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Which of Henry VIII's wives are you?


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Personality You are more logical than emotional, more concerned about self than concerned about others, more religious than atheist, more loner than dependent, more workaholic than lazy, more traditional than rebel, more engineering mind than artistic mind, more cynical than idealist, more leader than follower, and more extroverted than introverted. As for specific personality traits, you are adventurious (100%), romantic (100%), intellectual (93%), religious (90%).

Stereotypes Prep 77% Punk Rock 73% Old Geezer 67%

Life Experience Sex 42% Substances 0% Travel 42%

Politics Your political views would best be described as Libertarian, whom you agree with around 84% of the time.

Socioeconomic Your attitude toward life best associates you with Middle Class. You make more than 0% of those who have taken this test, and 28% more than the U.S. average.

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Mmm... cheesecake

I tried the cheesecake recipe from the Cake Bible that I got for 12th night (thanks guys) for

shutt3rg33k's party. This definitely falls into the "why did I think this would be harder?" category. The recipe has a good flavor (enhanced by my raspberry sauce: raspberries, sugar, water; simmer, strain), but wasn't as firm as I would like. Some experimentation is clearly called for. I'll probably start by cutting the sour cream and adding an egg. 

Other baking didn't go quite as planned. I tried to make the wheat free chocolate cake that I made for callistotoni's birthday a couple of years ago (the bears fishing in the river cake), but it ended up as a molten lava cake. I know what went wrong, but it was frustrating to have a recipe that I have made successfully before fail completely. I ended up making a wheaten chocolate cake instead. Put together with the cheesecake and with a frosting Firefly space ship and viola: Serenity flies away from a moon. I always suspected space was made out of dark chocolate. Once again, I failed to get a picture of the cake.

Also in the realm of why did I think this would be harder, I made baklava. That was good fun. And yummy. 

Other things to do again: 
+ Baked brie, of course. It's always a favorite, and I had just enough filo left from the baklava that I didn't need to make a crust.  
+ The warm meat and cheese wraps - easy to make ahead: lavash bread from TJ's, sliced provalone or jarlsberg, sliced ham or turkey - roll up, wrap in foil, (refrigerate,) bake 15 min at 400F, slice and serve.
+ Smoked salmon en croute. Rediculously easy, but this earns tons of extra credit with folks.
+ Kiwi stars - I don't know that anyone noticed, but I thought they were fun and kept with the Firefly theme (yes, strawberries would have been appropriate, too). Also easy: peel the kiwi, run a small star cookie cutter through the fruit, slice crosswise. 
+ fruit, veggies, cheese, blah, blah, blah...

The true sign of successful party cooking: I never had to refill the chip bowl. Not even with the blue ones.

 

Who?

So, in my usual stream of consciousness, I was thinking... 

Here is the stream:
Space is chocolate
I like chocolate. I should go to space.
I should be an astronaut.
Poor diaper-girl, she doesn't get to go to space any more.
Why can't I remember diaper-girl's name?

Which brings me to the subject of this post, and ends the quick peek into how my thoughts run: 

I can't think of the names of any of the current astronauts. That makes me sad. They used to be celebrities, famous explorers. Now, I don't know who they are. When did they lose their glamour? Is that why NASA has become so poorly funded? Sigh.


I want more space chocolate!