Dude! Nerd heaven! I wanna go! Who’s with me?

SF Chronicle’s preview of the event. Hope I’m better by tomorrow, and I hope it’s good.

Of the things I wanted to make over the weekend, I made three, plus one or two things that weren’t on the list. I roasted a chicken on Friday night, baked bread on Saturday morning, and made tortilla soup Saturday evening. Other things I made were the world’s most unspicy salsa (I am never buying chiles at that Safeway again) and some very gelatinous chicken stock. I made the stock for the potato-leek soup that never happened. Why? I couldn’t find leeks in the stores. I guess I need to go to Sigona’s to find them. Annoying.

So yeah, I’m sick. Have been since Sunday night. I hope I feel better tomorrow. I’ve already told Scott that I probably won’t be making it to D&D. I may put in an appearance at work for a couple of hours to get some stuff done (and to show everyone I’m not faking it).

Dear Immune System,

I was sick last week (nausea/headache). Please don’t let me get sick this week, too. I’ve got a bit of a stuffed/runny nose thing starting to happen. Head that off at the pass, would you?

Love and kisses,
Sarah

P.S. (an hour later) Oh, I KNOW you didn’t just set my body to hurting! You did NOT just do that!

P.P.S. (the next morning) You suck. Now I have to stay home from work.

Things I want to make this weekend:

Roast chicken
Tortilla soup
Potato-leek soup
Jonsauce
Bread

Next week, Jer and I are going to stop wasting money and start bringing our lunches to work instead of perpetually going out (well, except for Indian food on Fridays). This is a good thing. Unfortunately, none of those recipes are new. Sucks to be my blog. (Well, I did get a new recipe for baguettes, but I’m tired of getting frustrated with the sticky dough of French breads. Maybe in a month or so I’ll try again.)

I need to buy more extra-virgin olive oil. There’s some kind at Trader Joe’s that Jon really likes. It’s good- I made a tasty spaghetti aglio e olio on Tuesday with it. I also splashed it all over one of my favorite old t-shirts. That was annoying.

I have a new recipe to post. I just need to hear back from Ryan that it’s decently tasty.

Also, I made brownies on Monday, but they sucked. I ended up pawning them off on Rob and Jer after D&D last night.

I’ve been editing my latest Katamari cosplay pictures; I’ve got five done so far. I’ll try and create a little narrative to tie them together a bit. (I figured one picture on the main page is enough, so these are linked to my Photobucket account.)

Kuro contemplates the swings… should he roll them up?

No, Kuro decides to swing. But there’s no one to push him. He’s all alone.

Kuro thinks, “Being a lone wolf kind of sucks sometimes. I wish The Prince were here instead of in Lancaster.” (This is the picture I posted below, so you don’t really have to click.)

Adorable Earth moppet wonders what’s up with the strange lonely alien. Adorable Cousin of All Cosmos wonders what’s up with the weird Earth child.

Kuro playing on the slide.

Ha! I’m pretty sure Lydia and I are the only ones who have done the faces this way, so it’s fairly certain this post is about us. Also, given that the poster is from California, it’s more certain. Anyway, she thought we were boys. Even though the post seems to state that she saw our faces. Haha. We don’t really look that ungirly, do we?

Rob and I went out on Saturday to a park in Mountain View and took some pictures of Kuro, my Katamari Damacy cosplay. I had wanted some pictures of Kuro looking lonely. He’s described in the game as being a “lone wolf,” and I wanted to show that sometimes it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Especially when your friends are down in Southern California attending a convention without you. Heehee!

This picture may distort my layout a little bit. It’s also been shrunk and compressed in order to fit it into Photobucket, so it’s not as clean and lovely as it was originally. I’m sorry about that, but it was still one of my favorites, so I wanted to post it. I look so pathetic, and the shadow looks very crisp. I edited the original picture a little bit to take out the face handle.

Me and My Shadow