Most awesomest chicken kiev evar

I agree with Pren...this new update page format displeases me.

In other news, holy crap frozen jesus on a stick, I'm finally done with finals... and it only took me one week longer than everyone else!!

Also, I finished the polar fleece jumping frogs-patterned coat for my overflowingly adaorable nephew.
(Whom I visited on Sunday, and he prefered me to his mom who was doing mean things like taking the phone away from him to talk to gramma and changing his diaper, etc..)
Oh, and guess what?
(well, other than that Kat is also a James Gurney fangirl and this makes everything today 3.5 times more awesome)
Kharma has decided it's time to payback all the crap it saddled Nina with, especially with her miscarriage and that it wants to pay back in full,.... in double actually...
in the form of TWINS.
There's an 80% I'm going to be an aunt again, times two. Like woah.
[Edit: Apparently Kharma also has that "Man, you should've seen your face, dude!" kind of humor. Nina's not having twins, but she still has one healthy, hungry, growing baby. And that's plenty enough.]

Also, we had Jono over for dinner tonight, and despite the fact that I was winging a chicekn kiev recipe, based on the chicken that Sushu and I made once... except sans toothpicks and plus panko, and it turned out beautiful. As did the baby limas. As did the mashed potatoes with fresh dill and soymilk.... even though I was totally flying it by the seat of my pants. Sheer bliss.
And, I have discovered a wonderful new Spaetlese that uses a glass stopper instead of a cork, how brilliant is that? No corkscrews required, no cork tree harvesting, and it's totally fridge-ready as is. Why have more companies not latched onto this?? (As opposed to that lame-as-hell idea of the box/cube of wine. I mean really!)

Saturday is Davis Family Christmas, and I'm totally looking forward to Mom's meatballs and Dad's sausauge cheeseballs, and the traditional Davis family spread of cookies (whole wheat sugar cookies, green Spritz christmas trees, and spanish wedding cake cookies, aka snowballs)!
Of course, I predict that by about 4 o'clock tomorrow I'm going to be wigging out about how I have nothing to do since I finished all my schoolwork... and Pattern Recognition will probably not last me through tomorrow... Jonothan, Garett, peeps, I need more awesome sci-fi fantasy canon to read!

Mmm.. although I do still have one nasty piece of business to deal with... that being the tiny problem that I some how missed the Room Lottery deadline for Anime Club, which was 8th week... a reminder buried someplace in the RSO Newsletter... but I think I'm the only who gets that... so Andrew my Deadline Supervisor, wasn't able to remind me... so, I need to reply to the email I've been having with Ida where they're all like "stupid, the deadline was forever and a day ago... as you should remember from that madatory RSO leadership meeting, and blah blah... it's already been done.. but I suppose if you tell us what you need, we'll see if we have any dregs left to throw your way" only in more "professional" language... grah. I cannot do everything, and sometimes I feel like I'm talking to an empty room when I ask the officers to do stuff for me.... which makes me especially nervous because we have to kick things into high gear for UChi-Con this next quarter, and deadlines will be even more important...
*sigh*
but, I will email.. and see what we can get... otherwise I guess we're having meetings in Cobb next quarter..

I'm trying, I really am! But I'm just not superhuman... I get buried in finals, and if everyone's gone and not coming to officers' meetings, then I simply don't have enough time and energy to dig myself outof my own work and get all of the time-sensitive stuff done. Sush, you are my role model... but I'm just not as good as you are at it! And I worry about leaving club to fend for itself once I head out to California... it's like having a kid: "I just don't think she's ready!!"

/club-related angst

Anywho!

I actually really love Christmas time. I know most people hate it because of commercials and crappy Christmas comedy movies... but I genuinely love it. Sure, I hate those commercials and most of those Christmas movies too... but they're just cheap commericialized aspects of the real deal.
For most of my childhood I got dragged to the crappy drizzly 50-60 degree weather at my Grampa's condominium in Florida... and we never had a Christmas tree that wasn't fake and more than 2 feet tall (except one year). I never believed in Santa Claus--his handwriting was too much like my mother's and the fact that we loaded all the presents into the back of van to drive down to FL kind of spoiled that part for me, but that's not really why I love it anyway...

What I like is the snow and hanging up Christmas lights and baking cookies and hanging out eating awesome food with my immediate family.
Oh... and I really really REALLY like wrapping Christmas presents. Like, I wrap them all for my mom for everyone, because it's fun. And opening my gifts is never the funnest part, because I've known what they are for a number of years because I pick them and stash them with mom to wrap later myself.. it works optimally that way... but it's great to watch other people open gifts I wrapped because I'm waiting for their reaction to the thing inside (it's the tension of that one literary irony where the audience knows something that the character hasn't picked up on yet...).
Oh, and I just finally re-accquired snow pants... which my mother had the cheek to throw out a few years ago thinking that I wouldn't need/want them anymore. Sacrilege!!!!

Jeremy loathes gift-giving with a passion, which is kind of sad, since it can be really fun... but he has his own reasons.

Maybe I like December so much because it's the only holiday I get three of. Once with my sisters and parents, once with Jeremy's family, and once again (if I so choose) with my mom's family... granted, I'm pretty tired of family by the end... but, it means I get to see everybody and not have to cook for like 3 weeks straight.

And I'm babbling... but that's okay.. cuz I haven't had the time to read webcomics, let alone write any Lj stuff for like 3 weeks... (Fuck you, finals!)

And hey, Sush? Don't you think that I'm gonna let your bdays slip by when I'm in the same state and time zone in the spring, mkay? Yeah.

Oh, and I have 1 quarter of college left. Weird.
(well, actually it's a range between 11 and 16 weeks... but, same difference, right?)