Infrequent posts are infrequent. Also, if you only friended me because we were in the same fandom at some point and are disappointed by the lack of fandom content, every day is de-friending amnesty day around here. My widdle fewwings won't get hurt.

( Updatey stuff )

This is the time of year when I buy a lot of cooking magazines from the racks at the supermarket. I've been a fan of the Better Homes & Gardens Special Interest Publications since the late 90s, and some of my favorite holiday recipes come from these books. Usually each year I find at least one thing that becomes a perennial favorite, a bunch of ( Read more... )

So far I've been doing really well on having veggies and/or fruit with every meal. The Cook's Illustrated Italian Sunday Gravy that I made Friday was the exception. A friend kindly tried to say the tomatoes and onions count, but I don't think they really do. I got to freeze a whole bunch of sauce to thaw out when my parents are here at the holidays ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to get a twitter, if only for the challenge... 140 characters, srsly? And then threerings posted her new twitter info, so I figured, I'll go start one now. Only apparently, since luciademedici was already listed as a follower, I must've made an account umpteen months ago and forgotten and never used it. So, hai! I'm brienze over there too. And I found tiamet, ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

I stopped using my "Damn it's hot out" icon a while ago, because it hasn't gotten above the mid 90s (35ish C) since Hurricane Ike back at the beginning of September. This week the overnight chill finally lingered throughout the morning (and now that I go outside every morning to feed Shrubbery Cat, I notice the weather much more than I used to). ( Read more... )

So I just spent the last hour and a half trying to break my TiVo, because it is also my DVD player and I was looking up scenes and timestamps on the 6 discs of the extended LotR. Some things I have learned ( Read more... )

1. Yarn arriving Friday afternoon for a Sunday 11am deadline was not fast enough. If I could have pulled an all-nighter I might have finished, but I'm not a kid anymore and my heart strenuously objects to being that tired. I like the thump-thumps to stay nice and regular, so I just finished that pair of socks for the Ravelympics instead ( Read more... )

Not much knitting last night because I went out for yummy barbecue with a friend.

( And the stained glass doesn't look that impressive either )

I just got my Ravelry invite! Which is great because WoW is down till this afternoon patching, and I totally blew off going out to weed my yard this morning so I'm at loose ends, so to speak ( Read more... )