Here’s hoping that I don’t become completely insane by the end of my nine day work week. I’m planning to crash out not long after getting back home in the morning. I’ve been doing random things all afternoon since I’ve woken. Prepared an actual lunchbox, worked on a couple scripts for tomorrow and began work on another scene. We’re doing a slight rewrite, but managing to keep the main story in tact. I don’t think I’ll have it out on time, but I will be working on it whenever I can.
Vans and Spaghetti
We had quite the adventure up to Portland yesterday. One of our objectives was to score a new vehicle on our trip while visiting family, and we were disheartened to find that the first person we were going to meet with had to cancel, and even called our home number not long after we left on our trip. We had a second contact planned but they already sold their vehicle. It was a huge letdown, we would retire at a cousin’s house and do a quick search on craigslist before heading off to dinner, and it’s a good thing that we did because someone was wanting to sell their Toyota Sienna at a really discounted price, and we got there just in time. Someone else wanted to buy the van, but fortunately we had cash on us. 😀 We now have a golden Toyota Sienna, and it was a really nice ride back home today… despite a bee sneaking into the car and me having to shoo the fucker out my window armed only with a camera bag. I bet it looks about as stupid as it does in my head. We had dinner at The Spaghetti Factory and some cocktails, it was all good fun. Finished up in the morning at ihop then had a nice relaxing trip home.
I’m looking forward to a good summer vacation this year. :melon: And to driving it more of course. 😛
Veri Melon Birthday
Despite rolling into spring the weather has felt like winter, in the early mornings at the very least. I’ve been going through watermelon withdrawals, getting closer to the end of my watermelon tea collection, and it’s difficult to find something nice during these seasons to make the watermelon part of my palate happy. As if reading my mind (well, she kinda did by reading this blog :melon: ) she gave me birthday gifts that would fill that very void.
Even the birthday card is watermelon based. I’ve never had a theme for a birthday before, and this was a wakeup call to something amazing! Any darkness that I was feeling was melted away as I continued opening my gifts in the company of Yutram who too knows my watermelon related needs.
The first gift I opened was a dress, though on me it’ll probably be a really nice top when we start getting some summer weather. :melon:
This falls under a similar category, though I think I might might be a nice small cover for the swimsuit:
I’ll be headed out of state sometime this summer hopefully, and was in need of something chlorine friendly and melontastic, and this looks like it might fight the bill if I can shed some poundage before then, at the very least I can get some boy shorts and call it good. :trollface:
I’ve been wanting to get a new mousepad for quite awhile, and I never thought of going this route. This is a really good idea, my Logitech G502 sits proudly upon it now, and will assist me in my future mouse related endeavors. :melon:
Earrings! They even match my ring! I’ll have to be careful or I may not ever take them off.
Now I can sort my USB cables in style! Perfect timing since I’m using these for my small roadtrip.
Well, looks like I have some decorating to do. These are string lights, of the watermelon variety. Perhaps around my gaming area or by the window. I’m already planning some renovations, this is a cool thing to add to the list. :melon:
I have a hat that matches this bag perfectly… no really I do.
I can’t wait for the summer to roll around, a lot of this stuff will fit well together for the river/beach. That’s assuming my extreme paleness doesn’t blind the entire town.
I’m not the kind to put my head between a pair of melons… but for the sake of music I’ll make a happy exception!
As cold as it’s been at night I might have to give this little bottle a go. This is adorable.
I’ll also be using this on my trip. A nice bag to store some additional makeup’s in, mostly eyeliners and eyeshadows methinks.
This lit up my eyes. I’m running low on my selection of watermelon teas from both Republic of Tea and David’s Tea, and was soon going to have to search for another watermelon elixir purchase, then this appeared in my hand. The inside looks and smells really good, I might even save it for a post on its own. I can’t wait to try it! That and use it in my new thermos:
Damn right! :melon: I think I’ll be using this one more with my new three week job as a vampire. I need a bottle that won’t drip, and my large behemoth of a tea thermos doesn’t fit the profile I need sadly, fortunately with this and the one I won for coming in third place in the Halloween contest I’ll be in good hands suckling on watermelon nectar during the witching hour.
Watermelon tape… why not? This is almost too beautiful to use. Yutram suggested it would be great for book binding, hmmmmm perhaps a book involving watermelons perhaps?
Of course, we have to end with SCENTED FUCKING CANDLES!!!! This one is excellent! A soy candle with the essence of watermelon, and really cool colors!
Already did a test burn as per the ritual, and it was successful. It actually smells better than the current watermelon candle I use, and that one already smelled good to begin with. Folks, you can never have too many watermelon candles, or melons. If this keeps going I’ll be the David Pumpkins of watermelons. :melon:
I owe a great thanks to my best friend, of whom I’ve had the honor to know for about a decade and a half. It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve known so many of you for so long and that we all still find time to talk to each other, maybe not as much as I’d like but hearing from you guys always puts sunshine and melons on my day. :melon: I owe great thanks, and will have to properly plan my gift vengeance to return the favor. :melon:
Happy Easter Open Thread
Happy Easter! We celebrated-ish yesterday by having the food. We’re leaving bright and early tomorrow for a 6 hour drive. I have something set to autopost. 😀 When I get back and get situated to my temporary new vampire shift I’ll go back to doing my usual things of making game porn and writing emails that require more energy that I have at the end of most days, even finding the time to post lately has been a little difficult.
When I get back I’ll write some emails, finish up a particular video with an ending we decided on earlier, and cut away at some more video footage for other projects… oh, and also the occasional livestream. :trollface:
I guess for now I’ll go hunt eggs in my sleep.
I’m not dead… I just feel the part.
We’ve been getting some nice weather… unfortunately due to the amount of cold and rainy weather the pollen in the air is really taxing. I think I’m getting a sinus infection, between the pollen and the chemicals they use to keep the Easter Lilly’s at work preserved. They’d better be all gone by the time I come back from my weekend getaway, those things have always made me hella sick. My first year of being exposed to them earned me a double ear infection and the additional bonus of a asthma/bronchitis hybrid I had to endure. Thankfully I’m not around them nearly as much as in early years, but walking by them everyday is enough to set my nose off and trigger near instant illness. :zorak: On top of this I found out that I’m working nine days straight… I wish we had laws in place that made it so that if you worked for more than 5 days in a row you have to be paid in overtime. It used to be that way when we had a regular Monday through Friday day work week that quite a few other countries still have, and now that more and more businesses are open 7 days a week I think it should be updated to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
I have a feeling if such a law were passed businesses would be more likely to hire more people instead of losing more in overtime… then again where I work they seem to have no problems throwing overtime at people who can stay for more than a full shift due to a couple calling in sick, and of course being deliberately understaffed in general. Though it’s hard to tell if it’s cheaper or if it’s because our hiring system is currently designed to be broken.
Some Italian Comfort Food
I did a good job of staying glomped to one of my Italian cookbooks. I made a couple of salads, one is a tomato mozzarella salad with balsamic vinegar and fresh basil,the other is a salad with greens, oranges (I chose mandarins, they’re my favorite orange of choice due to their distinct flavor), black olives and added some bleu cheese with a orange raspberry vinaigrette of my own creation. The noodles are in an Alfredo sauce with smoked Italian ham, peppers and onions with some pesto mixed into the cream sauce…. and corn. I think the only recipe I didn’t stray too far from was the tomato mozzarella salad. The other two were modifications of a couple recipes to suit my leftovers. I also experimented with a new omelet recipe today! Unfortunately the omelet didn’t last long enough to take pictures. But I cut up a hatch chile and some onion and sauteed them with some Italian ham and olive oil, then folded them inside the omelet with some melty bleu cheese and it was great!
I think we’ll have plenty of leftovers over the next couple of days. :rick:
Space Bollocks
I decided to do a little rearranging today. I took my grandfather’s WW2 chest out and put it in a corner to make more room in my closet (I plan to do some renovating soon). I keep a good portion of shoes in there. It dawned on me that I have a lot of shoes in there, and only a couple pairs of them were ones I bought for myself. I also bought a hamper recently to make it easier to take my laundry downstairs as well as keep things a little neater.
I played some Borderlands Pre Sequel with Yutram and his roomie… I still think BL2 is better, but Pre Sequel is still quite a bit of fun. I like the butt stomping, and Handsome Jack’s wit is still as fun as ever. For some reason the game told all of us that we didn’t have any golden keys despite whoring them all before our first playthrough,
I never got around to any animating today, but I figured I deserved a long gaming break. I probably won’t be playing with friends or streaming much after next week rolls around and wanted to get some fun out of the way. I’ll try again tomorrow. :trollface:
Open Thread and chill
I’ve been diddling in SFM a bit each day. I’ve extracted necessary the needed audio for animating more cutscenes… I’m pretty sure I won’t be getting this done within the month, especially with some stuff that I’ll be doing when I get back into town after my birthday… Someone is going on vacation, and I’ve been trained to be their backup, with next to no experience in said section. I’ll be doing their job for three weeks and it requires me to turn into a vampire. Hopefully I won’t hiss too much…
From last night’s Okami stream
Did an impromptu livestream of Okami last night. Depending on how things go this evening I may do another stream but with another game in mind.
I basically did oriental thanksgiving yesterday
I set a good chunk of time aside yesterday to make some of my favorite recipes, and even try a couple new ones.
I like to make a sweet soy sauce (top right) as well as a red pepper sauce (top left) but I also wanted to try another one with some extra scallions I had lying around. That on the bottom is a sweet scallion sauce, it turned out tasty for the most part… but I probably should have stirred it better when making it. I ended up with a sugary blob in the center of a bunch of vegetable oil. I managed to combine it better after taking out some of the oil, but that’s one I’ll have to practice again at a later date. On the very right I also have what remains of a salad dressing made of cider vinegar, sugar, a little bit of sesame oil and red pepper flakes for color and flavor. Most if it went into a cucumber and grape tomato salad that accompanied both my breakfast and dinner yesterday.
I made miso soup for breakfast yesterday. I like to eat it in the morning sometimes, it can be a nice change of pace from the traditional cereal or bacon and eggs. I threw in some udon noodles for something additional to chew on.
This was something new I tried. I mixed some of the pepper sauce with the sweet scallion sauce, plus some garlic soybean paste and mixed it with noodles, peppers and shrimp, sherry and a little bit of onion. It was really zesty.
Normally when I make a noodle dish I don’t follow it up with rice (or vice versa), but yesterday I basically declared it oriental Thanksgiving, and I wanted to also have the option of ham and egg fried rice… even if this isn’t fried. I boiled some jasmine rice, cooked an egg in another pan then mixed it into the rice, then added cooked vegetables and ham with a generous pinch of sea salt and some white pepper. Normally I would use just peas, but taking inventory in our deep freeze yesterday proved to me that 99% of the frozen vegetables we have on hand are in fact corn… So some peas are better than no peas at all.
This was a simple vegetable dish to make. All you do is steam some asparagus, and then take 1/4 cup of soy sauce and mix in some sesame oil. Add the asparagus to a platter and drench the sauce over it, and let it sit for about 10 minutes and you have a tasty yet delicate accompaniment to dinner. Of course I have one person in the house that despises asparagus… which means I need to add MOAR vegetables.
I stir fried some sugar snap peas with some salt, pepper, sherry and just a few shavings of fresh ginger. I did cheat a little and pad the rest of the meal with some cream cheese wontons and chicken potstickers…
Then I awoke to find that a giant bowl of rice was not put away this morning… everything else was though, dafuq?