Idk how the subways smelled in the 1950's, but "delicious" is not a word that comes to mind.
Putrid, perhaps. Malodorous. Or rank. Rubbish, filth, slime, muck, BOOOOO!!! [10 points if you know what movie that's from...]
I had a job interview in New York City today. I hate the city. And not hate as in "I hate bugs," or "I hate sitting in traffic." No. Hate like in the Old Testament. Like God needs to rain fire down on Manhattan ASAP.
Some highlights:
- Parked illegally at Stop & Shop, because I do not believe in paying $10 to park my car for 5 hours.
- On the NJ transit train [$6.00; 1 hr, 20 mins travel], we were stopped in Hawthorne, NJ because of "police activity" at the next station, in Paterson. We got moving again after 20 minutes and didn't even get to see any exciting police action for our troubles.
- An extremely loud family of foreigners got on the train in Paterson (5 women, 4 children). One of the older women managed to lock herself in the bathroom. There was much yelling and screaming of toddlers.
- The Path station in Hoboken smells like used diapers soaked in old motor oil. [$1.75, 20 mins travel]
- I purposely got off at the Path station on 23rd street even though that train goes to 33rd, just so I could walk more since I didn't get to work out this morning. Interview was on 47th. [free, unless you count the cost to my health; 30 mins travel]
- Barney's NY corporate office is fancy shmancy!
- I was interviewed for 5 minutes.
- Then went home. [$7.75; 2 hrs travel]
- I did not spot Kevin Bacon (It's happened before, and when you have a Kevin Bacon phobia, it is not pleasant.)
At least I did awesome food-wise: turkey bacon (45), coffee (15), soup (45), more coffee (50), and chocolate almond milk (20). 175 total. I must be punished for Saturday and Sunday.
My room's getting kind of messy.
The laundry pile in particular is getting a little out of hand. It has actually spread to the chaise. That doesn't happen too often.
See the trunk by the bottom left corner? All my witchcraft supplies are in there. I'm not even kidding. There's 16 tarot decks, a set of glass runes, a large crystal ball (quartz--good sh*t), candles, incense, a box of little trinkets used in spell casting (little figurines, teeth [they're fake], dried flowers, coins, pendants, etc), a box of rocks and crystals, and a pretty impressive supply of herbs. I catch Mum going through it when she thinks I'm not upstairs. She's convinced I'm worshipping Satan and trafficking large amounts of drugs.
Comments!
Morbid.Diathesis, you probably could make it vegan, but there might be some trial and error involved. My sis tried to do substitute eggs and shortening and the cookies wouldn't hold the shape. They still tasted good, though.
What if Summer, the Harley costume was pretty easy to put together. I got the corset at Hot Topic, the hoodie on eBay, and the pants came from River's Edge Dancewear. Then I just hunted around the clearance sections of shoe shops until I found boots that came in black and red, and wore one of each.
Leto, Ariana, Bella Anna, Depressed Skinny Mess, Jenn, Kazehana, Amy, Sarah, bonesarepure, Tracy, not.quite.ana, and All.That.Wander.Are.Not.Lost--thanks for the lovely comments!
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A break from the traditional Halloween. Usually, I go with my cousin and her girlfriend to this big party. But cousin and girlfriend have broken up (which makes it really effing hard to stay buddies with both of them >:O) so no more ridiculous party. Now I have to find my own ridiculous party.
It was kinda ridiculous.
I was hit on by:
- a large baby in footie pajamas
- the Joker (he gave me a joker card and everything--the Harley Quinn in me had to flirt back)
- a Mets fan
- a Chilean miner
- a beer-pong table
Here's some photos from Halloweens past:
A bunch of us went as the Gotham Girls last year--me as Harley (duh), friends as Poison Ivy (he looked awesome), Catwoman, and the Joker in a nurse's outfit.
Halloween 2008--Marie Antoinette. That was my fav ever, I think. I want to do it again, but 'tis a tad expensive.
Cookie recipe time!!
Sadly, this recipe is not vegan friendly, and because it is intended for a cookie press, it cannot be made vegan friendly. At least not by me. I'm not that skilled with the baking yet. There's more chemistry involved with baking than there is in cooking, and when you're trying to make shaped cookies (that will hold that shape in the oven), you have limited space to experiment.
You will need:
- 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 large egg
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
To make it:
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F (~177 degrees C).
- In a big mixing bowl, mix the butter, shortening, and sugar with an electric mixer until it looks fluffy.
- Then mix in the egg and the vanilla, keep mixing until it's well-blended.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour, salt, and baking powder. The flour does not need to be sifted. Gradually add the flour mix to the larger bowl, stirring it into the sugar mix with a wooden spoon or a rubber spatula (like the kind your mother used to smack you with). I added some pumpkin pie spice at this point, just to make them taste a bit festive. You can flavour them with whatever you want really, so long as it's only seasoning and not something that will change the molecular makeup of the dough (like chocolate). In the past, I've used ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg as well.
- When it's all mixed, it should have sort of the consistency of Play-Doh. Using your handy spatula, put the dough into the cookie press, trying to press it down as flat as possible. Then press the cookies onto an ungreased baking sheet about an inch apart. If you don't have a cookie press, you can just use a rolling pin or something similar and roll the dough flat, then cut out whatever shapes you want.
- It took me a while to get the hang of the cookie press. I ended up with a few wonky cookies... Bake them for 7 minutes, then take them out and let them cool on a rack.
Then decorate!
Hope you are all having a wonderful Halloween!! I had waaaay too much junk at the party last night. I'm off trick or treating with Big Sis#2 and the Niece (age 5), so will be channeling all the powers of the Hangover God to keep me feeling too queasy to eat candy.
