YAY for new loveseats! Esp. bargain love seats!

My mother gave us a lovely, lovely, pre-housewarming gift today, buying us the new stoneware we wanted. [link]

Really, we should have waited until we moved, but I didn't want to risk missing out on the sale, seeing as it saved over $200 (She bought us 4 sets/16 place settings)

are you a 4th fl walk-up?

are you a 4th fl walk-up?

Indeed I am.

Now I have to figure out modem cords and crap.

YAY sofa!

Congrats on the sofa, Jesse, and the stoneware, Barb.

I've spent the day baking, as I'm providing the dessert part of a progressive dinner tomorrow. Venison mincemeat pie, Kahlua brownies, and cheesecake with cherry topping. My apartment smells wonderful.

Ooh, that sounds excellent, Calli.

Mmm... yummy, Calli! I saw you mention the venison mincemeat in your LJ and was intrigued. It sounds really interesting.

Venison mincemeat is an old family tradition. Mom thought her great-great-grandma Baker brought the recipe over from England back in the 1800s. We've had it at Christmas and Thanksgiving as long as I can remember. Last year we'd run out of the last batch my late mom had made (you get ~12 quarts per batch, which make 12 pies). So I tried my hand at it. It came out just like Mom's. The recipe's here, if you'd like to try it. It's an all-day process, though, and then some.

Yay love seat.

Barb, I love that dinnerware- I love all the colours. My parents are buying me some very plain white dinnerware for Xmas. But I have some much odds and sods pottery I wanted something neutral to work with.

Mincemeat with actual meat? Huh.

Wow, Four Brothers is a really bad movie. I'm watching it because Mark Wahlberg and also the Mercer thing, but even half tipsy this is bad.tivo gives it two stars. I am skeptical.

(Though there just was a great line. "You don't pay a ho to like you. You pay her to leave." Not that I get what if anything it has to do with the plot, but hey.)

Okay possibly more than half tipsy.