2016

The Kid and I are attempting to learn how to crochet. He’s focused on the Tunisian stitch while I’m learning to make granny squares.

I’m hoping to make something for my sister’s birthday, and since I already had a set of crochet hooks, buying some balls of yarn seemed within my budget. Hopefully I don’t suck at it.

To help me learn the granny square, I’ve been studying some YouTube videos. I thought I’d share them with anyone interested in learning how to crochet with me. Enjoy 🙂

How to crochet a granny square for beginners, by Bella Coco

How to crochet a granny square – beginners tutorial & basic pattern, by Jayda InStitches

How to crochet a beginner’s easy traditional granny square!, by Ms. Craft Nerd

Very easy crochet cluster granny quare tutorial – granny sqares for beginners, by WoolyWondersCrochet

And once we’re all good at crocheting, we can pick up some tee shirts to show the world how awesome we are.

Crazy Crochet by veerkun
Crazy Crochet by veerkun

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Title: Tuesday Night
Author: Harper Kingsley
Setting: Kanon-verse
Genre: superhero, mm
WARNING: Some spoilers for “Pulse of the City“

CHAPTER FOUR

Tony had taken to calling him by his real name. It should have been disconcerting, but instead Seth found himself pleased.

It was funny in retrospect, the look on Tony’s face the first time he’d called him “Seth” instead of “Sunfire.” Seth had been surprised, but he’d forced himself to pretend that it wasn’t a completely amazing, life altering event. Tony had wiped the strange expression off his face and pretended like it was completely natural for him to call Seth by his civilian. It was something he did from then on.

Seth tried to pretend that he wasn’t having inner conniptions. Tony was near pathologically set in his ways. The only member of the team he’d called by her real name was Ashley, and she’d been a childhood friend turned girlfriend. Seth was just another one of his teammates.

Even knowing it was stupid to feel honored just because Tony was willing to use his name, he really was. Though he kind of wished his heart would stop leaping into his throat every time Tony called him by name. It was stupid to start getting his hopes up again; all that would happen was that his heart would be broken.

Glancing at the clock on the wall, Seth stood from the couch and tried to escape from team movie night without anyone noticing.

He knew he’d failed when Tony immediately hit pause on the remote control. “Where are you going?” It wasn’t quite a demand–the tone was friendly for one thing–but it didn’t leave a lot of room for avoidance either.

“I’ve gotta head out for a while,” Seth said. “I have a family thing.”

Tony … Read the rest “Tuesday Night – Chapter Four [Kanon, superhero, Sunfire/Teen Steel, mm]”

Season 10 of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is finally on Netflix, just days before Season 11 premiers on FXX (January 6, 2016). So if you’ve been looking out for that, you’re welcome.

If you’re new to the show, you should be aware that the first few seasons are pretty rough. To be honest, there’s tons of episodes that I don’t like and that I watched once and would not go out of my way to watch again. Yet the episodes that I like… I’ve watched them several times.

My top episodes:
S3 E11 – “Dennis Looks Like a Registered Sex Offender”
S4 E1 – “Mac and Dennis: Manhunters”
S4 E13 – “The Nightman Cometh”
S5E2 – “The Gang Hits the Road”
S5E6 – “The World Series Defense”
S6E7 – “Who Got Dee Pregnant?”
S6E11 – “The Gang Gets Stranded in the Woods”
S6E12 – “Dee Gives Birth”
S6E13/14 – “A Very Sunny Christmas”
S7E1 – “Frank’s Pretty Woman”
S7E2 – “The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore”
S7E3 – “Frank Reynold’s Little Beauties”
S7E6 – “The Storm of the Century”
S7E7 – “Chardee MacDennis: The Game of Games”
S7E8 – “The ANTI-Social Network”
S7E9 – “The Gang Gets Trapped”
S7E10 – “How Mac Got Fat”
S7E11 – “Thunder Gun Express”
S8E3 – “The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre”
S8E4 – “Charlie and Dee Find Love”
S8E5 – “The Gang Gets Analyzed”
S8E9 – “The Gang Dines Out
S8E10 – “Reynolds vs. Reynolds: The Cereal Defense”
S9E2 – “Gun Fever Too: Still Hot”
S9E3 – “The Gang Desperately Tries to Win an Award”
S9E5 – “Mac Day”
S9E6 – “The Gang Saves the Day”
S9E7 – “The Gang Gets Quarantined”
S9E8 – “Flowers for Charlie”
S9E9 – “The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6”
S9E10 – “The Gang Squashes Their Beefs”
S10E1 … Read the rest “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 10 is on Netflix”

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I don’t know what to call this mess I made, but it was tasty so I’m sharing the “recipe.”

What I had in the freezer and fridge: 2 chicken breasts, frozen chopped spinach, Neufchatel Cheese, leftover white rice, 14.5 oz can of diced tomatoes.

First I cut up the chicken and tossed it in a pan with a couple tablespoons of water. I sprinkled in some garlic powder, salt, and pepper.

I cooked the chicken until I could break the pieces up even smaller. Then I lowered the heat to medium-low as I added other things.

Next I added 3 ounces of Neufchatel Cheese. It’s a kind of cream cheese that’s supposed to have 1/3 the fat. (I was going to use it in my pumpkin cheesecake, but used regular cream cheese instead.)

Here’s a picture of the frozen chopped spinach and the Neufchatel Cheese.

I added about 1 cup of spinach to the mix.

I stirred everything together and added chili powder and onion flakes for taste.

I drained a can of tomatoes and added it to the chicken mixture.

I mixed everything together and it smelled really good. There looked like there might be too much liquid. So I took a look through the fridge for something to add…

There was some leftover white rice from yesterday. I put about 1-1/2 to 2 cups in a bowl, splashed it with a little water, and microwaved it for 2 minutes to heat it up.

I added the rice to the chicken mixture…

…and stirred everything together. It’s completely cooked at this point and you could eat it like this.

Seriously, it was very tasty. A few squirts of lime juice and some cilantro would have made this a meal on its own.

Instead I wrapped the chicken mixture in … Read the rest “FOOD: Chicken, spinach and rice in a tortilla”

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