Tryslora in the Hall of Mirrors

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I think I am in love with the geeks on the Amazing Race. They are wonderful.

On the subject of productivity... um... WOW. It's been a hell of a weekend so far, and it continues today, and it feels GOOD.

Yesterday started with cleaning kitchens while Kev took Boo to TKD. Then off to Chick's basketball tryouts. Then home to destroy a deck while the kids loaded wood into the wood chute, and then Chick went to shower. Immediately after that, we headed out again to go the oriental grocery and to Crossgates (yes, we voluntarily went to the mall). Both shopping trips were excellent and productive. The oriental grocery was a new one to us, and we quite enjoyed the place. Bought all manner of things, from lo mein noodles to asian pears to one lunch box for $2.99. At Crossgates I kinda had a clothesgasm and bought clothes at both JC Penney and Torrid, and Kev and Chick got jeans, and we also got a bag for the new camera (which was part of why we'd gone there in the first place).

Today has been another day of productivity, both laundry and cooking. eternaleponine came to visit and we totally cooked up a storm, so we are all now set for lunches in the coming week with a ton of food. And brilliant food too, which I am actually looking forward to eating in a major way. Of course, by the time we were done, I was utterly exhausted, so dinner turned into hotdogs and hamburgers for the family after eponine headed out. Tonight I'll put together lunches for the kidlets, although I don't need to do ones for the adults until Monday night because we are off work tomorrow.

In irritating news, my hall-of-mirrors account is refusing to let me get to email, which means I can't get things done that need done, which is very very frustrating.

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eternaleponine, do you like spinach? Chick has requested making a spinach recipe she and Boo found as part of the cooking tomorrow afternoon.

So far, on the docket are...

stir-fried garlic & soy green beans
steamed edamame
goma-ae (spinach with soy and sesame)
onigiri
cutely cut hot dogs (for Chick, Kev, me)
chicken nuggets (for Boo)
plain sesame soy lo mein
pot stickers of varying sweet or savory fillings (which means I need to make some savory filling in the morning)
hard boiled eggs
potato pancakes from leftover mashed potatos (for Chick)

Anything else you'd like to see added to the list? I suspect I will also be planning on chopping and packaging up vegetables for easy grabbing during the week as filler for bentos. I wish the egg molds had already arrived, but sadly, it'll be a while. I'm going to the oriental market tonight, so I could also grab some form of tofu if you want to do a more traditional stir fry -- let me know what sorts of flavors you prefer.

Anyone else think of anything traditional or non-traditional for bento that I'm missing? Basically, by cooking ahead of time, I just pack the bentos the night before out of the stock of food we have available. I feel like I'm forgetting something important this time around. I will also probably precut some cheese slices to use as decorations on onigiri or tops of bentos.

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Ink and Steel
Hell and Earth
by Elizabeth Bear
trade paperbacks from ROC, July & August 2008

You've already seen me rave about these books when I hadn't quite finished the first of them. I remember when she was writing these books, and I heard about them and thought "oh MAN I want to read those." And I managed to be (mostly) patient until they were released and I had them in my hands and could leap into reading them.

And ohhhhh they were so very worth the wait.

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Sorry about all the LJing, but I wanted to get these up once I managed to get my hands on the pictures.

( today's bentos, with no descriptions save who they are for... click through to see the flickr page for more info )

Some pictures that I uploaded from Tuesday's walks around campus with the new camera. Finally finished adding descriptions to all of the ones from RPI, and you can find the whole set here. But behind the cut, a few of my favorites...

( pictures of RPI )

If anyone does look at the whole set, and has any thoughts on which ones they like or hate, I'd love to hear them (and the why of it, too) as I'm still learning and am trying to figure out if what appeals to me appeals to other people, so I can repeat the good stuff. *grins*

I need an icon for bento box creation, obviously. We now have the whole family doing it, although pics for todays' boxes won't be up until later as I can't get them off the camera right now (no card reader in the work laptop *sulks*).

( bentos from Tuesday lunch )

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Good gods, I look at my old writing when I bump into it online sometimes and think "WHAT was I THINKING?" because it's so... so... gah. mshades, I can clearly pick out which parts of this were you, and which were me, considering mine is pretty much entirely lacking in description.

Courtesy of Google's search based on their very first archived search engine: A Different Kind of Art. This is a (very short) story written based on a scene played in the White Wolf game I ran, and then posted to the Vampyres list.

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This is why I wanted my new camera.



( some more pics taken tonight while I drove my family nuts with the new camera )

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On the subject of the new Knight Rider: Obviously, like many modern remakes of old shows, this one is more about sex than the original concept of the show. It's pretty freakn' bad, although occasionally funny in just how bad it is.