ZOMG Look At The Size of Her Post!

Angela's posts are so fricking gigantic that I don't even try to compete anymore.

Dying easter eggs was fun. I didn't really expect to enjoy doing it but I had a blast.

School starts up on this coming monday, the 31st. I'm taking music theory and a class that introduces the basics of playing the piano. I'm really looking forward to both of the classes!

I'll probably change the site over to wordpress over the weekend. I'll move the comic from the front page to its own gallery and we'll link it whenever we put up a new one. Eventually I'll make the directory of images browsable as well. And, of course, the current site will be backed up and remain available as well.

Abe

Wednesday March 26, 2008

Day late and a dollar short

But we got a pic posted. They (the pics) never turn out the way I want them to, but that just takes practice. Their faces are almost always not as wide as I had intended. And I sweat, Georgie and Arthur will be back, I am just taking a little break. I apparently don't like drawing the same thing over and over and over and over... and over... again. It also takes more steps to draw an A&G comic than one of these little pics. I have to draw A&G in pencil and then trace it with pen and I usually (am supposed to) draw more than one per comic day. But these pics are just in pencil. That is my preferred method, though it sounds like it would be fun to do some oils or acrylics and water colors. I might take a water color class one of these days. I have a comic in my head that needs to be done in water color. It is on the same level of weird (I think) as the last couple of pics.

As for Easter, we had a pretty good time. Dyed eggs, ate lamb. Ruined the eggs, overcooked the veggies. But the eggs were fun to dye. There were 7 so we each did three and then we shared one.

Abe is kind of funny. He dyed his first one pink and yellow with a white stripe.

Then he made a pink (or purple?) one that said 'poop' on one side and 'pee' on the other. I thought that was pretty funny.

Then he made another pink or purple one that said "I love you Angela," which was pretty darn adorable.

The first one I made was the egg that cracked horribly and spilled out of the shell. I know the picture is horrible and you can't see what it looked like, but on either side of the spewing egg innards, I drew an eyeball and there is a shocked mouth below (you know, an O).I dyed him green for along time and then I dyed the wound pink. Haha.

Then I made a yellow one with a green and blue tip and white stripes.

Then I made a great green one with blue and white polka dots!

The last one we did was the collaborative egg. I wrote on it with the white crayon so Abe couldn't see what I wrote and then he dyed it (purple, I think. Maybe blue).

It says "Your beard smells funny but I love you anyways." Hahaha. Funny secret messages. I think that would be a fun Easter tradition. Handing out undyed hard boiled eggs with message written on them with the invisible crayon. Then people have to dyed them to get your message. That would be a really fun Easter tradition. Maybe we will do that next year. To dye them, those Paas kits aren't even $2.

As for the lamb, we had never cooked lamb before so it was an experiment. We just grabbed something small at the store. Ended up being lamb shank. So Abe spent 15 minutes cutting all the fat off the outside and searing it in oil. The only recipes in the Joy of Cooking for lamb shank are stewy or shepherd's pie. So we modified it. We put the lamb in the chicken broth, but instead of adding all the stuff we didn't have since we didn't want to go to the store, we put in some brown rice and frozen brussel sprouts and broccoli. The rice got undercooked and the veggies got so overcooked that I don't know how they held their shape. The tendons on the shank shrunk as it cooked and the meat got pulled to the other end of the bone. Abe thought this was hilarious and called me over from my knitting to check it out. We used the Cast Iron Chicken Fryer that my mom gave me. I had boiled chicken broth and water in it for a few hours before we made dinner. For desert we had fresh cookies (from Papa Murphy's cookie dough, yum) and ice cream (Dyers double-churned Fudge Tracks). Delicious. And for breakfast that day we had pancakes, a fried egg, and an english muffin. We found some strangely good "light" english muffins that seem more home-made. They have 7 grams of fiber! I think they are Tomas brand or something.

And I am continuing to truck along on my projects. All these due dates are looking ahead! The AntiCraft pattern deadlines are this coming Monday so I better get cracking and write them up. I have a little left to do on the ankle bacon wraps and I just need to write my hat pattern down and get a picture. I don't think I need to weave in the ends for the picture. It ended up more like a wizard's hat than a stocking cap, but it looks a little cool. I think that happened because when I switch yarn, I got a different gauge. Woops!

Angela