I have them! Hot chocolate chip cookies and Pyrat rum. Made. Of. Win.
Also, I have missed you all while I was away (being sulky and quiet).
I am leaving the Land of Loud Birds for the new and unknown land of Mississippi! Which may or may not be named the Land of MANY Poisonous Snakes or the Land of the Owls. I am promised by advance scouts that both may be found in our yard.
Catfish recipes, anyone? I hear I will need to know them. Also, cornbread. General Southern cooking? Let me know.
Okay, in the spirit of cute and curious, I have adopted dragon eggs. Apparently they need you to click on them to live. As I’d rather like to experiment and see what they turn into (maybe I’ll get a zombie-dragon!), I’ve put their clicky links up here. Have at it – if they hatch, I’ll update you.
I am once again enthralled by cute things. This time in the form of Bento boxes.
Already my Ravyn and a Bunny have had to suffer through my sending them links upon links to bento related thingies!
Sometime after the holidays I will likely get a pair of bento boxes (one for me to take to work, one for mom to take to work) and thus I can eat more tasty diet foods. More likely than not I will get the Laptop Lunches ones, which seem to be the superfunctional and not overly cute (amusing as it could be to pack my mother lunch in a Hello Kitty bento box), and they sell replacement inner parts for when I inevitably lose some or want to pack a couple up ahead of time with leftovers. Of course, the internet is full of cute bento boxes – some of which cater to my cherry blossom obsession. People, there are even chopsticks catering to my cherry blossom obsession!
So now when I win the lottery and have my very own commune, I will ALSO be making lunches for all my people to take away with them. In addition to the soap making, jewelery making, and vodoun charms. As long as I don’t get these things mixed up, everyone should be fine. But I can’t pick up many more cute hobbies or I will not have time for my hookah. And not having time for a hookah would be a tragedy. Flavored tobacco for the win!
Should I get these boxes, I will update you with the pictures! For now, I will leave you some links to fun/cute things.
Lunch In A Box! - A fun blog with many links and pictures. Load of tips and recipes. Focuses on quick rather than time-consuming cute, so excellent for the kind of things to pack every day. (Also – she has instructions for a relatively simple-looking apple bunny!)
Cooking Cute – Although this blog seems not to update frequently (like I can talk), it has a huge amount of resources and information on it.
Kitchen Cow – Full of pictures! With BEEF STROGANOFF in a bento box! (There is even a recipe for the stroganoff!) However, all that really needs to be said for this site is this “zombie rising from the grave bento for the win!“
No really. It is totally written in response to part of one of our conversations, just to be obnoxious.
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We will watch the sky like burros who walk in the rain
taking leisurely steps and not seeking cover
we will turn our heads up to catch rain on our tongues
and remark upon how this must be the best time to be alive
We will watch the sky like burros who slosh through the mud
laughing at the squelching mud sounds as the earth tries to devour our hooves
we will turn our heads up to watch humming thrumming dragonflies
and remark upon how this must be the best time to be alive
We will watch the sky like burros who trek through the sun
scuffing up clouds of dust with our determined hooves
we will turn our heads up to find shapes in the drifting clouds
and remark upon how this must be the best time to be alive
We will watch the sky like burros who drowse beneath the moon
making wishes with huffing breaths on dandelions
we will turn our heads up to search for shooting stars
and remark upon how this must be the best time to be alive
when dusk steals out over the city
creeping whisper-soft like the brush of unseen whiskers
painting the drowsy canals with darkness
I will come out with the lovers and the beggars and the cats
to stalk through the streets
murmurs and blushes
ancient eyes and the frayed hems of old coats
silken fur and endless mystery
will seep through my skin like ink
I will not watch what they are writing
but trace my way through the sinking buildings and swaying boats
with all the indifference of the moonlight on the water
in this twilight city
there will be hours to search out messages written and waiting
lurking in the half-heard conversations
the invitations into the unknown that are but a twitch of a tail
a shadow half-glimpsed
forever remembered
Despite repeatedly falling off the Internet map, I am still alive.
I now have a darling nephew (who will undoubtedly keep me awake with his screaming) who is made of cute. I keep losing time staring at his tiny nose and tiny toes and letting him grab my finger in his tiny little hands.
I am learning to make greeting cards and notecards. This is exciting! And fun! I enjoy it. Hopefully now I will send more cards. I need to get some together for Halloween. Yay! Skeletons and zombies and monsters! I miss being home for Halloween. Here in the Land of Loud Birds there is nowhere to throw a Zombie Carnival. And no one to drag to it.
Also I found a pattern for cute sushi pillows – so I will perhaps have sushi pillows once I hit up Ben Franklin. We shall see.
Who is up for a rum and chocolate tasting with me? OMG – come on…lazing about in the Caribbean? Chocolate and rum tastings? Chilling on beaches with rum? Going on expeditions to find more rum? How can it be wrong?
Need the Caribbean experience in less glorious but more affordable tasty bites? Try these Dark Chocolate Rum Cordials!
Finding rum filled chocolates can be hard! Learn to make them here! I must confess that I now have the strange desire to drill a hole in Christmas Santa chocolate, fill it with rum, and reseal it.
Alternately, check out these divine looking creations!
Sun-Painted Compass
brushed across the canvas of my skin
shuddering with my heart
is our story
traced out in lines of fate and destiny
trailing over my palm
left like a map to distant places
going and coming and dividing and returning
until the whole story could not be written on one canvas
but in our skins overlaid
and then deeper
falling in tangled twists of color and light and darkness
writhing off of our skin and into the night sky
connecting stars and planets into new ever-shifting constellations
a love painted in presense and absence
light and shadow
with our blood and the colors of the bleeding sun
so woven into our fortunes
what has been spilling into what is come
I trace the curves of Nazca Lines and spiral-carved labyrinths
and wonder if you are speaking to me
promising that our dance nearer and father – forward and back
traces out something only visible from heights we have not yet reached
I mailed your letter this morning.
Who Doesn't Need This?
The Ex Voodoo Knife Set – I should maybe put this in “Things That Would be Fun For Parties’ because I know the result is drunken stabbing of the knife holder!!! On second thought, maybe we should hide this one for parties. Still-I think every kitchen needs one.
What Goes Better With Coffee Than Pirates?
Pirate Toast Stamp – Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! Um…I really don’t think I have to say anything else here. [Except, perhaps, that it also comes in "I Love You." Oh!!! And Tic-Tack-Toe!!! Ummm...also in Holy Toast (devotional madonna kinda thing).]
It Will Hum For You A Song!!!
In keeping with the love of pirates – Pirate Bobble-Head Kitchen Timer!
Tasty-Cute Plants!!!
Taterpots – you choose-mint, oregano, or basil!!! Transplant after 4-6 weeks OR trim to use for garnishing and cooking!!! [For more tasty plants-Eggling (Thyme)]
Try This Drink - FOR SCIENCE!!!
Cocktail Chemistry Set – For your very-favorite mad scientist….
Fortune chopsticks – you can write your own fortunes, PLUS they come in neon!!! Downside = plastic. However they appear to be made of ZOMG-fun!!! I predict these are excellent for Chinese take out and Scooby Doo. You can make special Scooby Doo fortunes-Your future appears to be mysterious and spooky. Beware the yeti.
Hot!!! Or...no...wait....
Bone Chillers – Pirate Ice Cubes!!!
Glow-In-The-Dark Shotglasses!!! Yes. Really.
Some things involving bacon – bacon wallet & bacon and egg Band-Aids!!!
'kay...'bout your "Virtuous Vanilla"...guess what's an aphrodesiac....
Lookin’ Good For Jesus Lip Balm – sacrilicious!!!
Annnnnnnnnnnnd…Guide to Choosing A Religion. Yeah. I would set that out on the coffee table. No. I would not feel bad at all.
Yes, But Does It Come Blessed??? (Or do I have to steal the holy water AGAIN?)
Holy Water Bottle - Perhaps useful in event of zombie invasion. Zombie-Vampire invasion? Hrmmmmmm….
Remember this monster before he was a monster?
Lucien!!!
And…close up of a tiny sprouting branch!!!
Baby Branches!!!
Molli – your plant!!! He becomes HUGE!!!
