tea berry-blue

I am back from land of ice and snow and rhikat now!

So, on the flight back, I notice this girl on line waiting to get on the plane wearing not only a Ravenclaw scarf, but a ,full freaking Ravenclaw uniform. Like, tie, sweater, scarf.

And she had a cat that looked like Crookshanks.

So when we were waiting for our luggage, I struck up a conversation with her. She was pretty cool and I ended up giving her my email. So hilarious.

I drew pictures on the plane:

( art! )

Also: I deleted anybody who hasn't posted in the past couple months. (I steal quizzicalsphinx's ideas days after she does them) If you want back on, it ain't nothing personal,so please just poke me and tell me you're still alive and I'll put you back.

Also Also: Would people be at all interested in buying animal hats like the Bee Hat Moose Hat if I were to make them for purchase? If so, how much would you be willing to spend to get a custom animal and a custom color? To start, I would probably do bunnies, bees, dogs, and cats. I am just concerned that they cost more for me to make than for anyone to be able to buy.

1) rhikat and I went ice-skating.



Do you know what is awesome? Being able to go to random places all over the country and maybe even the world and having friends there. We saw Sweeney Todd earlier this week, went to a diner, and went to the Pompeii exhibit at the Science museum and learned about how garum makes everything taste better. But in the opposite order. And rhikat is seriously awesome.

We totally rocked out the ice rink. They played Elvis Costello and there was this little girl who kept falling down and throwing temper tantrums. I think she needed to have some garum. Then her brother kept kicking her ass. The rink was seriously $2 for skates and free to use. It was sweet, even if it was covered in snow.

2) I finished the brother's moose hat.

I could not find stuffing to stuff them, so I went to the dollar store and bought two 50% off stuffed Santa dolls.





Then I pulled a Sweeney Todd on Santa:





And then, hat:





P.S. Santa's guts are in the antlers.

1) rhikat and I went ice-skating.



Do you know what is awesome? Being able to go to random places all over the country and maybe even the world and having friends there. We saw Sweeney Todd earlier this week, went to a diner, and went to the Pompeii exhibit at the Science museum and learned about how garum makes everything taste better. But in the opposite order. And rhikat is seriously awesome.

We totally rocked out the ice rink. They played Elvis Costello and there was this little girl who kept falling down and throwing temper tantrums. I think she needed to have some garum. Then her brother kept kicking her ass. The rink was seriously $2 for skates and free to use. It was sweet, even if it was covered in snow.

2) I finished the brother's moose hat.

I could not find stuffing to stuff them, so I went to the dollar store and bought two 50% off stuffed Santa dolls.





Then I pulled a Sweeney Todd on Santa:





And then, hat:





P.S. Santa's guts are in the antlers.

1) Merry Christmas to everybody out there celebrating!

2) GARUM MAKES EVERYTHING TASTE BETTER.

3) My father is watching reruns of American Gladiators on ESPN Classic.

4)





5) ( I got the best Christmas Pajamas ever )

6) The end!

You know how you have a mental (or at least I have a mental) list of things you're saving up to post to LJ when you have time to post to LJ?

And then, in spite of everything else, when you finally have time, it's because of something else?

Why, oh why was I up at 8 this morning after going to bed at 4:30?

Because, I say, my tooth.

It is throbbing like a motherfucker without stopping, and I seem to have developed a fever, although without a thermometer, it's anyone's guess. I feel faintly delirious and the left side of my mouth feels like a hippopotamus came in and swapped in the night.

This is the wisdom tooth in the back of my mouth. It's been sore for months now, and months ago I expressed interest in seeing a doctor to have it removed. I would have seen a doctor to have it removed, except that my mother kindly suggested that she would find a doctor on Long Island to remove it so that I would have someone to drive me to and from the doctor to take care of it, as anaesthesia is not something to be undertaken lightly or when one is operating on one's own propulsion. I agreed and have asked her several times since if she's managed to find someone. At the moment, I would simply find someone myself except for the fact that I am not half as coherent as I appear on LJ at the moment and I had enough trouble making the people at the health insurance company understand me.

But in the interest of not boring you all to death with moaning and agony,

1) Holiday cards are done. I am very excited with the result and I do have several extras. If anyone would like one, please leave a comment on this screened post. They may be belated if you sign up now, but I will try to mail out everyone else's before I sink deeper into incoherence.

2) I should go buy some anbesol or something.

3) I have had several interesting dreams this week. One involved the true purpose of four-leaf clovers, one involved being the newest cast member of Saturday Night Live after the end of the writers' strike, and one involved a young man whose lifelong ambition was to write gangsta parodies of the entire canon of musical theater. I do wish to expound on these at some point.

4) I promised phuck a few days ago that I would pimp his fandomsurvivor. It's like Survivor but less painful.

5) I have been crocheting quite a lot. It has been most excellent.

6) I am still in pain.

7) I do know there are other things I would like to communicate to you lovely people.

8) Ah, yes! bubonicplague, the book came and it is perfect and excellent in every way. I've also gotten cards from opaleyes, arielchan, and crazy_megan and gifties from pikacharma and dragonmagelet. Thank you, guys!

9) I realize I never got out the assignments for the gift exchange. It is now going to be a...Martin Luther King Day Gift Exchange? Sorry!

10) I've seen I am Legend, Atonement, and No Country For Old Men this week. I would recommend seeing all of them, although...I'm still processing the last. It takes a lot of processing and I am not sure I liked it. It was interesting, though, and it made some very interesting choices that were...more like what I think Hitchcock would do today than anything that wanker M. Night Shyamalan has done in the name of being a modern-day Hitchcock. The Coens, they get what it means to make a suspense film. And I have some issues with their antagonist in this, but maybe...that's all right, because it's a suspense film? I think the message of the film, and that works perfectly when you meld suspense with western, and not in the way where the suspense is what's going to happen to Gary Cooper at noon, is that in the modern day, the culmination ain't the shootout at the OK Corral. To mix and match plot points from my classic westerns and all.

11) To talk more about movies, cineholics [/shameless pimp]

12) Now to shower.

You know how you have a mental (or at least I have a mental) list of things you're saving up to post to LJ when you have time to post to LJ?

And then, in spite of everything else, when you finally have time, it's because of something else?

Why, oh why was I up at 8 this morning after going to bed at 4:30?

Because, I say, my tooth.

It is throbbing like a motherfucker without stopping, and I seem to have developed a fever, although without a thermometer, it's anyone's guess. I feel faintly delirious and the left side of my mouth feels like a hippopotamus came in and swapped in the night.

This is the wisdom tooth in the back of my mouth. It's been sore for months now, and months ago I expressed interest in seeing a doctor to have it removed. I would have seen a doctor to have it removed, except that my mother kindly suggested that she would find a doctor on Long Island to remove it so that I would have someone to drive me to and from the doctor to take care of it, as anaesthesia is not something to be undertaken lightly or when one is operating on one's own propulsion. I agreed and have asked her several times since if she's managed to find someone. At the moment, I would simply find someone myself except for the fact that I am not half as coherent as I appear on LJ at the moment and I had enough trouble making the people at the health insurance company understand me.

But in the interest of not boring you all to death with moaning and agony,

1) Holiday cards are done. I am very excited with the result and I do have several extras. If anyone would like one, please leave a comment on this screened post. They may be belated if you sign up now, but I will try to mail out everyone else's before I sink deeper into incoherence.

2) I should go buy some anbesol or something.

3) I have had several interesting dreams this week. One involved the true purpose of four-leaf clovers, one involved being the newest cast member of Saturday Night Live after the end of the writers' strike, and one involved a young man whose lifelong ambition was to write gangsta parodies of the entire canon of musical theater. I do wish to expound on these at some point.

4) I promised phuck a few days ago that I would pimp his fandomsurvivor. It's like Survivor but less painful.

5) I have been crocheting quite a lot. It has been most excellent.

6) I am still in pain.

7) I do know there are other things I would like to communicate to you lovely people.

8) Ah, yes! bubonicplague, the book came and it is perfect and excellent in every way. I've also gotten cards from opaleyes, arielchan, and crazy_megan and gifties from pikacharma and dragonmagelet. Thank you, guys!

9) I realize I never got out the assignments for the gift exchange. It is now going to be a...Martin Luther King Day Gift Exchange? Sorry!

10) I've seen I am Legend, Atonement, and No Country For Old Men this week. I would recommend seeing all of them, although...I'm still processing the last. It takes a lot of processing and I am not sure I liked it. It was interesting, though, and it made some very interesting choices that were...more like what I think Hitchcock would do today than anything that wanker M. Night Shyamalan has done in the name of being a modern-day Hitchcock. The Coens, they get what it means to make a suspense film. And I have some issues with their antagonist in this, but maybe...that's all right, because it's a suspense film? I think the message of the film, and that works perfectly when you meld suspense with western, and not in the way where the suspense is what's going to happen to Gary Cooper at noon, is that in the modern day, the culmination ain't the shootout at the OK Corral. To mix and match plot points from my classic westerns and all.

11) To talk more about movies, cineholics [/shameless pimp]

12) Now to shower.

I got back to New York to discover TWO overseas packages waiting for me.

One, from crazy_megan was FULL OF CHOCOLATE. BEAUTIFUL SWEDISH CHOCOLATE.

The other, from seori, was FULL OF LAST YEAR'S CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Which was a kangaroo's nutsack.

No, I'm serious. A kangaroo's nutsack.



Plus a Christmas card from one of her RP characters to one of mine!

I have the best friends ever.

In other news, I got the following email today:


Subject: Hello to my dearest friend.
From: "confidence confidence" <confidence4_44@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, November 26, 2007 2:42 pm
To: info@whois-help.info
Priority: Normal
Options: View Full Header | View Printable Version | Add to Addressbook

Hi dear,
how are you today i hope that every things is ok with you as it is my great
pleassure to contact you in having communication with you, please i wish you will
have the desire with me so that we can get to know each other better and see what
happened in future.
i will be very happy if you can write me through my email for easiest communication
and to know all about each other, and also give you my pictures and details about
me, here is my email (confidence_jj@yahoo.com) i will be waiting to hear from you as
i wish you all the best for your day.
your new friend.
Miss confidence


I think we should all email Miss Confidence and tell her how much we want to be her friend!

THANKSGIVING DINNER



Jess ate all the pies.

But there is leftovers of everything else if anyone wants them!

Today we went shopping! My mother bought a Dumbledore hat to wear when kids get sent to the principal's office and a slingshot howler monkey toy. Also for her office. I bought lots of books and a gold dress cut like Marilyn Monroe's Seven Year Itch dress.

THANKSGIVING DINNER



Jess ate all the pies.

But there is leftovers of everything else if anyone wants them!

Today we went shopping! My mother bought a Dumbledore hat to wear when kids get sent to the principal's office and a slingshot howler monkey toy. Also for her office. I bought lots of books and a gold dress cut like Marilyn Monroe's Seven Year Itch dress.

Whoa. So, I finished all the prep work for Thanksgiving dinner, which has been the main reason for my silence since...Saturday?

Here is what we have to eat:

Chicken Liver Crostini
Scallops with Tarragon Sauce
Braised Beet Salad with Pickled Onions and Red Wine Syrup
Cauliflower & Butter Soup
Roast Turkey with Pancetta Butter & Pancetta Gravy
Cornbread, Kale & Radicchio Stuffing
Root Vegetable & Pear Ragout
Mashed Potatoes with Dry-Rubbed Smoked Bacon
Creamed Spinach with Shiitake Mushrooms & Gouda
Brussels Sprout Hash
Cranberry-Pomegranate Relish (the only thing getting repeated from previous years)

Pie:
Pecan Pie
Apple Pie
Pumpkin Pie
German Chocolate Pie

I made everything but the Pecan, Apple, and Pumpkin pies.

And now I am zonked.

I was going to put up an instruction manual on making turkey stock, but I feel like it's kind of too late to do that for all of you. Dammit. I even took pictures, I meant to do it earlier this week but I...was in cooking-land.

So, a couple stories of things that happened this week.

1) My mom and I were in this store that has one of those cart escalator things that carries your cart while you ride the escalator. So my mom and I said goodbye to the cart when we put it on the carry-thingy and talked to it all the way down so it wouldn't be lonely. The lady in front of us, who couldn't have been much older than me, kept turning around and giving us dirty looks.

So when we got to the bottom of the stairs, my mom was like, "do you think she was jealous that our cart was more loved than hers?" and I said, "no, Mommy, I think she was trying to figure out which one of us was the retarded child."

2) I had this dream. This description is C/Ped from an IM to quizzicalsphinx.

It was this small college town and there was this kid in the computer lab in an AIM chat room working on a group project for class. And one by one the people in the chat room sign off in the middle of the project. Not all of them, just a few. So he gets pissed off and tells the rest of the kids in the chat that he's going to buy a candy bar and will be back. And he turns around, and EVERYONE ELSE IN THE COMPUTER LAB is slumped over at their computers with blood dripping from their ears.

So then the kid freaks out and leaves the computer lab and is walking through the student union and it's chaos. They're saying one in every five kids on campus has dropped dead suddenly.

So he runs to his girlfriend's house; her parents are professors at the schooln. When he gets there, the first thing he sees is his girlfriend dead on the mud room floor

He goes outside again and there are cops and crazy students and shit and these people on stilts dressed in 18th century costumes with big pink wigs and megaphones claiming responsibility for a sonar terrorist attack on the campus. And they were passing out pamphlets and telling people to join their crazy-ass cult. On stilts. With megaphones. And they were very convincing because people were taking them.

Now I have a liret asleep and we go to Delaware in the morning! Well. In two hours. I sleep in the car. Then we eat. Oh, how we eat.

Also, my father thinks liret is our Thanksgiving turkey. I think the part where she keeps bawking at him isn't helping.

And finally, a reminder: 2007 Holiday Greetings? Want One? Click here.