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2001-12-30 - 12:45 a.m.

productive

I feel fairly productive.

I saw Lord of the Rings, made cookies, and updated my website.

No actual writing got done, but I've rewritten what little I've got on Consanguinity. I just need to sit down and, er, bang it out, as it were.

Got an email back about amnesiac!Rogue, so I feel better about that, and I think that fic is going to be angsty. And not quite the usual thing. Plus, I have a fun parody idea I need to figure out.

Productive, creative, it's all good.

Maybe I'll try my hand at making a banner next.

Or go to bed.

You know, six of one... *g*

Oh, do you like my pretty new picture? She suits me, I think, bare boobies and all. So she's not Calliope or Melpomene, isn't Venus [i.e., love] the ultimate muse?

Or am I making you sick with this pretentious garbage? Ah, well.

Bed is sounding better every moment...

~vic

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2001-12-29 - 1:51 p.m.

A Elbereth Gilthoniel

Saw LoTR this morning.

Legolas is *so* my boyfriend!

Excellent movie. Very faithful. Loved it. I think there were some things I'd have done differently - not shown Sauron at all [let alone in the first 15 seconds], stuck with the Merry and Pippen stalking Frodo instead of the theft in Farmer what-his-name's field, I wish they hadn't canned the Gimli- Legolas friendship, and Gimli's crush on Galadriel, and, my main nit - way too much slow-motion.

But damn, Ian McKellen IS Gandalf. "You cannot pass. You SHALL NOT pass!" ::shivers::

I got misty-eyed when Frodo said, "I will take it." Damn. Elijah Wood was perfect, and never ever who I'd have thought of for Frodo.

Sam was much less annoying in the movie than he is in the books.

Sean Bean made me actually feel bad for Boromir at the end. I never liked him [partly because he was an arrogant blowhard and partly on Faramir's behalf. *g* I heart Faramir] and yet I cried when he died.

I thought they could have been a little more subtle with Galadriel's temptation, but Cate Blanchett was good.

Loved the Eye of Sauron. Great visual, exactly how I always imagined it.

Saruman was a little too prominent, and they spent too much time at Isengard for the first book, but I suppose they needed the exposition.

And Legolas. Is. My. Boyfriend. The arrow in the eye, the way he shot two arrows at once, just *everything* about him *rocked*.

Wasn't sure about Hugo Weaving as Elrond - not how I pictured Elrond, but he pulled it off. I guess I always thought Elrond would be bigger and have a more charismatic presence.

Surprisingly enough, I didn't mind Liv Tyler/Arwen at all. I mean, I can forgive the whole glowy business because Frodo was slipping between the real and the shadow world. And really, it's not like Glorfindel played a big part in the story.

Aragorn was... nummy. So perfectly cast. The only thing I wish they hadn't changed was how they handled The Sword That Was Broken. I like the part when he tosses it down in the conference room and shows up Boromir.

Yeah, I really don't like Boromir. *g*

The Ring Wraiths were done well, and damn, the Uruk-Hai were ugly and fierce.

One last note - thank *god* they cut Tom Bombadil. What an annoying creature.

So this was probably the best damn movie I've seen all year. Just awesome. I can't *wait* for The Two Towers.

Faramir... sigh...

Off to make cookies now.

~victoria

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2001-12-29 - 1:00 a.m.

Those Evol Aussies

Just got my gift from Meg tonight.

Some lovely books, but most importantly, CANDY.

Fruit pastilles, to be exact.

I am addicted to fruit pastilles, which I have yet to find here in the States, so my Aussie friends are enabling my addiction.

Evol, evol Aussies. Oi! Oi! Oi! *g*

I heart my friends Down Under. Even if they apparently want my teeth to rot out of my head from so much lovely candy. *g*

I got books from Dot, and the CD of Pictures at an Exhibition and NIght on Bald MOuntain conducted by Leonard Berstein.

And Pete - sweetie Petey - sent me a big old talking Wolvie doll. *g* How can you not love that? Movieverse Wolvie, too. *sigh*

But the fruit pastilles, they're up there with the Godfather DVDs and the Movado bracelet.

YUM!

~vic
needs to sleep now... going to see LOTR tomorrow, FINALLY

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2001-12-28 - 10:22 p.m.

Goddess of Flannel

Back again, quickly.

No more fooling around.

Flannel sheets on the bed now. Flannel pjs on. Yummy. Warm. So what if it's 20 degrees out and my heat seems to only work in the bathroom between the hours of 6:30 and 7 am.

Warmth. Yes.

I am a goddess of flannel.

And so happy I don't live in Buffalo.

~vic

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2001-12-28 - 8:55 p.m.

Fig cookies

Random books on my "to be read" pile:

  • Dewey Defeats Truman by Thomas Mallon
  • The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
  • Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
  • My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozecki
  • Hometown by Tracy Kidder
  • Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

I was going to share a piece of the amnesiac!Rogue fic, which I did start today. It's gonna be an angsty one, I think.

But I decided to make some major changes in what I've already written, and since the evening so far has been taken up with preparing to make fig cookies tomorrow, writing has taken a back seat.

Fig cookies, yes. An old family tradition.

Tonight I made the dough, cut the stems off the figs, and roasted the almonds.

Tomorrow I'll make the figs and start actually making the cookies, I hope.

So, to share the recipe, from my Aunt Jean to me to you:

Ingredients:

3 rolls dried figs
1 cup crushed roasted almonds
3 tbsp sugar
1/2 tbsp cinnamon
2 tbsp cocoa
peel of one orange, grated [aka, zest of one orange *g*]
1 cup water
1/2 cup sugar

2 lbs flour
1/2 lb Crisco [don't use margarine]
3 tbsp sugar
1 cup warm water [more if needed]

The fig:

Grind figs and almonds together.

Melt 1/2 cup sugar in 1 cup of water. When the sugar melts, add the fig/almond mixture. Add cocoa, orange rind, cinnamon, and cocoa. Stir until thoroughly mixed and heated. Remove from flame and let cool.

Sift flour and sugar together. Add in 1/2 lb of Crisco and knead until all the Crisco is absorbed. Then add the water a little at a time, until the dough is of a fine consistency.

Separate it into sections and roll it into logs. Wrap it in wax paper and a towel and refrigerate all night.

To make the cookies, cut a slice of dough, roll it out, spoon some fig into the center, roll it into an S shape, use a razor to cut slits on the curves, dip in confetti, and bake for about 15 minutes in a 350 over.

Then eat. *g*

No one has ever gotten this recipe from me. You should feel honored.

I lurve these cookies.

~victoria



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