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Green Room - Week 29 - Day 6
It was a dark and stormy night...
No, really, it was.
Really stormy.
It didn't make matters any better that there ended up being a water pipe that burst a couple streets over from where we were heading.
Traffic is bad on an average day when you are leaving the city and coming into suburbia. But when you add "bad weather" into the mix, it's just going to get worse. Throw in "traveling on bus" - and then once you get home, needing to run back out into it - yeah, it becomes less of a "am I going to be late" and more of a "HOW late am I going to be?"
Especially when you haven't factored in actually eating dinner.
But that's what you sign up for - sometimes you just have to *not* eat in order to get everything done that needs to get done.
When those "perfect storm" situations hit, you try to be more understanding about other people who may be going through something of their own on their end of the internet.
Which is why I send out my patented "You coming?" emails to people who haven't made it in yet. To find out what is going on - and if they just forgot to link their entry. When I'm running ahead of schedule, I tend to look for those myself - and usually end up finding a few on even the best of weeks. (rarely the same person)
I understand - things can happen.
Which is a long way around getting to the question that I have multiple copies of in my inbox last night/this morning. What it boils down to is "Do you enforce the deadlines/why have rules if you won't enforce them?"
There are definitely people who have come in on the wrong side of being late for a poll and have been eliminated as a result.
Deadlines are set. But, since Season 1, the policy has always been "If you get it in before I post the poll - I'll allow it." That's always the been the rule for what gets in the poll and what doesn't.
I can think of someone off the top of my head (a personal favorite of mine that season actually) who ended up submitting their entry less than a minute after a posted the poll. *That* was heartbreaking, but it's one of the dangers involved with posting at last minute. You never know when I am going to be have things ready to go! Things like last night, or where LJ just goes wonky/something wrong with the coding are pretty rare. The closer you get to that edge, the more likely it is to end up costing you.
Some people don't like that. They say it shows too much mercy.
Some people don't like when I have a twist that they think is too cruel.
To me - the mercy and the cruelty ends up evening out. :)
I can let people into the polls. Or come into the game late through special events and powers. Ultimately though YOU will decide if they are going to stay.
That's your power as voters. If you want to use "were they on time?" as a criteria - that's your criteria.
"Have they been here the entire time?" Again. Your criteria.
"Can I beat them?" (I've seen that one used before) That's on you.
The main one should always be "What did I think of the entry?" But those are certainly valid tie-breakers if everything else is equal.
This week has a Contestant Only vote component to it: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/809247.html which is a chance for the contestants to have their say. I hope that you will use it - and if being late to the party is something that bugs you - don't vote for them. If it's not, and they are putting out something you enjoy, do.
This is one small area where it really is "your call", where your will is going to be enforced! Use it wisely.
No, really, it was.
Really stormy.
It didn't make matters any better that there ended up being a water pipe that burst a couple streets over from where we were heading.
Traffic is bad on an average day when you are leaving the city and coming into suburbia. But when you add "bad weather" into the mix, it's just going to get worse. Throw in "traveling on bus" - and then once you get home, needing to run back out into it - yeah, it becomes less of a "am I going to be late" and more of a "HOW late am I going to be?"
Especially when you haven't factored in actually eating dinner.
But that's what you sign up for - sometimes you just have to *not* eat in order to get everything done that needs to get done.
When those "perfect storm" situations hit, you try to be more understanding about other people who may be going through something of their own on their end of the internet.
Which is why I send out my patented "You coming?" emails to people who haven't made it in yet. To find out what is going on - and if they just forgot to link their entry. When I'm running ahead of schedule, I tend to look for those myself - and usually end up finding a few on even the best of weeks. (rarely the same person)
I understand - things can happen.
Which is a long way around getting to the question that I have multiple copies of in my inbox last night/this morning. What it boils down to is "Do you enforce the deadlines/why have rules if you won't enforce them?"
There are definitely people who have come in on the wrong side of being late for a poll and have been eliminated as a result.
Deadlines are set. But, since Season 1, the policy has always been "If you get it in before I post the poll - I'll allow it." That's always the been the rule for what gets in the poll and what doesn't.
I can think of someone off the top of my head (a personal favorite of mine that season actually) who ended up submitting their entry less than a minute after a posted the poll. *That* was heartbreaking, but it's one of the dangers involved with posting at last minute. You never know when I am going to be have things ready to go! Things like last night, or where LJ just goes wonky/something wrong with the coding are pretty rare. The closer you get to that edge, the more likely it is to end up costing you.
Some people don't like that. They say it shows too much mercy.
Some people don't like when I have a twist that they think is too cruel.
To me - the mercy and the cruelty ends up evening out. :)
I can let people into the polls. Or come into the game late through special events and powers. Ultimately though YOU will decide if they are going to stay.
That's your power as voters. If you want to use "were they on time?" as a criteria - that's your criteria.
"Have they been here the entire time?" Again. Your criteria.
"Can I beat them?" (I've seen that one used before) That's on you.
The main one should always be "What did I think of the entry?" But those are certainly valid tie-breakers if everything else is equal.
This week has a Contestant Only vote component to it: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/809247.html which is a chance for the contestants to have their say. I hope that you will use it - and if being late to the party is something that bugs you - don't vote for them. If it's not, and they are putting out something you enjoy, do.
This is one small area where it really is "your call", where your will is going to be enforced! Use it wisely.
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Brownies like whoa
Ultimate Brownies
8 1 oz squares of unsweetened chocolate
1 cup butter
5 eggs
3 cups sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups chopped pecans or walnuts, lightly toasted (optional)
Preparation:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a 9 x 13 pan.
- Melt chocolate and butter in a saucepan over low heat; set aside.
- Beat eggs, sugar and vanilla at high speed for 10 minutes.
- Blend in chocolate mixture, flour and salt until just mixed.
- Stir in the nuts.
- Pour into prepared pan.
Bake brownies for 35-40 minut
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Suddenly I know how they felt. :P
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Or a sufficient amount of sugar of all kinds.
Because I have so many recipes.
SO. MANY.
That I want to make right now. >(
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A thing of 18 of 'em goes in about a week, maybe faster.
Especially when Alicia bakes.
See recipe I'm about to post to understand why.
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I have apple pie I made (from scratch! I EVEN PICKED THE FUCKING APPLES!) at home, waiting for me to heat it up and eat it with ice cream this evening.
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(We're doing Thanksgiving dinner tonight, because he has to work tomorrow. Perils of being at a grocery store. :( )
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Almond Cut Out Cookies:
1lb of butter (I shit you not -- 4 sticks of butter)
2 cups sugar
8 (yes, 8) eggs
2 tablespoons baking powder
Anywhere from 6-8 cups of flour
1 small bottle of almond extract (2oz bottle, I think).
Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs, baking powder, and almond extract.
Add flour gradually. And I cannot emphasize this enough -- because you'll go from mixing it with a spoon/spatula to mixing it by hand. And this is why we do not know exactly how much flour, either -- because it's totally done by feel, at this point.
You want a dough that is a bit like play doh in texture -- firm, but not not sticky, but not dry.
Roll dough out. Cut into desired shapes. Bake at 350 -- the thicker the cookies, the longer the time, but I almost always end up baking them for 10 minutes.
Frost these motherfuckers with icing sugar mixed with milk (less milk for thicker icing -- again, done by appearance/texture, lol) and enjoy the hell out of them. ;)
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Also, the "Frost these motherfuckers," is totally a me-ism. I think my Aunt said it in nicer language when she sent me the recipe. xD They're so hard to describe.
But
I think that kind of sums up how my whole family feels about them. xD
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I have begun cutting all the sugar in all my recipes in half. So far success!
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I have been tempted to mess with the sugar in this recipe, just because it is a LOT, but I'm not sure what that would do to the consistency and such. I need to learn more about the science of cooking. *nodnod*
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I was getting more and more headaches from sugar. I get instant migraine from fake sweeteners and most baked goods don't work as well with alternatives such as honey or maple syrup. I have found that most recipes will hold up with drastic sugar reductions! But yeah, it is an experiment at first. I jot down a lot of notes in my books.
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:blows a kiss of thanks:
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Cranberries in the Snow (Also called "Cranberries on the moon" in my house, because we are goofy, and sometimes make craters and such on the topping)
1-12 ounce package of fresh cranberries
1-large box of cherry jello(or 2 small)
2-cups of granulated white sugar
1-cup of crushed pineapple
1-cup of chopped celery, thinly chopped
1-cup of finely chopped pecans
1-7 ounce jar of Marshmallow Creme
1-8 ounce package of cream cheese
1-12 ounce container of Cool Whip.
Place the fresh cranberries in a large saucepan with 3/4 cup of water, cook until the skins pop(around 6-8 minutes).
Add the cherry jello and sugar, stir well and let cool.
Add pineapple, celery, and pecans into the jello mixture. Pour into a glass 9x13 inch casserole and refrigerate until set. Then top with the snow topping.
Topping-Mix: softened cream cheese, marshmallow creme and cool whip. Mix till fluffy and spread on top of refrigerated jello mixture, return to refrigerator.
The pecans are optional, and it tastes just as yummy without.