welcome to paradise

New cell phone has been procured. Resume business as normal.

However, two of the dryers in the laundry room are missing their tops again, and the scuttlebutt is that this time they went in by the door, not the window. Also, someone stole my grill WHEN I WAS PLANNING TO HOST A BARBEQUE. Then they put it back, probably because they overheard me in the courtyard swearing on my phone, "I'd apologize, but I don't want to apologize for THE FUCKER THAT STOLE MY GRILL."

THE FUN JUST NEVER STOPS HERE IN OAKTOWN

I washed my cellphone today. :(

I'm going to try to get a new one tomorrow, but in the meantime. . . try not to call me, I guess. Or call the land line.

OKAY SO I HAVE THIS PROBLEM

THIS PROBLEM WHERE SQUARE ENIX'S STUPID MARKETING PLOYS WORK ON ME EVEN WHEN I SHOULD TOTALLY KNOW BETTER

WHAT I MEAN TO SAY IS I BOUGHT FINAL FANTASY IV: THE AFTER YEARS ON VIRTUAL CONSOLE

WHY YES I AM ENJOYING PLAYING MY FANFICTION VERY MUCH

My coworker has woken up every morning for the last six months wondering if she was still married, and today she found out.

For some reason, all my friends seem to associate me with ducks. I can't imagine why.

(Note: the above was sarcasm. I can certainly imagine why my friends associate me with ducks.)

Anyway, turtlespeaks shared this adorable link with me, which I now share with you.

Quack.

bravecows, I think that you would like to know that today, I made my own Malaysian chicken satay. On a grill. Outside.

And it was amazing.

Does anyone out there still need a Dreamwidth invite? I've got a couple and it turns out the people I was meaning to give them to, uh, didn't need them.

You've gotta promise to ACTUALLY USE your Dreamwidth account, though. >:|

(rustnroses, you sent me that invite after I already bought a paid account. Do you. . . want this invite back? Is that even possible?)

http://coloredink.dreamwidth.org/

As you can see, it's just a mirror of wreathsandbells for now. Whether it will become anything more remains to be seen.

Those of ya'll that have a Dreamwidth account, let me know so that I can. . . add you to my Reading page? Whatever they're calling it? This new terminology confuses me.

I basically never do birthday shoutouts because I am a horrible person and forget people's birthdays.

But not this person's!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, turtlespeaks!!!

Consider yourself fortunate I didn't blingee that!

After I got my Le Creuset, I wanted to do all sorts of things with it. Mostly things involving putting it in the oven. With a chicken inside.

So I decided to make coq au vin. After perusing Alton Brown's coq au vin and Julia Child's recipe, I realized that coq au vin is not, in fact, that hard. In fact, it can be summed up thus:

1. Boil onions, etc.
2. Sautee the pig. Remove.
3. Brown the chicken in the fat from the pig. Flaming cognac is optional. Remove chicken.
4. Cook some onions and mushrooms in the same pan. Remove. You remove a lot of things for coq au vin.
5. At some point maybe you cook some carrots, onions, celery etc.
6. Dump the chicken back in and cover with stock and wine. Cook on low heat.
7. Add mushrooms and onions back in.
8. PROFIT?????

So that is precisely what we did. And we even remembered to take some pictures, because everyone likes pictures.

( cut for photos that may stretch out your friends page )

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JYUUKUUJI NO NYUUSU

ONEGAI BOKUTACHI NO NAKA WO

AAH SEMENAI DE SHINJITSU NO KISU WO

It was recently brought to my attention that. . . wow, a lot of people have this journal friended. Hey, guys!

Some of you might be hanging out here in hopes of seeing fanfiction/gay porn/writing in general, in which case you should really be over at wreathsandbells. Seriously, nothing interesting goes on here. I post like once every six weeks, in case you hadn't noticed.

But if you want to stick around, you're welcome to! I just, uh, hope it's not too boring.

Does anyone in the SF Bay Area need a COMPLETELY FREE 27" tube TV? It works fine, although when you first turn it on, there's a small distorted line at the top that goes away within a few minutes. No remote. Also, pretty heavy, so I recommend bringing a strong friend with a large vehicle.

Once again, COMPLETELY FREE, you just have to be able to come pick it up. I haven't gotten any bites on Freecycle, which is kind of weird and probably related to people not knowing how to use the new website. If I don't get any bites here, Craigslist it is!

42" PLASMA TV, BABY

/me zzzzzzz

Today I got to puke into a squat toilet! Which was pretty terrible in and of itself, but then afterward my aunt was like, "Next time you need to ask if there are cashews!"

gjk;gkfkldsf LOOK, I HAVE EATEN ROTI CANAI LIKE HOW MANY TIMES IN MY LIFE AND I NEVER HAD TO WORRY ABOUT CASHEWS IN THE CURRY BEFORE

stupid indians and their cashews anyway

i don't mean that

i love indians really

But then I got to eat, like, the most amazing mango in my entire life, so it all evened out in the end.

Leave your address here if you'd like to get a postcard or letter from overseas. This does not in any way actually guarantee that you will receive anything, and priority will go to 1) people that I actually know and/or 2) people that I already correspond with on a regular basis.

Comments are screened. Happy holidays, folks.

Edit: Dang, that sounded downright cantankerous of me. I apologize, it was late and I was at the airport.

Hey guys, I'm gonna be dropping off the face of the planet for a bit because I'm visiting family in other countries.

I should retain email access up until Dec. 21, when I will be in Malaysia.

I return on Dec. 27. Behave yourselves.