#dec 21

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Nirvana – Negative Creep

[mintjuliee]

"It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.” ― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, 1952 🎄🎹🚬❄📸💼💄💌 Ko-fi / Art Tag

[samirafee]

#YULETIDE WISHES🌞❄️😫

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[mistfunk]

Mistigram: with aid of a microscope, @littlebitspace conducted some #blockASCII research investigating just why snowflakes are so cold in this screen from today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar. His report back: be very glad they are not warm.

[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

[shadoothys]

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

[its-mr-hedgie]

In the shortest day of the year, the stars are visible much longer than on any other day. I wish a joy, even bittersweet, to all the souls scattered among the stars, and I hope beyond life and/or reality they are filled with warmth and closeness like that on earth or even more.

Here is to the balance of this planet, this galaxy, this universe.

Happy Winter

[fe-smashorpass]

The One Who is Torn Apart - Xenogears

[boyczar]

Happy Yule!

[moaninmoonen]

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[msbarrows]

Dec 21 - had one of those days where I randomly woke up super early, after only a few hours of sleep, and then couldn't get back to sleep for hours. Then when I did finally drift off, I slept hard. So it was stupidly late when I finally got up and showered and stuff.

Got more photos scanned (yay), though not as many as yesterday, before it was time to go make supper for the nephew and I; did beef and macaroni stew, using bow-tie pasta.

Managed to spill my bowl of it across one end of my keyboard, argh. By the time I'd cleaned up from that and got my laptop connected to a bluetooth keyboard I also had on hand (because gaming on tablet), the nephew had managed to have three helpings of supper, so I got very little of it in the end.

The rest of the evening has been a loss as far as getting anything actually done, too frazzled about the keyboard accident to continue with more scanning, or to do any real playing of games (like I logged into NMS long enough to collect stuff from my frigates and send them out again on new missions, but that was it).

[witheringnostalgia]

It’s so weird to feel myself physically put on a different personalities for different people. Not even in the DID way — that’s mostly for me, and internal — but in the way that I have different tones of voices and laughs and body gestures for coworkers and family and friends, so much so that I don’t believe anyone in my life knows the real me and not just the decided “me” I’ve created for them to interact with to make them like me more, based on the way they act.

[fe-smashorpass]

THE WORLD REVOLVING - Deltarune

[moaninmoonen]

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