I just realized that NaNo starts in two weeks... and yet again I won't be participating. I have been planning on giving it a shot for years, but have always found a good reason for not doing it. I need to stop starting new jobs in November, that might help. Not to mention that I should start writing again (the 750 or so words I wrote a few days ago ( Read more... )

I'm thinking thinky romantic thoughts and pondering my travel plans ( Read more... )

Any good chocolate cake recipes, you folks? I want to make chocolate cake on Wednesday, but I don't have a recipe. There's plenty of them on the internet, but I'd rather have one that has been tested and given the stamp of approval by someone I know ( Read more... )

I was in bed by midnight like a good girl. I think I fell asleep for a moment, but then I was awake again. I knew I was on the brink of sleep, but I just couldn't tip over and sleep. Also, there was that consistent thump-thump-thump from downstairs that I could hear even through my ear plugs. At 2:20am, I gave up and took a sleeping pill. At 7, I ( Read more... )

We're baking an apple (wrap) pie. The dough is made from beer, butter and flour, nothing more. O_O And we're also trying a recipe I found in a French magazine, though mom talked me into changing it a bit, so the result will probably be pear&chocolate muffins rather than pear&chocolate fondants. We'll see. Too.Much.Food ( Read more... )

Note to self: go to bed before midnight. Or at least before 1am ( Read more... )

Yet another thing that is silly about France. They do not have powder sugar. The sugar they have is called sucre au poudre (i.e. powder sugar), but it's not; it's just very fine crystals. This means that the frosting I put on my Spanish Apple Cake on Sunday didn't quite work the way it should, and that the rum-cream I put on my cake today is ( Read more... )

So, my last two or so days in a quick summary ( Read more... )

Last night, I was actually going to talk about skating. They whole rink was sort of in disarray because they had just received a new shipment of rental skates or something. They didn't even resurface the ice after the training of the men's ice hockey team. Which, of course, was crappy. There are actual reasons why figure skaters and ice hockey ( Read more... )

I woke up to a ( nice snowy morning )