July 17th, 2008 by Missy

So Dan and I are in the shower a few minutes ago, and Anya comes in the bathroom and asks if she can make some Toaster Strudel for Alex and herself. We said yes, of course, but not to make any for us since we weren’t hungry.

We get out of the shower and she yells out to us that breakfast is ready and we should come eat. I asked her what she made, and she tells me she made meatloaf with a gravy of peeps (those Easter marshmallow bird things). At this point, I figured that she had put down some empty plates and we were supposed to pretend that she made meatloaf with peep gravy..

That’s what was sitting on the table in four different place settings :p It’s bologna, not meatloaf of course, but like…. QQ I didn’t even know we HAD peeps. I guess they were in the cabinet on top of the fridge that I like.. never go into.  I guess my creative cooking techniques will be passed down o.O;

July 16th, 2008 by Missy

Yay for Dan being able to rebuild his mysteriously disappeared Night Goblin army!

He is the proud new owner of:

• 30 spider riders with 2 command
  
• 1 giant
  
• 1 giant spider with boss
  
• 9 ball and chain fanatics
• 2 wolf chariots
  
• 60 night goblin archers with 3 command
  
• 108 night goblins with spear and 5 command
  
• 1 new Scarsnick and Gobbla
  
• 1 old Scarsnick and Gobbla
  
• 1 ork and goblin battalion box
  
• 1 night goblin box
  
• 1 blister goblins with spears
  
• 4 night goblin fanatics blisters (3 per blister)
  
• 1 night goblin squig herder blister
  
• 4 night goblin squig herders
  
• 6 squigs
  
• 6 pairs of night goblin squig herder
  
• 20ish spider bodies missing legs
• 47 snotlings
  
• 1 stone troll metal
• 1 doom diver catapult missing 1 divers legs

All of this for the ridiculously bargain price of $280 + $20 shipping!  Guess that pretty much takes care of Dan’s second army.  That’s an easy 3000 points right there.

July 15th, 2008 by Missy

All I can say is wtf. Seriously. If I were swimming and was attacked by a great white shark, bitten and pulled under.. and managed to fight off the shark and escape.. I mean really..

According to what I’m reading here, this guy “had huge chunks taken out of his leg, his calf and the knee”. It’s not like a carp nibbled on his toes.. he was attacked by A GREAT FREAKING WHITE. And he got away from it. And his headline is “Man pokes shark in the eye”. Why not.. “Unarmed man fights off 12-foot great white shark!”?

But no. He gets… man pokes shark in eye. Yeah, I’d be pissed.

July 15th, 2008 by Missy

..a haircut! It’s so long and boring.. it comes practically halfway down my back now and I’m too lazy to bother styling it. Not to mention, it gets so hot on my neck and I just end up pulling it up into a bun all the time anyway. I guess it looks nice when we go somewhere (hah, as if we ever go anywhere :p) but that seems like a silly reason to keep all this hair when I can get it cut and have it look cute all the time! Dan is not enamored of the idea of my chopping all of my hair off, however. Anyway, I was messing around at iVillage and having fun with the makeover tool ^_^ The picture to the right is very similar to my current hairstyle, so I’m just putting it here as a basis for comparison. The cuts that I am looking at are a good deal shorter.

My personal favourite is this one on the left, although it is very short. My hair has been much shorter in the past, of course, and I always liked how easy and cool it was but, again, we come back to Dan loving long hair. I think all men love long hair. But to me, this cut is so cute and trendy!

The one on the right is more of a compromise. Not ridiculously short, but still in a bob style and.. shorter. I have a feeling, however, that this would just end up in a ponytail as well. Not to mention, I don’t think that it has the life and spunk of the previous cut. I also think it would require a lot of blow drying and styling to keep it looking like this. My hair is naturally wavy (as per the first pic) and I think that if I didn’t style it straight every morning, it would just look like a stupid poofball. I suppose not that the other short haired picture would just fall into place, but it at least seems more worth the effort.

Anyway, enough about me! I’ve always wondered what my husband would look like as a rocker, and I’ve finally found out (this is an old pic, since I wanted to cut out the mustache). Isn’t he just adorable? I think he has a Keanu Reeves thing going on in the pic on the right.

And finally, the pièce de résistance! My husband would make an absolutely stunning woman. You know, if you discount the stubble QQ And uh.. the nose.  But doesn’t he have such lovely eyes and cheekbones?  I will forever be jealous of men and their gorgeous eyelashes.

July 14th, 2008 by Missy

Poor me ;-; My paints aren’t going to get here until THURSDAY. Yes, I cry a lot. I am going into WITHDRAWAL here people. I.. need.. to.. paint.

The Varghulf is all ready to go (well, arms aren’t attached although they are pinned, but there are some parts I need to paint before I glue / greenstuff those) and I got my dire wolves all glued together tonight. That sucked, by the way. I love how the models look, but I didn’t realize how poorly sculpted their joins are. It seems to be a trend lately, with GW. Every new box I’ve opened I’ve just been stunned at how difficult it is to get the models together compared to a few years ago. It’s a little disappointing, actually. I’ll have to take some pictures of Dan’s quarrelers as an example. It’s just shameful how badly done those models are.  They’re going to need hours of greenstuffing to get them looking decent.

Anyway, off to bed with me.

July 14th, 2008 by Missy

Varghulfs are SHARP! I’m in the middle of cleaning (read filing / sanding) my Varghulf to get him ready for some greenstuffing. I figured I’d take a break to nurse my poor abused fingers :p Seriously, that thing has talons.

I finished pinning him yesterday, but he’s going to need A LOT of greenstuff. I have to admit that I’m a little disappointed with how poorly he was cast. Mold lines were minimal, but he has so much flash on him that I thought I might need to break out the Dremel to clean him up. I guess he’s mostly cleaned now, but I’m going to have to rebuild his fur in several areas where gigantic bits of flash have completely ruined it. All four limbs are going to need extensive greenstuff to fill gaps and build fur to overlap the smoother parts of his body. I rather imagine I’ll be working on him most of the day, actually.

Hopefully tomorrow he’ll be cured enough that I can prime him. Think I might also spend tomorrow assembling and greenstuffing dire wolves. My paints should hopefully arrive Wednesday, as well. After contacting Neal about my missing paints he discovered something wrong with my order and sent out a new set of paints today with better shipping so.. Wednesday. Seriously, I’m going into painting withdrawal here. I am dying for my paints to arrive.

Now I just need to figure out what to paint once they get here ^_^ I’ll probably finish off the one Grave Guard I had been working on, and then perhaps I’ll paint up the Varghulf. After that, I believe I’ll paint a test dire wolf. If he’s enjoyable enough, I think I’ll finish off the dire wolves.

July 12th, 2008 by Missy

Well, today is definitely not a healthy eating day. I was taken with a desire for pancakes this morning so I whipped up a batch of my favourite buttermilk ones. They’re sooooo good. And simple.

• 3 cups flour, sifted (sift after you measure)
• 3 Tbsp sugar
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda

Combine your dry ingredients. Then mix in

• 3 cups buttermilk
• 1/2 cup milk
• 3 eggs
• 1/3 cup butter, melted

Make sure that you let your eggs / milk / buttermilk come to room temperature (just set’em on the counter for a half hour) before you add them to the dry ingredients. You’ll get MUCH fluffier pancakes. Also, when you combine the dry / wet ingredients, don’t beat them until all of the lumps are gone. Just mix it up until it’s wet. You WANT a few pockets of flour. It give the pancakes a much more authentic (and tasty) texture.

Dinner tonight is going to be some hotwings. I guess Dan is really in the mood, so hotwings it will be. Those are simple, of course. Just cut the joint between the wing / drumstick and chop the tip off of the wing and throw it out (the tip). Sprinkle the wings and drumsticks with a little salt and pepper. Get your oil (or shortening) nice and hot (350-375) and drop the wings in until they’re nice and golden. Scoop’em out and put them on brown paper bags to drain (the bags work much better than paper towels).

Once they’ve cooled down a tad, coat them with your hot sauce. I like:

• 1/2 cup Frank’s Red Hot sauce
• 4 Tbsp unsalted butter
• 1 Tbsp Tabasco sauce or to taste
• 2 tsp dark brown sugar
• 1 tsp cider vinegar

Just toss all of that in a saucepan on low heat until the butter melts.

Finally, be sure to serve them with THE BEST bleu cheese dressing ever.

• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 2 Tbsp buttermilk
• 1/8 tsp pepper
• 1/8 tsp onion powder
• 1/8 tsp garlic powder

And don’t forget the bleu cheese! I buy a container of crumbles and make a double batch (so 2 cups mayo) and find that’s about the right amount of bleu. If you don’t love bleu as much as Dan does, however, you may want to cut it down. He devours this stuff by the jar full, but I can’t eat it except with wings. Way too bleu cheesy for me. I’m more of a ranch girl ^_^ Just not on my wings!

Anyway, enjoy!

July 11th, 2008 by Missy

I’ve been anxiously awaiting the delivery of my new VMC paints (I think I mentioned before that I don’t want to paint anything else until they arrive). I’ve dutifully checked outside my parents’ front door every day (about 700 times) and today there was a tag on the door that they tried to deliver but since no one answered, they’d redeliver on Monday or the package could be picked up today after 6:15.

I was so excited, GDI >.< Anyway, I popped on FedEx’s website to see if there was any chance the package would be back at the office before 6:15 so that I could get it sooner.. and realized that the tracker said the package weighed half a pound. Now, obviously 72 paints in a carrying case is not going to weigh half a pound. So it turns out that it’s really just some crap paperwork for my dad from his old job. BLAAAAAH. I WANT MY PAINTS.

I am dying to get more work done on my army. I swear, I can’t stand waiting much longer. On another shitty note, I realized when my spearhead arrived that the Varghulf is on a 60mm base. Or is it 50mm? Anyway, it’s definitely not a 40mm, therefore I can’t enter it in the contest.

Yay. And yet another shitty note… Dan just called me. They’re cutting four classes from WAR. Hammerer, Choppa, Knight of the Blazing Sun, and Black Guard. This just.. completely unbalances the game. Empire and Dark Elves get no tank? How the hell are they supposed to hold a line against their counterparts (Chaos and High Elves) who have all four classes? And in the Orc v. Dwarf scene.. Squig Herders and Engineers are going to run rampart without their smack-ass classes to keep them in check.

Not to mention, they’re also cutting out four of the six capital cities. One of the major points about WAR that they’ve been touting is being able to capture the capital city of your opposing force, beat up his leader and like.. tear down his statues. Now only two races get that dubious privilege?

I’ll be completely honest here and say that — this puts a serious damper on my desire to play the game. Dan and I have already ordered our collector’s editions, so we’ll be playing in the open beta together.. but I rather expect that we won’t be putting in our credit cards for that monthly subscription fee.

I mean, come on.. the class I most want the play is the Disciple of Khaine, so now I get to play a healer with no tank? I realize that I can travel on over to the Orc or Chaos area and snag myself a nice Black Orc or Chosen, but I DON’T WANT TO. I want to run around with a sexy elf man in the DARK ELF area, doing DARK ELF public quests and battling HIGH ELVES.

July 10th, 2008 by Missy

Browsing around The War Store today, I stumbled across the celebrity testimonials. I was expecting to just find a couple of you know.. D-list actors who happen to play Warhammer, figured it would be amusing. What I found was so much better. It’s actually.. indescribable. You’ll have to read it for yourself to truly appreciate the beauty of it. To entice you to do so (please, please go read them all), I give you Chuck Norris’ endorsement of The War Store.

TheWarStore is the only place tough enough to handle orders for Chuck Norris

My name is Chuck Norris. I’m here to tell you some facts about TheWarStore.com. Neal is the the toughest guy in the online hobby business. I taught him everything he knows.

• TheWarStore doesn’t lower prices. Neal glares at them until they fall on their own.
• When I play 40k, I just use one miniature. But it is me, so I always win.
• TheWarStore doesn’t actually send packages to the post office. I just roundhouse kick them to your door.
• When I play D&D, the GameMaster doesn’t ask me to make a ‘to-hit’ roll. He asks me to roll a ‘how far did you kick their head off’ roll.
• TheWarStore prices just don’t beat the competition. It makes their store burst into flame, collapse, and then the rubble disintegrates.
• I play Blood Angels. I don’t have to paint them to make them look good; I just leave them around the room when I fight people.
• If I wanted, I could make GW sell to me at a discount, but I would rather buy from Neal at TheWarStore.

July 10th, 2008 by Missy

Some people take this hobby way too seriously. Don’t misunderstand — I am obsessed with Warhammer, I adore Warhammer, and I take my Warhammer seriously.. but I don’t really consider it acceptable to take the hobby so seriously that you spoil other people’s ability to enjoy the game.

Not really feeling like bitching about it, so here’s an awesome picture from a thread on DakkaDakka.

I mean, seriously — tell me that isn’t the awesomest thing ever? If someone plopped that down on the table in front of me, I would absolutely play a game with them. How could you not? I mean, except for the fact that Anya would bitch me out for killing Elmo or something.. They’re just hilarious.