Melodramatic Fool

YES Thanks to paxlux,I can finally see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World :D Plus music and a season of Archer and :D :D :D My weekend is set \o/ Except for having to go out to buy a new entertainment center unit that will allow for our new TV (37" flat upgrading from the 27" ancient picture tube one that was dying) and D&D Sunday but I DON'T CARE \o/ because I have awesomefun things to watch and listen to otherwise :3

ADVENTURE! \o/

(And in other news, let's see if I can make bacon without screwing it up for once tonight.)

Feeling kind of quiet today. :x Sorry for my antisocial hermit-ness.

Have been tagged for that 25-things meme by two people--I promise to do that tomorrow...or later in the week, at least. ^^;

Have managed to screw up baking break-apart cookies. Seriously.

( mini/mifu ficlet )

Of course today would be the day where Dad would call (see point one). And man, can he chatter.

So, anyone remember my cooking fail #3245340989 back awhile ago when I reheated chicken in the oven on an airbake pan (the sort that has holes in the bottom), and nearly set my oven on fire because of the grease/oil pooling on the bottom?

Stupid mistake, but you learn, and life goes on, right? RIGHT?

The other night, I made garlic bread. Margarine all over this bread, in the oven, on the airbake pan with holes in the bottom. I had a momentary thought of, oh hey, maybe I should put foil under these but thought naaah, why would I need to. I had no idea that there was enough margarine that it would seep out of the bread slices (admittedly, a hard-crusty sort). But it did, and thus oil on the bottom of the stove, started to burn and smoke, set off the smoke alarm. So yeah, another stupid, but I guess another one of those learning-stupid sorts of things.

IT GETS BETTER.

After the chicken, I cleaned the bottom of the stove, got all the oil up.

After this garlic bread--I didn't even think to check the oven. Didn't even look. I think I just sort of assumed oh hey, surely there wasn't that much oil there.

Guess what. There was a lot of oil. And it was still there when I went to pre-heat the oven to start cooking dinner a bit ago.

Didn't just smoke, it SMOKED. House was fucking *filled* with smoke. Had to open the front door, patio door, garage door, and get the kitchen ceiling fans on high, and turn on all the box fans to try to blow air toward the open doors. It stinks in here. And now I've got to let the rest burn away (I won't lie--this was probably stupid, too but I have to admit I pulled out oven racks and found a rag I didn't mind trashing, soaked it with hot water, and sopped up the remaining oil best I could.) so I can even attempt to cook, because how awesome will stuff taste when it's seasoned with burning, huh?

But seriously. Why am I so freaking stupid like that? Why do I make so many stupid, brainless mistakes like that. I allegedly have common sense. Now I'm like the 'gifted' kid in the old Far Side cartoon that's shown pushing on the door marked "pull". Good fucking grief. I swear, one of these days I'm going to end up killing us all because I'm a dumbass. : /

http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/index.html#top
Seriously awesome. Already also available as a standalone program for PC, and I'm eagerly awaiting when the Mac version is ready.

And speaking of flames... >_> I may have nearly set my oven on fire yesterday. I was reheating fried chicken from the grocery store deli, and I got the brilliant, *brilliant* idea that I would do so on one of my airbake-type pans to help crisp it up. The airbake pan with holes in it. Let's do the math...pan with holes, chicken that when reheated puts out a fuckton of oil and grease, gas oven...yeah. Filled the kitchen with a massive amount of smoke, and I have no idea how it didn't set my smoke alarms off. Awesome. I'm such an idiot. (And today I'm trying to 409 off the bottom of the oven over and over, so it's safe to run the self-clean cycle. At least I had the brains not to just go for the self-clean cycle right off, or I think there truly would have been fire involved.)

Off to James' D&D game today. Still wishing I could somehow switch my cleric out for a barbarian... >_>;

Got a wild hair in my further quest to feel not so useless, and decided to make gingersnaps from scratch. Naturally they didn't turn out exactly like gingersnaps, since I had to do substitutions--I don't keep molasses on hand, but read you can use honey instead; and once again I forgot I didn't have ground cloves, so instead of ground cinnamon/ground cloves for the spices to go with the ginger, I used pumpkin pie spice (which is cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, allspice and mace). Also I didn't have quite enough brown sugar, so had to mix in some regular sugar as well. So they've turned out more like honey spice snap cookie things.

Was a massive mess along the way--the recipe said to blend with an electric mixer, but the dough was way too solid when I added the flour. Then turned into a gooey horror when I added a little water. And then it killed my hand mixer, I mean like made it smoke and I had to put it out on the front porch and now it's in the trash. Added extra flour to make it less of a gooey mess, but though I think I added too much, it still remained super sticky and a bit interesting to form into balls and roll in sugar.

But eh, Mom says they turned out okay, and she'd actually like them that way again (though I'd like to make them as proper gingersnaps sometimes, with molasses and the full amount of brown sugar, etc. And without the killing off of a small electrical appliance.) I suppose I should also give myself a bit of credit, since I can't remember the last time I did cookies from scratch. Don't think I've done those as anything but premade break-apart for years, maybe.

In other news--WoW is WoW, Wynn is up another level, am crossing my fingers that we'll soon be rid of an asshole of an intitiate. I'm completely and thoroughly crapping out at writing anything at all, haven't read anything of literary import in weeks/month+ now (pretty much just reading fanfic and manga of late, continuing with Fairy Tail and snooped at Nora at B&N the other day--though spn_vsCarry On, a Supernatural virtual season is really darned good and has me hooked), and don't even feel like making crappy graphics for challenges. Hooray that they have quick games, so I can still show as participating a little for spnland (woo, worst participant ever \o/, poor Team Hell). Having minor success getting my sleep slightly more normal, hoping to keep that going.

Feels like time to sample one of the better batches of not!gingersnaps, perhaps with some tea (http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prmenbr=175633&prrfnbr=198309 Numi Monkey King Jasmine Green, Y/Y?).