Continued Fail
Feb. 5th, 2025 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse I was feeling pretty smart that I remembered that today was "What are you reading Wednesday," but then I popped on here only to discover that the LAST time I posted was LAST Wednesday. Well, given that, I think I will forgo the list of reading material and tell you, instead, about my life.
Last Saturday was Imbolc (also known as Saint Brigit's Day) and Sunday was Groundhog's Day, so, of course, Shawn and I decided to have a Sunday High Tea. As some of you may remember, last year, for her birthday, I gave Shawn a trip to the Saint Paul Hotel's fancy dress high tea. We had also been hoping to attend a tea ceremony at the Como Conservatory's Japanese garden, but, I had neglected to remember that Shawn's knees were failing, so we ended up canceling that. As part of her "year of tea" last year, I bought Shawn a subscription to a very genteel magazine called Tea Time, which literally is just recipes for fancy tea cakes and sandwiches and pretty images of people's tea sets. So, we decided to make a ham salad recipe from one of her Tea Time issues which we spread on bagette slices...
Image: mostly these kind of look like mayonaise-covered dog food? But they were insanely deliciously and curry-flavored.
For me, the real star of the show, however, were the raspberry filled tartlets. In comparison to a lot of the very picky and time-consuming recipes I have made for our various teas over the years, the tarlets (and the ham salad, honestly,) were shockingly easy. Like, the the biggest thing to making the tarlets look good? Owning a tartlet pan. Which, OF COURSE, we do.
Image: Raspberry tartlets on top, lemon poppy seed pound cake on the bottom tray.
I just ate the very last leftover of the tartlets this morning. They're such an oddly enchanting "mouth feel" because the bottom is philo and the top is more like a soft muffin. In-between is a generous spoonful of raspberry jam. So they're kind of "springy" and chewy on your teeth? It's odd, but, as I can personally attest, weirdly addictive.
Surprisingly easy to make given how fancy they look, too.
Yeah, so, this is how we're surviving the state capture of the United States by a criminally dangerous South African immigrant that I would sincerely like to see rounded up and deported. If we could just send him to Guantanamo instead, I dunno, innocent children that would be fantastic. Weird how no one has thought to send ICE agents into the Treasury Office. That would have been my first phone call.
My next would be to a nice, young Italian man....
But, I digress.
In other news, I been running some absoluely soul-rejuvinating TTRPGs. Last night, my Thirsty Sword Lesbians solved an interdimensional-dimensional rift and a yakuza turf war with a bit of flirting and some donuts. Ah... I mean, my shoulders just dropped two notches TYPING that. Last night, I was just grinning happily for a couple of hours post-game.
Last Saturday, my Dungeon & Dragons party rescued a dozen Dwarven miners from an as of yet unmet Infernal foe. A little less universally satisfying, but on its way, and to be fair, we had a thrilling marketplace heist pulled of by none-other-than our party's PALADIN. I am still laughing about that. Good times.
So, we take it all one day at a time.
How are you doing?
Last Saturday was Imbolc (also known as Saint Brigit's Day) and Sunday was Groundhog's Day, so, of course, Shawn and I decided to have a Sunday High Tea. As some of you may remember, last year, for her birthday, I gave Shawn a trip to the Saint Paul Hotel's fancy dress high tea. We had also been hoping to attend a tea ceremony at the Como Conservatory's Japanese garden, but, I had neglected to remember that Shawn's knees were failing, so we ended up canceling that. As part of her "year of tea" last year, I bought Shawn a subscription to a very genteel magazine called Tea Time, which literally is just recipes for fancy tea cakes and sandwiches and pretty images of people's tea sets. So, we decided to make a ham salad recipe from one of her Tea Time issues which we spread on bagette slices...
Image: mostly these kind of look like mayonaise-covered dog food? But they were insanely deliciously and curry-flavored.
For me, the real star of the show, however, were the raspberry filled tartlets. In comparison to a lot of the very picky and time-consuming recipes I have made for our various teas over the years, the tarlets (and the ham salad, honestly,) were shockingly easy. Like, the the biggest thing to making the tarlets look good? Owning a tartlet pan. Which, OF COURSE, we do.
Image: Raspberry tartlets on top, lemon poppy seed pound cake on the bottom tray.
I just ate the very last leftover of the tartlets this morning. They're such an oddly enchanting "mouth feel" because the bottom is philo and the top is more like a soft muffin. In-between is a generous spoonful of raspberry jam. So they're kind of "springy" and chewy on your teeth? It's odd, but, as I can personally attest, weirdly addictive.
Surprisingly easy to make given how fancy they look, too.
Yeah, so, this is how we're surviving the state capture of the United States by a criminally dangerous South African immigrant that I would sincerely like to see rounded up and deported. If we could just send him to Guantanamo instead, I dunno, innocent children that would be fantastic. Weird how no one has thought to send ICE agents into the Treasury Office. That would have been my first phone call.
My next would be to a nice, young Italian man....
But, I digress.
In other news, I been running some absoluely soul-rejuvinating TTRPGs. Last night, my Thirsty Sword Lesbians solved an interdimensional-dimensional rift and a yakuza turf war with a bit of flirting and some donuts. Ah... I mean, my shoulders just dropped two notches TYPING that. Last night, I was just grinning happily for a couple of hours post-game.
Last Saturday, my Dungeon & Dragons party rescued a dozen Dwarven miners from an as of yet unmet Infernal foe. A little less universally satisfying, but on its way, and to be fair, we had a thrilling marketplace heist pulled of by none-other-than our party's PALADIN. I am still laughing about that. Good times.
So, we take it all one day at a time.
How are you doing?
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Date: 2025-02-05 07:45 pm (UTC)i think that last night was the first session where we really had the hang of some of the mechanics of TSL, namely, fights. as you know, i do not relish fights in other rpgs, but suddenly, it just made sense to have a fight. and i also don't flirt in other rpgs but as i've said, sometimes you just need to lick the cream out of the middle of a donut. it was so much fun!
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Date: 2025-02-05 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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