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When KC was here she introduced me to the delights of fresh fruit salad. Since then I sometimes make a bowl up and keep in the fridge for breakfast and if I get hungry at night. I've actually developed a thing for fresh pineapple, it's just yummy, but man, is it difficult to get at. You wrestle with the spiky top, hack at the bumpy sides, but it's so worth it. Anyway, why I'm bringing it up is the banana always goes brown and yucky, even after a day. Am I missing some preserving trick? Should I be putting some kind of juice on? Because I just chop up and throw in the fruit now. So, any fruit salad tips?

The MiL is still in hospital. We'd hoped she could come out yesterday, but it wasn't to be. It wasn't a good night yesterday. She's been in a ward and quite liked it there. She was near a window, important because the place is boiling hot. With people she liked and could talk to. Then she was moved, and they've put her on a geriatric ward. She's on a ward with someone who's clearly mentally disturbed and spends all the time screaming and shouting at anyone in sight. The MiL told Nicola not to bring my niece and nephew in anymore because they were so disturbed by this woman. She's just been told she's diabetic, has heart problems, is on a load of new drugs which means she can't take pain killers for her arthritis, on a ward she hates with a mostly foreign staff who can't understand her properly. It just got too much for her last night, she was crying and, when he left my FiL was crying, and he just doesn't do that. Fingers crossed she can be moved today.

We're going to see her today, before that though we're going to go buy a new tumbler. No more drying clothes over the radiators or backs or chairs. Glee! By next week everything should be fixed in the house, which hopefully includes my computer monitor. The one I'm using is fine, but I miss my flat screen.

Before I go though, have a meme.

Give Me Something

Of course we're talking symbolic here, I don't expect you to go buy me anything...just post telling me something you're giving me: an actual thing, a song, a thought, a wish, a piece of advice, something you know I've always wanted...etc. etc. etc. If it was within your power, what would you give me?

As the norm with memes, take it to your place and see what you get from your fellow LJers.

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From:

justinsgayhero.livejournal.com

A pot of Gold given to me by a Leprechaun.

From:

truekat.livejournal.com

Even under the best of conditions, hospitals can be unnerving. I hope the MIL gets to come home soon - for all concerned!

And if it were me - I'd give to you a never ending supply of TrickC fanfic! Stuff that you could just dig out at a whim, read, and feel all warm and tingly all over! And it would be written in the style you prefer with all your favorite kinks! Yep, that's what I'd do! :D

From:

ihearthings-ii.livejournal.com

um, lemon juice? it's just nice overall with a little lemon juice on fruit salads, I think.

also, man. that must me horrible, I can't even imagine. I hope--- yeah. that she either gets out or gets back to where she was.

also, anything at all. with a nice topping ( heee! ) of Chris.

From:

clear-my-eyes.livejournal.com

Should I be putting some kind of juice on?

Lemon juice always works for me with bananas and apples.

From:

i-naiad.livejournal.com

Adding to the consensus of lemon juice. It's good to toss through a fruit salad to keep it looking fresh, but also stops other fruits going brown.

And with that nugget of wisdom, I have given you something. ;)

From:

topaz119.livejournal.com

Another vote for lemon juice, and sometimes my mother used to use a little lemonade (not the fizzy kind--we can get a frozen concentrate here and she'd use a little of that if we didn't have any fresh lemons. It does add sugar and calories though...)

From:

vaudevilles.livejournal.com

Lemon juice is good, lime juice works just as well and is nicer ;o)

I hope the MiL is able to leave hospital today - or at least to be transferred to a different ward (it sounds awful!).

And I'd give you a magic machine that transcribed pretty fic thoughts automatically from your head to the page (no... not a computer... MORE magic). Or possibly euro-era-Chris with a need for comforting over the braces.

From:

turloughishere.livejournal.com

Isn't fresh pineapple just divine?!?! It's my secret vice or something, I buy far too many of them :-)

Re the fruit sallad I'm going to be a slightly dissenting voice and say that while lemon juice (or lime) is indeed perfectly okey to use orange juice works just as well and tastes much better together with the rest of the fruit!

I'm giving you a pocket-sized Chris-with-braids-and-braces of your very own, complete with one interchangeable sparkly boy for the pairing choice of the day :-)

From:

msktrnanny.livejournal.com

I'm going to nix the lemon juice suggestions [though they are perfectly valid, I just don't like it in fruit salad] and say, add your banana as you serve. Cut up everything else, add the banana when you get yourself a serving. Your banana will be fresh and no lemon juice.

I'd give you a trip around the world, with stops at every house of LJ you wanted, complete with fic readings and lots and lots of outings.

From:

bayouskye.livejournal.com

Use some orange juice to keep your fruit from turning brown. Also, the banana itself is going to make the fruit turn faster anyway. I don't remember the tech details but I always keep them away from all my other fruit just so they don't go bad before we can eat them.

I hope your MiL gets moved to a better place today. *hugs to everyone*

From:

luxshine.livejournal.com

My best wishes to your MiL. Hospitals are just depressing, I don't know why, but I swear they make the best effort to make people feel bad inside.
Unfortunately, I'm a zero in the kitchen, so I have no good advices for the fruit salad. But if I hear any, I'll let you know.