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04. Birthday Goodies, Part 1: Snickerdoodles
March 12, 2010 at 4:49 PM (Recipe) (baking, cinnamon, cookies, dough, food, gifts)
Whoops! It's been a crazy few weeks and I've been all over the place–from celebrating my 23rd birthday with some of my favorite people (especially Beth and Jenn, who are the topic of this and an upcoming post, and my amazing Josh, who made it all possible) to visiting my folks up in Maryland–so it's taken me a while to get my focus back. I have been making plenty of goodies in the kitchen though, so I've got lots to share.
On to today's topic: DELICIOUS COOKIES. Beth's birthday is a few days before mine, and Jenn's is several weeks after, so I had made plans to get together with them while I was in MD since I couldn't be there for their actual birthdays. I love giving people presents and although I couldn't afford to buy them anything, I could definitely make them something. And considering that they ended up driving eight hours or so to Asheville to surprise me for my birthday, they definitely deserved a token of how much I appreciate having them in my life. Cookies it was! But what kind? I didn't want to be generic and make chocolate chip when not everyone even LIKES chocolate chip cookies that much. So I went straight to the source. I'll get to Jenn's cookies in a later post, but Beth told me her favorites were snickerdoodles. For those of you who may not know what a snickerdoodle* is (I didn't, because I am a foreigner that just came here to take all your jobs. ALL OF 'EM.), it is basically a cinnamon-sugar, quite buttery cookie. If you love cinnamon (and sugar presumably), you'll probably love these. I'm not even a huge cinnamon fan and I thought they were awesome and ate several. Just for quality control purposes though. That's right. Quality control.
Although I didn't know what exactly I was supposed to be baking, I had recently gotten The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion, and had seen a snickerdoodle recipe in there, so that's the one I used. It worked very well for me, with only one tiny quirk, which I'll address shortly. Also, since this is the first baking recipe I'm covering, I will be offering A LOT of notes–baking tends to be quite a bit more precise than cooking, and there's many things that need to be taken into account. Off we go!
*Spellcheck is telling me that snickerdoodles is spelled wrong, and one of the suggestions is knickerbockers. Okay, spellcheck. Okay.
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening (I always use the butter-flavored kind, I just find it tastier)
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract*
- 2 tsp baking powder**
- 2 large eggs (at room temperature if you can manage, if you forget to take them out, don't worry)
- 3/4 tsp salt (use table salt for baking unless the recipe specifies otherwise. For one thing, coarser salt won't dissolve the same way; it also will cause the recipe to be excessively salty if you use the same measurements)
- 2 3/4 cups (11 1/2 oz–a special note about this later) flour (unbleached, all-purpose is my standard. Flour doesn't need to be bleached in the first place, and it certainly won't be doing the flavor of your creations any favors)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
*I strongly, strongly recommend buying PURE vanilla extract–not imitation. Obviously if you're dying to make a recipe and all you have on hand is imitation, don't let that stop you, but when it's time to buy more, spring for the real stuff. It really will make a difference.
**Whenever you're using baking powder, make sure it's not expired or it'll be pretty much pointless. To test for freshness, mix a teaspoon of baking powder with 1/3 cup of hot water. It should bubble. If nothing happens, you need to buy a new container.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F. Position the racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven (just not at the very top and the very bottom, of course). Line two large baking sheets* with parchment paper. You could also just grease the sheets very well, but I swear by parchment paper and its amazing nonstick…iness. You don't have to worry about missing a spot and getting a cookie that just won't come off cleanly, transferring the cookies to a rack to cool is way easier, and when you're done you just throw the paper away instead of trying to wash two quite sizable and unwieldy pieces of metal.
- In a fairly large bowl (use a stand mixer or a hand-held), cream together the shortening, butter, sugar, vanilla extract, and baking powder, beating until smooth. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the flour and salt, mixing slowly until combined. A special note about flour now. You'll notice I put a weight measurement along with the typical volume measurement. Certain ingredients, like flour, can take up the same amount of volume but actually be a different amount than what you need simply based on how densely they're packed. If you don't have a food scale to use in the kitchen, just be very careful with how you measure. Look up the scoop and sweep method, that tends to get closest to the weight measure you're looking for. If you do have a food scale, always use the weight measurement instead of the volume measurement for best results.
- In a separate (preferably somewhat shallow) bowl or a large plastic bag, mix together the cinnamon and sugar for the coating.
- Take about a tablespoon of dough and roll into a ball (if you don't want to/can't measure a TBSP, the resulting ball should be maybe an inch in diameter). Place the ball into the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
When you have about 5 or 6 balls (less and you're making more work for yourself, more and they'll get too crowded and won't coat well), gently shake the bowl/bag until they are coated. The bag method is rather obvious but if you're using a bowl, I found that a sort of circular (like you're making the bowl hula hoop) motion is best–the dough gets nicely coated and you're not spilling cinnamon-sugar all over the kitchen.
- Place the coated balls of dough on your prepared sheets, at least an inch and a half apart. If you crowd the cookies, they will spread into each other and it will not be pretty. Using the bottom of a glass (a glass with a smooth, flat bottom is best here), flatten each cookie to about half an inch thick. Don't press too hard, a very gentle push down will do.
- Bake the cookies for 8 minutes–switching the baking sheets** at the 4 minute mark–until they're just golden brown around the edges. Transfer to a rack*** to cool.
*When I made this recipe, I did not have two large baking sheets. I had a large, a medium, and a small, and I used all of them, and it was not a big deal. If you only have one baking sheet, you'll just have to bake your cookies in batches.
**If you're not familiar with the practice of rotating your baking sheets, let me explain. Although it's a good practice even when you're only using one sheet, rotating the sheets when you're using more than one is essential. If you don't, the cookies on the lower rack are sure to get a bit overdone (read: burnt) and the cookies on the upper rack might not be as done as you'd like. To rotate the sheets, just put the sheet that was on the bottom rack onto the top rack and vice versa. Also, turn the sheet so that the cookies that were in the back are now in the front. This will ensure as even a baking as possible.
***Please, please make the investment ($9 can get you a 3-pack of racks at Wal-Mart) and get racks if you're going to be baking. If you just cool them on the baking sheet, the bottoms will get soggy and who wants to eat soggy cookies? That goes for other baked goods too.
So there you have it. Delicious, slightly crispy but not hard, cinnamon-sugary snickerdoodles. I mentioned earlier that this recipe had one quirk–it said that the amount of dough would make SEVEN DOZEN cookies, which it fortunately did not. I think I ended up with about four dozen or slightly less than that, which I managed to all bake in one go (although a few cookies did get not-quite-round edges from spreading more than I expected) on three baking sheets.
I won't be posting this weekend, but Part 2 will be up on Monday!
9 Comments
Eric said,
March 12, 2010 at 6:27 PM
Stacie said,
March 12, 2010 at 6:34 PM
tysm :3 if you ever visit me i will make you some of these!
Anna Grace said,
March 13, 2010 at 2:02 PM
Don't have time to try these right now, but they look delicious! I enjoy reading your food blog. 🙂 Keep it up! Also, your tips are good. For instance, I don't know much about cooking, so I appreciated the tip on how to make sure your baking powder is still good.
Stacie said,
March 13, 2010 at 3:57 PM
thanks! that makes me feel good. =)
Beth said,
March 13, 2010 at 4:36 PM
I can honestly say they were not only fabulous, but I could taste the love in those cookies. And it tasted like butter-flavored Crisco. Mmmm….
Stacie said,
March 13, 2010 at 11:06 PM
most people don't realize that that's what love actually tastes like. =)
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March 15, 2010 at 4:02 PM
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Leigh said,
March 29, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Huh. I thought snickerdoodles HAD to have cream of tartar in them. I thought that's what made the crackly top. Confused. I should try the recipe I have and yours, then see what happens.
P.S. Finally have your link up on FGT. Huzzah! ::cheer::
P.P.S. Pretty please take my last name off your link – it's not too hard to find me on teh interwebz, but a little division is nice.
Stacie said,
March 29, 2010 at 3:43 PM
w/r/t your last name: done, didn't realize it was a problem. sorry! and thanks for the link! =D
w/r/t cream of tartar: well, it's not quite the same, but i know if you don't have baking powder on hand, some people recommend a substitution of baking soda + cream of tartar. so maybe just using baking powder in the recipe…worked? honestly this is my first experience with snickerdoodles and all i know is they were delicious, so i'm quite pleased with how it turned out.


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Abelia × grandiflora, the glossy abelia, is a hybrid Abelia, raised by hybridising Abelia chinensis with A. uniflora. It is a deciduous or semi-evergreen multi-stemmed shrub with rounded, spreading, or gracefully arching branches to 1-1.8 m tall.
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Enrich the soil with leaf mold or well-rotted organic matter to encourage good drainage. Dig a hole 2 to 3 times as deep as the bulbs are high and set the bulb in the hole pointy side up. Fill the hole with soil and tamp gently. Space bulbs at a distance equal to 3 times the bulb's diameter. For a good effect, plant plants in groups of 3 to 5 bulbs.
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Ornamental use: The plant is used for ornamental purpose.
Medicinal use: It's quite a pretty little shrub, reaching about 3 meters tall, with its clusters of white and varying shades of purple flowers. Beware, however, for every part of this beauty is poisonous. While that may sound terrible, the toxins are helpful.
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Two years after entering the New York market, Silicon Valley firm Fenwick & West plans to move to long-term office space in the Flatiron District—a rare move for an Am Law 100 firm to Manhattan's Midtown south.
Fenwick & West, which has been subletting space from Ropes & Gray in Midtown since 2016, will move this fall to 902 Broadway under a 10-year lease. The firm is more than doubling its space to 36,400 square feet across two floors at the Broadway office.
In moving to Flatiron, Fenwick said it will be close to clients including Facebook, BuzzFeed, Bonobos, Bitly, Knotel, Grovo Learning, Dropbox, WhoSay, Parsec Media, Taboola, PebblePost and Away Travel, as well as tech and life sciences startups. Google is also nearby in Chelsea.
Fenwick is the first Am Law 100 firm in more than a decade to move to Midtown south, an area encompassing Chelsea, Flatiron, Union Square, Madison Square and Tribeca and Soho, said Fenwick's broker on the office deal, Ken Rapp, who worked alongside other CBRE brokers including David Kleinhandler and Clay Hammerstein.
Rapp said he is aware of only one other Am Law 100 firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, in Midtown south.
The Flatiron District is "ground zero for startup tech companies," Rapp said, which are attracted to the area because of older, smaller, loftier space. The structure of the buildings there also lends itself to more open floor plans, he said.
Cooley, a competitor of Fenwick for tech work, and other law firms have announced splashy moves to Hudson Yards. But Fenwick chairman Richard Dickson said Hudson Yards was never a consideration.
Dickson said it had always been the firm's vision to relocate to Flatiron to be close to clients, including emerging companies and those in the tech and life sciences area. "We often, when deciding on location, try to look very carefully on where the clients are located," he said, citing benefits of having more in-person meetings with clients.
After starting with seven attorneys, the New York office has about 30 professionals, including about 20 lawyers, the firm said. Since 2017, the firm also added three lateral partners to its New York office, including corporate lawyer Ethan Skerry from Lowenstein Sandler; trademark attorney Jeffrey Greene from Foley & Lardner; and cybersecurity attorney Jim Koenig from Paul Hastings. Dickson said the firm continues to recruit in New York, seeking attorneys with tech and life sciences expertise.
When asked about any challenges of entering and growing in New York, Dickson offered a rosy picture. "We've been very successful from the start," he said, adding the firm's New York business has doubled in less than two years.
While the law firm has traditionally represented emerging companies and tech and life sciences companies, Dickson said other clients are seeking out the firm for its tech expertise. In the last two years, Fenwick has represented Delphi Automotive in its purchase of nuTonomy and represented American Express in its acquisition of InAuth. The firm's New York lawyers also represented Bonobos and Jet. com in two separate acquisitions by Walmart.
Dickson declined to discuss financial terms of the office lease, which was signed earlier this week. Asking rents for the building are $69 a square foot. "We feel very good about the deal," he said.
According to preliminary The American Lawyer reporting, Fenwick's gross revenue, after dipping in 2016, rose 3.7 percent in 2017 to $374.9 million, while profits per partner inched up 1.5 percent to $1.51 million.


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Treaty of Salynas (German: Frieden von Sallinwerder, Lithuanian: Salyno sutartis) was a peace treaty signed on 12 October 1398 by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Konrad von Jungingen. It was signed on an islet of the Neman River, probably between Kulautuva and the mouth of the Nevėžis River.[1] It was the third time, after the Treaty of Königsberg (1384) and Treaty of Lyck (1390), that Vytautas promised Samogitia to the Knights.[1] The territory was important to the Knights as it physically separated the Teutonic Knights in Prussia from its branch in Livonia.[2] It was the first time that the Knights and Vytautas attempted to enforce the cession of Samogitia.[3] However, it did not solve the territorial disputes over Samogitia and they dragged on until the Treaty of Melno in 1422.
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For the past fifteen years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet.
But ISPs may be about to embrace a new metaphor: traffic cop.
At a small panel discussion about digital piracy here at NBC's booth on the Consumer Electronics Show floor, representatives from NBC, Microsoft, several digital filtering companies and telecom giant AT&T said the time was right to start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level.
Such filtering for pirated material already occurs on sites like YouTube and Microsoft's Soapbox, and on some university networks.
Network-level filtering means your Internet service provider – Comcast, AT&T, EarthLink, or whoever you send that monthly check to – could soon start sniffing your digital packets, looking for material that infringes on someone's copyright.
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First off, I don't know if this idea was used for Shizaya yet, for I saw the prompt on Tumblr. I thought that developing their relationship in this way would be really interesting, and I hope you find my fic good? I don't know. It's for you guys to decide. 8D
My main language is not english, so you might find typos and grammar mistakes. I will correct them eventually.
Shizuo and Izaya MIGHT be a little ooc sometimes, because I tend to add a little of myself in the characters, so sorry. -sobs-
I have two more fics to update, so I hope you guys are patient. But don't worry about this one, since I already have 5 chapters of it written.
Disclaimer: I don't own Durarara, and I will not own it, so shush.
I have a day until I find out who I'm destined to be with.
I keep checking my wrist, counting second after second. It accelerates my heartbeat. It makes me nervous out of nowhere. Even my boss thinks I'm deliriously attached to the clock these days.
"Shizuo," Tom said while I took a drag of my cigarette, my hand shaking. "I think you need a few days off."
I glanced at him and exhaled the fumes. "I'm gonna pass out if I go back home," I said.
"You're going to pass out anyway," he shook his head. "It's as if you haven't seen that clock in ages every time you take a look at it."
"Easy for you to say," I crushed the cigarette with my foot. "You already have your soul-mate."
He smiled and looked at the sky. "And I thank whoever tied us together every single day."
This world was peculiar. We were all born with some kind of digital clocks engraved on our hands, which counted the time until the day you will meet your destined soul-mate. I always wondered how she will look like. What she would smell like. How it would feel like to kiss her.
I took another cigarette.
Tom sighed. "Okay, let's just go eat somewhere, my treat," he said. "No use working today while you're so jumpy."
I wanted to protest, but there was nothing left to say. He was right. I couldn't concentrate at all. It was like the clock drained all of the energy from me, leaving only thoughts about my soul-mate behind. I wasn't a man of romance at all, but thinking how I could surprise the love of my live was consuming my thoughts. When have I become so sensitive? Maybe I just wanted to leave a good impression to the woman I'd spend the rest of my life with. Who knows.
We went to Russia Sushi and Tom ordered something I didn't pay close attention at, while I could only think of a strawberry milkshake. I would've vomited right here and then if it wasn't for my abnormal self-control. It was as if my whole world started spinning around the person I haven't even met yet.
I quietly sipped on my milkshake, ignoring the scared looks on other customer's faces. The monster of Ikebukuro, they probably thought. Glancing too much at his clock. Drinking a fucking milkshake.
See, we could all notice when someone was about to meet his soul-mate. They'd get nervous, keep track of the seconds left and look around too much. Well, thank god I still had about 21 hours left until I started searching for the person who was meant to be together with me.
To think that Heiwajima Shizuo would be able to love was absolute gibberish in their heads. While I was kind of excited. There would finally be a person who wouldn't be scared of my strength, would be there for me. Would know the real me, not this freak the society imagined me being.
Tom ate in silence, leaving me to my thoughts. I grabbed my wallet and paid for the milkshake.
"What are you doing, I told you I'd pay," Tom said.
"I'm just going to accept your offer and take a few days off, alright?" I said and got up from my seat. He nodded.
"Call me after you meet her," he asked. "I'd love to hear from you. It happens once in a lifetime."
"Sure," I said and managed a smile. I walked out of the restaurant and breathed the air deep in. Tomorrow will change my life altogether. Was I ready for this change? Maybe I could let go of this violence and hatred.
"Shizuo!" I heard a familiar voice next to me and turned to see Simon. "Have a good meal, yes?"
"Just had a milkshake, thanks, Simon," I said and waved. "Okay, until next time?"
"Shizuo is meeting his soul-mate?" Simon asked, clearly seeing the irritation on my face. God fucking damnit, is it that obvious?
"Tomorrow," I said and started walking away.
"Have a great day!" Simon shouted at my direction.
"You too," I shouted back and slowly made my way to my apartment. I was almost finished with my pack of cigarettes, that's what paranoia and nervousness did to me. I kept looking at women, wondering maybe one of them was my soul-mate. Some of them were breathtakingly gorgeous, others were average. But you don't choose who you love by looks. It's what inside that matters.
"Isn't that Shizuo Heiwajima?" I heard someone behind me.
"He looks strange today, I wonder what happened?"
Apparently, a few teenagers were discussing me but I chose to ignore them.
"No way," one of them said to the other. "I bet his clock is near the end!"
"You really think so?"
"Yeah! Just look at him glance at his clock non-stop!"
"Who would want to be with a monster?"
"I don't know, he is kind of hot –"
"Shh, I think he can hear us –"
Shizuo, keep your fucking shit together, don't turn around, don't turn around, don't turn around. KEEP. WALKING.
I managed getting away from them with no scene and it made me feel easier. I didn't want to share my joy with other people, especially the ones from Ikebukuro. They didn't know who I really was. They just assumed from what I was doing.
Surely, they found me scary after witnessing so many fights and different collisions with people I didn't like. I know it's not really amazing, my job, that is. I was a debt collector's bodyguard. Naturally, I'd be a figure to be afraid of. I wasn't complaining, since it was my only job I have actually maintained for a long time. Tom understood what I was capable of, and what's more to it, he never thought about firing me. Not even once. He told me this himself, after hearing my story.
Which leads me to a quite sickening point in my life. Orihara Izaya.
I hated that man to the core of my brain. Just seeing him made me buzz with anger. That man tricked me into so many mistakes of my life. I had lost many jobs because of him. I even got into jail – his work again.
I shook my head while walking. This wasn't the time to think about that menace. I had so little time before I could be happy. He shouldn't even be crossing my mind.
I walked past a grocery shop, but immediately changed my mind and ran inside. I wanted to grab some milk, so I would have something to drink through the night. I wasn't sure if I had the guts to sleep tonight. So many things were supposed to happen tomorrow. I smiled to myself while buying the milk. Even the cashier glanced at me, disbelieving the 'Oh my god, Heiwajima Shizuo is meeting his soul-mate soon' look on my face.
And god damnit, was I proud I was meeting her tomorrow. Finally, the one person who would prove I wasn't much of a monster after all.
I exited the shop quite cheerful. No one was going to ruin my day after 21 hours.
I woke up after two hours of sleep. I dreamt complete gibberish, nothing had made sense. I took a glance at a real clock and groaned. It was too early in the morning.
But then my eyes opened instantly.
I looked at my hand engraving. Nearly four hours left.
How long have I been sleeping? I jumped out of my bed, rushing to the shower. I groomed myself, cleaned basically anything that seemed to be repellent to women and shaved my beard with carefulness. I put a towel on my hips, barely containing the rush of excitement through my blood. I would meet her in a few hours.
I pushed away my bartender outfit for once, searching for something more casual. I knew I was going to wear jeans that hung low on my hips, since I knew they looked quite astonishing on my body. I chuckled to myself in my head, since I remembered my brother Kasuka telling me I should wear them more. According to my brother, the whole bartender thing wasn't as appealing as I thought.
I finally managed to find a tight white shirt and put an equally good looking jacket on top. I looked at myself in the mirror, thinking I never looked so good. It was probably the glee rushing through my veins. When have I become so sensitive? I wasn't like myself at all.
I have never experienced true love before. Sure, I had relationships, but in this world, we didn't have much choice. We all broke up with our second pairs eventually. It wasn't much use to date a person who wasn't meant for you, right? I always regretted being with a woman whose clock was far distant from mine. It sucked asking them to never try and hook up again, because it would cause us much pain. All of my ex-girlfriends asked me to give them a call after I got myself a soul-mate. They were equally interested in who I would be spending the rest of my life with.
Of course, those women were only into my looks and not my personality. It was as if they ignored the part where I would become violent and angry. I didn't complain, for I knew the day I would find one who would understand would come very soon. And guess what. This guy right here was about to find the real one in a few hours.
I hurried out of my apartment, happy to have arranged some things beforehand. I asked the florist to prepare a certain type of a bouquet for my lovely girl. In this society, the florists and many other shops had some special gifts to order, especially for the most amazing part of our lives. I was going to remember this day every single time I look at the love of my life. The nervousness clenched my insides, as if I could determine my future. There was no turning back. It didn't matter how she looked like, or what her personality was. If the higher powers fit that person with me – fine. I believe in them. Everyone else who got their soul-mates told me the same thing. They were they happiest people alive to have found someone who understood them completely.
I paid the florist, who winked at me and told me to tell his regards to the happy woman I would meet today. I thanked him sincerely, which earned me a surprised look. No one ever thought I could act humble and thankful. Well, everything was about to change, right?
Two hours left. I was nervous. I went into the coffee shop near my home, ordering a large glass of strawberry goodness. I sipped it slowly. I was cherishing this excitement. I knew this would be the time I would tell everyone about. How I felt nervous. How I was determining what I wanted to say. And how the last seconds felt like. I sighed and glanced at my clock. The seconds were so excruciatingly slow, it maddened me. At least I had some time to prepare myself completely.
After I finished my milkshake, I wandered to a park nearby. Surely, it was strange just casually walking around, but apparently, everyone who had their soul-mates didn't know where they were heading. They just walked and walked until at the last second, someone bumped into them. Touched.
The touch was essential in this agreement. After you take forever to even consider the last second arriving, you would touch the person without hesitation, accidentally. That's how you know who you're destined to be with. There is no other way. My skin felt tingly all over when I thought about it.
I sat on a bench, gripping the flowers tighter. Only one hour left.
I looked up at the sky, painted gold and blue. My thoughts were scattered, unthinking. I wasn't able to contain myself any longer. I knew this was going to be the longest hour of my life.
Half an hour left. I felt an unmistakable wish to stand up and move forward. So I did.
The park was kind of big, and I knew where I was going without a doubt.
There was an old sakura tree. It wasn't blooming yet, for it still had about three months, but it was still amazingly beautiful to look at. I glanced at my clock which showed only ten minutes left. My heart was beating like a drum, with the speed of light. I slowly approached the tree, touching its core, its wood. I sighed at the encounter. I would surely remember every second of these ten minutes. No doubt.
Five minutes.
Another pull. I walked slowly, counting my steps, my hand sweating. My eyes were unfocused. This day was particularly sunny, so there were dozens of people around me. Some of them sitting on the grass, some of them walking hand in hand with their friends. Even the matched couples were out. Soon, I would join their forces, taking my girl everywhere, being proud of my whole essence.
One minute.
I decided I wouldn't look at anyone, but the clock. I counted the seconds, one by one. Exactly at the speed of the clock. My heart seemed to slow down and speed up whenever I felt the ting in my heart, telling me that soon I would grab the woman and never let her go.
Ten seconds.
Oh man, I was getting feverish.
What will she look like?
I can't take this pressure anymore.
God, I thank you for this moment.
Go on, go on.
I'm almost there.
Get a grip of yourself, Shizuo, or –
-or you're going to faint…
My heart stopped.
The clock stopped at 00:00:00
I held my breath in, finally feeling the swift touch of someone. Our skin through the fabric. Her shoulder against mine, as I suspected. I breathed the air into my lungs, getting ready for the heart-attack.
I opened my eyes and turned to the person with who I was destined to be.
"God damnit, Shizu-chan!" a familiar voice and face popped into my view.
I froze.
The man I hated the most, the pain in my ass for such a long time was standing in front of me. His raven hair scattered from the non-existent wind, probably from hurrying around. His bright red eyes, squirming against the sun and scorching me from within. His unnaturally great figure. He was dressed casually, and for the first time in my life, I noticed he wasn't dressed in that jacket with fur of his. He looked quite normal.
I glanced around, seeing that everyone around us gave us the space, since they knew the monster of Ikebukuro would soon chase his prey.
"Shizu-chan, as much as I want to play, I was waiting for someone important here," he groaned and I felt panic rising in my chest.
"Fuck you, Flea, I was here first!"
"And what are you doing?" he asked, teasing. "Shouldn't you be at work?"
"I –," I growled. "Why would I tell you?"
"Seriously, you dumb brute, I need some space, shoo," he wavered his hands at me. Oh, fuck no.
"Move, Flea," I said quite angrily. "You're gonna scare her off."
Izaya gasped, now stepping a few steps behind me. "Her?" he asked. "What is this her I haven't heard about, Shizu-chan? I thought you still had that clock going!"
"It stopped a few seconds ago," I flashed him my hand, sharing my obvious irritation toward the stupid bastard. I couldn't be pissed enough to talk to him. Maybe the girl was near here and we accidentally brushed our hands?
While I was wondering, Izaya grew silent. I completely forgot about him, until he accidentally looked at his hand. I glared at him just to find his eyes widening.
"Oh shit," he whispered.
It kind of made me interested. She was waiting, but damn, did Izaya look nervous now. I've never seen him this worried before.
"What the fuck, Flea?"
He gulped and looked at me, disbelief in his expression. He slowly raised his hand to make me see his clock.
Everything in my inside world crashed. My eye-sight was blurry. I lost control. But what happened next was what left me breathless in a sick kind of way.
Izaya literally fainted.
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We all are aware of that mini heart attack that we get upon seeing our grocery bill. What makes it even more hurtful is that you thought it won't be that much. So what is the mystery after all? What is it that is making our grocery cost this much?
Let's see the reasons that make the price rising effect on our grocery bill and had us scrambling to make ends meet.
1. Getting lost in the store
How many of us get a little too twinkle-eyed by all the shiny groceries in the aisles? Yeah, we are all guilty. We often look at things and imagine their use in our head and the next thing you know you are throwing the package in your basket. The best way to avoid this is by creating a shopping list at home and then following it religiously with not a step out of place. It would help if you keep your eyes on the ground too.
2. Ready-made solutions
Yes, readymade solutions save a lot of time and tempt a large majority of us to make it a part of our grocery. So if you are buying for a month would it mean you'll be buying 30 packages of ready-made food? And then you ask why the grocery is costing so much. Buying your own vegetables, herbs, and grocery would make it last more than a month and will cost you a lot less. With right hacks and preservation tricks, you can make your own ready-made packages at home.
3. Not considering a cheaper alternative
We run after brands as if our life depends on it and that is what causes our grocery cost so much. We never consider using a cheaper alternative. Sometimes the price difference is so high that it's unbelievable yet the taste and functions are almost the same, sometimes even better.
4. Going to the store while starving
This may sound stupid or silly but when we go to a grocery store while hungry, it affects our shopping habits considerably. So here's a tip, go grocery shopping in a full appetite.
5. Shopping with friends
Never go grocery shopping with friends or when you are in a mood to socialize while shopping. Most of the people are distracted with their mobile the whole time they are shopping or just talking non-stop and they barely know what's going in their basket and what is being left behind.
6. Going to the pricey grocery store
It is our right to compare the prices and do our grocery shopping at a cheaper rate. Apples are same everywhere then what's the point of buying them at a higher price?
If a large portion of your earnings is being spent on grocery items and your biggest expense is your food, it's time that you re-think your budget and cut down your grocery costs. Now that you know the reasons, it should not be that hard.


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Monday, February 2, 2009
Queen for a Day
Yesterday, at approximately 16:55 PST, at the mall, Giselle became a girl with her ears pierced. It's like a Bat Mitzvah or something for shiksas, a true threshold into Big Girl World. Now she has little pink daisies on her soft little lobes where yesterday there were just felt tip pen marks. Oh, and the psychological marks will probably last a few years.
I don't remember when I walked through the threshold into Big Girl World. It might have been my first pair of platform shoes when I was eleven, which I wore with my rainbow toe socks and bell bottom jeans. This, after just one year previous, I was wearing homemade jeans. That's right, homemade. They had an elastic waist, no zipper, and patches of cartoon monsters on the knees. That was a humiliating time in my elementary school career, and also not coincidentally, my last year at that public elementary school.
One afternoon in third grade, Mrs. Gonzales asked all the kids "What are you going to be when you grow up?" A question I'm frequently asking people (young and old) because it reveals so much about their inner secret self and that's the thing I'm always trying to reveal. At age nine, I was so shy that I had no friends, didn't play at recess, and if you were to ask anyone in the classroom what my name was they wouldn't know. There were the popular kids, and the despised kids, but I fell into my own category ... invisible.
Mrs. Gonzales went around the room and extracted an answer from each student. They gave the same predictable answers over and over again: Fireman, nurse, teacher, mommy, veterinarian, blah, blah, blah. But I had a secret life that I led in television land. That little 24" box with antenna on top held all my dreams in it. I wanted to be a Brady. I wanted to live in the Addams Family house. And I loved watching roller derby, the Bay City Bombers to be exact.
I was in the last row (that's where the quiet kids are positioned because the teachers don't have to tell them to shut-up all the time) so I was one of the last kids to be called on. My hair was long, straight, and dirty. It it hung in my face as a shield against the harsh earthlings who were able to destroy me with a single word "hi." I had never raised my hand in my life, even if I was about to pee my pants. When Mrs. Gonzales called on me I was not as terrified as usual because I had already given this question great consideration and knew my answer was right and perfect.
I quietly said "I want to be a roller derby queen." A hush fell over the classroom and then hands started shooting up like a Courtney Love. "Me too!!" "Me too!!" "I want to change mine, I want to be a roller derby queen too!!" And for the first time and the only time at Fairmede Elementary School, I was cool.
Sadly, I did not pursue this dream and, in fact, now I'm scared to death of skating because I'll surely break both my wrists like a lady I used to work with, and that's all I need. But look, I did finally become a queen... the Blogger Queen.
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Great answer! I have no doubt that you would have made a fantastic Roller Derby Queen.ReplyDelete
I wanted to be a semi truck driver. I have no idea where that came from. I think I wanted to honk the horn or something cool like that. I never pursued that dream, but my dad did take me to a semi truck sales lot. The salesman let me honk the horn. Dream was somewhat met, and I moved on!
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM
I am a roller derby queen with the bay city Bombers! THANKS!ReplyDelete
Great post! Popped right outta that shell for a moment to announce "Roller derby queen!" didn't ya'? Did you make any friends after that since you obviously had the coolest answer?ReplyDelete
I wanted to be an actress. Yikes!
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 9:04 PM
I've never been to a roller derby, but man did I love Jim Croce's song on my dad's 8-track when I was growing up. I would be a terrible roller derby queen: skinny, weak, passive. Are there any roller derby clowns, like at the rodeo? Maybe we could distract the most aggressive queen and then jump in a barrel to hide.ReplyDelete
Summer - what a great dad! Lucky.ReplyDelete
Roller Derby Queen - maybe some of us will come and see you sometime. We all love a good fight every once in a while. But how do I know you're not just a poser?
Akilah - No. No friends until I went to private school for hippies. Then I found out what life was all about. Thank for visiting again!
Anonymous - Skinny, weak, and passive ... Hotcha cha!!
Roller Derby Queen, what a great dream!! Tracy and I were skating a few months ago when I was approached by a women who asked if i would like to join thier roller derby team. I was very flatttered and thought it might be kinda fun, but then rememebered how much I liked my teeth and all the aches and pains i already had, so no thanks. It was fun to be asked though!!ReplyDelete
Wendy!!!!!! What? You were approached? Damn girl, respect out to you! But its true, you're teeth are pretty great, so are knees, elbows, wrists, etc. Probably all worth it just to have a Roller Derby Name. I think that shall be my next Blogger Queen poll.ReplyDelete
Another really funny post. I will have you know that I truly searched Hi and Low to look for an (in)appropriate roller derby name for myself. I am very curious to see what our anonymous new friend's roller derby name is...there are some great ones. I even found the form for register your name. I am thinking it might be in my future. God knows I am aggressive enough and not to mention a real bitch! But, like Wendy, I am a fan of my teeth, and I do bruise easy. But think of waht great exercise it is!ReplyDelete
I just found you via a comment you left on my blog and oh, am I glad I did. I think you may well be my soul sister, but ballsier. And I like that.ReplyDelete


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Visionlearning, an organization dedicated to the continued education of high school and undergraduate students in science fields, partnered with Bozell to bring their content library to the Apple iPad.
Targeted to both students and educators, these materials make available peer-reviewed, bilingual content that not only explores specific science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) concepts, but examines how we have come to understand them, the people who have contributed to our understanding, and the ongoing research that builds our scientific knowledge.
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Aisle411 expands executive team with new appointments
PALO ALTO, Calif. — In an effort to extend its leadership as the premier indoor map and search platform, mobile retail navigation service Aisle411 has expanded its executive management team.
The company has appointed Peter Esparrago — general partner at Cultivation Capital and former CEO of IntraISP — to serve as COO, while Norwood Keel — former director of product and partner development for Microsoft Startup Business Group's mobile shopping platform — as VP products. In addition to Esparrago and Keel's appointments, Michael Yang will be joining as an advisory board member. Yang is the founder and board director of Become.com and has served as its president and CEO from 2004 to 2012.
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Mother Arrested for Tattooing Baby
December 14, 2011 – Albany New York – A local New York State resident, Franny Trokerns was arrested early this morning after being turned in by her babysitter. She works as a dancer at a local strip bar and apparently during a night of heavy drinking she allowed her on-and-off-again boyfriend Derrek Honsteads (a tattoo artist) to tattoo her 9 month old baby!
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A judge ordered a California man — convicted for ejaculating into a co-worker's water bottles — to pay more than $27,000 to his victim.
Superior Court Judge Walter Schwarm said Monday Michael Kevin Lallana, of Fullerton, Calif., must pay restitution for therapy and loss of wages, reports the Orange County Register.
Lallana was sentenced to 180 days behind bars after he was convicted of twice putting semen in his co-worker's water bottle without her knowledge at a Newport Beach, Calif., financial company last year.
The victim sent the water bottle in for testing because it tasted strange, and the water was found to contain semen.
The jury found Lallana, 32, committed the acts for sexual gratification.
He should be committed to a freak'in hospital!
Dude Looks Pretty Good for Being 500 Years Old
The arrest of an American man who broke into a woman's house and tried to suck her blood over the weekend has sparked discussion about the impact of vampire books and movies on U.S. youth culture.
Whether pop culture played a role in the attack remains to be seen, as 19-year-old Lyle Monroe Bensley awaits a psychiatric evaluation in jail on burglary charges in Galveston, Texas.
Found growling and hissing in a parking lot and wearing only boxer shorts, the pierced and tattooed Bensley claimed he was a 500-year-old vampire who needed to "feed," Galveston Police Capt. Jeff Heyse said.
Vampires have been a focal point of literature since Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, "Dracula". But fascination, particularly among young people, has peaked in recent years with the popularity of the "Twilight" books about teenage vampires and the television series, "True Blood."
Just a screw-ball in my humble opinion.
Twitter Handy in Outing Cheating Wife
Social media is handy in many ways! Some men use Twitter to have an affair. One man used it to expose an affair – his wife's.
Ian Puddick, of London, England, was cleared Friday of harassing his wife's lover on the Internet by tweeting and blogging details of the dalliance.
"It is absolutely a victory for free speech," Puddick told the British press after charges against him were dismissed following a three-day trial.
As reported by the U.K. Guardian, Puddick learned of his wife Leena's 10-year affair with Timothy Haynes when he read a text message on her phone. He then set up several websites and used Twitter to broadcast the racy texts the pair had exchanged.
One message read, "Where do you want to have sex next? The office, al fresco, the flat or all three you greedy girl?"
Haynes claimed Puddick also contacted clients, colleagues and neighbours of his, and said the publicity forced him to leave his job at a financial firm in May 2010.
The Puddicks are back together, as are Haynes and his wife.
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This guy is disgusting! Police in Boulder, Colorado, are searching for a man who hid inside a portable toilet at a yoga festival.
A woman went to use the portable toilet Friday and told police she noticed something moving inside the tank when she lifted the lid. She believed there was a person inside the toilet, so she went to get help.
A man who was standing nearby went in to check and he also saw someone inside the tank, seemingly covered by a tarp. He told security, and then heard the door lock from the inside.
"A festival security supervisor waited outside for several minutes and then saw a suspect emerge from the portable toilet," police said in a release. "The supervisor tried to detain the suspect, but he ran away, covered in feces."
The suspect was described as about 20 years old, white, very tall, thin and was wearing dark gray sweatpants and no shirt or shoes.
Witnesses told police the suspect had several cuts on his back and legs. The suspect was also wearing leather bracelets on each wrist.
Police believe the suspect may be a transient.


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When people say "Italian Mafia" they think about the "Cosa Nostra",
The "Cosa Nostra" has a single rulebook and a single structure, building up in a pyramid from the soldiers at the base to the boss of bosses at the apex.
In Gomorrah, Saviano writes about "The Neapolitan Camorra", or "The System" as it is known by those on its inside, is a vast, pullulating world of gangs. Gomorrah is an excellent book about the workings of the South Italian Mafia.
This is a book about an Italian Mafia almost nobody talks about, the one concentrated in Naples - The Camorra.
A must read if you want to know more about "The System".