tea berry-blue

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.

But not Light, because the Dark conquers all. Just sayin'.

So I bought myself a really badass stepladder today. It is made of this lightweight aluminum alloy shit that is amazing and I can carry it around-- carried it up three flights of stairs-- in one hand despite the fact that it gets me up three feet off the ground.

And with this, I changed all the lightbulbs in my front hall, which was getting to be long, dark and creepy.

As far as LJ is concerned, I'm getting bored with my icons and need new ones. Any suggestions? Suggestions for ones I should look at, or ones I should make. Either way.

As far as mail is concerned, for those of you who missed it, Holiday Greeting Post 2007 is here.

There are things in the mail for magicalcow, ninepointfivemm, and crazy_megan. Just so you know that if a mysterious package comes, it's anthrax from me. Everyone else will get cards closer to Christmas. Also, I am working on a small and very odd project inspired by crazy_megan, but you guys will all have to wait to see what it is.

In other news, quizzicalsphinx draws my characters hot and so does misshatter. Shawn drew these babies a while ago and I heart them and I figure as long as I'm pointing to Lynette's I should mention hers too.

In other other news, I had a dream a couple nights ago that I wanted to talk about. More thoughts to follow, probably.

Anyway, the dream all started with me going to visit a girl I went to high school with, whom I didn't particularly like and who kind of had a reputation as a hobag who stole people's boyfriends. Why I was going to visit her is beyond me, but there I was, a-visitin'! Hey!

So get this: she lives in an apartment that is totally like a college dorm room-- one big room, but it had kitchenette, and a big-screen tv with like, every video game ever, and two twin beds. And I'm admiring her video games and she's like, yeah, those are Adam's. Adam is apparently her boyfriend or husband or something. She starts bitching about how all he ever does is watch movies and play video games.

And as she's saying that, he walks in. He's not bad looking, but not really my type; he's fairly tan and fit, especially for someone who likes sitting inside playing video games all the time, has curly honey-brown hair and hazel eyes and came in with a friend and a tennis bag-- so I don't think the whole playing video games all the time was true.

And he was wearing an Eraserhead tee-shirt. And I went, guh.

And he catches the end about the video games and he says, "But you were doing your nails. For fifteen hours."

And she gives him this look, and introduces us, and then she says she wasn't. And he says, "you were doing them for as long as I was playing video games, so if you keep telling everyone I play video games for fifteen hours a day, that's how long you do your nails for."

Meanwhile, I decided that since when I knew her, she was a cheating bitch, it was totally acceptable for me to steal him from her. But around then, I woke up.

Does anyone know this guy? I don't mind stealing him from his bitchy girlfriend, either.

One day, the piemaker received a most unusual request-- that a pie be delivered by hand to Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

( The exciting adventure that followed )

One day, the piemaker received a most unusual request-- that a pie be delivered by hand to Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

( The exciting adventure that followed )

So, I am in New Orleans wit liret. And tonight, we went to eat...





( fondue )

Man, so I had a crazy day. I had a 45 minute layover in Charlotte. And my plane was 40 minutes late. So I RAN the entire length of the Charlotte terminal. And made the flight by TWO MINUTES.

Only for it to be delayed 40 minutes more :-(

My heroism was in vain!

Anyway, after that, I got a cab that ALMOST BLEW UP WITH ME IN IT. PICTURE IT: THERE WERE ALMOST PIECES OF TEA SCATTERED ABOUT NEW ORLEANS. You can ask Jess. This is true!

Now is time for sleeping! YAY SLEEPING.

I don't know them. I have never met them. But they are totally alternating sex and Mario.

I hear like a board's worth of Mario music, then several minutes of rhythmic squeaking, then a board's worth of Mario, then squeaking, and so on. I wonder if they need consolation every time they find out the princess is in another castle.

I don't know them. I have never met them. But they are totally alternating sex and Mario.

I hear like a board's worth of Mario music, then several minutes of rhythmic squeaking, then a board's worth of Mario, then squeaking, and so on. I wonder if they need consolation every time they find out the princess is in another castle.

I have been working, not so diligently, but enough, on the icons I offered people!

for evilprodigy, for twowishesleft, and sorcerorsock


Below is the list of requests and the order. If anyone wants to be added, please list:
Character. Describe character's facial features. If you don't have a clear picture, eyecolor, haircolor, and skin color are fine! Also tell me what the icon should say. If you don't, you are at the mercy of what I make up at the time. And they don't just have to be RP characters. I would be happy to do book characters and stuff too. Just not anyone from a movie or someone who has to look like a photo :-P

( to do list )

In other news, my cat puked massively all over my rug. I know you want to hear all about that. I spent a lot of time cleaning it once I got home. My apartment is shaping up in the cleanliness department, too! I didn't do anything else today, because I only got back this evening, but tomorrow I will get back in the groove.

And OH MY GOD there are a ton of pictures on my camera. Photopost may be incoming tomorrow. Two photoposts, possibly, since I have pics of the AI experience and pics of Coney Island. Holy shit.

But why am I on my camera? Why, you ask? To take pictures of one of those embarrassingly AWESOME dorky things I do. This one involves a roleplaying scene and one of my characters getting turned into a puppy, as evidenced here:

Puck leered at the girl. "You don't want to scream," he assured her, reaching into his jacket pocket and pulling out a small, black-and-grey puppy, holding it up by the scruff as it squirmed and whimpered. "Or I'll tarry to transform him from a terrier into a troublemaker."

So then I was in this most amazing store called "Raindew" which is...it's like an old-fashioned five and dime, but with modern merchandise and modern prices? Raindew deserves its own entry. I think. ANYWAY.





I know the text says black-and-gray, but that's because of his haircolor. I was still sort of envisioning him as a black lab puppy. So that's what he is now.

I am such a dork.

Finally, scrappy_jen had a kinda awesome idea in this post. I want to do it, but the current post is long enough! Bah, I am so far behind. But I wanted to rec it to everyone else.

<3 and stuff.

So rather than asking me to name six of her interests (because she is a scaredy-puss), quizzicalsphinx named six of MINE.

( So I will explain these ones now ) And again, if anyone wants more interests to do, let me know and I will name six of yours.

So I went to Delaware for my mom's birthday this weekend. I did loads of shopping and got new shoes and bras and jeans. And more new clothes from my grandma's store. I had a pretty awesome time, great food, and got to hear my grandmother talk about how she doesn't mind gay people and some of them are very nice...again. And some comments about fat people, too.

Also, more things to tell you guys will be incoming once I gt my camera cable. I has been a bad journaler lately.

Finally, on the train coming to my parents, I overhear the following snatches of conversation:

( weirdass train conversation )

That's all for now! More tomorrow if I remember to post!

So rather than asking me to name six of her interests (because she is a scaredy-puss), quizzicalsphinx named six of MINE.

( So I will explain these ones now ) And again, if anyone wants more interests to do, let me know and I will name six of yours.

So I went to Delaware for my mom's birthday this weekend. I did loads of shopping and got new shoes and bras and jeans. And more new clothes from my grandma's store. I had a pretty awesome time, great food, and got to hear my grandmother talk about how she doesn't mind gay people and some of them are very nice...again. And some comments about fat people, too.

Also, more things to tell you guys will be incoming once I gt my camera cable. I has been a bad journaler lately.

Finally, on the train coming to my parents, I overhear the following snatches of conversation:

( weirdass train conversation )

That's all for now! More tomorrow if I remember to post!