waffles, rugs, and arsenic

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Fresh waffles this morning!

My mom bought a waffle-maker yesterday, and we experimented. The first one was a bad mess, but the second one (after we realized we should spray Pam Oil on the burner) I ate, and it was good. Fluffy. Not those enormous Belgium waffles either; no one in my family likes those.

We also bought an area rug for my bedroom, finally. No more wood floor. It's nice, too. Lots of strips and some flowers; mostly blue and white, like my walls. A very loose design; it was hell trying to find something that wasn't the traditional style of tightly packed oriental designs or tightly packed overly busy old english designs. And finding something that wasn't brown... it took forever. God, all the rugs out there for actual floors (not bathroom rugs) are brown or red. No sense of color at all.

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Last night I had a dream that I was writing a 900 page book that would be the next Harry Potter novel. Only, instead of being about Harry Potter, it was actually an "interlude" story that was all about how Draco spent all of 5th year slowly poisoning his father to death by giving him arsenic. Only, because that stuff stays in the blood forever, he was building it up slowly. And the evening when he was going to give Lucius some tea with the last amount that it would take to kill him, the raid on the Ministry happened. And now Lucius is rotting in jail, and Draco can't get to him to finish the murder. And the doctors at the jail who examined Lucius didn't know what the substance in his blood was because arsenic is a muggle poison.

That's probably not how arsenic works at all, and I have no idea why Draco would want to poison his father to death, or, indeed, why anyone would write a 900 page novel about the slow process of it. But aparently I'm morbid enough to consider it. I had a whole plan for getting around the copyright laws, too.

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EDIT: It only now just occured to me that Draco would have been in school, and unable to poison his father's tea... he must have started the poisoning process during Yule break, and then had a servant continue in his place while he went back to Hogwarts, and getting daily updates from his servant on how it was all going.

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[ipomoea.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's a heck of a dream you had there. And you're right, that's not the way arsenic works. If Draco had been slipping it into Lucius's tea gradually, Lucius would have eventually built up a tolerance to it, and even a dependence. Had he been taken away to jail, he would have died soon after, because by not being able to get the dose of arsenic needed to maintain the dependence, the arsenic stored in his body already would have killed him. Sort of the same principle as an opium-eater.

And I have now proved I read way too many crime novels and watch way too many true crime stories on the telly.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Well, heck, you just solved Daco's problem! Now he does get away with murder, and has no more reason to fret about leaving things unfinished. He says thank you.

I've read less than 10 crimed novels my whole life, so I need people like you to help me out. :)

[bathsweaver.livejournal.com]

You know what's really good? Using pancake batter in the waffle machine. Light, fluffy....::stomach growls::

Is it OK to have waffles for dinner?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I dunno. We sometimes have cowboy eggs, and that's a breakfast dish too. Seems fine to me.