Title? Why do I need a title? Stop trying to pigeonhole me!
Had a very good weekend. Beautiful weather on Saturday, so I did pool maintenance stuff that will hopefully not have to be done again until spring, and then since I was already wet I washed my car. Outdoor chores always leave me feeling much more virtuous and accomplished than things like dishes or laundry.
On Sunday I went to dim sum lunch with friends. My approach to dim sum is the same as my approach to sushi... try something new each time, but also try to snag my favorites. I've decided my favorite is sugarcane shrimp (chopped shrimp wrapped, kebab-like, around a sugarcane stalk), and the snow pea leaves in oyster sauce are most excellent as well. The pan-fried dumplings I think are actually done better at those crappy fast-food places (or maybe I'm just more used to them there), so next time I think I'll stick to steamed dumplings. Steamed buns filled with sweet egg cream - a violent yellow in color - are vaguely obscene-looking and remind me of the bit in Amadeus (this clip shows the item in question in the dish at the very beginning, though the breast joke comes just before). But they were yummy, and along with the sesame/red bean paste buns are now on my dessert must-have list.
After lunch I went to a titty knitty at Gauge. The knitted knockers have been on my to-make list for awhile, and I even got soft, washable yarn for them on the yarn crawl a few weeks ago. A woman from the Breast Cancer Resource Center brought a mastectomy bra and prostheses to show us how heavy and awkward they are compared to the lightweight, non-sweaty, non-chafing knitted ones. I love the idea of the knitted object being a superior product (not to mention a whole lot cheaper), so I signed up on their list of people willing to knit-to-order for women referred by the Center.
Yesterday I remembered that I needed to take a 24 hour urine test, which was no fun at all. So I'm happy that's over with and now I can go back using the toilet and not peeing in a plastic hat-shaped-thing. TMI, sorry.
We had our first really cold night last night, but it was calm. The night before, there was a lot of wind as the front started to come in, and Shrubbery Cat, who has discovered she can see us better if she sits at the back door to the kitchen like a furry little Kilroy, was clawing to get inside. Shrubbery Cat hates wind. So I cracked the garage door open, and then carried the cat through the house from the back door to the garage. She sniffed the air vigorously but didn't struggle or claw to get down, which puts her one up on some of the inside cats. =P
The house is chilly (for values where "chilly" = 72F/22C) so I'm in the mood for baking. I need to write out the list of Things That Must Be Accomplished Before Mom Gets Here, and start in on baking lembas and linzer cookies and desserts for Thanksgiving. I would bake the cheese tarts that I tested last week, but I'm afraid I'd eat them all and none would make it to the freezer. I'm doing Louisiana nachos for dinner (red beans with plenty of shredded ham hock, grilled & diced Andouille sausage, diced onions, jalapenos, and cheese, all scattered on tortilla chips and briefly broiled). I need to come up with oven-baked stuff to make for the rest of the week, though, so we don't have to turn the furnace on quite yet.
Haven't watched last week's Crusoe, but re-watched the pilot with Mr. Brienze, who conceeded that it is well-done, but still not to his tastes.
Can you tell WoW hasn't finished patching yet?
Oh, if anyone has experience with programs/devices that scan in and convert old slide photographs, please drop me a line. Or also if you have old slide photographs that need to be converted -- because the equipment I'm looking at is $500, and if that's what I end up buying I want to get all the use I can out of it before putting it up on ebay.
On Sunday I went to dim sum lunch with friends. My approach to dim sum is the same as my approach to sushi... try something new each time, but also try to snag my favorites. I've decided my favorite is sugarcane shrimp (chopped shrimp wrapped, kebab-like, around a sugarcane stalk), and the snow pea leaves in oyster sauce are most excellent as well. The pan-fried dumplings I think are actually done better at those crappy fast-food places (or maybe I'm just more used to them there), so next time I think I'll stick to steamed dumplings. Steamed buns filled with sweet egg cream - a violent yellow in color - are vaguely obscene-looking and remind me of the bit in Amadeus (this clip shows the item in question in the dish at the very beginning, though the breast joke comes just before). But they were yummy, and along with the sesame/red bean paste buns are now on my dessert must-have list.
After lunch I went to a titty knitty at Gauge. The knitted knockers have been on my to-make list for awhile, and I even got soft, washable yarn for them on the yarn crawl a few weeks ago. A woman from the Breast Cancer Resource Center brought a mastectomy bra and prostheses to show us how heavy and awkward they are compared to the lightweight, non-sweaty, non-chafing knitted ones. I love the idea of the knitted object being a superior product (not to mention a whole lot cheaper), so I signed up on their list of people willing to knit-to-order for women referred by the Center.
Yesterday I remembered that I needed to take a 24 hour urine test, which was no fun at all. So I'm happy that's over with and now I can go back using the toilet and not peeing in a plastic hat-shaped-thing. TMI, sorry.
We had our first really cold night last night, but it was calm. The night before, there was a lot of wind as the front started to come in, and Shrubbery Cat, who has discovered she can see us better if she sits at the back door to the kitchen like a furry little Kilroy, was clawing to get inside. Shrubbery Cat hates wind. So I cracked the garage door open, and then carried the cat through the house from the back door to the garage. She sniffed the air vigorously but didn't struggle or claw to get down, which puts her one up on some of the inside cats. =P
The house is chilly (for values where "chilly" = 72F/22C) so I'm in the mood for baking. I need to write out the list of Things That Must Be Accomplished Before Mom Gets Here, and start in on baking lembas and linzer cookies and desserts for Thanksgiving. I would bake the cheese tarts that I tested last week, but I'm afraid I'd eat them all and none would make it to the freezer. I'm doing Louisiana nachos for dinner (red beans with plenty of shredded ham hock, grilled & diced Andouille sausage, diced onions, jalapenos, and cheese, all scattered on tortilla chips and briefly broiled). I need to come up with oven-baked stuff to make for the rest of the week, though, so we don't have to turn the furnace on quite yet.
Haven't watched last week's Crusoe, but re-watched the pilot with Mr. Brienze, who conceeded that it is well-done, but still not to his tastes.
Can you tell WoW hasn't finished patching yet?
Oh, if anyone has experience with programs/devices that scan in and convert old slide photographs, please drop me a line. Or also if you have old slide photographs that need to be converted -- because the equipment I'm looking at is $500, and if that's what I end up buying I want to get all the use I can out of it before putting it up on ebay.