Evilsciencechick’s

Still enjoying a nice, relaxing christmas. Today Kev and I went with my parents to the Carnegie Museum to see the Bog people exhibit.
yep. Bog people. People and things thrown into bogs in Europe and preserved for a few thousand years. To be honest, the exhibit was a little heavy on […]

Christmas eve:

sleep in
crab dip
seafood dinner
Narnia*
crab dip
church
crab dip

*wherein we learn that all British people, even small children are born with innate skills in handling achaic weaponry and talents in leading armies into battle and winning said battle. Well done, British people!
Christmas

wake up my brother
wake him up again
is my brother up yet?
open presents
very late breakfast
crab dip
open […]

talking with my parents about the son of my father’s cousin (my….3rd cousin?)
Mom: well, all while he was growing up, if you talked to his mother, she ALWAYS said he was going to be a doctor. Oh yes…a DOCTOR.
us: *laugh*
Mom: then he was going into mortuary science. we even ran into them in […]

clicky here for music
I know that the NYC transit workers are going back to work, but I thought I’d remind everyone that they aren’t the ONLY ones who are unsatisfied with their work this time of year.

Elf’s lament
I’m a man of reason, and they say “’tis the season to be jolly”
But it’s folly when you […]

wrapped all gifts but one - my father’s. His scarf is drying, pinned down to remove the annoying curl.
“and presents under…the treeeeee” Clicky to see what they are.

Dad’s scarf, blocking.

All baking is finished. I even finally finished the truffles - scraped the refrigerated ganache and rolled it into balls, then roll into cocoa […]

Really, I am too busy to blog. WAY to busy.
yep.
shouldn’t be blogging.
at all.
nope.
also, while I have a few ideas rattling around up there (”conversations with Jeeeeesus about the war on christmas,” “our post-docs bizzare party experience,” “more damn pictures of stuff I’m knitting and baking,” etc, etc), none of them want to come out […]

…in leiu of actual “content.”
So I did not spend the entire weekend staring at my ring, mesmirized. I wanted to, though.
oooooo…prettttyyyyy…riiiiiing……
I did much running around and getting things done that were not so important, considering Christmas is HOLY SHIT…IN 6 DAYS!
I am so not ready.
So here are some pics of things I did.
make macaroons!

Macaroons […]

Yeah it was fun!
Way too much food. And some “holiday cheer” in a bottle…brought by me. I made some cranberry vodka, most of which I’m taking home for celebrating with my family, but I brought a sample big enough for everyone to share.
mmm…dangerously good…
the gifts were HYSTERICAL! and of COURSE […]

the only reason I am at work right now is that our lab’s christmas party is tonight, and it will be kick-ass. I am SO FRIGGIN’ TIRED!
And I left work EARLY yesterday! Not to goof around, though.
For the party, we always do a white elephant gift exchange. If you are not familiar […]

I love the smell of transaction in the afternoon. I just sold two sets of stitch markers to MoeThatsMe. Everyone go over there and thank her for supporting my addictive yarn habit. mmmmm…yaaaaarn. You are all jealous, and now want a set. But for the time being TOO BAD…I won’t […]

I should post this on my recipe site, but I’m too lazy to try to figure out amounts. This morning, I mixed chicken broth, soy sauce, lime and orange juices, ketchup, garlic, ginger, and brown sugar, and poured it all over chicken legs in the crock pot and let it cook all day.
OH MY […]

Everyone stop what they are doing and read this.
Now.
It’s an article about teaching evolution for anyone, no matter WHAT your background. And how to remove the “threat” aspect of it that so many people feel is there.
But this is at the college level. We need to do this for kids. For middle […]

another day, another big batch of cookies. I looooooooove the neiman marcus urban legend cookies. Surely you got that email 8 years ago. you know the one, with the man/woman who ate a meal at neiman marcus department store, and loved the cookies so much that he/she asked for the recipe, and […]

mondays. bleah.
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sweet Jane St. Clair
We have a grad student doing a rotation in our lab who’s very sweet, and her name is Jane. Now I can’t get that damned song out of my head every time I say her name.
Jaaaaaaaaaaaaane, divided, but I can’t decide what side I’m on
Jaaaaaaaaaaaaane decided only cowards stay, […]

Woke up early this morning to get to church before the choir all had to be there, so I could warm up on my trombone. Amazingly, I had some extra time to have some breakfast before I left, so I decided to pour myself a bowl of…
ANTS!!!!!
Fuck. Spent my extra time throwing away […]

Busy busy busy busy day.
10am - dress rehearsal for our choir service of music. still putting my trombone skills to good use - I haven’t embarassed myself, at least.
12:15pm - on a tip from a woman at curves, I find a store called Amtrec. It’s a warehouse - you know all those catalogs […]

I am at the tail end (literally) of my underwear laundry cycle. Kev did a load of my delicates for me last night (isn’t he a sweetie) but they weren’t dry by this morning.
result: I am wearing a purple satin g-string under my jeans.
hope everyone is having THAT good a friday!
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UPDATE: oh my […]

Good lord, I have a wedding checklist already.
wedding dress - check! Aimee is making it for me! HOW AWESOME IS SHE????
maid of honor - check! talked with my best friend Jenni last night until after 1am. even though I don’t have a date yet, she said she would be my MoH. […]

So the ring has been selected and ordered! It will arrive by the 17th.
Yes, Kev described it to me.
No, I’m not sharing those details with you. You will just have to wait for pictures. Why? ’cause I’m mean like that, that’s why.
I am also super emotional. Good lord, the past […]

“So ESC! Now that you’re engaged, do you feel any different?”
ummm…no. Sorry. I do have a smidge too tight wedding band looking ring on my finger. but…that’s about it.
Soooo…well….ummmm…
how about some pictures? Everyone loves pictures!!!

My tree! It’s small…but well dressed.and here’s Sadie watching me decorate…

this is her […]

I worked later today that I wanted. My brother called me - he remembered my birthday! So that kind of threw me off schedule. I berated him for not checking his email - I sent him ideas for my tattoo MONTHS ago. I re-sent them, and he said he’d work on […]

oh yeah, it IS my birthday. and don’t call me Shortie.
Sooo…this is the first day of that last year of my 20s. Not that my 20s were anything to get all woohoo about - I’ve spent most..I mean ALL of them in school. Thank you, grad school, for sucking away the best […]

Stop me before I shop again!
So yesterday in the mail I got the lane bryant discount card. Great - I just SPENT almost $100 there last week on my christmas ensemble. So…it was BACK to the mall today. Return and REbuy, dammit!
Ended up being a sweet deal, because it turns out […]

…when we go shopping!
(bonus points for whoever knows the reference)
But before I get to the shopping orgy and knitting pics…A FUNNY STORY!
yesterday Kev helped out some friends of mine who are renting out their condo until they can sell it. The faucet in the condo was leaking, and Kev is MUCH cheaper than a […]

Later tonight I’ll post pictures of yarn and complete projects, which I assume will be boring for most of you.
Wish I had some exciting sex romp story for you, but Kev’s been feeling a little under the weather this week. He says he feels better today, so I’m hopeful for tonight.
Also added fun tonight: […]

an announcement:
If you take a doozy of a shit in the restroom, please, as a courtesy, after flushing: do a quick turd-check. some of us don’t like to see the MONSTER TURD stuck halfway because you were in too much of a hurry.
and HOLY JESUS, HOW BIG IS YOUR COLON? I’m going to […]