When I found the recipe I use for my pumpkin-oatmeal-chocolate-chip-cookies, my first thought was, "This is great.  It yields 7-8  dozen cookies, so I'll never have to double it."

Today, I doubled it.

Some recipes are just not meant to be doubled, and this is one of them. It's got so much stuff in it already, and when you double it you come out with 6 sticks of butter and 8 cups of four, which in itself is pretty insane. Basically if you double this recipe, you're retarded.  And now if you double it, you're more retarded than me, because you've been warned.

 

Pumpkin-Chip Cookies

 

• 1 & 1/2 cups unsalted butter
• 2 cups packed brown sugar
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 can pumpkin (15-16 oz)
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 4 cups flour
• 2 cups quick-cooking oats
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp allspice (cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice would also work)
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 bag of chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream butter and both sugars together.

Beat in the pumpkin, egg, and vanilla.

In a seperate bowl, combine four, oats, baking soda, salt, and spice.
Slowly stir it into the creamed mixture.

Mix in chocolate chips.

Drop tablespoonfulls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

Bake for 10-12 minutes.  I usually go for 10, because they burn at the bottom if I wait longer.

 

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Here's a picture of when the creamed part was finished. It almost filled up the entire bowl! I had to perform an emergency bowl-swap to make sure I had enough room later. It sort of looks like baby food...

The powered ingredients also took up a bowl.

Here's a shot of it all together. It took me forever to stir; it was really a strain on my poor arm. It now looks like baby food with chocolate chips in it. =D

Thought I'd take a shot of the first batch as an example of what they should look like.

And what you've all been waiting for - the finished cookies. There are 1 dozen in each of the 8 cups for the cookie exchange, 3 dozen in each of the big containers (2 will go to Parxmas, and 1 will either go with me or Todd to work), and 8 in the little container for taste-testing at the cookie exchange. That's 212 cookies. PHEW!

And let's not forget the casualties of war!

I have put the pattern for my (re)TARDIS hat on my wordpress.

And for those of you on Ravelry who want to keep track of it:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/retardis-hat

Enjoy, and do comment and let me know if you use my pattern!

Alright. Some of you might recall that last week I had gone to my OBGYN and asked them to please authorize a few refills on my pills so I could go in for an appointment after the holidays.  Then when I called my pharmacy on Sunday to see if they were there before wasting time going there, I was told that my doctor hadn't called in the refills.

So understandably I was upset about this, and I decided to just not bother with the pills for a few months.

Well today I get a phone call from the pharmacy saying I have a prescription.  So I figured the ONGYN called it in late and went in and bought it.

And it wasn't until I got home and looked at the package that I realized it wasn't my prescription at all, but something for bladder infections!

So now I have to figure out how to get CVS to take this back (and no, I didn't even open the bag it's in) and I have to get my OBGYN to call in the right stuff and maybe even tell them the prescription was a mistake, but in the meantime I just dropped $20 on this useless bladder infection crap.

URGHGHGHGHG.

Oh, and I have to mention - that prescription was actually called in on the 24th, and the fucktard pharmacist who was in on Sunday didn't even bother to tell me I had something there waiting.

Fuck you for allowing one of your employees to steal a movie and then telling me I never returned it.

Why the fuck would I not give back ERAGON??? Of COURSE I returned it, you assholes! Shittiest movie EVER.

Fuck you for completely ignoring my phone calls when I said I definitely returned it.

Fuck you for never sending me a bill for the movie and then sending it to a debt collector. Why should I pay $50 for a movie I didn't steal?

Now I'm going to have to go on the credit forum and see if there's a way I can get out of this, because there's no way in fuck I'm paying for this shit.

Nobody should be surprised that I'm boycotting this piece of shit rental company at this point.

Updated my Christmas Wish list for anyone looking for gift ideas.  If you get something from here make sure you email the other people who might use it and let them know so I don't get any doubles. If you aren't on the list and are getting something from it let me know so I can add you. I have a javascript doing the email addresses so they can't be farmed.

Most of the stuff on here should be less than $40, and I made sure a bunch of them were around $10-$15.

http://animejb.net/christmas/

I thought some of you not on Facebook or Ravelry would like to see my (re)TARDIS hats.  I have two of the one I'll be wearing, and one of the prototype I'd be happy to give away to whoever might want it.

If you are a Twilight fan, you will not like the following conversation.

You have been warned.

gallainfae: Hey Jen, what are you doing Friday night?
calophichan: going to a coworker's house
calophichan: why
gallainfae: Ah, I was wondering if at some point you'd like to go out drinking and then stumble to see Twilight. Because I'm going to have be drunk to get myself to go see it.
calophichan: I'd have to be so drunk it'd be illegal for me to be out in public to pay money to see that movie
calophichan: There is no way in hell. I already feel cheated for buying a book and movies cost as much as a paperback these days
calophichan: plus I have to get todd to my dad's by 8am XD
calophichan: so that's an early morning
calophichan: now, if we waited and had my brother find a decent theater-rip
calophichan: I could sit some weekend and get drunk watching it
gallainfae: We can definitely find a decent rip of Twilight.
calophichan: of course, "a decent rip of twilight" is surely an oxymoron
calophichan: because I have nohope at all that twilight will even be bad in a good way
gallainfae: Awwww.
gallainfae: I am giggling my ass off.
gallainfae: I know it's going to be bad. Part of the problem are the actors.
calophichan: the other part of the problem is the book it's based on...
gallainfae: Probably.
gallainfae: I think I see it as a trainwreck.

...I can't help writing a drabble about it not even an hour after I finish watching the last episode. -_-

So for anyone who's seen Macross Frontier - because otherwise it's spoilery - you can check it out at my still sorta barebones fiction blog:

Calscripts: Ultimatum

Let me know if you have problems posting comments there if you try.

My friend Will It Work says that the other Macross serieses are genre-mixed, too - love triangle/idol singer/mecha. When I tried to watch it before I couldn't tolerate any of those genres, but now I can, so I guess I'll go back and try the old ones again to see if I can do it. There's just something about singing to save the world and a girl being just as instrumental in awesomeness as a guy that I really like.

Yesterday I learned that even though I love burritos that include black beans, chicken, and rice, I do not necessarily enjoy other dishes that include those three things.  Was disappointed in P.F.Chang's Chicken in Black Bean Sauce.  It was really a lot sweeter than I expected. I guess I'll need to stick to burritos. :-(

I'm going to yet again copy Planetgal471 because she's just that awesome and try to post my Last.fm stats every week.

Last.FM Stats

Week: 11/3 - 11/9
Unique Artists: 137
Total Tracks: 325
Total Plays: 338

1. Eagles of Death Metal (21 plays)
2. P.D.Q. Bach (19 plays)
3. We Will Eat Rats to Survive (13 plays)
4. メトロノーム (11 plays)
5. Queens of the Stone Age (10 plays)
6. Cursive (8 plays)
7. The Rolling Stones (7 plays)
8. FLOPPY (6 plays)
9. Reverend Horton Heat (6 plays)
10. 7 more artists at 5 plays each

Top Tracks:

1. The Ting Tings – That's Not My Name  (2 plays)
2. Collective Soul – Better Now  (2 plays)
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps   (2 plays)
4. Tokyo Police Club – Nature of the Experiment  (2 plays)
5. FLOPPY – Sine Wave Orchestra  (2 plays)
6. Eagles of Death Metal – English Girl  (2 plays)
7. We Will Eat Rats to Survive – Let's Hug The World  (2 plays)
8. The Rolling Stones – Can't You Hear Me Knocking    (2 plays)
9. 石井妥師 – Baka Koe no NIRVANA - Urami Genkin  (2 plays)
10. The Fratellis – Vince the Loveable Stoner  (2 plays)
11. Eagles of Death Metal – Whorehoppin (Shit, Goddamn)  (2 plays)
12. We Will Eat Rats to Survive – Family Haircut  (2 plays)

I don't have a lot of time this year, but I really want to try to do something small for everyone if they want it.

SO!  I want to provide a 100-word fanfiction drabble/vignette for anyone who posts the form below.

THE FORM:
Fandom: Please make this something I'm familiar with! Check my interests to be sure, or just post and ask.
Characters or Pairing: I'll write whoever you want. It's only 100 words, so it won't kill me. =D
Genres: Genfic, fluff, smut, horror, disturbing, happy, introspective etc. Whatever you want me to try I'll try.
Plot: Not required, but if there's something in particular you want worked in let me know.

I am going to try real hard to keep these at 100 words this time so I can get them all done this year!  Also don't feel like you have to send me anything back.

I hope everyone is okay with short-fic. =D