august
8 - 12: we're so back tuesday |
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listening |
- new JGMD!
- miscellanous just king things episodes
- paramore 'the only exception' been in my brain rent free for some reason. slowly noodling on friend guitar to learn it.
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reading |
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watching |
- in the past few weeks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer! it's on tubi! it's free! it has not aged particularly well in many ways but I am definitely still enjoying. the biggest thing I am taking away from it is we need more filler episodes god damn it. television seasons should be 20 episodes long and less than half should be mainline plot. the rest should just be fun romps.
- watched columbo with my mom :-) some of those episodes are long as fuck though
- finished s1 of apothecary diaries with partner!!!! really lovely charming show. we both got very excited when we realized that s2 is already out.
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playing |
- finally ran DnD again, it's fine
- blades in the dark!! scud gauntlet is sooo normal don't even worry about it. literally obsessed with our crew, mad shoutout to the GM for assembling us all. next time I'm home for an extended stretch I really want to drive the few hours to play in person.
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making |
- the Big Event that ate up my past few weeks was friend wedding, and I DID complete the ketubah in time. let's fucking go. much blood sweat tears etc but it's done and now I have my kitchen table back after it monopolized it for a while. if anyone wants a bespoke ketubah for their wedding: ask someone else I'm never doing this again (this is a half joke). the text my friend chose was very sweet but I did censor it here for the sake of not doxxing her or her new husband lol. the sun and some other details are done in copper leaf, which reminds me I need to order the sealant so it doesn't oxidize. in lieu of figuring out how to get the text printed on textured watercolor paper (and she did NOT ask me to do this with enough time to calligrapher it myself lol), I treated the image like a 'frame' and had the text printed out on normal paper in a local print shop! and I think it came out well doing it that way, the detail of the copper leaf on the inside of the framing was an especially good touch, shoutout to my partner for suggesting that.
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eating |
- lots of wedding food and related leftovers...made a halfhearted attempt at a salmon slop bowl as seen on on instagram (roast salmon, some sort of soft cheese like feta or boursin, and whatever veggies you want until the salmon is done, then mash it all together and add pasta) but I didn't have the soft cheese so I just kinda did the fish and veg plus maccy cheese
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misc |
- ooooh baby been busy! drove back to my apartment with my mom in July, she was here for a week, then my partner flew out both to visit and also for the wedding that the ketubah was for, between all the driving back and forth from airport and also wedding stuff I simply have not had the drive in me to Post. but we're so back. technically I made a very short tuesdaypost on July 23 but I never posted it on dreamwidth or tumblr so did it really happen etc so I'm comboing it with this one a little, if you want the ketubah WIP you can see it on my neocities page
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8 - 21: quick thursdaypost |
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listening |
- more just king things
- finally listened to fleet foxes eponymous album. it's good (shocking)
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reading |
- fallow, some misc ao3 stuff
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watching |
- started rewatching iwtv with old roommate....god what a show
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playing |
- started playing disco elysium with a friend! I maxed out the physique and vibes scores for this run. my friend is agog that I keep contemplating choosing the Mean To Kim options.
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making |
- went to the indiana dunes state park with some other grad students this weekend, the fact that there were pushy lifeguards there was vexing and annoying. if I want to drown in Lake Michigan that is my god given right as an american. anyways here are the gary smokestacks
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eating |
- fallow but i AM doing some fun recipes soon.
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misc |
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8 - 28: quick thursdaypost |
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listening |
- started trueanon episodes on falun gong. banter made in a lab to appeal specifically to NY metro area listeners. hums the cellino and barnes theme song
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reading |
- studying my torah for yom kippur....I have memorized 3 out of 9 verses which isn't bad for the timeline I'm on right now
- Mud and Canvas by StormsBreadth: MDZS larp AU! thanks B for the rec. it's a fuzzy feel-good one, definitely one of those AUs where you can tell the author is Deeply involved with the thing the AU is about a la Sasuke and the Ottowa housing authority.
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watching |
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playing |
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making |
- remember that little bowl from may? finally retrieved from kiln! she's adorable! the plan is to do this pattern on the inside (so sides and bottom I think) of a matcha bowl for a friend's birthday present.
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eating |
- made the classic chicken rice with buttered onion from deb smittenkitchen. my thighs are on the small side so I had wayyy more rice/onion than chicken but that's alright, it freezes well
- pasta and fried zucchini salad. really good. gonna make it again this week I think but using a big ass squash from my friend's garden instead of zucc. I don't have a food processor so it's not much of a "sauce" but I'm gonna see what I can do this week with a grater instead of haphazardly chopping.
- made about 1/4-1/3 cup of ricotta cheese using some 2% milk that had gone off, just the old standard "heat to 180, add acid, stir, strain with cheesecloth", which I then used...
- ...to make another deb smittenkitchen eggplant involtini! I halved it and subbed in about 1/4 cup of cottage cheese for the last bit of the filling, and used a farmers market eggplant. yummy! definitely want a larger eggplant in the future though, some of my guys were verryyyy little
- shocking no one, deb smittenkitchen number three: cucumber crunch salad with tofu. my new best friend shelf-stable block of silken tofu. cukes came from a friend's garden so they had more and larger seeds than I normally like but the dressing is divine, would be really good as a cold noodle dish as well.
- made ginger and peach simple syrups! ginger went fine but I forgot about pectin in fruit so I accidentally candied peaches/some sort of peach jam...I did 2:1 sugar:water so it's so so so sweet. found a blog called 'southern fatty' to check something for the peach simple syrup recipe, which, what a blog name for a non fat person to use huh. but he accidentally fermented his peaches apparently. anyways. :|
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