> On Jul 15, 6:51 pm, "Laurie G."
winternet.com> wrote:>> E. Liddell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:50:32 -0700, spam wrote:
>>>> On Jul 14, 10:09 am, "E. Liddell" wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:04:00 -0700, spam wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 13, 8:06 am, "E. Liddell"
>>>>>> wrote:
>
>
>>>>>> Incidentally, I just learned how to make fudge last Christmas. Easy
>>>>>> (the recipe I used, anyway), though messy. And there is never enough.
>>>>>> *nods nods*
>>>>> The stuff's just about solid sugar, though, isn't it? Bad
>>>>> enough that I make and consume quantities of home-made ice cream at
>>>>> irregular intervals--I hate to think what regular access to fudge would
>>>>> do to me.
>>>> In a way, the solid sugar is the saving grace... sure it's lovely, but
>>>> you risk severe burns making it. :P (Hot sugar is *nasty*).
>>> Yeah, I remember what happened with that one lot of hot fudge sauce (not
>>> quite solid sugar, but still nasty enough).
>>>> So it
>>>> dissuades you from making it too often.
>> Wow. My recipe involves chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk.
>> It's never been as hazardous as what you're describing.
>
> The only thing really hazardous about it is that I am clumsy and have
> a poor attention span, and will do stupid stuff like, "Ooh, I can lick
> the spoon!" when licking the spoon right out of a pot of fudge is a
> bad idea.
Erm, yeah. Bad idea.
>
> The recipe I use is on the back of a marshmallow fluff jar (I asked my
> grandmother for her coveted recipe and turns out that's what it was)--
> IIRC, chocolate chips, condensed milk, fluff, and sugar.
This sounds like what my grandmother used to make. I got my current
recipe from my mom, who I think got it from a sweetened condensed milk
label.
>
> It's easy, but I'll still manage to spill the hot sweet stuff on me.
>
>>>>>>> E. Liddell, and her chapter-and-a-half of potential novel.
>>>>>> Oooh! Yay for writing.
>>>>> It would help if I ever got anywhere with it. Fan fiction I seem to be
>>>>> able to finish, but my original work always peters out (unless it's
>>>>> short, bizarre yaoi erotica).
>>>> Hey, there's a place for that too. ^^
>>> Which grows smaller as the work grows more bizarre. I wish I could figure
>>> out why my Muse loves weird bondage scenarios so much. Is he trying to
>>> tell me I'm repressed?
>> Maybe it's nothing about you but entirely about him.
>
> My muse is Terpsichore, because the muses associated with writing and
> poetry were too busy to bother with me. So I tend to want to get up
> and boogie when I have an idea for a story.
It always annoyed me that there was never a Muse of painting. Maybe the
ancient Greeks considered painting as "craft", not as "art"? *fooey*
>
>> I have been finding energy and interest for working on my fanfics from a
>> very unexpected direction. I just got a new machine, which has Vista,
>> Office 2007 and a different directory structure than the old machine.
>> The directory difference is purely a quirk of my own, not the fault of
>> the PC. Which ends up meaning I've been having to open up every one of
>> my unfinished pieces and make sure they're structurally sound. After
>> which I begin re-reading them. After which, I begin working on them.
>> This is just accelerating since I finished the last novels being read
>> and took them back to the library.
>
> I briefly found similar inspiration when I just wanted clean off my
> hard drive of old stuff and was opening things to remember what they
> were.
Oh yeah. "What does *this* file name possibly mean?"
>
>>>> I did finally finish that R.O.D fic I was working on awhile ago. If more
>>>> of my beta readers would get back to me, that would be good. *wonders if
>>>> Milo is reading and if she would want to look at it again, now that it's
>>>> finished*
>
> A bunch of people at the livejournal read or die community volunteered
> to beta but were antsy about giving me their email address, so I have
> it handily uploaded at my Website for you to download at your leisure:
>
>
http://www.angelfire.com/id/deathquaker/rod/beta.html
>
Got it! Thanks. We'll see what happens when I have something to send
back to you. This new machine has Office 2007, but I'm sure we can find
the compatible file format if you don't have Vista yet.
>
>>> (I'm currently in the middle of experimenting with the current season's
>>> new anime offerings. Finally, another season of Slayers!)
>
> Yes! I am excited about that. Of course, the old question rears its
> head: will Amelia and Naga ever appear on screen at the same time? :)
>
I think these episodes have arrived at our house, but we've been
watching through "Kamichu" (a very cute story) and there's another disk
of "Bleach" to see. Then maybe new season "Slayers".
And before I forget: I think in an earlier post you mentioned that you
now had Utena characters for Sims 2? I really want to see the pics!
And any Sims 2 you've done for R.O.D. too. Do you find it more
difficult to create customized characters in Sims 2? I haven't gotten
the game yet, although now that I'm passing through my upgrade travails,
it may be time.
Laurie
