after sunday, i appreciate my sometimes boring life a lot more. cuz anything was better than reliving that experience again!

haven't opened/cooked the zucchinis yet. i guess if i'm gunna make some bread out of it i'd better do it this week, the heat is only gunna get worse (gas oven/hot house while in use).

looked at some patterns this morning...for sewing. i'll eventually pick up a plain, button down men's shirt pattern, saw a square-necked pattern set for myself, and a another shirt and skirt pattern. gunna hold up til i get the instruction manual for the machine (to make sure i have instructions for re-threading and bobbining stuff).

here's the hand-me-down, behemoth, sewing machine.

 

this past weekend. ok, sunday. i thought it was a nightmare, but it was reality. my in-law-family are alright. but the in-law family of an in-law SUCKS. this one does. it's all on me of course. i never met people like those in this family. it was a certain someones special day of celebration, but one of the in-law-in-laws thought it was his time to shine and kept trying to be the center of attention.

examples:

in-law quote-> "shake-a-salad-in-a-cup is the stupidest idea ever" or

"wheat flour isn't any better for your body"

in-law-in-law quotes-> "i made my wife quit her job cuz it made ME unhappy" or

"i saw a lady go into a walgreens bitching about how she doesn't know how she got fat, then come out with a hershy bar...i walked up to her and told her why she was fat"

i can't describe the negative i feel oozing off this dude. i can say that family (in-law-in-laws), from what i have experienced so far, act about 7, but they are chronologically closer to 57. and i mean the age difference in more of a self-centered, "i'm used to being the funny one to say shocking things and be appreciated for it" -type-o-way.  i kept my mouth shut, did not make a deal about getting the wonderful, fixed sewing machine!!! did not complain how the special day was only supposed to be about 3 hours long and ended up 6 hours long, so sean wasn't able to surprise me with a special outting he'd planned (we will attempt it next weekend). we were told to meet at 2, that the thing would start at 3, but it didn't start til 4. dinner at 7pm didn't get home til 8.

coincidentally i thought of the age-thing because at the special event for the special day, there were two children behind me, and one of thier mother's. sean and i were kicked more during that FEW HOURS than we've ever been in our entire lives. we looked at each other couple times cuz we were both obviously this close to making a smart ass comment to them, and, sorry, i do love kids, but i wanted to grab these bratty, whiney children by thier scruffs and toss them into the fountain outside the building. finally the woman must have seen how aggravated we were getting from having her butt rest on our heads while getting the children straight, scrunching up flower paper for 2 hours, being kicked, being touched (head and shoulder swaps because they weren't looking), and pitching a fit during the 'o say can you see' song.

but it's all good. i really do appreciate life a bit more since i know i won't have to be in that exact same situation again.

           fairly normal

mutant

paintedsnake      

something amazing...the dinnerplate dahlia bloomed, but some creature is leaving slimy soil-like stuff all over the buds so, that means that only one lily bulb came up. it's getting et by bugs, but hasn't died yet, so i look forward to a bloom come summer! didn't realise how much space the dahlias needed. about 2 feet in diameter.  been plucking off leaves that are turning to lace from all the nibbles. oh yeah!!! and thanks spidey, i planted the ...um... caladiums? planted them in the back. look forward to them popping up and adding much needed colour to the backyard! and i was told the pictures are fine, anyone else out there getting my pictures too bright (like they show up on my monitor), or are they fine? if it's just me, you know what that means, time for a new monitor!!!

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i found this cool place... hometalkers. discussion forum, found it after doing a search trying to figure out what's going on wiff my zucchini's.

discovered yesterday, that tender blooms are edible! i think i have kind of decided to harvest the mutant zucchini and the largest zucchini. i am so concerned that they will rot just staying there.

thought we would do pasta or soy taco tonight, but hankerin for baked potatoes instead...not to mention i forgot to pull soytaco out freezer, lemme do that now.

i'd also kept forgetting to plant that pineapple. finally did it today, hope it takes!!!

i have been sucking down too much coffee lately, but it's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good.

guess i'll attempt to clean the windows for the remainder of the tint to go up. can't wait to see what i'll be doing this weekend, besides another family event on sunday   must check out aboriginal snake design in one of my books so i can decorate some of those wooden snakes. must clean tools off old kitchen counter so we'll be ready for the new counter. oh yeah, gotta look for a sink this weekend.

i'll be back on if some amazing happens, otherwise have a great weekend, see ya on ...um... sometime next week

   

was going to put a picture up of the tomatoes too, but need to tweak the thumbnail program colours, they are so screwed up right now even adobe doesn't help too much. from left to right: only bell pepper and jalapeno to make it so far; 6.5 inch zucchini; and zucc with a flower still on it. so far there are about 3 or 4 zucchinis that look like they will make it and probably about 5 tomatoes!

ok, and i have to say this. churros, from busch gardens(T/F), are awesome.

p.s. oh! and don't forget to check out the moon tonight, it's a lunar eclipse, the mood should be red tonight.

p.p.s ok, thank you mr. wizard, for fixing it , i'm too lazy and busy doing other stuff...

the day started off with him going into work and i, applying window tint/insulation. then we ate strawberries, apples, grapes, cheese and crackers for lunch.

earlier this week and weekend, i'd given him a monkey mobile/windchime. to remind him of the barrel-o-monkeys he is. he'd found the perfect rolling pin for me and had been dying to give it up. after we ate yesterday, i gave him an asmat sago tray with a lizard design on it (cuz i think it's cute he has a lizard army). he presented me with yet another perfect thing i'd always dreamed of...a locket! it has the a picture of him in it and the cats making faces on the other side. i can see it already, somebody will ask "who's in your locket?" and i'll say "my main man" and they'll look and turn to me and ask "who, jesus?"

after eating, we went and saw xmenII. i was very happy with what they did with nightcrawler. they could have done a little more, but maybe next time. and i can't wait for phoenix to come...that is another old nickname (computer) i used to use. oh, and hunnimon gave me a flower, too!

i was reminded of some bug incidents when i was reading MystikalMagik, yesterday. this one time i went to go check the mail, when i lived with my folks. went out the front door which was hardly ever used. a huge palmetto roach (skateboarder) dropped on my head right as i opened the door and it seemed to do a jig before meandering onto my face as i screamed bloody murder and went into convulsions trying to get it away from me.

another time i had traveled to another state to keep an eye on my sisters while thier mother was in a hospital. they said "there's a spider out there (screened patio) and our dog is out there, go get him!!!" i told them to go grab something to spray at the bug (mind you, after this incident i do not spray anything except wasps now). we get the dog in, i close the door behind me, walk towards spider, spray it. huge cloud forms (a good 3 feet in diameter). i run. and scream...because it seems to propel me into the house quicker. the dust cloud was hundreds of baby spiders that had been all over her body clinging on. CREEPY when it's coming toward you.

before both these incidences, i'd stay at a cousins house occasionally. i kept getting woken up and would be itchy. next morning, come to find out, it was roaches. their mother was all acting like it was normal. maybe for them it was, crap, get a fogger!!! she told me, "oh yeah, roaches crawl over everyone in thier sleep you just never knew it." thank you very much, no they don't. when you're poor, there is no food or drink for the roaches to get to. only time they'd come in was if it rained too hard. but at the cousins house, there were a gaggle of people living there, dropping food and drink everywhere and not cleaning it up.

present situation, we have had maybe 7 roaches in the house in as many years. when ya see them, they're dead, cuz the boy cat has already ripped they little heads off as soon as they come in.

you are true to me
hard to be blue with you

i look for you in every sunset
been in love since the day we met

happy anniversary my hunniman!

may 13...woke up late again!!! my dreams...they been keeping me in bed. large hairy jackrabbits and guinea pigs. dead people in bathroom stalls with slices ear to ear, gasping. confusion. disbelief.

got brownies in the oven...with that left over homemade granola ontop of half of them. it's the never-ending box of granola.

must start cutting window film for rest of house, tomarrow it is supposed to bounce to the 90's.

9 year anniversary tomarrow. SURPRISE, he's taking the day off, he told me yesterday (lol). we talked about seeing the x-men movie, first showing of the day (while it's uber-hot). i got some quick foods planned, well, some of them. this anniversary is about 2 months shy of us knowing each other for the past 10 years. i know, it's a drop in the bucket of life, but it seems a lifetime for me.

*beep*bitch*beep* the brownies thought they were done, few more minutes...

well, i'm in one of them moods where i really haven't much to say. one of my pic grabbing programs isn't happy and not working, and been having a couple other small issues with the keyboard (haven't been able to type in some comment boxes, but it's me, not xanga, if i restart enough times, i'm sure it'll fix itself ). just trying to enjoy these 2 days of mild weather and get ready for a day of fun with my other half.

made eye of round last night with zOOkeenE. thinking about soytaco for this evening, oh and we still have some sausage...i cut them length-wise, then slice a few grooves down both halves, squirt on some honey, mustard and barbque sauce, microwave, yum. i am not a bbq or a mustard person, but sausages and hotdogs done like this, curl my toes, so good. that bit of bite with the sweet, smashing into the tangy.

p.s. i didn't realise the death test (under profile) would dissappear! i went back and made another, changed the answers a little and changed some of the questions. not a huge change. AND got all the window tint we have cut and ready to go!!!

p.s. oh and, my hunni made me happy this weekend when he told me i would save us money by making all the artwork we would ever want myself. i was just amazed he called it art.

today was actually amazingly cooler than it had been.

there is one bell pepper and one jalepeno and two tomatoes actually growing now. all i am hoping for out of this first try is one thing from each fruit/vegetable. the zucch will be plucked soon, it's about 6 1/2 inches now. have to eat the ones i still have from the store, quickly!

started window tinting the back of the house rooms. just did the small back door panels to start and get the hang of. for some reason the cats staring at me while i did, was REALLY irritating. i was irritated period. before i had started, i'd grabbed some newspaper (to clean panels), so i see there is an advice column, and 2 of the issues sounded ridiculously similar to issues i knew. but the advice the person gave was so tunnelvisioned, one-sided, narrow-minded, whatever you call it. i was about to write her a letter about it. now, i will say what i am about to say is only from my several experiences, so mayhaps i sound very narrow-minded, but i am also one who knows that some things take a while to work through and there isn't just one answer or one way to 'fix' something.  her advice to a person who was only hearing negative things from a friend (like how lonely they are) and the friend sounded depressed with thier life. this person had stopped conversing with the negative person cause they couldn't take it. the advice was 'tell the person to seek counseling.' i know this sounds harmless, but it's wrong. you don't tell a person who's down that the only help you can offer them is to go seek counseling. you really ought to find out if there IS anything you can help to change and follow through. people need to know they are loved, not pushed off on someone else. if someone told me to seek counseling i would feel like a failure. once the person feels better, once the person feels like only counseling will help, that they have exausted all other avenues, then they are more likely to see it as help rather than submission to average society. sometimes people are what they are around. problems rub off on others... sometimes counseling doesn't work!!!

anyways, so every hair in body decided to get in the way, or irritate or itch me while: cleaning the glass, measuring/cutting tint sheet, spraying the VERY NOXIOUS bubbly fluid on the glass, pealing backing off, unrolling tint section, spraying fluid on the sheet, then placing sheet on window then spraying more bubbly stuff, and squeegie-ing; X's 3, about 35 to go...

washing dishes in the tub...old quick. getting used to the sink not being in the kitchen...nuts!

mothers day. i start off trying to be reserved yet sociable. then might blurt out something totally not related, but perhaps interesting. then i am cautious and bite my tongue. then i end up having to stick up for myself (was told i was bragging, i boast happily about good things, i do not brag!!!) or have to justify my actions (about how i cook?!!! of all things, WHO CARES!!!)

different personalities in a 8x10 room do not work well together. especially when some of them feel the need to prove things to others. (no, not me, i did have to clarify a couple things, but i do not feel i have anything i need to prove to anyone about what i choose to do in MY life; i don't attack people on something i know works for them or that they are working on, it's pointless).

i count road kill.

i think i must have missed something. 

back peta, an alley cat left this on my driveway. all i did was take pictures. the hollowed bird reminded me of those viking hats with the wings.

 i like to take pictures of things. yes, i am a bastard child brought up on meat and don't know how to kick the habit. (maybe someone sent you to my page knowing all i talk about is meat and dead animals?) if so, sorry other than that, i'm kid-safe!

and yes, i am on an upswing. sorry if you don't get the morbitity. those closest to me don't always get it either, and family members would never get it, so i don't even send them here! oh, and thanks spidey for the acknowledgement of the food pictures. i am confused why they mostly go over well, but the juicey bird gizzard pictures (or whatever part it is) do not. it looks pretty juicey to me, actually darn-right humungus compared to it's actual size (petitpea-sized). lol, i know i'm making you sick...i made sean sick earlier, talking about how fresh it looked. i just REALLY like to take pictures. and if it is detailed even appauling, i know i did a good job. so it's either make people hugry or make them sick. why can't i do both.

decided since i am always quoting conversations for the deathquote, i'd go ahead and just make a new deal to the side 'deathversations.'

and no, i don't just talk about meat and dead-things. that was a little joke

boiled peanuts. bite the star, suck the juice, slurp the nut.

haven't heard of them? don't like them? i ran into a person once who made them for a co-worker (he was trying to get her sweet on him), she didn't like them, so i asked if i could have them, that i would APPRECIATE them. i grew up eating boylt pnuts. out, a bit in the country, in florida, you'd see a big barrel, steam coming out and a sign scoop for $5. sometimes, heading back into the city, i'd make a request for them...mom would say back "ok, next one, we'll stop"...and it would always be the last one i saw.  i'd dream about them til the next time we went that way.

never made them myself until now. started them before actually knowing how i was supposed to cook them. i'm thinking fresh, 10 minutes...try 45. well that's how most recipes read. here's one from an online newspaper article and here's one from the national peanut board. i made them a little salty, forgot i was using flavourful sea salt and hadn't looked at the recipe yet.

also made some chicken last week, using the wheatabix (smashed) as a coating. baked it, got some crispy coated chicken! was going for putting honey on it after baking. to get hunnied chicken... the honey smell was too strong, so after looking around i found a honeyed chicken recipe online. sean pointed out that nowhere did it read honey. that's why mine didn't work!!!

last night (chicken soaked in milk/vinegar mix always before i coat it now, thx spidey!) i put some wheat flour, brown sugar, powdered chick broth, curry mix and ginger to use as the coating. skin-fried it in a skillet, like pork chops. after it looked great on the outside, i threw it in the microwave to finish cooking a minute or two, i forget. used extra crumb mix and milk to make a sauce to put on top noodles. forgot to take a picture. the chick came out more like the honeyed chicken i was trying to make the other week.

spamspamspamspam

this was baked spicey spam slices surrounded by green bell peppers and topped with almost spicey rice.

and this was that meat tenderloin i sliced, added to gravy and ate with mashed  taters and broccoli.

we have zucchini! just noticed the zucchini is growing behind the flower (i think i read the males grow like that?).

we ordered the coutertop a week or so ago. they called last night to tell us the laminate design we picked was discontinued. went to the store and looked at more samples and chose a new one. they still had the old sample chip up there   i have a sample collection going. i figure i can make a mosaic table top with the samples, just need the adhesive! picked up this one metallic one...hello, instant car mirror (it is smooth enough to use as a mirror). need more samples.