They think I don't know a butt-load of crap about the Gospels

As I was basting the turkey about half way through the cooking time, I noticed that my oven's clock was still set on daylight savings time. So I reset it. When I went to check what should have been a finished turkey, I found that the oven had been turned off in the clock reset process. Everything is ready to serve but the turkey...

I apologized to my family. No one said that's ok. My nephew said, "I'm really, really hungry."

I feel like an idiot. How many years have I been cooking turkeys and never screwed up?

Edit: It was the best turkey I've ever made ... very, very moist. Maybe I should write down what I did! LOL!

To all my dear friends celebrating Thanksgiving I hope you have a wonderful holiday!



"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you', that would suffice." ~Eckhart von Hochheim

( WriSoMiFu Day 26 - Everything I Needed to Know About Life, I Learned from Harry Potter )

(plus, for my daughter:)

I thought I'd share my recipe for sweet potatoes with everyone. They are always a favorite at our table.

( Apple Pecan Sweet Potatoes )

( WriSoMiFu Day 25 - I need a vacation from my husband's vacation )

Title: Harry Potter and The Charming Prince (Book Seven in The Bound Prince Series.)
Authors: slashpervert, with co-authors sayingsorry_hh and brknhalo241.
Betas: asm614 and Mini Mouse.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: ADULT
Genre: Romance, Smut
Pairing: Draco/Harry. Others (Mark to Read): One time - Harry/Draco/Fred/George
Book Length: 130,000 Words (41 Chapters)
Warnings (Mark to Read): Language, M/M Explicit Sex, Anal, Oral, Rimming, Bondage, Dom/Sub, SM, Jealousy, Consensual Non-Monogamy, Foursome, Mpreg, Exhibitionism, Character Death (not D/H).
Summary: Harry and Draco have the peace and happiness of which they dreamed. This is an extended epilogue to The Bound Prince series with “snapshots” of Harry, Draco and their children's lives in the ten years after book six.

Previous volumes in the series:
Harry Potter and The Bound Prince - Book One
Harry Potter and The Secret Keeper - Book Two
Harry Potter and The White Queen - Book Three
Harry Potter and The Beloved Incubus - Book Four
Harry Potter and The Serpent King - Book Five
Harry Potter and The Dragon’s Treasure - Book Six

Final volume, Harry Potter and The Charming Prince - Book Seven:
On Live Journal: Chapter 1 (All Chapters Posted)
On Insane Journal: Chapter 1 (All Chapters Posted)
On Dream Width: Chapter 1 (All Chapters Posted)

( WriSoMiFu Day 24 - Whatcha readin'? )

Title: Recompense
Word Count: 100
Pairing: Severus/Harry
Rating: PG-13
snape100 Challenge 309: "Wikipedia, Redux!"
Warning: Reference to homophobia/verbal abuse.
Disclaimer: Not mine. They belong to JKR.
A/N: I wouldn't even believe me, but I swear this was the first thing that came up. :) Pornophobia.

( Recompense )

( WriSoMiFu Day 23 - Seeking answers to important questions )

Here's something I did for a Holiday exchange over at Watson's Woes on Livejournal. I'm rather proud of it.


Title: Friends Only Banner
Author: [info]chibitoaster
Characters: Holmes, Watson
Rating: G
Notes: For the Holiday Wishes - Extra Wish #2:
I wish for ART: Winter - not Christmas, winter - themed Friends-only banner, blue/silver/white/grey/etc. color scheme if possible. Snow would be awesome. If using screencaps, Granada Watson(s) would be a plus.

I don't know exactly what size I ought to have made the banner. I hope you can resize it. If not, just let me know, and I'll do it. Hope you like! It was a lot of fun to do!! ^_^

Banner by request

( WriSoMiFu Day 22 - Part 2 Recs You Might Not Expect From Me  )

My brother ODed again. My mom tried to wake him and couldn't, so she got my nephew R awake and called the paramedics. D, my brother, is back in the hospital again, and again, R is staying with me. I told my brother before that if he did this again, I was going to kill him. Now I have to figure out how.

The paramedics told my mom in front of R that they thought it was another drug overdose, so now R knows about it. He's livid. And yet, after we talked about it, he said he really doesn't want to go back to his mother, either. He asked, "is my dad going to jail?" He's not; not that I don't wish he would. Maybe that would teach him. Not that it ever has, before. But I told R no. The boys both helped me go through D's room for drugs. This time we couldn't find the methadone that my brother said he took. The boys found a marijuana stash, though. They were all keen to watch me flush it down the toilet until they discovered my brother's porn stash *facepalm*.

I'm so angry I can't even form a coherent sentence. I'm signing off.

. . . but until then, more random posts.

severus_sighs posted their interview with jadzialove, who just happens to be my beta. *squishes her*

I must point you especially to her answer to number #5, "What is it about Severus you find sexy?" because OMG it's a great answer (in under 100 words).

So, today Trina wanted me to share with her some of my favourite music videos from when I was a kid. The first one I thought of was Too Funky by George Michael.

I played it for her and she asked me, then, why it was a favourite. I sat there awkwardly for a while, not quite able to explain it. My favourite was the model in the metal bikini suit thing. Embedding was disallowed. I still love this vid. After, I showed her Jeremy and Black Hole Sun. Then I showed her Schism, which she thought was cool, and Thunderkiss '65, which led to a very short viewing of Beavis and Butthead so she could understand the context in which I first saw the video.

Listening to Too Funky also makes me want to write porn again.



What are your favourite music vids?


Also, I snuck over to fanficrants today for one reason and another and was struck but the plethora of crap. I mean...most of my rants consist of "use the right word, plz" and "get a beta before I spork my eyes" and stuff like that. Though, I don't usually make posts about it. I just think it. REALLY HARD. I get rants about subtle bigotry/misogyny/etc within fics, but for other things, sometimes I just want to say stfu and read something else. I mean...isn't this what google chat is for? Bitching to your friends about stupid shit you've read but are too polite to comment on, and in that fashion, in public?

( WriSoMiFu Day 21 - Icons and Name Recognition )

( WriSoMiFu Day 20 - My thoughts about fests )

Some of my favorite authors/artists were interviewed and now severus_sighs is posting them. joanwilder and accioslash are two of the people they've interviewed so far. I love seeing how different people approach their craft and fandom in general.

Here's the interview tag although of course there is lots of lovely fic as well.

The link takes you to the poll on LJ.

WriSoMiFu Day 19 - The Definition of Gen Fic

SQUEE! Snarry art for me!

atypicalsnowman and I both commissioned swtalmnd to make us a bit of art. You can see both pieces here. Go and leave a comment if you enjoy them! ♥

I think they are both DIVINE! :D