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I had no idea posting funny tidbits of complaining about languages on metaquotes was so popular. Who knew. :)

And now, with at least half a clue as to what I'm doing, I shall sally forth into the Steppes! Or somewhere. Maybe not the steppes. Maybe the seedy Mafia-ridden streets.

And I'm not going to cut it because just making this dialogue took 30 minutes.

1. You have just arrived in Russia for a homestay. Get acquainted with your host.
-- С приездом, Кити! Где твой чемодан?
-- Вот он, чёрный чемодан.
-- Ой, какой большой! Что у тебя в чемодане?
-- Фотоаппарат, комп.-ноутбук, одежда.
-- Фотографии?
-- Да, вот фотографии.

And now, I attempt to find my word count for the year so far. Ugh.

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Russian! The dialogue I didn't get to yesterday.

So far I have installed Firefox and Trillian. I still have to install SpyBot and AVG (what say you, intertubes, leave Norton up till it expires and install both of those on top or no?), LJ Archive, Semagic, Ultra Edit, FTP Commander, iTunes, and then scrub my hard drive. Anything else I should be thinking about installing? (Does anyone remember any other programs I talked about having...)

Okay, I got my exercises done, but not the Russian, on account of... really, on account of installing Trillian a little too soon and spending too much time bouncing. D'oh. And catching up on tags, which is probably what did it. Also, exercises would go a lot faster if my little Michelle kitty didn't insist on using me for a bed or a cheek-rubbing post. Just saying.

I'm brave enough to wear the jeans that were too tight some days, but not every day, certainly. That said, I had a gander in the mirror and was feeling kind of poodgy and bleh until I realized that what was poodgy now was a good day a month and a half ago. Progress, I has it. That and stretches at this point are getting a little too easy, which means it's time to expand them.

I did, at least, get my language bar up there so now I can do the German tonight and the Russian tomorrow morning. Slow going. Faster going once I get home tonight, but still.

Computer needs a name. It may be Soren.

( And then I did my Russian at work )

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This is the icon of the day. Since I can't use both this one and the Don't Panic one at the same time.

I just realized how little I've written in general since the beginning of the year, which means I need to get my ass in gear on that. In general. There are prompts I could be doing and stories I could be writing. One of the things I do intend to do, since I already scoured my backup hard drive, is go through that and finish some works in progress htat have been languishing there. Most likely this will involve rewrites, but, eh.

Life goes apace. I keep waffling between "OMG MONEY" and "RELAX. YOU ARE BORROWING TROUBLE THAT DOES NOT NEED TO BE THERE." More probably the latter is true, all things considered. I need to set up my budget/balance sheet/etc tonight on my new computer. And at some point this weekend I need to fuck around with the old one and try and get it working again, if only to have a backup.

Blargh. It's colder here than it was yesterday. Do not want.

Valentine's Day cards will get out before Valentine's day but will probably not be received before then. Still, on time! Roughly. Sort of. I need to get better about setting aside a weekend day to DO THEM ALL rather than fiddling with them at work.

I think that's it, really. Just had to blather on some.

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Get your own valentinr

Widget. Baaahhh sheep.

Also! Comments are screened again. This is your absolutely last chance to leave me your address for a Valentine's Day Card. That will probably get there a day or so after, but I have the head-explodie.

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Deutsch! Back on track, gorramit. Still need a KMFDM icon.

( I don't even remember where I was. )

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... Oh THAT'S why my datestamp on my LJ entries is borked. *eyes computer* Why are you time traveling. Stop it.

As per the rules, German! And more practicing this sentence construction and adverb type bollocks. While a herd of elephants (aka what sounds like by the rhythm a small child) runs back and forth across the rooms upstairs.

( Deutsch )

Hey, active_apathy, how do you say "I have two special eggs"? :) Ich hat zwei... blah.

Behold! Ich habe zwei einzigartige Eier!

Honey Chicken Recipe

Because I totally promised this to Lor ages ago, and then... yeah.

This recipe works as a stir fry but could probably be adapted to brush onto a chicken breast or something.

Honey Chicken
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup honey
2 tsp sweet chili sauce (optional)
2 tsp corn starch

Mix ingredients in bowl. Cube chicken, cook in pan/dutch oven/wok until, well, cooked. Add veggies, sauce, stir until sauce has thickened. Serve over rice. Possibly noodles?

Sauce by itself- 295 calories, makes about 4 servings

3oz chicken + sauce: 225 calories
Rice: 200 calories per serving

For those of you who haven't cooked with honey before, make sure you measure out the honey only after you've measured out everything else you're going to need it for, and fill it with hot hot water after. Then you can wash it about ten minutes later or so. Sweet chili sauce is optional but it does taste very good with a little spice; feel free to experiment. It might taste good with ginger or garlic.