zzzzoooooommmmmmmm!

[mrissa]

Since Friday I've been having the kind of week where the things I'm doing are numerous enough to preclude writing about any of them at length. This includes:

--reading a short story, "The Snow Queen and Milady de Winter," at the Fantasy Matters conference
--going to a Blues Traveler concert
--going to two different birthday parties in twelve hours, one of them with a rocketship cake and the other with sushi (4 and 30 are very different!)
--making a soup-and-monkey run
--lunches and dinners with various friends and family members around the Cities
--some of the work on a Very Clever Christmas Present (but don't tell ksumnersmith, because it's a seeeeekrit)
--a trip down to St. Pete to have lunch with my old advisor and see the rest of my old department
--getting my back fixed
--arranging for some household repairs
--and all the stuff catching up from being sick and/or vertiginous, and all the normal household stuff and work on book revisions and short stories and so on and so on

And now I will go make Swedish meatballs and potatoes and asparagus. Tomorrow's Thanksgiving dinner is not here, so most of the work is not mine. It'll feature close family and close friends and lefse, reminders of things to be thankful for all around!

Comments

[skwirly.livejournal.com]

If I was turning 30, I'd want a rocketship cake. ;)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ideally you will have the chance to find out someday.

[skwirly.livejournal.com]

Five years away! I should start making plans now.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Indeed, ladysea won't be a close enough friend to make you a rocketship cake right away. Five years should be enough to get into her good graces if you play your cards right.

[skwirly.livejournal.com]

I shall turn on the charm post haste.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I can have sushi AND a rocketship cake for my next birthday.

At which I will be, in fact, 30+4, so now it may be a moral imperative.

[mattgritter.livejournal.com]

You have lefse, We'll have artichoke spinach dip. Not quite equivalent or Scandinavian, or Dutch for that matter, but yummy. Happy Thanksgiving!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I like artichoke spinach dip, too! Happy Thanksgiving!

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

An all-Dutch Thanksgiving would be difficult anyway. For some strange reason, they don't do turkey there. (I say strange because apparently it's quite common in Denmark and I think I saw some in France.)

[pezwitch.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Swedish meatballs. We make those every year for Christmas... pretty labor intensive, but oh, so worth it. I've yet to eat a meatball that even remotely compares to my grandma's recipe.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

What I did tonight started with the meat from Ingebretsen's deli, so I didn't have to mix the meats and spices by hand. I just made them into balls and made the gravy. I'll bet your grandma's is better, but this is awfully good and extremely easy, so it's worth it to me to go buy 10# of Swedish meatball meat at Ingebretsen's from time to time.

[pezwitch.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had no idea you could buy it premixed. Huh. That is a rather good idea. I've never been awfully fond of the meat mixing/grinding process at home, it always smells funky to me.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There are advantages to living in the Cities (lo, these many advantages!), and Ingebretsen's is one of them. You can get potato sausage without having to mix that yourself, either, or deal with the casings or anything. You can get, oh, many things. Many indeed. But if you want stuff for Christmas, you'd best order well in advance. The line at the deli the week before Christmas, just from people picking up their preorders, is really quite astonishing.

[pezwitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info! I've heard of Ingebretsen's many times, but haven't gone myself. I should take my grandma, I'm sure she'd enjoy it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Definitely! And don't forget the textiles annex next door to the gift shop and deli when you go. I hear tell the textiles annex isn't what it used to be, but it's still worth a look.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

The last time I heard Blues Traveler was at the Wetlands in NYC (it held 600 if the Fire Marshall isn't watching). I think I taped that show.

I don't remember which century it was.

I didn't even know they were still around.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ayep. They survived the death of one member, added two more in, and I think the two more added greatly to the band. I doubt that they'll ever be cool again, but they're still great fun to listen to.

timprov and I went to our first BT concert together in the last century for sure. One of the very first events of our friendship.

[toolittletime.livejournal.com]

I know I'm late to the party, but wanted to say that 4 and mumblemumble aren't very different and I'd totally prefer a rocketship cake to sushi.