Meme for the fuck of it. Day Three.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession.

1. Genuinely like me and encourage me in my endeavours.
2. Be both intelligent and clever.
3. Have an active and off-kilter sense of humour.
4. You can be an asshole, but you'd better have at least one endearing quirk that'll make me overlook that.
5. Have a creative imagination.
6. Love animals and nature in general.
7. Have one of those "Surprise! Gotcha!" kinds of smiles. The kind that is completely honest, and appears all of a sudden, without any warning, like a skilled assassin.
8. Feed me high-quality maple sugar, fresh berries, and cheese (not necessarily at the same time), for these things are my real Achilles' heel.

Mmmm....

I'm on a roll. I got up early and got my grey hair vanquished by a nice boy armed with dye, combs, spritz bottles, a blow drier, and a flat iron. Then I did the hunter/gatherer thing downtown and brought home the Sesame Street shopping list: a loaf of bread, a carton of milk, and a stick of butter. Then I started cooking my glorious vegetable stock. It smells so good in here, right now, that I think I'm having a nosegasm. I've got the laundry on the go, Princess Tubby's cage is cleaned, the bed is made, and I'm thinking I'd like to have a relaxing bath once the driers are done their job. Oh yes, and I need to make a tassel for my harf.

I was good and ignored the siren call of the yarn store. Surely I deserve a reward for that alone! I know I'm looking forward to ice skating with knightky. I hope I don't fall on my arse!

Link time? Ok.

Shadow Dance: Pilobolus does an amazing and inventive royal performance. I love the stuff these guys do (thanks, tailchaser).

No, Jesus!: NSFW. So very NSFW. Just Jesus, some guy, and a lion, lovingly rendered in pencil.

Chocolate Swirl Gingerbread: This looks good! I especially like the touches of pepper and bittersweet chocolate.

Pastor “executes” elf to save Christmas: Oh, religion. You're so wacky!

20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World: I wouldn't say untranslatable, but perhaps there are no simple English synonyms (thanks, Syndi).

GWAR Frontman Releases First Novel: If he wins a Pulitzer, I'll eat my hat (thanks, schwartzung).

Curried Chicken Vegetable Noodle Soup

I made soup yesterday, adding stuff by intuition. I'm rather fond of it, so here's the recipe, as much as I can remember it. The ingredients listed are approximate.

This has just a hint of burn to it, and is just the thing if you have a cold. It will definitely get the sinuses moving. And it tastes really nice, too!

1 lb skinless, boneless chicken breast, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 leek sliced lengthwise and chopped, green end discarded
1/2 Spanish onion, chopped
2 green onions, chopped
2 stalks of celery, chopped
1/4 cup peas
3 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 bay leaf
a pinch of sage
1 Tbsp curry powder
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1/2 tsp herbes du provence
1/4 tsp dried chili pepper
1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
1/2 tsp season it all (a general all-purpose seasoning with sea salt, chili, black pepper, cumin, etc. in it)
about five or six long hand-made vegetable egg noodles, broken into 1" pieces

- In a frying pan, sauté chicken in the oil until cooked all the way through.
- Dump all ingredients except noodles in a large pot and add water until it just covers everything. Cook on high until boiling.
- Lower heat to let the soup simmer and add noodles. Stir every now and then to make sure noodles don't stick to bottom of pot.
- Simmer until noodles are cooked through.