The Origins of Beerman protector of precious hops and malts
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I haven’t posted here in forever, so here is a little video my boyfriend made of me talking about Beerman, this super hero character I made up. We took it in Maine.

PS. I went to Maine. It rained a lot.

Also, don’t even get me started about how much Maggie Gyllenhaal’s character pisses me off, or how this movie is totally sexist.

Anyway, we moved Sophie over to the Hillcrest house. She is mainly hiding under the bed, although she’ll come out and snuggle/explore sometimes when we’re around. She didn’t do this during an previous moves, but then again, my “bed” is a mattress on the floor, so it doesn’t really have an under in which to hide. Yesterday I came home and she ignored me and hid under the bed, and then when Jon came home she was immediately like “Alright. Time to come out and party.” Furry little jerk.

Downside: I have to move all of my crap. I have a lot of crap. Moving and I, we do not get along. Last time I had to move it featured me sobbing on the sidewalk as the giant metal box I was supposed to pack all of my stuff in was taken away empty because the fork lift dude claimed there wasn’t enough empty street parking to deliver it. So far this move has been less disastrous than that move, which is nice. Also, not really saying much. I’m moving the cat over there on Saturday, so we’ll see how it goes.

Here’s some pictures of our first two boxes - you can click through to Flickr to see everything labeled.

Our first pickup:

CSA pickup #1, originally uploaded by pinkhairedcyn.

Bok choy, blueberries, cabbage, cantaloupe, cucumbers, grapes, green beans, kale, lettuce, parsley, and zucchini.

CSA pickup #2
Originally uploaded by pinkhairedcyn

Parsley, kale, 2 eggplants, 5 cucumbers, a bag of mixed salad greens, 8 carrots, 2 baby bok choy, 2 heads of lettuce, 3 zucchini, 5 apricots, 2 leeks, and 4 beets.

If anyone has ideas about what to do with lettuce (other than salads) let me know!

The relevant quote:

“The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.’

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.”

I saw this spice rack on the internet, and was immediately like “OMG WANT,” especially since at the time I had 50 spices all shoved into a cabinet, and was constantly having to take half of them out in order to find anything. Plus there had been incidents like the time I was digging around in there and a bottle of cumin flew out and committed suicide all over my kitchen floor. So I set up using my mind powers to get my boyfriend to help me build a magnetic spice rack.

(We’re missing some spices in the picture because I took some down to use them.)

We bought a magnetic white board for about fifty bucks at Staples, and mounted it in the kitchen next to the refrigerator. We ordered the tins from here and put magnetic tape on the back of them. (I think I got the magnetic tape idea from Mac at Pesky Apostrophe.) For the labels we used a combination of labels leftover from another spice rack and cut up labels from the spice jars. Then I compulsively alphabetized the spices.

So far the spice rack has been great to use. It’s easy to find anything, and I can just grab what I need off the whiteboard while I’m cooking. Plus it’s really nice looking and decorative in our kitchen. And this I can tell at a glance what spices I have and how much of them I have left. And we have about ten tins left for spice additions.

I looked at this GraphJam chart and was like “And there’s something wrong with that?” So I guess it’s pretty accurate.