And other random thoughts

Love means wondering WHY someone has requested egg custard for his holiday party. Love means looking up recipes and having the mental lightbulb go on: "Ah, it's a Hong Kong thing." Love means running out of the house to the store with wet hair because one doesn't have a sieve to strain the eggs through. Love means struggling with dough and foil tart cups: said struggle resulted in amoebic shapes, rather than pretty, round tarts (though I suppose a muffin pan might've made life easier, did I actually own one). Love means galloping downstairs to check the oven. (No, they haven't achieved custard consistency yet.) Love means galloping down to check the oven again.

Love means there will also be chocolate ginger cheesecake, because I am not convinced my lame attempt at egg tarts is going to bear any resemblance to didjiman 's idea of home cookin'. EDIT: Maybe not, I can't find the !&%#!!~~@ recipe!!!!

EDIT: Found the recipe, but have used up all the eggs. Not running out now for more, so no cheesecake. Instead I shall attempt a nap to forestall the headache I have been fighting since I got up this morning.

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The fans I won on eBay have arrived. I am extremely pleased with all of them. The Daruma one has a lot of charm, but might end up being omiage: seeing as I keep meeting Nice Boys On The Tousando at out-kingdom events and it's a very non-girly fan. The real winner of the batch, however, was this one. So elegant! 


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The real reason the Telepath War was lost to the Normals was the failure of Byron to come up with a better rallying point than that insipid little song.
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I need a little Duke Ellington.

Saturday random addendum

Tart making, a headache and lack of eggs sapped my will to make a cheesecake. Two Advil and a nap definitely helped, however.

Although I still have two collars to attach on JAF's commission, I think working on something for myself is what I need right now, mentally, to de-funkify myself. Seriously. I've spent most of my summer and fall making things for JAF - who, bless his heart, is very happy to pay me what we've determined it's worth, I knocked out the "tablecloth" kosode and a couple under-robes in time for GWW, but I haven't made anything pretty since last winter. And let's be honest, kids. I do this for the pretties!
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As it happens, this eBay find, one of those insanely high quality rayons that the Japanese produce, was woven in sections that are divided by bits of white, so I measured out how much I'd need for the body panels and pieced them so they'd be the correct lenght for an uwagi. Even though I didn't use flash, the photos do not do justice to the color, which is a pale aqua..