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WELL.

The beans and the beer bread came out well -- for the many who've asked, the beer bread is a quickbread, a mix from Trader Joe's, $2 and well worth it because it is DELICIOUS.

Meanwhile this morning, the yoghurt is yogging and will be for the next ten to fourteen hours; the pumpkin bread is baking, the rice is soaking, and the curry for the rice is defrosting. I am going to have some EPIC LUNCHES this week, between the curry and the beans and the chowder. And the fried stuffing, oooh.

As long as I'm taking a break from cooking, I may as well post Chapter Nine of Valet of Anize; Chapter Ten might...take a while.

I used to write faster than this, you know, but I also used to have a job that wasn't nine-to-five and I don't think I wrote as well. I'm trying to embrace the genre-adventure-story thing and not struggle with imbuing too much meaning in this; it's never going to be the same kind of story as Nameless was. It's still my problem child, but I'm finding moments of pure beauty in it, so. I do what I can.

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WINTER IS UPON US.

Not that you'd know it here in Chicago, where it's sunny and cool out and has snowed ONCE and it's DECEMBER.

*shakes fist at the sky*

But I can pretend, after all. viggosterri and pinkfinity and an anonymous donor all sent me a lovely snowflake via LJ (thank you! It's like a flurry!), and I've been curled up pretending it's snowing and watching videos.

bluejeans07 linked me to DOCTOR CLAUS:

Less Christmassy, but no less hilarious, is cluegirl's accusation that I am secretly one of these gentlemen, professing my love of typeface. I WISH.

And finally -- this was one of my favourite films as a child, around the holidays. Most of the actual cartoons in it are old or clipped from barely-relevant films, but I loved the little intervals with the dancing toys and the incredibly stupid lyrics. This is just part one; you can find the rest on youtube pretty easily.

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LOL, IT'S A SNOWSTORM IN MY PROFILE PAGE.



(Additional thanks to celandineb, chinatree, beathen and _kyri!)