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Okay, I want you to ignore what you see on this video's preview image, because I saw the preview image and almost didn't play the vid. I have zero interest in Happy Days.

The video itself is actually someone who took the original music video for Total Eclipse Of The Heart and made the lyrics literally describe what is going on in the video.

I started laughing uncontrollably during the spoken-word interval and just never stopped.

MULLET WITH HEADLIGHTS!

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It's SUNDAY COOKING WITH SAM!

I made trinity butter pudding today, so that I would have something delicious to take in lunches this week, and currently I have nishiki rice soaking for cooking later. I made some sloppy joe with durkee's sauce and brown sugar, for great yum, and also some almond pate to top the rice with. Mum sent me the recipe, lord knows why, but it's delicious.

The pate did not really...I don't know what the word is, but the almonds didn't turn to paste. I'm not sure why, I suspect either my chopping blade is dull or I didn't toast them long enough. It's still tasty, just kind of crunchy. I mentioned it to Mum and she said I should get a real cuisinart instead of the 1-cup mini I have, but I told her I think I'll save up for an immersion blender instead.

I keep forgetting that I am a lame Sam, and so I walk around my kitchen cooking without a care in the world and then WHAM the shooting pains! So. Now I'm lying down for a bit.

( Mushroom and Almond Pate )

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For a long time I've been reluctant to post about the good things in my life, because of the old adage that the gods don't like to see mortals too happy. It seemed like tempting fate. But while I was making my lunches for the week and finishing the last of the dishes (dishes: good for meditation!) I decided that's an outmoded and fearful way to look at things, and that instead I should be talking about my good life because that shows I'm aware of my luck.

I'm very grateful and happy for my job, which pays me enough to enjoy my reasonably simple pleasures, and which provides me with health and dental, because let's face it: I NEED THEM.

I'm pleased and proud with my flat, with its awesome bed and framed posters on the walls and two front doors. I love my kitchen, my baker's rack and my elegant bamboo spoons Mum gave me, and the funky enameled bowl with hearts on it that's older than I am. And my cast-iron pans, which are sort of mystical and beautiful when I've cleaned them and oiled them.

I'm glad of my friends who teach me about everything from foie gras terrine to sushi to harmonica music, and the Cafe so that I can share what I learn. I'm glad I have parents who love me, though also pretty glad that they live in another state. I'm glad that I live in a city with good public transit and PeaPod and laundry service. And two baseball teams!

I have my worries of course. Ninja Office Boy is more of a calling than an actual career, really, and I'm not crazy about how many bones I've managed to break in fifteen months. I haven't written anything substantial in a while. But my life is more or less happy, and I feel like I'm on a reasonably even keel.

Also I am grateful for painkillers, and I took one before writing this, so take it all with a grain of salt. (I'm also grateful for salt, which is a magic rock that makes food delicious.)

HEY THERE UNIVERSE, THANK YOU FOR BEING COOL TO ME. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

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I HAVE SEEN THE MENTALIST. All of it! Homg.

So I thought about doing Three Things once I'd watched the first season, but I ended up not, only because I want my thoughts to be a little more coherent than Three Things allows. It used to be a way to free me up, a way to keep me from having to write a big long meta post for each episode. Sometimes, on the other hand, it's also constricting.

( So. The Mentalist. Spoilers for all of S1. )

All in all -- not as engaging as some shows I've seen, but definitely worth watching when season two airs in the fall. I do want to find out who Red John is, and I want to see the continuance of Jane's character arc. But I don't really feel the urge to fanfic it, though there are some directions I'd like to see the show take.