Oh man, the cookie components taste great together. If only I could figure out how to engineer them! The caramel I made is kind of saucy.

Lisa, the first recipe I googled up says it's better after it hardens, so that sounds non-messy.... [link]

Notes on the first three Leverage episodes. Which means it gets spoilery a bit of the way down.

I like romantic comedies.

I do too, as entertainment goes. One of my favorite genres, actually. I like the escapism, but that's because I recognize it for what it is-- escapism. Fantasy. And there's a line drawn between how much I can take too-- love Bridget Jones, hate Sex and the City and Shopaholic.

It's when people start basing their real lives on those sorts of premises that it makes me crazy.

Doesn't have to be a rom com either-- after all, the people who think if they move to Forks, WA and think they'll be adopted by a mysterious wealthy family make me just as nuts. Maybe more so.

Doesn't have to be a rom com either-- after all, the people who think if they move to Forks, WA and think they'll be adopted by a mysterious wealthy family make me just as nuts. Maybe more so.

Some people need to bloody their noses on the inside of wardrobes as kids, just to get that sort of thing out of their systems.

Lisa, the first recipe I googled up says it's better after it hardens, so that sounds non-messy.... [link]

ooh maybe I'll try that one. The one I made didn't thicken and it's been in the fridge for a couple of days. It wasn't meant to be a frosting though.

Weirdly enough, watching DLM makes me understand the people that didn't like Jaye in Wonderfalls a bit more, although I still really like her.

What do you mean, ita? I watched S1 of DLM so I think I'm missing the other piece of why that would help one understand the unlikeableness of Jaye.

I suspect the one episode of House that I should never see is coming on.

I'm super behind on House. How come this one is a watch-from-the-hall?

In the past few years, I am all about escapist, romance or not. I used to read a lot more tragic-realist and nonfiction, and while I still enjoy it, I can't cope with mainlining it like I used to . Seriously, for one birthday, I think I rented Farwell to Sarajevo, Year of Living Dangerously and Three Kings. And then would read Black Tulip, Bookseller of Kabul and Kite Runner as a chaser. While reading Black Lamb and the Grey Falcon and a treatise on the Kurds and some Allende at lunch. OK, not quite with the reading right then but the film trio is true and the books are ones I group mentally. A lot of war and trauma.

Past few years, I can't. I have to have a lot more stuff that I rationally think "doesn't happen ever" that I consume. And that's fine. It doesn't set unrealistic expectations for me...but I was probably warped by what I read when I was a preteen.

I watched S1 of DLM so I think I'm missing the other piece of why that would help one understand the unlikeableness of Jaye.

I could see the similarities between Jaye and George, and I think George is way less likeable. The similarities in the shows brought it out.

But I still like Jaye, and I like Wonderfalls way more than DLM.

I am a big fan of romantic comedies, but like Barb said, Fantasy. Not real. and that is the point. Plus, I like them to be of their time. No forced/fake marriages of convenience if it supposed to take place now. ok, bride and prejudice takes place now -- but culturally contextual.