"He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie!"
Back to bad habits, I see. Oh, well.
I spent the weekend and Monday not writing for NaNo, and haven't since (I've been busy AND I'm not halfway to 50k, so it's just not going to happen at this stage. I'll keep working on this one, and try again with a new one next year.) I spent Tuesday and Wednesday morning in London, meeting up with avatar1983's parents for a trip to the British Museum and dinner at a really good Japanese place. I also spent Tuesday learning that I need new water-resistant walking shoes, because I honestly wanted to amputate my feet by the time we got back from the museum (which was amazing).
I spent Wednesday afternoon and night cooking/spazzing out over the night-before dishes (pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and ribbon salad (which is neither ribbony nor a salad)) and sort-of helping avatar1983 clean up and arrange the front room and chairs so that we'd have places for everyone.
I spent Thursday cooking the rest of my first Thanksgiving feast, which turned out really well! The mashed potatoes were full of bacon and chives and cream, and the cornbread muffins were star-shaped. The green bean casserole was a surprise hit, and my leftover cranberry-orange relish made excellent cranberry sauce competition. I'm pleased with my accomplishment, and especially pleased with the delicious recipes I used XD I can't take credit for the turkey, stuffing, or gravy, though since those were all avatar1983 and his family's recipe. It was fabulous, and all of our guests loved it (or at least said so lol But I loved it, so I believe them XD). I feel much more confident about the whole process now, and Mom says it'll be easier next time, so I think I've successfully taken another step toward personhood.
I spent today in my pajamas, and 45 minutes this afternoon drying and putting away dishes as avatar1983 washed them. It was so much cleanup, but I feel like for once or twice a year and the caliber of feast we had, it's worth it XD
Wednesday night, elyndys and I are going to London for a few days to meet up with some friends of hers from Grand Canaria, so that will be exciting. I'm starting to get stressed about Christmas and timetables and presents and things, and it's not even December yet. I still have my birthday in between as well (and vanillafire's, since hers is the day after mine and we're joint-celebrating :D)! I think I'm just anxious and restless (again/still), but it's annoying because I've been worried about it since the beginning of the month. Ridiculous. Maybe I can blame the Christmas displays/ads/specials that have been around since the end of September. This country needs a buffer holiday lol XD
In other news, my sister got into her first choice grad school! So that's exciting - she'll finally be leaving the state of Indiana...for one basically next door (okay it's one state away, but still). Maybe she's working up to getting out of the Midwest? XD Either way, I'm glad she's getting to do what she wants to do.
Not related, I started playing Borderlands (finally) last weekend, and it was awesome. I struggled between choosing Brick and Roland, but went for Brick in the end because everyone else will be Roland (because he's amazing) and Brick is hilarious. Especially whilst berserking. I gave him Captain Fabulous shirt colors, and I need to come up with an awesome name (for LAN purposes he was Nissa, which must have been difficult for him). I liked the Claptrap to start with, and I still like its weirdness on the main menu screen, but every time it says "Lookit me I'm dancin'! I'm dancin'!" I want to tear out its wiring.
Also unrelated, and less to each other, I should not be allowed to look at wedding-related sites because I become addicted to them SO easily, and I really want a ginat stuffed woolly mammoth. More than I can adequately express even with the world's largest lexicon at my disposal.*
*This is not me saying I have the world's largest vocabulary. It is me pointing out that at around 250,000 words (or, depending on how you count and who you ask, 500,000), English has the most words of any language: about twice (or 3 times, depending) as many as Spanish or French, and completely ignoring agglutinative languages like Finnish and Inuit which, by nature, have basically infinite "words."
I spent the weekend and Monday not writing for NaNo, and haven't since (I've been busy AND I'm not halfway to 50k, so it's just not going to happen at this stage. I'll keep working on this one, and try again with a new one next year.) I spent Tuesday and Wednesday morning in London, meeting up with avatar1983's parents for a trip to the British Museum and dinner at a really good Japanese place. I also spent Tuesday learning that I need new water-resistant walking shoes, because I honestly wanted to amputate my feet by the time we got back from the museum (which was amazing).
I spent Wednesday afternoon and night cooking/spazzing out over the night-before dishes (pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and ribbon salad (which is neither ribbony nor a salad)) and sort-of helping avatar1983 clean up and arrange the front room and chairs so that we'd have places for everyone.
I spent Thursday cooking the rest of my first Thanksgiving feast, which turned out really well! The mashed potatoes were full of bacon and chives and cream, and the cornbread muffins were star-shaped. The green bean casserole was a surprise hit, and my leftover cranberry-orange relish made excellent cranberry sauce competition. I'm pleased with my accomplishment, and especially pleased with the delicious recipes I used XD I can't take credit for the turkey, stuffing, or gravy, though since those were all avatar1983 and his family's recipe. It was fabulous, and all of our guests loved it (or at least said so lol But I loved it, so I believe them XD). I feel much more confident about the whole process now, and Mom says it'll be easier next time, so I think I've successfully taken another step toward personhood.
I spent today in my pajamas, and 45 minutes this afternoon drying and putting away dishes as avatar1983 washed them. It was so much cleanup, but I feel like for once or twice a year and the caliber of feast we had, it's worth it XD
Wednesday night, elyndys and I are going to London for a few days to meet up with some friends of hers from Grand Canaria, so that will be exciting. I'm starting to get stressed about Christmas and timetables and presents and things, and it's not even December yet. I still have my birthday in between as well (and vanillafire's, since hers is the day after mine and we're joint-celebrating :D)! I think I'm just anxious and restless (again/still), but it's annoying because I've been worried about it since the beginning of the month. Ridiculous. Maybe I can blame the Christmas displays/ads/specials that have been around since the end of September. This country needs a buffer holiday lol XD
In other news, my sister got into her first choice grad school! So that's exciting - she'll finally be leaving the state of Indiana...for one basically next door (okay it's one state away, but still). Maybe she's working up to getting out of the Midwest? XD Either way, I'm glad she's getting to do what she wants to do.
Not related, I started playing Borderlands (finally) last weekend, and it was awesome. I struggled between choosing Brick and Roland, but went for Brick in the end because everyone else will be Roland (because he's amazing) and Brick is hilarious. Especially whilst berserking. I gave him Captain Fabulous shirt colors, and I need to come up with an awesome name (for LAN purposes he was Nissa, which must have been difficult for him). I liked the Claptrap to start with, and I still like its weirdness on the main menu screen, but every time it says "Lookit me I'm dancin'! I'm dancin'!" I want to tear out its wiring.
Also unrelated, and less to each other, I should not be allowed to look at wedding-related sites because I become addicted to them SO easily, and I really want a ginat stuffed woolly mammoth. More than I can adequately express even with the world's largest lexicon at my disposal.*
*This is not me saying I have the world's largest vocabulary. It is me pointing out that at around 250,000 words (or, depending on how you count and who you ask, 500,000), English has the most words of any language: about twice (or 3 times, depending) as many as Spanish or French, and completely ignoring agglutinative languages like Finnish and Inuit which, by nature, have basically infinite "words."