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rantings and ravings with little cohesion and plenty of pretension

 

And she's back







Hello, hello



I've decided to return to this lovely lovely blog. But I'm not sure if I'm going to tell anyone about it. Perhaps I will just see what happens.



So in the latest news I have moved from E-town to the lovely 'rents home on Pender Island. It's a hard pill to swallow being 25, engaged, and by all accounts somewhat of a functioning adult and then having/needing to move back home. It makes one feel a bit of a failure. But fortunately this is just a temporary move. I will hopefully soon be a resident of beatiful Victoria British Columbia. All I need at this point is a job and an apartment. And I'm working very hard to have both sooner rather than later. Still I must say I'm not doing very well being both unemployed and homeless.


The ever charming fiance is currently residing in Seattle. We are starting the process of getting him into Canada, sometime before our wedding next year. I have a feeling the whole dealings with the Canadian government and it's kilometers of red tape will provide me with lots of fodder for blogging. Even though I have had a few months to adjust to that fact that I need to prove to various government officials that my relationship is real and valid, I still find it quite offensive. I love him. He loves me. I hate having to justify that to some agency, who holds my future in their hands. And that on a whim they could just say no to letting Matthew into the country. It's terrifying and heartbreaking all at once. So I really really really hope that when they are feeling all whimiscal, they reach for the Yes stamp, instead of the No.




I am also the proud owner of the cutest damn puppy in the world. Finnegan is currently wearing a stupid cone since he was neutered mere days ago, so he's quite unimpressed with that. But he's still quite cute. He's a mini schnauzer, and almost 7 months old. He is very willfull and smart, loves to play fetch and to destroy shoes. I'm one of his biggest fans and I'm sure I will be turning into a puppy blogger soon, so watch out.




And finally I made really good cookies this morning. And I kind of, sort of invented them. So I feel I should include the recipe of awesome. I've decided to call them kitchen sink cookies, since I used everything my mother had in the cupboards in them. One might say they have everything but the kitchen sink. har har har.






Kitchen Sink Cookies

1 cup butter/marg
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup chocolate chips
2 cups oatmeal
1 cup rice krispies
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and grease your cookie sheets.

2. Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beat thouroughly and then add the vanilla and mix well.

3. In a seperate bowl, combine the flour and the baking soda and then add to the wet mixture. Mix well.

4. In a seperate bowl combine the oatmeal, rice krispies, choc chips, raisins, and seeds (feel free to add anything else, like dried cranberries, nuts, or other cereals). Add to the cookie mixture and combine well.

5. Make small one inch balls and place them an inch apart on the baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes. I made 64 cookies with this recipe, even though I'm sure they will all be gone by tomorrow.

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I really don't want to study

Okay. Time to put something less depressing up here.

I went to go see this fantastic play last night at the Roxy. It was called The Summer of my Amazing Luck and it was based on the book by Miriam Towes. And it was awesome. I loved the book and I was mildly concerned that it wouldn't translate very well, but the adaptation was great and it included all the most important aspects of the book.

I'm really happy I managed to see it.

I have one final left of my university career. I can't bring myself to study for it though. I also have my last three shifts at my store this weekend. I feel conflicted about that. I'm going to miss it there I think. Fortunatly I see the co-workers outside of work regularily enough so it won't be as hard to leave.

After that last final I have a few days to bake and relax and party it up, and then I head home for a much needed vacation. I haven't been home in a year now, and it feels so strange. I really miss being at the cottage and I'm happy to be heading back. And I get to see Janice and Amanda and hopefully many other fantastic people.

Wee!

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Domesticated


For those of you who don't live in E-town, we got a lot of snow this weekend. Which makes sense, all Albertans know that the first major snowfall always happens to fall on or around Halloween. Thus most little kids end up wearing "skier" costumes out trick or treating. Unfortunately a lot of adults haven't quite learned that lesson. I had an enjoyable evening at work on Saturday, watching many a young stupid girl trying to navigate icy and snowy Whyte Ave while wearing only stilettos and underwear.

There's something about the snow that makes me what to cook. On Sunday I had the day off from work. And I had decided that I had done enough school work in the week, so I was able to take the weekend off from homework as well. So after sleeping until what I thought was noon, but what was actually 11 (yay time change). I got up and started cooking.

My friend Andrea had brought me back a pumpkin from her Aunts patch in Saskatchewan and she had given it to me on Saturday. While I was looking for Pumpkin soup recipes I came across all these other delicious sounding dishes I had been meaning to make. So instead of making soup (I didn't have all the ingredients anyway), I made myself some roasted chickpeas. This is one of the easiest things I've ever made. All you need are a can of chickpeas a favourite herb for seasoning and olive oil. And the roasted chickpeas themselves are such crunchy goodness! While the chickpeas were cooking I also made a curried lentil dish. Also very easy to make and unbelievable tasty. And it made my house smell so good.

This morning the roommie and I went grocery shopping and I got all the supplies I needed for the pumpkin soup. The recipe I found called for heavy cream, but I decided to use coconut milk instead to make it vegan, and man was that a good call. I had so much fun chopping up the pumpkin, setting aside the seeds for roasting, and adding little extra ingredients to the soup (it only called for nutmeg, but I threw in some allspice and cinnamon too). Creating in the kitchen just gives me so much joy and makes me happy. And there is something just so satisfying about orange soup. It's very comforting.

Even now, I'm still itching to do some more cooking.But I need to stop for the day. I now have enough food to last me over a week. Also there is very little room in the fridge as is, and I've run out of Tupperware containers. So I guess I'll just have to do my homework now.

Sigh.

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