Salads are the new Pasta. I'm all about warning people on new trends and this one is here to stay. I may have just made that one up, but salads are awesome.
As I got older, I started to trend my eating habits away from meat. Like it or love it, I did. I'm from the South (SHOCKING, I know.), so this wasn't a problem because seafood is our meat. I was always prejudiced against Chinese shrimp and refused to buy non-Louisiana shrimp in the supermarket because I support my local commerce. Here in Macau, it's even more imperative that you monitor what you eat. So I stopped eating meat completely after the incident with the chicken in the Red Market, surely I wrote about that..., and I only eat fish and the like, but mostly veggies. Healthy is the future.
Also prawn crackers. I know, I thought "Gross" too before I moved out here and they're everywhere. Prawn crackers are the new potato chips in this household, at least.
Work is productive. I think (knock on wood) we have a prototype at last that seems promising and stable. I have the utmost faith in its ability to produce results. Once that is determined, the sky is the limit.
Also, we did end up going to see Lady Gaga last minute last week. She added 3 more tour dates in HK and released a ton of tickets last minute and we snapped five of those suckers up. It was actually a super good concert and in light of a vote the UMC conference held last week (from my best friend's fb posts, truthfully and in a nutshell, I gather it was to look down on same sex couples...), her concert was a message of acceptance and love and being proud of who you are. I can appreciate that message. Also to the UMC: you are human and who are you to judge?
Soapbox moment: If you have been made a God in the eyes of the world, fine, you can judge. But let none of the rest of us forget: judge not lest ye be judged. The reason I am not married to a church is because when I worked for mine, I found out my church is human. Glass shattering moment there, folks. The bottom line in this world should be that we treat everyone with respect and love because the fact of the matter is: no one knows what is out there in the ether. We believe, but no one KNOWS and there is a fundamental difference between the two. So have your convictions. I choose to live by another law and when you condemn me for it, it doesn't matter because I know that I love my fellow human beings. I will come back to my church when you accept everyone without judgement as we were meant to do.
Soapbox moment over. I'm sure I'll get in trouble with a lot of people for that one. Keep it to yourself though, because I have spent 26 years trying to be comfortable in my own skin and come up with my own beliefs. I finally am and I have. At LSU, the holy rollers scream at college students in "Free Speech Alley" as if they will actually make a difference to a bunch of twenty-something year old sinners. They're merely a pageant. Garnering attention for themselves, but not for their message because hate does nothing to communicate a point. "You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar." How many times did I hear that from my mother growing up? Heck, I still get that from her!
Anywho. Enough of me being preachy. I'm tired of hearing myself rant.
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