09:11 RT @FakeAPStylebook Note to film reviewers: The studio's PR people may call it "squeakquel" but you were raised better than that. #

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1. Take your LJ username and replace each letter with the corresponding number (A=1, B=2, etc...).
megotelek = 13+5+7+15+20+5+12+5+11=93

2. Add all of the numbers together to create a kind of super number.
93

3. Make a note of the first digit of this number, then add the digits of the number together.
First digit = 9. Digits added together = 12

4. Find the post of this last number in your LJ.
Post 12 http://megotelek.livejournal.com/3157.html

5. Take the digit you noted in step 3, and count that many words into the post.
9th word is "People". Well, technically it's the number "137", but I'm going with the 9th word.

6. Use the resulting word in a Google Image Search, and select a picture from the first page.
'People in Google'

7. Post the results.


Seriously...how could I not pick that one?!

So. Tonight I begin the annual Christmas baking frenzy. I have a plan: tiger butter, pumpkin pie filling, various cookie doughs to be refrigerated for baking tomorrow.

I get out bags of white chocolate chips and dump them into a saucepan. Two heaping spoonfuls of peanut butter go in, and...heat! Stir, stir. Stir. I watch chips melt slowly. Stir. Why aren't they melting all the way? Stiiiiir. Okay, now it's hardening on the bottom for some reason...white chocolate doesn't seize, does it?

Chocolate in saucepan: *seizes like whoa*
Me: >:O
John: *rescues saucepan from me as I hulk out a bit*

Okay, switching gears. I decide to skip the pumpkin pie filling because I don't want to wash the mixer bowl again. Seriously, I need a second mixer bowl for the beloved KitchenAid.

Vanilla fudge. Okay, we can do this. White chocolate chips, whipping cream and honey go in a bowl in the microwave and are melted. Cooled almost all the way, and then dump into a foil-lined baking dish. No, wait, stir in the M&Ms! Okay, I am totally stirring the M&Ms into the fudge as it sits, hardening, in the baking dish. It still looks like fudge. And, into the fridge to set.

I quickly mix together the dough for the cardamom sugar crisps, pop it in the fridge, and start on the white-chocolate-dipped cherry thins. (Side note: I have noticed that cookies are never called "cookies" anymore...they're always "thins" or "crisps" or "drops" or something else. Why is that?)

8oz maraschino cherries, dried and chopped fine. Have you ever chopped up maraschino cherries and had "Mack the Knife" come up on shuffle? Let me tell you, it's hilarious. I'm chopping away, red ooze all over my hands, and Bobby Darrin is singing: "Fancy gloves, though, has old MacHeath, yeah / So there's never, never a trace of red!"

Okay, and into the dough they go. And...walnuts. And...shape into logs and put in fridge to set. Sort of.

Whew...okay, that's it for tonight. Now back to Torchwood (ooh, how will Captain Jack and the gang scar me for life in this episode?)...

09:08 RT @FakeAPStylebook IT'S - contraction of "it is." ITS - possessive form of "it." ITS' - the most horrible thing you could ever possibly do. #

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09:19 twitpic.com/u70ps - Baking inventory time... #

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09:10 RT @DRUNKHULK ON SECOND DAY OF CHRISTMAS MY LOVE SEND TWO TURTLE DOVES! DRUNK HULK NO WANT THIS GENETIC NIGHTMARE! WHAT NEXT LIZARD PARROT! #

14:50 RT @wilw The best thing about Avatar is that it imagines a world where a program to breed Thundercats with Smurfs has been successful. #

15:37 RT @cleolinda Avatar = (Dances w/ Wolves + Smurfs) x (Cats - jazz hands) x (Fern Gully - Cheech & Chong) x (white man's burden - smallpox)? #

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10:11 Glad we already have our 4-day passes! RT @Comic_Con SINGLE DAY MEMBERSHIPS ARE NOW ON SALE!bit.ly/1eBSU #

10:14 Winter event is live on #coh! Plus free server transfers...I know what I'll be doing all weekend. You know, in between concerts and whatnot. #

13:07 All it's missing is a "pip, pip!" or "cheerio!" RT @FakeAPStylebook The British spelling of "color" is "Blimey, color, I say! What ho!" #

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13:23 RT: @FakeAPStylebook: The candles in a menorah are called Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder and Leviticus. #

14:18 Had to parse this one for way too long... RT @andylevy: Hoping that Jenny Sanford gets $8,675,309 in her divorce settlement. #

16:44 I knew there was a reason my constant altitis kept leading me back to Virtue; @longshotauthor is there! #coh #

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16:33 I'm Tivoing this tonight (bit.ly/88feCG). Will be wearing my 'got orange?' Syracuse shirt. Elizabeth has turned me into a pod person! #

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12:14 Includes the hotel list (reservations start on 3/18) RT: @Comic_Con: Comic-Con Magazine is up!!! Check it out bit.ly/6WTJp3 #

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12:18 Eeee! RT @cinematical: Sherlock Holmes: Ritchie's best movie to date. Fun, spectacular set pieces & terrific bromance-marriage chemistry #

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13:08 RT: @FakeAPStylebook: A "New York" dateline does not need a state. There are no other cities. #

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13:28 Hmm...eyes are kinda stingy, throat is kinda achy, head is kinda congeste..NO! Nonononono! #

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15:56 I just generated a #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: time, choir, church - w33.us/474s #

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08:43 RT: @FakeAPStylebook: A cornucopia is a horn-shaped basket filled with food such as fresh corn and wild ucopias. #

11:18 RT: @FakeAPStylebook: Use the term "free-range turducken" only if the turkey has eaten both the duck and the chicken. #

12:20 Last night's agenda failed miserably. No pie-baking, no event-testing. Did watch V, NCIS, and NCIS: Drinking Game (Los Angeles), though... #

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08:38 YAY! RT: @Psych_USA: Here's excitement for ya...... It's official... PSYCH has been renewed for a 5th season! :) #

15:08 On tonight's agenda: Bake my (state-fair-award-winning!) apple-cranberry pie to bring for Thanksgiving. Also: test new CoH winter event. #

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14:18 twitpic.com/qk07y - Elizabeth boots! #

14:21 twitpic.com/qk0o8 - And Elizabeth pumps (she's very in style this season!) #

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08:50 RT: @FakeAPStylebook: When a story is killed it is worth 45 experience points and drops one item from Treasure Table B. #

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13:42 Uh-oh, Groundhog Day! RT: @CarltonCuse: LOST will premiere Tuesday, February 2 at 9PM. #

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10:40 2012 in 15 Minutes, courtesy of @cleolinda: bit.ly/oeHRr. Decided to see the movie at "And then California fell into the sea." #

11:38 Discussing the nuances of white-elephant gift exchange with family. Would normally be non-starter, but with my family it'll be...interesting #

12:24 Next, on Deadliest Catch: Europa -- bit.ly/25afiX #

16:22 I was retweeted by @RedScareBot. So very hilarious. #

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