So, It’s been a while

Hi.

It’s been a while since we last spoke, hasn’t it? It’s my fault, really. I’ve not been writing like I should, and I’ve been calling in to question my devotion to be a writer.

Don’t worry, the blog isn’t ending. I’m just having an emo moment or two. As you read this, I’m probably landing in LaGuardia (if my flight hasn’t been delayed) since I’ll be in Staten Island for a wedding this weekend. Go me.

I can’t say for certain when I’ll be updating again. I do have stuff written, but it’s nothing I would post here. I hate the way I write NSFW scenes, and all of it is NSWF. Perhaps I’ll fix that one day, but I am FAR too shy to try.

Again, I’m sorry I haven’t been posting, but I figured I owed you guys and gals an update.

Thanks for reading. Maybe my confidence will come back soon.

Erratic posting

Hey everyone!

There’s a few things going on that have started to interfere with my schedule. We’re apartment hunting, the roommate is graduating soon, and we might have a second roommate join us soon. So that posting schedule I had has gone out the window. Updates are going to be sporadic for the next few weeks, possibly more. I’ll see if I can have something up  by Friday, but I make no promises.

Sorry for the late notice. I’m usually more active on twitter or tumblr since they don’t require much effort.

Recipie Monday: Squash Casserole

Alternatively titled: I didn’t write anything over the weekend, so have a copy of my lunch for the next few days.

I’m pretending you don’t know how to cook, so work with me here.

What you will need:

• 3-5 large-ish yellow squash
• 1 onion
• salt
• pepper
• 2 packages of shredded mild cheddar cheese (~4 cups if you want to shred your own, cause you have a dairy farm for that reason.)
• Large pan (fit for baking)
• Steamer basket
• Italian Bread crumbs
• A sharp knife

How it goes:

1. Clean squash by running hot water over them
2. Cut all the squash into even-ish pieces, removing the ends from both…ends; I cut round pieces, you can cut however you want. (I don’t judge.)
3. Place all squashy bits in the steamer basket.
4. Remove flaky bits off the onion and toss em away.
5. CUT THE ENDS OFF THE ONION FROM UNDER RUNNING WATER, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. THIS WILL PREVENT YOU FROM CRYING, I’M SAVING YOU FROM THE PAIN.
6. DON’T TURN THE WATER OFF, YOU’RE NOT DONE.
7. Slice the onion in half UNDER THE WATER.
8. Now you can turn the water off.
9. Slice your onion halves into tinier bits and place them in the steamer basket.

• Note: if not all of the squash or onions fit into the basket, you can steam a second batch separately.

10. Steam the veggies until you can see the steam escaping from underneath the lid.

• If you needed to steam a second batch, this would be the time to steam it now.

11. Pre-heat oven to 350. We probably should have done that first, but fuck the rules.
12. Dump the steamed squashy bits and tiny onion slices into your large pan.
13. Season with salt and pepper (to taste)
14. Add package of cheese, mix generously.

• If you needed to steam a second batch, add only half the package. Add the other half when the veggies are done and mix again

15. Mix in some of the bread crumbs while you’re at it. (~1/4 of a cup? I dunno, I eyeballed it.) The squash should look beaten all to hell at this point, which is a good thing.
16. Once throughly mixed, open the second package of cheese and add all of it on top.
17. I SAID ALL OF IT. DON’T YOU SKIMP OUT ON ANYTHING.
18. All added? Are you sure? Maybe you should check…
19. Okay, it’s all been added.
20. BREAD CRUMB LAYER TIME.
21. Once the oven indicates that it’s ready, BAKE IT. About 20 minutes should do it, or until the top is a golden brown color. Unless it’s my oven, in which case it’ll NEVER be ready.
22. EAT IT. (after it’s cool, of course.)

Om nom nom nom, it’s very delicious, I promise. You can use Vegan cheese in place of actual cheese, but vegan cheese does not like to melt properly, or at least the one time I tried it didn’t.

Enjoy, you crazy kids.

Continuing adventures in Mexico!

This is probably the last we’ll see of Anya’s adventures in Mexico.

At least on the mainland. No body said anything about the COAST.

Monday is Meeting day

Monday is always the day that everyone in the office gets together to discuss what happened over the weekend. Someone’s gone out of town, someone had a major bender with their friends, and Anya gets held hostage inside a whole country.

Anya wins the “worst weekend ever” award.

Something something something Mexico

I couldn’t think of anything witty for today’s title. This sprint ties back to this one posted on Monday, and this one posted on Wednesday.

We’ll get to the good stuff next week, I promise.

Payday isn’t always a Friday

Sometimes payday falls on a Tuesday, or a Wednesday, or when you’re done getting blackmailed into doing things that you don’t really want to do, but have nothing better to do so you might as well.

Guess which one is for Anya?

Side note: my Character Hub has been updated to reflect new characters and changes in the current line up. Hopefully more characters will be added soon!

Pay back for Mexico

So after what felt like a dearth of ideas, I now have several new ones flowing in. And they involve Mexico.

I guess my characters were mad they didn’t get to go, so now they’re going. Or at least two of them are. Be on the look out for that some time soon.

(hint hint: it’s the adventurous ones that are going.)

Also, this sprint continues from the one from Friday/Saturday.

Party Rockers in the House Tonight

Yes, I am hopping on that train, despite the fact that it derailed a long time ago.

Back story on this sprint: Anya, fresh from her break up with Shahin (spoiler alert) and the end of her apprenticeship, goes to spend a few months with her mother, rather than returning straight to Falcon’s Landing. And we learn Vriss’s first name.

Also, my bad for posting this late. I was distracted by The Hobbit movie after work.

1, 2, 3 go!

A bit of a dilemma

I find myself in a bit of a quandary, which is why there was no post on Monday. It’s not the lack of ideas, but rather what feels like a lack of originality on my part.

I feel as if the stories that I come up with are all eventually turning in the same direction, with the same ending, and its a cut and paste protagonist from a different story. I think I just need a refresher; do a sprint using a prompt rather than an idea straight from my head.

Or maybe talking it out helps. And by talking, I mean spilling my soul/troubles on you guys & gals. I think that’s the best form of therapy sometimes.

Sorry its a short post today, but this took forever to write. (At least an hour! That’s ridiculous!) I kept wandering away to do other things that I shouldn’t be doing. Like looking at tumblr; god damn you tumblr, you are so distracting. Expect a better post on Friday.

Thanks for listening, and thanks for sticking with me.