#Dec 22

[suenitos]

going through something dhmu

[msbarrows]

I am woefully far behind again on Thing A Day, which I'm blaming mostly on seasonal sadness and partially on addiction to a new game (House Flipper, which has turned out to be a lot more fun than I initially expected, and was an excellent diversion from the seasonal sadness).

Did my weekly usuals of laundry and cleaning the bathroom. I meant to bake cookies but did not. But I did at least do one of my planned activities and baked a tortiere (French Canadian pork pie) for the holidays; I'd originally been thinking of making it for Christmas Eve but then decided I'd rather stick to my usual meal plans of not doing two prep-heavy meals back-to-back and made it on the 23rd instead. I had it all assembled early enough that I had some time to spare before it needed to go into the oven, so I rolled out the pastry scraps, grabbed my little tin of leaf-shaped cookie cutters, made some egg wash, and festively decorated that thing:

I'm very proud of how it turned out. Two thirds of it are now in the freezer for future meals, as is an entire magarine tub of the precooked filling, sufficient to make a second pie.

I have finally cracked the mystery of my dad's proportions; my previous tortieres have been lacking on filling compared to dad's, despite using his preferred recipe. But I had an entire 3lb club pack of pork to use up this year, which is sufficient for a triple batch of the filling by the recipe dad preferred, and half of that is exactly enough to fill a pie as deeply as my dad did. Split between two pies cut in six pieces that works out to 1/4lb of meat per slice, which is a decent sized serving.

And my little 'what have I cooked recently and should avoid cooking again too soon' list:

Dec 17 - I have no memory of this date

Dec 18 - Fish sticks, french fries, and steamed corn & squash (very new world veggies menu, much to my amusement)

Dec 19 - Hamburgers and a big salad

Dec 20 - Beans cooked in broth, with mild Italian sausages and steamed mixed veg

Dec 21 - Steak marinated in beer and topped with garlic butter, with seasoned potato wedges, corn, and a salad

Dec 22 - Chili with rice and a cucumber salad

Dec 23 - Tortiere with boiled potatoes, baked squash, and green peas

Dec 24 - Beef and macaroni stew (yay for having some lactose free cheese on hand, I used to make this frequently before youngest bro developed lactose intolerance)

Dec 25 - I will be baking a ham, roasting half a squash, and probably making a salad and mashing some potatoes

[fe-smashorpass]

His World - Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: For one day at least, it's time to reconfigure your web browser to accept them, because as AdeptApril indicates with this #ANSIart screen, today is #Cookie Exchange Day.

[dawndusk]

outfit tonight for my wife's dad's christmas play 🎄

it was pretty good even though I couldnt understand what they were saying haha

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[warmglowofsurvival]

"Tyler Joseph is at this basketball game"

[hughesybear]

peteyquinn…

[shadoothys]

It looks like an amongus character that caught polio oh my god

And today we're making a creature out of an unused sock guys

[mapletine]

guys this kite fixation is getting kind of serious

trying out a new rendering style called “actually finish rendering”

also experimenting with colors

[msbarrows]

Dec 22 - did more scanning, finished the box that was about 1/3 done when I arrived, so will get to start on a new box of photos tomorrow (excitement). Played a bunch of NMS this evening, as they started a new expedition today, and it's one I haven't done before (yay!).

Nephew was out this evening and I wasn't feeling ambitious, so just had cereal for dinner. I should probably have had more than that. Should at least grab a small snack before bed.

[fe-smashorpass]

Tifa’s Theme - Final Fantasy VII

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Mistigram: @grymmjack drew this pleasantly hyper-saturated #ANSIart Alpine scene of a pine tree growing in a snowy meadow, intended to be shared on this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

[rob-c02]

happy birthday Polnareff!

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[seabeck]

As a v tired medical student, I am so sorry for that bullshit. How in the CUCK do you tell someone they have soft tissue tumor and not (at the very least) have them do an MRI before skipping to a biopsy are you even joking (operating right next to the clot doesnt worry me as much as the extremely invasive procedure done without one single unit of follow up exam, absolute clownery)

Right? I had an ekg and a CT scan done then he did a pelvic exam (no medical instruments, no ultrasound, just hands, ugh) which hurt like fucking hell because I had a giant blood clot right there, and I have an insane pain tolerance so if I’m squirming in pain and yelling it’s bad. That’s all he needed to diagnose stage four cancer apparently.

The upstairs doctor (dunno the technical term, the one who misdiagnosed me was an ER doc) definitely gave me the vibe he had doubts about his colleague but wasn’t going to badmouth him in front of me. Thank goodness he ordered the pelvic ultrasound. I don’t even fully remember how I was told it wasn’t cancer but I swear they did it by handing me the breakfast menu because I wasn’t going under the knife and thus could eat finally.

(Thankfully I did get an mri, 2 days after the “cancer” diagnosis to better see the blood clot. I kept falling asleep and they kept having to wake me back up because I twitch if I’m sleeping on my back lol)