Looks like our home on the coast is in for a bad week. For the last few days we’ve had endless stormy weather. And it’ll continue till the end of the week. We’ve already had a power outage from Port Orford to the Californian border yesterday. We managed to be the brightest house in the neighborhood with our gas powered generators, candles, propane and crankable lamps and APC’s.
I have the next 3 days off so at least I’ll be staying out of the cold. Unless you count my walk to the hair dresser tomorrow morning, but that’s not too far of a walk at least.
I tried another tea yesterday after the power came back on. White Chocolate tea. It sounded scary at first but turned out to be real good. Now I’m having some good ol nutcracker sweet.
>Late Night Open Thread.
Another tea to try, and no it’s not a flowering one. Raspberry Earl Gray. mmmmm.
>Open Thread
It was dark and gray today. I didn’t even feel like going for a walk even though I was dressed to. I mostly relaxed today. Looked at a real cool map for gmod, it’s a real nice mountain village. I’m thinking that’s where my next movie will take place. Something about 4 people vacationing there and stumbling upon something mysterious. At this point it’s just an idea . I still need to work on the plot. When it comes to the equipment though I have that all set.
I tried the lavender tea today. It was good. Had a very interesting flavor. The taste of lavender, white tea and hibiscus brewing into one flavor was good to the palate. So far though I have to say my favorite is the green tea jasmine combo.
>Been lazy on my blogging >_>
Well my lavender flowering tea arrived today. 😀 I’m gonna save it for when the time is right. Today is a green tea day. I started off with a regular pot of green tea, now I’m having some flowering green tea. Went for a walk this evening, nothing exciting. Came back here and got invited to test a gamemode for gmod. Fun stuff.
And I teturn to work tomorrow, then I’ll have the next day off. Funs.
>Open Thread
Well, I survived out in the rain today. It really sucks when your Monday is a Friday… 3 more days of work before I get 2 days off, at least my Friday will be a Monday.
Now I have an early morning to look forward to and it looks like more rain will be part of it. Nice…
>A mole at MOUL
http://pelishard.net/wordpress/?p=90
People can badmouth Slackers all they want. But when it came to Cyan’s NDA’s during N’uru and MOUL we at least honored them no matter how much of a gag order they turned out to be.
Of course this is Dhel we’re talking about.
>Omnoms
Ok, those stuffed grape leaves turned out to be awesome. I took rice, added green onion, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper. Rolled em up and put them in my bamboo steamer for 40 mins then let them cool to room temp. Good stuff.
Today the weather wasn’t best, but it wasn’t raining at least. So I went out and did a few errands and a little shopping. Got a nice new shirt at the thrift store and some pomegranate green tea from another store in the next town. And the nice part was that the sun came out during the walk.
Speaking of tea I’ve fallen in love with flowering tea. It’s awesome. Here is my teapot:
I went over to another website and found lavender tea that I’ll have to see if my store can special order. If not I can always order it from the website.
>First post of the new year
I’ve been meaning to get around to this, but you know… Not much to write about. Things are going alright with me, etc.
New years eve was great, I didn’t have to work at all. And even better I didn’t have to be in until 4:00 the next day! There was much booze and snackage to go around. My new years resolution is the same one I do every year, don’t make one.
I decided to pull out the ol bamboo steamer tonight for an experiment. Grape leaves with a spicy rice stuffing. That should go nicely with my tension tamer tea. I like drinking that when I’m not feeling right.
We had a little surprise this evening. The hot water valve for the washer decided to spurt out. Luckily it was caught before a flood could happen. It was just a largeish puddle by the time I got down there to take the stuff out.
>Merry Christmas!
Christmas day… I finally got half way into the spirit. And how can you not when you’re surrounded by Christmas candles, Christmas tea, and your family and friends. We didn’t have a tree this year, and we didn’t really go out of our way to wrap presents for each other (unless you count Princess Barbie and I, we did that for each other). It was one slack Christmas.
I got some nice candles, a mirror to put them on, a Christmas candle snuffer for the Christmas candles, a tiny water fountain, a Japanese style photo album, Japanese red lacquer bowl, Left 4 Dead 2, soaps, bracelets, incense, a candle holder and a real pretty box with gems on top. Oh, and a nice red top, socks, and a brand new teapot for my collection that I’ll have to take a picture of. At this rate I’ll have to make another room dedicated to my pot collection… This one has it’s own special purpose though. It’s one of those flower brewing ones, the flower blooms as you pour the water over it.
Tonight for dinner in fine Slacker tradition we have surf n turf. Steak with smoked salmon pasta. I’m lookin’ forward to it.
I hope you everyone out there had a good Christmas too.