The little devil on your shoulder

Ninety-Hour workweeks SUCK.

That is all.

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Managed to make some flax and sunflower seed bread tonight as well as friendship bread (they've both been on slow-rise cycles over the last few days)

The sunflower bread tastes awesome. The crumb is beautiful, although I think I killed a lot of the really big air pockets in my shaping process. (I'm not very good at shaping my loaves.) The only thing I wasn't impressed with was the lack of beautiful toasting on my crust. I mostly attribute this to cooking it in an electric oven with no baking stone...

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Also this week I:

Gave good people bad news.

Took a corn cob out of a yellow lab's inside.

Had *another* parvo dog (per the owner, dog was up-to-date on vaccinations... when it was *six* weeks old! Guess what, those don't even *count* when he's eleven months.)

Bred a mare (who had better ovulate tonight)

Played with an elk fawn. OMG CUTE!,

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Going to sleep now. (Working this weekend as well, but at least I'm not on overnights. The 24/7 thing is killer.)

1. You know what's an AWESOME movie (if you're not epileptic)? SPEED RACER is. Why did no one tell me this? I wanted to see it when it came out in the theaters, and it took me until yesterday to get it on Netflix, and OMG! It's shiny and fast, implausible, cheesy as hell and makes no excuses. It has the catchy theme song (Go Speed Racer) and the catchy theme (one guy against the MAN) and the kid from The Kids are Alright is in it, and and and... I want to watch it again!!

2. I am so inordinately amused by Tina Fey. Almost as much as I am by Sarah Palin. Less by the government in general (although I might've laughed out loud when I read the news this afternoon).

3. You know what else is awesome? SGA is. I finally got to watching First Contact after the furor of the debate died down, and it was GREAT. By far the best episode of the season, reminded me why I got hooked on the stargate verse in the beginning-- except now I have to wait TWO WHOLE WEEKS to see what happened!

4. I just discovered the best easy curry dinner EVER. It's Spaa natural foods. You heat the packet of curry and rice in the microwave while sautée-ing some fresh veggies (pre-cut mushrooms, broccoli, and green onion) and tofu, throw it all together, and PRESTO. Awesome Thai curry in less than ten minutes.

4a. I made chipotle apples for a pot luck dinner on Saturday, and they were a surprisingly big hit. Easy, too. Basically, you sautée thinly sliced apples with brown sugar, cinnamon, a little oil, and chipotle peppers in adobo sauce (to taste) until it's one sweet and spicy mess.

5. The title for the last Spn ep? STILL cracks me up. I am conflicted about whether I will watch the VP debate (which should be hilarious) and DVR this week's episode. Or vice versa.
I'm highly amused that of all the major networks, only CW doesn't suspend programming for the presidential debate series-- although it was funnier when the choice was Obama-McCain or Friday Night Smackdown...

6. HEROES! PETER! SYLAR! MICAH! What can I say?? I'm not even going to speculate.

(7. Gosh, it looks like I'm watching a lot of TV this week.)