"...no dead end in sight..."

lunchtime

I'm eating lunch and it must be pretty windy outside. This little guy flew all the way up here to sit on the windowsill:

Hey there, buffafly!

photo dump!

So I went to Petsmar today and got Rudie some more food so she will quit whining about having only crumbles to eat in her dish because she is so picky she will only eat pieces of food if she can bite them in half and spit half back into her dish. I found a fancypants electronic watering dish on sale with my discount card-type thing, grabbed another huge toddler-sized bag of foo foo organic cat food, and as I was walking around trying to avoid the Coppell Humane Society's adorable animals for adoption (especially the big lug of a chocky Lab mix who saw me coming and was all happy, like, HEY WILL YOU BE MY MOM PLZ I LOVE YOU SO MUCH ALREADY and I had such a horrid rush of wanting to adopt this guy that I had to make a 90 degree turn down another aisle) I found this.

Meet Duckie.

Duckie is filled with catnip.

Rudie really, really likes catnip, come to find out. 

Thus, Rudie really really likes her new Duckie.

Poor Duckie has already been thoroughly groomed, gnawed on, rolled around on the carpet, and drooled all over. He is seriously damp and spiky-fluffed like a dog toy in the less than twelve hours she's had him.

I consider that a success?

Also this week we've had creepy Silent Hill-esque marine layer-looking fog one morning.

This week's bento is going to be seafoody. I've got tuna salad and fish sticks. Plus soy!sesame seed rice, plus miscellaneous fruit. I couldn't find any cheap fruit other than some oranges (tangelos? wtf is a tangelo) so I bought a couple of bags of frozen strawberries and peaches and figure they'll thaw nicely in the fridge at work. OH and left my bento box in my car for about four days with half a chicken sandwich in there. It's going to be so, so gross cleaning it out tonight. I might post photos of the bento tomorrow, if I have time.

That's all I've got so far. Time to work on schoolwork~

with my breakfast granola

I've been systematically trying new bulk bin flavors of breakfast granola. Today's flavor is cherry vanilla. It's not bad, but I think I prefer the vanilla almond flavor. It's more neutral and goes better with fruit than something that's already flavored like a fruit. Of course, nothing will beat raspberry but a life with nothing but raspberry, delightful as it is, will get rather boring rather quickly.

I'm killing some time between playing Animal Crossing and 9 AM, the crucial hour this Saturday morning, in which Tom Nook's store opens and I must sell a bunch of fruit. Am also softening some butter today so that when we get home this afternoon I can make bananana bread, thus disposing of three particularly overripe ones and making delicious yummies in the process.

I must be in a cleaning mood, because I have started a big black trash bag in my craft room-type area and am chunking things in. All I have to say is, the cat had better watch out!

Nothing much else is going on except that we're going up north to meet my lovely auntie, who has flown in for Frontier Days, in which her friend is selling jewelry. This is one of my huge vices, and I did get paid yesterday, so this may be a grievous error on my part, but omg jewelry. Awesome. So we will be Frontier Days-ing it up throughout the day! 

Is it inappropriate to have a grilled cheese sandwich for breakfast? I AM ABOUT TO FIND OUT, YALL. Woohoo, Saturday! <3

friday five

1. how old were you when you first started your livejournal?
Probably...high school? LMAO OMG I found a page on archive.org from senior year of high school and it cracks. me. up.

2. how has your life changed since then?
LOTS of things! I think I'm less spastic than I was back then, definitely. And a lot less paranoid.

3. if you could go back and change one thing from your past, what would it be?
I would be much, much nicer to people. And try to get out more.

4. what is one thing you would do to make livejournal better?
I don't know if I'd do anything because right now my blog is on typepad XD but if I owned LJ I'd definitely get rid of all the stupid ads.

5. if you joined the spice girls today...what would your spice name be? (ie, baby spice, scary spice, etc
Grumpy Spice? XD nah, I wouldn't join them b/c they're all old now.

book: spoiled

Spoiled: Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do about It, Nicols Fox. This book made me more aware of not only what I purchase at the grocery store, but that everything there is a POSSIBLE CONTAGION! But seriously though, this book details several foodborne diseases, as well as the processes used in meat processing (especially poultry). It made me want to make very good friends with le soybean. In fact, there was about a two or three-week period while reading this book in which I bought no chicken. We ate a lot of pasta and sauce, I think. And homemade pizzas.

Don't even start to think that vegetables are safe - oh, no! not even innocent, straight from the plowed earth!vegetables - Fox makes it pretty clear that nothing we eat that has been processed by someone else's hands is safe. The diseases can even come back to haunt years later - hello, delayed reaction Mad Cow Disease! And if you're one of those types who insist on gardening organically - even for the home canning enthusiast, he makes it pretty clear that Nothing You Can is Sanitary Enough. Hello, Mister Botulism! *thumbs up :D

In spite of ruining most of what I'd like to prepare, I do recommend it because it's not fear-mongering; it's a book based upon scientific facts and cases involving Actual People. I think everyone should read it because it's a book that gave me the heebie-jeebies about everything I eat. And isn't that a great way to combat the nation's obesity epidemic?