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I'm having a great time. If life gets anymore fun I might just expire from joy. I really don't things could get ~~worse unless we find out I have a brain tumor~~ better!

Just venting. Moving stress, health stress (but nothing new), packing stress, job stress, marriage Stress. Plus a lot of people I know are suddenly getting divorced. I imagine in a few weeks things will be a lot better.

Please tell me something nice or something you are up to? Even if it is boring? I just want to think about other people for a while?!

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Well I am currently sitting in my living room watching Gilmore Girls and also watching my neice (who is 8 months old) try to tear grammas house apart piece by piece. Needless to say my mothers house is not baby proof. Also watching the dogs beat the crap out of eachother. Its a rather funny picture.

Nothing better than chubby babies getting into trouble. Tee Hee. Hope your day gets a little better.

Awww, that is adorable and sounds nice. I started knitting a llama for my little niece. :)

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I wish I could crochet little animals!! That sounds really cute.

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It will be lumpy and homemade looking but made with love! :D

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haha thats all that counts :)

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I've been home sick for the past two days and trying to find non-intellectually-overtaxing ways to occupy my mind besides sleeping, which has been my main activity. Except that I would really rather be writing something. I wish I knew what.

It's just a few more weeks, and then I can come help you unpack and bring you hot chocolate.

Hmm. Now I think I'll spend some quality time thinking about hot chocolate. Did you know that Burdick's remodeled? I think they added some seating downstairs but I haven't gone in to check it out yet, just walked past.

:D Burdick's! That cheers me up! OMG!

We will live like a five minute walk from there. O_O

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Hey, I am still thinking about it now! I'd make myself hot cocoa but I think I'll wait til I can go have some of the real thing on a day when I actually leave the house :D.

It will be even easier to visit you at your new apartment than it was at your old one.

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yayayayaya!

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A snippet from my life:

My husband was asking me who had our copy of The Call of Cthulhu. Meg, overhearing, asked what Cthulhu was. After husband spouted off a bunch of "elder gods from the depths of R'lyeh" stuff, I figured I'd help her out. "He's sort of an octopus god," I explained. Husband added, "Like a man with an octopus head."

Meg's response: "A man with an octopus head? WHAT A JOKE!"

At which both husband and I fell down laughing. Because I'm sure "WHAT A JOKE!" was exactly the response Lovecraft was going for... or the creators of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, now that I think about it. (Points to ponder: Davy Jones = Cthulhu?)

Tonight is going to be laid back, with a viewing of 28 Weeks Later and some sewing (I still have to make Meg's Halloween costume, plus I promised her teacher I'd stitch up something for the classroom). I ought to start dinner, but I find myself uninspired.

That is awesome. Stories about Meg and other LJ friends like

pellucid's kid make me want to have kids. I know my kid would probably be failry entertaining. :D

Now everytime I see Cthulhu, I will think WHAT A JOKE! lolololol

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No, MY kid.

pellucid is someone who wishes to be me but has been unsuccessful thus far. Unless you know that person's kid too...

My kid made me rent Apollo 13 and now I suppose I'll have to go watch it with him. zzz.

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Oh god I am so braindead! :D

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LOLZ. Hey, you wouldn't happen to have a fantastically sinful shortbread recipe, would you?

I saw the Dumbledore thing over at

copperbadge. Showed it to the Scholar and he gave me the Spock eyebrow.

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:D

I like Ina Garten's recipe:

3/4 pound unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar, plus extra for sprinkling
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

In the bowl of an electric mixer with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter and 1 cup of sugar until they are just combined. Add the vanilla. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour and salt; then add them to the butter-and-sugar mixture. Mix on low speed until the dough starts to come together. Dump onto a surface dusted with flour and roll shape into a flat disk. Wrap in plastic and chill for 30 minutes.

Roll the dough 1/2-inch thick and cut with a 3-inch heart-shaped cutter. Place the hearts on an ungreased sheet pan and sprinkle with sugar. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the edges begin to brown. Allow to cool to room temperature.

Note: The edges of the shortbread are ever so slightly sharper if you chill the cookies before baking them. I cut out the cookies days ahead and bake them the day I serve them.

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This isn't so much "nice" as "amusing", but here goes:

I just picked Harry up at a friend's house, and while he was saying goodbye, friend's mom, L, who is a world-famous doctor, tells me they ate a good dinner but didn't manage desert.

They'd spent half an hour decorating roll-out sugar-Halloween cookies like ghosts and pumpkins but when she took them out of the oven, they were a sticky, goopy mess.

Because she didn't know that you're supposed to frost the cookies *after* you cook them.

Oops.

: hugs you

oh my god. That reminds me of the time we baked a mix cake when I was 8 and my friend and I were so excited but when we turned the cake out of the pan it was just crumbs because we forgot to put in the eggs. :D

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*hugs*

I am getting ready for a delightfully impromptu-but-typical movie-date with the most non-typical woman I've ever met. I shall let you know how all turns out!

~ Lissa

Hey, let me know too, I want to know. *jumps up and down*

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Check out "report" two comments below. :o)

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OH MY GOD! Please do!!!!!
so excited for you!

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Movie date was nice, but weird. I'm convinced that movie-dates in general are weird, though, as there's not really much time for interaction and early in dating, it's *all* about interaction. Second date (planned since before impromptu date) was perfect -- lunch at the best bagel place, a meander through the state museum poking fun at surrealist art and enjoying the Native American and found-object-look-alike exhibits, and a walk around the capital chatting and admiring the architecture and vaguely European flair of some of the restored details in my old neighborhood (where J currently lives). Lovely and wonderful and I'm very much looking forward to seeing her again, and I'm pretty certain that the feeling's mutual.

:o)

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OMG YAY!

This is the best thing I have heard all week! :D That does sound like a really nice date.

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Seriously, that sounds great. I'd like to have a date that nice! LOLZ, my dates are all like "let's go over health insurance paperwork together."

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Lately mine have been, "I made you a nice dinner, oh you are sleeping." D:

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The Scholar made me a nice dinner. Fortunately, I was awake to eat it. MMM. He got out the chicken I had bought on sale and frozen, and he roasted it and made some vegetables.

Wait, I didn't mean to hijack her thread. *shuts ears in oven door*

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I doubt she will mind since she is the nicest person ever. Lol not forgetting you met her at my wedding THIS TIME. that still makes me giggle. Oh, fibrfog. How you make me forget my own wedding. :D

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Today my stepmom picked up when I called (it's been a while) and we had a great conversation. She recommended the author Paul Auster to me and I recommended Julia Child's book to her - she used to live in France and also loves to cook. She informed me that my 5-year old sister is deciding between being a jaguar and a "fancy bat" for Halloween, and that she has inherited my taste in clothing - as mismatched as possible. The latest outfit of choice was leopard-spotted pants (orange and black) and a pink and purple shirt.

I went shopping at Trader Joe's and got grapefruit soda and goat cheese and frozen naan! Tomorrow there is a blues and swing dance at Johns Hopkins that I'm going to, and I'm working the door for part of it.

My critique in graphic design went really well. We've been working on these projects for weeks and when I got up to present, the general consensus was "Wow, you really struggled with this, and it turned out great". Made me feel good.

This is like one of those boring life-updates I might make to my journal, only to you! Good luck with um - everything. Moving just makes your life about 50 times more stressful.

That all sounds so excellent and I hope you share photos of your sister in her costume! OMG CUTE.

I like Paul Auster a lot, especial New York Trilogy. Some of his other stuff is too self consciously postmodern. And there were two movies based on his fiction: "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face." They are OK. :D

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I have a raincoat now. Which is good, because I've needed it for the past two days to keep the rain off me. Also, I found a serviceable acrylic sweater (I can wash it out in hotel rooms, it will dry overnight!) for only $17 at ShopKo. I call that success.

Oh gosh I remember my mom going crazy looking for clothes that could be washed in hotel rooms too. I swear you remind me so much of her sometimes. :D *SQUASH*

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Tonight I've been working on a very smutty story, whee! I also just got my yuletide assignment and I'm really excited about writing it. Seriously, the story I get as a gift will just be a bonus. And on top of that I got a new chapter of a story I'm beta-ing in my mailbox this morning so that was really exciting, too. ^_^

That sounds like a good way to spend a rainy night! :D

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Um, well my LDR boy and I have officially decided that he will be coming over here for Christmas break and we will be booking his flight Monday. This is exciting because it means I get to spend our fourth anniversary, Christmas and New Years with him and still get to see my family over the holidays to boot.

Also because we will be staying with my family we decided we needed a couple of days to our selves so now I get to plan a mini vacation somewhere in the state, which is awesome good fun.

Well, I'm on fall break, and I spent the day with two of my best friends (who left me at college when they actually graduated on time),

til_midnight and

frowlzed, going to yarn stores, eating, and sitting around knitting. I also finished my first felting project, a bag, and it turned out beautifully. It'll be a great present for a friend's birthday this week :)

OH I want to flet a bag! Will you post pics please? :D

I'm kind of drunk noe. I have to get out tomorrow and get a maggage or something. Wow am ddrunk becuas the typing is hard.

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I'll probably post pics tomorrow. Today is going to be a little bit crazy :)

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Wow I was drunk! It took me like 10 minutes to figure out that I meant massage and not mortgage. :D

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Hee! :)

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