Pumpkins and bonbons
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mrissaNormal breakfast this morning! Yay! (Breakfast is the easy meal to get back to, and it's not as easy as one might hope. But still.)
And a happy Halloween all around! The dog will not be pleased. Halloween confuses her. She really likes little monkeys, but she's not allowed to play with them on Halloween, just to give them things that smell too interesting to share. This makes no puply sense. Also she is deeply suspicious of things worn on the head -- hats, masks, whatever. She knows who's under them. She just doesn't get why. It's just not a thing a dog would think of.
When I was little, my mom would strip me down to my skivvies and plunk me down on the kitchen table to carve pumpkins with my godfather. The same procedure held for egg-dyeing at Easter. If Dave would move home to Minneapolis, I would keep my clothes on and sit on a chair, but I'd probably still invite him over to carve pumpkins and dye eggs. (Now that Mother and Dad live here, we have added my godfather to the list of People Who Should Move Home. Not that he will. But we're lobbying anyway.)
Good luck to all those of you who are doing NaNoWriMo! I'm pretty allergic to organized group activity, but I wish you well in yours. If it gets you writing something you want to write, all for the best. For those of you who aren't doing NaNoWriMo, I will propose an alternative: International Bonbons and Movie Magazines Month! Had a stressful fall? I don't care where in the world you live! Spend November eating bonbons and reading movie magazines with me! (Actual movie magazines not required. Mine will probably be New Scientist. It's just, y'know, how the expression goes.) We have no cute graphics. We have no discussion groups. We have no progress bars. Why? Because we are too busy eating bonbons and reading movie magazines and looking languidly fabulous to bother with such things!
Other things allowed in International Bonbons and Movie Magazines Month: long leisurely walks on crisp days. Hot beverages to follow. Baking cookies and eating the rejects as they cool. Writing, sure, but not obsessing on word count or chapter count. Buying presents for friends and family, but not obsessing on number of shopping days until Christmas.
Come on, who's with me? And -- to tie in with Halloween -- what kind of bonbons do you want?
And a happy Halloween all around! The dog will not be pleased. Halloween confuses her. She really likes little monkeys, but she's not allowed to play with them on Halloween, just to give them things that smell too interesting to share. This makes no puply sense. Also she is deeply suspicious of things worn on the head -- hats, masks, whatever. She knows who's under them. She just doesn't get why. It's just not a thing a dog would think of.
When I was little, my mom would strip me down to my skivvies and plunk me down on the kitchen table to carve pumpkins with my godfather. The same procedure held for egg-dyeing at Easter. If Dave would move home to Minneapolis, I would keep my clothes on and sit on a chair, but I'd probably still invite him over to carve pumpkins and dye eggs. (Now that Mother and Dad live here, we have added my godfather to the list of People Who Should Move Home. Not that he will. But we're lobbying anyway.)
Good luck to all those of you who are doing NaNoWriMo! I'm pretty allergic to organized group activity, but I wish you well in yours. If it gets you writing something you want to write, all for the best. For those of you who aren't doing NaNoWriMo, I will propose an alternative: International Bonbons and Movie Magazines Month! Had a stressful fall? I don't care where in the world you live! Spend November eating bonbons and reading movie magazines with me! (Actual movie magazines not required. Mine will probably be New Scientist. It's just, y'know, how the expression goes.) We have no cute graphics. We have no discussion groups. We have no progress bars. Why? Because we are too busy eating bonbons and reading movie magazines and looking languidly fabulous to bother with such things!
Other things allowed in International Bonbons and Movie Magazines Month: long leisurely walks on crisp days. Hot beverages to follow. Baking cookies and eating the rejects as they cool. Writing, sure, but not obsessing on word count or chapter count. Buying presents for friends and family, but not obsessing on number of shopping days until Christmas.
Come on, who's with me? And -- to tie in with Halloween -- what kind of bonbons do you want?
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Date: 2006-10-31 12:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-31 12:48 pm (UTC)We'll be thinking of you with this damned test. Hope it goes routinely and is no more than annoying.
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Date: 2006-10-31 12:49 pm (UTC)I'm there, on my imaginary divan, in a lacy robe
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Date: 2006-10-31 02:45 pm (UTC)I'm probably far less fabulous in my imagination, in flannel pajamas and handknit socks, but with you nonetheless.
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Date: 2006-10-31 04:43 pm (UTC)Re: I'm there, on my imaginary divan, in a lacy robe
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Date: 2006-10-31 01:48 pm (UTC)You're such a bad influence on me, now I'm pondering leaving work early to go bake yummies. I don't have all I'd need for truffles, but I do have everything for lemon bars. Naughty!
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Date: 2006-10-31 02:22 pm (UTC)2 tbsp. light
Mix thoroughly.
Eat.
Glow.
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Date: 2006-10-31 02:55 pm (UTC)Do you know about The Candy Jar on Cedar Ave? They have Abdallah candy, locally made, almost as good as the expensive stuff for a lot less money - $12-15 a pound. Or even better yet, the Abdallah store out in Burnsville. They have what they call "imperfects". The last batch of orange creams I got out there, I think were rejected because the dark chocolate coating is thicker than usual. Those were about $8, $9 for a pound, but you have to buy a whole pound.
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Date: 2006-10-31 04:46 pm (UTC)I understand how deadlines can be a very good thing. For me the first drafts are never the problem, though, so it's less useful to me specifically. As I said, I hope it goes well for those who are doing it. I have nothing against it. It's just not for me.
I have driven by The Candy Jar but never been in there. But my mom and my aunt discovered the Abdallah store a few weeks ago, and I tasted one of their dark chocolate caramel discs. Mmmmm. I had previously thought I didn't like Abdallah because their homemade caramels don't taste like mine, but it turns out that the chocolate kind are Quite All Right.
And dark chocolate coating thicker than usual? Oh the horror!
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Date: 2006-10-31 03:00 pm (UTC)Do Cadbury's Fruit and Nut bars count as bonbons? Because I really like those...
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Date: 2006-10-31 04:48 pm (UTC)And sure, you can watch movies. The "reading movie magazines" part is really very much like "going out for coffee": you can go for coffee with someone and neither of you have the slightest bit of coffee. It's symbolic, is what.
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Date: 2006-10-31 03:59 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's it. I'm calling in sick for November. ;)
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Date: 2006-10-31 04:59 pm (UTC)But I might do NaNoWriMo anyway. Though it has been a stressful fall now that you mention it.
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Date: 2006-10-31 05:52 pm (UTC)Lemon cremes are also very fine, though. Citrus cremes in general, for me.
I will not try to come snatch your bonbons away if you decide to do NaNo. InBoMoMaMo is an inclusive activity, as well as sounding very silly when pronounced aloud.
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Date: 2006-10-31 06:05 pm (UTC)Rum balls. 'nough said.
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Date: 2006-10-31 08:14 pm (UTC)Nothing beats Champagne truffles from Li-Lac for a combination of quality and nostalgia, though. I used to get four of them and bring them home every time someone had something to celebrate. Mmmmm.
Magazines interest me not at all, but perhaps I shall make it Bonbons and Only Doing Work That I Enjoy Month over here.
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Date: 2006-10-31 09:27 pm (UTC)InBoMoMaMo
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