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| Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 |
lissamc
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9:21p |
Estrella pre-reg deadline
If you're not going to the SCA event Estrella War, pass this on by. For the rest of you...the deadline for your pre-registration to count in your allotted space for your encampment is *this* Saturday. If you want to camp at the Hearth, you need to get your pre-reg in, and let me know you have done so. Register under "Barony of SunDragon". I turn our camp names and numbers in to the Baronial land co-ordinator this Sunday. |
steamfashion
[ gummipanda ]
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9:40p |
Ezekiel the Toymaker and Misty Fye the Unbreakable Doll
Hey! I thought you all might be slightly interested in this. My friends and I are working on a cosplay group for the upcoming Anime Convention in May. And myself? I perform sideshow. I perform in Mysterion's variety show on occassion, and we have our own small group act called the "Broken Doll Circus". Now I know our outfits aren't the steamiest (I tend to fall towards more of the circus whimsy) but we're working on it. Last night I was in a show as an Unbreakable Doll and her toymaker performing feats of "strength" and the bizarre in the following sideshow act. Let me know what you think! <3 --Misty Fye P.S Go and rate it there and leave your comments as well! <3 Current Mood:  weird |
thalialunacy
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7:01p |
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seticat
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7:34p |
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vanagnessayem
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6:26p |
After 20 hours...
 Not red enough... Kinda straight up orange... Hm... Current Mood:  hungry |
clairebearkl
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4:14p |
A little punchy
H-10 C-8 N-4 O-2. Mix them together and what have you got? Bibbity Bobbity Boo. (really it's caffeine, but I've had only 8hrs of sleep since Monday and I'm getting a little punchy) GRE's are tomorrow, Sorcha's party is tomorrow, and Anne's party is Friday. I'm looking forward to sleeping in on Saturday. Also, a note for my boss, mottoes are not 10+ words. Bydand is a good motto, so is Maintain the Right. "We check for mistakes in electronic filings and correct them in R&F" is not, it's not even a good sentence. I hear it and I have visions of traditional communist propaganda posters, the proletariat hard at work to correct the errors of the bourgeoisie, carrying forth the red flag in honor of the shining star of communism. Lots of overalls and rugged looking people. |
vanagnessayem
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5:12p |
This is what I am going to do with my wool...
 Planning the layout didn't take long enough. I suppose I could make a new button mold with laurels on them. Or I could spend time working on a new entari for the hafla. Or I could work on my blue under dress. Current Mood:  working |
kathrynmice
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5:02p |
Been to the doctors today . . .
There is no cancer on my scalp. they are age spots. hmmmm. There is no arthritis in my knees. that is a stressed injury from those nasty stairs at work. hmmmm. all around good visit and hopefully no nasty surprises in my blood work. won't know any of that for two weeks. all around a good day, including the nap I took when I finally got home. yummy, greek for lunch. mmmmmm. Rosceline |
thesims2
[ cuddlesgirl ]
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7:56p |
Garrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am -SO- frustrated with my game now. I did 50/50. HELL, I DID 100. I took out all my CC from my downloads folder completely. I took out all the petBreeds I could find that I'd downloaded. I took out my paintings. My hacks, everything. AND STILL IT CRASHES. ( Some screencaps to show the issue. )Anyone? Halp? PLEASE??? |
bumblebee2006
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4:27p |
Your fairy is called Feather Haildancer She is a protector of the lonely. She lives in high places where the clouds meet the earth. She is only seen when the bees swarm and the crickets chirrup. She wears pale blue like the sky. She has cheery turquoise wings like a butterfly. |
steamfashion
[ futuretense ]
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6:05p |
Steamy Artwork
Ladies, Gentlemen, and all you other blackguards! I bring unto you a solution for those horrible naked walls of yours. You know the ones I'm talking about. All strutting about your home or office while company is about, brazen in their vertical nudity. I declare nude walls to be unacceptable and embarrassing at best! So I would like to direct your attention please to the following steamy posters, perfect for rectifying your domicile's vertical exposure!  ( Other great pieces below the cut... )These and other excellent artistic and comic endeavors can be found at www.gcgstudios.com-Garth |
what_a_crock
[ verygwen ]
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6:19p |
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ayeshadream
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3:07p |
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alysten
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5:49p |
What to make for dinner?
All great recipes should start out this way: I have brie and bacon... What can I make for dinner? The answer brie/bacon stuffed french toast. I will let you all know how it turns out shortly. |
krazyfiberkat
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2:30p |
Deperate...
I really hate to do this, but we are getting desperate. I need to be out of my store space and have it cleaned by Sunday. I was hoping that our crew yesterday would have been able to get all the big things moved. Well, that didn't happen, so now it is just Joel and I because my employees are both truly on the sick list. If Joel and I can't finish with the big things today, I don't know what I am going to do. So, please if you are at all available today, tomorrow or Saturday to help us, I would really appreciate it!!! Current Mood:  anxious |
caitlincw
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9:57p |
Quote from “The Wanderer”
Mirrored from Caitlin's Journey. Lines from from the early Anglo-Saxon poem “The Wanderer.”
Where is the horse gone? Where the rider?
Where the giver of treasure?
Where are the seats at the feast?
Where are the revels in the hall?
Alas for the bright cup!
Alas for the mailed warrior!
Alas for the splendour of the prince!
How that time has passed away,
dark under the cover of night,
as if it had never been!
And yes, Professor Tolkien liked these lines too: “Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?” said Aragorn. |
xiggy
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1:16p |
a decade (or, how I learned to stop worrying and join the meme)
10 years ago today, I was on Long Island with my (then-girlfriend, now ex-wife.) We stayed in a hotel room off Times Square for New Years that year. Living on Cap Hill, working at the University of Washington Libraries as a web admin-type. Hadn't met most of the people I hang out with now, with the significant exception of the Thursday D&D Group. Professionally this has been a busy decade full of advancement; musically, my tastes have changed greatly but my ability to project them through instruments remains largely the same; romantically, this decade has been all over the place. I have a cat now! That's new. |
thalialunacy
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12:33p |
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what_a_crock
[ jimwnyc ]
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12:23p |
Italian Sausage Vegetable Soup
Italian Sausage Vegetable Soup I found this recipe in a Pillsbury Slow Cooker book, edited to be with chicken instead of pork, and doctored it up a bit. Hope you enjoy… ½ lb. spicy chicken sausage 28 oz. chicken broth (homemade, if you can!) 1 cup sliced fresh carrots 1 large baking potato, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch cubes 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 (15 oz.) can garbanzo beans or chickpeas, drained 1 (14.5 oz.) can of chunky tomatoes, undrained (plain, Italian spice, or with green chilies) 1 ½ cup water ½ teaspoon dried Italian seasoning 1 bay leaf 1 cup julienne-cut (2x 1/8 x 1/8 inch) zucchini ¼ cup grated fresh Parmesan cheese, if desired Cook sausage, casings removed, in large skillet until no longer pink, stirring frequently. If excess amount of oil, drain. Add chicken stock to skillet and scrape to deglaze pan. Pour sausage and stock into crock pot. Add carrots, potato cubes, garlic, drained garbanzo beans/chickpeas, tomatoes with liquid, water, Italian seasoning, and bay leaf. Stir to combine. Cover pot and cook on low setting for 6.5 hours. After 6.5 hours, remove bay leaf and add julienne zucchini. Cook an additional 30 minutes or until zucchini is tender. To serve, lade soup into individual bowls. If desired, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. |
what_a_crock
[ annaryder ]
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11:53a |
Crockpot conversion for Chicken in a Pot?
This is a favorite recipe -- Henri Soule's Poule au Pot: One 3 lb chicken 3 carrots scraped, quartered lengthwise and cut into one and a half inch pieces 3 ribs celery, trimmed, split and cut into one and a half inch pieces 2 or 3 turnips, trimmed and cut into one and a half inch pieces 1 cup leeks, white section only, quartered lengthwise and cut into one and a half inch pieces 1 fennel bulb, cut into 1/4 inch slices 1 zucchini, trimmed, quartered and cut into one and a half inch pieces 5 cups chicken broth 1/4 cup rice salt, pepper, French chervil for taste 1. Truss chicken and place in a narrow pot; it should fit snugly ... cover with water, add carrots, celery, turnips, leeks, fennel and zucchini. Bring to a boil, remove from heat and drain well. 2. Return to pot, add chicken broth. Add all vegetables except zucchini. Simmer 20 minutes, uncovered. Add zucchini, simmer 5 minutes, skimming from top periodically. 3. Add rice, salt and pepper, cook until chicken is tender, about 10 minutes. 4. Untruss chicken, cut into serving size peices, serve in four hot soup bowls with rice and vegetables. Garnish with fresh chervil. I've made this (without the fennel and chervil because I don't ever have any around ... I'm lucky when I remember to buy a leek and the turnips for this one ... I've substituted potatoes for the turnips with good results). My question is: This is an easy recipe for a weekend, but it would be kind of nice to have it waiting in the crockpot when I get home from work. Will it work if I toss the vegetables and that much broth in the crockpot? Should I adjust the broth amount or cut the veggies bigger? And what about the rice? Thanks for any ideas! |
ayeshadream
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11:09a |
Quicky update
I managed to lose my phone, again. I know, big surprise. I've been staying at D&J's all week commuting to work from there and helping out with party prep every night. Helper attendance has been pretty sparse this year, I'm guessing mostly just due to what day it happened to fall on. Still I think the garage transformation will go more quickly then it ever has before, which will free up more people to focus on food prep. It already is starting to look amazing. I've made more improvements to the little booklets and I think they are looking great. I'm still playing with the stitching on the spine, but other than that I'm pretty excited about how they are turning out. Edited to add- one of the ladies in my department that I've helped out on occation is giving me two $50 gift certificates to El Goucho. There's one just down the hill from the new house, but I've never eaten there. http://www.elgaucho.com/elgaucho/_tacoma/about.htm |
caitlincw
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10:48a |
Writer's Block: Promises, promises
This is the first time I've done one of these LJ prompts but I found this one interesting. I did NOT make any resolutions for 2009. Like many of us, I've broken them once too often to take them too seriously. I am also less goal-oriented than I used to be. But I think I'm going to try it again this year and track them as visions and goals. Why not? It can't hurt to look thoughtfully at the year ahead and consider areas of growth. Heaven knows I have some characteristics that I need to get a handle on. (Procrastination, anyone?) And also some accomplishments I want done in 2010. I'm going to take some time over the next few days to pray, think and write. I'll share them here in LJ. Happy New Year to all! Ah -- I'm editing this post to include this great quote from the author of Cold Antler Farm blog. I picked up from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kdmorin : " For what it's worth, here is some advice from me. Don't attempt to be a drastically better person in the next calendar year. Don't plan on being thirty pounds thinner, or sixty-thousand dollars richer, or the front man of your own band. Instead, how about just trying to be a slightly better person in the next sixty minutes. This may sound like a weak attempt but it's not. Results happen slowly and only when we focus on what we want and who we want to become right now. If you want more money, for the next hour, don't spend any and try and pull a quarter off the floor of your car. If you want to lose weight, try not to eat that candy bar for the next hour, and walk up the stairs instead of taking the elevator. If you want to be kinder, spend the next hour on the phone with old friend and tell her you miss her. If you want to plant a garden, raise chickens, or own a farm—spend the next hour online ordering seed catalogs or going to the library for a book on coop building. Make small changes constantly and just try to meet that next turn of the clock one hour smarter, one hour thinner, one hour kinder, and one hour richer and watch your life change.
If everyone could just see the day as 24 chances to make their life a little better, imagine the resolutions that could be met? I try to be an hour better, every hour, and hope those choices add up into something I can grasp with both hands. I think total dedication to the present is what improves ourselves, and not the empty promises that are too big to get our arms around. Just try be one hour better, starting right now. My favorite movie whispers the quote "that every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around". It's a chance worth taking." |
javagoth
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10:10a |
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jesshartley
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10:12a |
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vanagnessayem
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8:48a |
Dye Dye Dye...
It went in the dye at 9:30ish on Dec 29th. It will stay there until at least 9:30 on Dec 31st. Ack! Waiting sucks! 11:18 pm Dec 29th. After about 2 hours in the vat. Squished the liquid out of the bit sticking up. It is covered in madder grit so it looks darker than it is. Not bad take up for the first two hours. Swishing it around and moving it about every half hour or so until bedtime.  6:27am. Got up and had a look. Been in the vat for 9 hours. Squished the liquid out of the bit sticking up and tried to swish away the madder grit. Colour is richer but not by much. I have taken the bucket out of the tub and placed it beside the heater to maintain a neutral room temp instead of the cold tub metal leaching out the warmth.  Are you sick of it yet? Impatience runs hand in hand with instant gratification. I prefer instant gratification, mostly. Looks like the colour is getting deeper. Only 37 hours left to go! I suppose in the meantime I can do the buttons and buttonholes in the blue dress sleeves. And maybe fix the gores. I hate taking things apart and then putting them back together. Current Mood: working |
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