Bunny Lair

I'm in experimental recipe mood today! Breakfast came out well, in as much as it was just a hardboiled egg, mashed up with mayonnaise and mustard and a chopped green onion for faux egg salad, spread over a dinner roll, with a side of cottage cheese (dear self - 1% store brand cottage cheese tastes like ASS. v_v)

The real experiment is going to be what I'm cooking for lunches next week. Here's the recipe so far, as it's been popped into the crock pot:

1 lb. boneless chicken, chopped up into bite sized pieces
1 bag coleslaw shredded cabbage (which has shredded carrots in it too... eh, whatever)
1/2 cup cooking white wine
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 shot sweet tea vodka
3 Tbsp butter
dark brown sugar
salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder

In a small (2quart?) crockpot:

brown the chicken in a few tablespoons of oil. layer half the bag of cabbage on the bottom. Cover with chicken pieces. sprinkle chicken with spices. If you still have room, add more cabbage to the top of the pot. Top with cut up chunks of butter (mine was frozen) and a layer of brown sugar (I'm not sure how much - not too thick, just sort of loosely covered. maybe 1/4 cup loosely packed?) Mix the wine, lemon juice and vodka - pour over everything. Cover and set on low and walk away.

I'll go back later to stir it and see what needs adding for flavor. I'm anticipating a sort of sweet and sour and alcoholic lemon chicken. Maybe. We'll see! This is experimental, after all! More reports later, when I know what it's doing.

Edit #1 - ahhahaha, I forgot how much cabbage cooks down! Added the rest of the bag of cabbage in after stirring it around, as there was room. Plenty of sauce forming at the bottom. Sauce is surprisingly sweet&sour TASTY. Yay!

Edit #2 - mostly successful! The sweet vs sour wasn't blending very well - taking a bite was OMGSWEET! followed by OMGSOUR! aftertaste. No middle ground. So I dredged all of the chicken and cabbage out of the pot, poured the sauce into a pan on the stove, added in about a teaspoon of ground ginger and a dash of cinnamon and a glug (yes, that's my technical term =P) of thai sweet-chili sauce, whisked it all around, added some corn starch to thicken it up, and tada! Not really "lemon", per se, but a decent sweet and sour oriental sauce that I poured over the chicken and cabbage and put the whole mess over rice. Works for me. ^_^

Dear god, it's almost December! Where did the year GO??? x_x But 'la! The wishlist meme is going around the flist again, and I've got a few people pegged with "things I can maybe do", so I guess I should post mine.

1) Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 unlimited holiday wishes.

2) Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list.

( Some of my favorite things... )

12 hours of work yesterday.

5-ish hours of really intermittent broken up sleep.

Currently on hour 7 of today's work day, have only just remembered that perhaps I should make myself eat something, and have so far done 3 (rather nice if I do say so myself) impromptu design jobs and attended a printing consultation meeting in lieu of my boss.

[wry] None of which, you may note, is included in my job description. =P

I am currently in that state of fatigue where I should not be operating heavy machinery. I keep losing little bits of time every time I close my eyes (very SPN special effect stop/start/flash sort of sensation) and there's occasionally bright strobe lights (like cop car flashers) blinking in the corner of my vision. The world is moving while I'm (attempting) to stand still. I'm continuing to keep myself moving mostly via momentum.

I have some sort of vague hope that a bowl of chili might improve this scenario. x_x

Dear Limo Shuttle Service driver: newsflash, sir. The laws of physics. They still work. So do the laws of reality. And you know what? Two large, solid objects STILL can't occupy the same space at the same time. Given that was a three lane turn at that light and the bus I was on was certainly in its right lane, I'm not exactly sure WhereTF you thought you were going when you decided that you needed to switch from the middle lane into ours. And right into the side of the bus. And yeah, thanks for that, because there's nothing to wake a body up out of a light doze like being thrown around and all of the windows on that side busting out as you crash right into a VERY LARGE AND NOTICEABLE BUS. v_v

(everyone was fine. Busdriver was terribly rattled, but okay except for the adrenaline rush. shuttle driver = stupider than a rock. Seriously. WTF. You don't change lanes in the middle of a turn, and particularly not when there's a nice big bus next to you. Where the hell did he think he was GOING??)

woke up with a mini migraine (the type where you can't move without somebody shoving icepicks through your head). decided that since i have nearly half a day of overtime racked up for the week and some sick hours left, the two could be combined and i called in sick. crawled back into bed where head movement was not required, buried self under mountain of blankets, and that was three hours ago. my eyes feel only slightly scoured right now (i can open them!) and getting up to find food doesn't sound completely outside the realm of possibility. mrph. v_v

Why does getting 8 hours of sleep make me MORE tired than getting 5-6 hours does? UGH. Already had tea, may have to progress on to coffee. Just can NOT wake up. x____x

in other news... there is no news. Writing on the commute is getting me nano wordcount. mango is slipping, i'm not even a very on-top-of-it mod or cheerleader. i won 3rd place in the brigit's flame mini contest for october! i get banner graphics for the story as a prize. yaaaay! um. english class continues to be made of fail (late grades. missing grades. #$%!@ multi-choice quizzes that we don't have review or study for and which are dubious in their correctness (no, REALLY. it's proven fact from other classes that the online system sometimes has wrong answers coded into its tests and will mark you off for putting the right one in. v_v) at this rate my perfect 4.0 is going to be busted up by ENGLISH class and really, this is just a heaping ton of insult to injury. i am not amused.) the headache of cat herding in page layout class paid off with an A. having everything on my desk at work swapped out for 'ergonomically correct' things is actually sort of sucktastic as my body is going 'whut? no, rly, WHUT?' at it all and nothing feels right. =P but in the good news work is going to give the copy center more heaters, so that we don't have the "rose is a frozen popsicle" thing going on all winter like we did last year. .....and that's all the news i can think of right now. hi? i'm kinda boring. =P

brain is having a severe case of disconnect with "go cold turkey on internet" versus "come back and jump in whole hog". combined with social interaction overload via con, this makes for a very hermiting rose. (ps, I don't really do con reports, so don't expect one. I'll just say that girl genius radio theater is awesome and leave it at that.)

also, i really object to this whole "wednesday is the new monday" thing. ugh. also? group projects in class. double ugh.

going to go be surly with a cup of coffee now, thanks.

( Stupid bus. )

Caught up on SG:U. ( Kinda spoilers? Rush:McKay:Jackson comparison. )

( bit of griping and profanity )

In translation, the back doors of the bus, which have to be pushed open and automatically close, snapped back on me when I was trying to get off the bus behind the person in front of me. Normally people are nice about holding the door for the next person to grab, but in this case no, and it snapped back and did a good number of whaling on my right thumb which has a lovely lumpy knot on it right now that may or may not bruise (I tend to be hard to bruise when it's painful and stupidly easy to bruise for little things). I'm going to go put ice on it but I'm so damned NOT amused at the universe right now that it's not even funny.

So, awhile back I commissioned hopeofdawn to draw a tattoo design for me, because I *LOVE* the way she does positive negative space for black ink work and she does fabulous foxes and I figured cheetahs aren't SO different from foxes, right? ^___^

She really outdid herself. Eeeeeeeeee!

The plan is to get it inked on my right arm, from shoulder and just above elbow. I'm sure my future tattoo artist is going to hate me for all those spots, but they're so cute! In that slinky feline sort of way. I love them!