TORRENT FASTER, DAMN YOU!!!!!! XD I'm currently downloading a bunch of my favorite anime for the current challenge at ic_animated, because it involves using caps from either the 14th episode of the 3rd season or ones taken at the 3:14 mark of any episode/movie. SO!!! I'm gonna make some Magi and YuGiOh ones, but I didn't have them on hand.

....so now I'm downloading 59 gb of YuGiOh because I have no self control XD

FEELS GOOD THO!!!! Feels good to download an irresponsible amount of anime that I will almost immediately have to shove onto an external hard drive XD Also, just...fuck, I love YuGiOh, every time I think I've moved past it, it returns. At any moment, I'm about ready to fall back into it, and that's great ♥

Also, congrats Leo for becoming the 5th character I've gotten to rank B in engstars!!!


THERE HE GOES!!!!!
Unfortunately, I'm running out of cards with space for fans for him, so I don't have enough to get him to rank A ;w; Hopefully I'll get more soon!!!

I'm currently finishing up a late dinner of sausage gravy and biscuits; once the gravy thickens up, I will be tucking into it!! I'm so ready :D

bwahahahahaaaa my icons are basically invisible now
Joke's on me for using minimalist white icons and making myself a pastel-ish sparkly wallpaper XD The other pages of my home screen are even worse, somehow.

Also not clear from screenshots: the lock screen is animated, because having an android phone is all about over the top customization~~~~


also, also: the macro lens in my phone slaps hard
Now that I can take pictures of all my fancy fountain pen inks, I will be unstoppable~~~~

uhhhhhhh I don't have much else to say, since it's been more of me laying around doing not much of anything :T Elio came over last night to work on some cosplay stuff with us and I made dinner, so that's an accomplishment. I made braised Chinese eggplants for the first time and they came out incredible!!! It was also relatively simple (even for a side dish) and H mart always has a good price on eggplants in general, which means I'm about to hyperfixate on making these fuckers for a bit.

That's about it :T I'm gonna try to get some writing done today, and maybe??? Job applications?????????????

CAKE MAKING EXPEDITION OF AWESOME:

So, last Thursday, Hannah and I made the most delicious cake I have ever eaten in my entire life. If you like peanut butter and chocolate, you must make this cake. It took all day but it was worth every second of it. Really. It's required for your life.

It was a baking day of fun. Hannah made delicious wings and I focused on the cake. The day began with making the cake batter and then baking the cakes. After they came out and cooled, the three layers were wrapped in wax paper and frozen. I had to run and take my brother to art class, but then I returned to her house.

Then, the building of the layers and the initial icing. The icing is a cream cheese peanut butter icing which basically tastes like clouds flavored with peanut butter. It was light and fluffy and just so perfect that I almost just ate the icing alone. God, so delicious.

Sooo after that I stuck the cake back in the freeze until it would be iced for real. Hannah had her therapist meeting so we went to that while the cake froze again. Upon return, I made the final part (the chocolate peanut butter ganache to be drizzled on it) and mmmmmm. SO TASTY!!! Holly showed up for the final bits to help us eat and finish the cake~

IT. WAS. AMAZING. If you never make any other cake, make this one. I cannot stress this enough. It's incredibly rich and delicious and just...I cannot put into words how good this cake was.

So now, PICTURES!!! And then the recipe :3

( exciting times for delicious cake )

lolz I either barely update or do it constantly. But seriously, I must share this deliciousness with the world~ Today I made MICROWAVE CAKE in a coffee mug :O SO TASTY~! It's ridiculously rich, though.

Also, there is a ygo-related picture at the end~

( click for pictures and recipe )

ALSO E3 OMG. ENGLISH KH: 358/2 DAYS TRAILER WAS EPIC~ AHHHH I CANNOT WAIT. WHY IS IT NOT OUT UNTIL SEPTEMBER 29TH???

Cait & I made ourselves dinner tonight! It was super exciting :3

So, back story. Cait got back from Megacon on Sunday night and has been craving ramune soda since then. There was a snow day on Monday!!! during which we just sat around and playing KH2. I'm replaying it so Cait can get all the storyline. I've made a KH fangirl out of her :3

Also, we did a photoshoot out in the snow. She's Sakura from Naruto, but as if she were in the Akatsuki. She ran around in the snow while I froze my fingers off taking pictures. Also I know nothing about Naruto, so like the whole thing makes no sense to me...I'm reading it soon though, I just get distracted easily...

SO!! Today after class, we took the zipcar out to hunt down Japanese food. The first Asian food store we went to was in the ghetto and was SUPER epic. It was literally a warehouse. It just had a slab of wood as the door, the inside had no heat, barely any light, and just had huge amounts of rice, Japanese food, and chairs for sale. wtf at the chairs. But yeah, it was AMAZING. Super ghetto too, which reminds me of home...I feel like I'm living in such a fancy neighborhood these days XD

ANYWAY. Since they didn't have the soda, we went to the next place. We pulled into a Panera parking lot to borrow their wireless so we could Google maps the directions. When we got there, it turned out that they were closed on Tuesdays.

Instead of hunting down more free wireless, we went to CVS and bought a map of Baltimore. FINALLY. So we used the map to get to another Asian food store. We drove past the street once because it was named something different, which made me laugh. ALL of Pittsburgh is like that...or there are just no street names listed ANYWHERE. It's great.

This place was AWESOME. We ended up buying dumplings, a BUNCH of snack foods (oh shrimp chips, you are super delicious!!), chow mein noodles, soy sauce, a teriyaki marinade, tons of ramune soda, and other miscellaneous things. Then we stopped at Super Fresh to buy chicken, vegetables, and vegetable oil to fry things in.

Dinner went...interestingly. I cooked everything because Cait is a cooking hazard. The chicken was delicious, if I do say so myself. The first round of dumplings sort of fell apart, but the other ones worked fine.

The chow mein noodles...not so much. They would NOT fry D: They just turned into a gooey mass >_< So we ended up tossing them after I tried in vain to save them. Ah well. Everything else was really tasty though!!! :D Cleaning up was a bitch, but it was totally worth it.

( cut for KH ramblings... )