weird cravings...

so yeah, i know it's bad to eat late at night, but sometimes i just have the weirdest food cravings

like...after having some brownie/muffin like thing with icecream

i had this strong urge for some salty cheese

sadly, there was no cheese to be had..so i settled for some...canned tuna and olives with a pinch of salt

yeah

cindy sleepily

Simplicity

There are a few items in my kitchen that I can absolutely not do without

1. my knives

2. cutting board

3. the micropane :D for all my zesting and garlic pulverising needs

4. the pots and bowls

5. spoons (ladles, wooden stiry things)

6. rolling pins

7. the exopat silicone mat thing for baking stuff

ohohoh...and the food processor is awesome for...chopping stuff into little bits

As you will note, they are mostly simple things.  Few moving parts and fancy doo dads.  Things in my kitchen that piss me off other than the fact that the kitchen is super tiny.

1. the stupid MIU mandolin

2. the OXO good grips cheese wire

Sadly, the mandolin I picked out for a gift choice.  It was so pretty looking with it's stainless steel looking awesomeness and bits and parts.  I was blinded by its shininess and the great reviews (the bad reviews came when I looked at it again a few months latter)  It's not a complicated machine and should work swimmingly except for the fact it can't actually slice anything and i think I've partially destroyed the holder the one time I tried to cut potatoes with it and ended up raming the potato with all the force I could muster and so chipped bits of plastic off.  I ended up cutting the potatoes the way I wanted with a trusty knife.  I hear the other people are very happy with their...Boren? Borgen? plastic V slicer for $15 if you are interested T_T

The OXO cheese wire....yes...it works well but then it broke 7 months later.  We got it to replace the ancient one Jason probably had had for ages (since college for all I know) and it was just this bit of metal with a wire across it.  May it rest in peace in some landfill somewhere.  The new one we got was a similar concept, except now it had removeable wires and a tension adjuster for the wire.  It was this adjuster that broke 7 month later.  The thing just snapped (it's plastic) I don't know how :P

If I could find another cheapo cheese slicer like the one we had forsaken, I'd do it.  OR we could try doing the alton brown cheese board slicing thing.

end of the kitchen rant

cindy argumentively

if you thought you knew...

What a fun website :D

Test your vocab and try out FreeRice

i got to like lvl 40ish (with the help of the ::ahem:: online dictionary) and there are so many random words i have yet to know

try it out :D and they say they donate 20 grains of rice per right answer, i'm up to 1300 or something :D

freerice.com it's a hoot for all the linguists out there

or maybe it's all old hat?

cindy delightedly

p.s. should it make me sad that some of these words i know only because i see them all the time in WoW? like....

dark cabalist

...and then....

so, i was super excited to find this 400k house that was on like a 1.5 acre lot...the thing has it's own ball court thingy and....a lawn and no neighbors that i can see because there are giant trees acting like a fence/screen to the rest of the world

next thoughts are like...white picket fence, random 50's style dresses and giant talking people eating plants

but that's for another time

have i seen it in person? no....just pictures but the pictures are just super spiffy

but

there is a reason why it's been on the market for like 5 months with no takers and 2 price reductions

the cute 400k house on the 1.5 acre lot also comes with a hefty repair bill...because the people made it picked the bad LP siding and the windows are going and also would need to be replaced ...so....around 100k would need to be paid etc but paid before you got the loan for the house because the bank people would know there's siding issues which need to be fixed before you even set eyes on the money for the house

really??? 100k for siding and windows? that sounds crazy

it is crazy

we still have high hopes for other areas...maybe...hopefully 9_9

cindy

pipedreamedly --- is that even a word she wonders...doubtful

p.s. congrats jaq on your house again >:D can't wait to see it

it's been ages

So....

I says to myself that I'd totally update xanga when i got pics uploaded on my computer from like...hawaii

which was a year ago >:D

but then i just remembered something really funny from when we were looking at houses (and boy have some of them been weird...i think i've told a few of you how weird they are...like the one with the hidden room and random tiny steps that are just begging you to stumble over them and stuff...and the one where the stairs looked like they were about to detach from the top and fall down)

but the one particular house that I thought of had a very strange master bed and bath

I figure when most people go to the bathroom to do their "thing" they usually have it hidden away or are shielded from those who may stumble into the master bathroom etc

this one particular house had a master bath with no door

and....

the toilet directly facing anyone who even looks in the general direction of the master bath

i wonder if i took a picture of it or was completely put off by the whole weird mazelike house

because there's no way in hell we'd buy it

random thought of the moment

cindy belatedly