I got home too late to raid tonight, so it looks like this will get done sooner than anticipated!

The list of perfumes wint3rhart doesn't wear

( ...is as follows. )

Phew. See anything you like?

If buttery, garlicky mashed 'taters is the side dish, what's the main course?

I did some work on the website. You can edit your own comments again, as well as properly reply to other peoples'. Fixed some bizarre miscellaneous stuff as well.. it's doubtful that anyone will notice most of it.

Random thoughts re: BPAL: I've got vials of more than one fragrance now (I used to wear Morgause, or non-BPAL). Since getting a vial of Zorya (finally!) I've started wearing other things as well... Lady of Shallot specifically, as I love the theme almost as much as I love the fragrance. Am thinking rather definitively about getting a vial or two of it.

Apropos of the limited edition Hallowe'en 2008 scents:
SAMHAIN 2008
Truly the scent of autumn itself -- damp woods, fir needle, and black patchouli with the gentlest touches of warm pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, allspice, sweet red apple and mullein.

I am thinking that this could either smell AMAZING, or like an ambulatory pumpkin pie strolling through a raver's private forest. Can't decide whether finding out is worth the price of an imp...

STICKY PILLOWCASE
Terminal sugar rush. A little goblin's candy bag, upended.

Smushed candy corn, rock candy dust, marshmallow gunk, strawberry goo, spun blue sugar, globs of salt water taffy, and lint.

Oh. My. God. What? I can't even imagine how that must smell. I'm going into insulin shock just reading the description!

FEARFUL PLEASURE
Dried orange peels floating in simmering cider, roasted apples, smoldering firewood, chimney smoke, sassafras beer, warm hawthorn wood, and oakmoss.

Hmmmm. I kind of want to try this one, too!


----> Item of Potential Interest:
I am thinking that a Great Sorting-Out of the Perfume Basket on the bathroom sink is in order. It currently holds, at a very rough guess, maybe 30 or so bottles of perfumes. I actually wear the following: Morgause (vial), Zorya (vial), Lady of Shallot (imp), Bess (rarely; imp), Jasmine oil (glass vial w/ roller ball), Vanille (glass vial w/ roller ball). Sometimes I'll use my B&BW body sprays.

8 out of 30, and it's the TINY 8 -- I'm not using any of the space-hogging larger bottles. That's not a terribly good ratio, and it doesn't make for a good explanation of why my crap is eating the bathroom counter alive.


SO. The next time I remember, which may or may not be tonight given that it's T5 night in SSC, I will make a list of all of the perfume that I don't wear. It will be listed here and on LJ. If anyone wants to try anything new, watch this space for updates!

Courtesy of surprisetruck, I give you:

50 Foods Normal [British] People May Actually Have Eaten

Same rules apply.

Food meme!  Ganked from willworker.

1) Copy this list into your journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Italicize things you would like to try.


There's not much which is struck out, because generally speaking if someone ordered say, head cheese, at a restaurant and said "Try a bite!" I'd probably do it.  There's not much that I'd squeel and go "NEVER!" especially if I'm in a situation where I'm supposed to be polite.

Take it as read that if something's not italicized, it falls under the category of things that I have no opinion on one way or the other, have no real desire to eat, but would try once if asked.  Eating something just for the sake of saying that you've eaten it seems rather pointless to me.

Now, there /are/ things that I would prefer to never eat:  Live goldfish sushi, that half-formed chicken egg thing that's popular in the Philipines, still-wriggling octopus, century eggs.

Well, we saw the Dark Knight.

( And I think... )

ETA: Oh, stop acting like I've kicked your puppy. It's a movie, some of them are good, some of them suck. I refuse to make this a rehash of the Episode 1-3 wars, so if you liked the movie, don't click the cut. Simple, y/y?

My computer is finally up and running. New 500gb hard drive, clean install of Hardy*, so far so good. It has a stupidly-loud rear fan, 'tis true, but I poked a bit and discovered that what is screwed in can be replaced.

*I'm using a fresh /home for the first time since Slackware 7.0. It's shocking how much better the system runs once it's not tripping over bizarre .rc files...

Things to do today:
- Head by the clinic on the way home from work. I have had it up to here (*gestures*) with this cough.
- Go to the grocery store? Still not sure what my chances are of making dinner between whenever I get out of the doctor's and when raid starts. I'm guessing they're not very good, though.
- Raid (Hyjal again, finally.)
- Install various games on the new system. The latest cedega beta offers support for NWN2, which I didn't like much when I tried it on my old computer. That computer certainly wasn't built with NWN2 in mind, and it ran badly to say the least so I feel it deserves a second try. If it still sucks on the new comp, I'll chalk it up to just being a crappy game.
- Copy data off of the old IDE drives onto the new SATA one. I'm running on one 500gb SATA instead of 2 500gb IDEs, but they weren't close to full so I'm not really worried. Alternatively, I could buy another SATA cable and use the 160gb that came with the comp, which already has my mp3s copied onto it.

114.

That's the total number of potstickers that bbqdaffid and I made on Saturday. Phew!

Our recipe was based on Jaden Hair's (SteamyKitchen.com). We used chicken, turkey, bok choy*, green onion and ginger. If we'd remembered bamboo shoots, they would have been in there too. Wrapping them wasn't nearly as hard as I'd anticipated, and the only real 'gotcha' is that the edges of the finished dumplings like to dry out a bit. If we hadn't been making quite so many I doubt they would have been sitting out for very long, though, so YMMV.

A dozen of the first ones were cooked up on the spot and dipped in hoisin. We had to make sure they were edible, right? The verdict was 'darn tasty', so on we labored.

102 dumplings later, and we were out of filling. We froze them overnight, then foodsaver'd them up in packages of 10. We each took half - 50 apiece. I have plans for some of mine, accompanying a beef and asparagus stirfry tomorrow night.

Apropos of almost nothing, I can see Keanu Reaves playing Spike in a Cowboy Bebop movie.

This is probably because I have a low opinion of CB, but whatevs.

Dan made a rule: "Until you can go for 24 hours without puking, you can't go to work."

I seem to have passed, so here I am, at work. Freezing, I might add, but that's par for the course even when non-sick.

I have tea. And Dayquil. And 7 hours to go.