you can't do that with a tiffany lamp!

hello the internet.

hello new friends.

hello snowstorm.

fwiw, have returned safely and mostly intact from the faraway land of canadia. am still riding the high of the stunning, wonderful wedding but at the same time (and despite sleeping until 3:00 this afternoon, roughly, with sporadic blinks of dw/lj-checking awakeness) thoroughly exhausted -- though feeling significantly less like i just got hit by a train full of cake. also i miss many, many people, as is habitual with these things.

(i was technically open for a shift at the coop today. hah. looked out the window this morning at eight inches of snow still accumulating, breathed a hopeful intention that those still in transit made it safely to various homespaces, put my pillow over my head and went back to sleep. fuck that.)

to my new friends, welcome! i ... do not post very often. when i do i am largely boring. when i am not boring i am a bit of a spaz. ALSO I SOMETIMES POST FOOD PICTURES AND RECIPES. in the real world i'm a waitress at some fake asian restaurant and a demo/promo/samples coordinator at a natural foods coop, so those keep me pretty busy six days out of the week. but i do my best to check dw and lj at least every couple of days, even if by the time i do that i don't always have the energy to comment. (my new years resolution was to comment more. i don't want to talk about how badly that is coming along.) i continue to live in the probably vain hope that some day i will have gobs and gobs of free time to spend being an active member of the online comminuty again, but until that day i just try to keep ahead of the rolling boulder that is my life.

to everybody, i love you!

and i'm going back to bed now.

(ps holy shit but that wedding was AWESOME. like, EPIC. have i mentioned that?)

(pps FINALLY got all the icing out of my hair! pants, however, are another matter entirely.)

so.

i may have just signed up for next month's "half-and-half" night (half guest performers, half regular cast) with a local drag king troupe (this one - goes to a myspace page; no guarantees on worksafeness [as usual, it depends on your workplace, i guess]).

we'll see how that pans out, and whether i actually wind up on stage, but. i am REALLY REALLY EXCITED.

over & out.

not dead!

i came home from vacation to dive face-first into a) reflooring/remodeling the kitchen with my mom, and b) reading the young miles 3-in-1 book that wolby & co. sent home with me (am presently halfway through the vor game).

which.

um.

YOU GUYS, I AM SUPER SPORADIC AND/OR THE JOHNNY-COME-LATELIEST EVER, BUT I FORGOT HOW MUCH I LOVE THESE WEIRDOS. also it would appear that somewhere between the time a couple years ago when i forced myself through komarr just so i could get to read civil campaign and, um, right now i have decided that STUFF IN SPACE IS REALLY COOL AND I LIKE IT A LOT. which is more than i can say for college-freshman me. (no literally, not joking, i had to make myself read the first 1/2 to 2/3 of komarr, not for any fault in the work but simply because -- working theory -- i think my brain was just too tiny to handle all the space-politics et cetera. or whatever, i don't know. the point is that RIGHT NOW I CAN WHOLLY RECOGNIZE THAT IT IS THE SHIT AND PEOPLE ARE LAUGHING AT ME BECAUSE I AM TAKING THIS BOOK WITH ME EVERWHERE AND LIKE, GOING HOME EARLY FROM PARTIES JUST SO I CAN GET SOME READING IN BEFORE BED. I AM NOT ASHAMED.)

ANYWAY, plus on top of all that the holidays are speeding on apace which means both my jobs are going crazy and then there's this girl i'm spending a bunch of time with and DEAR INTERNET FRIENDS I STILL LOVE YOU A LOT AND AM TOTALLY ALIVE, I PROMISE. i'm just mostly subsisting on pumpkin spice soymilk, ridiculous space dorks, trips to the local hardware store, and my amanda palmer/carbon leaf/a.f.i./radiohead playlist.

but tell me about you! or laugh at how much of a dork i am! or both!

aka JACK, THE PUMPKIN KING~

aka a ginger brown sugar spice cake; the filling is a layer of (dairy free!) creme anglaise topped with locally grown parker pears poached in wisconsin rose wine (wollersheim's blushing rose, for those who are curious) and thinly sliced. decoration: hand-painted vegan fondant -- SLOWLY BUT SURELY I AM GETTING THE HANG OF THIS SHIT. >:[

( more pictures - side view, cross-section )

for try two at vegan fondant (and for a completely experimental cake that i TOTALLY MADE UP IN MY HEAD), not bad at all! this is a dessert to which i believe i will actually return. with a little bit of tweaking it could be super badass. :D

HAPPY OCTOBER!

welcome to my favorite month!

i can't trust my own words, so have some of these:

Remembering Hurricane Katrina
at shakesville blog.


also,
-truckload sale at the hippie food co-op went well today, though i wish i'd had *any* cash so i could have stocked up on whole grain ricemilk.
-did some work with veganizing fondant and practicing decorative piping the other night; photos later. (i'm making a caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!)
-off now to listen to podfics and clean my room. oh god, all i want is to sleep.

tequila lime [tempeh] fajitas: being a record of the marinade maintained in a place where it actually can't get lost

juice of two limes (or one lemon)
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup agave (or honey)
2 tsp chili powder
2 tsp granulated garlic
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp black pepper
2-3 shots (seriously, jiggers, no skimping) tequila*

marinate food in this.**

then cook it and eat it!!!

*[p.s. this is where i get rid of my goddamn, my freaking durango bullshit that i bought for the margarita cupcakes and can't drink 'cause it's heinous. i guess if you wanted to use good tequila you could, but i'd save that for a congratulatory drink when you're eating your FREAKING AWESOME FAJITAS, MOTHERFUCKER. yeah.]

**where by food i mean chicken or tempeh (which is what i did) or beef i guess or seitan or maybe even shrimp or tilapia? as long as you're careful with those last two; don't kill them. just a couple minutes. half an hour or so for the rest, maybe an hour if you get distracted. whatever, it worked for me.

re-entry hurts worse than sunburn. i miss yesterday already.

IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS' TIME wolby AND I ARE GOING TO BE AT LOLLAPALOOZA.

TOGETHER.

OH MY GOD I JUST KEEP GETTING MORE EXCITED.



(JFC I MISS HER AND lemonverbana, AND NORA, WHO DOES NOT HAVE AN LJ ( :[ ))