Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Saturday, December 28, 2013
A saved post from a week ago!!
We watched the movie 'We're the Miller's' tonight.
It was pretty good. I wasn't expecting that. In some places it was stupid or predictable, but overall it was gosh dang good!
I love it when Jennifer Anniston mouths, "Fuck you." It's so unlike her persona. So Jennifer Anniston? If you're reading this, keep making movies where you cuss like a banshee!! HA!
Sears has this new commercial and the floors are glowing gold squares that ripple with light. I want this floor through my whole house. No crap. Special effects that only come on when you want it. Otherwise it's just normal looking bricks during the day.
I'd love to make a sitcom. Be an actor in a sitcom. But I could never get over the stage fright. I suck in crowds. Never used to.
I can't sing worth shit either. Can't stay in tune even if I was paid.
Urd (bpal)
Florally, smells feminine so far in the vial. Nice.
It's somewhat lackluster on the skin wet. So far anyway. Has somewhat of a doctor's office smell but not a mediciney one. Smells like a glade air freshner to me. LOL Is there apple in here? Again I smell violets. LOL Maybe I should say that every time I smell a new one, seems to be the one scent I keep mentioning. bah...
It's getting stronger now. Wow A lot stronger. Something deep is coming to play with the apples and violets.
What's in it: Muscadine, black and red patchouli, cereus and nag champa.
The nag is way in the background. I have to google muscadine and cereus.
Muscadine is a grape plant and cereus is a cactus. Is that my apples (cereus) and violets (muscadine) that I smell. Hmmph. Never heard of them or if I've ever smelled them before.
This (because the nag is coming on now) reminds me of a hippie perfume. I'm thinking I'm liking it. I like the ones I can apply once then you can smell them all day without having to reapply.
It's a keeper.
It was pretty good. I wasn't expecting that. In some places it was stupid or predictable, but overall it was gosh dang good!
I love it when Jennifer Anniston mouths, "Fuck you." It's so unlike her persona. So Jennifer Anniston? If you're reading this, keep making movies where you cuss like a banshee!! HA!
Sears has this new commercial and the floors are glowing gold squares that ripple with light. I want this floor through my whole house. No crap. Special effects that only come on when you want it. Otherwise it's just normal looking bricks during the day.
I'd love to make a sitcom. Be an actor in a sitcom. But I could never get over the stage fright. I suck in crowds. Never used to.
I can't sing worth shit either. Can't stay in tune even if I was paid.
Urd (bpal)
Florally, smells feminine so far in the vial. Nice.
It's somewhat lackluster on the skin wet. So far anyway. Has somewhat of a doctor's office smell but not a mediciney one. Smells like a glade air freshner to me. LOL Is there apple in here? Again I smell violets. LOL Maybe I should say that every time I smell a new one, seems to be the one scent I keep mentioning. bah...
It's getting stronger now. Wow A lot stronger. Something deep is coming to play with the apples and violets.
What's in it: Muscadine, black and red patchouli, cereus and nag champa.
The nag is way in the background. I have to google muscadine and cereus.
Muscadine is a grape plant and cereus is a cactus. Is that my apples (cereus) and violets (muscadine) that I smell. Hmmph. Never heard of them or if I've ever smelled them before.
This (because the nag is coming on now) reminds me of a hippie perfume. I'm thinking I'm liking it. I like the ones I can apply once then you can smell them all day without having to reapply.
It's a keeper.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Not so blind pick
Himerus
It's a bpal. Reddish gold in color.
It has that soda pop smell. Smells just like a newly opened cold can of Coke. I'm also smelling a floral and maybe some licorice.
On the hand: More pop and flowers. Just a teensy bit musky. As it dries the floral is taking the lead. It's a nice floral...like a violet or lilac. Some amber's starting to break through too. This is a middle of the road scent. Nicely floral with some ambery musk. The more it dries the sweeter it gets too. honey?
What's in this?
The God of Sexual Desire, Longing and Yearning; an attendant of Eros and Aphrodite. A passion-rousing blend of juniper, sandalwood, rosewood, red musk, orchid, bergamot and lilac.
I'm stoked that I got the lilac, that's a difficult scent to detect in a bpal. I'm liking this but it's not a big bottle winner.
Never heard of Himerus and Eros before. I love it when my posts turns me on to a new group.
It's a bpal. Reddish gold in color.
It has that soda pop smell. Smells just like a newly opened cold can of Coke. I'm also smelling a floral and maybe some licorice.
On the hand: More pop and flowers. Just a teensy bit musky. As it dries the floral is taking the lead. It's a nice floral...like a violet or lilac. Some amber's starting to break through too. This is a middle of the road scent. Nicely floral with some ambery musk. The more it dries the sweeter it gets too. honey?
What's in this?
The God of Sexual Desire, Longing and Yearning; an attendant of Eros and Aphrodite. A passion-rousing blend of juniper, sandalwood, rosewood, red musk, orchid, bergamot and lilac.
I'm stoked that I got the lilac, that's a difficult scent to detect in a bpal. I'm liking this but it's not a big bottle winner.
Never heard of Himerus and Eros before. I love it when my posts turns me on to a new group.
The way life works
I'm debating on what to have for lunch.
Leftover spaghetti and meatballs, chicken fried rice, steamed Sui Mai, korean chicken wings, spicy fried catfish, wild rice soup.....all things my husband would never eat so I have to take advantage and have them while he's working. I love Saturdays. And no I do not miss him.
I made a conscious choice not to have children. Never wanted any. It took me 4 years to convince my husband he didn't want them either. The deciding factor? When his sister had a kid.
We've never regretted it. In fact we're really super glad we never had any.
I did the same thing with smoking. Both parents smoked and 2 siblings. I just kept putting it off thinking someday I would. I finally hit the age of 20 and realized I'd never start. I'm really super glad I never smoked. My mom died at 63 from emphysema, my smoking brother got squamous cancer of the throat at the age of 44 and my smoking sister got kidney cancer at the age of 51.
I'll be the first to die though. Isn't that the way life works?
I had a dream once with Jason Segal in it. He was naked. I think the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall brought it on. So I've been watching the Twilight movies so maybe I'll dream of Robert Pattinson. So far, no luck. That's the way life works too.
I recently watched the movie Seven Psychopaths. Crazy ass good. I loved the irony and comedic tones in this murderous dark movie. It reminds me of something Tarantino would write. Pay close attention if you watch it and also be sure to watch the credits....there's more. I'm watching it again right now for the second time.
Leftover spaghetti and meatballs, chicken fried rice, steamed Sui Mai, korean chicken wings, spicy fried catfish, wild rice soup.....all things my husband would never eat so I have to take advantage and have them while he's working. I love Saturdays. And no I do not miss him.
I made a conscious choice not to have children. Never wanted any. It took me 4 years to convince my husband he didn't want them either. The deciding factor? When his sister had a kid.
We've never regretted it. In fact we're really super glad we never had any.
I did the same thing with smoking. Both parents smoked and 2 siblings. I just kept putting it off thinking someday I would. I finally hit the age of 20 and realized I'd never start. I'm really super glad I never smoked. My mom died at 63 from emphysema, my smoking brother got squamous cancer of the throat at the age of 44 and my smoking sister got kidney cancer at the age of 51.
I'll be the first to die though. Isn't that the way life works?
I had a dream once with Jason Segal in it. He was naked. I think the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall brought it on. So I've been watching the Twilight movies so maybe I'll dream of Robert Pattinson. So far, no luck. That's the way life works too.
I recently watched the movie Seven Psychopaths. Crazy ass good. I loved the irony and comedic tones in this murderous dark movie. It reminds me of something Tarantino would write. Pay close attention if you watch it and also be sure to watch the credits....there's more. I'm watching it again right now for the second time.
Now for some reason I'm not hungry.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
How to paint a blue sky world
I painted our bedroom sky blue with clouds. In 2005. The theme is Jimmy Buffett with hanging lanterns, parrots, beach scenes etc. My house is so cheap. I love it. LOL
I am watching The Conjuring. Fucking music is freaking me out the most with this movie.
The first thing wrong with the movie is that they find this boarded up secret cellar room. Five minutes later he's in the same cellar room telling the wife that he's going to try to get the furnace going and she says, Yeah it's cold in here. Okay their furnace for the house is in a secret cellar that was found by two of the daughters playing and one of their elbows knocks a hole in the wall. Wouldn't you have been looking at the house to buy it and saying.....Hey, where's the furnace to this old house? Wouldn't your hired professional home inspector have found the cellar?? Yeah, I can't get on board this bad hack at a scary movie. Some key parts in the movie were played by less than good actors, so that added to the unbelievableness. Yep, new word?, I just made it up. I loved the music though.
Now I am watching Monty Python's Holy Grail.
He must be a King.
Why.
Because he hasn't got shit all over him.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh Haaaaaaaaaa!
Shut Up!
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
Shut-Up!
How do you know she is a witch?
Well she turned me into a newt.
A newt?
I got better.
Burn her anyway!
Rachel Welch needs to write a book and tell her beauty secrets. Have you seen her lately? She's like 70-ish and looks incredible. That's a lot of work. I mean for her. She worked at it and it paid off, and she had good advice, great plastic surgeons, and/or just innately knew what worked, or has good genes.
I have my Christmas lights on, along the ceiling.
I am watching The Conjuring. Fucking music is freaking me out the most with this movie.
The first thing wrong with the movie is that they find this boarded up secret cellar room. Five minutes later he's in the same cellar room telling the wife that he's going to try to get the furnace going and she says, Yeah it's cold in here. Okay their furnace for the house is in a secret cellar that was found by two of the daughters playing and one of their elbows knocks a hole in the wall. Wouldn't you have been looking at the house to buy it and saying.....Hey, where's the furnace to this old house? Wouldn't your hired professional home inspector have found the cellar?? Yeah, I can't get on board this bad hack at a scary movie. Some key parts in the movie were played by less than good actors, so that added to the unbelievableness. Yep, new word?, I just made it up. I loved the music though.
Now I am watching Monty Python's Holy Grail.
He must be a King.
Why.
Because he hasn't got shit all over him.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh Haaaaaaaaaa!
Shut Up!
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
Shut-Up!
How do you know she is a witch?
Well she turned me into a newt.
A newt?
I got better.
Burn her anyway!
Rachel Welch needs to write a book and tell her beauty secrets. Have you seen her lately? She's like 70-ish and looks incredible. That's a lot of work. I mean for her. She worked at it and it paid off, and she had good advice, great plastic surgeons, and/or just innately knew what worked, or has good genes.
To paint a room sky blue with clouds.
First pick a good sky blue. Not too bright, not too dark, a true sky blue that's easy on the eyes. Paint the whole room blue, including the ceiling.Then take a faux sheep's wool car washing mitt and get it wet. Then press the end into some white paint with glaze. Two parts glaze, one part white.You want the paint minutely on the end of the mitt. After dipping the end into the paint, rub the mitt onto an empty plastic paint tray to get the paint lighter and mixed on the mitt. You want to create swirling cloud mists all over the room. Very lightly. If you need to dip the end in water again then swirl again, then do it. Start close to the floor and do a test swipe. Makes wave like motions. Is it light enough to look like wispy clouds? If not you need to rub the mitt end onto the paint tray again. If it is, then makes some swipes and keep moving across the wall. Once the swipes are perfectly light, then you want to do the main focal area of the wall, which is about 5 feet and up. You'll get the hang of it after awhile and create perfect cloud swirls all over every wall. Make sure that in some places you take the swipe on the wall and pull it onto the ceiling. This way it'll look like once continuous sky and not 4 walls and a ceiling.
Now add some more white paint to the paint mixture. Just enough so that the clouds you will be making are opaque in spots, yet have grayed edges so they don't look like comic book clouds. Dip the end of the damp mitt into the paint again, smoosh onto the paint tray to blend, and start dotting it onto the wall. Remember no clouds are identical or perfect so go to town and make all kinds of shapes and sizes. Be sure to not make them exactly the same distance apart (a mistake I made), otherwise that will look fake too. The wispy clouds will tone down the blue and make it look a little more believable. I've been meaning to create some winged birds amongst the clouds but haven't gotten around to it. If you're really artistic, get some gray paint and add storm clouds on one wall. I'd graduate the white paint with the gray to create multilayered clouds. I think that'd be cool.
OMG Where the fuck have I been????!!!
No where.
No seriously. No where. I just forgot I had a blog, that's all. Call it pre-menopause, old age, blonde-ness. Hmmmpff. Don't know.
I didn't even THINK about my blog the last few days. I think I'm pre-senile.
Pre-alzheimerish. Yeah, that's a new word too. Just made it up.
Here's the Des Moines news the last 7 days.
A week ago a man was seen eating rocks a block from my old high school. Some kids saw him eating rocks and asked him what he was doing and he said he'd lost his meth. I'm still not sure whether he was eating the rocks hoping one was the meth rock or was eating the rocks because he was wigged out on meth. Here's the story:
Police found a man eating rocks and talking about methamphetamine while accompanied by two small children in a park near a Des Moines high school, officials said.
Students at Lincoln High School spotted Michael David Sutton, 35, of Des Moines, in nearby McRae Park around 1:30 p.m. Monday, police reports show. They told a school resource officer Sutton, who was with two children, was eating rocks and talking about meth.
Officers reportedly found Sutton standing in the road, eating something off the ground.
The officer pulled up next to Sutton and asked what he was eating, authorities said
“Rocks,” Sutton reportedly responded.
The officer asked Sutton if he thought it was odd to be eating rocks, police reports show.
“Well, they are small rocks,” Sutton said, according to police reports.
Sutton said he was leaving, got in a car with the two boys, ages 4 and 5, and began to drive away, authorities said. The car didn’t have working brake lights and officers pulled Sutton over.
They found a meth pipe in his pocket and Sutton admitted to using meth the night before. He said he could still feel the effects.
Sutton was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, two counts of child endangerment, two counts of failing to secure a child, failure to have a valid license or insurance, operating a non-registered vehicle and having an improper rear lamp.
He remains in the Polk County Jail on a $6,119 bond.
The boys were taken to their mother.
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Okay.......we can deal with that story.....then...a couple days ago, in the same neighborhood (or really close -like a few blocks) a man was shot because he was shooting at people driving by. He also shot at the police. Here's that story:
A Des Moines man armed with a semi-automatic rifle terrified a south-side neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, as he fired dozens of bullets from his yard at houses and passing vehicles before turning his weapon on police arriving on the scene.
Bullets shattered windows in vehicles, hit houses and injured a passerby. Nearby Lincoln High School was briefly locked down as police swarmed the area.
Two officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect in front of the white bungalow-style house at 1018 Creston Ave. The gunman suffered at least one bullet wound; he was transported to a local hospital. Police declined to say how the gunman was wounded.
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Well, he died. He also had 60 animals living in his house. 57 birds (2 were dead), 4 cats and a python.
Do you think losing two birds made a shooter out of him?
No seriously. No where. I just forgot I had a blog, that's all. Call it pre-menopause, old age, blonde-ness. Hmmmpff. Don't know.
I didn't even THINK about my blog the last few days. I think I'm pre-senile.
Pre-alzheimerish. Yeah, that's a new word too. Just made it up.
Here's the Des Moines news the last 7 days.
A week ago a man was seen eating rocks a block from my old high school. Some kids saw him eating rocks and asked him what he was doing and he said he'd lost his meth. I'm still not sure whether he was eating the rocks hoping one was the meth rock or was eating the rocks because he was wigged out on meth. Here's the story:
Police found a man eating rocks and talking about methamphetamine while accompanied by two small children in a park near a Des Moines high school, officials said.
Students at Lincoln High School spotted Michael David Sutton, 35, of Des Moines, in nearby McRae Park around 1:30 p.m. Monday, police reports show. They told a school resource officer Sutton, who was with two children, was eating rocks and talking about meth.
Michael David Sutton
The officer pulled up next to Sutton and asked what he was eating, authorities said
“Rocks,” Sutton reportedly responded.
The officer asked Sutton if he thought it was odd to be eating rocks, police reports show.
“Well, they are small rocks,” Sutton said, according to police reports.
Sutton said he was leaving, got in a car with the two boys, ages 4 and 5, and began to drive away, authorities said. The car didn’t have working brake lights and officers pulled Sutton over.
They found a meth pipe in his pocket and Sutton admitted to using meth the night before. He said he could still feel the effects.
Sutton was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, two counts of child endangerment, two counts of failing to secure a child, failure to have a valid license or insurance, operating a non-registered vehicle and having an improper rear lamp.
He remains in the Polk County Jail on a $6,119 bond.
The boys were taken to their mother.
_________
Okay.......we can deal with that story.....then...a couple days ago, in the same neighborhood (or really close -like a few blocks) a man was shot because he was shooting at people driving by. He also shot at the police. Here's that story:
A Des Moines man armed with a semi-automatic rifle terrified a south-side neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, as he fired dozens of bullets from his yard at houses and passing vehicles before turning his weapon on police arriving on the scene.
Bullets shattered windows in vehicles, hit houses and injured a passerby. Nearby Lincoln High School was briefly locked down as police swarmed the area.
Two officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect in front of the white bungalow-style house at 1018 Creston Ave. The gunman suffered at least one bullet wound; he was transported to a local hospital. Police declined to say how the gunman was wounded.
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Well, he died. He also had 60 animals living in his house. 57 birds (2 were dead), 4 cats and a python.
Do you think losing two birds made a shooter out of him?
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Turkey and Noodles from scratch----well almost
Tonight I am using the rest of the turkey from Thanksgiving. I did something different this time by adding some chicken hearts and gizzards. I love the gizzards and Jeff loves the hearts.
So earlier today I simmered the hearts and gizzards in a pan with some water and chicken granules (the only thing not from scratch). I cooked them for over 4 hours so they'd get soft and easy to eat.
Then I added some onion, and the meat from the turkey legs and thighs so it'd absorb the flavors of the broth and get soft too.
I made some homemade noodles using eggs, flour, salt and a bit of water.
I like wet noodles. Now what that means is that the noodles didn't dry, for long anyway. Maybe a half hour. This produces a fluffy al dente noodle. I also like them wide.
I also added tarragon when I added the turkey breast. Ever since I discovered tarragon, I've been adding it to dishes. It's my favorite herb and it's great in chicken (turkey) and noodles. I also added lots of black pepper.
Serve it over mashed potatoes and corn and it's a meal fit for a hungry man!!
So earlier today I simmered the hearts and gizzards in a pan with some water and chicken granules (the only thing not from scratch). I cooked them for over 4 hours so they'd get soft and easy to eat.
Then I added some onion, and the meat from the turkey legs and thighs so it'd absorb the flavors of the broth and get soft too.
I made some homemade noodles using eggs, flour, salt and a bit of water.
I like wet noodles. Now what that means is that the noodles didn't dry, for long anyway. Maybe a half hour. This produces a fluffy al dente noodle. I also like them wide.
I also added tarragon when I added the turkey breast. Ever since I discovered tarragon, I've been adding it to dishes. It's my favorite herb and it's great in chicken (turkey) and noodles. I also added lots of black pepper.
Serve it over mashed potatoes and corn and it's a meal fit for a hungry man!!
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