I baked homemade pies for the first time this last weekend. My first pie - a blackberry/blueberry mix, with blackberries picked from the backyard - turned out pretty well. Alas, the repeat last night was screwed - I forgot to turn the stupid oven off the preheat setting, and totally scorched the pastry. Hopefully today's pie, to be brought as a ( Read more... )

To those who are planning to attend the Nightwish concert in SF in Sept... I'm wondering if perhaps we should play it safe and go ahead and get our tickets soon? None of the US concerts are listed as sold out on the official Nightwish webpage yet, but I noticed a few of their other concerts are. I at least would be quite bummed to miss the concert ( Read more... )

I'm trying an experiment: I've temporarily changed my LJ settings so that anyone can reply/comment on my posts, rather than friends only. I've always been twitchy about doing so... I'm not quite sure why, it's probably one of those personal weird neorotic things... Anyway, I'll see how this goes and evaluation whether to keep it this way or change ( Read more... )

Anyone here know how to make your webpage more accessable on google? ie, how do I make it easier for people to find me on the web? I want to make my webpage and resume easier for job-giving people (such as headhunters) to find. (If that makes sense...)

Next time I say that it probably isn't a good idea for me to have (more) caffeine, but am tempted to go ahead anyway because the ice tea tastes so good ( Read more... )

To my surprise, my mom did want to move the beds on Thurs, rather than waiting. So, my dad and I went ahead and moved them Thurs. On the downside, I somehow hurt my back doing this. One minute I was fine, the next second ... owwwww, the pain. I don't know quite what I did, just that it hurt. My dad suggested that it might be a bad muscle cramp ( Read more... )

*bow* Many, many, many thanks to Cirdan_Havens, who discovered that Nightwish will be performing a concert up in SF this coming Sept. Sandpanther and I were so used to the idea that they didn't have US performances that we simply haven't checked the concert schedule. If it weren't for Cirdan, I doubt we would have found out about the concert, ( Read more... )

moving ( Read more... )

...still moving.

Still hate moving.

Very tired.

Hate, hate, hate, hate moving.

First there is all the neverending sorting, packing, and carrying things. Then there is the cleaning, which I haven't even started yet.

Best of all, there is the figuring out where the hell to put everything part.( Read more... )