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My god the joy that I would have had seeing that book advent calendar. Heck, the joy I have NOW seeing that book advent calendar!!! I drool.

You had nice big watercolor paper like that and you wasted it on glue and glitter?!

Dear 21-year-old:

Don't worry about it, it's just an apartment. You can sell things when you get tired of them and buy different stuff. Also, it's art if YOU say it's art!

And get air conditioning next time, dumbass.

As an aside, I bought IKEA pieces I still think are gorgeous (10+ years later) and was vindicated when watching a fancy real estate show to see my exact dining set (including chairs that didn't come paired with it but that I picked out myself) in their nice Italian kitchen. I have awesome taste, and IKEA haters can bite me :)

I bought this specifically to use as a craft table in my bedroom. It's long enough to work on two projects at once and have storage underneath (I have the 68-inch). It's sturdy and very easy to clean - if something hardens on the surface, a plastic palette knife and some clorox wipes get it right up. Best $70 I ever spent!!!!!

I usually go through two glasses of water with a meal, because I need to stop and clear the palate. I've suffered with the fatigued palate since I was a kid. The big portions being served don't help.

Our family liked a small roll or piece of bread smeared with butter. The butter is sweet enough to satisfy a craving and the bread just cleanses the palate. If I had a choice between ice cream or cake or fruit and a roll, I'd choose the roll!

Raw tomatoes, eggs, sushi, wine. Raw tomatoes smell/taste like raw pumpkin to me, eggs are just a disgusting concept, sushi has awful texture and horrible flavor, and wine is so SOUR. And yet they are all so popular!

Actually, I can't do bitter things. I don't like overly sweet either, but bitter bugs me, so the fancy olives are out (though I did try, again, the green with the red center? and no. Black olives are lovely). Cilantro is aggravating, especially since I do like jarred salsa (but not fresh).

Also, I will second the allegedly "cooked" beef. I can't even look at someone while they eat meat that still has blood dripping from it. WTF is wrong with these people!? IT TASTES LIKE BLOOD. What is appealing about that? But if I liked it, I would be picked on far less.

I will say that I am trying more foods now, for some reason. I recently developed a lust for garlic, and mildly spicy things like pepper cheese. We're planning to try a Pakistani restaurant some day for lunch, and I'm actually looking forward to it. You never know where your next favorite food will come from!

As a funny aside, after that rant (I've been harassed twice today at work about dairy), my own mother, who cleaned up my projectile baby vomit before switching me to soy, who made special arrangements for me all through my school years to get juice instead of milk, who carries extra Lactaid in her purse for me, MY OWN MOTHER "forgets" I'm lactose intolerant. There are many a time I have to pause and glare at her until she laughs and corrects herself after suggesting something overly dairy. Come on, lady, it's been 33 years.....

@brianmac - Is it because you won't stop hogging the conversation or are you just taking pauses and enjoying the food?

I hate having lunch with one person in particular because we can barely get her to shut up to get OUT OF THE CAR to get inside the restaurant. Then she yaps at us (about herself) while we all half-listen and peruse the menu. We once left her while she was still eating because we absolutely HAD to get back to the office, and she didn't.

I'm a meduim eater, if the conversation is evenly distributed. If someone is boring or I disagree with them I eat faster to get done and get away.

But yes, school limits on how much time you had to eat, and even work lunch limits, influence how fast I have to eat. When you know getting to a place to eat can take 20 minutes round trip, that only gives you 40 minutes to get in, order, eat, wait for a check, and get out. Not a lot of time for fun.

Neither of my previous items were IKEA, though.

However, I have a dining room/craft table from IKEA that refused to let me drill the screws in all the way to attach the top to the base and legs. So every once in a while I manage to catch a bare leg on the screw near where I sit and leave a big ouchy. I need to get some white duct tape, methinks.