seryn

So I was reading the network page. (yeah yeah, I know) and someone said we should all post our holiday wishes.

I hate this time of year because people are always asking me what I want. I don't know what I want. That's why I have so much trouble buying stuff.

Currently, right this minute, I want a nap. Earlier today I wanted fries but not enough to talk myself into going out to get them and then eating them and especially not enough to deal with my SO giving me a hassle for getting fries from a place we've sworn off. I had a peanut butter sandwich and an apple and the rest of the lettuce (not in the same dish).

I'm considering taking up weaving. But I'm right in the middle of that idea, the part where I could trivially talk myself out of it. Weaving isn't really a lot of use if you don't sew. Even if you make something scarf-shaped to use as a scarf, the ends need to be managed. I dislike sewing. But the thought of having garments made from handwoven wool with multicolor pinstripes... you know I'm totally there. I might even wear it as a *gasp* skirt.

Other people posted about wanting those pageant-contestant answers. I think world peace is probably beyond the pale at this point. I think even the request for kindness is beyond most people's comprehension. But maybe we could stop poking the bear? If we have to re-fight the Korean war because of military posturing and wikileaks, I'm going to be very upset.

My SO messaged earlier and said he had curry for lunch so he wasn't going to want curry for dinner. I'm not sure what we're going to have then. I'd like Chinese food with beef and one of those chow-noodle dishes. Or Thai mango chicken without bell peppers.

Actually. That's something I would like for $winter_holiday. I would like bell peppers to be featured in some ever-present video or joke or comic or TV program in a way that makes eating them in public an embarrassing choice due to sexual innuendo. I want it to be so pervasive that bell peppers stop being a hidden ingredient when I go out for Thai food or Chinese food or whatever ethnicities tend toward the pre-mixed dishes that otherwise sound very tasty. I want it to be as embarrassing as a man opening his fly in public and showing people his bits, so restaurants stop putting peppers in things and not telling people but also so it's not even an option they ask you in a shocked way, "You don't want peppers?"

As the commercial goes, for everything else, there's Mastercard.

I came up with a travel idea. Because of the network page, so that's not all bad.

Cave hotel. The one I saw was in Italy. Ewwwww.

So I searched to see where else there were cave hotels. Spain, France (Provence), Turkey, some underground stuff in Australia, a mine in Sweden, a fake cave in NM, and a $1k/night place in remote Arkansas.

It just sounds amazing. To be somewhere where there were tons and tons of solid rock between me and the world. You'd never be able to hear the highway or helicopters hovering over a crash. There wouldn't be gunshots. No one with a screaming baby would ever go there.

I think I should just buy a cave and retrofit it. I'd put in a tower room that could get internet and TV and phone.

Of course there could be negatives. Cave spiders. Seepage. Vitamin D deficiency would be rampant. Gas mileage for 4WD vehicles really sucks.

Not to mention the fact that there aren't many caves for sale outside Bedrock.