By the dawn's early light

[thistlechaser]

Like a good little American, I set my clock back on Saturday night. It's nice doing it in the fall, since we get an extra hour of sleep. ...What's that you say? It's next weekend we set the clocks back? Oops. I learned that Sunday morning, when I investigated why my computer clock didn't change. (Sorry XP, this time I blamed you for something that wasn't your fault.)

Spent most of the day on Sunday with tersa. Went out to lunch at a nice salad place, watched Bend It Like Beckman (which I liked a lot, especially since soccer is the only sport I enjoy watching), and sampled her "moo-less chocolate pie" -- chocolate pie made with tofu! Quite surprisingly, it was really, really good. It tasted like chocolate and nothing else.

tersa knitted me a Slytherin scarf! Woo woo! I'm going to take and post photos of it tonight (didn't have time last night).



Since *sniff* Fang moved out of my town and into tersa's, I had only one character left that I liked -- all the others I was (at best) indifferent about. So I decided to take advantage of that and get lots of new animals to move in. I traveled from my main town to my second town six times. Only four animals moved out, but luckily they were the ones I liked the least. (I hope there won't be a "delayed reaction" moving for those two times where no one moved out.) I'm down to 11 animals right now, with only one new one who moved in yesterday (not counting the sportsman lion who I got from tersa). Tom (unsurprisingly, a cat). He's a grumpy male type, so I'm happy about that. Also, he moved into Fang's spot, so I'm thinking maybe I can get a Butch/Tom love thing going on to replace Fang for poor Butch.


Late last night I got my hp100 drabble written. Another uninspiring challenge week, IMO, but happily I came up with an idea.


Title: The Peking Moon
House: Slytherin
Word Count: 100
Characters: The trio, Filch, Mrs. Norris, and the "House Special".
A/N: I hope this doesn't offend anyone.

Ever since Mrs. Norris had vanished (sent who-knows-where by a mispronounced spell), Filch had been in a nasty mood. Harry and friends were only too happy to be getting away -- the trio would be visiting China!

Upon arriving, they wandered the Muggle streets, taking in the sights. Ron pointed out the many tiny wooden cages packed with cats, but Harry and Hermione couldn't explain them. Eventually rumbling bellies demanded dinner.

Thanks to a translation charm, they had no trouble getting food. The "house special" was ordered and eaten. Little did they know, now they'd never be free of Mrs. Norris.

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A/N: Sadly, cats really are eaten some places; I'm not attempting to further a stereotype here. And I'm a cat lover, honest! Don't throw things at me for this! :)

The title comes from the Cat in the Kettle song.

Comments

[tersa.livejournal.com]

chocolate pie made with tofu! Quite surprisingly, it was really, really good. It tasted like chocolate and nothing else.

The nice thing about tofu is that, with just a little bit of proper preperation, it really does taste like whatever it is mixed with and doesn't have a taste of its own. It's like a food flavor sponge, soaking up the flavors of everything else.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I think I remember Alton Brown saying that... thought it might have been about eggplant instead of tofu.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Eggplant *is* a sponge. :) Both for water and for flavors.

[rinijisushie.livejournal.com]

Tom is my favorite character in the game. Unfortunetly, he lives in my sister's town. I've been trying to seduce him into moving to my town for ages ^_~

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, another Animal Crossing person! Hello! And I can't wait to interact with Tom more -- I only spoke to him once last night, then had to turn off the game.

Animal Crossing!

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

I must be pretty lucky in that I really like more animals in my town than feel indifferent towards. I always love talking to and writing letters to Maple, Mitzi, Pierce, Rex, Dizzy, Rhoda (and she's of the bitchtacular personality, too!), Grizzly, Stella, and Static, which is more than half of my town right there. If I could get rid of Genji, Groucho, and Velma (who didn't move out - aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!), my life would be much happier!

By the way, I have a basement *and* a big first floor now! Aren't you proud of me? It took me about a week to pay off that little 49,000 bell loan... Lord knows how many years it'll be until I get that second story... (only 380,000 more bells to go!)

Re: Animal Crossing!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

You have a basement now, but do you know how to keep it? How to prevent it from vanishing when the season (fall) ends?

I bet not!

Re: Animal Crossing!

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

Ha! The basement doesn't just *vanish* when the season ends! If it did, my brother's would have disappear over the year.

So heh heh! Nice try!

Re: Animal Crossing!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Grrr! You suck!

:)

[psychosammy.livejournal.com]

H, im sorry for intruding but if you want to get rid of a town member easyer put up post boards around their door so they cant get out ... usualy they go in about 1 to 2 weeks. I hope this helps you :)!

[rinijisushie.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I actually found you in the Animal Crossing community. You seem like you have more fun with the game than any of the other players I've ever talked to ^__^

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hee, I try! :)