So close! I WAS SO CLOSE. I was cooking intensely, poaching my chicken and reserving the stock and dicing all those carrots and potatoes and melting the butter and making a roux and thickening and stirring... it was gonna be my first ever TOTALLY HOMEMADE OMG chicken pot pie ( Read more... )

Or not. I don't think I have one ( Read more... )

Called in sick to work today. Haven't had cramps quite like this in a few months... I think staying at home in bed and waiting for the ibuprofen to kick in seems like a reasonable course of action.

My body needs rest. My mind needs rest. I think I'll go do that.

"That’s why I say I have no problem with people dieting for health reasons (ie stepping up the veggies, eating more nutritious food, etc) but have a problem with people dieting for weight loss."Woah. Dude. That just came up along side me and bonked me in the head. The words "diet" and "dieting" are superduperOMFG loaded. They're powerful! They' ( Read more... )

Oof. It's Thursday already, and I'll be on the plane home in a few more hours. Wah, I don't want to go home. I don't want to go home! It's not just that Florida is lovely, and that it's fun to be out of town, and that there are still tons of places that I didn't see. It's that it's so wonderful to be here with Jeff and Vrae and Sarah. We just ( Read more... )

I'm totally lovin' Orlando. And Jeff's place. Jeff's got a nice place. With a pool! A big pool! :D ... it's like, the pool for the fancy building complex he's in. It's got fountain-thingies ( Read more... )

It's bizzare, when I sit back and reflect upon it. I've always, always considered myself an unfeminine tomboy, a total loss when it comes to all matters feminine. It's been a core part of my identity, damn it. But that's an identity that I've carved out for myself since puberty hit. Whatever it is that I've carved, it's awkward and ill-fitting ( Read more... )

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..../[|If I were a NetHack monster, I would be a little dog. I'm a loyal and trusting companion, always ready to protect my friends. Even if they do feed me tripe, sometimes.Which NetHack Monster Are You?

(Quiz from piloter, because he's just nifty like that.)

This morning was a good morning to go play Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, it only occured to me to do this after I successfully and safely made it to work. Which is a shame. I even had Becki with me! We could have sung the epic music together as we set off on our epic quest to get a taxi/get a bus/get a taxi/catch the bus oh wait that's not ( Read more... )

I really hate getting a cold. I especially hate getting a cold when I'm scraping the edges of my bank account. I'm not sure I can rationalize going and buying another bottle of NyQuil (Green death flavor, we love yooooou~) when I still need to save a bit extra to help with the move ( Read more... )