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My piroshki dough is rising - I added a little more brown sugar than the recipe calls for, because it really makes the dough. I'm getting hungry already, thinking about them.

There is a wall of blackness headed towards my isolated ranch, and I'll confess, it's making me nervous. I can't even see the Bradshaws, which means those dark storm clouds could well be a dark sheet of rain. The temperature has been fluxing between 89 and 70 degrees over the course of the last few hours.

I'm almost worried my Century Plant is going to end up breaking due to the weather. And it's so terribly close to blooming, too. I have my fingers crossed that it holds out just long enough to bloom. There's something very humbling about realizing you'll be one of only three people to ever see this plant bloom. (I of course intend to take pictures, but that's a bit different.)

Speaking of! talia_speaks finished the editing from our last shoot, and I'm happy with them photographs! We went in a different direction than usual, but it was fun to play around with something new. And it was such a great day, anyway. As always, her photography skills are incredible, and she manages to find angles and lighting arrangement that make me look like something other than a corpse. (Though I saw clear evidence of my slacking in the photographs. Ah well, I knew it was inevitable with my health and the weather over the summer.)

I'm torn now between playing more Origins (more points for having area names that are sure to invoke a shiver) or cleaning up my workroom. I essentially just dumped my stuff on whatever area was clear, and now it's rather a mess. Though I'm amused at the random juxtaposition of items. A Furuba hat, a wine bottle, a dozen or so springs, some fake flowers, boxes of cigarettes, an old copy of The Divine Comedy, a tin of cashews and a scattering of wig heads that resemble the victims of a sociosadist with a blinding fetish...

I'm actually inspired to write. (And something other than deviant AUs or the epic monster SH2/SH4 crossover I've undertaken.) It's been some time since a bunny bit me hard. Perhaps we'll see where it goes....

I am still hankering for fan art of Valyn as The Godfather. I curse you Vista, for taking my Sims from me! Because with Sims, I could not only emulate that, but I could have a great deal more RP icons for my IJ journals.

I saw the box art for Homecoming today. It made me weak in the knees with want.

I'm going to buy an XboX 360, aren't I?

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[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

I am thinking Xbox since it's cheaper, and the games for a PS3 I want to play are all also being released on the Xbox, so for me it's just the best option.

Yes! I am full of piroshki! I ate two of them. I stuffed them full of ham and three types of cheese.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you were such a cook! That's great.

I used to cook back when I was married, and I had a lot of fun with it.

I didn't always even cook stuff I liked, but there were other people to eat it so that was fun.

I'm not sure yet what's coming out for what, but I don't want to miss out on SHH, and FFXIII looks really good so far.

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

Oh, cooking is one of my great loves! I even bake my own sandwich bread from scratch. :D And since my folks and I share a kitchen, I tend to just cook for all three of us!

From the release lists I've seen, it'd be more beneficial for me to get an Xbox. The PS3 exclusive games in development now just aren't any that I have a burning need to play, whereas the dual releases are. (Mainly SH5 and Beyond Good and Evil 2.) But it's a Wii I really want. :D

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I used to make whole wheat bread. And whole wheat raisin challah... wow, those were the days. Maybe sometime when it's not so hot the oven would be insane I'll do some baking of some kind where I live. I could ask her kids to join in or something.

I didn't play the first Beyond Good and Evil but I heard it was really good. I thought of trying to find it, even with my track record with action games being this iffy.

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

I make White Amish Bread, which is delicious but definitely not as healthy as it could be. You should! Yeah, I've been slacking off due to heat. But since it's been so cold and rainy, it's been great have-the-oven-on weather!

It's a great game. It's... really innovative, I think, in that is manages to combine every genre. But this makes it very difficult, too. There's action one on one fighting, there's stealth a-la-Metal Gear, there's racing, there's puzzles, there's fetch quests, there's photo-taking, there's hand combat, weaponry combat, Tomb Raider style jumping and climbing, dual character tasks/sections where you need to control two characters, mini-games, all wrapped up in the in depth, twisty plot of an RPG.

I have never beaten this game, and will never beat this game, but I adore it all the same. It's for both the PS2 and Gamecube, and I see it all over around here for around $12.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

It sounds like I would never beat it either but I've heard about the plot and it does sound good. I've looked at Gamestop without finding it but I'll have to try eBay or something.