another over obsessive fan

so I’ve been working on a Twilight charm bracelet. I was just going to replicate Bella’s’ bracelet (as she described it in Eclipse), the one with a diamond heart and wooden wolf, but I decided that I wanted to represent more of Edward than Jacob (tee hee) so I left out the wolf charm. it’s a work in progress so I’ll be posting more pictures as I get in the materials.

it’s lacking color (just like Edward) but I plan on adding some red gems as soon as I can get them.

UPDATE: so I rearranged a few charms and added some topaz colored beads (the color of Edward’s eyes after the hunt). not quite sure if I’m happy with it though, but then again, I’m not done.

They Steal Your Underpants…

so I did it, I got my Harry Potter tattoo. and oh what a journey it was…okay not really. it just seemed like a journey because it took forever. we arrived at the first shop on the north side of town because we wanted this guy named Mikey to do our tats. well it turned out that Mikey no longer works there, he is now running another tattoo shop on the south side of town. so we sat in traffic for an hour on empty stomachs because we haven’t eaten since…oh yeah we didn’t eat that day. an hour later, we arrived. after talking to Mikey about The Husband’s geeky organic chemistry themed leg sleeve, Mikey set an appointment for him on Saturday. it’s going to be an all day ordeal but it’s going to be SO AWESOME. but anyways, back to my tattoo…I told him what I wanted and he said that he couldn’t fit that sentence (“I believe in Nargles”) on one foot unless the letters were tiny and he said that he didn’t want to do tiny letters because after time the lines will bleed in together and it will look like a blob. so he said that if I wanted it on one foot he would design me something where the words would stack on top of each other. so after a few beers at the bar next door I go back to check out his work. it took a little over an hour to do, and it hurt like heck (but as long as I was watching his every move it didn’t hurt so much), here it is.

so yeah, my big fat swollen foot. and btw, that is a radish in the middle. I had to explain to my mom that it was not a retarded dwarf carrot…

Providence Canyon

These are old photos, from our old trip to old Providence Canyon back in old early february. I just haven’t had the time to update my blog. 

Chinese New Year’s 2008

there was a Chinese New Year’s celebration on Buford Hwy this afternoon. I’ve never been to one before (yeah I know, I’m a bad Asian) so it was pretty exciting for me. I’ve never seen so many fire crackers before! and then the celebration continued into the market where they set off more fire crackers! who knew… 

look at all of those fire crackers!

fire cracker shells inside the market

sushi time

my first time trying my hands at home made sushi.

ingredients:
short grain rice
rice vinegar
salt
sugar
seaweed paper
carrots
cucumber
imitation crab sticks

all purchased from the local Wal-Mart (who knew?)

I followed Alton Brown’s recipe for sushi rice (he is my fave foodnetwork star):

2 cups sushi or short grain rice
2 cups water, plus extra for rinsing rice
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon kosher salt

Place the rice into a mixing bowl and cover with cool water. Swirl the rice in the water, pour off and repeat 2 to 3 times or until the water is clear.
 
Place the rice and 2 cups of water into a medium saucepan and place over high heat. Bring to a boil, uncovered. Once it begins to boil, reduce the heat to the lowest setting and cover. Cook for 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand, covered, for 10 minutes.
 
Combine the rice vinegar, sugar and salt in a small bowl and heat in the microwave on high for 30 to 45 seconds. Transfer the rice into a large wooden or glass mixing bowl and add the vinegar mixture. Fold thoroughly to combine and coat each grain of rice with the mixture. Allow to cool to room temperature before using to make sushi or sashimi.

I didn’t have a rolling mat so I used plastic wrap which turned out better than I had imagined. but I didn’t have a sharp enough knife so I kinda squished the roll as I was slicing it. but at the end it’s was mucho delicioso!

food you can wear

 I made these today. not because I was very hungry and had nothing in my fridge, because I’m going to take my products down to the flea market and sell them.

snack crazy! or is it a crazy snack?

Another weekend gone and another wonderful trip to the Buford Highway Farmers Market. From frozen pork brains to sesame seed pancakes, I absolutely love this place! So here are this week’s find:

Not really sure what this says but from the picture I presumed that it was a cookie dipped in chocolate and shaped to look like little tree trunks

And I was right. They were delicious!

I’ve had Dadu ice cream before and I swore that it was the most amazing vanilla ice cream I had ever tasted; rich, creamy, and Light. So I decided to try another one of their products, the Dadu Roll. It certainly did not stand up to my expectations. the waffle roll was chewy and tough and the vanilla ice cream in the middle didn’t taste anything like the Dadu vanilla ice cream I was use to. I don’t recommend this.

Spam, we all know this product. I bought this not to eat, but to save as a collector’s item.

Ramune Soda (peach flavour). Now this is an interesting soda, not because of it’s taste but because of how you have to open it. But I’ll get to that later.  This soda is so lightly carbonated compared to American sodas such as Coke or Pepsi and that is why I love it. And it’s peach flavour isn’t too empowering or sweet.

now to the part where I open the soda…

Atop the soda bottle is what they call “the plunger”. And inside the bottle, at the very top, is a marble. you use the plunger to push down on the marble until the marble drops into the neck of the bottle. the marble will remain in the neck because the neck has been “pinch in”. I’m getting better at this process. the first time I tried my hand at this, the soda squirted all over me. Ooh and here’s a video!

*in old granny voice* back in the day…

it was only five years ago when I purchased my first digital camera (and it wasn’t  a great camera either I tell you), yes I was a late bloomer in this hi-tech world. but before then Jason lent me his Olympus OM1 so I could experiment with photography, in my dire need for a hobby.  anyways this is one of the very few photos that actually came out okay. found it while cleaning out my computer (which is due for reformatting).

I actually like this picture a lot.

well, wasn’t good with film then and I’m not good with it now. I think I’ll just stick to digital.

nature and such

another trip to Blue Ridge today, but this time we had a little traveler with us. it was Ian’s first trip to his Great Grandmother’s house. we spent a good portion of the afternoon up there, listening to Great Grandmother and her daughter talk about family members neither Jason nor myself knew (but we shook our heads like we did). and after their several warning about the heat, ticks, and black rat snakes, we took a stroll through her garden and pasture (which has bulls in it! but they were fenced off). I really do enjoy going up there for visits because  in addition to Great Grandmother’s garden which consists of squash, zucchini, corn, tomatoes, and green beans she also has two pear trees, an apple tree, blue berries, and blackberrries. we never leave empty handed. Jason picked a bag of blackberries and she gave us some veggies to take home. now if only she had more live stock,  she could send us home with a few cuts of steak and some whole fryer chickens.

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Oot and Aboot

finally a day out! the family and I went up to Dahlonega (north Georgia) for a day of gold and gemstone mining.

first we start with a bucket of dirt…

then we move to the sifter…

and viola! rocks.

then we visited Boggs Creek for some REAL gold mining…

…and as you can see we found none, but we did find Solomon the salamander!