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

[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!

[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.

[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.

[lilacsigil]

*squishy Nootella toona-fish hugs*

[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.)

[lurkingcat]

Hurrah for exercise and endorphins!

[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

[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.

[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.

[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*

[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!!

[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.