Baking of one kind or another...

[wednes]

I'm trying to get things in order in the apartment and elsewhere today, as I keep feeling like everything is very scattered and unattended if that makes any sense. I cleaned the bedroom, finished some laundry...but of course there is more, showered and all that, and picked up the insane amount of plastic wrappers and trash that the animals love to scatter around our humble home.

Spent 2 hours or so playing loud music (I love that Throwing Copper album by Live) and coloring in my coloring books. That can be quite relaxing and conducive to clear thinking. I also applied for a job at Clear Channel, and signed up for a few more volunteer shifts at the shelter. Hopefully all of that will enrich my life rather than make me more depressed in the future, but who knows. Nothing ventured and all that there...

I'm making H's favorite cookies today. They are the "Puffy" recipe from Altons Browns Good Eats show. I love that guy, and do a lot of his techniques...never let it be said that I follow recipes. Cooking accomplishes many things for me. It is artistic and expressive, it helps me nourish my family and people I invite to my home, and it utilizes my "kitchen witchery" yearnings, which is really the spiritual side of the first two things. The dough is chilling and later today we'll have chocochip and peanut butter chip cookies. Mmmmm...
I also think I'm going to make a sourdough bread dough with some of my Amish starter. It seems the loaf of sourdough we just got Sunday from Panera Bread is already gone!

I said I was going to report the Lj Crush Meme in the hopes that more of you will have admitted your secret (or otherwise) crushes on me. Sadly, it is down temporarily. In the mean time, I give you--Trust!

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My trust level is: 100%

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I almost forgot, I sent a note of support to Darla Wynne who is going thru something really dreadful. This kind of thing should offend people of any path...

Comments

[nate101000.livejournal.com]

Clearly we have quite a bit of domestic terrorism that needs to be taken care of. I would recommend tracking down the person who killed the cat and imprisoning them as an 'enemy combatant'.

[gusterize.livejournal.com]

Throwing Copper is a great album! I just bought it a couple weeks ago, I've wanted it for so very long. And it is very good for listening to loudly.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I'm with that!

[nate101000.livejournal.com]

Except that we are forgetting that christian fundamentalists can't be terrorists. You have to have brown skin to be considered a terrorist.

There I said it. That's it, no more passive aggressiveness about the war. The whole thing is some ridiculous racist attempt to control the world's oil. Either that or some horrible blunder that is being perpetuated to save face. Or maybe some combination of both. But the point is this shit needs to stop. All of it the whole world needs to grow up, and act like adults.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

That would be nice.

u just think it is almost laughably appalling that someone would kill, gut and then proudly display someone's pet in the name of Jesus.

[nate101000.livejournal.com]

Not too surprising when you consider the fact that christians worship a rotting corpse nailed to a tree.

[nate101000.livejournal.com]

Sorry, my bad.

The image of a rotting corpse.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Oh, snap!

[skryche.livejournal.com]

That Wynne woman should realize that America is a Christian country and if she doesn't like it she can go back to Iraq or wherever Wicca is from.

Seriously, though: she is so obviously in the right, it's appalling.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Once she won her case and had the ACLU behind her, that's when the tonspeople became really nasty. it's so awful.

sometimes i forget how lucky I am to live in Ann Arbor, where i can be a flaming witch with a black boyfriend and no one gives me shit about it.