May 21, 2010

Today was long but good. Yesterday was the Jonathan Coulton concert. ( Look him up, his music`s really good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNmeMklFk8 which is a video game song, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdUUywIsIGI&feature=related is a memory song for the American presidents. Not that I`m American. But it helps when people start talking about things I never had a head for.) Paul and Storm also played, they`re great on stage but they disappointed me by not playing Me Make Fire which happens to be one of my faves of theirs. http://www.paulandstorm.com/lyrics/me-make-fire/

However, I understand that they had a severely limited time span and that, yes, I did pay to see them open for JoCo.
Anyway, today I did a whole lot of shopping and laundry, I wanted fresh fruit, and so I bought it. The end.
Also, I made these pretty tasty wraps:
Chicken, frying-panned
Garlic cooked in as well
Some small amount of taco additive flavoured stuff
Pepper to taste as per the boyfriend`s happiness
Cucumber cut into lengthy triangles
Tomatoes cut into triangles
Cottage Cheese OR
Caesar Salad (we used Renee`s)
Cheddar shredded cheese
Wraps

So basically, the chicken was cooked and then we put the stuff on. It was simple, cool enough that it didn`t suck to cook it, and was tasty. I used the cottage cheese, the BF did not. (He also didn`t eat the veggies, but I did. Go figure.)
Anyway, you should try them. They took no time to make, and they were actually pretty good. Lettuce may have been good on them if you didn`t want the cheese, or anything else. it would have helped make the crunch that the cukes give, too.

May 24, 2010

Today was the holiday Monday, Victoria Day. There was no celebration for me today; I celebrated on Saturday with my family who came up for dinner in my apartment and we went to fireworks then.
I decided to sit down with the awesome sewing machine my grama sent up to me from her house because the old singer

I bought ages ago from VV never worked :

And I struggled for four hours with the top thread breaking pretty consistently. Finally, I finished the four lines it took to sew to make this hammock with such a cute fleece pattern, for my ratties.

Then I called my grama and asked for her knowledge in the subject. She responded with some advice, and I went away from the machine, frustrated, as the thread continued to break.
After struggling* with my borrowed barbecue which had housed mice in my dad's shed for at least two years:

I blew it up a little, singeing my arm hairs off in patches.
It was not a pretty smell, and now I have uneven arm hairs. How nice.
Then my boyfriend helped me to light it, decided it wasn't safe to light what with the pink panther insulation all over the innards, and then put it back out. Now I am tasked with removing the rust and cleaning it out before I can barbecue... but I will be able to barbecue eventually, and that makes me (almost) forget my singed arm hair.

Then I decided to go back to the sewing machine, which though continually breaking a thread, never blew up.
After stitching an easier trial fabric that wasn't fleece, I realized it had little to no problems, except it would occasionally catch a whole whack of thread in the bobbin area and I'd have to stop the machine, unlatch the bobbin casing and pull all the thread bits out.
Then I dangled the bobbin like my grama suggested in order to test the tension of the bobbin case, and I realized that the actual bobbin was moving in the wrong direction when the thread was pulled.
I had, in my hurry to begin sewing, put the bobbin in backwards.

How intelligent.

But now I have half-finished curtains. The bright pink ones that go underneath the white ones haven't been hemmed yet because I am lacking a bright pink thread, and it is a major holiday. Convenience stores also do not sell thread often. Just a note-to-self. Went to:


And so I shall finish them, and start a bonnet for either me or my cousin, depending on how the first one turns out :D


*In my defense, I have never, ever lit a barbecue. Still haven't. It went out as soon as it was on. I think it was because the lid was on. Come to think of it, my brother's eyebrows were removed once due to this same issue...

May 09, 2010

Today is Mom's Day.
I called my mommy and said "HI!"
Then I got in a stupid fight over something that I didn't even really care to fight about with my boyfriend but kept going anyway because I'm tired because last night I had a really bad leg cramp that kept me up and bruised my left leg so that this morning I ended up going to work and overcompensating with my right leg (and knee and foot) which incidentally is my weaker side under the hip due to it being my favoured side for dancing and stuff, which led to me being: a) awake for much too long last night----->cranky and b) in pain------>cranky as well as c)really, really frustrated at work---->cranky.
And then I got a slurpee. It was awesome. I also moved a chair to a co-worker's/friend's house. It was awesome, too. I helped.
Oh, and I put whiskey in my slurpee. Which was the coolest thing of all. Whiskey+Slurpee=win!