One Abnormal Girl

So I’m trying to get away from eating so much processed, chemicallyt-enhanced food, not because of any strict dietary concerns but because too much of that stuff is just too much. However, I don’t have great knowledge of cooking, so I am limited in what is left to me.

Anybody have recipe recommendations? I’m not that keen on anything that requires too many steps or the existence of a whole chicken in my refrigerator, such as for making my own broth. I like recipes that involve frozen veggies, maybe rice or noodles, no tricks of heating or timing, but things I can throw together in a pot or two. I like soups, or baking things in bags, which I haven’t tried yet but it sounds pretty awesome.

So, any recs? ;_;

Expect more mundane things from this blog, because I feel like using it more now, for example to express how much I want the new phone that I can order in 10 days. Blackberry, it’s been fun, but Android is named after one of my favorite things and it wants to be my friend.

I’m also moving my fic back to Livejournal, because though it took me a long time to face it, fanfiction is a Livejournal thing. So all that will be on arcapelago.  That will free up this journal for blathering.  Blather.

Now that I feel I covered the important things, I can move on to how much my music collection upsets me.  I like the music in it, but I hate how difficult it is to put together a playlist.  I want songs that are similar to each other to be easy to find, but tagging things by genre really isn’t enough.  (I can’t put things in genre categories anyway, so trying to organize my collection is like a dog trying to sort laundry.)  If I liked a narrower range of music, it wouldn’t be so hard.  Or maybe if I studied music theory, it would be more clear.  But more and more I feel like I need to sort music by mood because I don’t care if a Josh Groban song starts mingling with Linkin Park as long as the mood is the same.  But that can’t take the place of genre entirely–uugh.

Anybody with a similar neurosis find a solution to this problem?  I just need some categories that I can stick to–that all of my current collection can be sorted into without my having to wonder if something is Rock or Alternative.  UGH.  Back to theorizing.

So crazyloststar and I made a pact to participate in Jannowrimo, which is like NaNoWriMo, except it’s during January, which has less going on.  She went with a goal of 25,000, and I decided to be realistic with myself and go with 15,000.  I started out with a story about an android, but it was too hard, so then I went with something else on day 4.  I am on target!  I hope I can make it, though I don’t imagine there will be an ending.  Original fiction just isn’t as rewarding.

Went home for Christmas, but before I did, Julien and I had a little Christmas time so he could have his new toys and wear his Christmas hat.

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Misjudgment.
by arcanewinter. NC17 3177 Greed!ling(Ling)*Ed. Fullmetal Alchemist. Mangaverse, no spoilers if you know who Greedling is.
For crazyloststar.  Greed can be ruthless when he gets bored, but maybe everyone wins in the end.

These characters do not belong to me.  I do not profit from this. [...]

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Posting from my Blackberry’s WordPress app just to show it that I do appreciate all it’s done for me even though I’m probably moving to the Motorola CLIQ in late November. :( maybe I can find it a new owner. But everyone wants Android these days. I know I do.

Anyway, on to much more important matters–YAOI-CON. We leave this afternoon and will be back on Monday morning. Short trip, but I’m glad we get to go at all. I kind of used up all my vacation time anyway. Har.

We have new playful costumes for Saturday since it will me Halloween. My coat is made of the stiffest fabric ever (I thought Simplicity knew what it was doing when it told me to get it, but maybe not, or I just interpreted wrong) and the vinegar in the wash didn’t seem to help it any, so we’ll just see what kind of mood I’ll be in on Saturday. But Lyns’ outfit is adorable! Not sure if anyone will get it–that these are steampunk–but we’ll have fun anyway.

I still feel so unprepared though! I suppose that’s what we get for still sewing things together the night before the trip. Will still need to sew buttons on, et cetera, at the hotel room. We fail.

Unconditional Chapter List

Unconditional – Fourteen.
by arcanewinter. R 5740 Roy*Hughes. Fullmetal Alchemist. AT, pan-series spoilers.
What they thought would be good enough turns out to be furthest from it.

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Unconditional Chapter List

Unconditional – Thirteen.
by arcanewinter. R 5740 Roy*Hughes. Fullmetal Alchemist. AT, pan-series spoilers.
Forging a tenuous bond, Greed and Hughes enter the fringes of human society.

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Unconditional Chapter List

Unconditional – Twelve.
by arcanewinter. R 3748 Roy*Hughes. Fullmetal Alchemist. AT, pan-series spoilers.
Greed swore he’d never be like her, but he can no longer afford to play games.

These characters do not belong to me.  I do not profit from this. [...]

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Unconditional Chapter List

Unconditional – Eleven.
by arcanewinter. R 4886 Roy*Hughes. Fullmetal Alchemist. AT, pan-series spoilers.
Matters of the state complicate their plans, and Greed meets his worst fear.

These characters do not belong to me.  I do not profit from this. [...]

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Unconditional Chapter List

Unconditional – Ten.
by arcanewinter. R 3650 Roy*Hughes. Fullmetal Alchemist. AT, pan-series spoilers.
After a costly strike on a military facility, Greed tries his hand at putting clues together.

These characters do not belong to me.  I do not profit from this. [...]

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