Writer's Block: AKA

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Heh. It came about a bit by accident, really. I didn't get into things that required usernames until I'd already been on the internet for a while. "Glishara" was the name of one of my Diablo II characters, a sorceress whose name I created by my standard RP-character-naming method of picking letters I like and then filling them in with other letters until they're pronounceable.

When I needed a username for something (probably a geocities page or something), I tried a few things which all failed, then plugged in "glishara", since it was a name I saw a lot. It worked! It's a total nonsense-word, which means I never have competition for it. By the time I got onto LJ, it had become my default username. Boring, I know.

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This afternoon we had a family party. On the way home, we by the grocery store to buy a 6-pound beef tenderloin. We almost never buy really good meat, but it was on sale for $7 a pound (down from $13), and I couldn't resist.

So, we had dinner (grilled chicken, egg noodles with parmesan, and a caesar salad) and put the kids to bed early. Then we settled in the kitchen. Peter did dishes, I shared family gossip I got from my mother today, and I dismantled the tenderloin into 20 steaks and a small roast for tomorrow.

At the end, I found a little bit of tenderloin left over, not big enough to mix in with any of the packages. But I didn't want to throw it out! So I asked Peter if he'd like a mini-steak for dessert. And he said yes. So I skillet-seared it, made a quickie brandy-dijon cream sauce, and served up 2-3 bites of steak on dessert plates for each of us.

Best dessert this month.