Doing the daily happiness thing

[st_aurafina]

Because I've been reading torachan's for ever, and every day I say "I really should do that."

- all the virtual hugs from my last post. You guys. *big smooshy virtual group hug*

- I had a great workout this morning. I have an awesome, awesome personal trainer right now, and I'm doing things that I never would have thought my bad knee could handle. We meet at the netball courts at 7:30, and I bring my purple fitball, and we do stuff with weights and boxing gloves and stuff. Man, I get seriously high on exercise. I am really, really good at endorphins, as it turns out.

- We got the car serviced, and it only needed two new tyres. (Country roads are really hard on tyres and we usually need to replace a full set every year.) Also, now when we head to Melbourne to visit my grandparents, I'll know the car is in tip-top shape.

- ANZAC slice is seriously delicious. It looks very plain, but it's all golden oaty buttery deliciousness. NOM.

- I just found out, via Welcome to Night Vale, how you guys in the US say 'nutella'. You guys. I love you guys. ('Noo-tella', for those who haven't made this amazing discovery.)

Comments

[torachan]

Do you say it like nut-ella? I guess that makes more sense, since it's made with hazelnuts, but it sounds weird to me! XD

[eleanorjane]

Mostly what I say is "OM NOM NOM NOM GURGLE", followed by groaning and chocolatey regret.

[torachan]

LOL!

[st_aurafina]

That's how we do it in the provinces!

[st_aurafina]

Yeah, it's 'nuh-tella' over here. But I went looking on Youtube for an ad to link here, and found one that sounded Dutch, and they said 'noo-tella', so who knows?

[newredshoes]

What.

[st_aurafina]

Mind blown, right?

[lonelywalker]

I find that Nutella is a vast improvement over Originaltella.

The Israelis also say Nootella. And I guess since "nut" means nothing to them, they are generally unaware that it even contains nuts. One woman actually died because of this.

...this comment may have veered away from "happiness". Yay personal trainer! Purple is probably the fittest of all the colours!

[st_aurafina]

You have to get out of that country! It's clearly trying to kill you.

[lonelywalker]

Nut allergies are very rare here (possibly because Israeli kids eat massive amounts of "Bamba", a peanut snack practically from birth... even though that's supposed to be the opposite of what you're supposed to do). Fortunately product packaging does include allergy info. It's just in restaurants it can be iffy... They'll toss almonds over practically anything without asking you.

[eleanorjane]

Nootella? That's awesome. :D

I remember one of the last times I was in the USA, trying to order a Mountain Dew and failing because the waitress could not understand the non-USian pronunciation of "Dew". I was amazed.

Two peoples divided by a common language, indeed.

[lonelywalker]

Say it with me now: "too-na".

[st_aurafina]

Too-na-FISH! (I always wondered what other kind of tuna there could be, that you had to specify.)

[lonelywalker]

Yes! If you've ever seen the Al Pacino/Michelle Pfeiffer Frankie & Johnny, there's a whole scene about too-na-FISH that baffled me as a child. Although that was partially due to the attempt to make too-na sexy.

[st_aurafina]

trying to order a Mountain Dew and failing because the waitress could not understand the non-USian pronunciation of "Dew"

I CAN SO SEE THIS! So funny. It took me forever to figure out how Dewdrop Inn was a pun.

[eleanorjane]

Dewdrop Inn was a pun

OMG. I just got that. o.O

[china_shop]

Dewdrop Inn

*dies* I seriously had never got that. Thank you!

[clare_dragonfly]

Now... I would really like to know how you guys pronounce "dew" and "tuna" o.0 I guess "tuna" is with the same u as "Nutella?" I'd never heard that before! But I honestly cannot think of an alternate pronunciation for "dew." Dee-w? That doesn't seem like it would be different enough to be confusing...

[eleanorjane]

Pronunciation:

Dew
Tuna

Dew is more like dyew or dju, rather than doo. British pronunciation, basically.

[clare_dragonfly]

Thanks! Haha, it still doesn't seem that different to me...

[entwashian]

Huh, I always assumed Nutella followed French conventions of pronunciation, but, looking it up, I guess it's Italian.

Also YAY WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE. So obsessed RN.

[st_aurafina]

I think it's Italian? The people who make Ferrero Rocher make it, which explains a lot. Yay my delicious chocolate heritage!

Oh, Night Vale! I love it! I am only up to ep 9 so I have many to go. But I know the time looms when I will have to wait like everyone else.

[lilacsigil]

*squishy Nootella toona-fish hugs*

[st_aurafina]

*shares non-mandatory oaty bars with only you*

[killing_rose]

I will be over here having discovered Nutella in college, about the same time as my (future) ex, who was discovering it through the Muslim Students Union. Possibly because A and the vast majority of his crowd of the MSU were international students, I have only ever pronounced it Nut-ella.

(Also, every Alaskan I know who's made its acquaintance pronounces it that way. But I have ample proof already that my home state is crazy and the outlier. In like all things.)

[st_aurafina]

So funny! You make Alaska sound a bit special sometimes!

[lurkingcat]

Hurrah for exercise and endorphins!

[st_aurafina]

Purple fitballs make the world go round! Or at least, so it seems, when I'm high as a kite. It all makes sense, when endorphins are your friend.

[musesfool]

Well, it's Italian in origin? So that is how they, or, I should say, the Italian immigrants* who first served it to me in the 70s (and who popularized here**, I guess) pronounce it.

*My best friend growing up and her family; they came to the US in the early 70s, as my friend and her older sister were both born in Italy, and were living across the street from me in Queens by 1973.

**by which I mean Italian immigrants in general, not my friend's family in particular

[st_aurafina]

I'll ask my Nonna on the weekend, see what she calls it!

[havocthecat]

People who say noo-tella drive me batshit. Just saying. It's Nut-ella. I may be the only person in this country who believes that.

[jenna_thorn]

Nut-ella is the only way I've ever heard it pronounced. Houston - Gulf Coast - Dallas regions of Texas, for the record.

[st_aurafina]

Right? Because it's made of nuts! Not noos!

[kindkit]

Well, *I* don't say Nutella that way. Actually I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it that way. I'm sure people do, because there is no mispronunciation so annoying that people won't say it (*sideyes "nucular"*), but I don't think it's a general American thing to say Noo-tella.

[cleo]

Yeah, I wonder if that's a regional thing. I've never heard anyone say it that way. It's always just "huh-tella."

[st_aurafina]

To be honest, being Welcome to Night Vale, I wasn't sure if it was an accent thing or an eldritch horror thing. Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtag noo-tella, and all that.

[kindkit]

And now I want a Cthulhu-shaped chocolate filled with Nutella. Thanks for that. *g*

[china_shop]

Noo-tella?! HEEEEE!

The one that always gets me is that I grew up saying Subaru as SuBAHru (I think this must be a common pronunciation in NZ?), and compared to that, SOOba-ROO sounds like a child's toy. *g*

[dragonfly]

Hey, that's my car you're mispronouncing! *g*

[st_aurafina]

Good cars though!

[st_aurafina]

Weird! We say soo-bah-ROO.

[china_shop]

That's probably the proper pronunciation, but after saying suBAHru for so long, it's hard not to emphasise the first AND last syllables. And it's fun to say. ;-)

[lark_ascends]

I have to say that when I do yoga, oh man, do I love the feeling afterwards. Maybe not so much endorphins, but peacefulness. Of course, still struggle with getting the momentum up to actually do the yoga (or any other form of exercise).

Go you!!

[st_aurafina]

Yay! It's weird how good exercise is - I wish it hadn't been a punitive thing for me as a kid.

I'd love to try out some yoga - have to check out some DVDs or something. We don't have much out here in terms of classes.

[lark_ascends]

I've found the elements series that's available online through jbhifi to buy really good. I particularly like the one for stress relief/flexibility.

[amalnahurriyeh]

ANZAC slice looks v tasty. I might have to try that at some point.

I want an awesome personal trainer! For the past four weeks I went to physical therapy twice a week, and it occurred to me at some point, "this is a gym for people with mobility issues. I need to do this more." Because I really want to get in better shape, esp now that I'm moving back to a city and will be walking everywhere--but every time I start going to the gym myself, I end up getting injured. So, I need a trainer. Or a physical therapist. Or somebody. Yes. That.

[st_aurafina]

ANZAC slice is awesome - much better than the biscuits, actually. (Saying this is probably sacrilege in my country - ANZAC bicuits are a national treasure.)

I love my personal trainer! She's the third one I've worked with - because I'm fat, I tend to start well with people but when I don't become their own personal Greatest Loser candidate, things get nasty.

But Sally's awesome with keeping the weight loss talk out. She's super careful with injuries - I have an IT band issue, and I actually walk with a limp, but my mobility has definitely been on the increase since I've worked with her. I do also see a physiotherapist - she works with my trainer and together they figure out what's good and what's bad for me, as well as what my physical limits are wrt to my injury. I guess what I'm saying is that a good personal trainer will look for input from other professionals about your personal abilities.

I hope you find someone! It's really good when it's good.