Perfection!!! I WANT IT NOW!

Yesterday I made pies pies pies! I love making pies. I blare out my music, dance , and bake all in one. Kinda sounds like I'm getting high... hahaha not. I just find it and it's like I get 'in the zone' almost. Yesterday was alright for pies - I made one berry one first and it didn't set at all (so I thought) and I was angry because I even added extra cornstarch! >:(
so that one didn't turn out, so I made another one - this one did, though it turned out to be so dark - that makes me kinda angry too (I usually make lovely pies - golden crusts and all that jazz, but not yesterday.
So I made a crust, had scraps left over so I added them to my pile and made a sorta half pie. Then I made the berry one, then came another crust for the lemon meringue (which I did this morning) and that one had more dough left over.... enough to make another crust... but I ran out of pie plates hahahaha so hence the funny looking pie. It's chocolate by the way (and cling wrapped in the picture)
chocolate ^^^
mixed berry (strawberry,blackberry,blueberry.... ya it goes on) \/
The lemon meringue made me angry this morning. First I woke up at 6 - the phone. Bloody dang phone! (I am not a morning person usually) so ya, work called, I didn't want to work so I screened it... then 10 min later... and 10 min after that... until I was too angry and picked up the phone and said ' no I cant work today' and hung up.
then I am awake (and angry >:( )
I remembered that I needed to do the pie before the turkey today so I might as well do it now.
It all went okay - my first lemon meringue.
>:( it didn't work as well as I would have liked. I beat the eggs too much and it wouldn't make peaks.
makes me disappointed and angry.
I think I am a perfectionist....

now is turkey time. I am going now so bye.

oh and I didn't take a picture of the berry pie (because we ate it - thought it was too runny... but it turned out decent) and the other one we ate too. sick so much pie. I am going to be pied out soon.

Glorified clothes hanger?

So I went to Mik's fund raiser for a school field trip . It was a garage sale of all things. First thing I see is an elliptical (my favorite thing to play on at the gym) so I was looking, and wooaaah it was 15 whole dollars. I thought naw.... it wouldn't work. But I tried it, it works perfectly, so my mum was like go for it - I thought heh its 15 dollars (two gym trips) so why not give it a go.I love it. Best 15 in I've spent in a while. I now have it in my room (no other place really) and it is nice. compact. and I put my computer in front on a chair and watch tv on my computer. I LOOOVE IT. It has a digital distance (in m AND km! hahaha), calorie, speed and time counters. The only thing missing is the heart rate monitor but I don't care for that much anyways.

Anyways, I made an awesome soup yesterday - beans (whole bunch of random ones), canned tomatoes, celery, carrots, and onions. It took a long time to finally finish (with the beans and all) and in the end well worth it. Add some easy biscuits and lovely dinner right there- actually everyone ate it (and I was just thinking I would).
Also I went with my mum shopping - she knows more about vegetarian food than I ever knew/would know. So she was telling me about all the subs and stuff - got lots of beans, nuts, dried fruit, spinach, ooh the list goes on - but the newest was quinoa - its like seedy grain stuff - and you can put it in lots of things - I like it in salads so far - and it's cool.

I love sweet chili sauce. On anything hahaha (maybe) even great as a salad dressing.

I had 3 cups of coffee today..mmmmmm I think I might be addicted.

OOH one more thing -I got my mum an awesome Pride and Prejudice box gift thingey and it's awesome. I didn't know what was all in it - but got the soundtrack, a book, movie, and oo so pretty! That movie I think is my favorite. It looks like a lovely book and aww makes me go all so girly and sigh every time I watch it. ^^

have a good night y'all!

Veggie?

So I have been thinking lately, heh why not try out vegetarianism? I always thought I would never be able to do it but I want to actually try.
it's something different and new for a change - something challenging.

I think the only thing I will be missing is chicken and meatloaf (sounds weird but it's a comfort food). No idea how long I'll be able to do it, but I was thinking taking like 2 months to try it out or something.

So I told my mum yesterday and she was all like ' if I see you eating unhealthy I will force feed you' and my dad was in the kitchen and he looked at me with the 'who are you and what have you done with Aria' kinda stare.

So this is day two of my challenge and so far so good.

Anyone have any good recipies?

Tastey Muffins

as I said, I am sooo much better at baking than cooking.
they are lovely to look at, haven't had one yet (because I am waiting for the ones still in the oven)
Blueberry bran muffins. I googled a recipe and the second one I found I could make. so far so good. 3 min to go in the oven.

I modded the recipie (like I usually do) with the only apple sauce (the best home-made stuff ever) we had in the fridge, and hell no to non-fat milk. My family is dead set against anything less than 2% hahaha.
Oh and for the last batch it looked like it was lacking berries so I popped in some blackberries.
This probably sounds boring but I am bored before I pop them out of the oven.

recipe: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Low-Fat-Blueberry-Bran-Muffins/Detail.aspx

mmmmm I love berries. They are the best.

So it's been a while

oh how many times have I started out like that... haha
ah well
I was just going through the 'favorites' list on my sidebar and looked up some of your blogs (I guess I am more of a lurker than poster but oh well)

I was looking up on my 'favorites' again.. went to this cooking site, then bloggers, and wow here i am - so I thought about posting random dinner idears - (Miranda you inspired me so this is mainly for you!)
So here are 10 random things that popped out of my brain right now:
- crepes (oh so yummy and you can use some of those blueberries - also alright with jam if no berries... but I know you have them)
- quesidillas - I've had this thing about spicy yummy food lately, and salsa is great (so is sweet chili sauce)
- sweet n sour meataballs!
- farmer sausage w/ spuds and some veggies and all that jazz
- butter chicken - get a jar - dump - add chicken - voila! hahaa
- or go for a breakkie type farmer sausage w/ eggies in a basket. I haven't made those in years. (in case you don't know - bread with a hole in it and egg in that hole... and fry.)
- poutine plus whatever you feel like
- the freezer assortment - pick out some edible things and cook and eat.
- sloppy joes
-grilled cheese and tomato soup - so classic so tastey

so there ya are for random food idears hahaha
now I am going to go find something to bake.. I like that better than cookin haha

Alberta!

So there and back again from Alberta. It was an okay trip considering what was happening and stuff. My great grandpa died last satuday (he was 102 almost) and it was good and bad. A lot of my family will be missing him, yet at the same time I am happy he is in heaven with his wife, brothers, sisters, and his son - and not to mention Jesus of course. To me and a lot of others it's bittersweet.

The trip getting there was good - roads not too bad from what I thought - ahh! so much time in the car though! and stuck there fighting with Mik sucked. But we got over it. OOO Going there we went through weather that was -29 in some places. It was beautiful with snow. But now I am sick of it - it's there, here, everywhere.

It got to the point (later on in our trip) where we thought -15 wasn't so bad anymore. At first I thought -15 was insane.. silly me hahaha

I hate being cold. I've been cold for ages, and can't seem to keep warm even in 'normal' weather out here -so it was brutal in Alberta, but I think I climatized? ah who knows. Weather was coooold. Wind was even colder. I felt my snot freeze in my nose as soon as I went outside the door (most of the time in Alberta)

So anyways here are pictures, we saw tons of snow, it was pretty. and cold.

I wasn't even up against the snow bank... it was crazy big. this was at the top of the roger's pass I think.

these ones are on the coquahalla highwaya. lots of snow.

I miss warm sunshine and hot weather :(

MWAHAHAHAHA

Miranda this is for you.

I did it! Just like the good ol' days... I 'found' my html, made it my own
even my own bkg!

Doesn't it remind you a tad of neopets?

FYI: Miranda and myself used to make websites and did amazing html through neopets way back when. I first learned how to 'view source' ... and alter.... and make it better.

Aria = 1337 geek.

hahaha. Now I got the code I can change it all!

Only in India

so it's been a while since my last post. I thought I would put a video on that reminided me a lot of India.... yes I was in that - the little rick shaws to the buses, to the cabs, to walking. It was crazy. But awesome at the same time. I never got hit by a car! *or vehicle for that matter*
Enjoy.

The Best Blog Ever!

Ya, I know it's not mine. It's THIS ONE! lol well maybe to some people... like me.
http://www.vanmega.com/

The Story:

My friend gave me a mix cd for christmas (I love mixes so much) and she got it from this site. The guy takes awesome songs, mixes them, and puts them on the internet. Genius :)
I have been downloading this evening.....
I love long songs, because then I don't have to worry about hating the next one, skipping, sound glitches, or all that junk.
I went running 2 days ago with one mix - didn't need to mess with my ipod at all when I was going. It was lovely. Beautiful day, vitamin d gettin in - it's all good.

:End of Story?



I got a cool shelf from Ikea yesterday... I am going to take pictures of it and show next time I think. But not until I finish moving stuff around, cleaning, you know, all that jazz.

I hope tomorrow is as clear as it was today, even though it's frigid cold outside, I still like it a whole heck of a lot better than rain.

Today started awesome - I got to work early, sat in starbucks reading my new book I got for Christmas - "Through Painted Deserts" by Donald Miller.
Had my coffee... mmmmm I love it. and then walked to work (just a little ways) in the fresh morning sunshine - and cherishing the moments I had in it while it lasts.


Hope tomorrow starts even better - it's a day off for me - and a major cleaning one which is nice.


Later gator.

Change is good

So I was bored earlier this week on my day off and decided to re-arrange and re-organize my room.

I moved everything and cleaned it all! yay! Call me a finatic, I don't care. I love clean, organized, and lovely. SO the piano that was in the same spot since we moved here, I moved, and Miranda there was nastiness under there. Dust bunnies which were massive. I was sneezing for a while. Oh and I found some crayons, haha and a bill you never even opened... from a year ago at least. ah well it's clean now ^^
take a peek in my lovely room :)
I need something for that big empty space.... ^
notice the ugly not even retro chic mirror? haha sick.
So there it is. Completely different now. Let's hope it's more functional now.

Resolutions?

Happy New Year Everyone! :D

SO I know lots of people that actually do New Year's Resolutions - and that is probably a hot topic for bloggers today too. BUT I am not one of them that does the resolutions. I don't know why, I guess because why should it be one day of the year that you make a goal and have a year to fail it? Yes, this sounds negative, but for some resolutions are good, for others, it's depressing and annoying at the end of the year to think of the failure.
I am not joining the trend. Just going to do my own thing like usual.
Good luck to the resolutioneers out there :)

But here are some very common resolutions:

1. Loose Weight:
the picture is of one pound (1 lb) of fat compared to a mug. Thank you google.


So comparitively thinking - weight loss - thinking of the lost pound(s) and actually relating that to an amount - seeing how much it actually is. Pretty good to lose that much so good on ya. Also think of how nasty fat is - depending on how much fat% you have - the picture - shows how gross it is.
Ever seen one of those liposuction surgery shows? sick.
hahaha

2. Quit Smoking:

Um. For one, it's a disgusting habbit and it should be kicked asap. Thinking of what you are sucking in your body, let alone breathing on friends, family, and kids? Unhealthy. Nasty. Kick it.

3. Fix Finances:

Some people are wanting 'outta da debt' or just wanting some extra savings, a bit more 'to play with' etc etc. Finances are probably one of the hardest resolutions to fix/figure out in my opinion. So many people are in debt as is and see no way out. Everything from student loans to mortages to car payments. Two words: it sucks. I can't really say much without being a hypocrite, other than be cheap and thrifty. Be 'meno-to-the-max' hahaha

4. Do something new:
no idea for a picture for this one. Maybe take up a hobby? For me - blog more? ha this one is pretty self explanitory. It's almost as similar to another resolution - "be a better person" like where the heck to start with this one? Do the typical - 'volunteer, help community, jog, make a friend, give a homeless guy a cofee? ' who knows. Not I. That's why this one is one that I wouldn't even do - I do new things automatically I guess.

5. Time management and Organization:
oooo I love organization. I just organized my dresser with cool organizer thingeys from ikea. yay I finished one already! haha not.

I want a full room to keep everything organized in... ahhh I keep dreaming. Fully knowing that wil not happen this year.
and as for time management? I love writing things down, keeping calendars, organization is a wonderful amazing thing that I can not live without.
Here is my brain wanderings:
Unorganization = mess. Mess = chaos. Chaos = unproductivity. Unproductivity = no $. No $ = debt. Debt = Stress. Stress = smoking. Smoking = unhealthy. Unhealthy = sick. Sick = death. Death = ? you know.

So there's my yatterings for New Years. Let's hope that all your resolutions come true, BUT your number one should always be organization - look where it gets you without it!?

Jones Soda Christmas.....

Drinking the "Christmas Ham"...

Christmas Ham...

In a bottle. So Miranda got me a shakable liquid present.... I opened it and WOW E! I got a pack of Jones Soda Holiday Style. It was creepy weird.

Came with 4 flavours - Christmas Tree, Egg Nog, Sugar Plum, and Christmas Ham.

So far we only opened the Christmas Ham - the scariest of them all. Here are our pictures :)

new look

So I saw that a bunch of you guys had new layouts and I thought I would join the club haha.

Though I have one question: How do I add links to other people's pages etc?

I was messing with the html but it's been a looong time since I last did a "layout" haha Miranda you know what I mean.

So Christmas is here, though I don't feel like it. Tomorrow is Christmas eve.
Tomorrow there will be 8 people in our house (possible 11 more?) and then on Christmas there's going to be 12 (and possibly 15?) wowza. Packed house.

So ya right now I am feeling gross, sick before christmas. how great is that eh? ah well
Oh and the present I got my mom for christmas hasn't arrived. won't on time now.
so now I have a back up haha

anyways I need sleep. goodnight.

oh and mom I blogged so :P

7 Random Facts

I've been tagged by Miranda! Here are the rules:

1. Link to the person’s blog who tagged you.

2. Post these rules on your blog.

3. List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself.

4. Tag seven random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.

5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blog.

Random Fact One:

I am afraid of climbing up ladders and trees and stuff like that, though at the same time I can go to the top of the ferris wheel and rock the cart... I can ride the "revelation" and be completely extatic about it. But I still hate the little height of ladders.

Random Fact Two:

My body: thumb is double jointed and I can flip it completely backwards. My knees crack almost every time I crouch down, my shoulder can dislocate partially, just moving my wrists makes them crack.... ya it's messed.

Random Fact Three:

I hate looking at directions. I would rather figure out how to fix it or put it together myself. (map directions are good though haha cause I have no sense of direction) ironic?

Random Fact Four:

I broke my nose when I was three. It was a bloody mess and Miranda hid under her bed.

Random Fact Five:

I hate monkies. REALLY hate them. They freak me out, they are ugly, scary, and freakish things. Even the small ones. Don't be decieved by the small ones.....they are evil.

Random Fact Six:

I have a rock and mineral collection.. Yes I am a geek. Also had stams, jones soda bottles, old pennies, and shells. I have it, but haven't actually done anything with/to them since middle or high school. Can't remember haha. oh and the picture is what I saw when I looked up geek... LOL

Random Fact Seven:

I am a pro lip syncer - says Mik. hahaha

SO I don't really know how to tag people so I'll leave it at that.

kids.

So lately I have been with a lot of little people. They are great and I love em.
I work in the childrens department in sears right now so I see lots of cute things for them to wear, and lots of mums with stories and cute kids.

I also help out babysit some kids when their moms have a 'home-group' type thing on friday mornings. I LOVE IT! These kids I get to know, they are cute, their mums are upstairs so if they are crazy then they can go there. The other day there were some cryers so I took them and sat on the couch with a book. A bunch of others joined in (oh there are about 9 or 10 every time), so there I was with a bunch of kids asking them what sound a cow makes..... and hearing a few MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! 's was so cute. I love em!
Oh and p.s. there are 2 of us taking care of all the little people so it's pretty fun.

So another little kid experience: Yesterday I went to value village and shopped. Trying something on in the change room and WOOAH some little kid crawls under and into my tiny room and says "I'm looking for my mommy" AH! was my reaction.
I have never had a complete stranger see me without any pants on until yesterday. wow. That was what I was least expecting. Ah well, makes for a funny story.
Probably one of those " you had to have been there" moments. but oh well.

So Miranda, your nintendo (ancient one) came in today :) be happy.
I think Tony should get a bird. It seems to make him elated when he seems them lol think about him having one?

Have a good one people.

The Potato Man

So the other day I took Mikaela to the mall to do some shopping. We got some good deals and bought some cheap jewlery which was fun. While waiting for the bus outside the mall, there was an incident... haha

This old man who seemed to be quite quirky stood beside Mikaela as if in a line (which there was no line) and then while Mik and myself were taking pictures of eachother with my cell phone, he pipes in and says "Did you know potatoes are a tuberous root?"

Kind of shocked, Mikaela looks at me with a weirded out look, and I say back to the guy and smile and nodd, "yep..."

Then Mik and myself go back to what we were doing, and he then says "I had some for lunch :) " and then laughs to himself and then the bus came thank godness.


Mik and myself couldn't help laughing after we got on the bus out of ear shot of him haha.

He was then known as "the potato man"

How random can you get eh?

"The Potato Man" is behing Mikaelaon the bus

we had fun with my cell phone haha

Woe!

Well it has been a little while since my last post so I thought I would give it a shot. (oh and I know soo many people that start off their blogs like that haha)So I have finally called in tech support for my computer (it's name is "Lappy") and yep, he needs a new screen and a new disc drive. *for the last little while my screen goes neon colours and the disc drive can't play movies well at all any more :(* Thank God it's still under warranty.

I have a tecchie dude coming as soon as the parts are shipped in. So today I was on the phone with dell support and I didn't get angry, frustrated, annoyed or anything! It wasn't bad at all, and plus, I knew Miranda knew has had some pretty nasty experiences at stream so I thought, "Hey I won't be a jerk today" hahaIt was all for you Miranda :)So yep, that was today.

This week I also found out that Dumbledore from Harry Potter - was written as a gay character from the begining. Shell shocking eh? Beloved character of a children's book, gay. I never thought he was and that's how he is going to stay in my memory of the book. But still, I wonder if she was doing this to appease all crowds or something. Not that I am against gay people and all, but it still makes me think.

Oh and this week TV-Links - a really awesome site that I used before to just watch tv online and stuff, is shut down and the owner was arrested. shucks eh? ah well, there is still hope of watching online tv :)
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9066/TVLinks+Shut+Down%2C+Owner+Arrested%21
That's the article PLUS new links! If you are a geek like me, the tv on the internet is great hehehe.

Tomorrow Miranda hopefully comes out and then I can see her finally!And then next weekend my friend from Ontario is coming to visit! I AM SO EXCITED!!

What are some things that I can show my friend out here (in the wack or in Vancouver) ?

Well take care everyone, and have a lovely week.

Missing Things

So I saw that Miranda was making lists on her blog, and it put me in a list-ey sort of mood.
Well, for me right now, I am missing people, things etc. so here they are:

1. My YWAM-er friends now scattered across the globe.
2. Brisbane - Aus - beaches. etc.
3. Nice hot weather.
4. Being on a cool adventure away from home.
5. Community living... I can't believe I'm saying it either.

hmmm well I think I will leave it at 5

anyways, I am off for now. Bye

My hair dyed!

Well, yesterday I was extremely bored and decided to dye my hair. So, off I went to the store, bought a bottle of Havana Brown and Voila! This was my first real hair dying experience ^_^ The last was so horrible I refrained until now.... "sun- in" .... *shivers*

Before... I am posing like the girl on the box by the way.

My hair dye professional.

It was smelly... and strange... and my head was itchey! hahaha

Like I said before... smelly.

TA DA! It isn't much of a difference but meh, I think it's good.

Home Alone!

Well, being home alone is pretty fabulous if I do say so myself. I love to have time alone, and I seem to do a whole lot more when I am alone too. Like baking pie...

Right now, I am baking a pie, finishing laundry, listening to music, blogging, uploading pics.. the list goes on. So nice to do it in peace!!! YAY

Oh and we can't forget dancing and singing along with it. hahaha. Oh I love being alone!

So, Miranda, these pics are for you - you aren't here to even sample my pie this time! So look from afar and smell it from Vancouver.

this is Aria's famous pie crust -- The Beginings... dun dun dun. It is my secret recipe.

so looking in the freezer we only had cranberries and blueberries left... Okay

gotta have the tunes. hehe thanks Katie for the music!

yummy yummy yummy. It was so tastey.this is the magic pie dish -- haven't had a failure yet.

To Be Continued

True story!

This is a true story. These pictures are not fabricated. Viewer discretion is advised.

One day, not too long ago, well this afternoon, a few friends ended up at a shop and began a shoot. Photo style.
Angry Pirate! ARRRRRIA -- haha get it?? ARR!? HAHAHAHA... (note the slight over exaggeration)
Pimpin'
Strike that pose! hmmm the eccentricity reminds me slightly of Britney Spears...
And here is Tony... before he was wearing a red hat and leather jacket, unfortunately he did not submit to a photo shoot in front of many people.

Though in the end he picked up a sword and the shoot began.