( Dear Yuletide Author... )

How this works: Comment with your favourite colour and I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better. Update your journal with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

I got five questions from nessaniel

1. If you had the chance to take a weekend trip to ( Read more... )

Thanks to masterofmidgets I have a new fandom. It is HAIRY BIKERS. I resisted for a long time! But I was bored, I stumbled across an old bookmark she'd linked me to, and now ( Read more... )

The first five people to comment on this post will receive from me, sometime this year, a gift; perhaps some handknit socks, or a picture I drew for you, or some cookies I baked; a surprise! There will be no warning and it will happen whenever the mood strikes me. The catch? Those five people should make the same offer ( Read more... )

So, in my quest to be more active, productive, and proactive in the new year, I am doing more experimental cooking. Which is always a challenge in my tiny kitchen and in Japan, where I cannot identify ingredients! For example, I stood in front of the bottles for like forty minutes today trying to identify fish sauce and in the end had to leave ( Read more... )

Yeah, so I got an immersion blender! Seriously, guys, this is the Best. Tool. Ever. If you are a soup addict, anyway, which I kind of am. Well. Maybe really am. I LOVE SOUP OKAY. It's amazing! Like a drink and a meal in one! Sometimes chewy, sometimes smooth! All kinds of different interesting options to try ( Read more... )

It's here! It's here! I'm so excited! The first thing I did this morning when I woke up was check my inbox to see if it was there, and it was! I was really nervous at first because I didn't recognize the first fandom... or the second... and there I was scrolling down my phone. The third one came up, and YES. So happy. It's a fandom I was really not ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I have anything particular to say, really, other than that it's been awhile. I'm still in Japan, and I've renewed my contract so I'm gonna be here another year and a half. Then off to some other place for me, I think. I am young, I am free, I cannot be tied down! The depression's been better lately, between the Real Live Friends Nearby ( Read more... )

( Dear Yuletide Author... )

This is a very fast cake-like gooey thing that you make if you don't have an oven and you have had a bad day/you're celebrating something, or you're not sure which.

4 Tablespoons Flour
3 Tablespoons Sugar
Pinch Of Salt
1/8 teaspoon Baking Powder
2 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder
2 Tablespoon Melted Butter
1 Tablespoon Kahlua
1/4 Teaspoon Vanilla
Two or three ( Read more... )