Things you never knew you wanted to know.

It's in the 50s here and really kind of gloomy and miserable. :( Not all of us can be in Maui like SOME people (it's jade_okelani -- everyone go after her with pitchforks).

On. Sat. I considered canceling my massage appt because it was the first day of my period and I felt like death warmed over. I wasn't sure if I could lie there silently when all I wanted to do was curl into a ball and moan ... but it turns out that the massage absolutely eased all the cramping! (I'm sure the Aleve helped as well.) Now I think I should do that every month. :D Either Liliya is easing up, or I'm becoming less of a wimp; it didn't hurt this time, only felt good. This sounds like something else, so I'll just stop right there.

Afterward I went and purchased two -- yes, two, witness my gluttony -- live crabs. It cost $10.50 for both of them. I have a horrific story for the slaughtering of the first crab, but I'm not going to tell it unless someone actually wants to hear it (I'd just as soon save myself the anguish), but the second one went really well. I'm totally getting the hang of this, folks -- come to me for all your crabicide needs. I ended up not steaming or boiling, but making stir-fry ginger and scallion crab. ( Recipe here. )

I am very, very tempted to enter kirixchi's new fic contest, but I feel far too guilty about starting a new fic when I have so many unfinished. Plus I've never written a real Lucius/Narcissa story before and don't know that I'd be any good at it; I envision rotten tomatoes flying at my face. Anyway, I've promised myself that if I can finish at least one of the stories I'm currently working on (whether you have seen them or not), I'll let myself even think about it. (What this means, of course, is that Oct. 30 will arrive with no fic whatsoever. *SIGH*) Or if you've ever thought about writing Black family fic, you should definitely do so for this contest -- the winner gets a v. cool prize of an officially licensed Time Turner like the one Hermione wore in POA!

Speaking of gross -- okay, we weren't, but I didn't have a good way to ease into this next topic -- I became totally fascinated by worm cheese once gianfared inflicted us all with the knowledge of its existence. So I had to find out more. And oh, did I ever. I'm cut-tagging this article about it from The Wall Street Journal -- please be forewarned that it is really gross. And fascinating. :D

Here was one of my favorite visuals, which will give you a hint of what you're getting into should you click the below link:

One neophyte experienced a strange crawling sensation on his skin that lasted for days. And some of the wiggling worms jump straight toward the eyes with ballistic precision. To protect the eyes, some Sardinians recommend holding a hand over the sandwich.

( Worm Cheese: Read the whole article here. )

Also, I'm extremely envious of hannah_kim, who gets to see blink-182 in December. And of weekend_soul, because she lives in a place that already has The Princess Diaries 6!!!

Woe, woe is me.

Edit: Aren't all the little usericon things cute?? It was clanmalfoy who directed us to this page that has them. I don't know that I could do this every time, though. <g>

Here's my fave: sarea_okelani :D