2014

Oh my dear f**ng god. what a year!! :) I ordered all this criznap for myself and bizness handcraft...so many orders and shipments and missing items and replacements and backorders and canceled orders and latelate charges and decreased then split charges. I thought i was going to overdraw...but i had like three days because latelate charges...then refunded charges for canceled orders. and furthermore bank of america has a monthly fee i thought was going to remove my anus from my body...well. So new bank account...didnt overdraw...getting some items in the mail. Almost scared my family wants my xmas presents to myself. I spent all my food $ on this stuff anyway (only drinking tea and coffee and not daily food to keep my stuff running and my style good i want to model anyway). Well i will have to make ten purchases a month to avoid monthly fees. i am about finished with my mirror hanging and now making some broken mirror tile mosaics with grout!! Its awesome.

pasta and sequin

Had a wonderful sunday night pizza last night...quatro cheese and mushroom...green chile and sausage and a plate of the fettucine cream sauce with shrimp ( orange sauce with some greens too). Very fun...couple glasses of red wine and some heinekin to round it off as well as espresso tiramisu and spimoni. everything was shared all around obviously. Started sewing some of my winter projects...got a sequin tank top ive been wanting to make for like a couple years. i rarely go out on new years eve but i wanted to have a sequin outfit ( shorts and tank) to go party in...when i do. i chose silver instead of gold for whatever reason and found sequin elastic shorts online. Dont know yet if i will party this year. if not i will have it for next year. i could not stand not having a rad sequin getup fo new years eve.

Xmas

I had a wonderful meal on thanksgiving...i had duck. it was pretty good, with spaetzl. spaetzle was nice because i had wanted pasta. although seeing the steaks that people beside me had got i might have ordered that, or scallops. i always think i ordered the wrong thing though. i also had baconwrapped prawn as an appetizer which was totally decadent. it was all a lil overly salty but quite an experience. And the waiter was a bit weird but hopefully won't have to see them again. One of the neighbors uses wood to heat their house and i think i must backdraft in my apt because it is really stinking of smoke in here. i have woken up to it the past couple days...gone in the day though. I got new contact lenses for xmas...from europe so i can choose my own perscription. Woopee.

holidayce

So i have started planting my spring seeds. last year i started well into spring for flowers but for vegetable i started at jan 1. They were both somewhat sucessful. i already have bulbs trying to make shhots and doing good. we will see when they sprout. It would be so nice to get things going year round!! i finished off my blue cheese totally. it was homemade from a half gallon of organic milk. the process was extremely fun...rather stinky...i even started smelling like this bum i spoke to at college. Hahaha...real weird. i dont know if i would do it again. maybe if i had a cow :). Or access to alot of cheap milk. the xheese was good. It did not vein up i think because i had it in my fridge which is a bit colder than a "cool box". but the flavor was excellent and the texture was real firm as a firm farmers cheese. that part without the aging and blueing would be easy to do again for a real cheese person. Almost xmas...very fine. i am reading fountainhead by any rand. quite a captivating read. Did my nails for the holidays...getting into nail art a little so that is fun!

aliexpress

I love shopping on aliexpress because they have free shipping...huge selection...and low low prices. I finished painting all my planters in the cream color and moved on to the molding and window sills in blue and light blue. I have a bunch of plants so next step is to put some repurposed mirrors behind the plants using 3m strips. I am experimenting dying my hair with food coloring...so i mix it with shampoo and leave it on for an hour...supposedly you need to leave it on for 8hrs. i might have the patience when it gets warmer. I am thinking i might try for another holiday drink...maybe whisky milk and peppermint extract.

painting

I finished painting my planters cream color and have moved on to the light blue color. after that i will move on to a darker blue. kindof a fun holiday project. my beverage of choice this holiday has been whiskey and eggnog. super combo. i also want to try hot apple cider and whiskey.

worst night

So i totally encountered all these bummer dudes last night when i went out. i guess they were mentally ill so whatever. but what a drag. i didnt puke get robbed or drop anything...except the bar tenders charged me for two beers that were bought for me and one beer i walked out on because the dudes started yelling at me. All good

Winter

So i have started painting all of my planters...the color is cream. it is actually quite nice and not too many problems dripping paint. i want to do some kind of cool blue design on top of it...perhaps with a stencil or something. I am having a wicked craving for some heavily spiked egg nog. but i havent broke down and got it. I also found a recipe for homemade irish cream (like baily's)...yummo.

mirrors/flavorwire

I just checked out flavorwire for an article on indie publishing...wow...i have a book i have wanted to publish and its seemed daunting til now. flavorwire is like a real wealth of indie publishing and recotd label type of information. I just got all this extra paint of freecycle...another good resource...and some leftover remodeling goods...mirrors and stuff from my parents...very exciting. i am going to put them on walls behind plants to improve growing conditions. Hit up some holiday shopping...mostly fabric was so cheap and some plant seeds, contacts from EU no prescription necessary, snowboard leash and stomp pad, winter tights, slip on shoes. I also want to do some mirror mosaics cause i have some grout i thought some yard art would be nice. i usually dont prefer mushroom art but im thining i may be able to pull off small cement mushrooms...not coming up with any other ideas besides mosaic stepping stone.

chai

  i have been really enjoying this tea...bigelow tea...chai with caramel and chocolate.  the chai flavor us awesome...already had the caramel for a while but just got the chocolate...with sweetened condensed milk...super good.casknees.blogspot.co

sweet wines

God i love white zinfandel...it is like so refreshing and pure. i also tend to like a sweeter wines now and again just because of their softness. sometimes i can't get the more acidic or less sweetwines to avail their flavors so a sweet wine is like easy conneasureship. I also tried a guwertztraminer wine over tday and that was real great. I had forgotten that gawertztraminer was a sweet wine. i really like it...much complexer that a white zinfandel but of course in a different way.