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It's Long Friday (probably something else in English, but that's the literal translation of what is in my Finnish calendar, and idgaf about Christianity), which means I have the day off. I keep thinking it's Saturday. This is a problem, because ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
space_swap fic reveals are on Sunday, and I keep having to remind myself that they. are. NOT. tomorrow. (The entire exchange scene would be out for my blood if I revealed 24h early, lol.)
I did my shopping today (because bank holidays don't real in retail anymore, unlike when I was but a wee penguin, apparently) and he menu will be the last of the beef lo mein tomorrow morning (having run out of suitable noodles, I turned it into fried rice; works okay enough), then I'll steam some lamb baozi in the afternoon and have vegetarian ramen in the evening, to clear out some vegetables and eggs. Then it's Sichuan dry fried beef time, at long last! Coupled with what bok choy I couldn't fit into the ramen. After that, Chongqing chicken, shredded beef Sichuan style, and tangerine beef, though for the latter two I'll sub out the beef for the deer/horse I have in my freezer. I also got some 30% off vendace that now resides in my freezer, which will be in order after the tangerine beef (or perhaps before it, if my tangerine peels haven't dried enough).
Other things I have for Easter, in honor of the four-day weekend: grain mochi, a bunch of chocolate, red bean buns. If I'm very bored, I'll make my own noodles from scratch.
(If you have recipe blogs to rec, go ahead! I mostly eat East Asian-style food and my pantry is decently stocked for Chinese spices and sauces, plus gochujang and kimchi. I've heard of The Woks of Life, China Sichuan food, Just One Cookbook, and Maangchi.)
The whole cancellation of reality thing also makes me seriously want to buy some sleeve garters. Send help, I'm turning into Shen Wei.
Fandom-wise,merit_brush_recs is holding a self-rec amnesty day. I decided to play and rec For No Cradle Lasts Forever, as it's my fixit magnum opus and also I think the cozy fixit mood might be something people would enjoy in these times. (The limit is 4 self-recs, but I'm holding myself to a maximum of 2, and that only if enough other people participate.) I have to say, filling in the "Why are you reccing this?" bit is like pulling teeth at the best of times, and it was even worse for my self-rec. Something about how the question is phrased just makes my brain auto-reply with "Because I liked it." (or, "Because it's self-rec day and it's my magnum opus." for today) and then just gets utterly and completely stuck. I have a few recs to make tomorrow; let's see if trying to rephrase the question into something else mentally would help.
The casefic is now over 25k long! I'm at the penultimate chapter, with at most 1k left of it, and then I have no idea how long the final chapter will be. I'm aiming for 4k, but it might end up a bit shorter. (The penultimate one, conversely, will be longer.) I'll get this done before next weekend, I think, and then I can write my 520 assignment while this one sits.
space_swap fic reveals are on Sunday, and I keep having to remind myself that they. are. NOT. tomorrow. (The entire exchange scene would be out for my blood if I revealed 24h early, lol.)I did my shopping today (because bank holidays don't real in retail anymore, unlike when I was but a wee penguin, apparently) and he menu will be the last of the beef lo mein tomorrow morning (having run out of suitable noodles, I turned it into fried rice; works okay enough), then I'll steam some lamb baozi in the afternoon and have vegetarian ramen in the evening, to clear out some vegetables and eggs. Then it's Sichuan dry fried beef time, at long last! Coupled with what bok choy I couldn't fit into the ramen. After that, Chongqing chicken, shredded beef Sichuan style, and tangerine beef, though for the latter two I'll sub out the beef for the deer/horse I have in my freezer. I also got some 30% off vendace that now resides in my freezer, which will be in order after the tangerine beef (or perhaps before it, if my tangerine peels haven't dried enough).
Other things I have for Easter, in honor of the four-day weekend: grain mochi, a bunch of chocolate, red bean buns. If I'm very bored, I'll make my own noodles from scratch.
(If you have recipe blogs to rec, go ahead! I mostly eat East Asian-style food and my pantry is decently stocked for Chinese spices and sauces, plus gochujang and kimchi. I've heard of The Woks of Life, China Sichuan food, Just One Cookbook, and Maangchi.)
The whole cancellation of reality thing also makes me seriously want to buy some sleeve garters. Send help, I'm turning into Shen Wei.
Fandom-wise,
merit_brush_recs is holding a self-rec amnesty day. I decided to play and rec For No Cradle Lasts Forever, as it's my fixit magnum opus and also I think the cozy fixit mood might be something people would enjoy in these times. (The limit is 4 self-recs, but I'm holding myself to a maximum of 2, and that only if enough other people participate.) I have to say, filling in the "Why are you reccing this?" bit is like pulling teeth at the best of times, and it was even worse for my self-rec. Something about how the question is phrased just makes my brain auto-reply with "Because I liked it." (or, "Because it's self-rec day and it's my magnum opus." for today) and then just gets utterly and completely stuck. I have a few recs to make tomorrow; let's see if trying to rephrase the question into something else mentally would help.The casefic is now over 25k long! I'm at the penultimate chapter, with at most 1k left of it, and then I have no idea how long the final chapter will be. I'm aiming for 4k, but it might end up a bit shorter. (The penultimate one, conversely, will be longer.) I'll get this done before next weekend, I think, and then I can write my 520 assignment while this one sits.