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Last night, I had a dream about doing music again, and sneaking around where people from high school stared at me but didn't quite recognise me, and then the Jedi said it was okay to do so.

It was a very strange dream, and I proceeded to wake Simon up and tell him about it. He stared at me blearily and asked, quite reasonably, if there was a good reason I thought Obi-Wan Kenobi was okaying me sneaking around for the purpose of visiting Simon.

*shrugs* My subconscious is weird.

Anyway. I have NO IDEA what I'm doing arsing around on LJ, because I have a horrific amount to do. I am the last one out of the house, but I will be the first one in, so I need to hoover all the carpets, take all the bins out, clean through the kitchen and get rid of any perishables, pack all my stuff, sort out what I need to take home and swap over (new books) and what I need to take home full-stop because I won't have space at summer in the car and OH THE STRESS. Plus I have to take two people's stuff home, because Simon decamped here straight from university so my room is a little bit cluttered as it is.

Oh, and I rather foolishly decided that the best food for tonight would be lasagne. It takes me bloody hours to make that! *flails* Busy, busy... oh, and I'm not dressed or showered yet.

Yay.

The thing is, I've spent this week catching up on my sleeping, and my decadent eating and cooking, and my tendancy to do nothing but read with my spare time, and more importantly, my DVD time. We've re-watched all of Firefly except for Heart of Gold and Objects in Space and more importantly Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit turned up from amazon.co.uk's DVD rental thingie yesterday. OHMYGODSOGOOD. Actually hurt with the laughing once or twice, but nothing I can quote because it was all visual humour. If you've seen it, you know what I mean with the whole "Give over!" bit. Plus, it's all with Northern accents and that always makes me giggle for a film that won an Oscar.

Anyhoo. Go and see it. It is brilliance. And the best film I have ever seen about rabbits, and yes, it includes Bright Eyes.

That is all I have to say. Simon has finally departed the shower (it is wrong that it takes me fifteen minutes to shower on a bad day and it takes him forty-five minutes on a good day) so I can go and shower and Begin My Long And Arduous Day. Yay!

~Hathy_Col~

Date: 2006-03-31 02:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kelemvor.livejournal.com
"Heart of Gold" is one of my favourite eps of Firefly, and features Lady Heather from a few eps of CSI!

Also, men tend to take longer in the shower - I have noticed this. (In my defence, I usually shave there.)

Date: 2006-03-31 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonlady7.livejournal.com
Lasagne timesave:
Don't cook noodles: layer with extra sauce, bake covered (aluminum foil if you don't have a pan lid) for first 40 minutes, remove cover and cook 15 more minutes, then put cover back on and let sit 15 minutes after removing from oven.
I've actually never precooked the lasagne noodles, and it turns out fine every time. It really saves a lot of time. Only downer's that you have to break the noodles to get them to fit in the pan.

Curse of the Were Rabbit was so funny.

Date: 2006-03-31 09:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hathy-col.livejournal.com
... you use noodles?

I use lasagne sheets, and never pre-cook them. I think American lasagne and British lasagne are different things - the American girl who lived wih us for a while was horrified at the way I made lasange. Basically, it's a bolognese mix, a layer of lasagne sheets and cheese sauce and then all over again, topped with grated cheese.

Noodles are... something different...

Date: 2006-03-31 09:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonlady7.livejournal.com
Are lasagne sheets made of pasta?

Date: 2006-04-01 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hathy-col.livejournal.com
That they are. They make a lovely layer of pasta in the lasagne itself, they are most fab.

Date: 2006-04-02 12:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonlady7.livejournal.com
Then they're the same thing. "Lasagne sheets" = "lasagna noodles". They're broad, flat noodles.

Date: 2006-04-02 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hathy-col.livejournal.com
Ah. I always assume that noodles and pasta have different tastes, possibly because I very rarely eat noodles and when I do they come in a Chinese take-away. I was very confused...

Date: 2006-04-03 04:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonlady7.livejournal.com
Ah. Noodles in American = either pasta of any kind, or Asian "pasta"-like subtances, i.e. rice noodles. Usually the descriptor that tells you what they actually are is appended to the front: egg noodles, lasagna noodles, etc. "Noodles" implies a long shape, but not necessarily.

I had never noticed before now how ridiculously comical the word "noodles" is.

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