It's been a while....

I have realized that it takes a lot more planning to have a blog than I had originally expected.... Or at least for me. There are some reasons for this: 1) I don't spend that much time on the internet other than to check email 2) lately I barely have enough to sleep 3) I feel like I don't have anything witty enough to write.... yet here I am babbling! But that is the real reason to have a blog in the first place is to babble and see if anyone agrees with you.

My Bagel Adventure!

Bagels are the perfect breakfast food and my favorite thing to eat on the go. I recently engaged on my own adventure to make bagels so I can have fresh bagels whenever I want! Muhahaha

The thing is I had no idea about all the steps it takes to make a successful bagel.

1) you need bread flour! I learned that bread flour has more gluten, gluten is what makes bagels nice and chewy.

2) I'm not sure I activated the instant yeast I bought because they really didn't puff up as much as I thought they should.

2-1/2) I hate the smell of yeast and it is not a good idea to take a big whiff!

3) you need to boil the bagels for a minute or two before baking them.

4) I need to add more bananas in order for it to taste like a banana bagel.

5) I need to not forget the chocolate chips!

All this means is that there will be future bagel adventures and hopefully will not result in bagel hockey pucks!

aw autumn where have you been all year...

Today was the very first day it felt like Autumn and could it have come any later?? It's almost October! I was so delighted this morning as I awoke with goosebumps instead of sweat. It has been the weirdest year in terms of weather and it only makes me think of that movie," The Day After Tomorrow." I even had the chance to wear my very new vintage leather jacket I bought for $10 and scarf from Florence. I looked like I could fly an airplane but I was cozy and that's all that matters right? Autumn is my favorite time of year because of the beautiful colors of the leaves changing, the crispness in the air, and wrapping up in cozy sweaters and socks.

Sidenote: One thing about Autumn that is weird in comparison to the other seasons is that it is also called Fall. No other season has two names and what I have heard is that "Fall is the season so nice, they named it twice!"

Fruit flies every where.....

Either they have banded together to stalk me where ever I go or there has been a wide-spread infestation of fruit flies.  Even across states I ran into fruit flies every place I have ventured whether it is a supermarket, cafe, my house, or where ever.  I believe that there can no other reason for this abundance of fruit flies is that the world is rotting away. Society and it's greed of land, resources, and total disregard for preserving the world for future generations has caused the world to slowly rot away and the evidence is seen through fruit flies.  Is this a complete ventification of my own being fed up with society or is there some truth to it.... hmmm

My first Pub Crawl didn't involve crawling which is good...

I don't know what it is but 30+ people all wearing matching shirts, drinking and dancing the night away. It's a lot of fun and I didn't actually spend that much because people kept buying me drinks.

We went to every single bar on the water street strip and I can't believe I actually ended up drinking at every single place.  I have no idea how late I stayed out but the fatigue I feel today is worth it. I think a float down the lazy river will do me good.

Catch ya on the fly

Another previous food adventure....

I have only had sushi once before, a california roll with some kind of orange colored caviar on top.  The california roll I liked, the orange colored caviar - not so much because it was very salty and fishy which is implied being pickled fish eggs. 

But even with my previous experience with sushi and not particularly liking the whole package, I decided to give sushi another chance.

Challenge: food adventure

The destination: Shanghai Bistro

The chosen sushi: avocado roll (WHICH I FOUND OUT DOESN'T ACTUALLY HAVE ANY FISH IN IT oh well), spicy tuna roll (deliciously spicy), salmon avocado roll (ok), and california roll ( yes I gave it another try and liked it b/c this time there was no caviar all over it).

The result: 1) I learned that I will only eat Maki type sushi which is the seaweed wrapped kind compared to Nigiri type sushi which has the raw fish just sitting on top (eww).  

2) I really liked the spicy tuna roll and california roll.

3) I learned not all sushi actually has raw fish in it which I find odd but oh well...

what i hope are plums....

So I have these trees in my front yard and they now bear fruit that looks a lot like wild plums so I have decided to harvest them and make something delicious.  It was quite the sight to see because I was too short to reach most of them so I shook the branches which resulted in a avalanche of plums upon my head.  So I now emerge covered in plum juice with quite the bounty ready to bake! I just hope that they are not poisonous because that would be a problem.  I thinking a cake or pie might be nice.... I will keep you updated with how it turns out and if I die or not.

This is an adventure in food for sure... more to come of course

Ingredients vs. Contents

I've noticed that manufacturers/ companies (whoever creates the product's label) put the word 'ingredients' instead of 'contents' on shampoo, lotion, dish soap, etc.. aka things you should not eat.. but when I think of ingredients usually food comes to mind and I generally feel hungry (but just want to clarify that I have NOT tried to eat any of these products). I think that they should change it read contents.. this way nobody will get confused.... although... I've never confused my shampoo or dish soap for chocolate syrup..hmmm...but still ..even if it was just a movie or not--Freddie Prince Jr. in the movie Down To You drank shampoo!!-- different circumstances or not.. he coud have been confused because of the ingredients thing.. therefore I think it should be changed.
Any thoughts?

1000 journals

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1000 journals, all with different covers, all around the world...check it out

I bet you've never dreamed of this....

Okay this is something I heard on the travel channel as I was flipping through the channels... yes that's right i watch it all the time cuz i like to imagine my self at these places but anyways.. There is a place in Prague called the Imperial Cafe where there was a bowl of 5 dozen day-old jelly donuts stacked and for 60 american dollars you can buy the bowl and literally throw them at people in the cafe. Now I've heard that there were some conditions to this transaction- 1 you had to be 21 or older & 2 you had to be sober to do this. The whole thing is at your own risk because the restaurant wont protect you from the angry customers but....
This whole idea came from one of the most popular books in the Czech Republic which is a comic novel called “Satumin" that was published in 1943, during the Nazi occupation. And the novel opens with the division of everyone in the world into three types. According to the novel, in a café confronted by a plate of doughnuts, Type 1 people just stare at them and do nothing, Type 2 people fantasize about throwing one but don't, and Type 3 people are "for whom the idea of a doughnut whistling through the air is such an enticement that they get up and actually make it happen." I totally want be type 3 but because im chicken so thats makes me type 2. What about u?

All I have to say for the day is.... There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.::: Henry Moore :::