this’ll be up until 11 PM tonight, so in case you WANT to come to FROYDSTRAVAGANZA© pt 2, but do not know the way, this is the guiding light.

I had some “mead” last night at brigid’s cross here in town. I’ve gotta say that it’s ok.

But it isn’t standard mead. I’m relatively certain that it’s more Mead Brandy, described here

Mead Brandy – A traditional mead was brewed and then distilled into a brandy-like liquor. Variations of this may well have included adding honey to other distilled spirits to sweeten the drink, as with Drambuie.

Many of us who tasted it last night observed it was more like brandy than it was like wine. The mead from brigid’s is imported from Ireland, where those drunkards probably mislabled something. Just thought you should all know the difference, so if anyone has some of MY mead, they won’t be too confused at the drastic difference between the two.

The Froyd© is the life of the party!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You not only show up to the party (no matter what else is going on in your life), you are the party. Celebration is healing. Through your laughter you help the world.

tomorrow night.

byob, unless you want to drink water/milk/cokezero.

Apparently there’s been a new year added to the Chinese Calendar. Next year, it is the year of the Froyd.

I suggest an appropriate presence of mind for such an auspicious future…get ready to rock.

the mead is.

an interesting flavor right now too.

I do know I’ve got to move it to better bottles. the water jugs are not twist tops, and so therefore all the carbonation is going.

curses.

that’d be the grades I got this semester.

I’m reasonably happy.

I’ll be happier once these mythology papers are out of the way though. I’ve settled on a Joseph Campbell topic, I’m going to look at how his view that symbols should be made meaningless had affected his study of myth and how it may have contributed towards critiques of his scholarship.

I’m at a bit of a stand still here as far as theories of myth are concerned. I hate joseph campbell…I’ll say that right now, because he glosses over or derides differences in myth and religion to support his view and belief in a ‘monomyth’.

However, I do appreciate the similarities between different myths that he’s pulled together.

However, I don’t appreciate the fact that he overrides differences just because they don’t fit with his theories.

However, I have no idea what my 10 page paper is going to be on.

I don’t know why, and it’s never quite come over me so strongly before, but while grocery shopping today, I felt an overwhelming urge for fresh vegetables.

I love raw vegetables. Cooked vegetables I’m ok with, so long as there is a bit o’ the crunch left in them. Also, in case anyone is wondering, corn is NOT a vegetable. It is the devil’s playground. Words cannot describe how much I despise corn in its many forms.

Where was I? Oh yes. Fresh vegetables. I picked up some supplies for some stir fry, and am planning on having that for supper. I got home and as soon as the groceries were away, I ate a tomato. That hit the spot. Some people may think that’s just a cliche, but those people have never had a craving that was so perfectly fulfilled as was the tomato being eaten by me this afternoon.

mmmm….vegetables.

I have decided(after last night’s drinking) that while I am still in Bemidji, I am only going to drink alcohol under the following conditions:

1. If it was a gift from someone
or
2. If I have made it myself.

if neither of those apply, I’m not going to drink it.

Not only will this save me money, but it’ll probably save me brain cells.

just racked the mead. holy crap for fizzy.

and it’s a bit more sour than what I expected, but that is probably due to the massive amount of yeast put in there.

I have the feeling it will be very very tasty on saturday evening.

is a-bubblin’….I adjusted this recipe by multiplying it by five, and by taking out all the spices, just adding the juice of 5 lemons, the yeast and the honey.

we’ll see how it tastes new Year’s.

aka Froydstravaganza Pt 2

got computer speakers from my grandmother for christmas.

the sound is…undescribably better than the laptop speakers I’ve used for the last two months.

mmm…..

to everyone, and I just hope there isn’t a fight like what happened in years gone by.

I hope you all have safe travels, easy cookin’, tasty meals, and presents that will support my aim of world dictatorshi….um forget that last one.

I hope you all have happy fuzzy memories built from this year and this christmas.

it’s sites like this that truly uphold the revolutionary and anti-establishment spirit of the web.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). If you feel others are appraising you, they are. (You don’t deserve to be judged, but it’s an unavoidable part of human nature.) You are, and you have, more than enough. You’re a beloved child of the universe.

STOP STARING AT ME! EVERYONE!!! JUST STOP!!!

beloved child of the universe, eh? this news is going to be QUITE the shocker to my parents. Unless they already knew…

bizzarre.

I just suppose that makes it my responsibility to buy the universe some christmas presents. Just great. What do you get for something that has(or is) everything?