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[Feb. 22nd, 2005|11:08 am] |
I spend a lot of time looking for vegan recipes for desserts and I think I came up with a great recipe for chocolate cake by piecing together elements of several vegan brownie recipes. It is quick and easy. I saw, in Martha Stewart Living, a chocolate cake with powdered sugar on top stenciled with a pretty doily. I'm practicing that, so I'll be experimenting with variations of this recipe this week.
( Vegan Very Chocolate Cake ) |
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| 25-Question Survey |
[Feb. 4th, 2005|02:28 pm] |
Attn: Everyone
Please fill out the survey below. I'm going to do something great with it. You can email your answers to pbeedle@carlson.com if you don't want to post them in the comments of this entry. If you post it somewhere else, please send me the link. Thank you.
01. Describe a dish you cook (your favorite).
02. Describe a memory of a rainy day.
03. What is your favorite article of clothing?
04. Describe the last dream you remember.
05. Describe a memory triggered by a smell (and specify smell).
06. Do you think being interrupted or being ignored is worse?
07. How many times in one week do you brush your teeth?
08. If you renamed yourself when you were ten, what would your name be today?
09. Say you designed your own house. How many floors does it have? What's in the back yard? What are the floors like in the bedroom? What are the walls like in the bathroom? What rooms other than a living, dining, kitchen, bath, and bedroom are there, if any? What material is the exterior?
10. Do you prefer potato or corn chips?
11. Describe your bedroom as it was when you were 12.
12. Do you collect anything? What?
13. Does money bring much stress into your life?
14. Describe your favorite place and/or time to be alone.
15. What do you do with your friends? How often do you get together with them in an average week or two?
16. Do you like dark restaurants?
17. Do you have a comfort food? What is it?
18. Are there any movies, bands, etc, that you like simply because it is nostalgic? Something you think is cheesy/silly/stupid/low quality/boring/just plain bad, but you can't help but like it? Please specify.
19. Do you have any desire to go to Ireland? How about Tokyo? The Fiji Islands? Nepal? Cairo? Moscow? Buenos Aires? New Orleans? Juneau?
20. Are you happy with your life as it is right now? Are you happy with where you're taking your life? Are you confident about where you're taking your life?
21. How do you take your coffee? Tea?
22. What would you put on your sandwich?
23. Do you pick a certain day or time of day to treat yourself particularly well? What do you do? Do you set aside a certain amount of money for you to spend on anything you feel like? What kinds of things do you buy?
24. What do you like to do on rainy days? Do they even stand out to you?
25. Ask a question about automechanics. |
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[Jan. 28th, 2005|12:23 pm] |
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I want to quit my job. |
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[Nov. 19th, 2004|09:04 am] |
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gah! agh! get me off of this thing |
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[Nov. 17th, 2004|09:00 am] |
since i've moved, i have not been settled in.
i need to feel settled. i still have things in boxes.
we've been trying to move out but now i think we'll try to stay.
and i've been thinking about being settled
once i am, i would like to take pictures again
and i'm going to get myself a digital camera for xmas, maybe
what kind of digital camera do you use?
anyone have any recommendations? something reasonably priced and fabulous? |
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[Oct. 29th, 2004|02:50 pm] |
HAVE PASSION
that is my strongest. |
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[Oct. 28th, 2004|06:21 pm] |
regarding my previous post:
i posted that before clicking the link, and had no intention of clicking the link at all. but then i thought it was ridiculous to post that, especially without clicking the link. so i clicked it, and it was disturbing. but i don't think posting that message over and over is an answer to anything. in fact, i think that her purpose of killing the animals is a better one than that of say, wilsons leather- i mean she could be making a valid statement (though sick & vexatious & arguably unworthy of the life of an innocent animal) and she's not killing nearly as many animals. i think we're bothered by this mostly because it is one person, not some big corporation, and she is displaying it in a way that, first of all, seems to be quite a scream for attention and secondly, deceives us with faces that look like they might twitch or blink at any moment, faces that appear to be full of life, that are familiar and real and beautiful. it is completely identifiable, not dyed and stretched and smoothed and treated until it becomes just a shoe or a jacket, completely unreminescent of it's origin - it's a corpse (or, part of one).
that said, i think the project itself has a good message. i don't believe the artist is really trying to make a statement at all, though.. the finger puppet idea is ENTIRELY TOO LOUD and does not even make a statement, it seems obvious to me that her motives have nothing to do with self-analyzation, morality, hypocracy - anything that could possibly be the purpose of the project! this girl is not someone i would like to get to know. she just wants people to know her name, hate her or love her, never forget her. bleh
and to tell the truth, i wish i wouldn't have given all this attention to the artist at all.
and i wish you wouldn't either.
post-script: i'm entirely disregarding the statements about the beating a cat to death with a stick and all that, i have found no evidence of that. |
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[Oct. 28th, 2004|11:59 am] |
There's an artist, Nathalia Edenmont, who kills cats, mice, doves, rabbits, and other animals, mutilates their bodies, and then takes their photographs. She's on exhibit, among other places, at the Wetterling Gallery in Sweden. She has taken the top halves of five white mice and made them into finger puppets. She beat a cat to death with a stick. And this is called art. This is not only inhumane, but morally reprehensible.
Link to samples of the exhibit (warning! offensive content): http://www.wetterlinggallery.com/archive/nathalia/nathalia_main.htm
The Wetterling Gallery's Justification of her work: http://www.wetterlinggallery.com/newsletter/newsletter.htm
*****Link to the petition against her: Sign the Petition Here
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/853089392
[If you think this is wrong please repost this!]
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[Oct. 13th, 2004|06:12 pm] |
it's my birthday
4028803817 |
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[Aug. 11th, 2004|05:22 pm] |
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i'm wanting to paint my room ivory. so ladylike and also, neutral! i'll leave the woodwork white and pick a different shade for the curtains. i'll paint the branches (that i use to hold up my curtains) black. i'm really loving black, ivory and red right now. dramatic! i've been wearing red lipstick of late. |
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[Aug. 10th, 2004|12:22 pm] |
starting over.
i've decided to turn my world upside down. |
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[Aug. 5th, 2004|06:44 pm] |
what is your favorite word?
my favorites are milky, balmy, smarmy |
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[Aug. 3rd, 2004|02:31 pm] |
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i moved out. all is well except i'm in debt like hell. it'll be OK. i just need to stop buying shoes and clothes for a little while. my room is waaaaay too bright. makes me want to puke. i love the kitties. i don't have the internet at home (yet) but i have it here at work. i'm going to go to UNO in january (for free). i do pilates in the morning. it's really hot in my house. |
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[Jul. 27th, 2004|02:52 pm] |
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oh my god this sucks. she's grading my test right now and it's taking forever and i keep seeing that red pen go down onto the paper.. UGHHHHH |
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[Jul. 26th, 2004|12:57 pm] |
stresssss.
first of all, i'm constantly ashamed of my drunken behavior. i lose all class. i wish i could drink without getting wasted. i want to work on that. i'm taking a six-hour test tomorrow for work and if i don't pass (at least 85%), i lose my job. i'm moving this week (unless i do in fact lose my job). i painted my room bright pink and now i'm wishing wishing wishing i had painted it red. my room is a mess, my car is a mess, i haven't painted my dresser yet, i am going to lose my health insurance..... |
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[Jul. 22nd, 2004|08:09 pm] |
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note to self: sell back old textbooks (estimated minimum value: $175) |
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[Jul. 18th, 2004|01:59 pm] |
i've decided to go sort of retro-modern, 1960's-ish with my room. there's some stuff at target that would work nicely. walls will be light blue, one a milky orange. i'm about to go to goodwill to pick up this dresser that i'm going to turn into a dresser/desk. i'm excited about all of this. i can't afford any of it.
good news is, i'll be making way more money at my new job than i thought i would. and so far, i love it.
tomorrow i see !!! |
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