pine apple lime

llamasmaidofhonour:

OMFG
so I’m cleaning my walls with some caustic shit before I can paint them right
and I’m wearing this ^ clever getup so as not to blind/gas myself
and I go and open the window to get all the fumes out my room
AND SOME POOR FUCKING GIRL IS WALKING PAST THE HOUSE
AND SHE LOOKS UP AT THE NOISE OF ME OPENING THE WINDOW
AND SHE STARTS FUCKING LEGGING IT DOWN THE STREET
HOLY FUCK I HAVE NEVER LAUGHED SO HARD IN MY LIFE

LMAO!

This is the yummy tomato soup I made earlier (I cooked the garlic bread too but I only took them out of the packet to put into the oven, lol).  I posted it on facebook and got a few peeps asking for the recipe so I thought I’d share it here too:

Tomato Soup! Serves 8+ (so half for a normal amount, but I’m planning on freezing the rest)

You’ll need:

A Laaaaaarge pot + lid, hand/stick blender, stirring implement.

Two tablespoons of veg oil or butter
Two handfuls of frozen diced onion (or a large onion for the non-lazy!)
3 garlic segments (are they called cloves or is that the whole thing? I never remember)
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Table spoon of mixed herbs, fresh or dried
Teaspoon of oregano
Teaspoon of celery salt
Teaspoon of mustard powder/actual mustard
Teaspoon of pepper
2 crushed chicken or vegetable stock cubes
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2 Tablespoons of tomato purée
6 tins of plum tomatoes (napolina brand are the tastiest I’ve found!)
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Salt - to taste (it definitely needs a good bit of both though)
Caster/any sugar - to taste (if it tastes too acidic add a little more sugar til it’s right)


- Heat the oil in a large pot, medium heat to begin with, add the onion & garlic and fry till soft, then add all the first lot of seasonings. Turn the heat up to medium-high and continue frying til coated and softer still.
- Add the tomato purée and mix til coated (watch out it will spit!)
- Add the tinned tomatoes (watch out it will spit!)
- Give it about 10minutes then I use a hand/stick blender til it’s smooth
- Taste and add the salt and sugar as needed, it’s usually two teaspoons of each for me, maybe a bit more sugar than salt.

Doesn’t take too long to make but I like to leave to simmer after it’s all done, on the very lowest heat, stirring occasionally. For up to an hour or so, it always tastes better if you can be bothered doing that part.

Enjoy :)

Saw the previous photo and it reminded me of the ‘chicks’ we have at my work, I love playing with these tiny yellow fuzzy things :D

So… I don’t really do many personal posts on here but I really want to start, and here’s a big thing that’s happened to me recently… I’ve gone blonde!  I used to be nearly-black haired so this is a massive change but I love it :)

Silly video of me finding my cousin absolutely hilarious!

(Source: youtube.com)

Hallo all,

I’m back-sorta!  I’ve been a bit absent from tumblr because I’ve been pretty depressed and not spending time on any websites.  I dunno what’s set it off but I’ve been hiding myself away and disappearing into fantasy worlds.  All my time has been spent either hiding in my bedroom with the Song of Ice and Fire books by GRRM or on Lord of the Rings Online game (anyone else play?).

Anyhoo, this was just an update of somesort, for anyone who’s interested :)

Here’s my take on this Oxford Comma phenomenon (di doo di doo doo!)

I’m from the UK and we definitely weren’t taught to use it.  We were taught that a comma denotes a pause in a sentence.  Simple.  Then we were taught that if you need to list items/people etc, that you would use a comma between each UNTIL the last two, where you would use an ‘and’.  That last ‘and’ is standing in for the pause the comma creates and also lets you know that the list is ending.

I’ve seen that stupid graphic going around with:

1. I had eggs, toast, and orange juice.
2. I had eggs, toast and orange juice.

Stating that the second option is clearly wrong because it conjures up an image of orange juice ON toast.  No.  Just, no.  Take for example:

1. I had toast, and orange juice.
2. I had toast and orange juice.

Which is correct here?  Hopefully it’s clearly the second option.  Which points neatly to the reasoning that the first two are always wrong.  Too, much, pausing, makes, you, sound, like, an, ass!

I get that a whole plethora of people have been taught this incorrectly but you’re all intelligent enough to use a computer, you managed to deal with a new version of tumblr, you’ll cope. :)

getoutoftherecat:

get out of there cat. that envelope is not for you. i am not going to send you off to a cat paradise filled with all the nooks and crannies you can think of. you are just stuck here with me and my rules.

getoutoftherecat:

get down from there cat. you are not allowed to be on a box on a shelf. yes that shelf is for you but if you abuse your privileges by sitting in a box too then the shelves may just go away.

getoutoftherecat:

get out of there cat. you are not foodstuffs you are a cat. if i put you in one of those airtight boxes you will be quite angry. 

eee! this is one of my cats, I submitted the photo to getoutoftherecat, I love that tumblr :D

ok I think this is short enough so it’s not annoying, long enough to be informative if you’re interested :)

Not-So-Useless Information

Height: 5’7”

Shoe size: 7uk

Sexual orientation: I like men mostly

Do you smoke? naw

Do you drink? I’m a secret lemonade drinker! (big points if you get this) Serious answer: sometimes, I don’t much like the taste of alcohol

Do you take drugs? no, I really don’t like the uncertainty they give me

Age you get mistaken for: I think I look my age (24) haven’t been told differently in a long time

Have tattoos? no :( I have a bloke with awesome tattoos I helped design/inspire though

Want any tattoos: yes please, when these three things align, it shall be: money, time, determination

Got any piercings? just my lobes, 2 on the right 1 on the left, the others are all healed up

Want any piercings? that heart conch-punch thing lue posted looked awesome but I’m not fussed at the moment

Best friend? kevvvvv

Relationship status: married to the above :)

A turn on: well applied make up/eyeliner

An embarrassing story: hmm… it’s one of my big fears, being embarrassed publicly, so I try never to let it happen…  Oh!  A couple of weeks ago I went to the wrong class room for a food safety thing and had to wait about 10minutes before I worked up the courage to fake a phone call and excuse myself.  It was so mortifying!  I was beetroot red in the face the whole time.  It turned out I had the date wrong by a month!  I’ve got to go take the correct class next tuesday, lets hope I read the signs fully this time.

Favorite movie: despicable me!

I’ll love you if: you’re awesome enough to deserve it?

Someone you miss: stephanie, an old school friend that I’ve lost contact with but who doesn’t want to rekindle the friendship :(

A fact about your personality:  I’m very “all or nothing”, I sometimes can’t see the middle ground unless someone else points it out to me

TMI Monday:

I’ve been wearing my swimming costume under my clothes all day instead of underwear… and I rather like it :B  It’s like a hug under my clothes, plus my boobs look awesome :D

(not just a dirty person who couldn’t be bothered cleaning clothes, there was at least a 6% chance I’d go in the stream we were bbq’ing at!)

Hello!

Okay, so, I’ve not been in tumblrtown much the past week or so, one reason was that I was concentrating on making gumpaste models for a cake (it’s super cute and I’ll post pictures at some point soon).  And the other main reason is that I’m addicted to Oblivion (for PC) again.

There is something in my personality/the way my brain works that means I’m very much all or bare-minimum.  For some reason I seem to get really immersed in games/books/websites and I lose interest in any other ‘things’ I have going on at that time.  Unfortunately this is a weird pattern that I find myself in and I don’t seem to be able to break it.  I feel like I’ve abandoned my tumblr, which is very sad :( but at the same time my brain is just so full of !YAY OBLIVION FUCK YEAH! that I’m not having much luck switching off, lol.

Anyway I just wanted to explain my absence and to say that I still love you all and do check tumblr in between major game-sessions!  I’ll probably be bored of Oblivion soon and be right back on tumblr, so stay tuned… or don’t, actually about 4 or 5 people have unfollowed and I have to say that I totally understand and I’m honestly not offended when people unfollow me :)  I get it, I don’t float your boat and that’s okay!

Love & pineapples & limes!

This is the back section of the Presto Chango baby jumper that I’m knitting at the moment. :)

I’m loving it so far!  I couldn’t find the correct sized circular needle so I’m using a 4.00mm instead and knitting the biggest size, it’s coming out about right though.

Oh! and that penguin thing is a really cool bookmark/ruler that I use to measure my knittings, it’s one of those funny moving image things and they waddle about the place.

Ok time to confess… this was me!  I saw someone who was sad that they hadn’t gotten any valentines and thought it’d be nice to send everyone a little bit of grey-faced mystery :)

It took me about two hours to go through all my followers and find out who had anon turned on, lol, bit mad maybe but hopefully no one took it the wrong way!  It was fun being anon for an evening as I’ve never done it before :D