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Happy New Year!

am far tipsier than typing indicates.

I think I need a food icon that's....

more than just cupcakes, or Jensen With Popcorn, because while I don't have gourmet meals all that often, when I do I want to write about them.

Sober now, and thank you brain for remembering to drink a water bottle before going to sleep!

Last night, we went with friends to Ola Restaurant on South Beach, and got one of the lovely tables outside, which meant people watching on south beach. Frankly, even on New Year's Eve, people should remember to wear either trousers or a skirt over their boy-cut underpants. We also saw two dresses that I would deem either bandage dresses, or bondage dresses - it covered the front and back, but the sides were mostly straps.

Dinner was fantastic. Everyone shared what they'd ordered so I got to try a lot of things, including a corvina ceviche - I've never eaten raw fish before, and it wasn't horrible, but I definitely didn't develop any love for it either.

I did not try the tuna tacos, but Aaron loved his. Here's the rest of our dinner:

Chicharron - Crispy rock shrimp coated with rice & corn flour with a sweet & spicy panca sauce with micro cilantro (omgAMAZING)
Kobe meatballs (not fantastic)
Short rib empenada (SO good we ordered a second order so everyone could have *more*)
Crispy Pork with Honey truffle yucca mash, black bean broth & oregano mojo (good, but not the best)
Chocolate-rubbed NY strip (if I hadn't had the chicharron, this would have been the best thing on the menu)
Oxtail stew (good, not too gamey)

Da“Bomb" - Semi-sweet chocolate mousse w/ toasted hazelnuts finished w/ caramel & chocolate sauce (SQUEEEEEEEEE!)
Deconstructed Key Lime Pie - Key lime custard served over a bed of toasted meringue, vanilla bean ice cream, finished with a toasted cinnamon walnut tuile (Custard was great, meringue was a little limp)

I also had a delicious caipirinhna (sort of a Brazilian run-ish drink with sugar and soda) and a pomegranate mojito.

All in all, the perfect culinary start to the new year.

Eyecon tickets go on sale tomorrow, and I am definitely buying one! But I'm still undecided about which ticket level to get, since they haven't announced all the guests yet (I HOPE!).

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Also, I may or may not have watched new york minute yesterday afternoon. Painfully adorable!

Yuletide Reveal

For my first time participating, this turned out to be a fascinating, phenomenal experience. I wrote Heroes RPF for the first time, as a gift for karaokegal, who requested Adrian Pasdar/Jack Coleman, and said, "You will be my friend forever if you can put together the hotness of Pasdar and Coleman. Mention of sig others and angst are no problem. (By all means throw Natalie in there.) I'm not a big Adrian/Milo shipper, but if it's part of your fanon, I can live with it as long as I get the Jack/Adrian smut."

I've never written smut, but I got somewhat close with Loose Tongue (title from a Neil Finn song), wherein Milo is jumping on the bandwagon and making a few anti-Prop-8 short films, and one's going to feature Adrian and Jack. It's rated R and you can read it here.

So many thanks to roguebitch, gwendolyngrace and ali_wildgoose for beta and mijan and jlh for sensationally inspirational cheerleading.

Definitely participating again next year.

One of the nifty things about this year is that it brought me back in touch with tptigger, who I first met probably ten-plus years ago on the Tomorrow People mailing list - she wrote the adorable Panic In the Disco tomorrow people fic for me. And thanks, as well, to vampedvixen for the wonderful Adrian/Milo fic, The Subtext Is Rapidly Becoming Text. It was adorable and spot-on.