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[serindrana]

Where to begin? (Long weekend was long and also way too short).

Have to fly home tonight and come back tomorrow for the funeral. I'm missing the one class that I really don't want to miss (human skeletal analysis, we're being taught skull bones and we have a quiz on it the next class), but oh well. Spent an hour and a half in the anth building after lunch reading and taking apart/putting back together a color-coded model skull. (I got through, in depth, only the frontal, parietals, and about half of the temporals, but I know where everything goes and the name of everything! Just have to learn identifying features and how to side 'em all.)


Last night David and I went out for our delayed one-year anniversary dinner. We were going to go to the Village Inn, but they were closed (we were silly and didn't check before getting all dressed up). We ended up at the Kenyon Inn because every. Other. Place. Was closed (except for Middle Ground, but David and I aren't hipster enough for MG. XD) but the dining hall. Turns out, though, that the Kenyon Inn was perfect - relatively formal (I had gotten all dressed up~) but affordable, and the food was delicious. I got goat cheese ravioli in a white wine garlic sauce, and creme brule for desert. Omnomnom. (David got a steak.)


Friday we had the Wellness Hall bonfire, so David and I hung out and rebonded while trying to get the fucking fire started (he's used to dry Wyoming wood and sagebrush, not wet Ohio logs and grass).

Saturday I ended up cooking dinner (a paprika beef stroganoff) that I ended up having to massively improvise on because the sauce was NOT working out. Everybody who ate it loved it, but I thought it was a BIT too thick and definitely needed a different cut of meat. Then Jen, David, Kate (my roomie), and I started watching Utena~ We got through Juri's first duel. Next weekend we're going to finish the first arc.

Yesterday David and I visited the craft center (I got an official instructor t-shirt!), then took a short hike (my legs aren't quite used to the amazing increase in physical activity yet. FOUR FLIGHTS OF STAIRS THREE TIMES A DAY AT LEAST plus walking to class and hiking all over the place), then sat around pretending to do homework. XD Then anniversary dinner, some more homework, and then we watched an episode of Deadliest Warrior with Sarah. Green Berets vs. Spetsnaz. I love that show, but the science is so stupid. XD

Got to RP with shinra_inc yesterday, too, which was awesome. :)


Need to get Evelyn's body cleaned so that I can sell her off. *flops* Anybody in need of a version 2 AoD female body in yellow skin? (Yeah, didn't think so). If I manage to get her sold, the money will go to Farsiris!doll. I did some more doodles of her and figured out a more interesting skirt for her, so I'm once again super excited for her.


Next installment of Negative Confessions should go up soon, I think.


And I think that's it? I hope that's it. I'm cooking chicken tikka masala next Saturday, so that'll be fun. :)


Edit: Anybody have a day where you realize either "Oh, hey, I'm an actual person going around and doing stuff" or, and this is what happened today, "I look like THAT and sound like THAT and I'm ashamed of it," about your normal appearance? It's not so much that I hate my body, it's more that I feel dissociated from it... and hate it in motion. Especially my facial expression of emotions. I usually perceive myself, I guess, as more of a mind that happens to have physical agent to it in the form of a body, rather than an integrated whole.

Also, wtf, why do I look like I do? I feel like I look... not bad but immensely different. Too rounded, too this, too that, not quite real. ghlkahfklahlksahsklah WHYYYYY.

Comments

[shuraiya.livejournal.com]

If you need a new beef stroganoff recipe, I have a great one!

[serindrana.livejournal.com]

Please! I love accumulating good recipes. :D

[shuraiya.livejournal.com]

Okay! This is one my mom sent:

Beef Stroganoff

Ingredients
Up to 8oz of Round Steak-cut into strips
2 tbsp diet margarine
4-6 mushrooms (sliced)
Cornstarch
2 beef bouillon cubes
1 tbsp catsup
1/8 tsp pepper
1½ cups water
1 plain yogurt

Start the water for your egg noodles/add noodles after boiling. Work on the recipe while the water is boiling/cooking egg noodles

Use large fry pan-large enough to hold at least 3 cups of stroganoff
Sauté mushrooms in diet margarine, set aside
Cook beef in left over margarine (adding more if necessary)
Put bouillon cubes in the water and microwave to “melt” the bouillon
Add the mushrooms and bouillon water to the beef.
Add catsup and pepper
Use cornstarch to thicken (put a large tbsp in a cup, add enough water to mix, and then add to above mentioned items)
Mix the cornstarch in to the stroganoff. After the stroganoff begins to boil, lower heat to med-low.
Just before serving add the yogurt, mix it in and serve with egg noodles, canned green beans and yummy garlic bread.

ENJOY!!

[serindrana.livejournal.com]

Looks good. :D (We put greek yogurt in ours instead of plain yogurt, SO GOOD)

[shuraiya.livejournal.com]

Oh, I bet that is good!

[para-chan214.livejournal.com]

uuuuuuuuuuuuugh, i know what you mean about appearance and such... T_T i spend a lot of time disassociated from my body (working on the computer and interacting online, and at work, wearing an apron and work-clothes and the work persona) and find shopping for myself distressing because i put something on i think is fun/interesting/cute and look and say 'oh gods, do i really look like that??' and yeah.

the body is actually tempting but i don't have the right head for it... so i pass, sorry.

[serindrana.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is, I have no trouble buying clothing or looking at myself in the mirror or looking pretty. Or even feeling pretty, a lot of the time. It's more when I realize what I must look like talking or being excited or whatever. I dunno. XD;

Aww, kay ♥