1. They are yummy.
2. They just came out of the oven.
3. You have a lonely glass of milk.
4. The children want to see how many you can fit in your mouth at once.
5. You know you didn't make it onto the nice list.
6. Because if you don't, then no one will.
7. You're at a party.
8. Your cat insists that one of you eat it, and it really shouldn't be him.
9. Because you're happy.
10. They're your favorite kind.
Pepper in the nose causes one to sneeze, whilst pepper in eggs makes for a nice complement with cheese.
Salt is tasty in many a dish, but add too much and you'll be suffering for your wish.
Onion and garlic go well with many meats, but even in a vegetable dish they'll have you eager to take your seats.
Herbs and spices come from all sorts of places, and their distinctive flavors are like culinary embraces.
Food makes me hungry, this I'll admit. And if I'm not invited to my own dinner, I might throw a fit.
1. My family.
2. Being able to work.
3. Cats.
4. Books.
5. Good food.
6. A nice community with friendly people.
7. The opportunity to sleep in on occasion.
8. Being able to use and improve my talents and abilities.
9. Oven mitts.
10. Being relatively healthy.
They said it was destiny.
One hero, a shining light to cast out darkness from the land.
They gave me training, a magic sword, faithful companions, everything one could possibly need to fulfill the prophecy.
The journey was long. The road hard.
I lost friends.
My sword.
There was a point when I felt I had lost everything.
But...
I picked myself up. Found new friends, a new weapon, and another path.
I faced the darkness that had darkened the land, and I drove it out.
The people cheered. Some even cried.
I was praised as the Chosen One.
But now? Now they dare to tell me I'm not what they've molded me into?
They dare to claim that instead of being the light, that I'm just another shade of darkness?
That can't be right.
I've sacrificed so much for them. Given so much, without claiming any debts owed.
I became exactly what they asked for, and yet now they claim that I went against their wishes? Against destiny?
What do they know, those advisers who've never stepped outside of their safe places? How dare they judge me for hands stained red by their prophecies?
They cannot unchoose what has been Chosen.
They cannot dare call me the villain, and send some pretend chosen to vanquish me.
I won't let them.
For I am the Chosen One.
1. Because not everyone knows how to sleep with their eyelids open.
2. It's a surprise! So don't peek!
3. You're trying very hard not to lose your temper, and looking at the sorce of your irritation only makes it harder.
4. The movie just got to that icky kissing part, and you really don't want to see it.
5. You just hit the snooze button, and want just five more minutes of sleep.
6. The cat's paw is uncomfortably close to your face, and his nails need trimming.
7. Because your sibling just sprayed you with the garden hose.
8. Needles.
9. It's dark out, and someone just flashed a light in your face.
10. Because some colors really shouldn't be combined so enthusiastically.
When it comes to cookies, gingerbread men are lucky. They have legs.
Gingerbread men can run away from thise who would eat them.
But when you're a round suger cookie, there is no chance to run away. You're sweet, and often decorated with frosting and spinkles. How could anyone resist?
No, in the world of cookies, it was your shape the determined whether you were eaten or lived long enough to grow stale.
Somehow, the gingerbread men had made it where people didn't eat them. They even got gingerbread houses made for them!
It was unfair, that they got both legs and houses. But that was the way the cookie crumbled.
At least the sugar cookie was sweet.
1. Chocolate. Deliciousness comes in many shades.
2. Brown bears. It's right there in the name.
3. Wood. Lovely and full of uses.
4. Dirt. A rich soil helps make your garden grow all sorts of yummy foods.
5. Russet potatoes. Sometimes they even come with an extra layer of dirt just for your cooking pleasure.
6. Brown recluse spiders. One way to identify it is that it has three pairs of eyes, with two per set.
7. Cardboard boxs. Typically brown, they make for a nice fort once you've collected enough.
8. Brownies. These baked goodies go well with ice cream.
9. Swamp wallabies. Did you know that they can have overlapping pregnancies, with an embryo formed just a couple days before the full-term fetus is born?
10. Kiwifruit. Fuzzy brown on the outside, and a fun green on the inside.
The intricate stands wove a masterpiece along the knot-ridden stump. Each web was the work of a single spider, yet each of those spiders had come together to form their own community.
Individual webs blended together at the edges, protecting the lower layers from external threats.
Some bold spiders had even moved beyond the original stump in an attempt to expand the community, with delicate strands reaching for the neighboring flowers and saplings.
Would this arachnid community thrive? Could the differing spiders get along, or would they turn on one another?
And perhaps the greatest question: will the spiders survive an encounter with Timothy Tyson, terror of all critters small and squishy?