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Yup, yesterday was really quite wonderful. ( Read more... )

Here's one: INSPIRATION. Dunno whether it arrives from without or within, but it struck this afternoon. I'm now roasting a chicken stuffed w/rosemary I just snipped from the pot and an entire lemon that I've forked, smeared all over w/olive oil and ground pepper and some fresh rubbed rosemary. Also trying the pasta w/carmelized onion dish my dad made in Nova Scotia. Cannot quite remember what to do, so it might not be just the same, but with luck it'll be yumbly anyway. Also on menu: organic string beans from the farmer's mkt (just gonna steam 'em, nothing more) and a tossed salad. Dessert = leftover sour-cream choco cupcakes.

To the tune of "Painting the Roses Red" (from Alice), although really, I keep hearing "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" (from Wiz of Oz). Another good Tuesday night w/E3 & deviantgrrrl. Opted for Thai chow delivered this eve, 'cause I was feeling lazy. Tossed the remaining mulberries into the blender along w/lemon juice, honey, several ice cubes, much of the leftover fruit slad, and a mess of vodka. Summertime = mulberry vodka ice in tiki cups. (Hey, wanna come harvest some more sometime ebony_sphynx?) Have delegated cooking duties and responsibilities amongst us, which'll make for ease of camping and whatnot for this year's Middle-earth Fellowship/Festival w'end after next. Hmm, thinking we need also to e-mail/chat w/redefining_self to see 'bout including you in this, too, if'n you like. Can't remember/don't know what you won't eat/don't like, but thinking you're pretty easy. ;-)

Watched "Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events" the other night, so tonight's dinner consisted of Pasta Puttanesca and steamed squash w/glorious desserts provided by the sweet deviantgrrrl): cakes (choco & lemon) which now resemble PacMen (thx!).

(1) No concert is complete until someone stands (preferably unsteadily), shoves a lighter in the air (in this day and age a glow stick will suffice), and shouts out (often slurredly) "FREEBIRD!"

(2) No role playing adventure is complete without a good opportunity to shout out "Monkey! Monkey!! Monkey!!!" It's not actually necessary to shout this aloud if'n doing so would subject the party to death or dismemberment by vicious pirates, zombies, or orcs, but the opportunity must arise and one must at least log it in one's diary which'll be found decades later, perhaps after the bones have been picked clean and scattered about the plain/desert/vacant asylum, ideally published by Arkham Press in a small skin-bound volume stored away in the basement of the local library w/death-seals and strange symbols adorning the Special Collections door.

(3) February is Official Storage Shuffle Month. 'Twas a few years back that I spent VDay helping my bro empty his storage unit - into my garage, which I'd foolishly partially emptied of my own carp only to have it refilled w/car parts (Chevelle grill, tires, carburetors, etc.), movie posters (some of these still reside downstairs), and the unlike. Today I helped a friend empty one storage unit and redeposit the carp into another one. The former was a filthy deathtrap - including the new scariest hazardous waste sighting: a clear gallon jug filled to the brim w/used hypodermic needles & syringes and spotted inside w/nasty-looking PBFs - whilst the latter was a clean, secure, climate-controlled pleasant place to store tons of junk & carp. Never really thought I'd be seeing - much less moving - this carp again. Amusing. I remember stories & specifics 'bout many of the items we moved. Her mantra quickly became "I love him, he's a good man," repeated regularly as we waded through boxes of empty boxes, some of the contents of which I know for a fact no longer exist, having been broken, given away, tossed, or otherwise consumed in the flames of "what the hell is this carp?!" way back when I was married to the boxes' owner.

Dealing w/other peoples' carp helps me deal w/mine own. Returned to my casa and started boxing up some of my books. Some'll head to Big Bear, others to whichever bookstore and/or library'll take 'em, and a couple of school-related boxes (textbooks & notes) will soon reside in the garage. Feels so goooood to reduce some of the clutter!

Good eve: good food, good people, good beer, good TV (BlackAdderIII), w/colouring books (Alice in W-land & Muscle Cars) & gel pens, and much giggling.

Happiness & joy & snuggling & The Balvenie DoubleWood (aged 12 years) & numbly Cookie Day (tm) Carmel/Candy Corn & Labrynth (never had seen it, having somehow convinced myself it was Dark Crystal which I tried to sit through but couldn't, so now I've seen the error of my ways - and the movie - and enjoyed it very muchly): Life's sweeeeet. Tuesdays rock!

Must now:

- pack for 11-12 daze away (including for a play and for Dickens in full proper Victorian garb)
- make room for carp in the car so there's space for what I'm packing
- get wet cat food & kitty litter
- finish (as in DO) x-mas shopping (including maple sugar candy...mmmmm, maple sugar candy)
- make further arrangements for where I'm gonna stay whilst I'm away

Sucessful fun shopping expedition today w/nakeygirl and twistedcat (red petticoat & toe sox procured, along w/wickedly good Gothic Lolita mag), followed by a quickie LAX run (always a bridesmaid, never a bride), and then dinner of hearty soup & bread followed by salivatingly yumbly pumpkiney pieness (stacymckenna ROX!). Next up: a bit of sleep then Toad Rip to NoCal for T-giving! Life's goooooooood. Many thx to you all for being a part of it.

I'm gonna sleep well tonight...