Hot showers never disappoint, I find.
I should iron and hang my new curtains (the last of the curtains I need? I certainly hope so), to Start The New Year Off Right, but I don't feel like it. Ah well.
Reynolds, I'm a dangerous-minded man on a ship loaded with hurt. Now, why you got me chatting with your peons?
Womack ,'The Message'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Jesse - Dec 31, 2013 11:40:20 am PST #15953 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Zenkitty - Dec 31, 2013 11:41:52 am PST #15954 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
What makes no-bake cheesecake solidify? There's no gelatin in it?
lisah - Dec 31, 2013 11:45:08 am PST #15955 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I have no idea what I'm going to wear tonight. And I've got to catch up on my diary before midnight. I've been writing down good things that happen every day this year but I've slacked off the last couple of weeks.
sarameg - Dec 31, 2013 11:45:44 am PST #15956 of 30000
Did a load of laundry with no drain issues. Still, tomorrow will be requesting estimates. And calling warranty on the off-off chance that they might cover some of the line replacement.
Jesse - Dec 31, 2013 11:56:19 am PST #15957 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've been writing down good things that happen every day this year but I've slacked off the last couple of weeks.
Ooh, that's such a good idea! Do you have one of those three-line diaries?
I thought I might go to the liquor store, and.... yeah, no.
lisah - Dec 31, 2013 11:59:46 am PST #15958 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Do you have one of those three-line diaries?
Kind of, I guess. I started in another book but, since August, I've been writing in a 5-year diary:
And each day gets just a few lines. You can record the books you've read and places you've traveled in it, as well, which I'm also doing!
-t - Dec 31, 2013 12:05:35 pm PST #15959 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I always think diary/journal-keeping is such a good idea, but have come to accept that it's not something I'm ever going to do. Doing anything every day is just not my way. Even things I have to do every day, like eat and sleep and so forth, chafe.
Zen, I've never made no-bake cheesecake, but looking at Martha's recipe the filling is basically just cream cheese slightly thinned with milk so it doesn't so much gel as just chill, cold cream cheese being firmer than warm cream cheese.
Jesse - Dec 31, 2013 12:06:01 pm PST #15960 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I realized this is actually what I was thinking of: [link]
lisah - Dec 31, 2013 12:25:08 pm PST #15961 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Oh, that's cool, Jesse! Same kind of concept. I'm already up to Dec 30th and just ordered a pizza for dinner so we don't end up lightly snacking at the party we're going to and getting smashed at the ball drop later!
JZ - Dec 31, 2013 1:12:44 pm PST #15962 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
A hot shower sounds like a fine way to welcome the new year, especially if you can time it so you emerge from the shower all clean and rosy and shucked of all the old year's dirt and awash in that fresh relaxed new-skin-and-wide-open-sinuses post-shower feeling at exactly the stroke of midnight.
I love maple candy now but hated it as a kid -- true maple syrup always had a bitter tang to it that I didn't like at all, but as my sweet tooth diminishes with age I'm finding it more and more pleasurable.
Must go now to pick up prescriptions before the pharmacy closes (and possibly also pick up some leftover maple candy and half-price Moonstruck chocolate Santas).
eta: Ooh, I need that 5-year journal for my middle brother, who's been an on-and-off diarist since he was 10.