So, I had meant to keep this blog up like a good girl, but some things have happened recently that have made it hard.
My household has been cut drastically by things beyond my control - I lost both my dog Rowan and old cat, Yowler, within a week of one another. Both of them were getting on in years. Rowan had been suffering from various health problems that started with disseminated Valley Fever roughly a year ago, and ran the gamut through weight loss, IBD, and bladder issues. Yowler was quite old for a cat (17 years.) and was suffering from kidney failure.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Hypothetical Monday: Salamander's Choice
I'm gonna try this out, so I'm at least posting every Monday. Hypothetical Monday is a story telling sort of thing, and I'm going to give you a story. You tell me what you would do. It's somewhat like Kokology - but a little more wordy, and maybe less insightful.
There are no correct answers. There are however, outcomes. This isn't a reflection on you - this is actually how the story worked out. I'm mostly interested in seeing what people chose, since I agonized with them as well, either in writing or in dreams.
An Addendum: I will, for now, post the outcomes (along with my own decisions,) and other bits from interesting responses on Saturday. This gives you time to answer, and me time to post!
You are an elite adviser and confidant to the king. Through your actions, his kingdom was saved
from a terrible evil, and through your friendship, he has become a very beloved
king, and you an important bridge between his kind and your own. Your kind is long lived, but you are tiny in
stature in your current form. Should you
choose, you can transform into a salamander of fire, your spiritual form. This makes you somewhat larger and
formidable, but your fire cannot be controlled easily.
During the trials you faced with your lifelong friend the
king, you now hold the token of future kingship - a weighty medallion that is
given to the king's son when he is chosen to succeed his father. You cannot keep the medallion and become king
- it would be absurd for one of your kind to rule over his kind, and you have
no desire for the weight of kingship your friend took upon himself at the end
of your trials. You must choose one of
the king's sons.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Hen Apron
I wanted to spend some time with some friends today, seeing as my birthday was yesterday. But my dog has yet to really recover from his trip to the Veterinary Specialist (VSCT, in Tucson, I highly recommend them) after a 4th of July trip to the same hospital for an emergency visit. Poor guy is having urinary issues, and the main treatment is some drugs that also happen to make him very drowsy and clumsy. Since he fell twice this morning, and has been a bit incontinent today, I decided it was better to be home with him.
Which sort of works out, because I do have some things to work on. Like Hen Aprons.
Which sort of works out, because I do have some things to work on. Like Hen Aprons.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Monsoon Rains
It’s monsoon season again.
I always find it hard to really describe what a monsoon
means to me. I think there’s a special
feeling for these violent rainstorms that desert dwellers have. What it does - the destructive erosion and
crazy winds and everything – that’s easy to describe, or show to people. But what all that rain means is something
else. How it feels, what it IS.
Monday, June 18, 2012
That Ramen Salad Thing (Oriental Chicken and Ramen Noodle Salad)
Hey! It's been a couple of days, I know. I've been searching for important paperwork (which I never did find. GREAT.)
But a friend of mine mentioned she was craving a salad I made a couple times when she was living here. She called it "that toasted ramen salad with the peanut butter flavoring in it." I call it "That Ramen Salad Thing" but probably a nicer name is "Oriental Chicken Salad" or something.
It's simple to make, and it's not peanut butter, it's sesame seed oil. Sesame seeds taste a lot like peanut butter to our American palettes. You can omit the chicken and/or add some cooked tofu or pork or whatever - but I can't guarantee that tastes good. It does taste fine without the chicken. You can buy pre-cooked chicken for salads, that makes less work for lazy chefs (like me, when I'm alone.) Make sure to use rice vinegar and sesame seed oil, don't substitute. Sesame seeds, toasted sesame seed oil and rice vinegar can all be found with the oriental foods at your grocery.
That Ramen Salad Thing
You will Need:
A medium pan
A large bowl
Measuring spoons and cups and stuff
1 package instant ramen noodles (oriental flavor works best.)
2 tablespoons oil or butter
1 bag coleslaw mix cabbage (fine shred.)
3 tablespoons rice vinegar
3 tablespoons sugar (or a substitute like Splenda or Truvia.)
1/4 cup toasted sesame oil (add 1/4 cup of canola if this is not enough oil for you)
1/2 cup sliced almonds (you could also use peanuts.)
2-3 green onions, sliced into cute little rounds
3 tablespoons sesame seeds
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cooked and cubed
1) Heat your pan, add oil or butter. Remove the noodles and flavoring packet from their package. Sprinkle the seasoning in the oil, mixing it well. Crumble up the noodles into chunks (How fine you break them up is kind of personal preference.) Fry them in the pan until they start to brown a bit. make sure they get the oil and seasoning on them.
2) Into the bowl, add rice vinegar, and sugar. Mix. Most of the sugar should dissolve a bit. Then add the oil, and mix again.
3) Into the large bowl, empty the bag of coleslaw. Start tossing it with the dressing, adding the almonds, onions, sesame seeds, fried up noodles, and chicken as you toss.
4) Put the salad in your mouth, and eat it. (Not all at once, you! Slowly, like a LADY.)
Alternatively, you could add the chicken and ramen on top of the salad as you serve it. It will keep the noodles crunchier. If you are serving people at like, a pot luck, I would mix the salad dressing in a separate container until it's nearly time to serve it. The salad will keep, but not too long, the noodles get soggy, and the coleslaw mix gets limp.
Hope you enjoy it!
But a friend of mine mentioned she was craving a salad I made a couple times when she was living here. She called it "that toasted ramen salad with the peanut butter flavoring in it." I call it "That Ramen Salad Thing" but probably a nicer name is "Oriental Chicken Salad" or something.
It's simple to make, and it's not peanut butter, it's sesame seed oil. Sesame seeds taste a lot like peanut butter to our American palettes. You can omit the chicken and/or add some cooked tofu or pork or whatever - but I can't guarantee that tastes good. It does taste fine without the chicken. You can buy pre-cooked chicken for salads, that makes less work for lazy chefs (like me, when I'm alone.) Make sure to use rice vinegar and sesame seed oil, don't substitute. Sesame seeds, toasted sesame seed oil and rice vinegar can all be found with the oriental foods at your grocery.
That Ramen Salad Thing
You will Need:
A medium pan
A large bowl
Measuring spoons and cups and stuff
1 package instant ramen noodles (oriental flavor works best.)
2 tablespoons oil or butter
1 bag coleslaw mix cabbage (fine shred.)
3 tablespoons rice vinegar
3 tablespoons sugar (or a substitute like Splenda or Truvia.)
1/4 cup toasted sesame oil (add 1/4 cup of canola if this is not enough oil for you)
1/2 cup sliced almonds (you could also use peanuts.)
2-3 green onions, sliced into cute little rounds
3 tablespoons sesame seeds
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cooked and cubed
1) Heat your pan, add oil or butter. Remove the noodles and flavoring packet from their package. Sprinkle the seasoning in the oil, mixing it well. Crumble up the noodles into chunks (How fine you break them up is kind of personal preference.) Fry them in the pan until they start to brown a bit. make sure they get the oil and seasoning on them.
2) Into the bowl, add rice vinegar, and sugar. Mix. Most of the sugar should dissolve a bit. Then add the oil, and mix again.
3) Into the large bowl, empty the bag of coleslaw. Start tossing it with the dressing, adding the almonds, onions, sesame seeds, fried up noodles, and chicken as you toss.
4) Put the salad in your mouth, and eat it. (Not all at once, you! Slowly, like a LADY.)
Alternatively, you could add the chicken and ramen on top of the salad as you serve it. It will keep the noodles crunchier. If you are serving people at like, a pot luck, I would mix the salad dressing in a separate container until it's nearly time to serve it. The salad will keep, but not too long, the noodles get soggy, and the coleslaw mix gets limp.
Hope you enjoy it!
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Introductions
So, I went and started this blog.
Technically, it isn't my first. Back when LiveJournal was a thing, I remember posting there about weird dreams and annoying people - but I found it to be a little more drama-y than I wanted, so I let it go - plus MySpace was where all my friends were migrating at the time. Oh, beginnings of big social media.
At any rate, I wanted to give myself some space to write again. I've been depressed and lonely and out of work, sometimes bored when I'm not playing Skyrim. I have a lot to do around here, but try mostly to structure that overwhelming task into 20 minute increments (sometimes I fail. I'm only human.)
I'm a SWF, and I live alone, but keep pets. I have three cats, a dog, a parrot, and seven chickens. I also have a few fish. I like to cook, but find it obnoxious to cook for one, I like to read and write, and enjoy drawing. I like video games, mostly fantasy RPGs and the like. I also like casual post-and-journal based Role Play online with friends. I enjoy Asian dramas (Korean ones are the best,) I know too much about things that aren't really useful, and I enjoy research and proofreading, so I decided a career as a teacher wouldn't be so bad - I'm currently in school for an education degree.
And that's my intro. I'm only starting with it because I think it might be useful to know - I don't intend my blog to be horribly specific. Writing about one topic, constantly, bores me a bit, and I have far more than one hobby. I imagine there will be recipes and crafts, and whatever else pops into my mind. Currently, I've got a dollhouse in the works, and antique books to look through. I may even post coloring pages I made when I worked as a child care clerk. That might be fun. I've been trying to draw more - I fell out of the habit a couple years ago, when I was taking care of my grandparents before they passed away (and I'll probably post about that too, a lot.)
Thanks for reading - and as for the name of the blog - well, ya got me. My brother spent most of an evening trying to tell my sister and I that a stoneware jar full of rose-scented hand balm was a bomb, and he would sell it to us for 2 gold pieces. I failed to haggle any lower. Plus Rose Bombs sound pretty cool (I imagine they blow up, but leave a pleasant scent wafting above the carnage,) even if 2GP is way too much to charge for them.
Technically, it isn't my first. Back when LiveJournal was a thing, I remember posting there about weird dreams and annoying people - but I found it to be a little more drama-y than I wanted, so I let it go - plus MySpace was where all my friends were migrating at the time. Oh, beginnings of big social media.
At any rate, I wanted to give myself some space to write again. I've been depressed and lonely and out of work, sometimes bored when I'm not playing Skyrim. I have a lot to do around here, but try mostly to structure that overwhelming task into 20 minute increments (sometimes I fail. I'm only human.)
I'm a SWF, and I live alone, but keep pets. I have three cats, a dog, a parrot, and seven chickens. I also have a few fish. I like to cook, but find it obnoxious to cook for one, I like to read and write, and enjoy drawing. I like video games, mostly fantasy RPGs and the like. I also like casual post-and-journal based Role Play online with friends. I enjoy Asian dramas (Korean ones are the best,) I know too much about things that aren't really useful, and I enjoy research and proofreading, so I decided a career as a teacher wouldn't be so bad - I'm currently in school for an education degree.
And that's my intro. I'm only starting with it because I think it might be useful to know - I don't intend my blog to be horribly specific. Writing about one topic, constantly, bores me a bit, and I have far more than one hobby. I imagine there will be recipes and crafts, and whatever else pops into my mind. Currently, I've got a dollhouse in the works, and antique books to look through. I may even post coloring pages I made when I worked as a child care clerk. That might be fun. I've been trying to draw more - I fell out of the habit a couple years ago, when I was taking care of my grandparents before they passed away (and I'll probably post about that too, a lot.)
Thanks for reading - and as for the name of the blog - well, ya got me. My brother spent most of an evening trying to tell my sister and I that a stoneware jar full of rose-scented hand balm was a bomb, and he would sell it to us for 2 gold pieces. I failed to haggle any lower. Plus Rose Bombs sound pretty cool (I imagine they blow up, but leave a pleasant scent wafting above the carnage,) even if 2GP is way too much to charge for them.
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