Mom is crazy
Mom: I don't want anything for Christmas, just family together
Mom upon seeing some of my festival haul: I see you posted all my birthday/Christmas gifts
Me: thought you didn't want anything.... ha. (she is a sucker for glass and rocks.)
I have almost everything out of the closet now (now to put things in it) SOmething has gone awry. Suddenly the door is hitting my recliner. this recliner hasn't moved so WTF? I do wonder if something has given out in the back (even though it's barely a year old) and it's leaning back. It's a very hard chair to move. I moved it way out so far I can't reach the end table and it was still hitting. Weird.
I got thru one and a half of the file boxes. Some of it I need to keep (like the worker's comp lawsuit stuff. I know it's over with but I need to keep it for my own self for some reason I can't explain. I found the first paperwork they ever gave me at my job in 2004. (that I tossed).
I was going to vote early today. I forgot. Fantastic.
So Adena calls me for the MRI. Can you come tomorrow. Sure? WHen do I have to be in Jackson. Oh, no this is in Chillicothe. Um...excuse me ma'am but the whole point of having ADENA do this is because I won't have to travel. If I want to go to Chillicothe I'd have it done at Ohio Health which is who is working on me. Why would I go to their competitor? Oh....let me see if that's possible (if it's not I'm just going to Ohio Health). Long story short, I'm going to Jackson on Friday. I'll got vote then too.
So Fannish 50. I'll be sharing my geeky haul in a moment but also I wanted to talk cooking shows. I am a fan. I've always been into the recipe type shows. I enjoy cooking and learning new recipes. When I was in the nursing home I got hooked on the competition shows (Now Valerie Bertinelli did herself no favors railing against FoodNetwork when her show was canceled this year but she DOES have a point. There are almost no recipe shows any more and it's all challenges).
I have been slowly taking the challenges off my fannish watch list. Chopped is too weird, there's little to be gained from watching it. I still like Guy's Grocery Games because they usually use normal ingredients and I've learned tips. I do watch the baking challenges, god knows why because I don't bake but they're fun. But like Beat Bobby Flay, they feel SO contrived and it's only getting worse (I mean on Bobby he's standing right there making faces. You'd need to never look at him to not know which dish is his). This year's Halloween one seems like the fix is in since day one.
Aaron is an adorable young man. I've seen him in two other baking challenges already (the elf on the shelf Christmas one and I swear he was in the Spring baking challenge too) It feels like they very much want him to win regardless. I'm not saying he's not good (and obviously I can't taste it) but there has been at least twice when the decorating he's shown (like this week's dog demon) has not held a candle to some of the others. Ditto his Franken-pig...honestly I thought it was an elephant and watching these three judges gush over it seems unbelievable. If he doesn't win next week I'd be shocked.
Look at me taking bad pictures. The round buttons were cheap (tried to find one with this vendor of Sir Pentious but she doesn't do art of him. the two big enamel pins are much prettier than they look here. Everyone has been complimenting me on them since I got them two weeks ago.
This picture of Angel has some issues (really the one of Vaggie was outstanding but I don't really collect on her) but why I got it is I was astounded that it was plastic. This is three D printed. Like I said in the con write up I didn't even know you could do it like this
From Murano. There are aventurine stones inside the glass (I did get mom a pair too in another color)
This is one of the things Mom is coveting. It's a little box made of fossil stones
This IS for mom (she hasn't seen it) This is a 'dragon egg' which I always thought was for kids but they had geodes you could crack all the way up to 200$. This was much cheaper and afterward the guy said yeah it might crack badly being a twin. It did but I still think it's cool
Also for mom. A sliced geode with an amethyst inset
I still have a soft spot for Unicorns. Those are lab grown emeralds and the little leather book is a gift for someone
I had never heard of larimar stone before (the blue/white thing) It's found mostly around the Dominican Republic and it's beautiful (and needs to be in one of my The Owl House stories) and the octopus is carved from cow bone
blue opal (probably lab created) on silver. It almost looked Italianate in design which made me happy as much as I like celtic stuff I have so much of it (and everything else there is Viking)
From the Mothman Festival. There was something about the wild eyes that appealed to me
From Tsubasacon. This one also came on metal which was fantastic in appearance but more than I wanted to spend. I loved the art though.
I couldn't get a good pic of this. The mushroom ear wrap is from the Gettysburg Steampunk and the other is from the Renn Fest on my campus which is tiger's eye with mushrooms and the brown blob that refused to photograph is a slice of an abandoned hive (bee I believe)
Mom upon seeing some of my festival haul: I see you posted all my birthday/Christmas gifts
Me: thought you didn't want anything.... ha. (she is a sucker for glass and rocks.)
I have almost everything out of the closet now (now to put things in it) SOmething has gone awry. Suddenly the door is hitting my recliner. this recliner hasn't moved so WTF? I do wonder if something has given out in the back (even though it's barely a year old) and it's leaning back. It's a very hard chair to move. I moved it way out so far I can't reach the end table and it was still hitting. Weird.
I got thru one and a half of the file boxes. Some of it I need to keep (like the worker's comp lawsuit stuff. I know it's over with but I need to keep it for my own self for some reason I can't explain. I found the first paperwork they ever gave me at my job in 2004. (that I tossed).
I was going to vote early today. I forgot. Fantastic.
So Adena calls me for the MRI. Can you come tomorrow. Sure? WHen do I have to be in Jackson. Oh, no this is in Chillicothe. Um...excuse me ma'am but the whole point of having ADENA do this is because I won't have to travel. If I want to go to Chillicothe I'd have it done at Ohio Health which is who is working on me. Why would I go to their competitor? Oh....let me see if that's possible (if it's not I'm just going to Ohio Health). Long story short, I'm going to Jackson on Friday. I'll got vote then too.
So Fannish 50. I'll be sharing my geeky haul in a moment but also I wanted to talk cooking shows. I am a fan. I've always been into the recipe type shows. I enjoy cooking and learning new recipes. When I was in the nursing home I got hooked on the competition shows (Now Valerie Bertinelli did herself no favors railing against FoodNetwork when her show was canceled this year but she DOES have a point. There are almost no recipe shows any more and it's all challenges).
I have been slowly taking the challenges off my fannish watch list. Chopped is too weird, there's little to be gained from watching it. I still like Guy's Grocery Games because they usually use normal ingredients and I've learned tips. I do watch the baking challenges, god knows why because I don't bake but they're fun. But like Beat Bobby Flay, they feel SO contrived and it's only getting worse (I mean on Bobby he's standing right there making faces. You'd need to never look at him to not know which dish is his). This year's Halloween one seems like the fix is in since day one.
Aaron is an adorable young man. I've seen him in two other baking challenges already (the elf on the shelf Christmas one and I swear he was in the Spring baking challenge too) It feels like they very much want him to win regardless. I'm not saying he's not good (and obviously I can't taste it) but there has been at least twice when the decorating he's shown (like this week's dog demon) has not held a candle to some of the others. Ditto his Franken-pig...honestly I thought it was an elephant and watching these three judges gush over it seems unbelievable. If he doesn't win next week I'd be shocked.
Look at me taking bad pictures. The round buttons were cheap (tried to find one with this vendor of Sir Pentious but she doesn't do art of him. the two big enamel pins are much prettier than they look here. Everyone has been complimenting me on them since I got them two weeks ago.
This picture of Angel has some issues (really the one of Vaggie was outstanding but I don't really collect on her) but why I got it is I was astounded that it was plastic. This is three D printed. Like I said in the con write up I didn't even know you could do it like this
From Murano. There are aventurine stones inside the glass (I did get mom a pair too in another color)
This is one of the things Mom is coveting. It's a little box made of fossil stones
This IS for mom (she hasn't seen it) This is a 'dragon egg' which I always thought was for kids but they had geodes you could crack all the way up to 200$. This was much cheaper and afterward the guy said yeah it might crack badly being a twin. It did but I still think it's cool
Also for mom. A sliced geode with an amethyst inset
I still have a soft spot for Unicorns. Those are lab grown emeralds and the little leather book is a gift for someone
I had never heard of larimar stone before (the blue/white thing) It's found mostly around the Dominican Republic and it's beautiful (and needs to be in one of my The Owl House stories) and the octopus is carved from cow bone
blue opal (probably lab created) on silver. It almost looked Italianate in design which made me happy as much as I like celtic stuff I have so much of it (and everything else there is Viking)
From the Mothman Festival. There was something about the wild eyes that appealed to me
From Tsubasacon. This one also came on metal which was fantastic in appearance but more than I wanted to spend. I loved the art though.
I couldn't get a good pic of this. The mushroom ear wrap is from the Gettysburg Steampunk and the other is from the Renn Fest on my campus which is tiger's eye with mushrooms and the brown blob that refused to photograph is a slice of an abandoned hive (bee I believe)