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Misc Pics Catch Up!

Realized it’s been a bit since a posted! Part of the fault is I started using instagram in… August I think and so my random pics go there and I forget to put them here. Also I still haven’t done anything about my camera :/ I know that it’s me not wanting to face if all those pics really are gone ;_; But… I really should find out.

Anyway, so I tend to take random housey pics on my ipad mini anyway. So here’s some pics from September! I’ll do October in another post.

This was probably one of my last batch of refrigerator pickles, my cucumbers fiiiinally gave up the ghost a few weeks ago (no joke, I must have gotten hundreds from those plants!) and I pulled them up and planted chard, beets, and carrots there.

Lots more after the break!

 

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Partial Haitus… thing

Soooo, in-between taking pics, literally from one picture to the next, my camera’s SD card died. At the Cheesecake Factory of all places! (in my defense, their decor really looked like the Eye of Sauron was watching us eat…)

I take pictures of eeeeeverything, I have such a terrible memory I feel like I have to! So this is kind of a big a deal (and an excellent reminder to me to back up any pictures once a week going forward).

Before I descend into despondency I need to exhaust all my options for recovery, and sadly I don’t really have time for that at the moment.

So I’m not sure how the posting will go for awhile. You guys are missing out on some great beet pictures, boiled this time! And then pickled!
Also progress pictures of my house and my sewing projects and like 500 pics from Yosemite.

Hair!

I was going through some of my phone photos, trying make sure I sent everything to myself when I noticed a lot of hair photos and thought it might be fun to see them all in a row.
Plus it will help me figure out what colour next!
The first one is my natural hair!
Maybe.
The more I look at it the more I think I even took that pic ’cause it’s dyed slightly darker and has lowlights that my gramma’s hairdresser put in for me.

Pics after the break!

I don’t know why I can’t get that grid to match up.
And I’m a bit bummed I actually didn’t manage to capture all of the colours/variations. There’s also been a lot of platinum blonde with various streaks in between all those.
That last one was taken Feb 3rd this year, it’s now faded to something similar to the 2nd pic, but I think due to all the processing my hair has been through it’s mostly rose and streaked a yellowy pink.
I did a hair where it was pink chunked with grey, maybe I’ll do that again? DECISIONS.
I’m trying to grow it out to a sort of short bob ala Victoria Beckham and Thea Queen in season 3 of Arrow, so it’s super awkward right now ;_; 
I was also thinking of cutting it super short again…

Random Mobile Photos – March

More mobile and tablet photos!


In date order, here is the beginning of me starting some seedlings. I did this March 11th.

Awww, all lined up they’re so cute 8D

For Pi day of course!
A no-fail recipe my mum picked up somewhere, turned out nicely! If I find it I’ll link it.

More adventures in cooking!
D sent me this recipe by The Pioneer Woman to try with the black beans I’d picked up. I did an overnight soak instead of the quick soak she mentions, and I put my crockpot on low all day while I was at work. Also I put carrots in instead of bellpeppers. Turned out delicious!

Came home after a weekend with my grandparents and… sprouts! I’m so excited!

Roses from my garden 😀
These roses were already there, and I’m nooooot totally sure how I feel about the purple one. I always feel like purple roses are fake. Also it blows out pretty quickly. So we’ll see if that one stays. I don’t really have time to replace it anytime soon anyway though 8D

Rug!
This came in just yesterday!
I’m going to stitch it to a towel and use it as a bath mat.

Mmm what else…
I’ve had the worst hankering to rewatch Life on Mars lately, but one I seem to have loaned out my season one set and don’t know to whom, and two even if I had it it’s region two and I don’t have a region free dvd player anymore. Oh and three, even if it were region one, I don’t even have a laptop at the moment so yeah.

Wishful thinking led me to browse Netflix, alas.
Saddened, I decided to just look up John Simm. I watched the mini series “Exile,” it was a wonderfully directed and beautifully acted melodrama. Also it felt weirdly like a prequel to “State of Play,” in that basically he’s the same character.
So theeeen I looked up Philip Glentister and burned through “Island at War.”
I LOVED IT.
Plus it fit perfectly into the 1940s kick I’ve been on! (but didn’t quite fill the hole “Bomb Girls” left behind ;_;)
Makes me want to research All The Things.
Now my sewing/homework viewing is back to “Foyle’s War.”

… but I still want to watch Life on Mars.

Adventures in cooking

Sewing/cute stuff soon hopefully. February was a big wash in terms of being productive 8D;;

In the meanwhile, here’s something I did last night!

As some of you know I’m not really big on cooking. In that, I tend to have no idea what I’m doing.
I can follow a cookie recipe!
Everything else is debatable.

So moving on. I went to Grocery Outlet recently and they had yams on sale, $0.99 per yam. So of course I got the largest one I possibly could (gotta get my money’s worth out of that dollar right?).
It was huge:

I’ll let you take a moment to realize it’s about the size of a toaster (it is, it’s curved here so not the best pic but yes).

So I cut it in half, which took FOREVER. That thing was super dense.
And then I cut that in half and as I’m chunking it I realized whoa, this is a lot of yam, and I only own one pan.
So I decided to only bake half of it, and that half I split in half to do one sweet and one savory.

By the way, this is totally not a tutorial/what to do. This is more documenting my experiments ’cause I don’t know what I’m doing.

The left half I put chunks of butter, and then was pretty liberal with brown sugar and cinnamon.

The right half I put olive oil and looked at what spices Lydia gave me, which was Allspice and a Not!Oregano. Probably you know what those are buuuut I didn’t. So I tasted them both and was like “Uhhh… okay!” and sprinkled them both what I thought was liberally. Then I squeezed a lemon over it. And then I quartered another lemon (I have so many lemons @.@) and stuck them in, ’cause I remembered seeing a recipe on pinterest where they baked the lemon in. 

Wrapped up the foil, and baked!
It smelled sooooo good while it was baking.

Looks good!
Problems:
For the sweet side the amount of sugar I used was more than the butter or something, ’cause it stuck.
For the savory side either I just didn’t use enough oil, or lemon counteracts it? It also stuck.

Still, plenty to eat. So I put it on my plate with spinach, still smelling wonderful, feeling super excited to eat this and taste the differences and feeling very adult.

Couldn’t taste the difference.
Both were very moist and very sweet.
I don’t know if this yam was just exceptionally sweet, or my getting over a cold dulled any savory, or I just need to pour the spices on, but in any case they tasted virtually the same.
The one difference was the lemon! One of the savory pieces I ate had been right next to a lemon wedge, as in touching. It turned out really nice. That one piece.
Not that it all wasn’t niiiiice, it just wasn’t what I was expecting.
Gonna hit up my cooking friends for advice ;_;

Anyway, I got a bedframe:

Featuring another of my gramma’s quilts.
Goes well with the penguins.