I love castles. Seriously, castles in ruins, castles in good shape, give them to me I will love them all. When I lived in the UK I once visited a friend of mine (who coincidentally lived near Wales), and I'll never forget her face when she asked me what I'd like to see and I replied with an enthusiastic "Castles and stone circles!" She just gave me this slow look and asked me if I wanted to see the one behind their house.
Turned out there was a castle a little way from where she lived. Turned out stone circles and castles aren't exactly a rarity in the UK. On the bright side at least I got to see both. 
I KNOW RIGHT??
there are also castles all over czech, so people who live in the czech republic all their lives are SO UNIMPRESSED with them. I, of course, go all
at castles
because
CaSTLES
also holy wow yes stone circles. LOVE THEM
my mom is a Rock Nerd Deluxe, but my father & brother think they are incredibly boring so...... you can imagine when we went to Carnac in France......... (fun fact: geosenge in pokemon XY is based on this place. for reference)
and the male side of our family was "so what are we going to see here"
and mom waves a brochure like "THERE ARE THREE THOUSAND STANDING STONES IN THIS AREA AND WE ARE GOING TO SEE ALL OF THEM"
and we did
I do love posing for pictures ahahah
YASS YOU JUST MADE MY DAY. ("Why is your forehead all red?")
Well, made it even more than it was already made. I mean, I realized today that I've spent less than $150 on food this semester. I'm within budget! Yay!
Besides that, hope you're having a wonderful day, dear person who is reading my scribblings.
ahahah I'm glad
yay for your budget!!! I hope you have a wonderful day, too!
Don't apologise for truth. It truly is mostly garbage.
Sad fact is that we have had such a high proportion of families with two workers as parents that many families can't cook, or can only cook for special occasions, not for routine meals after a working day. So they buy ready meals to heat in the microwave instead -- and their kids never learn to cook as a result. We also have a very high proportion of people living alone and working long hours, who also depend on ready meals.
For families like ours where both my parents are very elderly, I'm disabled and my brother works, ready meals are a life-saver. I *can* cook a proper meal, but it takes three bursts of activity spread over three days, and at least two days to recover. (And I have to be feeling particularly well to be able to do that.) So we eat a lot of ready food.
Fortunately we have access to a large, up-market supermarket where we get a very wide range and some of it is ... acceptable. It fills hungry stomachs, and tastes good enough that it can tempt faded appetites. We can also get some very nice bread!
Still, we would prefer to be able to cook all our own meals.
ah okay I'm glad I wasn't too out of line there
I agree that ready meals are a nifty thing to have! this is going to sound utterly ridiculous but ready meals are kind of a Rare Occurence to me, since I'm a spoiled kid still living with my parents who cook from scratch most every day, so on the special occasion I get to eat garbage food it's kind of a luxury......... which is why all the ready meals in the UK looked so good to me when I visit, but every time I try something I'm vastly disappointed. AH WELL
