Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies: bucket list

ok, i lied. i know i said that i was taking the day off, but for the first time in months, i am actually awake at 10:28 in the morning. (usually when my posts go up this early, it's because i have written them the night before.) my other option right now is listening to good 'ol w. telling me what's wrong with the economy on tv (thanks for nothing); so i would much rather use the time to put up another post.

i read an article on the life hackery this morning about things that you should do before you die. unlike my bucket list which is more about specific events, this list is more about skills to practice at least once in your life. this one seemed ridiculous until i read on and saw the usefulness?!? of it:

5. Catch[ing] a fly with a chopstick. Yes, it was a skill that was made famous by the movie “The Karate Kid” and no, you don’t have to be Japanese to learn it. This skill is actually more useful than just ridding your house of those pesky insects. It enhances your hand-eye coordination to such a degree that you may even be able to beat the hardest video games known to man. On a more useful note, great reflexes are always a plus in many jobs. Who knows, with great reflex, you might even be able to dodge bullets. Really though, enhanced hand-eye coordination and reflex skills will get you far in life.

Useful for:
--Dodging balls, cars, and other things that may harm you
--Catching fish in streams if ever you decide to live in the mountains
--Pest exterminators

[via lifehackery]

the story behind ssp&e:

so i'm not sure if you're anything like me, but being the 'off the cuff cuisine' chef that i am, i try not to let anything go to waste. you know, when you bring home some bk or mickey d's, and after consuming your poor excuse for food, have ketchup packets or sauce shots left over that you throw in the door and forget about. same goes for chinese food, and you know they always give you enough sauce to put out a fire at the pentagon with your order. you throw them in your refrigerator door and forget about them. then one day you're trying to impress some last minute guests that have decided to stay at your place for dinner and all you have in your 'gourmet' kitchen are some ramen noodles, frozen veggies and some leftover grilled chicken from last weekend's cookout. the makings of a superb, on-the-fly stirfry. but wait, OH SHIT!, how are you going to make a sauce for your stirfry with no sauce? you look in the fridge and all you see is a bottle of ketchup, french's mustard (i use the term mustard loosely when describing french's), and a jar of pickle juice. oh no, what to do, what to do. then you bust open the butter holder, that invariably has never seen a stick of butter in it's life, and VOILA! soy sauce, duck sauce, hot mustard! packets, but instant chinkychow sauce nonetheless! each one of those packets, collected over time, came from a meal, inevitably eaten over conversation, an argument or during a lone lunch of self-reflection, came from a time and place in the past. as are our lessons learned. we learn through the years how to cope, how to inspire, how to teach, and how to live. we don't always remember those lessons, as we throw condiment packets in the fridge we throw life-lessons into the back of our heads, until one day we find ourself in a situation where it becomes relevant and we pull them from the back of our minds as to not waste the advice and lessons of the past. the moral of this story, and the linking of it to my blog- our life experiences are our 'soy sauce packets,' our hidden links to our experiences of our past...

e·piph·a·ny - noun - a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. [www.dictionary.com]

the epiphanies that we experience in life, questions or situations that we find ourselves in, and don't know how to resolve, can most often be solved my raking our brains in search of a 'soy sauce packet.' an answer to a question. a solution to a problem. and so this, this blog, is simply an ever-expanding culmination of soy sauce packets in my butter box, and the epiphanies that have helped to make room for more butter in my fridge...

Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies

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