Just a Sci-Fi Kid Like Me

I'm working with bone tools and bear skins, I swear to fucking God!

...Okay maybe it's more of a Bones moment.

I'm tired. And the first batch of cakes aren't out yet.

In Better news, I hope, Alleria will be coming back to Texas next week.

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Oh God, Scott just declared that recipes are for the week.

...Right, apologies in advance to everyone coming tonight. And uh to everyone else? Stop laughing, I can hear you!

End of semester + job offer for the boy = PAR-TAY







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The evening is best summarized by this quote from a friend: "Good food, entertainment, and pictures of hot actors giving microphones blow jobs. Where else can I get all that?" :D

The local Blockbuster is going under and closing shop, so Scott and I stopped by to to see if there were any of the advertised $4 films that appealed to us....

Yup. Watchmen? Check. Bottle Shock? Check. X-Men 2? Check. Etc. We got about fourteen DVDs in all. Happy Christmas to us, early.

Speaking of Christmas, 100wordspermin again proves herself one of the bestest friends ever as she got Neil Gaiman to sign a copy of Odd and the Frost Giants for me. I am baking her whatever the hell she wants for Xmas!!!!!!!!

Speaking of baking, we're having a Goodie Day at work tomorrow since people have already started leaving for holidays, so we'll have a proper holiday party in January. So I'm making cupcakes, the recipe for which a friend of a friend provided me. Basically, mix up devil's food cake mix, chocolate pudding mix, eggs, vegetable oil, sour cream, instant coffee (or coffee liqueur--in my case two packets of Via) and chocolate chips, and you have obscenely moist goodness. The batter is so thick you can basically just dump a large wobbelly spoon of the stuff into a liner and have done. All to be sprinkled with powdered sugar, and voila, chocolatey goodness. They should be out in half an hour. The house smells AWESOME.

ETA: To make my geeker joy complete, the existence of an Earth-like planet has been confirmed. I don't care of the temperature is something like five hundred degrees, I wanna go there!!!!!!

So we were bored this afternoon and were actually watching football and like the vultures in The Jungle Book asking each other what we wanted to do.

What we apparently wanted to do was go to the bookstore and behave. Then we didn't. Ahem.

So, I got:

-Daily Life in Medieval Times (Pretty pictures!)
-The Best American Essays of the Century (Cheap and educational!)
-Lone Star: The History of Texas and Texans (Because I have to give back the library copy some time but I'm not going to be done with it any time soon.)
-The Book of Ballads (Because Neil Gaiman is in it!)
-Who Killed Chaucer? (It's by that Terry Jones.)
-Cosette, The Sequel to Les Miserables (Who knew?! --Not by Hugo though.)

Scott got:

-A Charlie Brown Christmas CD (For Xmas purposes!)
-The Bonesetter's Daughter (He's an Amy Tan fan.)
-Rise to Rebellion (We don't have enough Shaara novels.)
-The Glorious Cause (See previous.)
-Native Son (He likes literature.)
-Great Battles: Decisive Conflicts That Have Changed History (Oversized and with lots of maps. He is overjoyed at this one.)

Melanie got:

-Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (Because Halloween is approaching!)

So yeah. We behaved. *coff*
*Disclaimer: This was at Half-Price Books, so in fairness we did make out like utter bandits with these.

Then we came home and decided that we really wanted to make cupcakes. So out came the CakeLove book. We made the Cherry Chocolate Cupcakes with vanilla buttercream meringue. Tasty but the cake was a bit sweeter than we were expecting.

Anyhow, we're all ready for another week.

Love = Logging into your husband's WoW account every day to perform his characters' transmutes while he is out of the country.

Love = Listening to your friend about his divorce, even though you really don't want to sometimes.

Love = Two kitties, looking out the window waiting on daddy to come home.

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If you're not mushy, check out these lovely pseudo-political tees. Honestly? Kinda want 'em all.

You can also votes as to what real politician you think is a Cylon over here. My money's on McCain.
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In other news, per K's wise perceptions, I ordered Warren Brown's CakeLove: How to Bake Cakes From Scratch and absolutely can not wait for it to come in the mail.

Y'know what I want to make? Vanilla cupcakes with matcha icing. Whatcha think?