its a perfect time to steal some new stuff
You guys! Today I did two things I've never done before - I made jam and I read a crime novel. It was exciting! Although not ENTIRELY successful.
I don't really read crime, because...I don't know. It's not that it bores me. I uh...just never have. I always bypass the crime section at work. Reading a crime novel was sort of like a silly, indulgent thing I decided to do. (I say that like some kind of book snob, but I know from book snobs [I've dated them] and as someone who prefers fantasy and Stephen King, I will promise you now and forever that I am NOT one of those snooty nosed 'literature' readers that prefer a book that they can feel smug about reading to a book that actually tells a good story. But I digress) It was ok! Again speaking as a fantasy reader, I felt a little hypocritical when I kept getting stuck on the implausibility of the situations and coincidences (the detective was a dyslexic orphan who grew up in state care, the bad guy JUST HAPPENED to be a functional illiterate who also grew up in state care, whatever), but at least in fantasy you've got, I dunno...internal cohesion? Magic works because it makes sense in that universe for it to work. This was just like a mish mash of stuff thrown in to be exciting. BUT. I still had to know whodunnit, so it gets that.
ANYWAY.
My chili jam was going fine except I don't think it's setting properly :/ Nigella said to use jam sugar, which is just sugar with pectin added, and I couldn't find any of that so I just used normal sugar and then added pectin to it (you get it in little packs). I don't think I added enough :/ :/ But we'll see, it's all jarred up now, I'll leave it alone for a while and see how it goes. EEEEEEEEE. I was tasting it along the way, it's pretty yummy, sweet and savoury at the same time, with some bite from all the fresh chili. Maybe if it doesn't set I'll transfer it to little bottles and call it sauce.
Having today off to cook and read was the best thing ever ever ever. I'm hating my job more than ever, I don't think I like my new boss, retail is ruining christmas for me YET AGAIN, blah blah blah. Thank god I have this weekend off. *makes grabby hands*
Hey, hey, when does Twilight come out down here? I can't wait for that shit. It's going to be hilarious! Working at a bookshop, I saw the crazy first hand, and obviously I read the books (which, for the first three, were just amusingly trashy, only the last one gets down right offensively BAD [yet still amusing, still trashy]). Oh, you guys have no idea how many copies of this I've sold to little, fresh-faced teenage girls. Every time I hand it over I die a little inside. I want to say "Stop! Ok, read this, but then read Tanith Lee! Read Jacqueline Carey! Read Mary Gentle!" I'm being book-snobby again (SORRYSORRYSORRY) but it deadens my soul to think that a whole legion of teenagers think that Twilight is quality reading. There's romantic fantasy out there written by women who know the meaning of the word 'feminist' that is just as entertaining. For every Twilight sold I think longingly of The Silver Metal Lover, and then I cry silently.
BUT. I'm still going to see the movie because, as I said - hilarious. I have a co-worker who feels the same way, she's like "You better see that movie with me, Beck, no one else will!" Hahahahaha, oh god. It'll be gold.
(for the record, I'd still bang Robert Pattinson. I loved him way back when Goblet of Fire came out, bitches, get off the RPattz train!)
Oh! I've decided I'm going to handmake all my christmas gifts this year, if anyone wants anything (think stuff that's edible, like vanilla sugar in a nice jar or cherries in brandy) let me know, because I'm working real hard to keep my festive up this year, and making stuff soothes the soul.
Enough! I go now to check on my jam.
--Cheers, Beck
(I' still mining the MCR blog for headings. That place is like a treasure-trove of ridiculousness)
I don't really read crime, because...I don't know. It's not that it bores me. I uh...just never have. I always bypass the crime section at work. Reading a crime novel was sort of like a silly, indulgent thing I decided to do. (I say that like some kind of book snob, but I know from book snobs [I've dated them] and as someone who prefers fantasy and Stephen King, I will promise you now and forever that I am NOT one of those snooty nosed 'literature' readers that prefer a book that they can feel smug about reading to a book that actually tells a good story. But I digress) It was ok! Again speaking as a fantasy reader, I felt a little hypocritical when I kept getting stuck on the implausibility of the situations and coincidences (the detective was a dyslexic orphan who grew up in state care, the bad guy JUST HAPPENED to be a functional illiterate who also grew up in state care, whatever), but at least in fantasy you've got, I dunno...internal cohesion? Magic works because it makes sense in that universe for it to work. This was just like a mish mash of stuff thrown in to be exciting. BUT. I still had to know whodunnit, so it gets that.
ANYWAY.
My chili jam was going fine except I don't think it's setting properly :/ Nigella said to use jam sugar, which is just sugar with pectin added, and I couldn't find any of that so I just used normal sugar and then added pectin to it (you get it in little packs). I don't think I added enough :/ :/ But we'll see, it's all jarred up now, I'll leave it alone for a while and see how it goes. EEEEEEEEE. I was tasting it along the way, it's pretty yummy, sweet and savoury at the same time, with some bite from all the fresh chili. Maybe if it doesn't set I'll transfer it to little bottles and call it sauce.
Having today off to cook and read was the best thing ever ever ever. I'm hating my job more than ever, I don't think I like my new boss, retail is ruining christmas for me YET AGAIN, blah blah blah. Thank god I have this weekend off. *makes grabby hands*
Hey, hey, when does Twilight come out down here? I can't wait for that shit. It's going to be hilarious! Working at a bookshop, I saw the crazy first hand, and obviously I read the books (which, for the first three, were just amusingly trashy, only the last one gets down right offensively BAD [yet still amusing, still trashy]). Oh, you guys have no idea how many copies of this I've sold to little, fresh-faced teenage girls. Every time I hand it over I die a little inside. I want to say "Stop! Ok, read this, but then read Tanith Lee! Read Jacqueline Carey! Read Mary Gentle!" I'm being book-snobby again (SORRYSORRYSORRY) but it deadens my soul to think that a whole legion of teenagers think that Twilight is quality reading. There's romantic fantasy out there written by women who know the meaning of the word 'feminist' that is just as entertaining. For every Twilight sold I think longingly of The Silver Metal Lover, and then I cry silently.
BUT. I'm still going to see the movie because, as I said - hilarious. I have a co-worker who feels the same way, she's like "You better see that movie with me, Beck, no one else will!" Hahahahaha, oh god. It'll be gold.
(for the record, I'd still bang Robert Pattinson. I loved him way back when Goblet of Fire came out, bitches, get off the RPattz train!)
Oh! I've decided I'm going to handmake all my christmas gifts this year, if anyone wants anything (think stuff that's edible, like vanilla sugar in a nice jar or cherries in brandy) let me know, because I'm working real hard to keep my festive up this year, and making stuff soothes the soul.
Enough! I go now to check on my jam.
--Cheers, Beck
(I' still mining the MCR blog for headings. That place is like a treasure-trove of ridiculousness)