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[kaberett]

• apparently nobody had ever explained to A how to navigate the garlic bureaucracy. he was startled and dismayed when I looked at him mildly baffled the other evening and pointed out that if you squish-and-twist the cloves a little with your fingers before Dealing With The Paperwork it goes more easily. I... am not entirely sure how he'd been dating me for four and a half years (more or less) before discovering this.
  
• HE FOUND MY DRESS SHIRT. He! was putting together kit for a LARP this weekend! And rummaging through a wardrobe I had already been through at least three times increasingly frantically! and found a wing-tip pleated-front dress shirt, and was surprised and dismayed that it no longer fitted him really, but hey it worked tolerably well with a cravat for the purpose he had in mind! it was not until he was taking it back off... and putting it back into the wardrobe... that he started going "... hold... on... a second..." so NOW I HAVE MY DRESS SHIRT AGAIN. (This is particularly exciting to me because it FITS, and I had thought it lost forever but had not quite got together the cope to buy a new one, for which I am at this point very grateful.)
  
• Ein Teufel sitzt darauf, Mama always used to say of this manner of thing: there's a devil sitting on it (to hide it, to spread misery and strife, as of the M25, thank you Crowley). Ergo I should probably offer a small prayer to St Anthony.
  
• A small blessing also upon the gods of cut-price supermarket cheese, for the Cornish yarg wrapped in wild garlic.

Comments

[lunabee34]

Yay for finding a beloved item.

[kaberett]

It is a Great Relief. I mean, I've been tending to wear all-black for concerts anyway (because the dress code is "all black for women, suits for men", so I've been going with "suit + black shirt" because Shrug Emoji the conductor is my godmother's husband and knows I'm genderqueer, if he doesn't wanna deal with setting up a more inclusive dress code that's on him, but it's still NICE. (I think the reason I was panicking about it most recently was probably actually A's annual work do? But now! I know where it is! for next time!)

[sylvaine]

Oh that sounds like absolutely amazing cheese *___*

Yay for finding the shirt again! *\o/* my mum always says "ein Haus verliert nichts", a house doesn't lose anything, but your Mama's saying sounds a lot closer to my experience xD

And thank you for introducing me to that tumblr post; that is a

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Oh that sounds like absolutely amazing cheese *___*

Yay for finding the shirt again! *\o/* my mum always says "ein Haus verliert nichts", a house doesn't lose anything, but your Mama's saying sounds a lot closer to my experience xD

And thank you for introducing me to that tumblr post; that is a <em delight</em> and I shall immediately be sharing it with a whole number of partners.

[kaberett]

:D :D :D SUCH IMPORTANT GARLIC.

*snort* re Mama -- yes, she has a wide variety of... Apt Sayings for Every Occasion, and this one is particularly useful. :)

[vass]

He actually didn't know how to use A Garlic. But now he does.

Hurrah for the rediscovery of the dress shirt!

[kaberett]

INDEED on all counts. :D

(He has bought me a day-long Knife Skills Course for last year's birthday, which we're squeaking into just before this year's birthday -- the idea being that the present is bipartite, being i. maybe I learn how to mince garlic efficiently but also some other tricks, and ii. he learns to use a knife sufficiently well that I don't get baffled and perplexed when cooking with him. Because there is a Problem, you see, that I am Rather Faster at knifework than... most people... such that if someone is cooking with me and I give them a job to do I will come back to them three steps of my own later and be all ??? you are still ??? peeling the thing ??? you have not started chopping it??? okay let me... rejig my timing estimates.)

[ironed_orchid]

Being fast at knifework makes me feel happy and competent, but it does mean I have to adjust my cooking style to work well with others.

[azurelunatic]

GARLIC BUREAUCRACY

[kaberett]

ISN'T IT GOOD

[hydrangea]

Shirt! \o/

Also the scene of A searching for suitable LARP gear is so familiar that I actually chuckled. The times I've witnessed that...

[kaberett]

*snort* :D

[ironed_orchid]

That tumblr post is excellent, thank you for sharing.

[kaberett]

isn't it good, yes. :D

[sporky_rat]

I squeeze and roll the cloves between my index and thumb, but similar I think!

I have enjoyed getting to improve my knife skills. Alas, I never seem to get good with a chef knife, but a utility and a paring knife? I can do everything in the kitchen with those.
(I think the chef knife is just flat out too big for my hand.)

[redsixwing]

The paperwork *hoot*

Yay for a beloved Shirt That Fits!

[jedusor]

I have a slightly odd relationship with garlic that I hadn't realized until just now is probably rooted in my not-quite-clinically-significant OCD: I know exactly how to make peeling easier and yet I don't, because when you crush the paper it crinkles up and doesn't come off in nice satisfying sheets the size of a third of the clove.