Monthly Archive for April, 2007

The tide has rolled in.

Published on April 30, 2007 in animals, deots, food, life, pictures, plants and vegan. 4 Comments

 I’ve had enough people bitching about the having to register to leave comments, so i’m going to make it so anyone can comment.  Hopefully this doesn’t bite me in the ass, I don’t like spam bots.

I have cramps.  It sucks pretty bad.  I slept through the worst of them this afternoon, but a milder version came back.  I also exceeded my upload limit for this month on Flickr, but luckily I still have some pictures to share.

Once upon a time, I found this wicked awesome banana bread recipe on All Recipes.  It calls for cream cheese and eggs.  I made it with vegan cream cheese for Thanksgiving last year without anyone knowing.  But i’m kind of over fake cheese, so I wanted to make one just as good without it.  And I wanted Brian to take some to the field with him so I wouldn’t eat them all, so I made muffins.  I think i’m good with muffins because these came out pretty excellent on the first try.  I think i’m going to add the recipe into the zine.

Sometimes, you don’t want to be healthy.  Sometimes, you need grease.  Pre-vegan, I invented this thing we call Mexican Egg Rolls.  It’s not complicated, its basically taco filling in an egg roll wrapper, and fried.  Brian was truly sad when he realized that I wouldn’t be making them anymore, so every now and then he just makes them for himself.  Last month, I spotted wrappers in the freezer section (I can’t remember the exact name).  They mentioned egg rolls on them.  I checked the ingredients, no eggs!  Yay!  So we tried them out a few days ago.  They’re thinner than standard egg roll wrappers, so they’re a little crispier.  I made mine partially with seasoned soy crumbles, and with leftover tamale pie filling (which I didn’t take a picture of because it’s the same thing that I posted not too long ago).

You probably wouldn’t believe me after that last picture, but i’m desperately trying to get back on track with my weight loss.  I hadn’t been counting my points for a month.  I’ve been going up and down a pound or two around 145, and i’ve decided that I am going to be in the 130′s by the end of May, no excuses.  None of my clothes from last summer fit.  Nada.  I still only have one pair of pants that fits completely right.  So i’m trying to eat more raw vegetables to balance out things like Mexican Eggroll night.

I get some great light coming in through the kitchen window.  A nice breeze, too.  It actually makes doing the dishes less terrible.  And speaking of my kitchen window, this is a picture I took of my newly planted garden from it.  Everything needs to hurry up and grow so it doesn’t look so sparse.

If you made it this far, here’s your  reward.

I like it here.

Published on April 27, 2007 in life. 0 Comments

Today is a stay in bed kind of day.  Brian has been doing one day on, one day off field training for over a week.  Which means that every day, i’m getting up at the crack of dawn to either pick him up or take him back.  This makes for a very messed up sleep schedule.  Last night I told him to just take the car, since i’m not going to go anywhere and i’d like a full nights sleep.  I slept for 12 hours.  It was nice.  It’s kind of gloomy out and a little chilly, so i’m cuddling with the laptop in bed.  I do have pictures of my new garden and some bananner muffins, but they’re still on the camera.  And I have one cat underneath the covers on my legs, and one cat on top of the covers on my legs.  I can’t bother them.

But there will be an update later.  Sometime.

Sometimes I really hate professionals. Oh, and I have cookies!

Published on April 24, 2007 in food, life, people suck and pictures. 2 Comments

Today I decided to bleach my hair.  I didn’t do another round of color remover, because it made the bathroom stink for days.  It was the foulest thing i’ve ever smelled.  Anyway, I ran out of bleach before I could finish.  I still had most of the bottom of my hair to do.  So what I did was process the top for just ten minutes, washed out out, put that part in a ponytail to keep it separated from the non-bleached, secured the bottom of my hair up, put on a bandanna and went back to Sallys.  I grabbed my bleach and developer, and asked the clerk where the toners were to help combat and leftover orange tones.  Well, of course there’s a ‘stylist’ in there so she asked her to help me.  Running into a stylist in Sallys is the most annoying thing ever, because they can’t just answer your question.  They want to know why so they can tell you what to do.  You know, because there’s no way you know what to do.  It’s particularly annoying because Sally’s is a public beauty store.  There are plenty of professional beauty supply stores, where they keep the good stuff.  The only stylists i’ve seen shopping in Sally’s are the ones who work in the cheap mall salons.  If you’ve ever gotten a haircut at a crappy mall salon, you know what I mean.

She wanted to see my hair.  I said no, because it looked stupid.  They told me I had the wrong bleach.  They told me to get a higher volume of developer.  They insisted I take a highlighting cap.  They never helped me pick out a toner.   When the stylist was telling me how to bleach me hair (when I didn’t fucking ask), I said, “I know, my sister-in-law is a stylist.”  I should’ve said a real one, in hindsight.  She replied, “There’s a world of difference between her doing this and you doing this.”  She misunderstood.  What I meant was, I have already been properly nagged about my hair.  Also, if I wanted professional help with my hair, I would’ve coughed up the $100+ and just gone to a salon.  I’m going to cheapskate route.  I’m gonna have funny hair for a little bit, I don’t care.

I’m sure that when I left they talked about how sorry i’m going to be when my hair falls out of my head.

Anyway, while I was bleaching my hair, my cookies from my cookie swap partner arrived.  I was actually getting ready to rinse it out, so I was naked when the doorbell rang (of course).  I grabbed a fleece blanket and wrapped myself around it, and cracked the front door open just enough to grab the package.  It was long and skinny and said ‘Sears’ on it.  Huh?  So I looked and it was for a house down the street.  Luckily, since we have such a long driveway, the UPS guy hadn’t drove away.  So I had to call him to the porch, and he gave me the right box.  I felt the need to explain why I had a plastic bag on my head.  I didn’t bother explaining the polka-dot fleece blanket.

I really need to get a robe.

These are my cookies, they’re really really really really really really good.