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I just realized that my favorite songs on Exile on Main St. line up to a remarkable degree with my favorites on Exile in Guyville. Yeah, OK, kind of a duh moment.

I got my birthday loot today! My mom gave me an Amazon gift certificate, and I went nuts. :) I'm excited to finally have Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone.

I think the Curse of the Irresistible Urge to Hear Ledbetter is inaccurate in this case, as I do plan to see the boy in question again. I don't know if I'm trying to talk myself into liking him more than I do, but it is certainly true that a cute, literate guitar-playing boy who likes me is nothing to cast aside lightly. It could just be that I'm so fucked-up that I can't want anyone unless I'm not supposed to.

I want to be the kind of girl who takes things as they come and resists the urge to weigh everything down with labels or unrealistic expectations or cynicism. Finding that middle ground between wanting every new one to be The One and pretending I think no one is The One is very hard.

A recipe of my own devising

The boy was having pasta with chicken and sundried tomatoes last night, so I started craving something similar. I made this up, and it's vegan and nummy!

Spinach-tomato pesto

Take about 12-15 sundried tomatoes and pour boiling water over them. Let them sit in the water until they're soft. Pour off the water, leaving about a teaspoon with the tomatoes.

Take a storebought bundle o' spinach (about a pound, I guess) and wash it thoroughly. Pull the leaves off the stems and put them in a big pot with the water that clings to them. Cook over medium heat until wilty.

Put the cooked spinach and softened tomatoes in a blender. Add about a tablespoon of olive oil and about 2 tablespoons of pine nuts. Blend it up until it's a well-mixed thick sauce. Taste it and add salt if you like, which will lessen its slight bitterness.

Mix it into chunky pasta like rigatoni and enjoy! It makes enough to decently cover about 4-6 cups of pasta, depending on how saucy you like it.

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I don't remember who told me I would love Neutral Milk Hotel, but OMG, thank you!

Got In the Aeroplane Over the Sea as part of the birthday loot. Also: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb; Mind, Body, and Soul by Joss Stone; from a basement on a hill by Elliott Smith; Floodland by Sisters of Mercy; Lucifuge by Danzig (I was oh so goth as a child); Cry Cry Cry; 69 Love Songs by Magentic Fields; and Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros. And Chocolat.

Yeah, I racked up. Being 30 again roxx0rz. My mom said "Don't tell your dad how much I sent you!"

She is trying to get her Sims to breed in captivity.

I now have to spell O-C-T-O-P-U-S if Anya is listening and I'm not about to throw her catnip octopus for her to chase. It joins F-U-D and T-R-E-A-T as "words the cats will come running for if they aren't spelled out." Yet they don't understand "mine" and "no."