Coming out of retirement to bake for Easter!

Bavarian Peaches and Strawberry financiers will be available. The peaches as pictured are too big. I am going to make them about 1/3 the size of that--bite sized! I will also mix and match. Five bucks a dozen of whatever.

Anyone interested?

eta: jfc, people! okay! I'll start backing, and ( Read more... )

I wasn't sure how to go about this, but in the spirit of the new year and stuff, I thought I'd say a few things ( Read more... )

Me: So, are you going to write a letter to Santa?
Viv: Yeah!
Me: What are you going to ask him for? (As Amand-r has no idea what to get Viv for Crimmas)
Viv: A Leapster, ballet shoes, and Piglet.
(This is a problem, as she was getting the Leapster2 for her birthday, and Mum has already got her the ballet shoes and piglet doll)
Me: What else would ( Read more... )

1. The computer died. I am writing to you from the new one, Toshiko Toshiba, Mistress of the Dark Computer Arts.

a. This means that everything is actually trapped on my old hard drive, including the stories i owe three of you. I have to get ahold of a serial hard drive case, and when I do, I can access the giant vag in the center of the earth ( Read more... )

1. This actually works for me in many ways: The Birdcage recut so that it looks like a trailer for a drama:

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2. LAND by cthonus: read it. I can't stress how much I love this man's fic, but look:

"Does he?" Ianto asked unable to keep the bitterness from seeping into his tone. "You know what fucking stupid me did earlier? No?" He swallowed. "I told ( Read more... )

1. ANOTHER REC I FORGOT. WELL, TWO:

51stcenturyfox has been a busy girl, with two fics that I read early in December and fell in love with. I had the pleaseure of seeing them in varying stages and hnest to god, Foxy writes like a dream.

Zihuatanejo (I had to c/p that title) is the story of Red and Andy after Shawshank ends and Red gets to the small town of ( Read more... )

Posting with the official twsecretsanta header, as created by miss_winterhill

FESTIVE TITLE BITCHES YO: hotaru no hikari (the light of fireflies)
RECIPIENT WHO HAD BETTER BE GRATEFUL BECAUSE I SPENT TIME THAT I COULD HAVE BEEN DRINKING WRITING THIS SHIT: xtricks (are NOT for kids!) 
SUMMARY: (NOUN) A COMPREHENSIVE AND USUALLY BRIEF ABSTRACT, RECAPITULATION, OR COMPENDIUM OF ( Read more... )

The kid has been playing with her Thomas the Tank Engines:


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1. I DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN MY ART TO YOU, WARREN.

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2. husiemama sent me the most awesome Torchwood card, and she was kind enough to scan the image for us all. ( This way for the crimmas spirit! )

1. YEARS AGO, basingstoke offered a download of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, saying something like, "OMG THIS IS THE BATMAN/JOKER LOVE SONG". I know she said something like that because that's the only way you'd get me to download Kate Bush.

Now, YEARS LATER, I find it hidden in the recesses of an old hard drive. OMG IT IS THE BATMAN/JOKER LOVE SONG ( Read more... )