January 09, 2004

Have your cheese and eat it too

It's time for the Cheddar X! 1. Do you have a pet name for your significant other? If so, how did it come about?
Yup. On my blog she's known as "Lovely Wife", mostly because that's what she is - my lovely wife. In private she's either "Sweetie" or "Sweet Baby", once again because she is. Not that she's a baby, of course, she's a grown woman. But she's my baby in the sense of the 50's motorcycle greaser movie. Or like the famous Butthead line "Uh...Hey, baby".

2. What was your favorite cartoon growing up? What's your favorite cartoon now?
Bugs Bunny. I suffered through things like Tom & Jerry and the Roadrunner. I never met a Hannah-Barbera cartoon that I didn't despise. Now I'd have to say that my favorites are still the old Bugs Bunnies though with three kids I tend to see mostly Sponge Bob and Rugrats with the occasional Rocket Power for good measure.

3. What is your best way to save money?
Not spend it. I'm very good at this. The secret is to not have any cash on you at any time and have your spouse keep the books so you're never certain there is money available for you to actually purchase anything.

4. What was your most frivolous purchase in the last couple of months?
Hmmmm.... I guess that would be some fancy string cheese from Harry's Farmers' Market. I'm pretty low maintenance and just plain don't buy a whole lot of stuff.

5. What word would you like to see banished from use forever?
I was going to say "metrosexual" but I just thought up a funny one liner that I'll have to make use of later and it would be hypocritical of me to say the word should die and then use it myself now, wouldn't it? So I'll go with "Al Franken" instead.

6. What is the strangest thing about someone that has attracted you? (I.e. the way someone walked, the way they chewed, along those lines)
Strange attractors? Hmmm...can't think of any, really. I love Lovely Wife's accent but that's not really strange, it's just an accent. At the time I guess I appreciated the way that Psycho Ex would dive to her knees to suck off any guy who looked at her but that was when I was the guy doing the looking and this particular habit of hers ended up irking me to no end.

7. What was your most memorable New Year's Eve? Why?
This last one, mostly because I don't remember any of the other ones. They all sort of blur together and I can pick out a piece here or a piece there but really they're all just parties.

Posted by: Jim at 09:07 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 "fancy string cheese"? Is that possible?

Posted by: Helen at January 09, 2004 09:49 AM (3JPWM)

2 Major oxymoron there buddy! String Cheese = not in the least bit fancy. Did it come in a commemorative tin or something? Or maybe it was vintage 2003 string cheese - a very fine year I beleive...

Posted by: Robert at January 09, 2004 10:36 AM (kXZI6)

3 Oh yes indeedy-do. Fancy string cheese. It's one of my great weaknesses. The other being sleep frumpled women. You see, in the regular markets all you can get is the standard Polly-O lunchbox type individually packaged generic mozzarella stick type of string cheese. Harry's has imported string cheese that is simply to die for. It's really string cheese! You take this fist sized ball of cheese and untangle it and you have a twelve foot rope of delicious dairy goodness. It has only the barest hint of saltiness as opposed to the ocean water intensity of the cheap stuff. It also has fennel seeds. Oh, the joys of fennel. I cannot begin to relate them to you. It's also prohibitively expensive, costing as much as a decent cheddar or Dutch butter cheese so I only seldom indulge myself.

Posted by: Jim at January 09, 2004 11:01 AM (IOwam)

4 Mmmmmmm. Harry's. I dunno if it's changed since they were taken over by Whole Foods, but their pre-packaged sushi is just to die for.

Posted by: Joey at January 09, 2004 12:16 PM (jrRDz)

5 "It's also prohibitively expensive, costing as much as a decent cheddar or Dutch butter cheese..." Jim - you're starting to sound french.

Posted by: Clancy at January 09, 2004 04:19 PM (EGVPL)

6 Don't be rude, Clancy. I didn't mention a single French cheese. Dutch butter cheese is Dutch and cheddar is distinctly British. Or is it Jewish?

Posted by: Jim at January 09, 2004 04:37 PM (fkewd)

7 Good string cheese is always a good thing. I'm particular to Cabot Extra Sharp Cheddar though. And I'm pretty sure cheddar is British. Al Franken? Hmm, strange word to have erased from the lexicon but okay, I can see how he grates alot of people. I happen to think he's a funny guy (and very funny looking, which helps). Thanks for playing with the Cheddar!

Posted by: Johnny Huh? at January 09, 2004 05:21 PM (AyewP)

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