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[katallison]

Beautiful, beautiful day, the kind of weather that causes one to remember why one puts up with Minnesota's multifarious meteorological miseries; cool, clear, fresh, brilliantly sunny, and everything in the full lush leaf and flower of high midsummer.

Which means I'm in the grip of my usual Beautiful Weather Affective Disorder, and am trying to focus instead on the list of concrete tasks to be accomplished this weekend. I've already cleaned out an amazing assortment of putrefying biomass from the refrigerator; once dishes are washed, I'll start on tonight's dinner. (Crockpot carnitas, not particularly authentic but dead simple; put a big chunk of pork loin or shoulder in the crockpot along with a quartered onion, quartered jalapeno, some chopped garlic, chopped cilantro, cumin, bay leaf, and enough chicken stock and/or beer to mostly cover. Cook 4-6 hours. (That's on high; on low, make it 8-10 hours.) Remove, drain/shred meat, serve with fresh corn tortillas, fresh salsa, avocado, refried beans, and beer aplenty. Yum.)

And because I am braindead, today's game, gacked from Metachat:

What do you have on your computer desk?

On the keyboard tray:
--keyboard (duh)
--cordless mouse
--empty juice glass
--bamboo backscratcher
--mysterious unanswered letter from sister of a friend
--tin of Burt's Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Creme

Next shelf up:
--monitor
--speakers
--headphones
--empty beer bottle
--cable modem
--wireless router
--transmitter jobbie for cordless mouse
--small baggie of M&Ms
--wristwatch
--PDA
--little notebook with all my passwords written down in it, concealed behind the cable modem
--pad of post-its
--install CD for digital camera software
--four music CDs
--handwritten playlists for music CDs flambeau sent me

Next shelf up:
--little voice-memo recorder
--mouse for laptop
--12 odd little figurines given to me at various times by Mr. P (wind-up boxing kangaroo, Gumby and Pokey, Speedy Gonzalez Pez dispenser, etc. etc.)
--wallet-sized photo of James Marsters with electric guitar slung across his hip, giving the camera the finger Brit-style
--USB cable for digital camera
--mysterious adaptor of unknown purpose
--case for folding Sennheiser headphones
--manual for camera
--manual for PDA
--spray bottle of monitor cleaner
--five mysterious CD-Rs, unlabelled
--printer that hasn't been used in several years

What about yours?

Comments

[eliade.livejournal.com]

I love reading about your desk. *g* I can now picture you better!

Hmm, me--in part:

- jar of moisturizer for my hands
- iPod mini
- matches (I'm just a firebug at heart)
- cloth for cleaning my glasses
- business card for a therapist
- a stack of unpaid bills
- my DKNY watch
- red glass earrings
- a guide to area AA meetings
- huge stack of CDs that I haven't yet burned to iTunes
- "Rameau's Niece" by Cathleen Schine (*great* book)
- a little stained-glass house that lights up when you turn it on, that I never turn on
- a list of tsunami stories I haven't yet written (*facepalm*)
- jar of pens and pencils
- all but the finale of Dr. Who burned to CD by anaxila, not yet watched
- headphones
- keys
- buss pass
- and on the top shelf, many books, including the DSM-IV and "Magill's Quotations in Context"

*kiss!*

[tracy-rowan.livejournal.com]

You are rapidly becoming a resource for great, easy meals. I am, however, happy to know that I'm not the only one with "putrifying biomass" in my fridge.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Okay, do you cook that on high or low? It sounds delicious! I have another carnitas recipe that requires babying every 10 minutes for an hour and a half... I like yours a LOT better.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

My bad! I fixed the original entry to say it's 4-6 hours on high (and could go longer with no problem). On low, it'll be more like 8-10 hours.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks! :)

I'll try that this week!

[tehomet.livejournal.com]

*what about yours?*

At an internet cafe, so just a guest pass, my wallet, a paperback novel that a woman in the hostel lent me (From Potter´s Field, by Patricia Cornwell), and an empty chocolate milk carton.

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

Oh dear - now I will have to expose my extreme tidyness to the world. Don't hold it against me. I've got my speakers, my phone and address rand and a stack of CD's I'm going to copy. A cup of tea. A pad of paper and a pen.

Jeeze - I can hardly call myself a computer nerd with that pathetic offering.

I may try your carnitas recipe myself; pork is so lean these days that I'm always looking for a way to cook it so that it tastes good and not so dry and tasteless.

namaste SF nancy