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pinkfinity)Oh, GLEE! ( GLEEGLEEGLEE! )
And we have to fucking wait until APRIL?
Ah well, at least the boys will be in Vanity Fair this spring!
ETA( Chuck! Sneak preview of the new season! )
Well, at least that's something to enjoy come January...
ellen_fremedon)
Well, drafty outline. Outliney draft. Something unfinished that covers the whole of Part One! And now I get to go home and turn it into prose!
Clearly am not doing laundry tonight. Or, possibly, sleeping.
(And the best part is that tomorrow, I get to do it again. God I love Yuletide.)
This entry was originally posted at http://ellen-fremedon.dreamwidth.org/705
tammylee)Homp = hoping for a hump
My mistake! The show last night was called "Lend me a tenor". It was a good show! I like a good comedy of error. I wasn't sure what to expect from community theatre but it was well-presented and the actors were great.
Started writing a drabble for a holiday-themed competition and it has segued into a good chunk of a chapter for the multi-chapter story I have been contemplating writing. *headdesk* I guess contemplation is over. I love that feeling where ideas coalesce into written word and it feels so right.
Looks like LJ notifications are catching up. My inbox is filled with my fanjournal's vomit about snowflake cookies. Looks like every comm I'm a member of alerts me if they get a gift. *tears hair out* And, of course, when I get a chance to sit down and reciprocate cookies it is no longer available. ;_;
*rolls in snow*
Tonight is my second last beginner Ashtanga yoga class. Mixed feelings about this! On one hand, it kicks my ass. On the other hand, I like having my ass kicked. I'm signing up for a level one Ashtanga class. Uhnnn bring it on!
I also just ordered some stuff from MEC clearance. $9 for shorts/capris? SIGN ME UP! I ordered C. a pair even tho he likely won't wear them. He needs a pair of lightweight shorts even if the thinks he does not. He will thank me next August.
Hahaha, he is going to HATE everything I got him for Christmas. That's what he gets for not telling me what he wants.
In other news... boop.
ellen_fremedon)
Hey, locals, or folks who will be local in the next month or so! Want a pair of size 8.5 Nine West wine-colored patent leather Mary Janes, with 3" chunky heel?
I bought them on sale for $15, and bought two sizes because they were cheap enough I didn't feel like gambling, and this pair was The Wrong Size. And I'd rather not go to the trouble of packing them and braving the post office to ship them this week for the ten or twelve bucks I'd get back after shipping. But I will happily sell them for $10, or swap them, to anyone who can take them off my hands in person.
Comment, email, or message if you want them, and we'll negotiate. I'll gladly take books or yarn in lieu of cash.
ETA: Claimed!
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wardytron)I was reading Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth recently. It's all not that good, to be honest – there's 185 pages and the first monster doesn't turn up until page 133. Up until then it's all plot and characterisation. Who's interested in that? Monsters, that's what you want. Well anyway, on page 155 there was a scene where the leader of the expedition, Professor Lidenbrock, finds a fossilized human skull, and observes: "It presents no appearance of the prognathism which diminishes the facial angle." Well this meant nothing to me, but helpfully the publishers had included footnotes explaining these kinds of technical terms. So I looked down to the bottom of the page, and this is what I saw:
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tammylee)Designer peeps on my flist you may appreciate: Neutra Face a Poker Face parody. XD I'm ded from laff. And strangely aroused by... facial hair? Gacked from jmtorres
"You read my, you read my, you can read my Neutra face... even if it's bold italic..."
Srsly, I usually detest facial hair but now... And bow ties have ALWAYS been nerdatucularily hawt.
I don't even know.
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Going to see the Worst Ninja tonight! He plays a smart ass bellhop in "I, Tenor".
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So much to do this week. *rolls around* Hopefully things die down the closer we get to Christmas. I have a tonne of writing to finish before Jan 10th!
tammylee)Happy Birthday wintersweet!!!
I hope you find yourself in good company and with good food!
huskyteer)
Sainsbury's turned me prematurely into an Old Person last night by rearranging and changing all their stock yet again. I must have lost ten minutes from what remains of my life looking confusedly for stuff that wasn't in the usual place, or indeed there at all.
Then my Bag allegedly For Life broke on the way home.
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ellen_fremedon)
On my lj, at least! Thank you, cordelia_v, fatfred, cincodemaygirl, and Anonymous for the snowflake cookies!
And yesterday, I finally achieved words on my Yuletide fic. 575! Now if can just do that every day until Yuletide, I might bring this thing in at something like the proper length.
Today may be a wash, though. I am procrastinating so hard, I just played a full game of Oregon Trail. (In which John, Ronon, Rodney and Teyla all died. I suppose it's a good thing I didn't use the Torchwood team instead. "JACK has died. JACK has died. JACK has died...")
Maybe there is inspiration, or at least motivation, at the bottom of this cup of eggnog. If nothing else, there is eggnog in it.
This entry was originally posted at http://ellen-fremedon.dreamwidth.org/705
pinkfinity)
But isn't that what we have LJ profile pages for? SO many thanks to everyone who sent me a snowflake cookie! It was such a lovely day-brightener and I agree that LJ should do this every so often, just randomly. Except if it crashed the notification system, because getting v-gifts is shiny, but so is getting comments.
Have you preordered your HBP DVD? If you are getting the Blu-Ray or the double-disc version tomorrow, check out the Wizarding World of Harry Potter featurette - but if you don't want to wait, you can see the sneak preview of it on the Infinitus site tonight, with special thanks to Universal for sending it over.
Speaking of Infinitus, I am the coordinator for meet-ups that involve f00d, drinks and/or non-hotel Universal locations like the Parks and CityWalk. More about this coming to the official website later this month, but if you're interested in learning more about what your ship/group/site/comm/fans-of-a-specific-c
I'll be in Orlando for a few days in two weeks - cousins are coming in from Maine and friends are coming in from NYC, so we're heading up to see people. We are definitely going to the Gaylord Palms ICE! exhibition, but is there anything else that's a must-do at any of the Disney parks and/or Universal? We've never seen the Osborne Lights or Cinderella's Castle all lit up for the holidays, so we may try to get to them, but other than that?
Erm. Missed a few days of the Meme of December
Day 06 -- Whatever tickles your fancy
My favorite holiday-season song is Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas", but two years ago, I heard the My Chemical Romance version and flipped for it. If anyone has any other versions of the song, I would love it if you'd share! Of course, I have the Love Actually version, but are there any others? Anyhow, two years ago, I ended up making two vids that year, both set to that version of the song.
( All Voldemort Wants for Christmas Is Harry )
( All I Want for Christmas - the Winchester Variation )
Day 07 -- A photo that makes you happy:
( Barack Obama Visits Smallville (Sorta) )
( The days are... )
huskyteer)
I've had my Gilera GP800 for a year now (and paid a quarter of it off). In that time I've covered 17,000 miles, a thousand of them within 24 hours, and visited France, Belgium and Germany (and, briefly, the Netherlands). That's mostly leisure miles, too, since I rarely use it for commuting.
There are times when I feel I'm still not used to all that power, not to mention the enormous effort it takes to push the thing in and out of parking-spaces. But lately I've felt very comfortable on the bike, enjoying the way it handles corners and the effortless acceleration that makes overtaking a breeze. Sitting on the motorway in the dark, wet and cold, I feel safe and protected, as though my bike will look after me.
Here we are on Melbury Hill, Dorset, yesterday:
helenraven)First, many thanks to the anonymous person who gifted me a snowflake. It was a lovely surprise on a rainy Monday morning (after a strange series of software-testing-related dreams in which my top priority was pinning down a bug in which something was being modelled as liquid when it was supposed to be solid).
Last week's vegbox included a cabbage and a cauliflower, and since I just could not face doing my "standard" recipes for these yet again, I consulted Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book and decided to try the following:
| CABBAGE IN THE DUTCH STYLE | |
| 3/4 kg good pork sausages 1 large cabbage 2 heaped tablespoons flour 1/2 litre milk salt, pepper 1 heaped tablespoons each grated Parmesan or Cheddar, and Gruyere |
Grease a roasting tin with large, put in the sausages after pricking them and bake at 180degC/350degF/Gas Mark 4 until brown all over. Turn them occasionally. They should lose a fair amount of fat. Drain them well. Meanwhile slice and blanch the cabbage until it is half cooked, but still crisp. Drain it well, too. Mix the sausages and cabbage together in a gratin dish and return them to the over while you make a thick sauce, with 3 tablespoons of fat from the sausages, the flour and the milk. Allow it to cook thoroughly, about 10-15 minutes, stirring most of the time. The sauce really has to be thick, as the cabbage will still be exuding some moisture however well you drained it. Season the sauce and add most of the cheese. Pour it over the cabbage and sausage, mixing everything gently together. Scatter the top with the remaining cheese and return the dish to the oven. Turn up the heat to 220degC/425degF/Gas Mark 7 to brown it. |
| CAULIFLOWER IN THE SICILIAN STYLE | |
| 1 kg cauliflower 250 ml olive oil 1 large onion, chopped 12 stones, slices olives 1/2 tin anchovies, chopped 60 g Cacciocavallo cheese, sliced, or Provolone, or strong Cheddar 250 ml red wine |
Separate the cauliflower into florets as evenly as possible. Pour a little olive oil into a heavy non-stick pan. Add some of the onion, olives and anchovies. Then put in a layer of cauliflower, with some cheese, a sprinkling more of oil and a very little salt. Repeat the layers. Finish by pouring on any oil remaining, with the red wine. Cover and stew gently until the cauliflower is tender. Do not muddle up the dish by stirring. The liquid should have evaporated more or less by the time the cauliflower is done, but be prepared to raise the heat and boil it away. Turn on to a hot serving dish and sprinkle generously with little cubes of fried bread. |
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