That's it! NOBODY dies!

[guingel]

Today, I will use only my Shackleton icon in honor of the pilot who landed a plane with no engines in the middle of the Hudson without anyone dying.

Truly, truly a Shackletonian feat. Chesley Sullenberger III, I salute you. And am impressed with your name.




Also I'm really excited to have such a fitting opportunity to call something Shackletonian. ::eats celebratory fruit roll-up::

In other news, my appetite is back, and it celebrated this yesterday by craving milk the whole day.

Comments

[ohmiya-sg.livejournal.com]

Ooh, fruit roll-up! 8D

[guingel.livejournal.com]

They're so delicious! XD I finally started buying fruit snacks for myself last year after not being allowed to eat them my whole childhood.

[ohmiya-sg.livejournal.com]

I completely understand. I seem to remember buying... Roo...something. Dunkaroos! XD The little kangaroo-shaped cookies that come with frosting to dip them in, since we would very rarely get them, despite--or, more likely, due to--copious whining. The urge fades after the first few times, once you grow up and realize how bad they are for you, and how they don't even taste as good as you used to think they did. XD I'm eating a lot more fresh veggies now that I live alone, and I used to eat a lot of fruit last year. I don't have quite the counter space this year, and I don't know where to put fruit now... Hrm. :/

But then, I was allowed junk food, just not everything I wanted.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was totally allowed junk food. Actually, I think the reason we never had fruit snacks was more related to their cost than anything else. You really don't get a lot of fruit snack for your buck.

We never got Dunkaroos, either, for the same reason, but they never hooked me. I like chewy, fruity type things. Like I've been binging on starbursts lately and there were no starbursts-related limitations in my childhood. The less my candy is like real food, the better. XD

I do love fruit, though. And vegetables. There are good selections at my grocery store and they tend to be really expensive, plus I find buying them really stressful, otherwise I'd be eating fruit all the time. As is I do pretty okay, I think.

[ohmiya-sg.livejournal.com]

Definitely the cost. They like charging for individual packaging. But, it was also the nutritional value, for us. My mom liked to call Koolaid and...Squeeze Its? Man, I need to look these up. XD Anyway, she called them "sugar water" and wouldn't buy them most of the time. We loved it when other parents brought them for all the kids after soccer games. XD

I used to eat a ton of candy, though I do still binge now and then. Candy and snack-type junk foods are kind of two different things for me. XD I don't buy as many of the snack-type things anymore because I'd rather have, like, beansprouts and nappa cabbage *is lame*, but I still love candy. *___* lol For a while when we were young, we were limited to 50 cents of candy per day, which always bothered me because some candies were over 50 cents, and I could never buy them~ XD

I'm sure you have wonderful eating habits, minus the starbursts - I've seen your pictures, skinny buns! :P Someday I'll post more personal pictures in a filtered post so my online friends can see me without making me nervous that Japanese TV stations are out to get me. O.O I just oddly started eating better once I got out of the house - and the dorm, ick. All the food there was soggy and/or greasy, so even though I had a meal plan, I still bought groceries and cooked in the one (dirty) kitchen downstairs.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

oops, when I said "There are good selections" I mean that there AREN'T good selections. XD

I guess on candy vs. snacks I divide it more by. . . cookie/bread-type things - things with flour, baked things, and then chewy things, sugary, tarty things, and then chocolate. So I'm more likely to go for the second group. Man. I don't eat as much candy as I used to. . . my teeth definitely reveal what a sweet tooth I had back then. Although i think my teeth were just predestined to be crappy, because I'm a pretty good toothbrusher. ::sigh::

My eating habits aren't wonderful so much as minimal. I generally don't have much of an appetite, really. But I do try to take it seriously, now that I'm cooking for myself, and make sure I get a balanced diet and stuff. Not a lot of variety, cos I'm not much of a cook, but I try to follow the "meat, side dish, veg" pattern that my mom instilled in me. XD

[ambushbug.livejournal.com]

NO JOKE ON THE SHACKLETON FRONT, THEY SHOULD GET SLED DOGS AND PENGUINS.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

YAY!

Your icon is sinister!

[guiltyschu.livejournal.com]

My favourite part of that whole story was that the pilot's name was Chesley Sullenberger III. It still makes me smile whenever I see it written down! They just don't give names like that anymore. XD

[guingel.livejournal.com]

I KNOOOOOW. How is anyone named that? It's magnificent. Actually, I had to look it up to write this entry and I had a little trouble because none of the articles put his name in the headlines and then I found it and I was like "oh. That's why." XD