Things LJ Was Not Meant To Know

[mrissa]

1. I have often said that if you ever hear someone in a story of mine intoning that there are Things Man Was Not Meant To Know, you should expect an anvil to fall out of the sky on their head. I just don't believe in that.

2. The Bigdale Nordstrom's bra department in a sale: ladies and female-identified persons of other categories of manners, I have seen the Promised Land, and it is well-organized and extremely matter-of-fact, and has an Orange Julius very conveniently located for Wiktory Julius. (Wiktory tastes like blackberries, apparently.)

3. I am working on identifying the things I don't really want to do that I think I want to do, so I can stop wisting after them. I have discovered that my desire to go swimming is very, very narrow. The only place I've found in Eagan so far with the ability to go swimming occasionally rather than getting a membership for a month or more is the outdoor pool attached to the water park here, and it's only adult swim from 7-8 in the morning. It turns out it takes really, really specific conditions to get me out the door to swim in an unknown outdoor pool with strangers at seven in the morning, and the temperature range for that is...not large. And not common in Minnesota at seven a.m.

Mostly, though, I think it's good to be realistic about the difference between "I want that" and "in an ideal universe I would want that, but the parameters involved in this universe make it not worth the time/energy/etc." so that I can focus on making the first category happen and not getting tripped up on the second category.

4. I keep thinking that any one of these days, the eggplant is going to stop flowering and start, y'know, making eggplants. At least the tomatoes have set fruit. The great day of caprese salad is not far.

5. I know this is not a book report post, but uff da, people, 19th century Iceland was so squalid.

Comments

[aedifica]

1. So saying "There are things man was not meant to know" in a Mrissa story is equivalent to pulling the lever (the one that causes the sixteen-ton weight to drop on one's head)?

2. Oh, cool! I've heard good things about their bra selection, but I've never gotten around to looking. (I don't think I had ever set foot in a Nordstrom's until Tuesday night this week, and I was looking at sandals and watches instead of bras. But it was that same Nordstrom's.)

2a. I had a Wiktory Julius myself after finding what I wanted a few stores away from there, but it tasted of Original rather than blackberries.

3. That sounds like a very useful endeavor, one that many (by which I mean, I and probably other people too) would benefit from emulating.

[mrissa]

2. Seriously. This is the place. I heard the sales clerk who was doing the fitting talking this woman through the fact that she is now (after nursing) a 38H. And the clerk was being very matter-of-fact and very body positive without being all cheerleady, and she actually said, "Come on, give yourself a break. You have more important stuff to think about than what size your bra says." Go clerk.

[aedifica]

And that is even better than having a good selection! Cool!

[akirlu]

Naturally, one hopes that you will not have an anvil fall out of the sky on your head. Or any other parts. Wonder if the local Nordstrom bra department also resembles Arcadia, even under sale conditions? I believe I may be overdue to Find Out.