This is for the best.

The Lows of the High

jss:

As I’ve mentioned before, my youngest brother plays football for Boise State.  They’re an amazing team to watch.  And while everyone else may hate that blue “smurf turf”, I love it.

We’ve spent all season cheering on Boise and my brother, hoping they’d stay undefeated and the stars would align just right to get them to the Fiesta Bowl.  And it looks like things just might work out for them and they’ll get to go back to the place where they first participated in the most amazing game in football history.

But I didn’t really think about what this all meant for me.  It’s my brother.  In the Fiesta Bowl.  Obviously I’d have to go.  But we’re in a recession, I’ve got a mortgage, and happen to have a baby on the way.  While my parents have offered to pay for one plane ticket, that’s still one more $400 plane ticket we need to buy.

I’m so sick of my life being like this.  I’m so sick of stressing over $400.  I shouldn’t even have to blink over that!  I mean, it’s my brother!  In a BCS Bowl Game!!  It should be a given that we go, right?  But we might not.  Because that stupid $400 might just be too much.

I’m sorry to whine.  Ugh this is such a white whine.  But what’s more responsible?  Supporting my brother in a such a big game, or saving the money to make life easier when the baby comes?

I vote you go.  You won’t regret it, even if things are a little tight for a while, but if you don’t go, you’ll always wish you had.

marseeah:

Matt’s mom just died. Very suddenly. I am incredibly sad and I have no idea what to say. Some things are not for Tumblr.

Stupid chronological Tumblr.  I was wondering why you were having such a bad day.  I’m so very sorry.  There just aren’t always words.

bmckinney: savingpaper:

At the end of chapter three in Going Rogue — that’s the chapter artfully titled “Drill, Baby, Drill” — Palin (/her ghostwriter) quotes UCLA basketball legend John Wooden as having said:

Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it—with their lives.

Except…

The quote wasn’t by John Wooden. It was actually written by a Native American activist named John Wooden Legs in an essay called “Back on the War Ponies,” which appeared in a left-wing anthology, We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History.

The full quote goes a little something like this:

Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it—with their life. My people and the Sioux defeated General Custer at the Little Big Horn.

Which, I don’t know, has a decidedly different tone.

As John Wooden really said: “It’s the little details that are vital.”

Funny :)

robot-heart: ihatethismess: jonathan-cunningham: veganexperiment: vegenista:

Can’t wait to try this when it is more readily available!!!

A description from their site:

The evolution of meat.

“Match® premium meat alternative looks like meat. It tastes like meat. It prepares like meat. Because it is meat – from a healthier source. Match is a gourmet-quality vegan match for animal meat. So it provides the taste, texture and nutrition meat lovers want, without the saturated fats, cholesterol, hormones or antibiotics of animal meat.

They’re the perfectly healthy, perfectly easy premium meat ingredients for your favorite recipes.”

but its still meat isnt it? so its not vegan…?

No. It’s made from plant protein, largely soy.

I think the focus on the word “meat” is a little ridiculous, and I wonder how processed this is…

BTW, I had the best non-burger at Nearly Normals in Corvallis last weekend, made with sunflower seed. Really delicious. Highly recommend if you’re in town..

I grew up vegetarian, and I’ve never understood the preoccupation people have with meat.  I’ll eat chicken if I’m at a restaurant (mostly just sandwiches, though), but I couldn’t care less about it or any other kind of meat.  I don’t know why meat substitutes have to pretend they taste like meat.  They don’t.  But that’s okay.  They’re mostly pretty tasty on their own, despite not tasting anything like the meat they’re aping.

I highly recommend Morningstar Farms Stripples and Worthington Foods Fri-Chik.