tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566894869865150402024-09-24T21:02:01.591-07:00Putting the "irk" in "quirky."Easy Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02795613262939310430noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-856689486986515040.post-70231645238604107192013-06-10T19:11:00.003-07:002013-06-10T19:11:35.706-07:00

What Shall We Call The Trip To Vegas? The people in the bachelorette trip: The food: The booze: The boys: When things got crowded: Leaving on Sunday: But basically:

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So, a long time ago, I was like "Here's how to make five-minute ice-cream!" What a fool I was.  Little did I know that there was a way to make ice-cream WITH ONE INGREDIENT. It takes a little bit longer than five minutes, but only because you have to freeze something. Otherwise, it's dead easy.  What's that magic ingredient to make magical easy ice-cream? It's banana.  You

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So, a very enterprising young student writer for the Arizona Daily Star, Samantha Munsey, interviewed me about thrifting after reading my Hello Giggles stuff, Adventures in Thrifting.  She does a near-magical job making me appear coherent, seeing as how I had driven back to Tucson from Illinois two days before and was literally leaving for Russia an hour after the interview. I'm hot,

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I guest-blogged in turn over at a lovely person's cooking blog. I rave about salad! Also, here's the Armenian cucumber I used: Yeah, that's right.

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Thoughts for a Sunshiney Morning has something very special for you today: a guest-poster, Ivy Wilson! (Found here and here). This post involves Germany, yeast, and mushrooms. Or, as Ivy Wilson deems them, Teutonic Toadstools: Vagina Toadstools I’m not a great baker, but I know that bread is supposed to rise.  Now that I live in Germany and no longer have a full time job, I spend

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Despite protestations that I was never going to attend a fair again (too many times going to fairs convinced I was going to have a good time, only to puke up blue cotton candy or spend an obscene sum of money to get sunburned and nauseated by beer and deep-fried snickers which seemed like an awesome combination at first but then my friends wanted to go ride a spin-y ride and then I got sick (

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More vegan eats! (From someone who is not actually a vegan, she just plays one at home). Me and my room had some friends over for dinner and decided to make some vegan sushi. As with our holiday party, we went a wee bit overboard while shopping and prepared about eight million different kinds of ingredients. The basics of making sushi rolls: not actually that hard: prepare rice with rice

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While watching a show on Netflix that I am very somewhat embarrassed to admit I was thoroughly enjoying watching (hint: it may or may not be called The Bampire Viaires* **), I heard a cover of one of my guilty-pleasure songs, Snow Patrol's "Run."  For your reference:  (Note: I'd never seen the video before but it's sort of epic. Why are they wading through water and waving around

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So, lately I've been feeling stressed. Nothing urgent or terrible: just lots of stuff to do, phone calls unreturned, etc.  And so I made a pie.  I both love baking, and am sort of self-dramatizing, and this is one of my favorite movies:  So it's impossible to make a pie without getting this song in my head:  And if you want some poignancy to your evening, check out a

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I'm fond of posting this picture whenever I make the assertion that I'm Not a Nerd:  I bought this Twilight: New Moon t-shirt at a thrift store; I just couldn't believe how awesomely awful it was, and so snatched it up immediately. I've worn it only once, upon the occasion here depicted; I went over to a friend's house for a BBQ, thinking only folks I already knew were going to be

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I really should be doing other things, but I just wrote two articles and my brain is whirling at a billion miles per hour, so I thought I'd do a blog instead.  You know my trip to Peak Peak, documented below? Well, my friend N. made a horror movie about it:  He also introduced me to this, which says "Skillet Bacon Spread" but looks here like "Skilled Bacon Spread". Bacon's got

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So, I went on quite a grueling hike up Picacho Peak today (if you click the link, you'll see that there was a Civil War re-enactment going at the same time! Did you know that Westernmost skirmish battle of the Civil War was fought at Picacho Peak? We didn't see the re-eanacment but we did occasionally hear cannon fire during the hike). *Also, apparently "Picacho" means "peak" in Spanish, so the

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Okay, so it turns out I know nothing about photoshop/image manipulation, which I wanted to do in response to this Jezebel article Watch Ke$ha's Sarah McLachlan-esque Plea on Behalf of Baby Seals But basically... Ke$sha says And the baby seals are like, WE R WHO W R!  (I highly recommend listening to the Ke$ha video while being mesmerized by

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Another one that's a little too saucy for Hello Giggles, but Bad Cholla sent me a picture of this epic poster for sale in a local thrift store:   Although...really...a woman's touch? Won't any touch at all do, really?

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I'm putting out a call for weird and funny things that you've found at thrift stores!  This one couldn't go on Hello Giggles, but I present it as an outtake for you all:  The Blanket With The Inappropriate Towers on It That Do Not Make Me Think of Towers:

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Lately, it's like the world is designing things especially for me (magical thinking? what's that?).  Joel McHale reflects on Supernatural:  As The Onion AV Club puts it: you just don't get stuff like this on any other show: “You're saying an octopus did this?” a Winchester asked the medical examiner. “Not just any octopus,” the guy replied. Later, once the

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I volunteer at the Poetry Center once a week (and now teach there! for a little while!); among the numerous lovely things about this is that I can read from their complete collection of literary journals. I took a stack of Fairy Tale Reviews to my desk today and was happily reading.  In the grand female tradition, I get strangely weepy at certain times of the month; usually a feeling of

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Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate...ack! When posting about my party below, I completely forgot to include this 30 Rock clip, which sums up my attitude to entertaining: I like to pretend I'm wild and crazy, but really I'm a bit like this: Normally, my food preparation is like this: Which is not to say that I don't have talents: Not these kind: Oh my god, where are my

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It's time for another installment of Laura Takes Pictures of Stuff, Does Not Post Them for a Long Time!  Back in the holidays, me n' the roomie had a Holiday Party. The theme was, bring any weird food or drink that your family always makes around the Holidays. Like, is there a certain jello salad your grandma always makes? Bring it!  Before the party, I got a few anxious queries

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My roommate made this recipe for Dream Cake. And it's one of the few recipes I've seen (keep in mind, again, I did not make it) where it came out looking as pretty as the pictures on the recipe promised! Dreamy... (we called it "Dream Pie" as she made it in a pie dish, but it strikes me now that "dream pie" sounds vaguely dirty ["my roommate's delicious dream pie!"] ). For the

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If there's one thing I've learned from watching Supernatural -- and never let it be said that time spent watching this show has not taught me anything useful -- it's that haunted cars are not scary.  Arguably the worst Supernatural episode ever (Yeah, yeah, I know) is "Route 666" from Season 1, in which the villain is a racist truck. Yes, a ghost truck. A ghost truck that is racist. A

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Okay, so I've been totally failing at recapping Supernatural.  Why? Well...  Chuck is my spirit animal. And you know what's really hard? Recapping. It takes for frickin' ever. So my deepest appreciation goes to those who've put time and effort in writing recaps that I enjoy. It's a lot of work!  Especially when one has ambivalent feelings about a season. I've talked

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So tonight I was determined to cook with ingredients we actually had in the house (as opposed to my usual "I can totally make this! I have all the ingredients...oh. I guess I need to go out and get star anise. And shitake mushrooms. And bok choy.  But other than that, I can totally just whip it together. Right after I figure out how to use the food processor. Oh, and coriander seeds. Need

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So writing this made me think about how much I love all things Sherlock Holmes -- from the original stories, to the Jeremy Brett TV show...wait. Hold up. Before I go any further, I've just got to blow a few minds. Jeremy Brett played Sherlock Holmes on a well-known BBC adaptation of the stories from the 80s-90s. He was awesome and weird. He looked like this: He was a bit dark.

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When you live in Arizona, you don't see snow much. Or at all. When you encounter snow for the first time, it can be...well. A little overwhelming.  I hiked Madera canyon today, with two friends who each have a cute dog (for stats, check this snazziness out). We got up high enough that there was still some snow on the mountain peaks. My friend's dog, Rupert, had...quite the reaction when

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