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There are good things, too, in this life
Aug. 15th, 2007 03:49 pmI feel as if I've only been posting about the bad/annoying stuff in my life lately, which is just not an accurate depiction of my life at the moment. So let's see... well, Saturday morning I went to the farmer's market along with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
koala_motchi, where we met up with whisperwheel, merodi_no_yami, knightvln, and flohchica, who was in town visiting (yay!). I bought a ridiculous amount of food, I really did. Fingerling potatoes, heirloom tomatoes, bacon, bread, zucchini, yellow squash, bell peppers, cantaloupe, basil, yellow cherry tomatoes, and peaches. So much tasty! So we did what any reasonable people would do, and had a brunch. Very very tasty, with all kinds of tasty things from all involved.
Sometime this week -- I think it might have been Monday? -- Mollie and I went to see Stardust. It was a really good ride, I must say. A little predictable at the end, I suppose, but you'll get that when you're dealing with children's fairy stories, even if they *are* based off Neil Gaiman stories. This is actually becoming a little maddening to me. I mean, I know that there are standard endings that have strong traditions in the reference literature, but can we not do something new? Something where ( technically a spoiler, no matter how predictable )? Is that really the only ending possible? It's emotionally satisfying, but also a little bit of a letdown since you see it coming. Nevertheless, Stardust was well put together, and had some good acting and fantastic styling.
With my fantastical produce, I've been making some good foods. I'm especially happy with a couple of things: a honey-basil cantaloupe sorbet, and this tasty pesto chickpea thing I just made (squash, bell pepper, tomato, onion, and garlic all sauteed together with chickpeas, dressed with homemade pesto and served over rice). Ah, it's nice to be cooking again. I was just really out of practice after being at camp and at the wedding and all that. Of course, I still have like 3/4 of a cantaloupe cut up in my fridge and I'm going out of town tomorrow, but, well, melons freeze pretty well. And then I can make cantaloupe smoothies! Hahahaha! Wow, I'm cracked.
Also, just FYI: there are two totally different ghost shows on TV right now. SciFi's Ghost Hunters is like the happy-go-lucky ghost show. It tries to be more scientific, but it's also really tame. Discovery Channel's A Haunting, though, is like a little hour-long horror movie every time. It's fucked up. I'm enjoying it, but I won't watch it at night. I just won't. Gives me the willies.
koala_motchi, where we met up with whisperwheel, merodi_no_yami, knightvln, and flohchica, who was in town visiting (yay!). I bought a ridiculous amount of food, I really did. Fingerling potatoes, heirloom tomatoes, bacon, bread, zucchini, yellow squash, bell peppers, cantaloupe, basil, yellow cherry tomatoes, and peaches. So much tasty! So we did what any reasonable people would do, and had a brunch. Very very tasty, with all kinds of tasty things from all involved.Sometime this week -- I think it might have been Monday? -- Mollie and I went to see Stardust. It was a really good ride, I must say. A little predictable at the end, I suppose, but you'll get that when you're dealing with children's fairy stories, even if they *are* based off Neil Gaiman stories. This is actually becoming a little maddening to me. I mean, I know that there are standard endings that have strong traditions in the reference literature, but can we not do something new? Something where ( technically a spoiler, no matter how predictable )? Is that really the only ending possible? It's emotionally satisfying, but also a little bit of a letdown since you see it coming. Nevertheless, Stardust was well put together, and had some good acting and fantastic styling.
With my fantastical produce, I've been making some good foods. I'm especially happy with a couple of things: a honey-basil cantaloupe sorbet, and this tasty pesto chickpea thing I just made (squash, bell pepper, tomato, onion, and garlic all sauteed together with chickpeas, dressed with homemade pesto and served over rice). Ah, it's nice to be cooking again. I was just really out of practice after being at camp and at the wedding and all that. Of course, I still have like 3/4 of a cantaloupe cut up in my fridge and I'm going out of town tomorrow, but, well, melons freeze pretty well. And then I can make cantaloupe smoothies! Hahahaha! Wow, I'm cracked.
Also, just FYI: there are two totally different ghost shows on TV right now. SciFi's Ghost Hunters is like the happy-go-lucky ghost show. It tries to be more scientific, but it's also really tame. Discovery Channel's A Haunting, though, is like a little hour-long horror movie every time. It's fucked up. I'm enjoying it, but I won't watch it at night. I just won't. Gives me the willies.
