Sarda sarda

This morning my friend John Orcutt sent me this great picture of a boat he and his Dad spotted while wine-touring along the Oregon coast.

Seeing my name always catches my attention because it is so unusual (on account of my Dad misspelling it on my birth certificate). However the boat is probably not named after me but rather Sarda sarda, a species of fish that is commonly called the Atlantic Bonito. It is my understanding that this fish received its name from the island of Sardinia around which it was caught but these days it is more commonly caught by commercial fishermen around New York's coast.

Sarda sarda is often used in cuisine, especially in Japanese food. It has a cosmopolitan distribution though the globe and to my knowledge is not currently threatened or endangered by overfishing.

10 (Actually 7) Weird Things About Me

I don't usually do Memes*, but this one is being circulated around right now and the answers have been always entertaining, sometimes revealing and occasionally downright hilarious. My list is 7 because I guess one weird thing about me is that I don’t have a very long attention span and I’m afraid that if you read 10 you’d never come back to this blog!

1) I love Kraft Dinner.

2) I hate organization, routine and structure. But I hate wire hangers more and my closets (one for casuals and one for formal) is the only organized part of my life. All of the hangers are the same, the clothes are all oriented in the same direction and are ordered by colour and then in the case of tops, by sleeve length. I am so obsessive about hangers that my husband is afraid I will turn into Joan Crawford (as portrayed by Faye Dunaway) in Mommie Dearest.

3) There are certain foods I only like on their own but can’t stand in anything: coconuts, pineapples, bananas, almonds, oranges, cherries.

4) I swear the best Chinese food in the world is in India. I know it sounds weird but ask anyone who’s ever had it!

5) I still keep up with the American soap opera General Hospital even though I now live on a different continent.

6) A friend recently pointed out that I have a habit of buying frames and hanging them up but never put pictures in. I realize now that I have empty frames in my living room, hall, guest bedroom and even my office.

7) All of my plants are named George

*A little trivia: Meme is a term that was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 to refer to a piece of cultural information that is easily propagated between individuals.