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* It's amazing. On Monday, I logged on to three pages of friends posts (mostly HP100 stuff). Today I logged on to three /posts/, none HP100-related. Maybe we need a new topic twice a week, to give me something to read in the mornings. :P
* I stumbled upon this at work yesterday. I opened it before I knew how utterly not-work-safe it was. Link to a LJ entry. As a woman, the thought of even attempting to write m/m makes me nervous, but links like that one help. (It's one guy telling (sweetly and hotly) about sex with his new-to-gayness lover.) Very, very detailed, very interesting. Also, again, very not work safe. You've been warned.
* Two things I learned last night, though I sort of knew them already:
1) Cooking for yourself tends to be really cheap.
2) Cooking for yourself tends to take a lot of time.
I got a pot roast for $3 yesterday, and it'll likely be good for three meals. Add a potato and a couple of carrots, and you're still not much over $1 for a meal. I wish I had remembered to get some wide noodles though... Need something to go with it.
However, on the downside, I dealt with cooking/food for three hours last night. That's half the evening. Wrapping up the meat I bought, cutting and washing the (godlike, giant, wonderful, sweet) strawberries, getting the pot roast ready for this morning, cutting the potato up into bitty little pieces, washing the pot, all that.
* Oh, sour cream. So I'd never tried it before putting it into my chicken/cream of chicken meal thingie. Since I didn't even know if I liked it, I didn't buy anymore to put into the meal. Last night was my first time having the chicken-in-cream of chicken soup thing without it. Pretty sucky. However, I suspect lemon juice could replace it (it needed an edge of flavor, something sharp). I'll need to pick some up to try.
Until I have lemon juice, there was an interesting looking recipe for "orange chicken" using frozen orange juice concentrate. Can't wait to try that, though I suspect it'll make a burnt mess in the pot.
* Tivo's getting so full that I'll need a week off just to catch up. It's recording this fake-anime cartoon for me (Reign the Conqueror). It's by the people who did Aeon Flux for MTV a decade or two ago. It's got that really, really funky but sort of keen art style. I also set it up to grab all Yu Gi Oh eps. That's two a day, I think. Since I don't have much time to watch TV, I really don't have it record much for me. Some HBO stuff that plays in the middle of the night (Def Poetry, Real Sex, things like that).
I almost use the Tivo more like an alarm clock or a reminder than a recorder. I program the shows in that I like (Survivor, Six Feet Under, Whose Line is it Anyway, whatever) and then even though I'm not watching the TV or thinking about it, it will change the channel to it and then I notice and watch. (I leave my TV on all the time for background noise.)
* It's amazing. On Monday, I logged on to three pages of friends posts (mostly HP100 stuff). Today I logged on to three /posts/, none HP100-related. Maybe we need a new topic twice a week, to give me something to read in the mornings. :P
* I stumbled upon this at work yesterday. I opened it before I knew how utterly not-work-safe it was. Link to a LJ entry. As a woman, the thought of even attempting to write m/m makes me nervous, but links like that one help. (It's one guy telling (sweetly and hotly) about sex with his new-to-gayness lover.) Very, very detailed, very interesting. Also, again, very not work safe. You've been warned.
* Two things I learned last night, though I sort of knew them already:
1) Cooking for yourself tends to be really cheap.
2) Cooking for yourself tends to take a lot of time.
I got a pot roast for $3 yesterday, and it'll likely be good for three meals. Add a potato and a couple of carrots, and you're still not much over $1 for a meal. I wish I had remembered to get some wide noodles though... Need something to go with it.
However, on the downside, I dealt with cooking/food for three hours last night. That's half the evening. Wrapping up the meat I bought, cutting and washing the (godlike, giant, wonderful, sweet) strawberries, getting the pot roast ready for this morning, cutting the potato up into bitty little pieces, washing the pot, all that.
* Oh, sour cream. So I'd never tried it before putting it into my chicken/cream of chicken meal thingie. Since I didn't even know if I liked it, I didn't buy anymore to put into the meal. Last night was my first time having the chicken-in-cream of chicken soup thing without it. Pretty sucky. However, I suspect lemon juice could replace it (it needed an edge of flavor, something sharp). I'll need to pick some up to try.
Until I have lemon juice, there was an interesting looking recipe for "orange chicken" using frozen orange juice concentrate. Can't wait to try that, though I suspect it'll make a burnt mess in the pot.
* Tivo's getting so full that I'll need a week off just to catch up. It's recording this fake-anime cartoon for me (Reign the Conqueror). It's by the people who did Aeon Flux for MTV a decade or two ago. It's got that really, really funky but sort of keen art style. I also set it up to grab all Yu Gi Oh eps. That's two a day, I think. Since I don't have much time to watch TV, I really don't have it record much for me. Some HBO stuff that plays in the middle of the night (Def Poetry, Real Sex, things like that).
I almost use the Tivo more like an alarm clock or a reminder than a recorder. I program the shows in that I like (Survivor, Six Feet Under, Whose Line is it Anyway, whatever) and then even though I'm not watching the TV or thinking about it, it will change the channel to it and then I notice and watch. (I leave my TV on all the time for background noise.)
