Princess of Disaster

Instructions:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
(use Wikipedia if you don't know what something is)
4) italicize ones you haven't eaten but WANT TO TRY
5) Leave the ones you haven't tried, but are indifferent about

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

I phail on the Indian food.  And I crossed out more than I expected; maybe it's a function of getting older, but I don't feel as obligated to prove I'm up for ANYTHING, you know?  So no insects or horse meat for me, thx.  Ditto for things that could actually kill me (pufferfish) or just plain scare my brain (absinthe).  Some things I know I literally wouldn't be able to get down, like the Scotch bonnet and Phaal (I tried a raw serrano pepper recently, having somehow gotten the idea they were LESS hot than jalapenos... T_T).  The other strike-throughs may be attributed to my feeling a little queasy today.  Some things I figure I must have had at some point, like when I was a kid, but I'm not totally sure.  I have this niggling feeling I've had snake at some point, but I'm damned if I can remember it.

BTW, Jamaican Blue Mountain is, from what I hear, waaay overrated.  Just because it's super-rare doesn't mean it's super-good. 

Anyway, #63?  Is that a typo?  Wikipedia says Kaolin (redirects to Kaolinite) is a mineral used in, among other things, toothpaste, ceramics, light bulbs, and Kaopectate.  WTF?  "Er... yes, I have eaten toothpaste, for I was once a child, and yes, I have taken Kaopectate, for I have had occasion to, not that it's any of your business.  But I have never eaten, nor have I ever tried to eat a light bulb."...?

I'm thinking maybe some kind of health spa where they feed you yummy food that is actually good for you. Because going off my new diet has me seriously fux0red.

Other considerations:

- Lots of water (pool, hot tub, maybe also a natural body of water of some kind)
- Massages & other spa fun
- Something to do other than sit on my ass because exercise is healthy and I really need some (but not the "don't forget to breathe!" kind. Yoga, walking around someplace pretty, that kind of thing.)
- Less than a day's drive from Houston. Dallas or San Antonio area is not too far. El Paso is.
- Single-gal friendly. God save me from another all-inclusive resort with couples, couples everywhere.

Now, how does one go about finding a place like that??

You are Judgement

Happiness, Content, Joy.

Judgment is related to the Hebrew letter Shin, which is fiery and spiritual. A break from the past, going forward.

With Fire as its ruling element, Judgement is about rebirth or ressurection. The idea of Judgement day is that the dead rise, their sins are forgiven, and they move onto heaven. The Judgement card is similar, it asks the resurrection to summon the past, forgive it, and let it go. There are wounds from the past that we never let heal, sins we've committed that we refuse to forgive, bad habits we haven't the courage to lose. Judgement advises us to finally face these, recognize that the past is past, and put them to rest, absolutely and irrevocably. This is also a card of healing, quite literally from an accident or illness, as well as a card signaling great transformation, renewal, change.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

This meme sucks, seriously. It's hilariously bad. But you gotta love these results!

Lets101 Quizzes - Fun quizzes for blog & myspace

Ganked from blushy bride valgrl. This one comes to you on cool scrolly parchment, and I'm a sucker for stuff like that.

Lets101 Quizzes - blog quizzes

However... "Loves to bust." ... Er? I can has extra word, maybe?

And, since I'm on the cusp of the cusp:

Lets101 Quizzes - Love Quizzes

Let me splain. ... No, there is too much. Let me sum up. ... No, screw that. Why am I asking you to let me do anything? This is my journal, dammit.

chuckybones & valgrl got hitched, and it was awesome. I took 2 rolls of film, but I've since gotten requests for pictures of me in the sari I wore, and I don't have any. But I know somebody out there must have one (markbhall, I'm looking at you). I can has coppeh?

Holy crap, has it been that long? Oops. Honestly, though, posting is one of the last things I've felt like doing. So sleepy all the time. But at least the headaches are better. And now your meme, stale though it be:

( One Word Only )

I changed my answer to #15 up there to "mean", figuring ppl would've gotten that I'm unenergetic by now, but then changed it back. Because sometimes, especially lately, I can probably seem pretty mean. Bitchy, more like. I don't mean to be, mostly. It's a defense mechanism, I guess. And I'm tired enough to make it very unwise to try to explain it (or understand it) any further.

End-of-month craziness is over for me, and hints of more craziness are already wafting up the trail. And I need a vacation.

The apartment's getting messy again, but not on an epic scale yet. My next energy spurt should be spent dealing with that.

The weekend was kind of a wash. I had to work Saturday, then crashed that night and missed dreamingoctober's shindig. :( I do believe I needed the rest, however. Spent yesterday sleeping and reading the fruits of my latest manga binge. MUST STOP BUYING MANGA. CAN NOT STOP BUYING MANGA. GAH. Hate reading manga on the computer, though, so I don't download much. This is one of the reasons I'm thinking of buying my cousin's laptop off him. Mm, couchsurfing...
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Oh yeah, I finished Kingdom Hearts last night!!! I'm so proud. Even though it probably took me twice as long as it would have a normal gamer. I hear there's a "secret ending" which you have to kill every big badass boss in the universe to get to, something that, for a person of my skilz, may actually be impossible. So I haven't decided if I'm up for that yet. Besides, the non-secret ending was pretty damn satisfying, and I think I'd maintain that opinion even if there weren't a sequel. Which I'm sure is still hovering around the $50 range, so I won't be getting it for awhile. But I've got plenty of other neglected gamey love sitting in the armoire to keep me busy, so no worries.

Still, just the words "secret ending" make me feel a little bit giddy. Mmm. XD

mwah! G'night, everybody!

I wrote 50,079 words. In a month. I am a NaNoWriMo winner.

And now I'm going to get some SLEEP, dammit. XD XD XD

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( ganked from havocmangawip )

I never know what the main page is going to look like. Now it's doing the same thing it did for a bit last week, where I'd log in and it would pretend it didn't hear me (which is not the same as telling me I had the wrong password or similar). And it let me post if I put my login info on the post page, and up went the post, but was I logged in after that? No. So if it was a friends-only post, I couldn't even see it. Fuh.

I'm so behind on NaNo... I knew this, but I just reread my last post and realized just how far behind. I've written, what, 6000 words in TEN DAYS? Somebody bitchslap me, please. I both need and deserve it. Only, you know, not in a kinky way.

Neck & shoulder are in bad places, but are somehow better than they were yesterday after myofascial therapy (I think that's what it is) and a few hours of good sleep. Oddly, I felt worse last night, migrainey & such; crashed on the couch, then got up around 10:30 and went to bed at 2 a.m. So it kinda shocked the hell out of me when I woke up early this morning all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, or rather my more subdued version thereof. (Although the therapist did say the it can continue to work for a while afterwards, something about tissues healing.) I had some weirdass dreams just prior to waking up, but I also remember thinking some things that, while half-asleep, seemed to be really good ideas for my story. Could I remember them when I woke up? Pshaw, hayull naw. Oh well, I've had similar "great" ideas before that I did remember, which the light of full consciousness showed to be anything but - either from inanity or just weirdness.

So yeah, I got up this morning and decided to treat myself to hot chocolate made with the Ghirardelli "ground chocolate," which I bought over the "hot chocolate" mix because among other things, it had less sugar, and I'm becoming conscious of a lot of chocolate things being sweeter than they really need to be IMO. Having it at home also meant I got to warm the milk on the stove, because my Fisher Price microwave actually takes longer, especially when you add in all the checking & guessing. I still overshot a little, so there was a skin on the milk. I don't mind that as much as I used to - just tell myself it tastes like pudding. Mmm, puddin.

Anyway, while I was puttering around, I picked up No Plot? No Problem! and started reading the Week 3 chapter (because you're not sposed to read ahead, and Week 3 just started yesterday) and lo and behold, right there in front of me are two major things I need to do:

1. "Bend your story arc now so its tail-end is pointing squarely at 50k." The reasons for this make perfect sense, which is probably why I didn't think of them before. :P So, time to skip ahead to the good parts, which I'm a bit nervous about seeing as how I barely know the heroine.

2. "Lose any word debt you've accumulated." Until I read about #1, I would've put this one first, but now I see that doing #1 will be a big help in getting #2 done. (Why does it suddenly sound like I'm talking about potty training?)

I'm really looking forward to reading the next bit, about how to have a 6k day. I need a couple.

I have a feeling this post is long enough to need cut tags, but I have a stronger feeling that LJ won't let me do the previewing and editing I usually need to get them right.

Anyway, for whatever reasons, I feel like I can write today, which strikes me as a tremendous and unexpected bit of good luck.

I am a NaNoer! Or, er, whatever the correct noun would be.

As of last night, my word count is about 300 shy of 10,000. (I started to type "10K" but then decided I wanted to see all those pretty zeros. Zeroes? Whatever, that's for next month.) Yes, it's a goopy romance, and yes it's fanfic, and yes it's pretty damn hideous. But I'm writing, and that is the point, yes? Yes.

So I'm almost a full day ahead quota-wise, and I know I'll need the buffer this week because I'm going to a concert on Wed. night. Yes, Wednesday. Will likely need Thursday to recover sleep, word count, hearing, etc.

My wrists are starting to hurt from typing on the laptop, though. This is a problem because I like going elsewhere to write, and have you ever seen a laptop with an ergonomic keyboard? No, you haven't. And I've caught myself committing the carpal sin of resting the heels of my hands on the keyboard WHILE typing, which is bad bad bad.

Anyway, for those who aren't doing NaNo this year, please send a few high-word-count vibes my way. And remind me to ice my wrists.

And now, a ( movie meme )

I'm so tired. It was a terrible morning, but I managed to get my work done this afternoon. Ideally, I would now be off to join some Hallowe'en festivity or other. But I have more things to do than can possibly be done in the few hours left before Nov. 1, including but not limited to: clean rake the apartment, worm the dog, wash the tub, buy groceries, and OH YES, PREPARE FOR NANO. Gah. I have a 12-item list on tadalist.com titled "NaNo Prep", and NONE of them has gotten done. Yet tomorrow, unless I have a major wuss attack and drop out, I will be a writer, that is, I will have to WRITE SOMETHING. I say again: Gah.

I did go back to my little fic-zygote on 1sentence, and it's about 1550 words. Almost a whole day's worth, which made me feel better until I remembered that I can't count those. But I did have the brilliant (and, in hindsight, brilliantly obvious) idea this morning that I could take each of the 50 sentences and write a scene around it. Which is how most of them came about in my head anyway. And the sentences themselves are artificially condensed, and show it. So there's my outline-ish thingy.

I really would like to go to the midnight write-in tonight. But I'm just so tired! And judging by this morning's performance, it would be very ill-advised. Maybe if I went home and napped first, instead of trying to make the apartment a more writer-friendly (hell, people-friendly) place to be.

Right now, my worst fear and my greatest desire are the same: to go home and crash for the night. Period.
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yanked from havocmangawip

Give me one reason I'm going to hell.
Then post this request in your LJ, and I will tell you why YOU are doomed to eternal damnation!
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Wow, seems everybody on the FList is very sleepy lately. But also very busy. And also concerned with recent public policy developments. And also watching Project Runway and/or Top Chef (which makes me glad I went to the double feature at geogal's the other night, because now I see what all the fuss is about). All of which makes for some longish and no doubt very interesting postage which I'm looking forward to reading. And possibly commenting on, long after the conversation's over of course. :P

But first I have to get some fricking SLEEP. Tohru's had the runs for the past few days, which has been quite traumatic for both the carpet and the sleep schedule. Mom came over while I was at work the other day with her magic Car(pet)Wash thingy -- she just can't help herself -- so the carpet is just fine now. I thought going to bed early last night and sleeping like an extremely dead ROCK would do the same for me, but no such luck. So while I knew exactly why I was so exhausted yesterday, today it's a disheartening mystery. And while I'd heard that torrential rain normally works wonders for allergies because it washes all the pollen away, today I've had the sinus headache that just would not die... causing me to take a second allergy pill, which zonked me down to levels even lower than yesterday. It's a glamorous life I lead, wot.

I'm happy though, because things seem to be levelling out now so that neither the headache nor the sleepiness is overwhelming. Or maybe I'm happy because I'm just too drugged to know what's really going on. Whatev. :P

So Oni-Con looks like a wash this year, because I don't have anybody to go with and I'm not quite up to braving the George R. by meself - but I can't quite muster up the regret of a true fangirl over it. OTOH, I would love to hit the dealer room with my newly waxing checkbook and pick up some good schwag. Maybe even some doujinshi! 0_0; And I would like to hear some panels. So, I'll see if they have an actual schedule up yet, and see how I feel in the morning.

In other news, I bought 15 used DVDs from somebody at work who was cleaning out their collection. This is my second such haul, and even though I was a bit late and missed some of the more popular titles, I still think I did pretty good: ( teh list )

So! I've seen only 4 of these. Opinions are welcome, even if you think something sucked, because most of these were $5 - not much more than a rental.

While I was still typing this, the boss came by and asked if he could borrow The Abyss. Heh.
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Today was my Monday, because I got to sleep in a little yesterday before our vet appointment. My ass is dragging like a plow behind a water buffalo.

I have two cigarettes left, no milk, leftovers from the parents, and half a pan of Ghirardelli brownies. I'm thinking a stop at the Quik-E-Mart, and I'll be in for the night.

And since I apparently can't post without saying something about the dog: When she wanted to play last night, I encouraged her instead of trying to calm her down. She lasted about a minute before she started to pant from the exertion. Little thing's really out of shape. Yeah, I know... like I'm not. We'll start taking longer walks soon, etc. This could be good for both of us. It just doesn't feel that way today, because I'm so damn tired. I guess sleeping on the couch, even for just an hour or two, is worse for me than I thought. Clearly, I need a new couch.
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(I stole this from Shai a few weeks ago, but I was last on the bandwagon so nobody replied. Maybe it's too soon to be new again, but she posted it again so that makes it okay for me to do the same. Ha-HA! Memelation.)
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