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My monday eve dinner 8/21/06:

White Bean Salad:




Chicken Breast Sandwich with Spinach:



Overall both were pretty good. I didn't like the chicken as much because I forgot to buy lemon so I used lime, and the breasts I got were really thin, so they wern't as good for sandwiches. Pretty good though.
The bean salad was really amazing though. I don't really usually like mustard, and vinegar, and I thought it was such a good mix in this recipe. I also added some garlic for a little punch.

This is the first meal I made out of the cookbook sarahtomic gave me (How To Cook Everything: simple recipes for great food by Mark Bittman) yays! Thanks Sarah! *mew*

Lots of new (well, most are old) photos! I don't know where they all are, but yeah:



some are from Olbrich Gardens
theres also photos of the Arboretum

also other stuff. if you're bored, look around because it's all different. I don't know if I like the layout as much, but I can't seem to get it back the way it was, so it's going to be like this for a while. It's prettier though.

*swoon*

I'm posting from my wonderful porch! Sitting outside with Dori wondering around. It's great. I even have a hanging plant that I have kept alive for a whole week now, and it attracted a beautiful humming bird earlier today. It's sunny and breezy and beautiful! 73 degrees even. mmmm.

twas fucking awesome yo.
I say, there could have been a tad more snake-related injuries and/or deaths.
word.

I used "awesome" 3 times in a post that only had 38 words. I was surprized to know I had used it at all.

Thanks lollipoptrollop for distracting me tonight! OMG myheritage.com's celebraty look-alike thing is SO fun!

( This is my favorite )

More here.

I finished The Golden Compass this morning and started a bit of The Subtle Knife which so far is great. Im not good at reviewing books, so this is my review for the Golden Compass: It was awesome!

Our apartment is starting to also be pretty awesome too. I've been getting into hanging stuff up and placing things so they're cute, AND we found an arrangement that doesn't completely mimic aaron_pike's place. ^_^

I am so frickin' excited for Snakes on a Plane! I cannnot describe! And Overcompensating has the BEST t-shirt I've EVER seen EVER!!! So so so so cute! little snakeys. <3 Cobert even thinks so.


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How does one recover from Buffy withdrawal?

It's almost been a week since we've moved in and doesn't really feel like we've been here that long. Not enough is unpacked, and not even everything has been moved. We're going to have to wait until the weekend again before we get the carpet, extra book cases, piano and other miscelanious boxes and items. The cats are pretty much adjusted although I'm sure they would appreciate the place being a bit more put together as well. Everything does *not* have it's own place, and especially with dishes and things, I've been very creative. We have 3 larger cabinets on top and bottom, and 2 drawers. 4 small cabinets above the sink and very little counter space. No room for clothes until I get some sort of dresser thing. I gave my metal one to joe because I was inheriting one from some friends. Well, it's huge and it's hardly enough room for anything. So the plan is to upgrade to something smaller and more room. (if that makes sense) Now joe won't part with my old one even temperarily lending me a drawer because he likes it so much, so I am hanging everything I can and putting the rest into a laundry basket. Enough moving blah blah

This last weekend sarahtomic came to visit me! We watched Dr Who and ladygaia came over and we cut her hair and bleached Sarah's a little. There was even time for singing the next day! Yays! Last night Joe and I wen't out for food because our oven has been smelling weird kinda like baking clay. It's deffinatly the chemicals the girl used who lived here before us. I sponged it down and it helped a little, but not enough. So we tried out the Macaroni Grill which we both thought was a little pretentious. The waitress thought we were weird for not ordering anything but a main course and water and then boxing up half of it. Well, whatever. I had spaghetti and meatballs. The meatballs were good, but there was hardly any sauce which I always hate. Joe had a pesto pizza with chicken and sundried tomatoes which he liked but was way too salty.

I still feel weird on this side of town. I feel a *bit* like being on vacation. I can't describe it. It's going to take some getting used to. It would probably help if we did more stuff with people on this side of town, but right now, everyone's going to GenCon, so it's going to be a bit before that happens.

It's my golden birthday on the 25th and I can't decide if I want to have a party or not. It's only 2 weeks away, so I should probably decide soon... it's just so hard to get this apartment in order!

Russ Feingold's myspace is really really cute!

My favorite part about his profile: everything.

My favorite comment: "i love you feingold. marry me." -Brandon

Feingold for prez!

Why do I feel like this move will totally suck? Oh maybe because 1.we have to move twice since our leases don't overlap 2.my parents will be gone tomorrow when we should be moving stuff out 3.I have some sort of painful tummy weirdness and it hurts to lift boxes (i think it's stress related) 4.my dad did something to his back and can't help with heavy things 5.it's going to be in the mid nineties while we do both moves

yee moving! :p

You scored as Wash. You balance work and home well... usually. You generally try not to be serious and like to have fun with whatever activity you're engaged in. </td> Wash 100% Simon Tam 83% Jayne Cobb 67% Captain Mal Reynolds 67% River Tam 67% Inara Serra 50% Kaylee Frye 33% Shepard Book 17% Zoe 17% Which "Firefly" character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

ok wondering a little bit how I could be anything close to Simon Tam when I anwered that I suck at math and science? Oh well. :)

!!warning! clicking on the above photo will take you to myspace!!

Because I just found out you can put videos into lj, I'm showing you all this japanese punk club video about CBGB's and Blondie and other bands from 77. If you've seen the "Documentary" episode of Home Movies (where Brendon Small makes a documentary of Dwayne's band) you'll find this particularly funny. ^_^



... ok, this video wouldn't let me embed itself into lj, but trust me! You can do that now! So exciting!

so.... Reverence was this weekend. wasn't it. Poo. With everything that;s going on, I hadn't even noticed what weekend it was. In fact, on Saturday Joe and I were celebrating our 3 montherversary, and we were discussing whether or not we wanted to go to Reverence next weekend. Oh what moving can do. Also being flakey will help with that. :p

Hope everyone had a good time without me! ;)

>>EDIT: Well, the LARP's over, so I guess I can make this all sorts of public again. ;)

Flapper Slang -from Wikipedia

Flappers had their own slang, with terms like "snugglepup" (a man who frequents petting parties) and "bamey-mugging" (sex).Their dialect reflected their promiscuity and drinking habits; "I have to go see a man about a dog" often meant going to buy whiskey and a "Handcuff" or "Manacle" was an engagement or wedding ring. Also reflective of their preoccupations, they had many ways to say fantastic, such as "That's so Jake" or "That's the bees knees," or a more popular one, "the cat's pajamas."

Many terms still in use in modern American English slang originated as Flapper Slang such as "big cheese" meaning important person, "to bump off" meaning to murder, and "baloney" meaning nonsense. Other terms have become definitive of the prohibition era such as "speakeasy" meaning an illegal place to get liquor and "hooch” describing illegal liquor.

WHY! What did I do? my wordpress blog isn't at my website anymore. I don't know what's wrong. I am so so so so sad. I loved my blog, I wrote SO much! And it's all gone! Now i just have a place holder. I am sadder than sad. And I don't have time to fix it at all. Between sewing my costume for the LARP tomorrow, celebrating my 3rd montherversary of being married, moving in 1 week, trying to work on pinkupinku, working on a project for my dad, and trying to find the time to look for a new job, I highly doubt I will figure this thing out. If anyone out there has any ideas about what might have happened... I'd love to hear it.

I paid someone to cut my hair off today! :D YAYS! and it's a little shorter in the back than the front and layered a bit and cute! Only problem is that I was going to take good before and after photos since my hair was the longest it's been right before I got it cut today. I have a few photos but my hair was actually longer than that. Er, I *thought* it was. They took off a good 6 to 8 inches. YAY! ^_^

Murder in Potter Land by slinkymalinki
Name
Age
You will be murdered by...	The Giant Squid
On...	October 24, 2044
How?	Poison
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When I typed that I was 24 and Abigail, I was killed by Harry by being pushed into a shark tank. When I changed my age to 25 (since I will be in 1 month) It said I was killed by Voldemort by being pushed into a shark tank. When I changed my name to Abby (and it accidentally added my old last name too) it told me I was going to be killed by Dumbledore via stabbing (that one was pretty good too) But I liked this one the best. :)