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So, it’s been a month

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I can’t believe it’s been a month!!!  And I stuck with it!!!  What do you think? How am I doing?  Now, remember, this is for posterity, so do try to be honest. Points for you if you get the movie reference.

I’ve been having a lot of fun doing things like writing about how I’m not like a 1950’s housewife or about the books I am going to read this year.  Coming up with new ideas twice a week has been great for my creativity.  To be honest, until this week I was a month ahead with my writing.  I was doing pretty well if I do say so myself! I still am, even though I am now just a few weeks ahead of the game.

Some days I am able to crank out two or three ideas for blog posts, but they don’t all make it onto the blog. Some days I pick apart and refine a post until it looks nothing like the originally intended post and I either end up scrapping it altogether or I end up loving what it has turned into and posting it anyways.

Some days I sit down to write and the words don’t come at all.  Those are the days I am grateful for the aforementioned backlog of posts.  I have time to overcome the writer’s block!

I’ve been overcoming writer’s block since 2011 when I published my first blog.   I thought I would be a food blogger.  I enjoyed it.  Until I didn’t.

I tried to pick up blogging again last year but felt pressure to actually make good content.  Which is funny, cause I only made four posts over the course of a month.

This time around I figured I would just type about whatever came into my head.  So far it seems to be working for me.  I am enjoying it and you seem to be liking it.

I am hoping to go back to my food blogger roots every once in a while and post a random recipe.  I may even post a book review or two.  We shall see what the future holds.

 

 

Allergies Suck

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How many people out there know the pain and anguish of a food allergy?

First, you get the “why does this keep happening to me?” feeling.  Then a vampire (nurse) takes your blood for an allergy test and you find out you are allergic to a food of some kind.

At first, you feel great, cause answers!  Then you feel dread, cause you can no longer eat that food or foods with that food in it.

I found out right before Christmas this past year that I was allergic to eggs.

It sucks all the levels of suck.

I count myself lucky that I have a mild reaction to eggs.  I did, however, find out that one way food allergies work is they can leave you with a mildly compromised immune system, I.E. my colds last a month instead of a week.

This is a thing that happened to me every time I got sick.  I would get a mild illness and stay sick twice or three times as long as the average person.  All because I would eat things that contain eggs.

I was told not to do that anymore.

So I waved goodbye to certain foods and invited new things into my life, like vegan mayo.  I also discovered an egg replacer by Bob’s Red Mill that works in all the baked goods!  This is a product that you need to follow the directions for.  It is for baking, not for making omelets.  Its just, no, don’t do that to yourself.  I didn’t even try cause that would just be, eww.

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It has worked great in cookies, cupcakes, pancakes so far.  The hubs agrees that you can’t tell a difference between this and real eggs in any of those things.

I do miss being able to go to a restaurant and order whatever I want, but boy have I had a craving for that eggiest of egg dishes, eggs benedict.

I will get used to this in time, which is all one can ask for. So I guess I say goodbye to that grand old food staple, the chicken egg.

Vampire Dragons

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A question was posed to me the other day.

If you could write a book, what would it be about?

I talked this over with my husband like the rational people that we are.  I said vampires because I had been watching Discovery of Witches on Sundance/Now and it was fresh in my mind.

Then I said wyverns and dragons.

Then he said Vampire Dragons, because why not Vampire Dragons.

Me: Vampire Dragons?

Hubs: Yes, they would bite people and they would turn into more vampire dragons.

Me: So were-dragons?

Hubs: No.  They would exchange blood!  Humans would sprout wings and be vampires!

Me: But vampires only turn their own species.  They eat other species all the time.

Hubs:Dammit.

I took his exclamation to mean that I won.  It wasn’t a contest, but I still won.

And that’s how it should be.

The Humble Cup of Tea

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A crucial part of my daily life is a cup of hot tea. I know for most people its a cup of coffee, but for me, tea.

It doesn’t have to be fancy to be good.

Of course, there are things like the chai latte (a spiced tea latte) and the Arnold Palmer (a sweetened black tea lemonade mix).

Did you know that chai is just another word for tea? Granted, it’s a spiced tea that features cardamom, ginger, cloves, and cinnamon and originates in India. So when you go up to the counter and order chai tea you are ordering tea tea. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

But it’s the humble, plain, black tea that’s, well, my cup of tea. It’s a simple cup that warms you up. Good plain or with a variety of sweeteners or milk, though I prefer it with honey.

Day to Day

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I am a stay at home, professional, on call, housewife.  The hubs and I have no kids, unless you count the cat.  My mom does so we do.

When I am not being the all around quintessential  1950’s housewife…okay, okay.  No one in their right (or wrong) mind could ever confuse me for a 1950’s housewife.  For starters, I’m sitting here with my purple hair up in a greasy ponytail and no makeup on.  I’m also wearing flannel and Doc Marten’s.  I look like a modern day grunge girl.  That’s my aesthetic.

What?  It makes me happy.

Not the greasy hair part though.  I have to scrub the shower later and I’m not doing that with clean hair.

But I digress.

My day to day life is fairly simple.  Since we recently moved from Memphis, TN to Dallas, TX, I am in the market for a new place of employment.  I spend my morning drinking copious amounts of hot tea and searching for jobs.  After a few hours of that  I make some kind of meal and surf the interwebs for a little while.  And by surf the interwebs I mean I play around on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

This is usually when I decide whether or not its worth it to go outside and pick up food for dinner.  The answer varies on a day to day basis.  I guess kinda want grilled cheese for dinner tonight.  So that means I’m going to the store.

After errand running its chore time.  This is usually dishes.  Possibly laundry.  Maybe a quick run through with the vacuum.   Two people plus one house equals not a lot of chores.  Unless company is coming, then there are all the chores.

Somewhere in my day I eat lunch.  Possibly do a craft.  A craft can be anything from working on my embroidery skills to practicing my hand lettering to making felt Christmas ornaments.   I also make click clackity sounds on the keyboard by typing up a blog post or two…or four.

I like to get ahead.

Then, if we aren’t going out for our evening nourishment, I will cook.  Sometimes its grilled cheese.  Sometimes it’s handmade mac and cheese.  Maybe it’ll be Steak and fresh veg.  It all depends on what is at the store that day, between my local market and the farmers market I go to, I am not hurting for choices.

What do you know, maybe I am a 50’s housewife.

 

 

Meet KoKo

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I take a lot of pictures of my cat.  I mean, a lot.

Do I take pictures of my Husband?  The man I pledged my life to, no. He’s not nearly as cute as my cat.

To be fair, I do find my husband cute.  But I mean, come on!

I’m trying to take pictures of things other than my cat.  I am also trying to post more often on Instagram than once a month.  We shall see how that goes.

A Few Things

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Hello and well met! I figured I might as well share a few things about myself with you.

I own a cat. More specifically, I rescued a seal point Siamese several years ago and then she adopted me. She, as evidenced by the photo below, rules the roost.

I have a library. Kind of. It’s small, but it’s mine. Well, ours. When my husband and I were selecting our current dwelling, having a home for our books was as important as having a home for us! I will say this though, that if I have learned nothing else in this life it is that reading is a joy like none other.

I’m a nerd which means I like most nerd things. Comics (X-men, Witchblade!), movies(Lord of the Rings!), video games (Zelda!), TV shows (Stargate!). I mean the list can go on and on and on and on and on. You get the idea.

If you haven’t guessed by the earlier paragraph, I am married. I am quite happily locked in holy matrimony to one poor lost soul who stumbled my way. He’s mine and I get to keep him! I mean, he got a man cave when we bought the house and I got him to promise to never leave. That works out, right?

I like embroidery as a hobby. I started a few months ago so I am still learning, but it is fun. I have gotten most of my kits off of ETSY, and learned off of YouTube tutorials. Great place for learning things that YouTube.

One thing you will discover about me, I’m not very good at ending blog posts!

I’ve done this before

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I’ve done this before.

Started blogs.

One even went for a few years.  It was about food and how I was loosing 50 pounds.  Spoiler alert, some of them came back.  The pounds, not the blogs.

I like blogging.  I just have this problem of never being able to quite figure out what I like blogging about.

So I will blog about everything…and nothing.  A little bit of this, and a little bit of that.  I’ll shake my creative tree and see what falls out.  Who know, maybe an apple will land on my head, I’ll shout Eureka, and the next theory of relativity will happen?

Yeah, probably not.

At least I will have some fun writing about all the random things that pop into my life.