I'M RUNNING OUT OF WITTY NAMES FOR POSTS

Hello my freaky friends.
I haven't posted in a while, I know, eat me. I've been super-duper busy recently with my musical theatre production of 'Beauty and the Beast'. I've been cast as 'Madame D'Arque' -the creepy asylum owner who takes Belle's father away. It's funny, I always seem to be cast as an uptight old woman.The same thing happened in a student-directed festival at my school (it was called the Sears festival). I was cast as an ass of a catholic woman. I was creepy in that too.
Here's a picture of my animated self.

                (I forgot to mention, Mme. D'Arque is a man in the movie. Well, M. D'Arque will just need to consider a sex change.)


Yall'z should come and see my show, it happens on May 31st - June 2nd at 7:00pm, plus a matineé at 2:00pm on June 2nd. That is, if your not in it, or living in anouther country.....


I'm just realizing, so, so, much has happened since I last posted. I played a gig at the spill with my Band; 'The Lonely Parade' which happened with my mates Anwyn and Char, and my brother's band 'Pepto Bismarck' They cover Nirvana songs...They posted their setlist on youtube (it's in three parts). We haven't gotten around to posting ours yet.

My time right now though roughly consists of rowing (5:45 EVERY MORNING), falling asleep during movies (probably because I'm so tired from the former^, I haven't gotten through a movie in about two weeks.), And watching Heartland. Let me explain before you lose respect for me altogether. 

Heartland is THE best cheeseball show ever. It requires very few neurons to comprehend. The scenery is GEORGEOUS, it makes me feel happy, and it's Canadian, from CBC. (I don't have cable. Therefore-Slim pickings.)

My friends make fun of me.

PLUS, SPRING HAS SPRUNG!

That's all for now, I've gotta munch some dinner.

P.S. I'm planning to post tomorrow about my suitcase adventures, stay tuned!!

Here's a song I just discovered.

Gives me shivers. Every time.

LEEMON SKVARES

Today, in anticipation for some friends coming to practice our song for a Coffeehouse performance, I decided to make lemon squares.

I used a Martha Stewart recipe because none of our cookbooks had such a recipe.
This is my recipe 

Lemon Squares 


Step 1- prepare. 

First thing's first. Preheat your oven to 350˚F. Then you can grease your glass dish. The dish should be relatively rectangular, and with dimensions resembling 9"x 13"

Then, you can line the dish with parchment (it helps at the end, you'll see)

Step 2 - make your crust

Grate the butter with a cheese grater (use the big holes)

(I can't say I've ever grated butter with a cheese grater, but that's what it says!)

Whisk together the flour and confectioner's sugar, and then add the butter and stir with a wooden spoon

You might use your clean hands for this part instead, but combine the butter and the flour misture until it's about crumbly, it will look like this.

 Then, you can squish this mixture into your pan (evenly), and refrigerate it for 15 minutes. When it comes out, you can put it in the oven for 14-16 minutes.

In the meantime...

Step 3- make your filling

In a large measuring cup (or jug, you just need something with a lip) whisk together your eggs, flour, and sugar. Then, add the lemon juice, and the milk.

Step 4-put it all together!!

Remove the crust from the oven, and pour the lemon mixture onto the crust. 

YUMMY. Then, you can place this back into the oven for 18 minutes or until the edges are brown. The latter it more important. My lemon squares took 25 extra minutes because the lemon bit was much thicker than the recipe's yield.

Keep an eye on it, because this part's fidgety, your lemon squares might cook much slower, or much faster than the recipe (depending on the pan you used.)

After the 18 minutes, you can take the squares out, and sprinkle with toasted coconut, or icing sugar!! 

This it where the paper comes in handy. After letting the squares cool enough for the paper to be touchable, you grab two corners of the paper, and place the squares on a plate (have this prepared).

Peel back the paper, and cut into serving sizes! YUM!

 enjoy!

I did.

Here's some music to lemon-square-dance to!

Obsessions- UPDATE

Okay, so, this was a while ago, but I thought I'd let all of my lovely readers know that the APPLE PIE YOGURT HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED. WAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!! MY LIFE IS INCOMPLETE.

I mentioned it HERE before, in case you have no idea whatsoever what the hell I'm talking about with this apple pie yogurt. Well, let me repeat, I LOVED THAT APPLE PIE YOGURT WITH MY WHOLE LIFE. IT WAS BETTER THAN ICE CREAM.

Anyway, enough of my ranting, and wheezing.

I'll tell you about rowing. I don't think I've mentioned my commitment to the most amazing sport ever. Yes, rowing and I go way back, we shared the water back in grade nine, I rowed his boats, and built HUGE muscles while doing so.  (I realize now that personifying 'rowing' was not such a good idea. This is because I possess a mind that is most often in the gutter, and I am getting some quite dirty thoughts from 'rowing his boats'... This further proves my teenager-ness. I apologize for such a large interlude right in the middle of a paragraph)

You get the idea. I'm a bit giddy right now, and slightly happy that rowing season has come around.

AAAAAAAND HERE'S A PICTURE!!

(The dog is Binx...Binx had a tumor on her face. Anyway, this was after an agonizing race in grade nine. I'm second from left.)

So now that you know what rowing looks like, go steal a boat and try it!! But not actually, walk to your local rowing club, get a piece of paper, sign your life away, and get in a boat. But then learn what to do from there. It'll be fun.

NOW HERE'S A DEPRESSING SONG WITH AN EVEN MORE DEPRESSING VIDEO!!!!!

YAY!!

:)

I'm sad.

Want to know something really sad?

I'll start at the beginning.

It was last week, and I'd decided to get a fish. Not an expensive fish, like a 29cent orange goldfish. (I think you know how this will end)

I was the original fish buyer, but of course, Ambrose, my brother, had to have one as well.

I woke up this morning to see my poor fish shambling around the fish bowl. It was opening and closing its mouth really quickly.

Well. My fish died. And Ambrose's is fine -- better than ever.

It didn't even have a NAME!

My theory is that Ambrose's fish stole all the air in the bowl...and the food... and the space...

Grrr...

I'm going to show you a morbid picture...

(Notice the dead orange one and the evil laughing other one)

(Sniff sniff)

RIP FISH

P.S. Like my new blog design??!

Holy Slacker-Pants!

Hi, to the threeish people that read my blog occasionally (if there are more of you, speak out!)
 I decided to visit my neglected blog, and realized that I haven't posted since Christmas...

Well the reason I've been waaaay too busy to post is one word: Exams-- the joy of my life for all of January. Exams are over. YAY!

I decided to write something on this blog, but then promptly realized that my life isn't really that interesting, and that nothing huge has changed. (ie. I still have all my limbs.)
But I guess the biggest change in my life is my dive into 'theatre'. Specifically the musical kind.

 Let me explain: The end of exams brought the end to first semester. Which means the end of Chemistry, Physics, Biology and English (the subject, not the language...I haven't suddenly turned french or anything). Which also means the beginning of Math...and more importantly, my Musical Theatre course. Which takes up 75% of my school day!! HELL YEAH.

So no science till next year..... and time to write, and draw, and read, and rock climb, and watch movies, and play music to my heart's content!!

To conclude this thought with one statement, would be to say: My life has suddenly become interesting again.

So, I think as of now I will tell you about yesterday's adventure.

Yesterday, my musical theatre class took a last minute trip to Second City in Toronto. Now if you've never heard of Second City, I'd recommend that you get off your ass and run down to Toronto to see a show. The one my class saw was PHENOMENAL (teacher word right there). It was called "Dreams Really Do Come True (and other lies)".

Second City -- if I forgot to mention-- is a comedy club, where improv theatre is the beginning of all of the sketches. So basically the actors all improvise in front of an audience, and see their reactions. A director then puts all of the good chunks of comedy into a show and modifies the chunks to make them even funnier. It was pretty excellent. 

Now to leave with a song... I want to play the Kinks songs, 'Lola' and  'Sunny Afternoon'. 

I'm really into the Kinks right now, they're really good, and I love the lead singer's voice. 

-Augusta

December=Christmas

Maaaaah. I don't really want christmas to begin yet. I know, I'm a humbug, but as soon as December starts, Christmas songs start clogging the airways, and frantic shoppers start rushing to the mall, ugh. Commercalism. Consumerism.

I know. Pretentious.

However, winter's coming, and to start the WINTER season off, I decided to make some hand balm. I love making lip balm, but I have so much that this batch would disappear beneath the mounds and mounds cluttering my bedroom table, also, I wanted to try out some bergamot essential oil. SO, searching for a good recipe for hand balm, I stumbled apon this amazing blog, it's called 'A Sonoma Garden' and it has great tutorials for lip balm, hand lotions, and a lavender wand. Check out the lavender wand, it's really smart!

Anyway, I was making the recipe for beeswax lotion, and I realized that I should really be taking pictures. oops. But I have some finished product pictures, so take a peek! I would really recommend this recipe to anyone. For my version, I put half a cup of olive oil, and the other half sweet almond oil. It works fine, and the bergamot with the beeswax makes the balm smell very festive! Another one I want to try on this website is the deodorant. It looks pretty sweet.

Mmm. Smooth hands. :)

Well, I'm off now to march down the street in the Santa Claus parade. It's with my school, I'm not just marching alone down the middle of the street like a dork.. 

And I'm off to Queens park with my school on Monday to protest PCVS' closure! 

Bye!

Augusta

Lots of Exciting Stuff.

Okay, so I kind of just DROVE A CAR FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. It was really amazing and fun and easy! (aside from staying on the road) And it was an automatic, so most of the work is done for you...

Also, I was reading Jemma's blog and her post on AMAZING SHORT FILMS. It reminded me of how much I love NFB films. I think I already told you to check them out in my first post... so do it! 'Cause there are some really cool Canadian indie films on that site!! Anyway, I remembered these two films, and I think I'll put them on this page, because they're just that awesome.

Or you can check them out on the NFB site, this will be some leeway for you to browse some other videos on the site!!!

http://www.nfb.ca/film/blackfly/

http://www.nfb.ca/film/big_snit/

Happy Friday!!!!!!!