pshaw_raven: (Poe - LOLZ)
1. If you could build a dream house, what rooms would it have?
A loft studio, a computer/server room, a study/library, walk in pantry, attached greenhouse, catio, a meditation room/yoga studio. Aside from the obvious ones like "bathroom."

2. What is the best dessert in the world?
Yes. Although if I must pick something, brownies would be my choice.

3. What is your favorite thing to do on vacation?
Eat. Seriously. :) But then I also like to take active vacations, so there's often a running event or something else planned.

4. What is your favorite time of day?
Dawn or dusk - I like the inbetween times.

5. What relaxes you more than anything else?
Since I deal with an anxiety/panic disorder, relaxing takes on a different dimension for me. So it depends on what kind of relaxing we're looking for. In the midst of stress or high anxiety, I have what I refer to as a "rescue file," which is a bunch of pictures saved on my phone, so they're available anywhere, even offline. They're all funny and cute animal photos. If I have net access sometimes scrolling through funny animal subreddits also helps, like r/catswithjobs or r/whatswrongwithyourcat, and of course, r/awww.
For "normal" relaxing usually music or a novel will do the trick. Yoga works well if I feel the need to do something more active.
pshaw_raven: (Sushi Cat)
 I asked [personal profile] dorchadas for three things to write about - random things that I may or may not care about. The first of those was ... sushi!

I'm on the fence about sushi. On the one hand, even before I was vegan I didn't much like raw fish. So rolls with cooked shellfish were okay, except the nori. I still haven't developed a taste for seaweed. And given that in America, at least, there seems to be a preponderance of giant rolls held together with sheets of nori, I'm SOL. 

However, I did have an opportunity many American sushi fans don't get, which was to go to Japan and eat sushi there. Yep, the fish is still raw. Yep, there's seaweed. Hmmm.

Japan is not an easy country to be vegan in. In the States the joke is "why does this have milk in it?" (hint: farm subsidies) whereas in Tokyo the joke morphed into "why does this have dashi in it." But I did discover that avocado rolls are good, and they do have a small variety of veggie rolls depending on where you go. We liked going to this one conveyor belt sushi place called Genki Sushi that had some pretty interesting concoctions. Fox is a big fan of spicy tuna rolls, whereas I developed a taste for, apparently, fatty tuna. I was slightly handicapped by my mere six months of language learning and almost total lack of previous sushi experience. So I tended to just tap on whatever rolls looked good and wash them down with cheap refills of white wine.

Back home I'm more likely to try to encourage my taste for seaweed by getting inari pockets when we go out. I've had plain ones where there is just a little ball of cooked sticky rice inside a tofu pocket, but the local sushi place tops theirs with a dollop of seaweed salad. I learned that certain fried rolls are just a way to recycle leftovers, and that cuke rolls are actually pretty good with a swirl of sriracha on them. 

pshaw_raven: (Lone Watcher)
Stolen from  [personal profile] cdayzee because who doesn't love a good meme?

1. Have you ever experienced a hurricane firsthand?
Several, in fact. I don't remember the first ones I went through.
 
2. Have you ever experienced outside heat over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celcius)?
UGH YES
 
3. When and where was the coldest temperature you have ever experienced?
I don't remember on this one. You'd think it would have been in Iceland, but it was probably during the blizzard in Tennessee in 1992, or possibly during another unusually cold spell in 1996 in Kentucky. I also traveled to Colorado one December and I may have to say that wind chill included, that was insanely cold. I was trying to gas up the truck and secure Kitty's chair and my hands were so cold they hurt, even with gloves.
 
4. Is your household prepared for a possible power outage of two to seven days?
Seven days? Is that all you got?

5. Do you have a go bag?
AKA a bug-out bag or a shit bag, yes. 

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