Monday

Not feeling good at all. I have had major joint pain in my wrists for a few days, but today the joint pain decided to settle in my chest, and that is just not much fun at all...

But at least Sarah was very excited about going to camp this morning. All due to the little "remote control" cockroach she got! It is a rubber bug on a thin fishing wire hooked up to a little reel so you can make it move very fast. She loves the idea of scaring a few people with that thing...

I have already done a ton of work this morning, so unless anything else is coming in for work, I am just going to go soft all day. I have a few things to do around the house, so I am sure I can stay busy.

On Saturday we visited our friends up in Apollo Beach for a nice afternoon of food and chatting. S is Chinese, but raised in Vietnam, and she made VERY good Vietnamese noodle bowls for us. Too bad I ate so much before dinner, so I couldn't finish it all. But it was so yummy, you could really tell she made her own broth and everything.

We talked a lot about cultural differences when it comes to food, and it was actually very similar how she was raised and how I was raised back in Sweden. But there are of course a few differences, and many things are just food you have been raised eating, that someone who is not used to eating the same stuff think is, well, kind of gross.

Like we eat pickled fish and "fish eggs in a tube" (Kalles Kaviar) in Sweden. S and her family loves the "meat" that surrounds the joints. She had included that in the dish we ate on Saturday, along with regular beef. Her kids kept asking for more "joint meat", but I refused to even try it. I know, I am chicken! But joints? Ken tried it, but he wasn't that into it. I guess it is an acquired taste, just like so many other things in life...

Here is a picture of the noodle bowl I had, but I forgot to take the picture right away, so I have already eaten a lot of it. But yummy it was, that is for sure...