Out of Date

Wow, I really haven't posted in a while. Well I hope that this will make up for it. This will be a very long post and so don't get tired and lazy and stop reading. First of all, to do list!

To Do List May 5th 2011

Find and make vegetarian chili recipe

Clean room

Start and finish a poster on "The Basic Beliefs of Hinduism"

Read Day 3 of Oliver Twist

Check out some of Dickens' other books

Find and print out pictures of owls

Look up Indian and Native American animal art

Do contrasting still life

Finish the book Emily Strange

Finish the book abou little boy who dies

Make Mother's Day Breakfast

Find a way to preserve all of the Kumquates

I'm so happy. One of my favorite artists is finally coming out with a new CD. Death Cab For Cutie with the album Codes and Keys will be released May 31st. I don't want to wait that long. I am not very patient.

I love the cover art.

Do not know why I said this would be a long post. Not actually very long. Oh well.

O Diabo não é tão mau como o pintam."

• Translation: The Devil isn't as bad as they portray him.
• Meaning: It's not as bad as they say.

Book.

I just finished (or not just) the book Torment by Lauren Kate. It was a sequel to the book fallen and so as not to give anything away, I will tell you about that book instead. A girl named Luce thinks that she knows the boy Daniel Grigori. He makes her life at her current school a little bit more bearable. The school -Sword and Cross- is were they send the "Bad" students. She isn't ment to be there but she must deal with waht she is given. And that is Daniel. While she tries to get closer to him, he seems to try to avoid her more and more. They become close and soon Luce finds out that Daniel is really a fallen angel. That seems to be the next big thing. Instead of vampires, there will now be angels. I'm not too crazy about the isea but that may just be because I am out of the Teenage Girl Books. You know, the ones with some sort of supernatural goings-on in them. Involves love, happy ending.

 Now that I finished that book, I started-and am almost done with another book: The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman. It happens to include Grimm's Fairy Tales, which you probably guessed. Oh! I just remembered-I finished that book. Now I can start another book. I want to read Enthusiasm, also by her. But I don't have that right now so I will read Chasing Yesterday:Awakening by Robin Wasserman.

Love this cabinent. Is it a cabinent or what. Oh well. I'll let you decide, invisible peoples.

 And, also loving this antique little bottle. Isn't it a gorgeous color?
I have been tired all this week becouse of star testing. I hate it. Why do we have to do something that has no effect on our grade?

猿も木から落ちる
Literally: Even monkeys fall from trees.

Quotes and Jelly and Blogs

Right now I am looking for exotic foods that I can either make at home or do not require any preperation (fresh produce). I found this recepe for rose petal jelly. I had never heard of it before and Iwant to try it out. The color os amazing.I also found lavender jelly, dandelion jelly, rose hip jelly, and this blog with other jellies. I find all of them really nice becouse they can be found literally in my own backyard!

 Rose Jelly

Dandilion Jelly

While browsing the internet I found two lovely food blogs. The first is Poor Girl Gourmet. It tells a lot about spending frugally (is that a word?) on food. The second,Taste Spotting, gives a wide range of food that is visable to you in the form of pictures. I love pictures.

Another thing, I will also start putting quotes on my blog each day. I have relized that it is unrealistic to think that I will post a long thing each day. Now Sometimes it will just be a quote on how I am feeling, other times it will be accompanied by other information.

Well that is all for now, I hope you all have a great Easter!

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.  ~S.D. Gordon