Food, glorious food

[bending_sickle]

Friday I spent over at MC´s, hanging out with Victor (Marta´s boyfriend) as he fiddled with his new computer, playing Warcraft 3 (pretty) and The Movies. It´s a computer game like Sim City, where you´re a movie producer in the ´20´s and you need to hire and build up your own movie studios, get script writers, cleaning crew, actors (and make sure that they´re happy) and then see how your movie turned outand whether it gives you any money. Pretty neat.

I also got to watch most of Buffalo Soldiers again and just had to know:

Phoenix, Joaquin: born 1974
Paquin, Anna: born 1982


Point a) AP is, indeed, younger than me totally not that much older than me
Point b) that´s an 8 year difference
Context: Buffalo Soldiers was filmed in 2001, making JP 27 and AP 19.

Put like that the age difference doesn´t seem so bad... Not squickifying, like Lolita´s JIrons (1948) and DSwain (1980) age difference of 32.

And just because I luurve math:

ABaldwin ("Jayne") born 1962, SGlau ("River") born 1981 making an age difference of 19. See? Not so squickifying*.

I then went by The Corte Ingles, which is a bit like a mall or outlet store. Kinda like Eaton or The Bay. I stopped by their supermarket because they´d been announcing a "taste of India" thingy, but they lie. So instead I bought baking powder and made a lemon cake.

I really hate turning on a gas oven. Esp. with a lighter. I´d rather have those uberlong matches so I wouldn´t burn my fingers so much.

The cake came out alright. It got a bit stuff to the pan, due to it (the pan) being old and the syrup not helping either.


Saturday I joined my uncles and gran (who stepped out fo the house for the first time in months) to go to have lunch with my aunt´s sister´s in-laws and extended family via her husband. We had calcots. They´re really small onions that you put dirrectly onto the fire and eat with a red tomatoe sauce. It just might be an acquired taste. I ate a few, but not the 20 we had allotted each. Then we had meat and more meat. Then coffee and cake. We talked (all 15 of us) about the politics of Israel/Pakistan, babies (there was one 5-month pregnant woman), men vs. women and a whole lot more. The other gran (Ana´s sister´s mother-in-law)** was really sweet and vibrant, one of those really active women who have a young soul.


* God I love this word. Even if it´s not actually a word. Still.

** Don´t worry, I didn´t know who these people were, and I was there. Complicated extended family.

Comments

[katarinagram.livejournal.com]

REally good to hear that your Gran is starting to move outside the house!
Luv ya, K

[(Anonymous)]

wait. you're lighting your oven with a cigarette lighter?

when jo and i lived on harvard and we had that gas oven (which i was kind of scared of) we had a long plastic thing that made sparks at the end of it to ignite the oven. i don't know what it's called, though i guess you could get one at a hardware store, or any walmart-esque stores...

also, on the age thing. dear, i hate to point this out to you, but if Anna Paquin is born in '82 that makes her OLDER than you.

and 19 years ain't nothing! if it makes you feel better i ship hermione and snape, lol. (and, of course, harry/snape. but we don't have to go there. oh, and me/sean connery.)

xxxx
kat

I suck at math

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Damn it. Knew I´d screw up somewhere. Still, what one year diff?

Re: I suck at math

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

It´s just than 1982 seems so much smaller than 1983. Stupid numbers.