2014 NaBloPoMo: Friday Nov. 21

[maybe_amanda101]

So there I was, driving along, minding my own business, listening to the radio (hmmm...how can I describe 'radio' to you young people?  TV without pictures?  Ipod without making anyone at Apple rich?  Hmmm...that is a puzzler)  when I hear A Christmas Song!!!!  And not a great one either.  Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea, (No, I won't link, cuz it's just not very good) which contains such deathless lyrics as:

And it's been so long
But I will be there
I sing this song
To pass the time away
Driving in my car
Driving home for Christmas

I mean, come on!  If you are going to jump the season, radio programming gurus, do it with something passable!
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Today's topic:

What is the one appliance you can't live without?

I like to think I could live without most modern conveniences, that, come the zombie apoclypse, I'd be one of the bad-asses with a poor attidue and a blow torch.  But let's be honest: I'd be New! Improved! Conveniently Packaged, ZombiChow!

If we do not conisder the computer, (or the internet, for which it stands) or telephones as appliances, then I'd have to say....

The electric rice cooker.

HEAR ME OUT! Some meals call for rice.  And for no reason I can fully comprehend, any attempt I have made to cook rice in a pot on the stove has been abysmal.  The microwave method is okay, but for the 12.95+tax I spent 12 years ago, I can have perfectly cooked rice every single time.

So that's it. The electric rice cooker.

Unless we are including the modern washing machine.  Because that wins, and will always win. Forever. (If you don't believe me, watch THIS.  It's eye-opening.)

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Dictionary.com chose exposure as its word of the year.  Seriously?  It's like they weren't even trying.
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Watched the first two new episodes of Ripper Street.  It's one of those shows - when it's good, it's great.  When it's bad, it is really really really profoundly bad.  So far for this season, so good.  (And Louise Brealey is in it!)
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Need something for a fancy holiday function?



You're welcome.
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Comments

[be-cool-bec.livejournal.com]

My local supermarket was playing Wham!'s Last Christmas today but my ultimate 'OK its really Christmas -time' song is The Pogues Fairytale of Newyork. The radio (we have to have it in our cars still as most aren't advanced enough to host an ipod/iphone yet) plays it constantly in the run up to Christmas and i love it!

As a rice enthusiast i understand the benefits of a rice cooker. I once lived with a couple of girls from Korea and they each brought two rice cookers over with them for fear we wouldnt have them here lol

[maybe-amanda.livejournal.com]

(1) Love your icon! LOL!

(2) Last Christmas. How the hell did that get to be a Christmas classic? I mean, I know it is, but HOW??? One of those truth is stranger than fiction things.

(3) Rice cookers are great. I figure of all my shortcomings, it's the least worst. Or best bad. One of those.