Spilled Juice

I know I had some kinda other post I wanted to post up, but I couldn't be bothered in the end.
It was only some kinda boring whiney post that really wasn't all that important.
Instead I think I will post up a little thing I cooked for breakfast one morning on the weekend for Angie and myself. Its none too hard and tasted pretty good.
As with all the recipes I make up in my head they are a constant work-in-progress so they are subject to change when I come up with new ideas.
Anyway, off we go.

2 square crumpets.
3 medium eggs (I should mention free range here or Angie will hiss at me).
Milk.
A small smoked chicken breast.
A small red capsicum.
A tiny tin of mushrooms in butter sauce.
Some olive oil.

Preheat a frying pan, with a little oil. Also preheat your griller.
Slice the chicken breast into slices (8mm or 5/16in)
Dice the capsicum up into similar sized cubes.
First crack the eggs into a bowl and whisk them up good. Add a little milk and whisk again.
Dip the crumpets into the egg mix until they are well soaked.
Put crumpets into the pan, holey side down first.
Put chicken slices into pan.
Cook all till lightly browned.
Turn crumpets over.
Put chicken pieces onto crumpets, smear with the mushrooms and sprinkle with the capsicum.
As soon as you have it assembled, take from the stove and place, pan and all, under the grill.
The heat of the pan will continue to cook the underside of the crumpets.
Cook until the capsicum is hot and the mushroom sauce is runny.
Serve.

So, tell me what you all think.
If any of you overseas troopers is confused as to some of the things I have mentioned, feel free to ask and I will try to clarify.
Also notice I didn't add any spices, salt, or pepper. I'm not keen on spicy things early in the morning, and this recipe is very mild.
But you are free to add whatever you like. :D I might have added some pepper before the grilling, but Angie isn't big on pepper.

Till next Spill
~Juicy

Well, actually I do know. But for those of you who don't it seems to have been hacked and deleted on her. Apparently the username 'Angela' is in high demand.
She is currently in the process of getting it un-deleted. Until then, there is no Angela on LJ.

I had a very strange dream last night. I don't remember a whole lot of it. But I remember my house was huge, there was like many many more rooms. And people from the anime society were at my house. But everyone was all stern and worried. When I asked what was going on, I was told that silversanti had pulled a knife on alththenoob and threatened to kill him. I have no idea why.
I looked for Alth and found him, and he said he would talk to silver cause silver was hiding under a bed in another room. Alth was all serious, like Ive never seen him before.
When Alth left he was gone for ages, I began to wonder what was going on. But I woke up before I went looking again.

Odd hey.

In other news the new AI-con preparations are off to a flying start. *coughsarcasmcough*
Seriously guys, whats going on over there? A lot of pretty disturbing stuff is floating my way from several directions.

Now that I have had a couple relationships, I have started to notice an unusual trend in myself.
The physical traits I got for in girls, like what I find visually attractive. Has a tendency of changing depending on the girl I fancy at the time. This isn't just for the body shape type ideas, but it seems to flow into style and dress sense.
Lets take it back some. *cue wobbly flashback visual effects*
Back in high school I had a thing for a girl. She had, say medium boobs, big hips, bug bum, and plenty of flesh. And thats what I thought I liked, and thats what I looked for.
That was until I met a girl some years after high school. This girl, however, was very slender. She has small boobs, small hips, in fact she once joked she didn't even have an ass at all. But I was entranced with her. So what I liked changed to that. It created a bit of an interest for me in Asian girls as they often have very small slender frames. Id look at girls in the street and the slender ones with small boobs. always caught my eye more. Both those girls prior didn't really have anything in the way of an extravagant dress sense. So I was tended to avoid the girls who seemed to 'overdress' Nothing could beat a simple t-shit and pants.
Now, bring forward till my most recent girlfriend. And we have a complete change back to what I had in high school. Larger fleshy frame with big hips, big bum, and big boobs. She also often dressed up in extravagant ways with a gothic/lolita twist. Odd thing is, I don't fancy her anymore, but I DO fancy that look/style. Girls in the street that have larger frames with big boobs interest me. And for the first time in my life I have interest in gothic/lolita type fashions (on girls at least). My recent ex sometimes complained that I didn't find her attractive because in the beginning (before we fancied each other) I told her I had a thing for small framed girls. But my taste changed to match what she was. In fact I specifically remember looking at pics of her that she sent me and at first not really knowing what I thought of them. But later finding them more and more attractive.

What what does this mean? I don't know really. Maybe I don't have any tastes at all in the terms of what kind of girls I find attractive. I KNOW a girl can look more/less attractive depending on how she behaves and what she does. But I wonder if that changes too? If it does, I haven't noticed.
Is anyone else this way, or are you tastes more static? This isn't a question just for the guys either, what do you girls think?

Yesterday I signed up yet another new friend. starr5d. She's been a good friend of mine for a while, and yesterday I managed to find her Dollie LJ via the random entry option. How much of a fluke is that! Over 12million journals listed on the LJ stats page and I managed to find my old friend etoile!
In other news, I was lying awake in bed last night, thinking about stuff. And as per usual my brain got to thinking about my ex, together with the guy she slept with. (I know what he looks like, she showed me a photo) I know I shouldn't be thinking about stuff like that, but when it happens too you, its very difficult to keep your mind off it. Those who have lived this will understand.
But the point I'm trying to make is that in the past, when my mind has wandered to that place, Ive always felt uncomfortable. Whether a lot, or a little usually depends on my mood. But last night.....I felt nothing. Its barely been 2 weeks since I found out, and the effect of it has already dissipated. I was surprised, happy but surprised. How is it it only took 2 weeks this time to dull the pain, compared to last time when it took years. Maybe this is proof of all the help Ive been getting, which has been phenomenal.

I know I still have much growing to do. But this HAS to be a step in a positive direction.

I thought I might take a little thing Ive seen serafina09 doing and that was to start formally welcoming new friends.
So, welcome to b_kyle_e to my humble abode.
I found b_kyle_e when wandering through the 'most recent entries' on the 'explore LJ' page. His entry caught my eye cause it seemed so familiar. Haha!

Other than that I haven't been up to much. Went wild blackberry picking last night. Its a time consuming and often rather painful. But the rewards are worth it. I didn't get much of a haul, only half a bucket. But the season is far from over. Id have liked to have left the berries to fatten up a little more, but if I don't ruthlessly pick them, then the ever vigilant birds will.
I really like blackberries, probably because they are such a hassle to get. The more trouble something is to get, the sweeter it is when you succeed.

The weekend just passed was fun. I had way too much to do. Which was ok.

Friday: After work I went out to DDR with some friends. I met Chance for the first time. Id been chatting to him a fair bit over AIM leading up to him moving down. I was keen to reel him into our little group, And I reckon I pretty much achieved that. After the DDR I went to Evo's 21st birthday at Irish Murphys. I had a real Ryoga moment trying to find the place and ended up at some other Irish pub. So I had to turn around and walk all the way back.
On the way back I came up on a group of three boagan kids. They were probably no older than 16, so I didn't think much of them. But then they were looking at me. Sorta talking to each other, handing things between them, looking back at me again. Then one of them stopped and waited for me to catch up to them. I sorta started to wonder a bit then. I thought I might have been up for some trouble. Maybe they'd try to swipe my bag as I passed. But I kept walking, anyway.
When I caught up to the guy who stopped leaned over to me and asked, "'Scuse me mate, do you have any choof?"
"Haha! Sorry mate." I replied. "Unfortunately I don't."
And that was it.
That became the humorous highlight of the night. Apparently I look like a drug dealer. And I had to tell my story to every new person who turned up to the party. And the line, 'do you have any choof?" became the thing to say.
It was pretty fun out at the party, I only ordered one drink, and I have no idea what it was. (well uraniagc ordered it for me, and she didn't know what it was either) but it made me feel icky the next day. After then we walked back to uraniagc's house and hung out for a bit. I didnt get home till after 3am, and was quite happy to see my bed. =_=
Saturday: I wasted some time in the morning playing DOOM 64 on my PC. Then went out to my cousin's (Matt) engagement party.
I'd have liked to have stayed longer there. But I was still tired from the previous night, and I wouldn't have had a way to get home. So I went early. I still cant believe he is getting married. Its scary in a way.
After I got home I watched some Ranma 1/2, till the warm sun rolled into my window in the afternoon. So I threw off my clothes and dozed in the warm glow for a while. I know thats not wise for a person like me who burns easy, but the sun was just so nice. When I came to again I watched more Ranma then worked on my comic script. Its almost finished, there is just a couple scenes to go.
Sunday: I went to clockwork_hands and yellowblacktrip's place. We watched DVDs, played games, and ended up trying to fix thier PC when they accidentally got porn adware on it. >_< I had gotten Silent Hill 2 for PC, and I left it there on purpose for them to play. I know how much YBT's been wanting to play that game. And I wanted to play the extra scenario that included on that one, and not on the PS2 version I already have.
Monday: I started by wasting more time on DOOM64, managed to finish it. The final boss on the PC was a hell of lot easier than the one on the 64. After that my mother picked me up and I went to her old house to get it ready for rentals. I wasn't much looking forward to it, but she stuck me down under the house cleaning that out. Of course with me being me my curiosity got the better of me and I before I knew it I was rummaging around in long lost stuff that was left there by previous tenants and forgotten. I just love sorting thought long forgotten junk, you never know what your going to find.
I found thee bottles of engine oil, two bags of wool, a big box of florescent tubes, about 20 unused padded envelopes, two sacks of sticks and leaves, all of which my mother (who owns the house) knew nothing about. XD
I was working there till 6pm then I went home. Watched more Ranma 1/2 and went to bed.

Weekend over. *whew*

Its come to my attention that some people have been spreading round the existence of my journal. And as it does this information has been bouncing around and instead of me receiving more people posting their very nice opinions, I'm just getting complaint emails! Typical of my luck, and I didn't think I'd even said anything bad about anyone so far.
So, whoever spread everything around, thanks, you make me very sad. :-(
I didn't want to lock the whole thing down because I wanted to option that a stranger would come along, read this and share their valuable and unbiast insight. But that wont happen now.
Also an Apology goes out to Vailhor, Katya, Cappy_K, and Aoioioioisanni, good friends who don't have LJ but were watching my LJ just the same.

Juicy~

Why is it I'm always endlessly meeting people who are just hellbent on leaving Tasmania. Its as is this fair island some some kinda prison with the attitudes some people. Whether they are born here, of have moved here its all the same, "I just cant wait to get out of here!" And whats worse often the reasons are so damn trivial it really makes me mad. Stuff like, "Its too cold here." Or "There's nothing to do." Or even, "Theres more stuff available." And they thing the mainland is some mystical land of milk and honey where all your dreams come true and all you gotta do is get the money to go there. Sounds like sweet BS to me. In fact I know quite a few who have run off to the 'promised land' only to return back (usually with their parents footing the bill) because it was just a wee bit harder over there than they expected. Probably cause they spent all their money just getting there.
I cant understand why people cant see that cooler weather is better than hotter weather. There sitting up there in the middle of winter wearing shorts thinking, "How good is this!" Then along comes summer with 40+C days and 90+% humidity and I almost feel like flying up there just to look at their sorry faces then. Sure it gets pretty cold here in winter. But it sure isn't hard to go out a buy yourself a proper jacket. Of course remembering that you need a jacket thats warm, NOT one that matches with the colour of your pants. As for there being nothing to do and buy thats more down to personal preferrance of the individual. Buy facy stuff here is easy. If your reading this I reckon you have heard of a fancy little trinket called the INTERNET! Sure works for me when it comes to buying stuff. And those who complain about not having anything to do most likely just aren't looking hard enough. Although I find the ones who complain about are usually the ones who have decided that their idea of 'fun' is going out to a different nightclub every night so get drunk on badly made overpriced drinks and dry-hump strangers on a 'dancefloor'.

People always more interested in the other side of the fence, rather than whats right damn well right in front of them. It may not be as bright and colourful as whats over there, and it might not have that fancy designer name tag attached to it. But it'll still do the job more than good enough.

Thoughts?
Juicy~

The 26th of January is Australia day, or, Hottest 100 day.
Its Friday week, and we should all do something for it.
If the weather is good, I suggest poll party + BBQ. if not, we can go somewhere else for a BBQ.
What does everyone think?

Well that was sure fun. A bit of a shout out to the ones who couldn't make it, for whatever reason that may be.

After everyone left I was pretty much tuckered out for the day. I watched the most recent episode of Shameless that I had taped. (Shameless shows at 10pm on Mondays on SBS. Damn funny show) Then had a cold shower and went to bed.

Going to bed and going to sleep, however, are two very different things. >_< *yawn*

It got hot in bed, real hot.
I seriously failed at sleeping. So by the time 2:30 rolled around again, just like last time, I figured there was only one option. Return to the pool.
So once again I went for a night swim to cool off.
The funny thing is once again I wasn't hassled by mosquitoes, and I wondered why last time. But this time I think I might have worked out why. Bats!
There was a bat working the area around the pool, while I was in there. I'm not sure if bats will bother with mosquitoes, but yeah. It was pretty neat to see this tiny bat shooting about the place. Cause it was pretty dark I could only get the odd glimpse of it. But it was pretty obviously a bat.
Then after that, there was this strange flashing. It was really faint, and could not hear anything along with it. I kept looking around for the source but I couldn't find anything. I thought for a minute my eyes were playing tricks, but that usually only happens when your freaking out.
After a while I wandered back inside and got back into bed. And it was then that I noticed what the flashing was. Lightning.
A small yet quite vocal storm wandered past last night about 3am.
I do love storms.

Juicy~

Apparently, according to Mr Newspaper, its going to be 32C on Tuesday. So I'm planning to organize a bit of a pool get together at my place. A fair few of the invites have already been sent out, and I am bargaining on some people rebounding their invite onto other people to slightly inflate the numbers slightly.
I dont think an invite has been sent to Alth/Holly, but I dunno if they can get up to my place, after all Liz may well be collecting Mad/Seb again.


On other fronts not a whole lot has been happening. Been pretty cruisey. The recent hot weather has been making it quite difficult for me to sleep. As I have a tendency of overheating at night. But the other week I decided Id go out and have a bit of a wallow in the pool in the middle of the night. It was 2:30am if I remember correctly. Not togs required at a time like that. *wink*
Felt kinda weird when i did get back into bed an hour or so later. My skin was cold, but I felt all snuggly warm, but still had that slight sharp feeling you get when your cold. So it was like, a shard warmth. Very odd.
Needless to say i had a bizarre dream when I finally did get to sleep. Don't remember much of it, but I do remember that there was a rabbit the size of a small delivery truck eating the leaves off the apple trees in my back yard. And I was completely unphased by this rabbit monstrocity in my back garden.
Later in the dream I was visiting Kitten's (Friend from the my local anime society, for those who don't know) family and I had this weird feeling that they wanted to kill me. They kept looking at me all funny and eventually when Dan and Tim (her brothers) turned up with great big knives I figured it was time to leave.
As I was walking home their father came after me in the car and tried to run me down. I managed to avoid the car three times, then went on the offencive and tore off the cars spoiler, then lept on the roof of the car and tore that off too.
Right after that the rest of Kittens family turned up, and a large amount of my family turned up too, and they all ran over to the car and started yelling at me, "Look what you did! How could you do such a thing to him!"
I tried to tell them that he had just tried to kill me, but no one listened.
*Shrug*

*Note: Ive never met Kittens father before, so yeah. My brain just made someone up.

Juicy~

Well, my holiday is over. It was alright. I mean not a whole lot happened, but then again I wasn't expecting a whole lot to happen. All the plans I made through out the year all fell over and thus I was left with a typical family Christmas.

So what happened you wonder? Well...
The Christmas/New Years holiday is always a very up and down time for me. Its always filled with so much joy and stress that I can never be really sure what Ill be feeling next. I had four Christmas dinners to go along to this year, three of them in as many days. Of course being a lover of food that was a good thing in a way, but on the other hand it just move to again show me just how divided my family really is. Gone are the days of one Christmas dinner, with everyone.
We had family down staying at our house this year, in fact it is the same bunch that comes down every year just about. its good to have them around. I rarely get to see that part of the family, only when someone does the traveling. They have already gone home after their ten, or so, day visit, and now my house is quiet again. Going back to a quiet house is both sad and relieving.
One of the weirdest things that happened this year was the fact we, here in sunburned Oz-land, in the height of our summer....very nearly had a White Christmas. Yep, thats right, There was snow on the mountain that overlooks the city, the peak which is walking distance from my house (A long walk, but one I have done) Because up there it got to -2C (28.4F)
Needless to say despite the fact I have cleaning my pool, I haven't used it very much.
One thing I do look forward to at this time of year is a little(big) annual event called the Taste of Tasmania. Its basically a big food festival with tastes inspired from all corners of the globe, made entirely with produce from Tasmania, the state in which I live.There is so much to try my stomach always fills before I have had a chance to even attempt to scratch the surface.
Here is some other info. http://www.hobartsummerfestival.com.au/event.php?id=8
There has been a lot of people whinging about the Taste, saying it needs and overhall, needs to be moved, needs different sponsors. But I reckon thats bollocks. If they tried to change anything then they will most likely raise the cost of the overall event, meaning they will prolly need some kinda gate charge. That'll turn people away in their thousands. People go to the taste cause you can stroll in, look around, and not have to pay anything. One of the other complaints was that the shed it is in is old and ugly. Well...yeah it is, but its one of the few buildings that big enough to house the whole event, and who goes there to look at the shed anyway? if your doing that, you have obviously missed the whole point of the Taste.
For New Years I went to a party with some friends. Believe it or not that was actually the first new year party I had ever been to, outside of family. I recall last years new years for me ended at 10pm when I went to bed after getting bored with the game I was playing.
It was a pretty good night. I do have a bunch of pics, and even a little movie, all will be uploaded throughout the week, and links will deffinatly be put up here.

I had plenty of time to overly think through stuff on the holidays.
But I have run out of time now.
Ill have to tell you all another time. Darn bus.

Well, I have the reunion today. And I have told the other people going the birthday which I'm attending after the reunion  to send me a message when they leave the restaurant. That way I know where they will be if I don't get to the restaurant in time before they leave. Good plan, aye?
Except for one small problem.....I JUST REALIZED I LEFT MY PHONE AT HOME!
GRAAH! I cant believe this.
I guess I have no choice but to go on home and get it. This is really rather irritating. And what makes it worse is that I have no one to blame for it. Ha!

In other news I attempted to actually make an old Pinky mod idea, but failed in quite spectacular style.
The epoxy putty was very badly behaved, sticking to everything I didn't want it to thick to, and nothing I did. It moved all other the place like some kinda liquid in slow motion, so I never got the shape right. And to top that off I slipped with my carving knife and cut my finger really well. Quite messy it was.
Hasn't been the best start to the day. I sure hope it gets better.

Ugh, Ive been watching David Firth cartoons. They always mess up my english.

Just a little follow-up on yesterdays post.

Mt Nelson, where the picture was taken from, is walking distance from my house.


I remember seeing it coming home on the bus. It was really quite surreal.


Fancy a trip to hell?


Looks like Lava.


Here too.


One persons house comes close to the edge.


Luckily after all that happened yesterday there was no lost houses (although I heard a shed and a car were burned) and there was no loss of life.
I guess we got off easy.

On the other hand, Summer hasn't even started yet.

Well, the imminant summer made its presence felt today by granting us a 30C day. (86F). Well that was the forecast, althought Ive heard its gotten alot higher. Thats not so bad in itself, but considering two days ago it was half that. Its certainly a surprise.
But the weather is just the start, the summer here means alot to many people, but one thing that everyone has sitting quietly in the back of thier minds is the always impeeding threat of serious and destructive bushfires. They undergrowth around the city is apparently at an all time hight, and add that to the lack of recent rain, and the natrally strong winds and is been said that this summers conditions are just as bad, if not worse than, the conditions that created the fires of 1967 that devestated much of my city. My house was survived then, although I remember the wall of garage was burned and remained that way for decades after.

In fact right at this moment there are many fires already burning around the city, and there have been announcments on the radio informing people of the road closures and suburbes in danger. One of the serious fires of yesterday that threatened many homes was only a mere 20mins drive form my house. And now there are many fires raging on the other side of the river and people have been called home to prepare/defend thier houses, or just evacuate.
Lucky for me, the wind has been in my favour and any of the local fires have been blowing the fires away from my house. But I believe my time will come.

Whats worse is that many of the fires are usually lit deliberatly. How much of a moron do you have to be to do something like that? It just boggles me. Sure, I went through a firebug phase when I was young, most teens do. But to light up the bushland behind peoples houses when you KNOW what the fire is going to do and where it is going to go is just.....ugh!


And just so you know, on tuesday the 7th of feb 110 indevidual fires burned across the south of my state swamping fire crews, razing 1293 homes and killing 62 people. One of the fires came within 2km (1.2miles) of the center on the city. It was forever known as Black Tuesday.

This is the first entry to spill from the bottle. Its most likely going to just a test post, while I get used to the way this ship sails.

Two days ago I came back from one of the largest anime cons in Australia, Manifest.
It was a little dissapointing, made worse by the fact Ive only waited all year for it, and to be dissapointed after such a long wait, its annoying at best. I stayed in a hotel with two other people, one of which spent alot fo the time complaining. That wouldnt have bothered me so much if it wasnt for the fact they got the largest room of a 4 1/2 star appartment and only paid an average of $50pn for it. While I, the one who organized and booked the whole thing, had to sleep on the couch.
Add to that the fact my girlfriend has been almost a full time bitch for the last three months. And thats been really driving me into the ground.
But theres alot more to it than her just being narky, but Ill save those stories for another time.

I guess in the upside, and theres always an upside, I have some new games to play. X3: The Reunion, and La Puchelle Tactics. Two games I have been keen to get my hands on for ages now. (Particually La Puchelle) So I will be happy to play those. Its also a friday, and a friend just invited me around to his place on the satrday for a gaming and Stargate day. And thats good in my books.

More juice later ~