My husband is not home from work, I don't feel well, and because I don't feel well, I don't feel like either getting up to make dinner or clean the house for my mother's imminent arrival.
I am sulky.
Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.
'Not Fade Away'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Jun 19, 2013 2:06:35 pm PDT #26444 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
-t - Jun 19, 2013 2:31:04 pm PDT #26445 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have NO idea how to prepare and cook vegetables. Aside from dump it in a pot and boil it until it's dead, which was my grandmother's/mother's technique and that's probably why I hate them. Instructions usually start with "cut the vegetable" as if that's not problematic.
I don't love cutting anything, I don't have good knife skills. Roasting vegetables whole often works - it takes a little longer than if you cut everything into identically sized bits, and the results are unevenly done, but it tastes good.
You can cut off carrot greens with scissors (and chop herbs with scissors). Asparagus I break off the end with my hands: the asparagus will tell you where it wants to break and you don't have to decide how much woody stuff to cut off. Then you can roast it in the toaster oven, takes 10-15 minutes and is super delicious.
If I don't want to chop up broccoli and cauliflower I pop the whole head in the microwave in a covered dish (or a bowl covered with saran wrap) and nuke it for 7 minutes per pound of veggie. This formula works for many veggies, maybe all I've tried, but broccoli and cauliflower are both way easier for me to cut up when they are cooked so they often get that treatment.
Dana - Jun 19, 2013 2:31:52 pm PDT #26446 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Twitter is reporting that James Gandolfini has passed away.
-t - Jun 19, 2013 2:35:11 pm PDT #26447 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
As for cleaning, I don't like to clean and I don't mind clutter, maybe even prefer it, so, uh, I don't let other people into my house to see my squalor, mostly.
I'm working on that, but not very hard. It's prioritized after keeping myself fed and work and exercise and laundry and dishes and watching TV, currently. I still feel like any day that I manage to keep myself adequately fed is a win, so, everything else does sometimes slide.
-t - Jun 19, 2013 2:35:46 pm PDT #26448 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, no! I hope twitter is wrong.
§ ita § - Jun 19, 2013 2:37:11 pm PDT #26449 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Google news search kind of agrees, in a TMZ sort of a way. Other links are to a movie with Saiorse Ronan and a CBS commitment.
51! I hope error.
Dana - Jun 19, 2013 2:39:31 pm PDT #26450 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Sue - Jun 19, 2013 2:39:46 pm PDT #26451 of 30001
hip deep in pie
It's being reported by Variety: [link]
-t - Jun 19, 2013 2:42:34 pm PDT #26452 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Is NY Daily News reputable? I don't even know.
So sad.
Dana - Jun 19, 2013 2:43:07 pm PDT #26453 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.