16.11.06

A Checklist

some recent successful solo ventures (sans instrucciones):

chunky chocolate chip cookies?
check.
banana walnut bread?
check.
green tea muffins?
check.
northern corn bread?
check.
kimchi chigae?
check.

next project: absolutely homemade pumpkin pie.

9.11.06

yay for new toys!

it's... it's... aliiiiiive! muahahahaha!

yes yes, this blogger thingermajigger will do... yup, it will do quite nicely.
a fresh toy with which i can verily 'tinker'.

possible definitions of a tinkerer:
1. one who works unskillfully or clumsily at anything
2. one who busies himself or herself with a thing without useful results
3. a gypsy
4. a small mackerel

i don't claim to be a great writer, i don't plan on inviting anyone in particular to read this 'desvelada' blog of mine, and i don't get paid to do this; so, i guess #'s 1 & 2 are relevant.

however, what comes to my mind when i think of gypsies are tanned, dark-haired women that dress like seductive medieval peasants and dance wildly around a bonfire, banging a tambourine on their hips all the while to distract gaping men from the dirty urchins rifling through their pockets for valuables. i am tan (yay for the mediterranean!), i have dark hair (consequence of being asian), and believe it or not, i've got the outfit (i can barely believe it myself). but i don't dance around fires (to put it more plainly, i don't dance, period) and i can't seduce men with a few whomps on the tambourine. needless to say, i am not a gypsy.

the same goes for the mackerel thing, too.

hmm, not bad.. not bad. matching 2 out of 4 makes me a tinkerer, does it not?
oh...
and 'tinker' i shall.