I really enjoy going shopping with Damien, in part because I end of buying things I would never get otherwise. Like the rhubarb, because I've only ever had it once, although I do know how to cook it. It's also nice because I only get paid once a month, and so the shopping can be a bit epic. I'm so glad I've got today at home, because there's food ( Read more... )

Lo, and truly I am mistress of all I survey, for I made delicious vegan biscuits using liquid vegetable oil and they were quick and they are Good. Also, I have molasses. WIN.

I love food. If any of you did not know this *before* I started dating a chef, I would really like to think that you know now. I like to shop for it (when the budget isn't crazy tight), I like to make it, and I love to eat it ( Read more... )

Twice in one day, I know. World ending, etc ( Read more... )

I'm going to blow my own horn a little here just at the start: I'm smart. More than that, I seem to have a gift for aggregating knowledge in a way that Meta-filters only recently were able to match. I *absorb* information and am (more often than not) able to accurately and productively regurgitate it years later on a moments notice. I *know* things ( Read more... )

A few things of note ( Read more... )

I'm still not dead although the world seems to be making a good effort. Sunday I was a little cough-y. Monday I mostly slept, with increasing coughs as my lungs filled with fluid. No, really. The coughing didn't bring up the usual stuff, just this weird watery liquid. Into evening my fever got worse and my lungs started to feel pretty full. I was ( Read more... )

Oh the *adventure* of living out in the woods ( Read more... )

I'm glad that people who had Thanksgivings seem to have had fairly good ones. We had ours on Tuesday, and that actually went really well. It wasn't perfect, but dinner was good, and I think Damien is working his way into my parent's hearts. I'm glad, because that makes things much easier. Andrew and Ryder came over for pie and games and a very ( Read more... )

Wow. Just a quick little note-I had a dream wherein the good doctor (David Tennet) and I were running about trying to save some degenerate society from itself. Everything was fine until the tsunami came. Thank you BBC Wales, complete with a car parallel parked on the left side of the road, due to the driver being on the right side of the car.