I want to know who thought of these things

When i am cooking some recipes i wonder why we eat some of the things we do. Who thought that eating an onion would be good? they smell bad and don't taste very good uncooked, so who started using them as food? Chris thinks that they were initailly used as poison in food, which would be plausable. Another one is flour. How did that work? did someone just start to starve and say maybe if i crush this grassy, seedy looking thing i could mix it with eggs and milk and yeast ( where do you get that from) and make a crusty-on-the-outside, fluffly on the inside thing and i shall call it bread. I know that there are some things in history that are mistakes, like the crepe suzette, and the ice cream cone. But some other things just leave me dumbfunded, like coffee. It taste nasty, but when the natives ate these beans ( not knowing if they were poisonous or not) felt energentic and whatnot, so they kept going....why? if it tastes nasty it usually means its poisonous right? isn't that the philosophy in the woods "if it tastes bad spit it out"? What about Ranch. I know it was invented in the 60's or something on a ranch in hidden valley and then it blew up on the market, but what were these people thinking when they mixed buttermilk with all these other things? I am glas they did it, i just want to know what is going through thier head at the time. Then i wonder if we have passed the carrying capacity for inventing new things. Are we ever going to run out of things to invent? For technology i would have to say no, but for making new recipes ( can you tell i am into cooking), how far can we go until there is no more new things?

Back pain or a pain in my...

Last October i bent down wrong and messed up my back. Thinking that it was just a pulled muscle i kept doing my normail routines and eventually did it again to the point where i counldn't get out of bed for 3 days. After many many doctor visits and CAT Scan, they found out that i have four herniated discs, a tear in the very bottom one and the "gel" is drying up and i have degenerative disc disease. How exciting is that? ugh, so a girl i have environmental science class with suggested that i try yoga ( it was either that or cortizone shots in my back) so i did and the pain was pretty much gone after the first time i did it. Talk about luck. That just goes to show that you don't need modern medicine and perscription pills, but you do need some modern machines. I am still for going back to riding horses, but we can keep the CAT scan and X-rays.
I want to move around and i am limited, i want to play for hours with my son, but can't because i get sore after 20 minutes or so. I was advised not to do any high impact excersices, so i am limited to yoga, and going for a walk, and lifting weights for my arms of course, but none of this seems to help me lose weight, not to worried about it though. My philosophy is God made me this way for a reason, perhaps for diversity. If everyone in the whole world was their proper wieght, then where would the challenge be. Most people think that fat people are gross, dirty and have low self esteem. Well they haven't met me. I shower everyday like a regular person and probably brush my teeth more than the avarage person. I eat properly, i don't shovel food into my face like they usually portray larger people to do in movies and on tv. And i am more narcisistic than most. I love how i look, my hair, my eyes, my fingers, and everything else about myself, and so does Chris and my son. Since those are the only people that matter and they love me how i am why should i change? I know that it will be better for my health, and all that other stuff, but for now i am content where i am.

Technology

I really am not a fan of technology. I think i would be happier if we still road on horse and carriage and had to make bread from scratch, not just buying it frozen. Chris ( my fiancee) and I have 2 computers a PS3 and 2 tvs, one flat screen and an old school one. Plus we have a digital camera, 3 cellphones, 2 VCRs, and probably a million other little doodads in the house that we don't need! It feels like there is constant noise all over! I think that we should become amish ( well, modern amish that use something other than wood to heat thier home) and make our own food and spend our free time flying kites or playing card games. What happened to family time? I remember when i was younger our family would get together and play music ( mostly my grandpa), happy music, not hard rock or songs with bad lyrics, but music from the 30's, 40's, and stuff like that, and we all had fun. I miss those days and should have enjoyed it more when i was there, but i was too young to think about it that way. At least i have memories and photos. I just hope that Chris and i can pass memories like that onto our children.

Caffeine Free Diet Coke and Neighbors

This is my first blog and i decide to write about pop. How exciting so far, right? Anyway, I have an addiction to caffeine free diet coke, even though there is no addictive substances in it. How is this possible? I try not to drink it, but when I see that glimmering gold can, i turn into a feind! And when you look at the nutrition thing on it, all that there seems to be is sodium, so can i eat salt and get them same effect? lol no, I know better than that, i'm just saying that it is the best soda in the world.
Now onto my neighbors. I live in a town of 6,000 or so people in the wonderful state of North Dakota. Unfortunately i have the worst neighbors in the whole city! To the north there is a large house that has 11 children under the age of 13 and to the west a house that contains 5 or so. I know that children can be hard to handle sometimes, but theses little "things" are MONSTEROUS! And the parents are never around, so what can i do? for now i sit in my house and watch out the window waiting for one of those kids to get hurt, so when they do i can run out and help them and then yell at their parents for not being around!!! How dare they have that many kids and not watch them!!!