Free Rice

So Matt my housemate found this kick ass site which has a fun game that also helps other people. Basically you go there and try to match a word to the word's meaning. All very simple and the words get HARD. Great for vocab geeks like me who love new and interesting words. Anyhow for every word you get right they donate 10 grains of rice. I know it doesn't sound like much but they've donated over 50 METRIC TONS so far. How cool is that?

So if you have some free time and are a bit bored go try out this new games. The world thanks you.

Format Change

So I switched LJ formats in honor of ye olde Thanksgiving. It was not easy either. Or I should say not as easy as I would have thought. LJ doesn't have any thanksgiving layouts really. I found this one in the food and drink section. It is about as close as they have. Odd ne?

I thought I was goin' to be able to sleep the sleep of the wicked tonight. Unfortunately I forgot I was cooking the ham which means I have to be up at a reasonable hour. Actually I just checked cooking times and I don't! Bwhahaha I am free to be a sleep glutton FREEEEEEE! *coughs* Right then maybe I should get to my gluttony of sleep then.

Or not. I wonder when people are getting here tomorrow. Looks like in addition to our standard number of 11 (Yes I live with ten other people for those few new readers) we are having hmmm I want to say only 9 extra people but I feel like that number is a little small. Let's just say there will be between 20-25 people here. We're only keeping 3 or 4 for the night but then we have others coming over throughout the weekend. Good gods this is a busy household during holidays. **Groan- I just realized I have 2-3 more people to add to the list. I don't even want to think about the money right now**

Speaking of holidays, I'm so proud of myself. I went out today and got almost all of my holiday shopping done. I believe I have maybe hmm 3 more people to buy for then I want to make up some small gifts for school friends. Kinda like Kt's Martha Baskets but nothing so expansive. Most likely edible in nature. Hmm gotta design those at some point. I also ordered checks for the household accounts. Hehehe checks with My Little Ponies on them. Bwhahaha! MLP is lurve!

Alright time to attempt sleep.

Night all and Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! I'm gonna drop my normal sarcasm for today. I'm thankful for whatever mixture of fate and gods helped me to get to such a good place in my life- wondrous family, loyal friends, and annoyingly cute sprog. I hope you have as much to be thankful for as I do ^_^

*deep breath* We have a house filled to bursting with friends, family, and the smells of cooking food. I'm healthy and fairly happy, things could be better but oh so much worse as well. All in all, today is a good day.

And now I'm off to go down to one of the cottages finish cooking a killer tasty ham.

Edit: Okay I can't resist talking about the killer ham. I modded the recipe from Alton Brown's City Ham. So basically it is a layering effect; first layer is homemade applesauce, then dark brown sugar, spritz of Calvados (an apple brandy) and then a layer of homemade molasses cookies (mixed with bread crumbs cause I was low on cookies). It comes out oh so wonderful. Sweet and salty and YUMMY!!! LOL Okay I'll stop chattering and eat now.