Getting My Geek On
Nov. 2nd, 2011 10:57 pmFeeling super accomplished today. Not only did I clean the bathroom and the kitchen, vacuum the living room, and read 50000 words worth of Star Wars AU fic (OMG help me I'm starting to ship Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan), but I baked a cake! From scratch! With no cake mix or canned frosting! Seriously, I have never ever done that before. But we got the first couple of eggs out of our chickens this week, and I wanted to use them for something a little special, not just throw them into an omelet or whatever. So cake it was. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
colourofsaying sent me an awesome recipe for a dark chocolate cake, and then I adapted another recipe to make a sticky dark chocolate honey icing, and the whole thing turned out way better than I was expecting, given my lack of dessert baking expertise. I am really tempted to start experimenting now. Except that this cake used up all of our butter.
Since it's Wednesday, that also means that it is RPG night! We're still playing with the training wheels on, but honestly I appreciate that. It would be a ton of information to take in even if I wasn't pretty shy about role-playing in front of other people, but I feel like I'm slowly starting to get the hang of it, and getting a little bit better about thinking on my feet. And the actual gameplay so far is great - last week we focused on the storyline I had started, and L and A helped me to rescue a girl who had been abducted and forced into prostitution as a pleasure-droid. This week all our characters were at a Halloween party and we spent half the night playing blackjack and liar dice, but I did get to schmooze some information about a crime ring out of some smugglers. I even tried to stay in character the whole time! The more I get used to being my character, the more I like her. I'm thinking of starting some 5 Things lists, just to get a little writing in and nail some scenes in her backstory. Could be fun.
colourofsaying sent me an awesome recipe for a dark chocolate cake, and then I adapted another recipe to make a sticky dark chocolate honey icing, and the whole thing turned out way better than I was expecting, given my lack of dessert baking expertise. I am really tempted to start experimenting now. Except that this cake used up all of our butter.Since it's Wednesday, that also means that it is RPG night! We're still playing with the training wheels on, but honestly I appreciate that. It would be a ton of information to take in even if I wasn't pretty shy about role-playing in front of other people, but I feel like I'm slowly starting to get the hang of it, and getting a little bit better about thinking on my feet. And the actual gameplay so far is great - last week we focused on the storyline I had started, and L and A helped me to rescue a girl who had been abducted and forced into prostitution as a pleasure-droid. This week all our characters were at a Halloween party and we spent half the night playing blackjack and liar dice, but I did get to schmooze some information about a crime ring out of some smugglers. I even tried to stay in character the whole time! The more I get used to being my character, the more I like her. I'm thinking of starting some 5 Things lists, just to get a little writing in and nail some scenes in her backstory. Could be fun.