No Snow :(

So, it would seem that Blogger has, once again, updated in the time it has taken me to write another post...lordy, you would think that blogging was the most difficult thing to do in the world. Thing is, if people going through war, illness and government censorship can get a blog or two through, I don't have any excuses...the same goes for my lack of art...craft...mixed media etc.

So, here I am...again...Happy New Year to all of you...who read this pitiful excuse of ramblings...

ANYWHO...The last months of 2012 were...hmm...shall we say, trying...which in my eyes is quite an understatement...major mind screws and a couple of upsetting pieces of news, one of which only just hit me on Friday, these are only one aspect of the last year that made going to work trying...but, heyho!

Christmas was mainly good, was really nice having two weeks of not being in the village, as although I love it there, it is still full on, and I don't even live there...

So, I don't think I have mentioned that I'm learning how to drive, thins brings it's own special hell, but is also fun...in a strange way, just wish I could learn faster!!! Just thinking of all the freedom it'll bring later, and about all the road trips that probably won't actually happen...wooo *sigh*

There is some low feeling, but today it's more cause there is no snow, I LOVE snow, but here in Aberdoom, there is barely any, it's just cold, which is not very nice...why it so cold and there is no snow, TELL MEEE!!! I am fed up of driving in the rain, snow would make it more interesting!

Riht, ought to get dressed and start drawing or whatever it is I'm doing...

Ciao xx

Nothing better to do

Other than blog or read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... decided to blog instead, still with the prickle of pepper from my chilled sausage roll rolling aeound my mouth breaking through the coating of fat numbing most everything else...grand way to spend a morning. ..might wash it away with intesting and tooth melting red bull in a mo as I'm sure that I'm boring you already :)

So, the cafe has been closed for a couple of days as the heating died,  booo...it has meant however, a wee holiday in the craft studio, and has opened up a new way of getting to know some day placements and villagers. Usually its difficult in the café as it's busy, the public are demanding and there are lot's of health and safety issues that don't really promote drunkeness by laughter...

...however, I have missed the café, and coffee tasting coffee (thanks MacBeans, Aberdeen). The normality makes time go a bit slower and so thia week has rushed away, it's already Thursday for gods sake. Oh, and I'll be late, so that's more rushing, damn FirstBus...Soooo tired, the past few weeks have been totally draining, so busy, so mind scewing and just...plain tiring...will I quit though...eh, no, I think not.

It is now lunch, the place is freeezing, but open, all I hear about is how cold it is, I have a silly hat on though, so I don't mind that my fingers are froooozenated :)

Do not like the overuse of the phrase 'especially in a commercial environment' used all too often by a certain coworker :p

Ciao ciao xx

Work

So, I work too much now, I have no time for friends, or art...really...I am now at my 'work' 6 days a week, leaving one day for J and I to spend together...oh boohoohoohoohoo!! HAAHAAHAA! nah, I wouldn't be there so often if I didn't like it...would I!?!?!

The only time I have for artistic stuff is when I am at the Craft Studio on Mondays, and when I get home from work...when I journal...and they aren't great, basic mind scribbles is all, mostly done while watching Firefly and the Olympics like...

SO, small gallery of whatever, I suppose xx

Core Beliefs are pretty much Ronseal - Scone rant about the scone brigade at work.

Someone asked me what I did at work, used this to help answer - This is mind dribble made with biro

Clangers, got new stuff, was playing - Saw Brave and got all Scottish w/ paint

So, that is all that there is, there are no pictures of the Craft Studio stuff as I havn't taken any...yet...and often, my phone is at Death's door when I'm there...cause I'm a bit of a muppet... woo!

Ciao, don't get too damp out there in our wonderful summer! xx

People

So, I was meant to update more of the London trip, buuut I cba...so if you would like more, then plague me and ask, and I shall let you see the journal we wrote when we visited. We did have a really good time of it though!

So, why am I here, rambling over a page that is not read...because, that is why, just because.

Ehm, well, I am missing a birthday celebration and that is annoying, as I don't feel amazing, and it is at a cool wee place down at the beach, would have been nice to see folk, hmmm...

...It is pure raining at the moment, which is kinda ok, as I am indoors, and watching it being all grey and miserable, would be nice if there was also some thunder, but then I'd have to stop listening to Gotan Project...oh, the new Cornetto things are pretty nice, but I still prefer Betty's in Stonehaven....

We have now started a thing for home made pop corn, which is nice, though the husks get stuck in my teeth, which is dead painful! :(  But coming up with new flavours is quite fun :) Last night was cinnamon sugar, which is totally ftw :)

bye x

Riiiight, with the smell of peroxide spurring me on to write...I thought I would try to update the blog, something that happens VERY rarely...so rarely that I think the last time I gave the whole place a bit of a shiggle and changed my profile etc.

Not that much happens to me really...UHM...Jaf and I went to London a couple of weeks ago, that was cool...it rained loads, but that meant that there were a couple of really cool photos :)

Trafalgar Square from the National Gallery 

We saw some people that had moved back home after uni, which was really nice.

On the Monday we arrived and it was raining...so we met Rachel at Covant Garden and had paella...not before stopping at the Moomin shop though...so now I have a Little Mi cookie cutter, which I havn't used yet, even though it is TOTALLY EXCITING!! After the foods we had a wander, to Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery, which was soggy, then a bit overpowering with the glorifying Jesusness...though not horribly horrid...

...From there we avoided puddles towards the Mile to Buckingham Palace, which we saw, kind of, through the stage and seating for the birthday bash the U.K. gave the Queen...it was ok, like a whitish house in the rain really :p.

We the n decided to walk around Pall Mall and find a patisserie and have some coffee and cake, cake ftw! Sadly we were left to our own devises as Rach had to dash off! It was great seeing her, if only it had been for a little longer!

I'll update with more laters...

Gunther von Hagens, it will be upsetting when he dies.

Gunther von Hagens will most probably die this year, way before his time, taken by severe Alzheimer's, I find this deeply saddening. His work was and still is awe inspiring and I feel that the world could have seen things in a different light, if there was more time for him.

I feel if you think he's just controversial, you havn't thought enough about yourself...from what I have seen, he has revealed to us what we are, and it is the usual human thing where we can't face that we are animals...the Crucifiction was amazing, and the fact that religious types may find it abhorrent is the most humorous thing of all, there are images of Christ in pure form, self-righteously paraded around the globe as an advert for a life of feeling worthless, and not good enough. The whole sin and be punished, when 'god' has given us the right to chose our own path, where we can do no wrong in 'his' eyes...and where 'Jesus' died for our sins, though 'we' can still sin...total contradiction...where an image much more life-like, much more real, is too much, and apparently disgusting... just shows that we are living in a dream land... the images where it shows true death invoke feelings the world cannot handle, because they themselves feel they are holier than themselves...so the blinkers and denial are put up...pieces of art like Gunther's are scandalous because they remind up what we are avoiding...

done with ramble... if you want to post comments of hate, don't expect an answer... this man is akin to the naked rambler...if we faced to our own realities, we wouldn't be so shocked, and in my mind, we would all be much more 'Christian' than those who step over the homeless to get to church, and we may understand the death of humanity we have created through the spread of the religious poison.

actually done with the ramble.

What do you mean, that's NOT Gillian Anderson?

OOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOooooh! It's Halloween.

This year has been quite fun really, we made fooooood :) We also had people round to help us eat it as well though. This was nice :)

For Saturday night's tea, we nommed on Pulled lamb which had been roasted with camomile tea leaves, rosemary, honey and other ...stuff, herbs and such. Roast purple carrots, beetroot, sweet potato, parsnips...red onion and baby corn...there may have been other veg...There was also potatoes, which were fried with lemon and...other things, I didn't make the food, I was working... Martha (JAF) Stewart controlled the kitchen wonderfully, and did, pure dead brullyantly.

For pudding, Martha made a strudel, and I made iced gingerbread cupcakes, and a haloweeny rocky road type thing, Sho brought cinder toffee, it was all rather lovely tbh. Well done all, and thank you for eating the nom :)

While eating we watched Evil Dead, The Candyman (who apparently doesn't star Gillian Anderson...sure it doesn't...*sigh* Chris still had a quiet fapp in the corner though...WE ALSO watched Beetlejuice aaand people left, which led to Crai and I watching the end of Halloween and the (new (crap)) Friday 13th.

Woke to leftovers, big cup of tea and a bacon roll, woooo!

I have not been posting bento enough, and I have been making a few recently, I shall start with the latest and work back...

Riiiight, we have Iberico ham and choritzo carbonara with scrambled egg skull and crossbones. Raw purple carrots, baby tomato and carrot. Iced gingerbread cupcake.

A selection of smoked salmon and pepperoni sushis with general raw veggies. Dried bananas and nuts.

Mainly rice and tuna, pudding is dark chocolate and the same fruit and nut combo as the one above.

Egg noodles with sweet chilli and hoi sin sauce with caramelized pork. Edamame and a pumpkin shaped onigiri with carrot, spring onion and avocado.

That is it. So far :)

CIAO!