meme

Thought this one might be fun...

If you read this, even if
I don't speak to you often, post a memory of me. It can be anything you
want, it can be good or bad, just so long as it happened. Then post
this to your journal to see what people remember about you.
*The re-post thing is optional as always, your milage may vary.

argh bell peppers

Wow the last few days have been just full of guesting and bell peppers. literally, this weekend we had 3 different people to go visit and they ALL served us stuffed bell peppers. I guess they are in season, though they certainly have been around for a while. I think they are just really cheap now, like tomatoes and cucumbers. I love being able to get salad makings for $.20.

Anyway, I have issues with bell peppers - I am obviously missing some vital digestive enzyme, since eating even a small amount gives me gas. Eating a large amount gives me heinous gut rumbly noxious gas.

Unfortunately the laws of hospitality and politeness here (and anywhere really) means that I can not tell my host who has graciously prepared me yet another serving of stuffed bell peppers that everyone in the room most especially my husband will be happier if I don't eat the pepper. Come to think of it I don't even know the Uzbek word for "gas" in the gastrointestinal sense, so it would be moot to try to explain myself. So I eat them. I eat one and try to dodge as much pepper as I can and I get told "oling" (take some). I try to dodge and be grateful and always end up with 2 or 3 stuffed peppers in my gut out of guilt and politeness. And we always pay for it a few hours later.

Rich slept in the other room last night - apparently I was snoring and farting in counterpoint....

We're not going guesting for the next couple days so that everyone can recover.

9 days until lift off