Something to Write About

It's pretty obvious by now that I'm not a blogger, and probably never will be. With that said, I shall continue to keep a blog and make my yearly posts. I insist. 

Right now I really do have something to post about, and I think it is pretty awesome. 

There has been a recent craze for making bucket lists; I took note of it, thought about making one, and decided to take it one step in my direction. Behold, the Culinary Bucket List. 

It is still pretty early in the making, and will probably go on forever, but here are a couple of the top items:

Souffle

Risotto 

Lava Cake 

French Bread

As I write I'm thinking about the endless possibilities of things I could put on it... calamari, lamb, lobster, sushi...

As a note: these are things for me to make, not just to eat. Even though almost all of these things I have never even had. 

 That's right, I made some souffle's! Now I get the immense satisfaction of crossing it off the list. 

The puffiness is so short lived it is pretty hard to get a decent picture of at full height, but it is beautiful.

This was my first time eating a soufflé, but it was almost creamy on the inside and oh so airy, which a lot of people say is what it should be. 

I'm going to keep an eye out in stores for a soufflé cup or two, this was so easy I will be making it again.

And I will be... Soufflé Girl.  

Have I ever mentioned my die hard love for Doctor Who? No? That is a shame. 

Related; the joy I feel when the ticking of the clock matches the rhythm of a song that is playing is immeasurable.  

It's So Black and White

I've been seriously lacking in the creativity department lately, haven't done much sketching and my paint brushes are never seen any more. But the medium I always fall back on is my ink pen. 

When I sketch something it looks so-so, the outline might be rough, or the shading uneven; but ink instead of shading with charcoal is so fail safe, it's hard to make it look bad. Of course the one bad thing about using an ink pen is that once you draw, it's there. There's no erasing anything. It can be good and bad. 

So this is my new obsession, and once I've drawn all of the Marvel superheroes I'll probably move on to sculpting or something. 

November Harvest

I just went out into my garden for the first time in probably the last month. Almost everything was dead, but I did find a few little plants still hanging on :). It reminded me that I never crossed off  "plant and harvest a garden" from my list, so I did that today along with "make the varsity soccer team" and "make a new friend". 

I had forgotten about the extra row of carrots and the green onions that I planted a little too late, the carrots were hiding under the zucchini plant leaves that got bigger then I expected.

 

Ghost peppers that hung on during Sandy and multiple frosts... I still have yet to taste one.

 And then there's the random hydrangea bloom amidst all of the dead stuff. Amazing.  

The only season I really love is summer, but fall definitely has it's moments. Like finding a flower that is still blooming. Or flavouring everything with pumpkin and apples (yesterday I had pumpkin waffles, this morning I made pumpkin French toast, and I'm just waiting for the right time to make apple stuffed sweet bread). Or drinking 5 cups of tea with honey and 2 cups of cocoa; daily. Or, my personal favourite, making a leaf pile with preschoolers while they run around singing "leaf pile leaf pile leaf pile!" (it happens a lot). 

I almost forgot, here are some pictures of THE BEST fall activity. :D

Caught Up? Nope.

Man, it's been a while. I know, I never finished the photo challenge. I failed miserably with barely a week to go. But I'm OK with that... It was fun while it lasted. 

Right now I'm swamped with school, soccer, and babysitting. Seriously, I don't ever remember a time I have been this busy; but sometimes I get more done while I'm busy then when I have a whole day to "catch up".

This is just a really short post to say I'm going to start putting more stuff on here, someday. I promise. 

For now, enjoy some pictures of my last 3 months. 

I spent a week in Jackman with my church, the teens ran a pirate themed week. 

Me and a besty chillin'.

 Ya know. Sometimes it happens.

 This is what I've been doing with most of my time for the last two months. It's been a challenge between ankle injuries and sciatic nerve problems and going to PT for it all; but I'm a left bench warmer for the Morse girls varsity soccer team, and a left defender for the JV team. Morse is currently #1 in class B western division. Playoffs start this week and I'm pumped to cheer my team on from the bench!! But seriously, I have a lot of team pride :).

 I went to DC for a week with TeenPact and had a BLAST. I saw some pretty spectacular things; such as a few Van Gogh paintings!

 But most of all, I've been fitting school into the cracks of free time I have. Lots of weeks that includes Saturday and Sunday nights.

July 14th-21st

It's been a weird week, it has felt busy but I don't think it really was... So most of my pictures were taken at night when I realized I hadn't taken as single photo that day. It's 9 PM and I still haven't taken today's photo; since there aren't that many topics left it is getting more challenging to take a good picture :/.

This cake pretty much describes my life. Last Saturday my rockin' friends threw me a surprise party for my birthday. My birthday that's in December. So I'm not actually 16, but I pretend.

One of the 'I need to go to bed but I haven't taken a picture' pictures.  My new TOMS :D (mirror shot!).

 I took this picture at about 11:30, so it still was technically on the 20th.

In case it's not obvious, it says love. Emily and I tented last night and decided to try writing words... This is the only one that is actually readable.