And a sunset couldn't save me now...

"For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go though such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers?... Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that without realizing what he's doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough o make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the starts went out. And that isn't important?"


- The little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery.


The Little Prince is one of my all time comfort books, and i've been feeling like a read though lately. I'm just in one of those moods where it feels like i'm stuck, nothing is ever going to change, and i'll just have to deal with it. I know that's not true, and someday, something is going to change (hopefully sooner rather then later), but for now, i'm all very depressing.


Doesn't help that i've been sick for the past four days. Although to be fair, I can't really blame this feeling on being sick either.

I really haven't posted since October? Well, there goes my idea for trying to keep this thing going! I really need to get back into the swing of updating here, even if it's just for myself. It's kinda nice to be able to look back and see everything that's been going on.

Hmm, we'll see : )

Fall is finally here!

I'm home alone, for once. It's very rare that I ever have time home alone without Will, but I didn't get much sleep last night so he decided to go out and get some wood that he needed without me. I honestly can't remember once in the last year and a half where i've been home alone for more then 10 minutes... Don't get me wrong, there hasn't really been a time where I haven't wanted to be with him, but everyone needs alone time to do alone time things... Like napping and updating their blog. I'm also starting to think his cat only want to cuddle with me right now because he can't see. She's sneaky with her love and cuddles.

Anyways...

I absolutely love when the seasons change, and I think i'm equally excited for each and every one. Now that fall is here, I feel like summer lasted about a week. I seems like forever ago that we had the house to ourselves for almost two weeks, with about 90 degree weather each day. While I miss the heat i'm super excited about the fall. It was nice to be able to mow the lawn today and not die from the heat, but most of all i'm excited for fall cooking.

I think my favorite fall flavor would have to be pumpkin. This is the the time of year when Starbucks (yes, I love Starbucks and I probably always will) comes out with their pumpkin spice latte, my all time favorite drink. It's just warm and comforting, it's happiness in a paper cup <3 I've already made pumpkin ice cream, and can't wait until I try pumpkin muffins.

This year, I swear i'm going to make my own pumpkin puree to use in recipes. I love going to the pumpkin patch, so bringing home more then one pumpkin won't be a problem. 

It's cold, so i'm going to curl up in my sweater under my comforter and love the fact that I need both to keep me warm.

The meerkats are meer-cute!

I eat scorpions!

So, while it feels like i've been super busy lately, when I sit down to actually think about everything going on it's not all that much. We've had a heatwave for the past week or so (almost all the days over 90 degrees!). While i'm excited for the sun and the warmth, all I have felt like doing is being in the kitchen. It finally cooled down within the low 80's and I got to make scalloped tomatoes with croutons (with the biggest tomatoes I have ever seen!). It turned out awesome, i'm saving the rest of it for snacking tomorrow. My tomato is up to about 18 tomatoes now, and i've been all over the web trying to find ideas  about what to make with them. I'm probably going to make some sort of spaghetti sauce or something along those lines. I don't know, i've never really played with tomatoes before.

Other then that we've just been playing around. We took a trip up to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle where I got to see some penguins and some seriously cute meerkats (They're meercute!). We also stayed out late one night to try and catch some of the meteor shower that was happening, and I actually saw quite a few (will got some cool pictures of the stars, but no meteors.

It's been one hot, fun, relaxing week.

I haven't killed my tomato plant... Yet!

It's finally summer! It was freezing, cold, and wet almost every single day of spring, and then out of nowhere, all of a sudden the sun arrived! It's been over 85 degrees for the past three days. The first day of the heat I didn't have to work and I did absolutely nothing. I drug a big comfy lawn chair outback, put on a sun dress, and read my book for almost an hour. At that point I was too hot and had to come inside to finish reading. I'm a little sunburnt, but it feels good!

I think my tomato plant has been loving the sun almost as much as I have. It has flowers! Little yellow flowers. So far six of them. I don't know if most people get this excited over something little like that, but it pretty much made my week. I have never been able to grow anything. I'm so hopeful!

This week really has been awesome. Will and I have had the house completely to ourselves for just over a week now (my parents are in Wyoming for my cousin's wedding). We've been able to plan and cook what we've wanted, keep things cleaned up, and just do what ever we've wanted, when we've wanted.

It's nice to have down time, I think it makes me more productive. I've started typing out all of my favorite recipes (really, not that many at this point) and saving them to the computer. My hope is to one day get a Nook (Barns and Noble e-reader) and be able to put my recipes on there so I have something portable that I can take into the kitchen and use.

Other then that, i've done a lot of yard work, a lot of laundry, a lot of cooking meals that are better suited for cold days, a lot of reading, and a lot of relaxing.

It's been a good week.

How does your garden grow?

I really really wish there was a farmer's market that was closer then a half hours drive. I went today with the intent of finding some tomatoes to make my own pizza or spaghetti sauce and found out that it's not tomato season yet. I did however end up getting some delicious Rainier cherries and some strawberries. I ended up covering some of the strawberries in chocolate, but the other's are going to be eaten as-is <3 I think the think I love about the Farmer's market the most is the smell of apples. Especially at the Olympia one, apples everywhere!

After being dissapointed that I couldn't find any tomatoes, I decided to look into trying to grow some of my own. I guess June isn't ideal for planting them, but people said it has been done, so i'm trying it. I did buy one of those upside down planter things, so the tomatoes won't have to sit on the ground.

I've never really, honestly tried to grow anything. Two years ago I had one little strawberry plant in a giant tea cup that only gave me one strawberry (but to be fair, I never watered the poor guy). I do however have a nice bunch of blackberry bushes that grow over the back fench of my parents. They're huge and free (and one of my favorite berries)!

Darn you money, you and your spendability!

I think i'm starting to have a shopping problem. Not nearly as bad as most people I know, but i've never been one to really like to spend money. It was more of a thrill for me stash it away in my savings account and let it grow until I needed it for something big (mostly travel). I've had the same amount sitting my savings account now for almost three months. I just can't stop spending! I'm really trying to back up and get into savings mode with this raise (that will hopefully, finally kick in 8 weeks late on Friday!).

Once my dentist appointment is done my savings account will be back at zero, and it get to start all over again. Seeing it that low kinda sends me into a panic. My parents have never been good with saving, and being absolutely broke is something that honestly scares me. Debt scares me. Just owing people money scares me!

Honestly, I wish I could start to save up for a trip again. I'm feeling awefuly restless and boring. Even just a small trip to somewhere new would be a start, but there's just too much I should do before that. I need to save for an apartment.

Bleh, I hate money.