10:17 a.m. - 2004-10-30
burned tapioca and theology
so last night i decided to be smart and make my own damn tapioca. i had been buying those little kozy shack 4 packs of sugar free tapioca (the why behind the sugar free is a whole other post) and they are about $2.59 for 4 4-oz. cups. it's just milk, egg, and tapioca, people. so it was so easy and i love tapioca so much i got too smart and decided to make a double batch. and i burned it. ugh. it tastes horrible. and it's not the nice creamy thick consistency of the packaged stuff i have grown to like. so i used one of my good pots to burn it in, as well. i'm hoping that i can get the burned crud off before next year. i'll try oven cleaner if i have to. there is almost nothing in the world worse than the taste of burnt milk.
on to other things. i had a debate with a couple friends on this other mutual friend. let me set it up this way... one of my friends just left his wife. the other friend and i have been supportive, though very sad - we are friends with him and his now ex-spouse. so this third friend has been emailing him hellfire and brimstone in the name of love and caring and he's been getting insulted. so he wrote to us asking for thoughts on this last email because he knew if we were friends with her, there must be a reason and she couldn't possibly be as condescending as she was coming off in her emails. well i and my friend had completely different spins on it and my friends was so much wiser and loving than mine. he simply stated that her baptist theology and culture dictated that to care was to be condescending. i went off on this tirade of how she had completely offended me on a different topic and how misguided and uninformed she was and really sounded like an ass. i wasn't really outwardly nasty, but i painted her to be fairly simple and judgemental. i still believe that my view is also right, but i came about it in a totally different way - more like against her person rather than giving her slack because she's caught up in a particular religious culture and belief system. i hope i can take that in as a lesson in understanding and tolerance.
other than that i still have a lot of mass confusion in my head personally and about my marriage - i'll save that for another post too. i'm not even comfortable sharing that here yet.
hopefully i won't burn the next batch of tapioca. *sigh*
