a "sweaty mexican lumberjack" is a drink that i had at jay's wedding a few years back. from what i can remember, it had rum, some other alcohol, and a splash of tabasco sauce. spicy! if i had my way with nelson (his birthday was yesterday, and his party is tonight), that would be the "creative" drink i would give him.
this whole thing about "creative" drinks has to do with the fact that for other people's birthdays, nelson has whipped up his own concoctions for them to imbibe. and some of them have been quite nasty, i've heard. i think one of them involved vodka and a marshmallow. haha!
ah, friday. today was a good day. i got some good correspondences going, so i'm pleased. i like having people to e-mail. for a while there, i had no one to talk to on that front, and it made me feel sort of empty. but now, i'm e-mailing several people, and it's like having penpals again. (back between graduating high school and starting college, i had two e-mail penpals. funny thing, they were both female hapa's.) e-mail can be much deeper than IM (usually), so there's more room for in-depth exploration and discussion.
yuck. V8 tastes like cold, watery, salty marinara sauce. now, usually, i love marinara sauce, but not like this. :( but i'm gonna continue drinking it. gotta have my vegetables one way or another.
my legs are in bad shape. my calves were sore from the hike earlier in the week. and now, my left foot's arches hurt, and my right knee's acting up. i'm an invalid! maybe i'll have to take a break from basketball next week to heal up.
so for the second day in a row, i watched _dawson's creek_ before going into work. i felt sad that joey came in between the friendship of dawson and pacey. among my guy friends, we've been fortunate that a girl has never come between us. i guess it's good that we have different tastes in women, or that there have been enough women that we don't end up liking the same girl. i do wonder, though, what would happen if one of my good friends and i liked the same woman. would one of us be a man and step aside? would the one who liked the girl first get dibs? would the girl choose? what are the rules in this situation?
i don't think i'm going to continue watching _dawson's_ for that long, though. the show gets pretty bad soon thereafter. i wish i had known about it earlier; i remember really liking the part when joey and pacey first get together. ah, sexual tension! i LOVE sexual tension. you know, where the sparks fly, and all that buildup to the first kiss. you can never recreate that magic before the first kiss, when that tension is finally dissolved with the initial touching of the lips. *sigh* i will always remember all of my first kisses. funny, though, but i don't remember all of my first sexual encounters.
is it ever possible to unconditionally love someone who is not a part of your blood family? i know that you can love your child like that, but what about your mate? i mean, there is always something that a girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse can do that will make you break up, right? so does that mean that the love is conditional? my friend alex used the word "unconditional love" in his e-mail to me today to describe a partner, and i have never believed that that term can be applied as such. hm.
one of my indian coworkers got engaged recently. it was an arranged marriage by his parents. so apparently, he never met his future wife until he went back to india a few weeks ago. amazing! i don't know if i could do that. i know it's a part of his culture, and i have read that these marriages have a higher success rate than western "free will" marriages, but still, the concept of not having a choice of a spouse is so foreign to me. of course, you could grow to love your spouse, but for me, i have to love my wife before i marry her. but anyways, good luck and congratulations, S!
ok, i'm off. gotta go back home to grab my chair before heading off to nelson's birthday dinner.