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( Russian )

Okay, that's apparently all the Russian 'm getting done today, on account of getting distracted by calling Mom and looking for my soft case (and sneakily securing financial aid on the dentist bill while I'm at it) and finding out about family stuff. And then babbling about the family dacha to Kiki. Oops.

So, okay, the dentist visit wasn't that bad. And by not that bad I mean I actually almost fell asleep in the middle of the root canal. That's how not bad it was. I love my dentist and his copious use of localized painkillers. I swear, I don't know what he's using but that shit could go for a fortune on the black market, probably. And it's not even a strong general! It's, swab with the gel, inject a local a couple of times, and suddenly all I can feel is the vibrations for a while. The vibrations are annoying, the smell and the sound is annoying. Having to get my own drool and the rinsing water constantly sucked up is kind of annoying, but oh my god the man is painless. I love him.

There's a tree down over half the road leading into the apartment complex. Just, crack, fell over, jagged edges poking up and everything. There's also caution tape in front of it, sort of, that fell down, so I'm assuming someone reported it and they're going to send someone out eventually, but. It puzzles me because while there was some sprinkling last night, it seemed like it was mostly sound and fury signifying no real precipitation at all. Hm. Either way, it made for an interesting walk. Definitely a walk, not a run. After yesterday and feeling weak most of the day, hot and sweaty the rest? No running this morning. Running tomorrow. (Always a boom tomorrow.)

So, grandpa's selling the family dacha in Shenandoah. Which is kind of sad because I did want to spend more time there, but when I was a kid and through my teenage years and into my wild and crazy plans it was a toss-up between there and, well. Here. With the farm and everything. And now I'm here, so I don't need to split my time between Shenandoah and Asheville. It's bad enough with the hour or so drive from the town to the farm. And I'm sure there's people in the family who could use the money, me with a spouseish type SO type thing out of work, my cousin with a year old? baby, my siblings in college. So, yeah. And! Plus. There's already restrictions in place on the land so that it can't be developed and such due to it being literally right up against a national park. It's protected land. So, woot!

Hopefully my damn chip case will arrive today. And then I need to find stickers to put on that and my bento. I made a bento lunch today! Which consisted at least halfway of leftovers. And I found a pretty damn awesome recipe for chicken last night, but I'm not sure what else to cook it with besides noodles. Although the noodles were good. So, hmm. It takes a while, though. Not time consuming to make, itself, but it takes 50 or so minutes to bake in the oven. Homemade shake 'n' bake. And before, lightly browned in olive oil, onions, and garlic. MMMMM. (Onion-sensitives may omit the onions >.> details to follow!)

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1. Sort through spare room, make list of what needs to be done
2. Write Cassie/Nick Kink Bingo
3. Fandom icons! 1 White Collar, 2-3 Push, 1-2 The Losers
4. Tidy desk area
5. Filing (into filing cabinet)
6. Tidy right hand desk drawer. You may still have chocolate bars in there you didn't know you had.
7. Mail Japan & Bulgaria.
8. Charge devices (iSis, phone)
9. Make The Losers RP comm (lifenthefastln?)
10. Buy spices: cardamom, thyme, madras curry, garam masala

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( 日本語 )

I inflict my bad katakana on you. So there.

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS THIS PLACE IS MADE OF WIN AND AWESOME AND IT IS RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM MY STORE I live in heaven. I swear, I live in taste bud heaven. I got cardamom, fenugreek, and two blends they blend there just for shits and giggles, to try out. One yellow curry blend and one mole blend. Because I'm lazy. And then I remembered that I needed to restock on thyme so I stocked the hell up on thyme. 4 ounces for 8.40. I don't know how much is in those glass jars that are at the supermarket but I'm pretty sure it's about comparable at the very least.

And then I was even more awesome and amazing and shipped 236 pounds of yarn in an hour and a half. My back is going to kill me for this later, but I'm glad I got it done now and not when the ... um. Lots. Little over a quarter ton, literally, of yarn gets here. I do not want to deal with all of those things, one on top of the other, in the same day.

Making some progress on my list of crap to do but while today was supposed to be my clean off my desk day, thanks to the yarn store that ordered all that yarn today I didn't actually manage it. Oh! And for the Supernatural fans on my f-list this yarn store from hell order? Is shipping to Lawrence KS. Enjoy. I know I cracked up when I realized.

Anyway. Need to find garam masala and madras curry spice mix recipes. When I get home. Tomorrow, filing and tidying, assuming that quarter ton of yarn doesn't land. Tonight... ugh. Something. I'll think of something. I'm so exhausted right now, I just can't think. And yet, accomplished. And that tea and spice store is pure heaven.

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( Deutsch )

( Bento, Day 1. Rang bell, cat fucked off... )

( Bento, Day 2. Rang bell, cat ate my food. )

I'm discovering the really awesome thing about bento is that I can eat my main meal and my fruit and my dessert, and feel full. I used to, when I brought leftovers in, eat a lot more than that, but now I can pretty much just eat that and even on a fucking insane day of work, I didn't snack. I didn't run to the candy basket. I didn't nick pieces of challah or find out what tasty cookie the Lurking Bandit brought in from home today. I just drank a litre and a half of water and kept going. And then I had merienda.

(Merienda, for those of you who don't remember or in case I didn't explain before, is a Spanish word roughly meaning afternoon snack. It's like the kind of snack you give kindergarteners. I don't think there actually is a specific equivalent word in English like breakfast, lunch, etc, unless you count tea, but that's what it is.)

I do need to start putting something in there for second breakfast, some sort of fruit or something. That's how I've been eating for a while, ideally five meals a day, cereal or toast or something small first thing in the morning, second breakfast I can carry around with me when I get to work while I see what's what. Lunch, merienda, and then the biggest (relatively speaking) meal of the day is dinner. It'd be awesome if I can do all three of the at-work meals in my bento, but we'll see!

Also, ( this is my chip-case. Because I AM FROM THE FUTURE )

Why yes. I am easily and cheaply amused. Why do you ask.