't think I've yet reached the point where I have began to shrink through old age, but yes I have apparently always been 5'1 and never knew. As for being happy about being taller, being short has never bothered me, I quite like it actually. I am jealous that taller girls tend to look less stubby though.

[Arcadia]

Yes, that is indeed me, yelling at VBS to stop taking my picture. I believe these were taken the day after I went sunbathing nakkie, hence the tan.

[Pseudonym]

Thought so, the first one does have a distinct resemblance to your profile pic.

[Van Buren Supernova]

She is right.

But it was not the day after.

 

There.. there is a reason why I needed to crop those pictures from the neck down.

 

I.. don't want to talk about it.

[Van Buren Supernova]

To help us all,

Here is minion. :p

 

[Pseudonym]

Well VBS, if you are traumatised by what you saw when jumping out of a bush I'm afraid you only have yourself to blame. ;)

 

If he talked like a minion as well that would be terrifying. 

[Arcadia]

How do you know he doesn't? ;)

 

VBS, there is such a thing as too much information. Do you want me to tell everyone why you were in the bushes in the first place, and with whom?

[Pseudonym]

Oh yes, I want to know! Tell me, tell me. 

[Pseudonym]

Here I am making my dinner this evening. ;)

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

You must be wearing a disguise if you're the guy or you're the woman in red (just not Eurus at least hopefully not that psychotic).

[Van Buren Supernova]

Eh.. if you must know.. it's my buddy Khan. We were collecting and investigating poisonous plants for eh..good purpose, of course. He showed me his, I showed him, vice versa, so on so forth.. you know. Educational, for good.

 

And all of the sudden, I heard blood curling scream of someone cursing that there's a stone in the hoof.

It was traumatizing, didn't know there is a nudist cliff before. Good god.

 

But let's not dwell on anything.

So for distraction, I am immature person who giggle on stupid stuffs like these.

 

 

 

 

 

P.S. If I make my pancake that way, I'll end up eating with straw for the next two weeks because of fat lips.

[Pseudonym]

I don't believe you were in those bushes collecting plants. Just putting that out there right now. 

 

Fat lips? Why? Hit yourself in the face with the frying pan?

[Pseudonym]

Weird question, have any of you ever used an ice pick? I don't get the point of them, do you only get ice in big lumps in America or something?

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Ice picks aren't in common use these days unless for a specific thing (such as St. Paul, MN Winter Carnival has had Ice Castles and they harvest the ice from a local lake.

[Arcadia]

Heck yeah, I use an ice pick! It's perfect for poking holes in those little lemon juice bottles so you can get the lemon juice out, since the manufacturer fails to provide a means to do so. It's also great for cleaning gunk out of the cracks in the chopping block. It's also my weapon of choice for when shadow people break into the house, and once I even used it to break apart two ice cubes that had melted and fused themselves together. Amazing device, couldn't live without it.

 

VBS, that is NOT the story Khan told me. Hmm, methinks one of you is fibbing.....

[Pseudonym]

Ice pick is a fave of yours then. I always used to think ice picks were just thin versions of pick axes, and was confused how so many people seemed to get murdered with such an unwieldy weapon. I was quite thrown when they showed a picture of the ice pick that was the murder weapon on one of those crime shows. 

 

Were you and Khan giggling over frothy cocktails when he was dishing the dirt on VBS?

[Arcadia]

I, erm, eh, I'm not telling .... 

[Van Buren Supernova]

Hey, hey, what about my effort in distracting you guys from the topic?

 

Whatever happened in the bush, stays in the bush. :p

 

 

Anyway, I wrote long story about it, but decided to delete as reading back kind of putting me in foul mood.

 

What do you guys think as a challenge that is very difficult to overcome for you? Do you have one?

 

I know I can't pretend to be sweet and suck important people when I need to. Or even when my life depends on it. I know how to do it, but need certain level of me wanting to do it to work.

 

That obstacle always get me into trouble or hinder me whenever I meet characters who need those thing. It's frustrating.

[T.o.b.y]

Just one thing? Gosh, I run up against so many obstacles daily.

 

A big one for me is talking on the phone. "I prefer to text" indeed. Or email. My home phone is usually mute which is great until somebody actually leaves a message requiring an answer and I have to call them back.

 

I also hate to "cause trouble" or draw attention to myself. That's sadly the main reason I am not fully vegetarian; when somebody, especially one of the in-laws, serves me meat, I find it so uncomfortable to refuse that I usually just eat it. And then because I have done it once I can't very well claim to be vegetarian later when I know them better and would theoretically feel confident enough to say so.

 

This leads to people visiting us and being irritated that there's no meat in the house. They assume we forgot to go shopping. And I usually use some evasive excuse like "oh, meat is just so expensive" or "it doesn't agree with me very well so I don't get it often" instead of just saying that actually, I think the way meat is produced is for the most part horrifying and bad for the environment and that I feel guilty enough about still consuming eggs and dairy even though we are very careful with the sources of those products.

[Arcadia]

Egad, right now my entire life is a challenge. The things I have to do are in conflict with the things I want to do. Ugh.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Think I'd rather just answer the ice pick question!

 

Ice picks were indeed devised back when ice came only in big blocks (generally just the right size to fit into an old-fashioned ice box -- the kind that did not make ice, but rather was cooled by premade ice that was delivered), so if you wanted a few pieces of ice for your lemonade, you'd just hack some off.

 

That was my parents' generation and earlier, so of course they still remembered ice picks, and were well aware that they could be used for loads of other things as well, so of course we always had an ice pick around the house, and so -- like Arcadia -- I often find myself thinking that something is a good job for an ice pick. Problem is, I don't own one. Do they even sell them anymore? But now that Mom is no longer in any sort of shape to be wielding one, I think I'll snag hers next time I come across it.