the rest of Sunday, aside from being a big dork

Just to respond to all of the comments on the last one - yeah... you are all entirely right. And Nick, I definitely miss the lounge :) I guess that's kinda why I keep going to IZ so much - it kinda feels like a random place I can go and see random people I know and have fun... the problem is, unlike the lounge, it's a 25-minute drive, not a 10-minute walk away.

Anyway, today we were originally going to get up early and go bowling with some people for Sunday morning bowling, except I really wanted to sleep in. So we argued over it at like 9am, and ended up sleeping in, which is all good because it turns out Megan and Josh didn't go bowling anyway. Yeah. I guess this is a small karmic bonus for last night's karmic whiplash.

I don't remember much of the day... cleaned up the house a little, and read half of the Megatokyo book, and played a whole bunch of IIDX 6th Style, trying to get B's and A's on songs I had C's on before I knew how the EX scoring system works (thanks to Mwinzi I'm going to be obsessing over this for a while). Eventually Eli got home from grocery shopping, and we got to work on making dinner. Well, not really. We got to work on making dessert, mostly. I had decided I wanted to make an apple pie, Bayani style. I'll make a recipe entry next since I haven't done one of those in a while. Dinner was going to be dumplings, pork buns, and pea greens, which are pretty last-minute quick cooking things.

At any rate, our dinner guests tonight were mh75 and Josh, thatmathchick, and jeliza and seanmcguire. Jane brought the pictures she did from her musical instrument photo shoot of us from months ago! They're *really* awesome, I'll have to scan some of them in at some point. They're some of the best pictures of us ever taken, and I hate pictures of me in general... well, except maybe ones where I specifically posed for them and got several shoots to get a decent looking one. (Yeah, that's still from the PPP bunch.) Anyway, we had dinner, and a little while later had dessert, and apparently the apple pie really did go over pretty well, especially with ice cream. Whew. Sat around talking for a while. Showed off all the new ducks in the bathroom (We specifically put down the duck bathtub anti-slip thingies, and inflated the duck footrest today... "I just blew up a duck!"). Opened up our Christmas present from M+J, which turns out to be a really nice backgammon set. Now we just have to learn how to play backgammon.

Oh yeah, I played IIDX after dinner. Passed Romeo&Juliet 7-key! My first 6-star 7-key! With a B! Whee! Feels good, since I just learned the PPP routine for it like a week or two ago. :) A friend suggested that I try the other PPP songs on 7-key too... I'll have to do that soon.

Whee, guess I should try to get to sleep by 2am and get to work at a decent hour tomorrow. Looks like my IZ day this week is going to be Tuesday night, btw, if anyone cares.

Recipe: Lazy Apple Pie

How to make Lazy Apple Pie (recipe sillified from Bayani Caes)

Ingredients:
- Some apples. Like 3 or 4 of them.
- 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 stick of butter, and 1 egg. Great math, eh? :)
- Oh yeah, some cinnamon, too.


1. Get out a 9" pie pan, preferably a pyrex/glass one.
2. Clean the pie pan, wondering what the HECK that gunk in it is.
3. Peel, core, quarter, and chop up the apples, putting the slices into the pie pan as you go.
3a. Get out a better cutting board because yours is making the apples smell like onions.
4. Sprinkle the apples with cinnamon after each layer in the pan.
5. Get out a mixing bowl for the dough... and clean it out too. Ew.
6. Melt the butter. Try a minute in the microwave at power level 3.
7. Play some IIDX while waiting for the butter to melt.
8. Try another minute. Play more IIDX.
9. Add the sugar to the butter. Add the flour to the sugar and the butter. Add the egg to the flour and the sugar and the butter. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around...
10. Stir. Stir some more. Convince your fiance to stir it for you while you go upstairs and look up the recipe again, wondering if there should be a cup of water, too?
11. Come to the conclusion that you used bigger eggs in the past, and add a tiny bit of water, so it's more doughy.
12. Spread the dough on top of the apples.
13. Oh, you thought step 12 was THAT simple? HAHAHAHA. Really, what you end up doing is wetting your hands so the dough doesn't stick to them, and make little flat pieces of it and put them all over, THEN attempt to spread them out. If you are lucky, the dough you have will cover the whole pie pan.
14. Sprinkle some more cinnamon on the top. Bake at 350 degrees for somewhere between 40 minutes and 50 minutes, depending on when it bothers to turn brown.
15. Cool, serve with ice cream, and don't get too discouraged when it falls apart as you try to serve slices of it.