Just some thoughts

Just some things I have come across/thought the last few days.

First off some positives.  It's only two weeks until I get to come home for REALZ.  Second positive: Autumn in Louisiana is actually quite pleasant.  Its warm, not humid, not raining.  I Think I got lucky on the hurricane stuff.  Only negative is its windy and very cold in the morning.  By afternoons its between 20 C and 25 C. 


The other day I was eating at my fave hangout (Pita Pit - the only place I have been getting veggies lately it seems), and I saw a woman in a wool winter coat, scarf and gloves.  Lady, its like 22 out, get a grip.  I was in a tank top and jeans with my jeans rolled up to get some sun on my legs.  It wasn't cold at all.

I saw a sticker on the back of a truck that said "IM THE COWBOY YOUR MOMMA WARNED YOU ABOUT"  it was a homemade sticker job and it wasn't straight.  The truck was clearly in front of a store that was being renovated so I looked inside to see who the "Cowboy" was.  Inside was several balding fat dudes.

Dressy Cowboy Boots is a thing.  For real.  Like, wear it to a wedding.

If I never see anything with "eaux" in place of Oh sounding words I will be very happy.  Worst example was a bumper sticker that said "Preaux-life".  Yikes.

When outside on a jog, why are women wearing tight running pants or shorts under the loose Nike shorts that make up 90% of their wardrobe?  If its cold, wear pants.  If its hot, wear shorts.  Why both? If you are cold but don't like how tight on your butt the tight spandex running pants are then buy loose pants.  I really do NOT understand why you would wear pants then shorts on top.

Speaking of crappy clothing choices - Tight running pants are the new Nike shorts.  Basically on campus that is what they are wearing.  So we've gone from unbrushed hair, baggy t-shirt, and Nike shorts with flip flops or runners to unbrushed hair, Nike running pants, Uggs and baggy shirt with wind breaker or hoodie on top.  SO UGLY.  Worst dressed town ever.  Also why wear Uggs with this outfit, ITS NOT COLD.  Get a grip, sorority girls, you look like hell.

On that same note, I totally got side eyed by some sweatpants wearing girls at the hotel this morning.  They WISHED they looked this good today! 

Traffic is CRAY CRAY here.  Things I have seen:  People parking ON THE MEDIAN!  What IS that?!?!  Oh no parking spaces...guess I'll just park IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD.  That's a safe move.  Not parking on the median?  Well just park all over the side of the road.  Don't quite fit?  No biggie you can stick out onto the busy street.  Try to park vertical maybe? or go ahead and park the wrong way on the other side.  I'm sure that's fine. 
Also once I was going home to my hotel, and I am going the speed limit (like 40 or 45mph).  Some guys in a beater car come up behind me and want to pass.  There is one line of traffic each way.  He goes into the oncoming lane, and just isn't going fast enough, hes literally doing the same speed he was going before which was the speed limit.  I'm looking in the rear view mirror like what the heck is this guys plan????  Anyways he speeds up a little so hes pacing me.  At this point we are getting REALLY close to the stop light.  I am just doing the same speed I am not going to go faster or slower I haven't changed a thing.  So the guys in the car just stay there. In the other lane!  We get to the stop light and they look at me like "Get out of the way!" and I'm looking at them like " what the hell do you want me to do, you're an idiot!" So now like they are in some danger here, they're in the wrong lane.  Now, there are NO cars behind me so they COULD just go reverse back behind me.  But what did they do instead?  Throw it into drive and go through the red light and around people turning.  Those people are crazy.
Another weird traffic thing that happened.  Same road as my hotel again, one lane of traffic in each direction.  Pretty heavy traffic both ways, it was rush hour after work.  So I'm going towards the hotel, and some car comes towards me on my side of the roads shoulder!  He just didn't want to wait in traffic to turn left so he drove on the wrong side of the road in the very tiny shoulder to go to his destination!  SO WEIRD.

In any event, gone in two weeks.  I can't wait to be home and not live in a hotel.  4 months in a hotel is crazy strange and it just feels wrong.  Cant wait to have my own things and my own bed back :)

Microwave food reviews - yes it's come to this

Back in the ole Red Stick

I've been surviving on microwave meals and I'm going to start rating them.  Exciting I know!

First up:

How does it smell:  OK

What does it look like after cooking?

I added peas..to pretend I am still ingesting vegetables. 

Gotta say, this isn't bad!  for the 2 dollars, thumbs up!

Ooh fancy microwave food!

This smells like chicken noodle soup, and not the good kind.  It smells like the instant nuclear yellow kind I eat when I'm too lazy to make people food due to illness.  Its the kind Joel hates because it dyes our serving utensils bright yellow. 

Back to the meal at hand:  The sauce is meh...too much like cheap chicken soup.  The peas are nice for once and so are the carrots.  The "walnuts" it claims to have were precisely two crumbs and also, why is there walnuts in here?  Like what is that going to improve?  Odd choice.  The inside of the pasta for this is REALLY good despite everything else.  I'd eat this again, mostly because I have little choice.

mmm Fake Chinese food.... yikes why do I buy this stuff when I'm starving.  Bad plan.

This smells ok, but MY GOD, look at it.  Its so BLAND.  Throw less veggies in there Marie Calender.  Water chestnuts are NOT food, they are filler.  Only eat this if you don't like eating.

Oh yeah...here's where I make my worst mistakes.  Why would I purchase this deep fried monstrosity?  How does one "Microwave Crispy"?   These are mysteries best left unsolved.

Look at this shit.  It's like deep fried turds.  It smells AWFUL.  Also note the bite - I didn't microwave it quite enough, took a bite, gagged then remembered I should take a picture of this sucker.  It literally looks like its covered in some kind of food related pimples.  AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

Healthy Choice!  Because when eating from a microwave, remember - Keep your health in mind!

This is 310 calories for a reason.  There is basically NO FOOD HERE.

This one smells like baby food. :S The sauce is super apple-y and full of cinnamon. Bonus points for using asparagus and squash, even if the squash was a bit stringy.   The insides of this are awesome, too bad they give you basically no raviolis. They are clearly trying to starve me to death. (Take that for eating a burger for lunch! You're going to starve at dinner, biotch!).

More fake stir fry! Even less calories!  I forgot to take an after picture.  This ones actually pretty good, but needs more rice in it and would be really good if it had chicken.  I'm pretty sure the low calories is because its vegetarian.

Oh god - this one....Another Healthy Choice.  I must have bought this particular one while suffering from a head wound because DAMN U GUYS, this shit is terrible.

Everything about this, the smell the texture, the taste was a giant NO.  I mean what in Lucifer's handbag was that "Cherry and Blueberry Dessert"?!?! Just NO.  Smells like death.  Tastes like I am dying.  I actually think I am dying or getting a tumor or something.  This cant be good for me, and this is like 1 weeks worth of crap I ate!  I just want a salad, and a hug and a full health check up.

Ahh look at it!  SO GROSS.  The Cherry Dessert was goopy cherry syrup with chunks.  I needed to eat so I gagged the meat and veggies down, and then I was still hungry so I chased it with the next food item!  (I have literally lost my mind AND my taste buds by this point)

Healthy Choice again - when will I learn.

Answer: never!

The below picture doesn't even need an explanation.  You can just see how friggin awful this is.  The beans were dry and tasted like plastic and some had something crystallized to them.  The pasta was so vile.  I went to bed hungry and sad.

Only to wake up the next day and eat more micro-foods!

Ok this one has my vote on good.  Smells very yummy, has veggies and a good sauce and meat that feels like real meat and not cardboard in the shape of meat!  YAY!

That's all for now, I think I am going to eat at some real food places for a bit.  I am pretty sick of the weird taste of these foods.  This week was a lot of pastas but before this I did more stir fry options which seem to be really gross.  I can't wait to eat pork chops and steaks and salads again.  Currently my salads come from McDonald's.  Yes, that's right I'm getting my veggie intake from freaking Ronald McDonald.

LSU Lakes are pretty

Took a jog around the lakes on campus today, gotta say, its one positive thing that its warm and sunny :)

And now - Sorority Houses!

Ok- I have a story about this house.  I was walking here, and these two guys in a paddle boat come up to the bank of the lake across from this house.  And I'm thinking "this is totally romantic" and the the girl comes out of the house and shes wearing (Of course!)  a baggy t-shirt, NO shoes, and athletic shorts.  No makeup on, chewing gum like a cow, and her ratty hair barely in a pony.  She looked like she hadn't slept and she looked like she might smell like beer and regret.  Basically it was a potential cute moment ruined.  Way to go, lady, now please wash your damn hair.

This ones really cute with swings on the upper level

The owl in this pic looks just like a Furby to me.  Also what the heck does "hoot for the Tigers" mean.  They weren't against some weird Owl school.  Louisiana has no reason. FACT.

Moving on to....A FRAT HOUSE!

Womp wooooommmpp!  Let down!  The girls live in nice places, the guys live in old shacks.

This house is so adorable.  I want to live in it, so cute!

Forgot to mention that I actually saw some guys SWIMMING IN THIS LAKE.  THERE ARE LEECHES AND ALLIGATORS IN THERE YOU FOOL! 

That is all :P

The Most American Things I've Ever Seen

Today I went to Denham Springs which is beside Baton Rouge.  I was after some Alligator Jerky, which I did NOT end up finding because they were out of stock.  But the day wasn't a loss because.....I found the most glorious tribute to America and Rednecks EVER. 

Bass Pro Shop


Behold its glory!

It's HUGE.  and it had a giant parking lot.  I swear this place must be the souths version of Disneyland.  There were tons of people walking into and out of the store with guns.  Like totally casual about it - just hanging out with my rifle, no biggie.

Also note:  This is located next to a Hooters.  Extra classy!

Just look at this - it's amazing!  I was struck down with the sheer amount of crazy as soon as I stepped in the doors.

Dead animals galore!

A bunch of dead ducks watching you from above.  PS sorry some of these are bad..I felt weird taking pics in the store

Hey whats up?  I'm a dead squirrel!  39.99 for camo coloured crocs y'all!

Better pics of the various ducks

 I feel like his last thought might have been "Great.  Some asshole in Bass Pro Shop gear just murdered me.  Awesome."

Teach your kid to kill deer!

Fake bear skin for the children's room is the ultimate in luxury/

Big fish tank in the store

I don't know what this animal is but I like that his death face is :S

CRAZY scary eyes on the fish in the tanks

Theres even alive ducks in one area.  Alive...for now....

Theres turtles hanging out too.

Fish stuff for the home

Sorry for the quality - this is actually lingerie in camo colours.  This is real life.  Later I went back to try and get a better pic and there was a woman ACTUALLY BUYING THIS.  FOR REALZ, Y'ALL.

More sexxxy hunters camis

Awesome toilet paper roll holder

Babys first camo coloured hunting overalls?

is someone actually taking their infant hunting?!?

What a great store, honestly this was everything about America in one stop.

If only this came in small!