the morning after
had a delightful, 80's-riffic, very, evening with twilite_embrace yesterday. we made some killer lasagna, burned some bread, watched heathers, petted the cat, and got about 3/4 intoxicated. it's a point of intoxication i like (really, i guess anything past halfway is pretty fun, until you hit around 1.01x and from there it's all downhill. or that's how it works for me anyway. wow. it's been over 6 months since i got drunk enough to puke. go me!)

anyway, after she went home, my inebriation plus laziness led me quickly into a dreamy sleep and as fortune would have it, i remained em-boxerated instead of completely naked, and thank goodness since i was woken by a knock at the door and went "mmmrfle" and walked over and opened it without really thinking...and there was a very cute little girl standing there in the hallway offering me her remote control. the exchange went something like this:

"whaa?"
"you should take this."
"why are you giving it to me?"
"we...don't have a radio anymore."
"hmm, i think you should still keep that."
girl backs away slowly and closes door. i exchange looks with pixel.

at this point i think to look down and am happy to report that mr. happy was not peeking out the happy slot in les boxeres.

i have answered the door naked before and scared off some guy who i think wanted to mow my lawn. which was fine. i was hoping it was someone soliciting for god, but soliciting at all and BEFORE I'M AWAKE is really a peeve. i had never considered the fact that i might end up traumatizing little girls. even ones who wake me up at 8:45 deserve better than that.

now wakened, cat demands feeding and my tummy is grumbling a bit too so i hit the kitchen floor still in my boxers and realize an apron is in order before i start frying anything. silk boxers are not proof against bacon grease burns.

but i'm struck by the myriad lasagnamaking leftovers in the fridge so i go a little bit different direction, and finally give in after about 12 years of wondering: howcome spaghetti sauce isn't a general purpose condiment?! so i made italian breakfast tacos: sausage, green pepper, garlic all fried up, eggs with italian seasoning, over ricotta in a tortilla with some shaved red onion. and i tried the following toppings:

1) some kind of garlic-herby marinara
2) alfredo
3) nothing

i am happy to report that the marinara won hands down. alfredo was a distant third, although it is in general my favorite pasta sauce and i typically use my own recipe. i am also happy to report that i might actually manage to use up the rest of that ricotta, which is someting i've probably never managed before after buying a full container. i really need to start basing my recipes around the package sizes of food, since it is a perpetual problem--what *do* you do with a half-cup of alfredo sauce, if you're already set on lasagna leftovers for the week? i ain't cooking more pasta for Some Time--i get pretty easily pasta'd out. so by the time i get back to it, it's taken up space in my fridge for so long it's grown a colony of taint and then i get to throw it away. argh. i need to live in a whole foods world, where i can go in with a cup and get a cup of X, Y, and Z, and 2 tablespoons of fresh rosemary (which the lasagna recipe called for, but for which i was not interested in paying $1.99...apparently the stuff *doesn't* grow on trees around here. i'll be planting some at the new place since it is fucking indestructible which puts it at the "challenging" level for my green thumb abilities instead of just about everything else in the world which rates "impossible")

also, i dreamed about missingwatch and chicafantasma. it was a night of hug-filled dreams also containing burning couches and gwynn learning to drive a stick-shift so we could drive around the block because, after all, we needed waffles!

anyway. felt random & felt like sharing, so you get this mishmash. sorry there's no foodporn (i'm always too hungry to even think about taking a picture by the time it's ready), or erotica (dreams last night were not sexy despite a glut of sexy ladies), or even nudity (actually i think that you probably agree that much is for the best, considering my unexpected audience), but at least there's recipes =)