I'm coming down from a serious chocolate-ginger-molasses-cream-cheese-cupcake high and have little energy, so this'll be another one of my incoherent, poorly punctuated entries.  This morning I finished the book I was reading and was happy to do so.  I'm usually not into fantasy novels; the only sort of fantasy I'm into is realplay and the occasional film (see LOTR).  But this one cleverly intertwined the otherworldly creatures with the everyday human beings and depicted the mind of a fairy in accordance with how I'd always expected them to be.  It was cool.  I'd definitely recommend it.  Martin Millar is the author, a fairly unknown one, but on par with Vonnegut (which I know now after finally reading his stuff) and apparently he keeps on blog on Blogger that I'm no less than thrilled to follow.

After my boss assured me two days ago that he's ok with us doing personal things at our desks with our down time (of which there's plenty), I also spent the day searching for new blogs to read, making use of the awesome virtual PC that my coworker installed on my MacBook by creating some random graphics to put on my blog, and eating the delicious leftovers Jessie made for us last night.

Also, I recently ordered the entire Xena dvd collection on ebay and it arrived today at work.  There are no words for my excitement.  I think marathon episodes are going to start happening on Sunday.

After work we stopped by a Mexican restaurant where I gorged myself on a chimichanga.  Horrible, horrible idea.  I felt a little sick afterwards but busied it away.  Then, looking over my shoulder as I browsed cooking blogs at home, Jess got the idea to try a new recipe for rice pudding.  Seeing her throw random ingredients together and turning them into amazing food always inspires me, but I never bother to do real cooking because I know she'll trample me in that department.  I decided instead to take that inspiration and try baking with whatever ingredients we had here.  I ended up making chocolate cupcakes with molasses and ginger, then topped it with a cream cheese icing.  They turned out well.  Fairly tasty.  But the ginger kind of tastes alone in the otherwise sweet recipe.  Whatever, I'm just glad they're edible.  I licked cream cheese from my hands throughout the process as I was using ziploc in lieu of a decorating bag, and then once they were done I ate one, so I'm pretty sugared out right now.  The sick feeling I shrugged off earlier has creeped back up and I kinda want to die.

And since I have to wake up at 6:30 tomorrow I think I'm gonna try and sleep the food coma away.

All in all, a pleasant day. Excited for the hot-wing cook-off and masquerade ball on Saturday, and Xena viewing on Sunday.  Woo!