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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Blog #130--Be Careful of Churn-style Cooking Blogs--

Recently I was on Dailyburn, and I was so happy to see all the cool recipes there, but honestly, a lot of the recipes are actually really bad and not tested (obviously). I tried a recipe and they told me to cook something for 10-20 minutes. After 15, stuff was overcooked (luckily, this will turn it into another recipe! ahaha) But I would avoid cooking sites where there are numerous people writing numerous articles just to get clicks. It's corporative and not worth the waste it's going to make when your recipe fail. I recommend small blogging cooking sites (mine's not a cooking site, don't think I'm bragging, but I do test my recipes and I am available to take questions and not making like money from this lol sadness) Anyway, just FYI and Peace out!

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Blog #129--Because Nom: Farro Seed Bruschetta-style Salad--

Farro seeds are a new trend! You can get them in your organic bulk food stores. They are a delicious superfood grain with 7g of protein per serving! Try them out in this recipe!

3/4 cup Farro seeds
4 cups of water
1 diced tomato
2 chopped green onions
1-2 minced cloves of garlic
5-8 leaves of chopped/minced fresh basil (or dried basil if you don't have the real goodz)
1-2 TBSP of white wine vinegar (depends on how much you like)
2-3 TBSP of olive oil
1 TSP of ground mustard (mustard seeds are nice too!)
1 TBSP of lemon juice (optional)

Put farro seeds in water and bring to a boil. Reduce to med-high and  simmer for 30 minutes. Drain and set to cool. In a bowl, add diced tomato, and chop up the green onion. Mince garlic and basil. Mix white wine vinegar, oil, mustard and lemon juice in a small bowl. You can cool the farro with cold water and then add the tomato bowl and the vinaigrette. Enjoy!!

This is a very acidic recipe. It's delicious and healthy, for those acid-lovers! :P

Peace, and health!



Sunday, December 6, 2015

Blog#128--All the Because Nomz!--

Hi! I decided to just give you a list of all the Because Nom recipes. A lot of them are Vegan because I used to be vegan for a little while, and then I tasted ham one day and I was like WHY did I stop eating meat? Huuu Anyway, I'm growing vegan again, lol. It's all good. Here they are!!

Rice Milk
Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding
Crockpot Gumbo
Vegan Chili
Vegan Pasta Sauce of Deliciousness
Easy Peasy Guacamole Spread
Avocado Toast a la Chloe
Poor-Person Pesto Recipe
Farro Seed Bruschetta-Style Salad
Garlicky Bok-Choi 
Healthiest Banana-Carrot Bread
Chicken Tortillaz
Steak Parmigiana

Enjoy plentily! I'm thinking about starting a cooking blog! I have lots more recipes! :)

Blog#127--Because Nom: Chia Seed Pudding!--


 
So, I made my own rice milk, see recipe here, it's so cheap but you can make chia seed pudding with any sort of milky product you like. Almond milk, rice milk, coconut milk, milk! Flavoured or not, sweetened or not. I'll post the most healthy versions of the recipe but feel free to make it more rich or more sweet as you like it!

1 cup of rice milk
1/4 cup of milk
1/4 cup of chia seeds
2-3 tablespoons of cocoa powder (or 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract if you want vanilla!)
maple syrup to sweeten (you can always add some after it's thickened if you didn't put enough)

Blend together in jar that you can close (mason jar or something of the likes). Close lid tightly and shake until fully blended. Refrigerate for minimum 4 hours, or more. Delicious! Feel free to add toppings and spices!

Peace!

Friday, December 4, 2015

Blog #126--Bullshitting my Medieval England Exam--

So, I had a final and it was Medieval England, and one of the essay questions was, no kidding, when (if ever) did England become England? I gaped. Really? You want to go there? This isn't a philosophy class? XD So I stop it down with a Kalashnikov and I reeled with a haze of rape-dominence (HA, take that you feminists!). No, but seriously, I took the approach of saying that:

England has always been England.
Countries are not less countries in their past as they are in the present. We just see them as different because they had different systems, also because our minds works in ways to categorize and compartmentalize slots of time, which is a human flaw and it creates a historical bias.
I said if ever England was more England it's not even now, it was when there were autochtonous peoples living there like when the homo sapiens was like, woa, too many people here, oh look at that I'm white now.
I argued that it's difficult to say what makes a country a country? It's governing body? It's systems? Or is it the blood that courses in the veins of its inhabitants, whose ancestors fled from the Black Death and then thrived in the opportunistic Renaissance of England, but who stayed as nothing but working-class labourers? If it's the blood than the PEOPLE ARE ENGLAND. The people are Canada. The people are! They are what makes a country a country because without them, why even call the land a country?

So it was fun, and I'm probably going to get zero on it, but at least I showed my prof I had intelligence. XD Yes, my final was fun, okay, mainly because I didn't care half as much as I should have. Anyway, peace out, yo's!

Blog #125--Amazing Sculpture!--

Eddy Roos, man. I invite you check these out. Amazing right? Talk about some recent and decent public art!

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Blog #124--Because Nom: DIY Rice Milk: Very Cheap!!--

So I made this Rice Milk and it's amazing! I used it in an omelette, drank it like that, and put it in my hot chocolate and it was amazing! If you have cheese cloths, nut cloths, you're in business, I didn't have some at first and it was okay, I just didn't filter (in a tamis/sifter) the bottom of it all because it was just going to be really starchy and stuff.

Also, you if you keep the starchy stuff, I'm sure older kids would love playing with it, sculpting it, painting it, it's seriously a cool material and by-product! What a find!

Recipe

1/2 cup rice (brown and white as you like)
4 cups water

In a skillet/pan, warm rice at med-high until perfume of rice emerges. Place rice in large enough container to fit 4 cups (1 L is not enough because there is a cup of rice)! Place in fridge for entire day or at least 10 hours. Blend in blender for quite some time. Strain using cheesecloth or sifter. Avoid very starchy base if you only have a sifter. Refrigerate! Enjoy!! :D

You can add some cool stuff to it if you want to drink it, make it into a drink. Vanilla, chocolate syrup or powder if you are brave, sugars, be creative!

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Blog #123--Publishing?? Soon??--

Recently I've been thinking about publishing, maybe on a website or something. I think that people these days are really into erotica and so I think I would find a niche that could like what I write. I'm still a bit nervous about feminists ripping open my ass, but they ripped open 50 Shades and that wasn't even that bad. Like socially, he was horrible to her, but at least the general writer isn't saying that vaginas are evil after a woman is 30. Or something. Idk, Scottish Medieval setting would have had really different views I think, especially when your main character's a dude. Annnyyway. I'll likely not even be able to link this blog to my writing because I'm afraid people will track me down and kill me for writing stuff, which is really dumb, but anyway. We'll see. I'm still editing it, since it's like horribly long, like 350,000 words and all. It's an epic on the side, so it's also interesting. I mean, I'm smart but I like you know, a little sexy time in a... whole novel. Nothing wrong with liking eroticism and intimacy between people, eh? Nah... bon, I'm done.

Peace out!

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Blog #122--Waste-Free Groceries!--

Have you ever heard of grocery stores where you can bring your own jars/pots and fill them with produce and bring them home? It's amazing. You reduce waste almost completely and it obviously reduces the amount of trash you make in your home, so you can have a smaller garbage. At those places you can usually buy a lot of goods, and at the small/medium sized businesses (which they usually are around that size) you can even make suggestions and they might get it if it's a popular suggestion!

If you live in Sherbrooke, or around that area, next time you come to the East Downtown area, make sure you stop by the Silo, and just check it out, but bring a jar because you're surely going to be tempted by something. The prices there are amazing! I paid like 2.30 for a 2L of rolled oats, oh yeah, organic ones! They also try to get a lot of local goods as well, which is always nice. Seriously, if at least we can keep the place running for a while we could boost our economy in Sherbrooke. We already have our own hydro system; let's continue and make our city green! That's... of course if you're in Sherbrooke.

This is the link to enter a contest to win, if ever you're in and around that area! (OMG THE LINK LOOKS LIKE A VIRUS, I'm like serious though, it's not a virus, I would never do that.) http://woobox.com/i3og7c/gc4sxi?r=ufp__6xF4s2UCL

Seriously, it's great to attempt to greenify our planet! Let's try! :) I love you! Peace!


Thursday, November 19, 2015

Blog #121--Why you shouldn't go to your family gatherings if you always feel bad after them--

Christmas is coming (the holidays or whatever PR PC term I have to use these days) and so are family gatherings. Well, perhaps you should steer clear for once from a family gathering especially if along the years you have had negative experiences with them. What's a negative family experience? Try this (these have all happened to me and this is why I'm choosing to stay away from this specific side of the family (really I only have 2 out of 4 sides, (2 of these sides being like 1 and 4 people, the others more like 13 and 30)

1. You go to your family and you feel like everyone there has an innate connection, and that you don't, despite you being as 'blood' as they are. People don't really talk to you or ask you what's going on and when you try to reach out and communicate, people don't respond, or care that you are attempting to make contact.

2. People gang up on you when you attempt to express yourself. This has happened to me a lot. A immediate family member will divulge some personal information and when I react in a way to express embarrassment or discontent (for example (not me obv) You go through a vasectomy and your mother tells her sisters and they all react, and you tell in front of everyone to your mom, hey, that's not something you tell people! what's your problem? O_O !!! ) instead of your immediate family being shameful about their immature, childlike, barbaric behaviour, they team up against you because you are DISHONOURING your parent, or you are 'taking it too far' 'being too intense'.

3. If #2 has happened more than once over a numerous amount of years.

4. If bullying has happened to you. Similarly to #2, if people have ganged up on you to the point where no one is on your side, even if you're a bit emotional because you feel like the closest people in your life are ganging up on you to the point where you have to leave/seclude yourself because you are angry and 'can't take it anymore'. I've spent 3 Christmases crying in a bedroom because my family has bullied me into submission and crises. And they expect me to love them anyway?

5. Feel like you have to respect someone because A. They are your family. B. They are older. If someone disrespects you, no matter who they are, they are in the wrong. My grandmother has disrespected me on so many levels, so many times and I've sucked it up because 'she's my grandma' but that doesn't mean I have to like her. I still respected her because I'm not going to lower myself to that level.

6. If the only time you've felt close to your family is when tragedy strikes. This is sad. It's very sad.

7. If your family cannot get over something negative you might have done in your past.

8. If your family keeps grudges as such for an immediate member of your family (that used to be theirs by alliance).

9. If you are of a different race/speak a different language and they obviously don't like that. (I'm more Anglophone by choice, they hate it.)

It's good to keep in mind that a lot of people have been brainwashed by horrible values, especially religious values. I am not religious but my family was raised deeply Catholic and in Christian values, they include things like:
-Do it and then beg for forgiveness
-Feel bad about doing things you can't help yourself to do by calling yourself a maggot
-Feel puny under moral issues
-Have mercy over justice
-Honour codes/older people are always right, should never be told off
-Children are stupid, treat them like babies until they have one
Etc
But it's not their fault. It's not a new thing that we know that people don't really have free will. People are not usually masters of their own minds. Some people are, but I would call those people rare. I just think that if you are a moral person, you know how to balance and juggle the difficult situations that arise, that you know how to see different perspectives, that you are able to humble yourself, and to understand what true authority is.

I think choosing whether to attend a family gathering or not is powerful and something you should consider. Will I be happier if I avoid seeing that side of the family overall? I think that's the main question you should ask yourself. It sucks that it has to be this way, but your family is what you make of it. You choose who your family is. Blood may be thicker than water, but there will always be water wherever you go, and water, as we know it, can turn to blood. (Moses did it. So, yeah. It's real. Hnng.)

Be good. Be kind. Be you! :D Peace out!


Sunday, November 15, 2015

Blog #120--Resurfacing again

Trust me, I've been busy. Very busy. I just wanted to take a moment to talk about #prayforparis.

1. Terrorism does this thing where it separated people into this us vs them dichotomy. This is what it's doing by saying that we should focus all our attention on the murders happening in the West, when a few countries next door, hundreds of people are being murdered, raped and brutalized every hour of the day. Women are raped every few seconds. The time you will take to read these few words, probably two of them will be forced to bend to the will of Islamist extremists who follow a religion based on a text written by some guy who lives in the desert who probably did some shrooms.

2. Liberalism and Feminists: Fuck off. Liberalism is about being tolerant of religions in general, like private life is private, but we shouldn't god-damn allow Liberals from taking religion-friendly stances. Religion is a belief system, and a lot of those beliefs are dated. People can say what they want to defend the HORRID BRUTAL DISGUSTING parts of the bible about rape, slavery, honour killings and sacrifice, but in the end, those who actually can think for themselves will not see God as being tied down to any book or even any human... God is either bigger than we can understand, or a construction that we have created. Take your pick. Feminists, just stop.

3. I've done a blog post about the equality sign, it was a bit radical, but it still rung true in a sense that those who generalize lower themselves, their public selves, to this idea. You filter your face into the France flag, well bravo, you've just joined the bandwagon of fools who can't just admit on their facebooks that 'they have empathy for Paris' no, they silently join in this attraction-seeking, mindless, effortless click to turn their face into the new empathetic philantropists they want to be seen as. But you know what? The people who aren't doing it, it's not because they don't care, it's because they don't want to be seen as jerks who like terrorism, who like this whole us vs them. Yes the East has always hated the West and the West has always feared the East. But in the end, we're all humans. There are babies being born, women carrying babies, young children who've just seen the light of the world and they will be KILLED by Americans, and French, and whomever else Western fuck wants to have fun dropping bombs of civilians. Don't act surprised, they do it all the time, you just don't care about it.

Shitstorm of hypocrisy that's what it is. Hypocrisy and those who are 'praying' are supposed to be people of God. Christians, get your fucking religion straight, and stop being a goddamned Pharisee.

Okay, I'm done. I'm done because that's all I have to say.
Peace out for now

Friday, June 26, 2015

Blog #119--Twitter(?), Ultra-Liberalism, Compartmentalizing or Compartmentalization: don't call me a slot!

Lol for the first draft of this being called: "Popped my Twitter Cherry and am Now Very Confused" So I made a Twitter account (ugh) for a stupid reason, and I really feel like I've missed out on some part of the internet that I should have jumped onto before. I think it's been simplified, but I see absolutely no reason why people should even be interested in that stuff. It's such bullshit. The hashtags... the limited characters...the following... the retweets, WHYYY? Why don't you go take a walk instead? I haven't been on it in a while. I don't understand why people like this so much, I think this might be even more individualizing than before! People are so into ultra-liberalism these days, being open about everything. Well, hey let me tell you something:

1. Ultra-liberalism is not good. It's not good to slot everything in a little corner and call it something else than what it already is. I hate hearing 'women can be men' and 'I'm transgender queer pansexual' or whatever I don't know anymore all the terms. This is how it is: pansexual means that if someone came up to you and said: I'm in love with you, you would want to bang them. You're probably not that, so that one I would like that it goes to die, because it really sounds like you have issues concerning space and sexuality. I get that people can legit think they were born in the wrong body, like God was like 'I'm making a boy' and then he made a woopsie and it had a vagina (not a creationist here but you get it). It's all right, all that, obviously, like GO AMERICA for being same-sex yay marriage, but if you have a vagina, you're a female, whether you like it or not. Secondly, you can't say to women not to be women because they're traditional. So what if she likes to wear a burka? So what if she likes to be disciplined and slapped when she's being too emotional? Oh no, women shouldn't be subdued... why not? Aren't you liberal? It goes full circle at one point. Anyway, extreme stand-points like ultra-liberalism is what made the Nazis, so bravo.

2. Compartmentalization: don't call me a slot!
When you call someone 'transgender queer' or something, you're slotting them into this alienating box that doesn't seem to fit anywhere but in its own universe. I'm not familiar with all the terms, there are far too many. There are only a few combinations of sexualities and genders and most of them are constructed anyway. It is a question of construction, definitely, of defining what is natural and what is the X. And in no way am I saying that being gay or queer is wrong, I'm liberal and I think it's normal, but it sucks to have to put those people in a box and be like: yep, there you and and we're here, you know... us copulating types and all. Anyway, I have another post at one point where I talk about the bullshitness of the equality sign that was on Facebook for a while that will probably resurface soon about the inclusiveness of free love and how law will still strike down certain couples due to grey area ethics, which I will also talk about in another blog.

Comment, let's discuss! Peace out, bros and bras! xoxox

Blog #118--The Hill Talk--

The Hill Talk is good, honest and liberal political news website that I'm recommending. With the media being more free these days on the internet, it's difficult to find anything with quality, which is why we need these cool websites. They have podcasts now as well, which are humourous. I've always wanted to have some sort of Green newspaper and with the internet I can have that, well it's sort of what I have now, even the blog is green! I just like to support fellow Canadians in their endeavours! I'm just going to put 'u's everywhere now, just because. All right, that's that for that!

Peace out, y'alls, ah let's do a character of the day!

Character of the Day:
Sera 

Appearances: Hearthgarden, Return to Hearthgarden
Bio: Sera is a servant, born and raised in Hearthgarden. Her mother is a handmaiden to the noble family and her father a guard for the Marquis. She is raised to serve, taught to be a receptacle for all the noblemen and noblewomen's whiles. Sera is best friends with Dia, who prides herself on having grown-up affairs with older men, which intrigues her. Her intrigue soon turns into something far too close to reality as she is picked out by a beautiful nobleman, who makes her his personal servant. Fortunately, her servant spirit subdues in the noble a beast that desires to be pleasured and cajoled every second of the day, since she shows absolutely no reluctance, as she was taught. Their relationship is an interesting power-play right up until she meets a very able competitor.

Scottish Epic for the Win! :)

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Blog #117: Pillars of Eternity Kickstarter/Coolest Ol' Game Ever!



So the kick-ass game Pillars of Eternity came out, which is in many ways a spiritual successor to the amazing Baldur's Gate, an isometric aventure game. They're making a card game, which is awesome because I used to love Magic the Gathering but now I'm an adult and I'm getting a bit bored of Magic, but this game should be really great!

Points I love about Pillars and Lords of the Eastern Reach:

1. It's not based on dungeons and dragons. New lore. New monsters. New themes and tropes!
2. It's physical, physical! I'm hate buying digital games sometimes and this one isn't!
3. Awesome stretch goals, literally, figuratively, sexually they're awesome!
4. Developers are small and cohesive, they care about you, they want to make something worthwhile!
5. Very cool characters, easy gameplay, awesome for kids!

Sooooooo.... I'm super excited!!!!! I'm thinking we can get enough backers to bust their company through the roof (let's try to beat Bloodstained, anyone? :p) Anyway, if you think this is super nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurdy then whatevs, bra, but if you're into it, LINK, the hero of time:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2081578473/pillars-of-eternity-lords-of-the-eastern-reach-car/

Peace ya'll! :)

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Blog #116: Why so Inconsiderate?

You know, the best thing you can do to someone is tell them the truth. Lying to anyone is horrible, especially when you are wasting the other person's life. If you no longer love someone, tell them. What are you afraid of? If you wait an eternity before telling them, that's when they're going to hate you most. It's not a 'better late than never' type of deal. That's bullshit. You know, a lot of quotes that people share on Facebook, a lot of them are not cool and are not intelligent. Don't like base your life on that shit and like yeah the internet is only good for spreading ideas, but for real, one needs a good mind before going on the internet and being flooded with so much information. Use your brain, be skeptical and for God's sake don't fuck people over for your damn pride. Be nice!

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Facebook Is Advocating Rape

So, this post of mine was pretty popular recently about International Grab a Boob Day. You want to see depraved pictures and sayings over a common social website, here it is!

https://www.facebook.com/events/537926283010134/537927393010023/

I've written to Facebook numerous times in order delete this stupidity, I'd written to the host Zindzi (while it disgusts me that the hosts are women) and I've got nothing in return. So, I guess I'm here to denounce the disgustingness of the nonchlance of these assholes working for Facebook and the women hosting this. Just to show you how nasty some of the comments are, I'm going to post a few right here. I'm sorry in advance.








I'm not sorry that I didn't respect confidentiality because Facebook is openfuckingsource so suck it. It's just disgusting I can't believe the things I'm hearing. The main problem is not the boob-grabbing as being a sinful (haha) thing, but it being done to people and it should be okay because of this 'holiday'. The Natty-Kiko one made me puke in my mouth a little bit, if a guy told me that I would block him and rock myself in a corner for a little while. Ugh. Strangers in stranger situations do crazy things to other strangers. Mob mentality! Hello!

If you want to help me do something, let's flood the page with being disgusted and tell of the Facebook people. Cool, okay, let's go! 



Friday, April 3, 2015

Blog #114--Babycenter.com's forum is Stupid--

So I've been lurking Babycenter.com because mom forums are slightly interesting, mostly horrible, but this one... BOYYYY do I want to fucking tear up some perineums! If you're a FTM, I wouldn't do this with my LO because he's EBF and my DH is not helping but sorry for this GOAT I don't want to be a FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU THINGS HAVE WORDS for a REASON HELOOO and the worst part? A woman started a thread ok, about the STUPID abbreviations and the women on the site were gaggling like fucking geese like aahaha they're obvious, you're the one who's stupid. Seriously! They have to fucking have this page

http://www.babycenter.com/community-help-abbreviations

And they say: they're so easy to use! Yay! WOW! FUCKING LOOK AT MY WITTINESS!

Ok ok sorry there, I'm ranting, but MAN it's frustrating when you just want to look up why your baby sucks in his sleep and you get fucking MANDARIN symbols and shit. Fuck it. Fuck the website.

Peace off, peaches. 

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Blog #113--Pain--

I just want to say: emotional pain is probably a MILLION times more harmful than physical pain. I know. The worst physical pain is horrible, but it passes. Emotional pain does not seem like much at first, but it festers and does not pass unless one is super in contact with what exactly caused them pain at first. I went through the top #1 physical pain recently. It lasted hours, and I was panicked at first, and then it was over and I was rushed with endorphins as I held my baby boy in my arms. I cried because I was glad, not because I had gone through intense physical pain. A nurse even told me: wasn't that traumatic? I looked at her like what? I had no pain killers. I did it like all the other women did it before that horrid epidural was created. (I did beg for it, but I told my mother that she was going to have to be Harry Potter and me Dumbledore and that even if I beg for it, she would have me not take it.) It wasn't traumatic, being called ugly when I was fifteen was traumatic. I would rather give birth everyday if it meant I could stop adults from beating their kids into being bullies. Like, put the bottle down and take this spliff. Calm down. It's all right. There's so much worse in the world than your boss, than your budget, than what others think of you. Just breathe, and let the wind caress you. Sometimes, we feel like we have all these enemies, but our worst enemy is often ourselves. Be kind to yourself. Don't drown your liver. Blaze your soul! Fungus up your loins! And dance! Dance to the rhythm of the music of your heart!