Singleness

[bertine]

There are three times I don't like being single.

1. When I want to have sex
2. When I think about having a baby
3. When I want to cook

It really sucks to cook for just yourself and while I could go to my parents house and cook for them they don't like a lot of the food I want to try. Plus my dad is watching what he eats so I can't even bake for them anymore.

Comments

[posthaste.livejournal.com]

consider this your open invitation to cook for us or come over and hold babies anytime.

the sex on the other hand...

[joeylemur.livejournal.com]

I'll selflessly handle #1. And everybody wins. :)

[posthaste.livejournal.com]

nice!

see b -- between joeylemur and i we can solve all of your problems ;)

[bertine.livejournal.com]

What great friends you are.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

LOL. Nice of two to take care of everything. :P

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I love baking and I am trying to be a better cook.

I love babies, it has to be the age I am now.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

Are you honestly volunteering to cook? like, for free?

cause I am all over that.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

The problem is that I am not actually that good of a cook and it takes me forever to cook anything. I mostly need someone that will put up with all my practice attempts.

Though, I am an excellent baker and I was thinking about making petit fours for your tea party. That or an Irish Cream Cheesecake depending on how much time I would have to prepare it though I don't know if you would be able to eat the cheesecake cause it has 1/2 cup of irish cream in it. Hmm...

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

I'm not scared of moderate alcohol consumption in pregnancy.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Good. Because you wouldn't be able to resist this cheese cake at all.

[melissa-maples.livejournal.com]

Yay, at least there's one reasonable pregnant woman left.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

I also eat sushi.

In fact, I eat lots and lots and lots of sushi.

I am endlessly annoyed at the scaremonger industry bent on shaming pregnant women into eating only bland food supplement bars.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

You are my hero. I always figured I would eat sushi and drink some when I was pregnant. Also, I am pretty sure giving up caffeine would be worse for everyone involved than a couple cans of pop a day.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

I don't get drunk when I'm pregnant, but I figure that if a half-glass of wine (which is really more than I ever drink unless I'm trying) can kill a fetus, we'd never have survived as a human race.

As far as caffeine - please.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I don't really drink much but if I am going to dinner and there is wine (or beer) there, I'll have one. And really, I have studied enough history to know that most of human history drinking beverages with alcohol in it was actually safer than drinking water.

[akorahil.livejournal.com]

Though, I am an excellent baker

Seconding this - Bertine has yet to make something that is/wasn't totally awesome and delicious for pot lucks*.




*One of the hanfull of things I will miss from work.

[melissa-maples.livejournal.com]

omg I would eat any damned thing you make. I hate cooking, but I love eating, and the only thing in the whole wide world I won't eat is raisins. Oh, and those silkworm pupae, but that doesn't count as food. I even like innards and all that.

After dinner I will sex you up big style, and then we'll go abduct a baby somewhere and the world will be right again.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I have always like cooking, I just haven't had a lot of people to cook for and I live so close to my parents that I still eat there a lot of the time. So no practice and I still have a hard time figuring out how much salt to use.

I didn't comment on the silkworm pupae because they look like jello with tuna in it that I was forced to eat as a child. Stupid Lutherans.

YAY! I like your plan! It solves everything!

[melissa-maples.livejournal.com]

Wait. What? Lutherans... tuna jello... *doing the math*

btw I demand some of that cheesecake at dinner.

[joeylemur.livejournal.com]

Isn't that normally called 'lutefisk'?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Only if you added lemon flavoring.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

That cheesecake would make you the happiest girl in the world. Seriously.

The sad part is no one in my family likes cheesecake expect my sister-in-law who is trying to lose weight. So if I make it I have to eat it all.

[sharya.livejournal.com]

Those are three excellent times when you're absolutely right, being single sucks.

Would you like me to describe in horrific detail, the discomfort and unpleasantness of this recent pregnancy and how hideous and horrible I've felt for the last year? Maybe that will help with #2? or would it just make things worse?

♥

[bertine.livejournal.com]

LOL. I still want to experience it myself! Not that I want to hear too much about it before hand. :P

When are you going to give birth already. You have to be close!

[sharya.livejournal.com]

I'm so close it's not even funny. Last night I was having contractions that were three minutes apart... they were just really weak and eventually went away. I lost my plug yesterday morning, so it could be any time really.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

YAY! Maybe you will start to feel better once you aren't supporting two people. :\

[theophania-79.livejournal.com]

you dont need a man nowdays to have a baby. adopt!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I want to be pregant. However, I do have that as plan c. plan b is buying some sperm. plan d is spoiling my siblings kids.

[eyelikebigbutts.livejournal.com]

what's the going rate for sperm these days? is it sold by the gram or the ounce?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I can't afford it right now now aways because of the crappy benefits at work.

[mesawyou.livejournal.com]

hmmm . . . sex........

[joeylemur.livejournal.com]

People talk about it... I think its just a myth.

[mesawyou.livejournal.com]

Oh I hope not. I'll be more disappointed if sex doesn't exist than when I was when I found out there is no Santa Claus.

[misanthropoet.livejournal.com]

Pretty soon we'll be neighbors. I could use some lessons...

[bertine.livejournal.com]

YAY for neighbors!

I don't actually cook that well. It is more that I need to practice.

[misanthropoet.livejournal.com]

Oh, also. I was referring to #3. Er. Um.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I figured. :P

[misanthropoet.livejournal.com]

I'll need to find a home for my Cook's Illustrated, Cook's Country, and Saveur magazines. You are welcome to use them. :)

[bertine.livejournal.com]

♥. You are so awesome.

I don't think I would use them. I like baking because I bring that to other people but cooking is one of those things that I only get in the mood to do once a year or so.

Cooking for yourself

[(Anonymous)]

TRUST ME...when you get married and have kids, you will LOVE the few opportunities you have to cook for yourself. Cooking to please everyone's taste buds is no where near as much fun as cooking for yourself! I SOOOOOO look forward to the times when I can cook for just me...or just me and Abby cuz she eats everything! First thing I do when Gil leaves town is go out and buy tons of mushrooms!

Re: Cooking for yourself

[bertine.livejournal.com]

That is the thing, I NEVER cook because I am not going to eat all of it myself and it will just go to waste. :(

BTW, you can have me over anytime for mushrooms. :)