oh fucking christ the new comment pages are hideous

fuck you, lj.

I'm only answering this to be in the running. what? $50 Amazon dollars would make my holiday so much easier.

okay for reals though we do Christmas in a sort of odd, non-secular kind of way. Go to pagan mother-in-law's with atheist husband, Satanist brother-in-law & atheist sister-in-law, then spend Boxing Day with militant atheist parents.

and sometimes my mom does Chanukah. Maybe this year I'll upgrade her menorah because the one she has is old and kinda dinky. Is that a thing? menorah upgrading?

This'll be a two-parter...the prep post & the shower post.

So prep post!

We made Rainbow Cheesecake and it was SO GOOD. I had a lot of fun making it and taking photos (and running them through photoshop)

I found the recipe for the cheesecake awhile ago and I will not link you to it because the recipe said to toss out half the red velvet cake, which is like a big HELL NO to me. Plus it insinuated that a white cake with red food dye added is the same thing as a red velvet cake. IT IS NOT

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At some point, we came into two large tubs of manga. We don't really have the space or interest (they're just collecting dust in my parents' basement) so why not offer them up for trade or to sell?

COMPLETE SERIES ARE FOR SALE.

This is the list of the titles I found that have more than one volume. I'll make a misc post later.

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They're in gently used condition. Whoever had them wrote their initials on some of the books and a few are slightly bent from being in a box, but they're all intact, with no ripped pages or tears.

We're trying to make a small profit out of this, to add to our savings or emergency funds. We need to get rid of stuff and the easiest thing to get rid of first is all this manga.

Thanks for your time, guys!

Scott & I made some awesome pasta sauce yesterday. It's a combination of my dad's, one from the internet, and a bit of our own meddling. I'll put the recipe up if you want. And yes, I'm not very good at coming up with names for things.

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I forgot how much I like doing websites. It's a bit of trial & error right now since I'm so rusty at Dreamweaver, but I'm just trying to flush out a solid design for our wedding page. Cheesy, but hey, it's the 21st century!

Oooh. Almost forgot! We set a date: Aug 7th, 2010. Yay!

Dude. The new Depeche Mode video is creepy as all fuck.



Seriously. Just watch it.

D:

In other news, life is sucking big time. I have to make a huge decision I was unable to make earlier (which landed me in this mess in the first place) and I don't know what the hell to do. I'm drowning.