Today I suffered a massive nostalgia blast. So I am scheming! Scheming!

I really would like to do something nostalgic for the 10th year anniversary of XenogearsMUCK. Although, er, it's already November, I have a vacation coming up in a couple weeks, and I know a few folks who are crazy busy right now. So this is going to be an 11th year anniversary, I guess.

But! If we have enough people to do something, then we might be able to do something in January or February. And it seems like we may have some interest from most or all of the people who were in the memorial plot.

( THE DEAL )

Oh shoot!

Sirus just pointed out that XenogearsMUCK was founded in early 1999.

So we, like, totally missed the 10 year anniversary.

Aughghghg, now I have to do *something* nostalgic...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

My one goal this break is to write. I don't think I've gotten any meaningful writing done for about two months. And this is *tragic*. I have a silly 4-story novel I've been working on for a while, and I'm on the last part. And even though the last story should really be the easiest to write, I took a little itty-bitty break after finishing #3 which has now drawn out into two months of complete writing ennui.

So! Today and tomorrow! No videogames, no internet, no chatting. Just sitting on my rear and writing. And if it's complete crap, that's fine. I'm just going to spend another year editing it, anyway, so what does it matter?

And, er, I guess I have to go down to the parents' house mid-afternoon today. All the more reason go start writing once I finish this soda.

Hopefully I'll actually get something done~

THESE CINNAMON ROLLS

MAKE THEM

THEY ARE TO DIE FOR

You don't need a bread machine--The first comment has a decent explanation on how to do it by hand. Ignore most of the other comments, because they are all insane--You don't need less cinnamon, and the person who suggested making double the icing has to be a lunatic or something, because one batch of icing made so much that I can barely find my rolls under the tide.

( A few things I learned, though! )

Seriously, they're fantastic. Make them.

Oh no! I bought a full package of bread flour, not realizing that I had a 90% full one still in the cupboard! I'm making cinnamon rolls right now, which is why I bought the stuff in the first place, but now I have to come up with another project. Or three.

Oh well. I only started playing around with the grand world of yeast-risen breads last year. I guess this is a sign that this is the winter I'm going to get good at them. Or eat a lot of bread. Or break my wrists from too much kneading. Either way.

For whatever reason, I've been in one hell of a cooking mood lately. I haven't done any creative writing (outside of RPing) for about two months--Which is horrifying, because I was, until that point, being a very good girl about submitting things to agents--and now I can't bring myself to do anything at all. No writing. None.

No translating, either. My poor translation blog lies dormant.

Instead, I'm cooking. Everything. Made cupcakes (I never do cupcakes) and a bunch of meals I've never done before. Made the most fantastic twice baked potatoes last week, and some so-so breaded-sausage patty things, I'm trying a new but easy slow cooker recipe this week, did the homemade pizza thing and tried some new stuff... I'm thinking about baking most of my Christmas gifts this year, and so I'm looking through some awesome looking recipes, while trying to find something for my 100% dairy-and-dairy-derivative-free friend.

I suppose it's good to be productive, but it's not necessarily the normal way I like to be productive.

The weather has been so weird here lately. Right before Halloween we got a foot and a half of snow in a single day--I got a day and a half off of work, which was nice, but it was absolutely insane. Snowed in. In October.

This week, meanwhile, it got back up into the 70s. I guess I'm not complaining, but it's still weird as heck.

Otherwise, it's been quiet. Work isn't trying to murder me anymore, so I've been trying to catch up on games (especially now that I have a TV that my Xbox can connect to again.) I've been totally sapped of any urge to do creative writing lately, but I'm hoping that'll come back soon.

In the meantime: Remilia's Homecoming! Monday! I am stupidly excited to have Remi get to do something again. Got a small crowd together for it (though we'll see how well that pans out), so hopefully it'll be fun~

First off, something sylvri2k found: One of the catchiest Touhou videos I've seen in a while. With tons of beautifully done folks from Remi's game all the way up to Tenshi. It's gorgeous, and I can't stop watching it.

Speaking of Remilia!

Remilia's been in a plot in the Grand Line for nearly 2 months now. It was a lot of fun, but I tend to be a very narrow-minded RPer. While I finished up some old, unfinished scenes, I otherwise tried to be available for plot-related RP more or less exclusively. That's a problem! I've barely chatted with anyone else on Gate for ages.

In the last few weeks, the plot's petered out without finishing. Which is really too bad--there wasn't much left to do, but a combination of unfortunate real life/online events kind of made the bottom drop out. It's not a big deal, it's just disappointing.

So now, while I'm glad to bring Remi back home (and free to RP with everyone/everything again), her Huge Dramatic Homecoming doesn't really have the same punch when Tenshi and I had to construct an elaborate way to cop out of ever talking about how the plot ended. c.c;

Anyway~ Hopefully I can get Remi back in to the swing of things.

Sometimes you just wake up knowing that you're going to have a bad day.

When your cat jumps on you at 4 in the morning and throws up on you, it is one of those days.

SNOW DAY

IN OCTOBER

Jesus, it's not even Halloween yet! And yet 5 friggin inches have fallen since I got in to work. And now I get to drive home. Yes, hurray, going home early is nice, except it's probably going to take me FOREVER to get home, and it's slick and nasty and auggghghhghg

I HATE SNOW

Friggin' nostalgia!

It's really just a vicious circle. I remember something fondly from years past, I go dig it up, and I'm horrified by what I find. Last night was pretty classic: Yesterday Geocities closed down. I have a few copies of old websites I worked on, so I dug 'em up. Old sites I had as a high schooler, mostly--Lots of weird stuff, some RPing things, the original XenoMUCK.

And oh horror of horrors, it was pretty horrible. Not the web design or anything--I don't care about that--I care about the CONTENT. The things I thought were amusing. The things I wrote. My excessive and unnecessary use of emoticons ^o^ in the middle of sentences! ^.^ When they're not needed! \^o^/

And because I'm a masochist, I read some old webpages, and ended up reading some old logs, and augggggghh

aughhhhhhhhhhhhhh

So yeah. Whenever I go down merry old memory lane, I end up wishing I could pretend I never existed before 2006. Why was everything I wrote and did and enjoyed so dumb? c.c