Drinking: A nice Caliterra chardonnay, a Christmas gift from my friend Lisa (the same Lisa you'll occasionally see mentioned on Pop Culture Junk Mail).
Doing: Editing red eye out of photographs, making Quicktime slideshows of the photographs so my friends will actually look at the pictures. (Because if someone gave me a CD of 100-odd photos, I might not look at them either—but a movie? Oooh. I like movies!)
Amused by: The cats ripping open a package of egg noodles some time during the night so they could lick the noodles. I found that ants rather like egg noodles with cat saliva on.
Digesting: Home-cooked vegetarian chili. When I got home from the grocery store I found that I was out of cumin, so I substituted Sauer's curry powder (about as whitebread as curry can get). Because curry powder has cumin in it, see? I use Sauer's chili powder too. So sue me. It's what I grew up on. Even so, the chili turned out damned well. I won't bother with straight cumin for this recipe again.
Baking: Lemon-blueberry muffins, except that I'm using a loaf pan because I (a) am lazy and (b) don't have a muffin pan. Roy and Siegfried are both on the South Beach Diet and used our visit as a chance to offload every single carbohydrate product (mainly cake mixes) in their pantry onto me.
And now? I'm going to take my hands off the keyboard for a while. My joints have had enough for the day.
253 words | May 18, 2004 07:55 PM | Because I saidegg noodles ALA cat saliva
YUM