you are my brother, brothers forever January 16, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : rants & raves, wish list , 2 commentsFor starters, I just saw the best American Idol segment ever. I can’t even describe it, but I laughed for four straight minutes. “You are my glory. Simon.”
What I was originally getting at, though, involves the fact that I walk by a Pier 1 every morning on my way to school. Every morning, I see this awesome display of stemless wine glasses, and every morning it catches my eye. I’d drink everything out of those glasses. I’d drink my morning coffee out of those glasses. With a straw, so I wouldn’t have to touch the ridiculous hot glass. But still! I’d eat cereal out of these things. I love them. See them here, at Crate & Barrel because Pier 1 has the most misguided website in the history of the world (part 1).
I figured I’d write this entry to get myself warmed up and psyched to write in my “blog” for one of my English classes. I have to write about my homegirl the Wife of Bath, from the Canterbury Tales. Instead, I’m zeroing out my Google Reader checker counter thingy and watching Sanford & Son at Jill & Clare’s.
Productive.
Super duper productive.
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two best things ever January 15, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : kitchen adventures, music & concerts, rants & raves , 6 commentsGuys.
Are you hip to silicone baking cups?
They’re the paper things you bake muffins or cupcakes or whatever in, right, only they’re made of silicone so you can wash and reuse them, plus if you spray them with Pam they peel right off your muffins like nobody’s business. Maybe these things are super old and I just never knew about them? I made muffins with them tonight for the first time and seriously, I now swear by them. The coolest thing is that not only can you put them in a traditional muffin tin, but also you can (allegedly - I haven’t tried this) sit them by themselves on a regular cookie sheet and the result will be the same. Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you this: will muffin-baking ever be the same?
In other news, have you ever been asked what your all-time favorite song was? I have, and I’ve never really been able to answer it until tonight when my answer came down to me from the god of iTunes shuffle. This is my answer: “Like a Prayer” by Madonna. It really just doesn’t get old for me. I wouldn’t say Madonna is my all-time favorite artist, but that song has been sitting on top of my list for at least five years now. It’s catchy and upbeat, but it doesn’t get stuck in my head. It’s singalongable. It fills me with energy. If I ever get a speeding ticket, it will be because I was listening to this song while driving.
As far as Madonna songs go, the runner up for my favor is “Express Yourself”, with honorable mention going to “Borderline”. As far as artists who have songs that give me a rush like Madonna’s do go, the runner up is - for now - Bon Jovi for such delicious adrenaline-rushes as “You Give Love A Bad Name” (is there a better first few seconds anywhere in music? I think not) and, of course, “Livin’ On A Prayer”.
In doing personal research for this mini-feature, I have noticed that iTunes has downloaded not one, not two, but ten new Lin’s Bins for me from the XRT podcasts I’ve subscribed to. Hot dog! For the uninformed, WXRT is a Chicago radio station that I listened to - thanks to the wonders of streaming radio - even when I was on the East coast because I really haven’t ever found anything better. Listen here. You’ll be glad you did?
In other news, my back hurts for no good reason and I am about to take a crowbar to the car outside my window whose alarm will not stop going off, and today may or may not be Charo’s birthday, depending on whether you trust the Dlisted birthday list or IMDb. Me, I can’t decide. I’ll just have to celebrate twice!
In other other news, life is a mystery. Everyone must stand alone. I hear you call my name, and it feels like…
… home.
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seriously? January 14, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : (pointless) humor , add a commentCheck this out.
This guy’s playing a carrot pan flute. I’m not sure I could ever aspire to anything more.
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Via Netplay on North by Northwestern.
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get that son-a-gun off my tractor!
Posted by Abby T in : games & systems, kitchen adventures , 1 commentThe news of the morning is that Emily’s notoriety continues to grow all over the Interwebs, now that The Gamer Gene and Grrr have hopped on the “look how cute these are!!” bandwagon. Em’s knitted mushroom desk pals are pretty much the most adorable desk pals ever created so there’s really no surprise there.
In other news, my mother emailed along the recipes I asked for the other day. Unlike last night, today I’m posting super secret family recipes that you or I might actually want to eat, and that might actually go together. I don’t know about you, but prune whip and meringue cookies seems to me like the food combination from hell. Or worse?
Anyway, see the legitimately tasty recipes after the break.
more than a feelin’ January 13, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : kitchen adventures, wish list , 2 commentsI have approximately three (3) buttloads of reading to do for tomorrow. I haven’t looked at my assignments yet, actually, so I can’t be sure, but I do know that I have my most reading-intensive classes back-to-back-to-back tomorrow morning and that gives me the vaguest of senses that I should maybe be doing something.
So I ate a very long dinner while watching nine episodes of Scrubs, and now I’m updating this blog instead of getting started. There are a few reasons for that. One is the fact that I thought up another thing to put on my wishlist: a nice new bike. A street bike with a ladies’ frame. I like the seating position of street bikes, and I like the handlebars, and my current bike is a) too small for me, b) a piece of crap that cost $45 new at Target, and c) rusting into oblivion because I leave it outside all the time.
Cool.
I also am developing a new plan for this blog, maybe? Instead of publishing eighteen thousand little entries in the same day, I’m going to hit “Save” instead of “Publish” each time and just publish the one no more often than once per day.
We’ll see how that goes.
For the record, I actually am enjoying my classes this quarter very much. I have crushes on both my English professors, friends to sit with for Hebrew Bible, and Statistics is early and boring but easy. That being said, I still don’t want to get started on the reading but since I’m basically out of things to write about here I suppose I must.
Oh, except I thought of some more things I wanted to say! Not only am I using this little Internet space of mine to keep track of my miscellaneous wishes for miscellaneous things, but I am also going to use it to keep track of miscellaneous recipes that I have for miscellaneous things so I don’t have to worry about losing little bits of paper! Here’s what I’ve got so far, just so the “recipes” category isn’t so lonely…
my sister is famous!
Posted by Abby T in : games & systems , add a commentI know I have fewer than zero readers, but I’m going to advertise this anyway in the interest of getting in the habit of doing so:
Knitted Mario Mushrooms in the Wild
That’s right. My sister was featured on Kotaku. That makes me, like, a celebrity by association?
-@
wish list imports January 12, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : wish list , add a commentI’m just about the worst person in the world at informing the world what I want for various birthdays and holidays at the drop of a hat. There’s always stuff I want that I come up with at random times throughout the year, but when you put me on the spot it just flies out of my head. I’ve tried to keep wish lists going but I always lose them.
But even I can’t misplace the entire Internet, right?
Let’s hope:
- This one’s pretty simple: an iPhone. Probably never going to happen, but I never said this list was realistic.
- A new drill. 7.2 volts just aren’t cutting it for much. This one would do nicely.
- This watch. I have gone through three watches in as many years: a broken band whose replacement is extremely hard to find, a crappy HRC timepiece whose face is impossible to read, and the watch my sister gave me that I actually really like. But I still want the one I linked above, mostly because I used to have a Swiss Army watch and I don’t know what happened to it, but I miss it.
- This backpack. I like it.
- A cookbook stand.
Got spare cash? Buy me this stuff!
-@
life is unfair to the midwest.
Posted by Abby T in : rants & raves , 2 commentsAnd by “life” in the title, I of course mean “the world of television”. When an ad for an upcoming program comes to an end, the splash screen thingie reads: “Next Tuesday night at 8 (7c)!” or whatever. Something similar. We in the Midwest are relegated to parentheses to determine the times of our programming.
Unless.
(Unless!)
The announcer of the ad gets excited, or the end is pressed for time, or some similar case, in which case all we get is “TUESDAY NIGHT AT EIGHT!” and we poor, oppressed Midwest-dwellers have to translate the time in our own heads.
Life, she is le difficult.
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