(-7P)Cheesed On

A couple of weeks ago, MrMan5.5 and I were in the supermarket looking for something to make for dinner, and we managed to find some soy cheese (Mini-Chol, I think it's called)- something which I had tried in the past and didn't like because it tasted terrible. We decided to make nachos though, so he suggested we get some anyway, and it wasn't bad. It was even OK to eat on its own, without the salsa and corn chips. I bought more to leave at my house, and tried eating some because I was hungry, but it seems like it's not something you can eat a lot of at once.

Since this isn't something I've had to do very often, what is it that people do with cheese? It's so strange, as before, cheese was everywhere, and there were so many things I couldn't eat just because it came with cheese, but I was looking around in our kitchen for something to eat with cheese, and I couldn't think of anything. =/ We didn't even have an salsa or corn chips, and a game of DotA was about to start, so I didn't have time to go and buy some. T_T

Sorry for the lack of blogs lately, but I figured I had done enough emo blogging for a few months at least, and decided not to blog rather than write more emo blogs. Anyway, if you could leave some suggestions of things to do with cheese using things you're likely to find in an supermarket, it would be greatly appreciated, because this cheese is yummy and I want to eat more of it. :D

Oh, wow, I just looked up mini-chol in Google, and found out it's not as non-dairy as it says it is. Apparently the amount of dairy in it is low enough that they're allowed to declare it "non-dairy", but it isn't necessarily non-dairy, and it's definitely not vegan. I wonder if that's also the case with the pastry that I bought. =/ Either way, I definitely shouldn't be eating that cheese any more, I'm glad my allergic reaction isn't that bad. T_T That really sucks. Although, I've been reading a couple of vegan forums, and the first said there's some cheese called "fasting cheese" that you can get from the Vic Market, so I'm going to look for that next time I'm there.

I wonder if I'm just a vegan who eats meat... I should spend more time looking into vegan stuff.

Memorabilia

On the train home from Batman: Gotham Knight, the train heading towards my station went past the train heading back towards the city. I was reading a book, and just happened to look up as the train was going by, and it was going so fast that my first thought was that I was going to die (yes, I'm a melodramatic). My second thought was that I was going to die with a DVD from Super Chris with "Hentai Sampler" written on it - which is something I don't want found on me when they dig through the remains and try to work out who I am (no offense, Super Chris) - not because I don't like hentai, but because I don't want that to be one of the things my parents have to pick up from the morgue when they go to get my possessions. Well, I know it'd be all scratched and unwatchable, but I'd bet if the train had crashed, the label on the DVD would have been legible.

For the rest of the ride home, I started to think about the things I wouldn't want found on me when I die:

-anything to do with Big Brother. With the exception of the Joe Schmo Show, which I got hooked on because the "contestant" Matt was so sweet, I hate reality TV with a passion. It's not "reality", and one of the things that makes Ben Elton so awesome (read "Chart Throb" and "Dead Famous" if you haven't already - they're satirical books based on "Big Brother" and "<country> Idol").

-a tennis racquet. Tennis stole my Daniel Jackson!

Actually, now that I think about it, why do I care what I'm found with when I'm dead, because I'll be dead?

I'm so sick of "21st" stuff now. I didn't even want to have a 21st in the first place, but Sharon, Anjelica and Amanda kept telling me to have one, so now I am. My plan for my actual 21st was to go to the supermarket, buy one of those microwave dinners, and eat it while playing WoW. Now it seems I'm going to a bar, mum is yelling at me about everything, people keep calling me when I want to sleep, and I'm seriously wishing the train did crash.

So yeah, if you're undecided about whether you want to come or not, please don't. That can be my birthday present. Thanks.

I really shouldn't post while feeling so emo.

(D) Chaser

George Downes: Michael's chasing Kimmy?
Julianne Potter: Yes!
George Downes: You're chasing Michael?
Julianne Potter: YES!
George Downes: Who's chasing you... nobody, get it? There's your answer.
-My Best Friend's Wedding

The whole homewrecker thing came up again today, and I was reminded of how QCN told me she was never really sure how I felt about the guy in question. Since it was so long ago, I think a little back story is needed. I met a guy, there was some drunken (on his part) flirting, I asked him to come and see Hitman at the Moonlight Cinema. He said he'd come, but at the last minute, told QCN to tell me that he couldn't make it for an unknown reason - that reason turned out to be that his girlfriend didn't want him to go. I asked him out to dinner, just as friends, but got stood up as again, his girlfriend intervened.

For the movie thing, I didn't know he had a girlfriend, and so I guess I was asking him out. I wasn't really sure how I felt about him - half of me was thinking of him as another pokémon to add to my collection (gotta catch 'em all), but the other half was thinking maybe he might be a good guy to be with.

So when I asked him out to dinner, I knew he had a girlfriend. I wanted to be friends, but a small part of me also wondered if maybe he'd dump her for me. Though, since he stood me up for her, the answer was pretty obvious. I didn't give up on him because I'm some noble person and saw that he had a girlfriend and was off-limits. Part of the reason was because I was rejected.

I'm a terrible person.

I know.

(D) More Boring Emo Complaining From Me

I don't know why, but I've been so insecure lately. I'm wondering what happened to the self-sufficient Anna who was able to do things without having to rely on other people. Since we started going out, every time I've been a bit sad, I relied on MrMan5.5 to make me feel better, but yesterday I realised he has his own life and things to deal with, and I can't keep doing that. I should really do more stuff on my own rather than being one of those annoying clingy girlfriends who calls their boyfriend every 5 minutes because they practically can't breathe without hearing the sound of his voice. Urgh, please don't ever let me be like that.

Normally, if someone else came to me feeling like this, I'd tell them to go and do whatever it is that cheers them up, but now I'm starting to realise how they feel because at the moment, I'm feeling a bit apathetic. Maybe this is a good thing, as people who have gone through something are better suited to helping someone else, right? Maybe my calling doesn't lie in the software industry, but in the social work industry?

Usually some sort of project helps get my mind off things, and Autofix and I are working on a Warcraft III map at the moment. I've had a little experience with Starcraft maps, and Auto has found some nice trigger templates we can use, so it should be fun once we iron out a few details. Now I just need the motivation to start.

I keep thinking about Jello's advice every time <One> wiped on something and people starting crying about armour repair costs - "Harden the fuck up!" Something to leave for tomorrow. Today, I think I'm going to do what fat people do best, and eat my sorrows away. Copious amounts of junk food awaits me in the kitchen.

Over And Over

Wow. Let's do that again.
-Donkey, Shrek

While in JB, I overheard a guy telling his brother that he traded in Zelda: Twilight Princess and Medal of Honour on Wii for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. His brother got pissed off, because it turned out both of those games belonged to him, and he didn't want to trade them in for SSBB. The guy's argument was that his brother never played them anymore, so they might as well get a game for free in exchange for the games they weren't going to play rather than let them sit there and collect dust. His brother said that he might want to go back and play Z:TP again.

The whole trade games in for money/other games thing that seems to be appearing in lots of stores makes me a little sad. On one hand, it means I can get second-hand games for a slightly lower price than the original price (*cough* EB giving a $5 discount for pre-owned games *cough*), but it makes me wonder what happened to the days where owning a huge shelf full of games was a source of pride, and looking at games that you had played in the past gave you a sense of nostalgia. I've played through Zelda: A Link To The Past at least 6 times from scratch, and every time I play it, it feels like seeing an old friend that I haven't seen in a while. We have a box full of SNES games that we bring out every now and again, because playing them reminds us of the times when gaming wasn't about, "OMG, look at the graphics, it's so realistic, I can see individual grains of sand on the beach, but oh no, I have nobody to play with and nothing to do in this game because other than awesome graphics, there isn't anything else to this game, and everybody got bored with it within a couple of days, so I'm just going to watch porn anime instead", but gaming was actually about playing games.

When we were at his beach house, MrMan5.5 was playing Super Mario RPG while I worked on my HLT project. He said he has spent hours playing that game, and even though he finished at least 10 times already, he still had fun playing it again. The graphics aren't awesome, but who cares?

Maybe I'm just getting old, but lately, I haven't found many new games all that exciting. I want to play TF2 (mostly because Afoxi has been going on about it for aaaaaaaaaages), but none of the new DS/Wii games has really caught my attention for very long (shhhh, Pulkit, it's not because Nintendo sucks). My most played games now are War3, Guild Wars, Freecell and Tetris. Hardly cutting edge games, but I still manage to get a lot of enjoyment out of them.

My sister and I have been playing Brawl a bit lately, which I starting to bring back that whole playing games for the sake of playing games, rather than just to beat the ultimate boss at the end. We both suck, but it's so much fun, especially watching her be a noob. *ahem*

Anyway, I just wanted to say the whole trading games in thing makes me sad.

Oh, and I can receive SMSes on my phone again! :D

Another oh! Bean is coming to Melbourne! :D x 2

Julian says EB does give a big discount on pre-owned games.