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Thursday, 15. May 2008, 18:21:34
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Saturday, 22. March 2008, 03:23:29
Quote of the day
"You have two names. Ryd Yarrow and Dragon-Harrower. One is a plain name that this mountain gave to you. The other you got from the world, the name that gives you color. One name I can talk to, the other is the tale at the bottom of a bottle of wormspoor."
-----"The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath" by Patricia A. McKillip
Wednesday, 4. November 2009, 22:09:22
It's been something akin to aeons since I last blogged about something on here.
There hasn't been much of interest going on lately though, I guess. Unless you count the fact that I had two, yes two, trick-or-treaters for Halloween.
We had snow last Thursday and Friday, but that's about it.
Sunday, 4. October 2009, 02:54:02
One of the things I love about where I live at in Nebraska, is that they celebrate Oktoberfest. We didn't have that in my hometown (we do have a Lutefisk Feed in December though. :yuck), so I was pretty happy to have a rather neat three-day event near my birthday that I could enjoy.
I love going to the craft show/farmer's market. You never know what little goodies you'll find there, and I like to take time to stock up on a little bit of fresh honey for the upcoming year.
Alas, I didn't get Bear a little furry friend this year (I got Bear at the 'fest last year), but I still got some rather neat stuff...well, neat to me anyway.
I got some soap, a few sets of earrings, candles, and honey. More than I intended, but one of the candles is a gift anyway.
When I checked the mail today, I found a rather wonderful surprise-- a postcard from
Kerstin!
Now for the most interesting part of the past few days:
I got my hair dyed! That's not the best picture right there, so let me post a "before" and "next morning" shot.
There you have it, people. My really exciting weekend. Oh yeah, I hooked up my washer dating from the late 1970's today too. 
Did I mention that it's avocado green? It's kinda ugly, but at least it runs! I need to see about getting the matching dryer hooked up tomorrow. 
Anyway, there are some more pictures (none of the washer and dryer) here, if you're interested. 
Friday, 25. September 2009, 02:46:27
The other day
Zaphira posted a delicious looking recipe she created for
Marzipan Muffins. Never having used marzipan (I've used almond paste, which is similar), I decided this was the perfect recipe to try.
There were a couple things that I should have taken into account though- 1.) The marzipan I found was hard as a rock. I had to put it in the microwave in order to soften it enough to grate, and 2.)Nebraska is at a much higher elevation than Denmark. I needed to use a bit more flour to compensate.
My muffins are nowhere near as pretty as Zaphira's, but they are still quite tasty.
I'll just have to tweak the recipe a tad bit to adjust it to my elevation, but I'll definitely do it again.
Thanks for the recipe, Zaphira. It's incredible!
Sorry about the quality of the pictures. The light in the kitchen is terrible.
Monday, 14. September 2009, 15:17:03
I'm going to be off (unless I'm not doing much at work) for awhile until I get my stuff sorted out after moving. I'm just happy that I got everything moved this weekend, but I still have to finish cleaning the old apartment and unpacking some of the stuff in the new house. As soon as I get enough stuff put away, I'll take some pictures of the place.
Right now, I just have a few
pictures from
before it was cleaned. Talk about gross.
I have a
Twitter page that I'll keep more updated after work. So if you're curious about what I'm up to when I'm not near a computer, that's the place to check.
Saturday, 29. August 2009, 22:17:28
Rooibos (pronounced "roy-bus"). The very name inspires a look of "WTF is that?" with the better part of the American population. Also known as Red Tea, the plant hails from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. The tea can be prepared in a similar manner to any of the black teas (with sugar, milk, or just plain), but the plus side is that it doesn't get bitter when oversteeped and it's caffeine free.
I had tried some kind of flavored rooibos several years ago (can't remember the brand or flavor) and was rather put off by the whole experience. I'd given up the idea of trying it again, until
Aadil had brought it up in a comment sometime back. That renewed a mild interest in it, but it wasn't until I got an herbal sampler from Adagio that contained a sample of Jasmine Rooibos, that I really thought about it again. To be honest I am not a fan of any kind of jasmine flavored tea, but I figured that I'd give it a try. I liked it...a lot. So I got an entire Rooibos sample pack from Adagio. Regular rooibos has a slightly sweet with a kind of nutty, almost, but not quite, toffee flavor to it. I don't really know how to explain it other than that.
Likes
It's multi-purpose. You can drink it iced, with milk and sugar, plain, whatever you prefer. Either way, it tastes great.
It's caffeine free. It's a great alternative to black tea for those that can't have or want to cut back on caffeine.
Dislikes
If loose leaf
It's a horrid pain in the ass to clean out of my Ingenuitea tea pot. I really recommend (and need to get) tea bags for it.
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