Bulk posts are more fun anyway.

Happy New Year readers! I hope everyone had a good time last night, I certainly did! That's why i'm snuggled up in bed with my netbook and my buddy scoobert watching Inglorious Basterds and updating my blog :)

So, I have to cover a few things:
Day 12: We want to see your teeth today / Post a self-portrait (December 30)
Day 13: Whatever tickles your fancy (December 31)
Day 14: A song from your childhood (January 1)

So for Day 12 I took a picture of myself with my webcam that day.

That's me with my buddy Pedo Bear. For those of you who have no idea who Pedo Bear is, it's an internet meme. If you think it's horrible that I have a stuffed bear named Pedo Bear and am making a joke about pedophilia then I guess that's your opinion. Regardless, this is a very recent photo! But i didn't show my teeth because I don't smile with my teeth unless I'm laughing/talking when the picture is taken.

Day 13 is "whatever tickles my fancy".
Well, what tickles my fancy at the moment is this fabulous game Called Machinarium. You can click the title of the game to play a demo. It is a puzzle adventure game in which you play an adorable little robot and use his ability to stretch and shrink to solve the puzzle which will move you on to the next level. It is by far the most fun game and adorable game I've played in a while. I love puzzle games and this is even better because although the world is a puzzle, it is not obvious it is a puzzle. The artwork for the game is beautifully drawn and the detail is amazing. Seriously you guys, at least play the demo! that's all i can really say without just gushing about how cute and awesome it is.

Day 14 is a song from my childhood. This song is Abracadabra by The Steve Miller Band. This would seem odd, except the first CD dina owned and that we listened to all the time was the CD this song was on. If it wasn't steve miller band it was the disney soundtracks for beauty and the beast and alladin. We had a few Sing Along Song videos too, but those weren't as awesome as The Steve Miller Band.

Okay, so there we go! tomorrow it's a letter to someone I wish I could meet! Hooray!
<3 til tomorrow,
MeggyB

Bierox, German for "SO DELICIOUS IT HURTS"

For today's entry (which I'm doing on time if I finish this post in the next half hour!) I will be sharing my favorite recipe. Most of the people who read this know that I love bierox. That is how I spell it, I have no idea if this is correct. After googling it, apparently it is Bierocks. I think this is nonsense, since "x"s improve everything (for example: xXMeggyBXx looks way cooler than MeggyB) so anyway, Bierox/Bierocks is a german meat pocket thing. It's bread dough wrapped around cooked onion, cabbage and ground beef. It goes well with mustard (spicy brown or yellow, none of this honey mustard bs) and beer (any kind of beer as long as it's not dessert beer).

Since the recipe that we usually use in my house is somewhere upstairs and I am lying in bed downstairs snuggled in my blankets because the heat is not on I will just google a recipe for you...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bierocks+recipe

aaaand:

This is the one I decided would work, the very first link.

Ingredients

• 2 (1 pound) loaves frozen bread dough, thawed
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon pepper
• 1 small head cabbage, chopped
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 2 teaspoons caraway seeds
• 1/2 cup melted butter

First off, you should make your own damn dough. That's half the fun. I can't remember the recipe off the top of my head, so you can just google a recipe for bread dough or pizza dough (it's the same thing essentially). Secondly, we never use garlic, lemon pepper, caraway seeds or Worcestershire sauce. I guess this is supposed to be more savory, and thus the added flavors. For the legit (read: the one that i eat) version just don't use that stuff.

Directions

1. Saute beef, onion and garlic, salt and lemon pepper in a large skillet over medium high heat, until beef is browned. Add cabbage, Worcestershire sauce and caraway seeds. Cook until cabbage is limp; drain liquid from mixture. [ We cook the beef and the onion and cabbage in two different pans. Cook the onions first until they're translucent. Then cook the cabbage. Cook the beef in a separate pan and DRAIN IT then let it cool so it doesn't cook the dough when you go to make the little pockets. add the onions and cabbage and beef together in a giant bowl and mix well so that there's a good ratio of vegetable to meat. the ideal ratio is 1:1. ]
   
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) [I have no idea if this is right. it probably is]
   
3. On a lightly floured board, roll each loaf of dough into a 12 inch circle. Cut each circle into 6 wedges. Spoon cabbage/beef filling onto center of each dough piece, dividing equally. Pull three points of each wedge up to the center and pinch to seal. Place bierocks on a lightly greased cookie sheet. If desired, brush dough with melted butter or egg wash (1 egg white with 2 tablespoons water).[this sounds about right. my favorite type of bierocks is the one that there's a lot of filling and just a thin dough exterior. Ones that are mostly dough and a smidgen of filling are tasty too, but only when cold and kind of sticky)
   
4. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve hot, or wrap and freeze for heating later.

Or for midnight snacking, breakfast, second lunch, a pre-dinner snack, second dinner, dessert...I love bierocks and eat them at all times of the day. I also love them cold. It's probably not good to eat them cold, but the bread part gets sticky and delicious if there's enough filling to thin it out. That sentence doesn't make much sense unless you've had bierocks before. So really, you just have to make them and learn all the ways to enjoy them for yourselves.

Okie Dokie, so that's it for today! Tomorrow is a self portrait! Good thing I just got my hair cut :)
<3 Til tomorrow,
MeggyB

Too much awesomeness for one entry.

So yesterday I didn't even bother to turn my computers on except to change my facebook status and to check the weather. Which means I forgot to write the blog for day 9. All that means is that you get to read two VERY interesting entries in one day! Hooray! (hopefully I'll keep up from now on)

So without further ado, a list of my favorite bloggers for day 9:
I'm going to list my favorite 5 blogs in no particular order.

1) The Bloggess : Why should you click this link? Because it leads to hilarity. The Bloggess is a married with a child woman with a sense of humor that is one I can appreciate. Also, James Garfield is the shit. If you want to know what the hell that means, read her blog. Believe me, it's worth the time you'll spend checking out the links in her entries to understand some of what she's talking about.

2) Cake Wrecks : It's a blog about scary cake decorating disasters with funny commentary. The application of MST3K style commentary on anything is sure to win my heart.

3) Pink is the New Blog : One of two gossip blogs that I read. Not every day, but if I'm feeling like wasting an afternoon doing nothing I sit and catch up on all the crap that I shouldn't care to know about but secretly do. The benefit of this blog is that it is not PEOPLE, which means it was written by a man. Win.

4) The Superficial : Staunch feminists beware, this blog is written by a straight man about celebrities (which means most entries are "so and so's boobs" or "so and so is in a bikini"). But with these headlines and the several photos of so and so's body is a scathing commentary that, I suspect, is meant to be a condemnation of people who actually take this shit seriously. I find his commentary hilarious and thus can overlook the blatant objectification of women's body parts. that makes me a bad feminist, but I'm okay with that (because who doesn't want to see Emma Watson's almost nip slip?!)

5) Regretsy : If you've ever been to etsy.com you'll know that there are some treasures to be found. This is not the site for that. Regretsy, as its name would suggest, highlights all the weird and horribly bad things one can find on etsy. April, the author of this blog, is sarcastic and snarky and thus funny. If that doesn't work out, a lot of the images speak for themselves. With all this craziness comes an entire set of memes that one must learn from reading from the very first page to the most current one. The website is a year old, so that's a lot of reading to do. But not to worry, you can still understand what's going on without doing that. Just remember, whimsicle fuckery [the typo is on purpose] is the name of the game.

After thinking about the 5 blogs I've linked I can see that I like snarky commentary and lols for my internet reading material. I hope you do too :3 <3

And now, for a letter to someone that has hurt me greatly/who I would like to die in a fire.

Dear Stephanie Meyer,
I fucking hate you. Now, I'm sure you've heard this all from other radical heathens before, but hear me out. It pains me to admit this but I loved your series, I loved it so much I re-read each book several times and wished that I had my own Edward Cullen. I was 18-19 years old when I read it too, not some impressionable 13 year old girl. I am deeply embarrassed that I wasted my precious time on your crap novels. I am even more embarrassed because I know I will go see Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2 (you ripped that off from Harry Potter, you bitch).
Since you're a fan of lists as "edgy new literary techniques" I'll make one in the middle of my rageletter to you.
Reasons I don't like your books anymore/Why they should be burned and your right to publish things revoked
1) You are a misogynist. You might be asking yourself "wait, I'm a woman how could I hate women?". I don't know Stephanie, but it's clear from reading your books that women are meant to be subordinate to their male partner (and no lesbians are allowed either). This is probably partially influenced by your being a Mormon. A psychoanalyst might claim you hate yourself and that is reflected in your writing. This can't be true because the female characters in The Host were strong and capable (although Melanie did "need" Jared). But seriously, all the women who are attached to men are happy and content and all kinds of nauseating and boring adjectives. The women who do not have a "mate" are Victoria (who is a villain and hell-bent on killing your mary sue) and Leah Clearwater (who you call a bitter harpy numerous times and blame her for the ending of her relationship with Sam even though Sam imprinted on Emily and Leah had no control on that).

Which leads me to my next point:
2) Women in your stories do not do anything, things are done to them. There is no female choice in ANY of your books. Bella is TOLD by Edward to do things and she does them or he just forces her to do what he wants (kidnapping, removing cables from her truck so she can't drive it, standing guard around her house, he uses sex as a way to get her to marry him, he uses his "dazzling" ability to make her forget about why she's arguing with him). Rosalie and Esme are not given a choice by Carlisle to be turned into vampires rather they are just bitten to save them because they were so beautiful and innocent. Imprinting is the best example of this because all the wolves are Male (except for Leah and you make sure to point out that she is a genetic dead end because she is female and a wolf) and when they imprint it is automatic and there is "no choice". To make this seem less horrible, you claim it's true love and they're soul mates and all kinds of shit so that it doesn't seem like these females (because you have wolves that have imprinted on INFANTS) are being held hostage by crazy wolf obsession.

3) You insert Mormon propaganda into your books like it's your job. And maybe it is. Except you pay the church instead of them paying you. So is that like you bribing god to get into heaven? For those of you reading this, part of the whole LDS church business is a sort of due that members pay based on what they earn. Stephanie Meyer has made millions off the Twilight series and thus the LDS Church has too. That aside, the concept of imprinting also brings up the LDS belief in predestination and soul mates. Before someone is born to Earth they pick their future partner/mate and that is the person they will marry on earth. The diction you use describing imprinting is of possession, predestination and "soul mates". Jacob was DESTINED to be with the half-vampire half-human love child of his best friend and his worst enemy and thus HE WILL NOT AGE UNTIL THEIR KID IS OF AGE. Mmhmm. kay. For Jacob's case specifically this also ensures that Bella and Edward were DESTINED to be together because they HAD to create this baby for Jacob to imprint on. It's all just one predestined storyline. Also, the whole "turning Bella into a vampire" is a euphemism for SEX. Edward won't turn Bella until they're...MARRIED. SURPRISE. NO pre-marital vampirism. Oh hey, replace vampirism with sex and blood with vagina and you're set. "Don't change yourself into a vampire before we're married Bella, think about what it would do to your parents!"... "Don't have sex with me before we're married Bella, what would your parents say?!". So yeah, I'm all for 13 year olds being abstinent but abstinence only sex-ed only hurts the teenage population (this is why we have shows like Teen Mom. not the only reason, but one of many).

So, Stephanie Meyer let me sum it up for you so far: you hate women and love Christ's Church of the Latter Day Saints (and wtf does that even mean, the latter day saints? anyone?). Now, in my previous day's entry I said I was a bad feminist. But I am a feminist. You hate women and make them out to be pathetic if they don't have a "male partner" (read: master). You accuse Leah of being less than a "full woman" because she doesn't get a period (true story, guys). If a woman is defined only by her ability to reproduce then why do you glorify Alice, Rosalie and Esme who cannot have children? (oh, that's right, because they're white and Leah is not) The hypocrisy is just an added bonus to the clusterfuck of shittery that is the Twilight Series. Having a Mary Sue for a main character also makes your novels suck a whole lot because immediately there is NO substance to the character. You try really hard to convince your readers that Bella's a very interesting character but all she does is whine, trip and blame herself for things that were not her fault at all. She is pathetic and you are a horrible writer for using a Mary Sue. Your writing also just sucks. You don't need 5 adjectives to describe that Edward is looking at Bella. That must be why your novels average 400 pages.

In Conclusion, you have destroyed a generation of young readers. I grew up with Harry Potter and was delighted with the magical world JK created. I am enchanted by her characters and the endless possibilities presented in her world. Your characters are barely 1 dimensional and offer little for a reader to work with when trying to understand the character. The world of Twilight centers around this group of "vegetarian" (another reason i hate you) vampires and their little human pet and ALL THE DRAMA that leads to ANTICLIMAX. You spent 700 pages of breaking dawn building up to this EPIC battle between the Volturi and the Cullens/their witnesses/the wolves only for the Volturi to go "okay lol we can see we were wrong, bye". Seriously?! You suck. And not in a good way.
Love (but not really),
MeggyB

p.s: Expect an even longer letter when I have exact quotes and page numbers for you. Oh, and I'll use that leaked copy of Midnight Sun to highlight how you are okay with stalking if you're "in love" (even though in 2000ish pages I've never once been convinced Bella and Edward love each other)





So there you have it folks. Sorry if that rage was too much rage for you, but I get pretty worked up about it. Especially because my little cousin is reading this shit and thinks it's great but I can't explain why it's wrong to her without yelling or swearing.

Til tomorrow my loverly readers,
MeggyB

Ketchup!

KAY. So I'm going to catch up with all the things that I was supposed to do the last 3 days. So, here's the list of what I should do:
DAY 5: A letter to your Crush (23)
DAY 6: List of what you ate today (24)
DAY 7: A YouTube video you find funny (25)
Day 8: A photo of you taken recently (26)

Ready for the longest blog entry ever? Me either.

Dear person who I have a crush on,
We met when I was eleven. I didn't like you at first, especially because you were super mean to people I like. It wasn't until I was 16 that I realized you were a great guy. You were just too snarky in the beginning without any kind of provocation.

It's too bad that you're a fictional character. Seriously, what's up with that? *sighhh* Why can't you be real, Severus Snape?
Love,
MeggyB


Day 6: What I ate today (december 24th)
Since the day for this was christmas eve, suffice it to say I ate a lot. I also had delicious sangria (and coors light, but we won't mention that again). For breakfast I think I had toast, lunch was a lot of snacky foods (veggies, raspberry and brie in filo dough, spinich and artichoke dip, etc) and then dinner was stuffed shrimp, scallops, filet mignon wrapped in bacon, rice, veggies and lots of sangria. then desert was lots of cookies. lots and lots and lots of cookies. and then i had a coma.

Day 7: A video that I find funny

Oooooooh, boy. Okay, so I will share two videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMKdyhXmBaA

This one is "Too Late to Apologize- King George " As a history geek this video tickles my fancy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhrF0wDiUI4

This is Episode 1 of Sailor Moon Abridged. It is hilarious if you've ever seen sailor moon. I almost peed. Yeah, i went there.


Okay! So now that I've done three very short catch up entries, here's today's.

Day 8: A picture of me taken recently.

For christmas eve my sisters and I decided to wear incredibly scary christmas outfits. I look like david bowie in these photos. If david bowie was female. Since it was taken a few days ago, this is an incredible recent photo! Oh boy :3



as you can see, i am rocking a sweet ass 90s jacket, complete with tuxedo tails and bow where a tramp stamp would be. And yes, those are velvet leggings and scooby doo slippers. It's not the most flattering photo, but none of them from today were because of the crazy david bowie makeup.



This photo is from later in the night when i'd rubbed at my makeup all day. Be jealous of those sweet froot loop necklaces (no pun intended).
There you go :)
<3
MeggyB