I made a batch of these, without sticks (i.e. as hard candy), this afternoon. I still have a pretty large stock of my usual mint syrup, which leaves me with about two plastic shopping bags full of spearmint sprigs ( Read more... )

I keep planning to post and then erasing the drafts. Not much is going on these days, so it seems too boring to note.

1. Finally realized that the apron that I wear to do the dishes is a) a craft and b) geeky, so to cheer myself up I posted it. Iiiii don't think I've posted anything I've crafted in an online community before, oddly enough ( Read more... )

Finished watching the first season of Spice & Wolf; Netflix doesn't have the second yet. - What? It's about capitalism! What's more American than capitalism? Don't answer that.

Finished the Dresden Files reread / Side Jobs read. I've been marathoning this stuff for months, and now I don't know where to start with my backlog. Something that won't ( Read more... )

Aha. To follow up on a thread the other day (week?): Viz's recent round of Netflix Instant offerings are subs. I have Nana and Honey and Clover on my queue already, but these are precisely the sorts of series that I always intend to watch and never actually watch. The queues lower the bar for that sort of thing. You don't have to actually watch ( Read more... )

Took everything remaining in the garden out, except for a few (hopefully) perennials - lavender, ornamental thyme, hyssop, and that one tiny pawpaw tree - which are tarped on the porch. I have four bags of stuff gleaned from what remained, mainly carrots, mint, lavender, and dill. I've got some cooking to do ( Read more... )

I have two hundred twenty-one zippers ( Read more... )

Okay, I am doing other things than writing lackadaisacal reviews. I can probably even think of five ( Read more... )

What was my last game post? Anything since round 1 of Valkyrie Profile CotP? I did make it through 1.8 more rounds of that, and the hero is less of a jerkass in some plot threads. I just happened to play through the Maximum Jerkass version first ( Read more... )

Garden post written on Aug. 18, for posterity (i.e. my own reference)...

( Much of it is true, except the 'hot' part, which lasted 15 minutes )

I swear to you that this is it today.

Some odds and ends since the "catching up" posts were written:

- My sister and Jay and I are going to Otakon, to have fun kicking around the convention. I think we still remember how to do that. :) Cosplay for me will be Healer from Disgaea (Friday, along with Jay's Scout and my sister's Prinny) / dorky ( Read more... )