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chrisleeoctaves tagged me.

I'd sell my soul to someone who:

1. is Julie Andrews. She's one of the only stars I worship in a reverent fangirly way. Key word being reverent. DB, et al, I just want to lick things of off.

2. loves. Loves things, people, fandom, pets, and activities with abandon and fervor and without compunction, and expresses it frequently at the risk of being embarrassed or hurt.

3. writes fic really heavy with metaphor, theme, motifs, and freakishly fractal type mind-boggling insights that connect all the characters. Other fic gets me, too, but this is a special kink.

4. can respect and often love other characters and 'ships besides the ones they're most interested in, and write about them with not only respect, but insight. Also, can debate why they feel the way they do without turning ugly.

5. is Rachel Ray. I just made turkey meatloaf wrapped in bacon. Yum-O!

6. is self-employed and sexually harrasses herself at work. Oh, baby.

7. tags me for a meme. Am I a spazz for liking it? It just makes me feel like someone is interested in me, you know? Plus, it gives me reasons to make pointless posts I normally restrain myself from making.

8. is as easy as I am, and had so many things they'd give it up for they had to do 5+n reasons.

9. is

a2zmom. Hi! I'm tagging you.

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I'm so hopeless at cooking. Or maybe it's just that my kids don't want to eat anything. My life is pretty rushed right now, so when my friend D told me that Rachel Ray had all these "30-minute" recipes, I thought I'd give her new cookbook a try. Keep in mind the above sentence, "hopeless at cooking", OK? Anyway, I tried a few recipes from there. First of all, they take me at least an hour, usually more. Secondly my kids won't eat anything I've tried. Thirdly, my husband pronounces them "bland." I have to agree with him on the ones I've tried so far. Maybe it's because the ones I've tried have been selected with an eye to hoping that they would appeal to the kids. Ha! What a stupid idea on my part.

Right now I'm in the frame of mind that cooking is my least favorite part of the day. The kids only want to eat pizza and Annie's shells (mac-and-cheese). Maybe tacos, on a good day. I should just cook those three things in rotation.

*throws up hands in despair*

I love Julie Andrews too. Victor/Victoria is one of my favorite movies. Should I be embarrassed for loving that one more than Sound of Music? I think it's hilarious.

My mom is a fabulous cook. Everyone always talks about how wonderful her cooking is. But when we were little, we wouldn't eat anything she made. We were happiest when she made pancakes or hotdogs, and it was best of all when she just ordered pizza. Kids are picky little boogers.

Most of her meals take me 45 min to and hour. And she doesn't account for shopping and clean up time. What I tend to do is surf through for the main dish recipes that look easiest--the ones where I actually BELIEVE it'll only take 30 min--and make one of those, then for the side I'll just do something like plain old broccoli. Doing her whole meals usually just take too long.

A few of her things that I've tried have been bland, but most have been really really delicious. Maybe I'll do a post on it and share the recipes that've worked for me. I love cooking. I suck at it, really, but I perservere.

Victor/Victoria is awesome. I can't watch the scene with the cockroach, though. I love how Julie looks in a suit with her hair slicked back. I just like Sound of Music better because I'm such a sap. Oh, and a young Christopher Plummer is hot stuff.

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