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Stuff I wanna see before the end of the year:

Colleague Kathleen's show at MCBA
Ta-Coumba's solo show at the MIA saw on Sunday!
Frida Kahlo at the Walker
British advertisting awards

And I have free tickets to see the Klezmatics Hanukkah party at the Cedar on Sunday. I've never seen the Klezmatics, so that's kinda cool.

Maybe someday I'll figure out what I'm getting for everyone for holiday presents and go shopping. Gah. It's kind of stressing me out right now. Also feeling like I haven't worked enough on music recently. Sitting around and eating take-out and watching bad movies is good for you, too, especially when you've been working a lot, but it's still hard to not beat myself up for not coming directly home from a 9 hour work day and getting busy on creative stuff. Dumb ol' work ethic.

shop shop shop

I want a new winter coat, but can't find anything I like. If anyone knows what the cool empyre black-and-grey kinda cyber-y hoodie I have that S4 gave me for Christmas a year or two ago is like, I really want that except in winter jacket form instead of fall-weather hoodie form. I'd also take a winter ladies motorcycle jacket - I like the lines of a lot of motorcycle jackets- but don't want another leather and wouldn't really want to deal with armor if I'm just using it for daily wear. (It might be handy if I went skiing or get r0ckc4ndy to teach me to snowboard, though!) Anyone have any ideas?

this one's for r0ckc4ndy!

post-derby snackage

mmm, lefse. And beer. mmmm, beer.

I might not see eye to eye with S4's family all the time, but boy do the Lindbergh ladies make some awesome lefse. My Norweigan great grandma would be glad.

Between all the specialty hardware required for lefse-making, and the more-different specialty hardware for making krumkake, plus the proliferation of waffles that I noticed when I was in Norway, I wonder how much crazy cooking gadgetry the typical Scandinavian kitchen must contain. Granted, I've still never had such wonderful breakfasts as I had when I stayed with host families in Norway. It was really quite amazing, the spread they had every single morning. Two blocks of cheese, always- the white cheese and the brown goat cheese- fresh breads, a plate of vegetables and cold cuts and seafood, nutella, tea, juice, waffles... I thought all of this on the table in the morning was just because we were guests, but it turned out to be not uncommon throughout the five or so different homes we stayed. It was so sweet, one place, they got us corn flakes, because we were American and that's what they guessed we'd prefer. Otherwise, I had my fill of open face cheese sandwiches with a piece of red pepper and a sprig of parsley. Being vegetarian was not always the easiest.

Is 10:30 too late to make cookies?

Maybe.