Pictures!

Me has pictures! This is actually part of my crafty bunny propaganda plan to convince everyone bunnies are the greatest thing around. So I am putting up pictures that I think are contenders and you gets to help (yay interactive blogging!)

Thats all for now that I can post, I has others but they need colour fixing and photoshop is being stupid. Anyhew, vote away!!

Hermit

Vegans 100

Guess who found a premade vegan version? Although some of the things seem rather non-vegan but anyhow. Also there are links to the more uncommon things but I dont know how to get rid of them so they stay. Here goes:

1. Natto
2. Green Smoothie
3. Tofu Scramble
4. Haggis
5. Mangosteen
6. Creme brulee
7. Fondue
8. Marmite/Vegemite
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Nachos
12. Authentic soba noodles
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Taco from a street cart
16. Boba Tea
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Gyoza
20. Vanilla ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Ceviche
24. Rice and beans
25. Knish
26. Raw scotch bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Caviar
29. Baklava
30. Pate
31. Wasabi peas
32. Chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Mango lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Mulled cider
37. Scones with buttery spread and jam
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Fast food french fries
41. Raw Brownies
42. Fresh Garbanzo Beans
43. Dahl
44. Homemade Soymilk
45. Wine from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Stroopwafle
47. Samosas
48. Vegetable Sushi
49. Glazed doughnut
50. Seaweed
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Tofurkey
54. Sheese
55. Cotton candy
56. Gnocchi
57. Piña colada (I think that is what we had at Tygers birthday, where I was tres paranoid it was alcoholic, haha)
58. Birch beer
59. Scrapple
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Soy curls
63. Chickpea cutlets
64. Curry
65. Durian
66. Homemade Sausages (not vegan or homemade by us, but we used to buy some from these people on the way to GuZoo but they made them so I consider them homemade, they were really good too)
67. Churros, elephant ears, or funnel cake
68. Smoked tofu
69. Fried plantain
70. Mochi
71. Gazpacho
72. Warm chocolate chip cookies
73. Absinthe
74. Corn on the cob
75. Whipped cream, straight from the can
76. Pomegranate
77. Fauxstess Cupcake
78. Mashed potatoes with gravy
79. Jerky
80. Croissants
81. French onion soup
82. Savory crepes
83. Tings
84. A meal at Candle 79
85. Moussaka
86. Sprouted grains or seeds
87. Macaroni and “cheese”
88. Flowers
89. Matzoh ball soup
90. White chocolate
91. Seitan
92. Kimchi
93. Butterscotch chips
94. Yellow watermelon
95. Chili with chocolate (its really good, the recipe I used was a Moosewood recipe, should make again)
96. Bagel and Tofutti
97. Potato milk
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Raw cookie dough (not sure if this means uncooked cookie dough, or raw food cookie dough, have definitely had the uncooked version! Lots!)

45! Much better! So I have been consuming grand quantities of fresh figs, their neighbors have a fig tree and aren't eating them so we got an ice cream bucket full yesterday. Mmm, Jo and Kes, methinks I am finding a fig tree to live in our front yard thingy. Have been peering for recipes to make with them... Also was going to go pick blackberries today buut has been raining, is done now so I might go out even though it isnt super nice and still wet, me wants blackberries for my breakfast tomorrow!
Hermit

Double-Decker buses and showtime

So today I went on a double-decker bus for the first time, goodfun! Also, I learned that there are blackberries growing wild all over Victoria! This makes me exceedingly glad and I have grand plots to take a bucket out picking on my day off here this week. Hurrah for free fruit!
So, you folks get to hear. Show yesterday was normal repertoire with two new pieces, one of which I was in; a pas de trois in a quasi-character dance style. So anyhew, it went splendidly badly. Which is great, especially since it was my first soloist type role with them, but all is well with them and me and I am not fired so here is my spiel. (I wish I was nomad right now so I could make entertaining comic strip instead of trying to write it all out...)
Piece starts off with all three of us dancing together, thats all fine and dandy, meander off to wait for my solo. Shoof on for it, start, its going grand until I forget what I am doing and what comes next etc.etc. so I start making up random crap (I was told it wasn't half bad which is good because I was afraid it was real obvious that I had no idea what I was doing) and finally get to a point in the music that sounds familiar so beetle off to proper section of stage to prepare for turning section. It isn't going to bad, which is grand until suddenly I notice that my skirt is veery loose, so I do a bit more holding it up at which point I realise I can't do the rest of the dance holding my skirt on soo I lets it drop and hop out of to finish turning segment (I got claps, yay me, haha) Finish rest of solo in underskirt thingy and then go to stand at back of stage to wait where I notice directer waving me to come off, so off I go. They have skirt and safety pin so they leave nice long pause in music (the poor other girl got to stand on stage for a nice while smiling) and then start it up while they try to wrangle skirt into submission ('tis one of those huge heavy ones) and just get it pinned up as I am supposed to start my section of the coda/finale. Skeedaddle on to start my bit but as I am running up, the pin fails, so hop out of skirt yet again and do finale. The end.
Twas a great first major piece, heh. But all is well, they aren't mad at me for forgetting or for skirt business, so hooray for that. But mehopes that next weeks show goes better (ha, rather twould be horrible to think what might happen to make it worse *shudder)
Hopefully all ye folks are well, and might I suggest that Haney childrens make contact? E-mail me or snafoo me on internet somehow. (when are ye coming, how shall we meet up etc.)
Hermit
P.S. I still like the comic idear better:
#1: Hermit onstage dancing away; look of panic; start making stuff up - director and folks backstage looking confused
#2: Look of recognition; dancing away; skirt migrating south; hermit dancing away, skirt on floor
#3: backstage with people trying to fix skirt; shoofing back on avec skirt; skirt on floor again
Woe is me who cannot draw (or write particularly eloquently either) but just imagine them drawn like nomads and then skip reading my huge long spiel.

Figs!!

I had a fresh fig for the first time today, most excellent but very different from dried figs. The people I am staying withs neighbors have a fig tree in their backyard too, so fancy. I want to grow a fig tree now!
Anyhow, yay figs and other tropical type fruits growing here, yay Canada + olympic medals! I have a survey type thing to do, but methinks I am going to fail majorly. 'Tis called the omnivores 100; bold the ones you have eaten. Methinks we aught to build a vegetarians one...

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Phở
13. PB&J sandwich actually not positive on this one, but pretty sure so I am putting it down anyhew
14. Aloo gobi -anyone care to tell me what this is?
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream - yus, and I recall it being most excellent and in a small container and tres expensive, speaking of which, just saw a recipe (easily veganized) for homemade pistachio ice cream, should make when move into jo and kes'
21. Heirloom tomatoes - not entirely sure what qualifies, but pretty sure not however I have had plenty o' homegrown garden type tomatoes, yumyum!
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese -no, but I recall seeing it at Sobeys, that is the grossest name ever methinks!
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche -no, but have grand plots of trying to make vegan version
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas - haha, one, from Lori, and then I died
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float - I am deciding I have because I have had a float, not positive if I have ever had root beer though
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal -is what exactly? Clearly, I need to be more worldly...
44. Goat’s milk - David went through a phase where we were eliminating possible allergens so he had goats milk and I tried, but it was canned or something and erm, notsogrand
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/€80/$120 or more - *cacklewheeze, notsomuch of that
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear -in this prickly pear water stuff that Costco used to have
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips - maybe not chips, but carob lots, as a kid we didn't ever have chocolate just carob. Was actually just talking about that to mere, must have been great for other kids at birthday parties who were used to chocolate, getting a carob cake, hehe
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian - I think this might be a lie too, I believe I didn't actually try any because the smell was so overpowering, but I think that smelling it is close enough
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain - this I don't recall but apparently in Venezuela we had them and they were grand
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict - I am thinking most likely
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare - NEVER!!!!!!!!!!
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate - what is this?
91. Spam -delish!!! Recall our spam recipes? And sending them into the SPAM website *cacklewheeze
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Ahem 16%, that is most excellent, especially since several of those are questionable, hopefully the rest of you do better.
Hermit

Race-walking is the most ridiculous looking Olympic sport ever!

I am watching it right now, so entertaining, espeically if you peer at their feet, almost pigeon toed duck walk looking. It's a good thing I am home alone! You should peer.
Anyhow, I have been doing a fair bit of olympic viewing although not quite as much as I thought I might have. Micheal Phelps is amazing!! Have been reading and apparently he is basically perfectly built for swimming and the pool in Beijing is designed to optimize the swimmers performance.
So I had plots of spieling about life in Victoria but methinks twill be quite boring and I feel like I always talk about meself so here is lepronto synopsis:
-was supposed to be coming for an apprentice workshop however am only new person so really is just be being assimilated into company
-watched their show on my first day and is definitely not the calibre I would like but I guess their is a reason they hired me... I am mostly over that now, it was just a bit of a surprise that first day
-they is mucho big on just throwing you into stuff, I did my first show 6 days after I got here and had only learned some of the repertoire 4 days before, bit of a shock to the system (I am used to having months and months of preparation)
-had breakdown before second show (first major show-they have two different shows, one for kids-less important; and one paying, more important show)
-just learned piece yesterday (thursday) for show on tuesday-stress! But I gets a solo piece and I feel like I am getting a smidge better at this top speed learning business. We'll see how the show goes though...
-Victoria is amazing vegan-wise, was SO pleased when I went into grocery store and saw all this stuff that you would be hard pressed to find in a health food store back at home!! Restaurants too, much more accomodating.
-Also, veery pretty, moreso farther up island, but the city aussi.
And methinks that is all. Majorly excited for when Jo and Kes come up and we gets to live together!!! You all must come and visit I say.
Hermit

Olympics!!

Am I the only nerd who gets insanely into the Olympics? I can't quite place the feeling, it's not quite a major patriotic type feeling moreso just much happiness. I guess it is just something about the whole world coming together for one good thing that gives me warm fuzzies. I also really like hearing the athletes talk about getting to where they are, they have worked so hard and it is so inspiring to hear from those who have experienced major setbacks and I really find that it helps me kick myself in the butt to work harder. I get into these slumps where I think I am working hard but really I could be working so much harder and just seeing and hearing from these people who are so amazing makes me want to work so incredibly hard every day.
Anyways, I am excited, and will be watching avidly. (heh, the people I am staying with are probably going to think I am rather peculiar but thats okay) Sadly I don't get to see the opening ceremony because it is playing during the day tomorrow, hopefully they will air it again.
Hope all of you are well, me is happy to see more blogging, yay!!
Hermit