[Jelena]

Originally Posted by bulldog

Its nice to be back from the gross land. I had food poisoning........... I'm able to eat small things now, but oh my heavens I exausted. But glad to be back

I'm glad you're feeling better Bullsie! Do you know from where you got the food poisoning?

[tsa]

I guess she ate poisoned food!

[Fantasysci5]

Glad you're feeling better and are back, Bullsie!

[tsa]

I'm also glad Bullsie. Don't eat poisoned food anymore!

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by Jelena

I'm glad you're feeling better Bullsie! Do you know from where you got the food poisoning?

I think it was from the egg rolls or the duck sauce...... I wont be eating those anytime soon.

Thanks you guys

[tsa]

Here I am, making a boiled egg and warm milk at half past twelve in the night. I can't sleep!

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by tsa

Here I am, making a boiled egg and warm milk at half past twelve in the night. I can't sleep!

my poor tsa.......... how about some warm tea ?

[tsa]

Nah. Warm tea doesn't work for me when I can't sleep. But thanks for the offer.

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by tsa

Nah. Warm tea doesn't work for me when I can't sleep. But thanks for the offer.

you could have a turkey sandwich, turkey has triptaphan....... that might help you sleep.

[tsa]

I had warm milk with anice in it. Works every time! The egg was nice too, but not necessary. I just love eggs.

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by tsa

I had warm milk with anice in it. Works every time! The egg was nice too, but not necessary. I just love eggs.

what is (anice) is that something you add to your milk ?

[tsa]

O excuse me, it's spelled anise. Here in the Netherlands you can buy little white blocks of anise and sugar to put in your milk. I can imagine you think imagining that but when you've grown up with the stuff it tastes very good. As long as the milk is warm, that is.

[Panthera]

Some evenings I get this huge urge for unsepcified sweets. I do not know what I want, but I know we don't have it in house. So I resist as long as possible, but end up giving up and going to the nearby store, usually an hour/ half an hour before it closes.

There are several problems with this:
I do not like the dark, and get jumpy over strange shadows in my periferal vision. And footsteps freak me out. So after half running to the store, I walk around with a basket, having no clue what I want and just putting in randomness.
Feeling in no way up to shopping I don't manage to follow a shopping list or go to any great effort, but I can't just buy junk either, because then the shop assistant might think I'm only there to buy fatty things (which I am), so I end up picking up random things I can remember from the shopping list.
Not that I really have anything to worry about, as the Rema up the street is the chosen student shop, and really, everyone that was there shopping seemed to be doing the exact same thing I was doing, and picking up some "normal" items just for show, based on their shopping baskets.

So, though I pick up some random things we need, I can't muster to do anything else with them, like putting the bread in the cutting machine. For some reason I really did not want to do that with every fiber of my body.

Also, because I just have an unspecified urge for sweets, I end up buying many different things just to have options.

One last problem, I do not like being in stores when they're about to close. I feel like I'm in the way and causing them to not be able to go home, so when I hear/see things hinting to the store closing (like the shop assistants clearing away baskets) I get really stressed and feel like I have to finish as soon as possible and get out. Which makes going out late at night to shop a rather stressful experience, with really no good reason for doing it..

So tonight I came home with:
sour citrus lips (pick candy)
chocolate pudding
onions
a toothbrush
instant noodles with shrimp flavor (only store that has them in the vincinity, so I always stock up)
cherry tomatoes (offer)
foccaccia w/tomato
two ice creams
mozzarella
bread
chocolate and vanilla cream twist
garlic
Smoothie

Randomness..

[tsa]

Well, you can make a healthy meal with that! And you still have some nibbles for in the evening. So where's the problem?

And you have to cut your bread yourself? How cool is that! Here in the Netherlands in the supermarkets you have to be lucky to get your bread uncut. Only in expensive bread shops you can have your bread uncut.

[Panthera]

Nearly all stores here offer bakery fresh bread. Our usual store has its own bakery in-store, like most bigger stores have.

Norwegians are strange that way, they want the lowest prices and the cheapest products (I don't, I'm a snob and prefer expensive brands and more exclusive stores) but they want freshly baked bread, and are willing to pay more for it.

The only pre-cut bread we have are Pågans, mostly known as toast bread.


In other, completely unrelated, news, I hate anise, and every other form of licorice. Indian restaurants usually give you coloured anise with the bill.. bleeh!

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by tsa

O excuse me, it's spelled anise. Here in the Netherlands you can buy little white blocks of anise and sugar to put in your milk. I can imagine you think imagining that but when you've grown up with the stuff it tastes very good. As long as the milk is warm, that is.

sound svery yummy I wonder if I could find something like that here in the states that is similare ? I grew up putting ice cubes in my milk to make it colder.......... that is how my Uncle and I drink milk and a banana pudding to go with it

[tsa]

I can send you some if you like.

[UPtimist]

Originally Posted by tsa

And you have to cut your bread yourself? How cool is that! Here in the Netherlands in the supermarkets you have to be lucky to get your bread uncut. Only in expensive bread shops you can have your bread uncut.

Originally Posted by Panthera

Nearly all stores here offer bakery fresh bread. Our usual store has its own bakery in-store, like most bigger stores have.

Norwegians are strange that way, they want the lowest prices and the cheapest products (I don't, I'm a snob and prefer expensive brands and more exclusive stores) but they want freshly baked bread, and are willing to pay more for it.

The only pre-cut bread we have are Pågans, mostly known as toast bread.

I can't imagine shops, except maybe the smallest, close-to-24/7 shops that wouldn't have bread like that. Of course the shops also have bread that isn't pre-cut (really it's mainly just toast that is already cut) but also isn't baked at-site, but mainly it's the freshly baked. And when you happen to come across a batch of so freshly baked bread that it's still warm or hot...

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by tsa

I can send you some if you like.

oh that is very nice. I couldn't ask you to do that. It might be to costly, maybe I could find something in the states like it ? But it I cant find something like it then maybe you could send it.

[Trunkyo]

Well, if you want anise flavour, you could always just stick a piece of black licorice in your milk.

Glad to hear you're feeling better, bullsie dear. Let's hope you stay well, at least in the first half of the year.