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Happy Valentine's day everyone :D
And don't forget - tomorrow is zorm day - the day of cheap candy :D
I was late getting to bed, and late getting up, so I still need to take a shower before I can lave the house, but I will live. I had a really awesome weekend!
Saturday, I went with a small mob of Anthro grad students to try out the Stover Bro's/Boys cafe/deli counter place in the Village Foods. It was amazingly delicious! One of the best burgers i'd ever had ever! Then I went and made Alannah Myles cupcakes. They were supposed to be red velvet, but were too dark. however, they *were* delicious, and very rich and moist. I uses a traditional recipe that called for beets (the second recipe on this page). I would do it again for sure, but I might leave out the cocoa powder and see how that affects the redness/taste. I just made my normal cream cheese icing, also, which is just a 1/2 C stick of butter, an 8oz brick of cream cheese, a splash of vanilla, and 3 C of icing sugar.
I wound up having to go to target to get a new hand mixer, and picked up a cupcake carrying tray thing as well. Since it came with a muffin pan, I can now bake 2 dozen at once, wooh! I took the cupcakes to movie night, where we watched Sushine (cool sci-fi thing), and the rifftrax of the new Clash of the Titans (painfully hilarious!).
Sunday morning, I went to the dog park with Jola, Lucy and Zap. Also, Merc and Jessie ;) It was awesome - a ridiculously nice day after all the cold we'd been having. The dogs ran around, I ran around, we sat in the sun and chatted, and all was generally speaking well with the world. I think we stayed for close to two hours! That afternoon was the planned trip out to WC mercantile with Zari, Ella, and Josh, where I picked up the yarn I need to finish my shawl. they didn't have the colour I wanted (a particular orange) for the middle section, so I wound up getting a variegated one that is closer to the rest of it. It will still be very pretty, but maybe a little subtler. And less orange, but you can't have everything ;) Ella also got some nice yarn to make a top she's been wanting to do, and Zari picked up a silk cap (a gorgeous golden yellow that perfectly matched the dress she was wearing), and immediately started knitting with it even though it hasn't been spun yet, because that's how she rolls. She also showed off the crazy-ass German lace thing she is knitting (if you can call it knitting when she is using thread), and there was much deserved oooh-ing and ahhh-ing, Okay, really, the clerk took it away from her and ran off to show all her friends ;)
Following that, we went to Koppe Barn, where I had a chicken sandwich, they still have the best fried ever though, nom nom nom. A weekend for fried greasy food, but whatcha gonna do? It was good times. We sat outside in the sun and spoke bad words around small children, on account of we are bad people -_- After that, I went home to walk JJ and had a nap.
And then it was time to get organized for game :D We have been working on starting up a Firefly game for a month or so now, and this was our first session. We wound up playing at my house, because I have a large kitchen and a table we can all fit around pretty easily, which worked out really well and I think helped keep us focused and more on track. Although one player couldn't make it (Shelby :( ) it still ran really well. I really like all the characters, people seemed to get into their roles pretty fast (omg I love the hell out of my character soooo much!), and we are aiming for an episodic feel to things (in terms of story stricture as well as general plot), and Josh really pulled it off swimmingly. A very promising first session. We even had a teaser opening and flashbacks! Fantastic!
I then stayed up too late chatting with folks after game, which was great, but now it is almost 9:30 and I still need that shower.... :D
Despite my lack of sleep, though, I feel pretty mentally refreshed and am in a great mood, so I have high hopes of a productive day despite my slow start ^-^ Maybe I will even remember to mail that solo to C....
I was late getting to bed, and late getting up, so I still need to take a shower before I can lave the house, but I will live. I had a really awesome weekend!
Saturday, I went with a small mob of Anthro grad students to try out the Stover Bro's/Boys cafe/deli counter place in the Village Foods. It was amazingly delicious! One of the best burgers i'd ever had ever! Then I went and made Alannah Myles cupcakes. They were supposed to be red velvet, but were too dark. however, they *were* delicious, and very rich and moist. I uses a traditional recipe that called for beets (the second recipe on this page). I would do it again for sure, but I might leave out the cocoa powder and see how that affects the redness/taste. I just made my normal cream cheese icing, also, which is just a 1/2 C stick of butter, an 8oz brick of cream cheese, a splash of vanilla, and 3 C of icing sugar.
I wound up having to go to target to get a new hand mixer, and picked up a cupcake carrying tray thing as well. Since it came with a muffin pan, I can now bake 2 dozen at once, wooh! I took the cupcakes to movie night, where we watched Sushine (cool sci-fi thing), and the rifftrax of the new Clash of the Titans (painfully hilarious!).
Sunday morning, I went to the dog park with Jola, Lucy and Zap. Also, Merc and Jessie ;) It was awesome - a ridiculously nice day after all the cold we'd been having. The dogs ran around, I ran around, we sat in the sun and chatted, and all was generally speaking well with the world. I think we stayed for close to two hours! That afternoon was the planned trip out to WC mercantile with Zari, Ella, and Josh, where I picked up the yarn I need to finish my shawl. they didn't have the colour I wanted (a particular orange) for the middle section, so I wound up getting a variegated one that is closer to the rest of it. It will still be very pretty, but maybe a little subtler. And less orange, but you can't have everything ;) Ella also got some nice yarn to make a top she's been wanting to do, and Zari picked up a silk cap (a gorgeous golden yellow that perfectly matched the dress she was wearing), and immediately started knitting with it even though it hasn't been spun yet, because that's how she rolls. She also showed off the crazy-ass German lace thing she is knitting (if you can call it knitting when she is using thread), and there was much deserved oooh-ing and ahhh-ing, Okay, really, the clerk took it away from her and ran off to show all her friends ;)
Following that, we went to Koppe Barn, where I had a chicken sandwich, they still have the best fried ever though, nom nom nom. A weekend for fried greasy food, but whatcha gonna do? It was good times. We sat outside in the sun and spoke bad words around small children, on account of we are bad people -_- After that, I went home to walk JJ and had a nap.
And then it was time to get organized for game :D We have been working on starting up a Firefly game for a month or so now, and this was our first session. We wound up playing at my house, because I have a large kitchen and a table we can all fit around pretty easily, which worked out really well and I think helped keep us focused and more on track. Although one player couldn't make it (Shelby :( ) it still ran really well. I really like all the characters, people seemed to get into their roles pretty fast (omg I love the hell out of my character soooo much!), and we are aiming for an episodic feel to things (in terms of story stricture as well as general plot), and Josh really pulled it off swimmingly. A very promising first session. We even had a teaser opening and flashbacks! Fantastic!
I then stayed up too late chatting with folks after game, which was great, but now it is almost 9:30 and I still need that shower.... :D
Despite my lack of sleep, though, I feel pretty mentally refreshed and am in a great mood, so I have high hopes of a productive day despite my slow start ^-^ Maybe I will even remember to mail that solo to C....