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[09 Sep 2009|04:26pm] |
This is the new love of my life. I picked him to be a friend for Atrus since we are both working now. We'll get him in a few weeks.
We wanted a little girl but there were only boys available right now, so oh well.
What should his name be? I want it to be suitably dorky but perhaps not so glaringly obvious as like, "Jon Snow". Or "Batman" (haha can you imagine?) An ASOIAF would be great if I could come up with one. Or a Skies of Arcadia name. Corey wants to name him "Gehn". I said the names can't come from the same canon, that would just be too nerdy since we already have an Atrus. I placated him slightly with the suggestion of "Gilder"
But I need some other ideas. Franklin? Copernicus? Xerxes? Dolorous Edd? Atticus? Humbert Humbert? Help me out ;_;
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[18 May 2009|02:45pm] |
I need a historical costume. Not like, ridiculously period accurate or something, I wanna do it myself but I just need ideas. I think Corey would make a fine Ben Franklin. Unfortunately, women never did anything in history (lawl) so I'm having trouble thinking of something. Doesn't need to be same time period or American or anything. I don't think I wanna do anything too old (like Cleopatra or something) or anything really really recent.
My best idea so far is Marie Curie.
I should just crossdress ;P
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[16 Apr 2009|04:55pm] |
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[cross-posted from http://chryseehatesherself.blogspot.com] This morning I went on Facebook, as I often do, to survey the insanity of back-and-forth activity amongst our cohort as we all try to finish up our portfolios and not fail out of grad school over the next month and spend most of our time telling the rest of the internet how busy we all are. One girl's status read simply "plan b: glass smith".
So here's my plan b's:
Soap maker
Alpaca farmer
Have a microbrewery
Learn to play my guitar and be a fucking rock star
Candle maker
Chef
Pastry chef
Housewife (but NOT a SaHM)
Get in on that algae alternative fuel source thing
So ambitious.
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| hai you guys |
[25 Mar 2009|10:25am] |
wtf should chrysee.com be? it needs content and reason for being. also, I evidently need to waste time again.
who wants to work on generiquest.com? oh oh or better yet, our homebrew website(and I even forget what domain name we bought)?
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[19 Feb 2009|10:15pm] |
I want to start making soap.
I don't know the first thing about making homemade soap.
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| what i do sometimes |
[07 Feb 2009|10:31pm] |
I also made a needle case while I waited for my needles to arrive from Shanghai (still don't have them)
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[16 Jan 2009|04:36pm] |
Yesterday I made wristwarmers. Basically in one sitting, it was a little ridiculous.
I'm almost done with my needle case, but.. then what? Besides practicing stitches and patterns with cotton dishclothes (which actually work -really- well on the occasions when I wash something by hand), I don't really know what else to knit. I could learn to do socks, because at least having a ton of socks is more useful than having a ton of scarves ;P I like sweaters, but with how much yarn it'd take to make one, especially in my size, it'd just be cheaper to buy them. Plus, I don't think I'd ever really be into wearing clothes I made myself. I also need to learn to crotchet since I have the books and hooks and so forth, but whatevs.
I want to make an etsy shop. Lots of things I wanna make right now for practice are pretty inexpensive to produce, so charging a couple bucks for like, wristwarmers or felted cases or whatever would still result in profit.
How lame am I?
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[16 Dec 2008|09:35am] |
I don't write in this thing. Like, ever. So, today I'm going to post what I made for dinner last night. Mainly because, if I don't, I'll never be able to make it again. I just threw some shit together and didn't really keep track, so this will not be precise. But if anyone reads this LJ at all, you should make this. It was good.
Get out some boneless skinless chicken thighs and pound them pretty thin with a kitchen mallet. In a bowl, mix up some flour, paprika, garlic powder, fresh pepper, a healthy amount of salt, and maybe I also put in some thyme? Go heavy on the paprika and garlic at least. This should -not- be 90% flour with some spices thrown in, it should have a pretty strong spicy smell and be more than a little colorful because of the paprika. Dredge the chicken in this. In a saute pan (pretty big and with high sides), heat some olive oil until it sizzles when you drop some water in it. Add the chicken and brown on each side (mine did not brown because I had to put it back in the fridge with the flour/spices already on because evidently Corey was coming home later than I thought).Do not worry if the chicken sticks to the pan a bit (btw, stainless steel pan. always use stainless steel) After the chicken is brown, remove it from the pan and pile it on a plate somewhere in the meantime. It does not have to be completely cooked through at this point.
Clean some button mushrooms and toss them in the pan whole. Pour in 1/2 - 1 c (I wasn't measuring at all) white wine and turn the heat on high to deglaze the pan, scraping the bottom with a flat whisk or a spoon or whatever to loosen any chicken bits from it. Cover and simmer the mushrooms in the wine for a bit. I should have used more like 1 cup or more wine, but I poured in whatever was left in the bottle and it wasn't quite enough, so I added a tiny bit of chicken stock. But all wine would probably be better.
Put the chicken back in the pan with the mushrooms. I added a splash of heavy cream (... probably well over 1/4 c, maybe even 1/3. whoops). Regardless, pour in some cream. You want it to simmer, but not too much so it doesn't get too thick. Toss in 1/2 c or more of freshly shredded parmesan cheese (not that powdery stuff in the green can ;P) Stir it into the sauce and be careful not to let it simmer too much or it will become a globby mess of cheese stuck to the bottom of the pan. Actually, at this point you can probably remove it from the heat entirely. Finish with some more black pepper, because fresh ground pepper is awesome.
The end result has a sorta light orange-ish thick sauce, very very tiny whole mushrooms (they reduced like crazy when cooking) and is just awesome.
I served with green beans and rice, but that's hardly worth mentioning because the green beans were fresh but very plain, and the rice was from a box. lol
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ingredients list:
boneless skinless chicken thighs (I had 5)
whole white button mushrooms
white wine
heavy cream
fresh parmesan
black pepper
paprika
garlic powder
thyme
sea salt
flour
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| America |
[04 Nov 2008|11:15pm] |
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FUCK YEAH
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| oh noes! |
[02 Nov 2008|11:22am] |
good god why!?
I'm randomly going through the channels to find something to watch and I stumble upon "Legend of the Seeker"!!! AHHH! It's the tv series adaptation of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. Except really loose and much more like Xena or that Hercules show from the 90s. I've seen like 15 mins of what has to be the first episode and I think they've changed the plot?? Or maybe I just haven't read these books for 10 years?
The acting is deliciously bad. At least there's no fake medieval British accents? But.. well, the dialogue is corny enough and fake British accents would probably have hid it better than awful midwest American accents. The casting seems awful. I can't even... I just can't even watch it. lol it's so bad
The series ended up being ridiculous after like 4 books, but.. still. I feel like personally insulted that this adaptation is so fucking awful and corny and stupid.
Okay, it's still on in the background and they've totally changed around the story? WTF is happening? This is ridiculous.
This is why fantasy is usually so lame as hell. This is why everyone thinks it's stupid.
Terry Goodkind why did you let this happen? I know you're like, fucking crazy, but seriously. Did this seem like a good idea?
He's always been so like, full of himself and thought his books were like deep shit, so wtf happened to him to make him agree to this corny sword slashing romp???
If George R R Martin ever gets off his fat doughy butt and ever, you know, works on his series again and HBO goes ahead with the adaptation please god please let it be faithful and not retarded.
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GOODFUCKINGGOD and if this isn't bad enough during the commercial break I saw a trailer for fucking Twilight!
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[02 Nov 2008|12:01am] |
the chick in the beginning of this totally lame Target sketch on SNL right now has my handbag
and it's super cute <3
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[29 Oct 2008|11:40pm] |
we bought a PS3
whoops
soooo.. are there -any- good games for it?
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| okay Ohio voters |
[14 Oct 2008|08:39pm] |
I'm voting no on Issue 6
but wtf are the other issues? lol
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