Strawberry peanut butter chicken salad

You heard me. Adapted from lots of places to fit my diet and what I had to hand. Googling "Chicken strawberry pasta salad" will provide recipes likely better suited to anyone who isn't me.
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The True Meaning of Smekday and Generation T

After reading this amazing review by thefourthvine(scroll down) I went and reserved "The True Meaning of Smekday" by Adam Rex at the library. It came in today and I read it in pretty much one sitting (modulo dinner and my obsessive need to check my email every five seconds etc) It's everything she says! Hilarious illustrated children's science fiction book about alien invasion with a lot of clever satire about colonisation and society and stuff. (It's like "The Xenogenesis Saga" only funny! And for kids!)

The only things that bugged me: as happens with a lot of humourous speculative fiction, I was sometimes thrown out of the story by stuff that was funny or clever but made absolutely no sense. Also I realised how the story was going to end about 2/3 of the way through and spent the rest of the book feeling a bit frustrated at the "subtle hints".

The other book I got out was Generation T: 101 things to do with a tshirt. Pretty much all 101 are simple and easy to make... and unbearably ugly. It might have been useful before I'd figured out how to do more complex things from places like t_shirt_surgery but as it is I don't see myself getting much out of it apart from better self esteem about my own creations.

Yule tides and tarts

First off: what is a Yuletide Treat? I've been vaguely pondering trying some of the bits of yuletide that don't require a commitment and they sound like they might be what I'm after but I can't find information anywhere.

Second: Yay exchanges! I'm on yuletart and hp_holidaygen and both have been great so far. It's so exciting and full of community-warm-fuzzies.

Specifically: I got my yuletart gift today. Art! Made just for me! (I asked for femslashy women with swords, and that's what I got :)) And they're going to send it to my house. *squees*

My favourite things neither by me or for me:
yuletart: Futurama: A Fun Old-fashioned Family Xmas
hp_holidaygen: Thrice Defied Frank and Alice Longbottom during the beginning of the war.