urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky youkoricky youkoricky 2009-06-23T16:07:33Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:59840 2009-06-23T16:07:33Z 2009-06-23T16:07:33Z So yeah... interesting week last week. And my sister is in town this week, so it can't fail to be anything but interesting...<br /><br />But enough of that. I have been having Thoughts. Thoughts about The Future.<br /><br />Now, this is odd for me. I've never had a goal in life, other than getting something published. I've never had a life I wanted, a lifestyle I wanted to live, or something that I am truly passionate about. I have always envied those that have these things, that have always had these things when I had nothing. I didn't want to be anything when I was growing up, just a writer and a stay at home mom. Neither of those will keep me fed. Neither of those is enough.<br /><br />So. I have been throwing my all into my garden and my cooking and cheesemaking, and you know what? I found what I want to do with my life. I'm going to have a farm that is as self sustaining as possible. I've had the threat of the whole world collapsing hanging over my head for my whole life, and, dammit, I'm just going to learn how to feed myself and those I love. There can be no higher calling, in my thinking, than the production of food. Everyone needs it. Some may look down on it because they do bigger, better things, but they would sure miss it if someone wasn't around to grow it for them.<br /><br />So. I will have a hippie commune. Anyone is welcome, any time. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:59582 2009-05-26T05:55:27Z 2009-05-26T05:55:27Z Today I experimented with baking tomatoes and filling the house with smoke.<br /><br />Only one of these was intentional. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:59202 2009-05-23T17:50:39Z 2009-05-23T17:50:39Z I have discovered what blackberries really taste like.<br /><br />This is very dangerous. This means I will have to plant some next year, because the ones from the store will never live up to expectations again. Dammit.<br /><br />I am getting steadily ruined on all sorts of food. And quiet enjoying it. The Farmer's Market is my new favorite place.<br /><br />Not much to say, otherwise. Fighting off squash borers in the garden, corn has tasseled out. Had some bad emotional days this week, but I think I'm getting better.<br /><br />Oh yes, and I just started some more cheese a minute ago. Fucking mana from heaven, and no way around it. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:58902 2009-04-27T21:23:06Z 2009-04-27T21:23:06Z Today has had good things and bad things. Mostly good though.<br /><br />Today I:<br />-got lots and lots of mulch. For the record, five bags is all that will fit in my trunk. Really.<br />-ordered baby sweet potatoes to put where my onions are now, since they are almost done. Yay! More plants!!<br />-ordered cultures for cheese and yogurt and kefir and sour cream. So happy. Yes, hippie I am, and proud of it.<br />-listened to the lovely rain and thunder. My garden is So Happy right now. Really wish I had more rain barrels though. Mine overflowed this morning and it's supposed to rain till Wednesday.<br />-Took out my belly button piercing. I was sick of it. It's been two years. Never healed. Arg.<br />-Am considering making bread. My mom made bagels the other day and gave me some. OMG homemade bagels. With sesame seeds. OMG.<br />-cleaned house a bit. Doing laundry. Got some new clothes the other day and am debating what to get rid of. I so don't need this many pairs of pants. Especially when they don't all fit.<br /><br />So, yeah. Good day. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:58714 2009-04-21T18:57:39Z 2009-04-21T18:57:39Z Too tired for an actual entry, here is a list of awesome things!<br /><br />-The actress who plays Zoey in Firefly as Cleopatra in Xena. It was very silly, as she was not in any way black (being Greek and all) but still. &lt;3!!!!!<br /><br />-I had an onion from my garden in my quesadilla last night. It was the best thing EVAR!!<br /><br />-My garden is about to expand again. I forgot to plant squash. And I need room for okra. Heee...<br /><br />-Dax has a new friend! Brenenenena brought Mary over to play and they are The Bestest Friends Evar.<br /><br />-I started planting a new bed in my front yard yesterday. Death to grass!<br /><br />-The book I am reading leads me to believe that making cheese at home is possible..... Uh oh.<br /><br />-Research into the topic also leads me to believe that homemade yogurt and sour cream is relatively easy. Let the cooking begin!!! I just have to find a stainless steel pot and order some cultures..........<br /><br />In other news, I am contemplating opening a Flickr account to force myself to do something with my pictures. Thoughts? Has anyone used it? Pros? Cons? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:58572 2009-04-17T15:19:50Z 2009-04-17T15:19:50Z It's raining! And lightening! And thunder!!<br /><br />.... and I have to go to work. Blah. Ah well. Ar least I will be in receiving today. And I will not have to water my plants. Hurray! I do wish I had put out the inside ones yesterday though. I had intended to, but got distracted doing other things. Like clearing the junk out of the back yard. And finding awesome plants back there.<br /><br />I have been gardening and writing like crazy. It's wonderful. I love this time of year. I think I will be kind of sad when I run out of things to plant.<br /><br />.... or, you never know. I'll probably be glad the work is done. Then I just have to water and weed and keep pests away. Easy, right?<br /><br />Hah.<br /><br />I will be interested to see if my garden has a growth spurt after this. Thunder is supposed to make grass greener (BOOM) because it puts more nitrogen(?) in the air. If nothing else, all my plants will be happy to have water without chlorine in it. I need to get another rain barrel.<br /><br />....anyway. Enough about that. I'm obsessed. Off to work now. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:58352 2009-04-07T16:24:16Z 2009-04-07T16:24:16Z Have dragged myself out of bed for the second time today. The first was to drive Abe to work waaaaaaay too early this morning. Especially considering we both closed last night. And I close tonight. In music. Blah. (Anyone that happens to be near my store, visit me? @_@)<br /><br />Today is a special day, though. Today marks six years since I started going out with Abe. We both forgot to ask it off, and I couldn't switch with anyone to get this evening free. Ah well. <br /><br />Tomorrow is a Fun Day, though. Tomorrow we get to see The Last Unicorn on the big screen with Peter Beagle there! I'm excited. I haven't seen this movie since I was a very small child, and it gave me nightmares for weeks. But despite that, I still remember liking it. I am unsure if I read the book back then, but I recently did, and wow. I love his writing. I found some of his other stuff, some short stories, and they were amazing as well. He has a way of writing so that you have to put the book down between each story, just so you don't ruin it by going straight on to the next.<br /><br />Am in the middle of C.S. Friedman's new book. It's pretty good. Very engrossing, as hers always are. And the characters are very real. So far, don't think it's as good as Coldfire, but, you know, that would be hard to top. But I'm only halfway through, so we'll see. I'm really interested to see where she takes all these characters.<br /><br />And I've been writing like crazy lately. I have discovered (as I have to rediscover every once in awhile) that the amount I write is directly tied to how much I read. No input, no output. Logical, right? Only sometimes I forget that and don't have time to read, and I wonder where all my characters have gone, as they seem to have vacated my head. Parts of EMRUS are really coming together. It's kind of cool, to work on something so long and to finally see parts of it done. I started this thing in high school with a couple of friends one late late night. In nine years, the story has changed, my 'non-angsty' character is now full of angsty goodness (so not my fault) and the storyline has matured a huge amount. My only real problem now is controlling the number of characters, as it seems to have grown quite a bit. All the originals are there, switched around a bit, and some new ones (including a side plot inspired by an awesome Sharky drawing. ^_~)<br /><br />I dunno, this is my life's work. Writing is all I ever wanted to do. (Well, that and be a stay at home mom, but people look down on that as a career choice.) I really hope it gets finished. I really hope that the ending lives up to the beginning, because, in my opinion, I think most of what I've banged out so far is pretty good. And what isn't is destined to be rewritten anyway.<br /><br />Wow I can blather on. I should go do things. Like brush my hair. And play with Dax, who is suffering from acute frisbee withdrawal. The dog is addicted. I almost feel bad to introducing her to it. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:57973 2009-04-04T04:06:52Z 2009-04-04T04:06:52Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><br /> <li><em>22:03</em> @<a href="http://twitter.com/cinnamonblood">cinnamonblood</a> *hugs* <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1449312217">#</a></li><br /></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:57702 2009-04-01T04:07:31Z 2009-04-01T04:07:31Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><br /> <li><em>15:14</em> Dax loves her frisbee... my cousin is getting married... off to work now. <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1426315361">#</a></li><br /></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:57358 2009-03-31T04:13:29Z 2009-03-31T04:13:29Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><br /> <li><em>12:48</em> Just pulled another cat's worth of fur off of Alice. She loves it, she hates it, she loooooves it..... <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1418790136">#</a></li><br /></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:57332 2009-03-26T04:06:39Z 2009-03-26T04:06:39Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><li><em>11:51</em> GARDENING DAY IS HERE!!!!!! So happy..... <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1388612079">#</a></li> <li><em>20:48</em> @<a href="http://twitter.com/cinnamonblood">cinnamonblood</a> I KNOW!!!! So cool~ <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1391525735">#</a></li> <li><em>20:55</em> Happy happy rain on my happy happy garden. Hurray. <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1391562183">#</a></li></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:56932 2009-03-25T04:07:09Z 2009-03-25T04:07:09Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><br /> <li><em>10:38</em> @<a href="http://twitter.com/zieram">Zieram</a> Moo!!!! <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1382013950">#</a></li><br /></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:56610 2009-03-24T04:09:57Z 2009-03-24T04:09:57Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><br /> <li><em>10:49</em> Two days until gardening day..... two days... <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1375809823">#</a></li><br /></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:56365 2009-03-20T04:06:51Z 2009-03-20T04:06:51Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><br /> <li><em>19:32</em> @<a href="http://twitter.com/cinnamonblood">cinnamonblood</a> Finished Kitchen today! Loves it so... <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1357333261">#</a></li><br /></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:56109 2009-03-20T03:48:13Z 2009-03-20T03:48:13Z So yeah, I can't lean back in my chair because I have an amazing sunburn on my shoulders. Every year I have to go out and be stupid to remind myself Why I Wear Sunscreen. *sigh*<br /><br />But! I have another large chuck of garden dug up and degrassed (thanks, in part, to my Abe) and am ready for my summer idiocy! I mean gardening! Yay!<br /><br />...I just bored my sister so much she had to go shower. Huh. Anyway.<br /><br />Have been working music a lot lately. Lots of time to read, so I'm reading through Watchman at the moment. It's interesting, but I have a tendency to get depressed if I read it for long periods of time. Like when no one enters music for two hours straight. Arg.<br /><br />Abe is going to have his wisdom teeth out soon. The hard part will be keeping him eating soft things for long enough, I think.<br /><br />Lovely cinnamonblood is feeding us dinner tomorrow... Wheee~~~~ urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:55961 2009-03-19T04:06:10Z 2009-03-19T04:06:10Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><br /> <li><em>00:41</em> @<a href="http://twitter.com/cinnamonblood">cinnamonblood</a> I'll help! <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1346719854">#</a></li><br /></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:55745 2009-03-18T04:07:14Z 2009-03-18T04:07:14Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><br /> <li><em>14:39</em> Happy St Patty's Day! Dax is now two years old. She has the Biggest Bone Evar! <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1343766293">#</a></li><br /></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:55345 2009-03-16T17:10:09Z 2009-03-16T17:10:09Z <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2009/eon0212wo.html">http://www.city-journal.org/2009/eon0212wo.html</a><br /><br />This is wrong. This is so fucking wrong.<br /><br />Because, obviously what we really need right now is to drive more people out of business. Not to mention the fact that they are THROWING AWAY huge amounts of children's books because they can't do anything with them anymore. Children don't lick the pictures of old books, as a general rule. That is the only way I can possibly see any kid ingesting lead from those books.<br /><br />Seriously, US government, what the fuck?! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:55283 2009-03-14T04:06:35Z 2009-03-14T04:06:35Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><br /> <li><em>19:56</em> Naked foxy icon! Two things I love in one!! Yay!!! <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1324744832">#</a></li><br /></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:54970 2009-03-12T04:06:10Z 2009-03-12T04:06:10Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><li><em>00:48</em> Nope, she wasn't. Poor kitty. <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1309229107">#</a></li> <li><em>19:22</em> @<a href="http://twitter.com/cinnamonblood">cinnamonblood</a> Hurray for toasters! Life might not be worth living without toast.... <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1313294869">#</a></li></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:54635 2009-03-11T04:07:18Z 2009-03-11T04:07:18Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><li><em>01:22</em> My email fox is lighting his lanterns. I love him so. <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1304170824">#</a></li> <li><em>13:17</em> I am unsure whether Adelie is lying to me or not... She's so very good at it. <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1306278489">#</a></li></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:54309 2009-03-08T05:05:52Z 2009-03-08T05:05:52Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><li><em>09:34</em> Plant sale, plant sale, happy little plants for me~~~~ <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1292799605">#</a></li> <li><em>10:03</em> You and me, deer, ain't nothing but mammals, so I will eat you like they eat you on the discovery channel! <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1292876164">#</a></li> <li><em>13:00</em> My broccoli is actually cauliflower. Oh well. Time for tomatoes anyway. <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1293421018">#</a></li></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:54265 2009-03-05T05:06:02Z 2009-03-05T05:06:02Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><br /> <li><em>09:35</em> Coffee is good.... mornings are early.... why is it easier to do housework when I'm half asleep? <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1278670543">#</a></li><br /></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:53927 2009-03-04T05:06:43Z 2009-03-04T05:06:43Z <ul class="loudtwitter"><br /> <li><em>00:09</em> Midol is a girl's best friend..... that and my comfy comfy bed.... <a href="http://twitter.com/youkoricky/statuses/1272569074">#</a></li><br /></ul>Automatically shipped by <a href="http://www.loudtwitter.com">LoudTwitter</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:youkoricky:53615 2009-03-03T19:19:22Z 2009-03-03T19:19:22Z Yesterday I had a nice gardening day. Really, all I did was water and weed, but it was nice anyway. I have tiny little potato plants!!! They're so cute and curly!!! I love them so. And I found a skink under a rock. He even let me touch him a bit, before he ran off.<br /><br />Went to my mom's last night, had a nice dinner. Dax got to play with her favorite doggies.<br /><br />Wow my life is boring. I need to see people more often, but it seems I never have enough time for everything. Have to work, clean the house, tend my garden, visit my parents, and then spend time with Abe, cinnamonblood, friends.... and then if I have time after that I can read or write. Blah. After it took me a week to read The Last Unicorn I decided I wasn't reading nearly enough these days. This must change. I have far too many damn books and not enough life to slow down this much! I must succeed!<br /><br />Needless to say, I've stopped playing video games again. I miss them so... Okami~~~~ I want to draw~~~~ Or be a little sock person!<br /><br />/bitching<br /><br />But yeah, life is good. I'll probably get some of that reading done when I close music tonight. Anyone want to come bug me?