reminiscing with strangers

Yesterday, I had a conversation with Laz about how I like to get to know people, how we become acquainted and closer. There are few things I enjoy better than a good conversation though I loath a good conversation repeated. This is primarily because a good conversation is spontaneous and a unique ricocheting of ideas and thoughts, expressions and memories. I don't like having a good conversation with someone and listening while they say the same things they said to me to someone else.**
There is no conversation I dislike greater than the great "Calvinism vs. Arminianism" debate. I have heard every argument ten times over and every possible rebuttal. If you want to get to know me, the is no greater flattery than when somebody learns my ways and my character. No greater compliment than when someone knows what my favorite sandwich is just because they see me order it frequently.*** I like that.

**p.s. I had this same conversation with Laz. I am a hypocrite
***This is no easy feat... because I like new things and (not necessarily abhor) try new things often

5 cents of absurdity

I appreciate most my sense of smell; beit my keenest or most indulged sense, there is nothing I enjoy more than a good smelling. Unique smells have aesthetics that no picture nor sound can attain, and bring me a pleasure as a bride to her beloved.
Bring me what? a woman in her prime, or a fine tuned instrument in its aged sound, and I will bring you a perfume that will tickle your nostrils and warm your lungs. Of the mentioned three, a wiff and a waft shall I choose.

Many are shocked that I do not like coffee, but they have assumed I do not like it through and through. I like its freshly brewed scent ever so much and I like the touch of coffee beans to the finger; I like the sight of one enjoying his/her cup of coffee and I like the sound of a mug being filled. I just don't like the taste much...

indifference irks me

At this present moment, if I have no other godly characteristics, I know we share one similarity. I like yea's and nea's.. and the people who could care less make me want to spit. Okay, not literally, but if I ask you if you want to do something, I like an excited, perhaps exaggerated response whether it be yes or no. Why? because I don't like being the one who proposes something and the only one who is excited about it, then I feel like I am dragging said party around with me.

I especially like an excited response, something like this:
Kyle: "Hey (party x) wanna go do (activity y)?"
Party x: "Heck yes I do want to do (activity y)!"
Kyle: "Awesome, me too!" **twofold excitement**

me and my love of candy

Britain should be doing what it can to protect its industrial base, to diversify away from financial services, it seems crazy considering the £11.7 billion Kraft takeover. We all know from Milton Bradley’s game of Monopoly that in the long term, owning property is much more of an asset that hard cash. The British VAT (value added tax) is already being raised to 20 hundredths per cent, literally 20%, in January 2011. Comparatively, Massachusetts is famously called “taxachusetts” because of its measly 6.25% sales tax, imagine 20%!


Already owning prosperous confectionary companies like Terry’s, Daim, and Côte d’Or, Kraft has a very strong market base and its herd increase is inevitable—knowing that before long, American Companies will diversify and increase international sales (thus overpowering the subtle British class) in chocolates.

For goodness’ sake, since I arrived, I can tell that the chocolate is already becoming more quantity and less quality. Kraft is the what? “plastic cheese company” of America? And the level of debt in the Kraft deal means cost cutting is likely. All milk chocolate bases are now of the same constitute; I checked the ingredients listing, and honestly, individually wrapped Cadbury chocolate now tastes the same: good, but the same. Before too much change occurred (not just in Cadbury, but all classic British chocolate), I decided I would try a good majority of the bars. Now, I know this sounds unhealthy.. what can I say?



So here it goes (in order of pleasure derived from, greatest to least): Star Bar, Curly Wurly, Buttons, Twirl, Yorkie, Mars, Topic, Crunchie, Wispa, Fry’s Turkish Delight, Moro, Flake, Aero, Drifter, Revels, Milky Bar, Maltesers, Toffee Crisp, Cadbury’s Fudge, Breakaway, Bournville, Walnut Whip, Vice Versas, Rolo, Double Decker, Smarties, Leah Bar, Dairy Milk and Texan