Recipe! and deciding to go mostly vegetarian.

I'm feeling much better now, and my birthday is tomorrow. (25!) So here's a recipe of something I made last night.

Edamame and Corn salad

You'll need
1 pkg. frozen edamame (can be found in the frozen vegetarian section).
1 can Mexican style corn
1 can whole kernel sweet corn
1 can black beans
1/2 jar mixed vegetable bruschetta
some olive oil, to make the bruschetta stretch since it's quite expensive.

Prepare frozen edamame according to the package directions in the biggest pot you own, since you're just going to mix all the rest of the stuff in with it once the edamame is ready. Can be served cold or warm. Makes like 8 servings, or 4 if you like to eat. The bruschetta costs like $7 but it you make it stretch, it's really not that bad. Total cost for all 8 servings is not much, especially if you get the edamame on sale. Some weeks you can get 2 packages for $5, so buy a lot then and leave it in your freezer.

Eating on a budget...weeeeee!

I have decided to go mostly vegetarian. Of course I still have meat in the house but once that's gone I've pretty much decided not to buy it anymore. It's so darn expensive! Having food poisoning 4 times in the past year really makes you re-think what you eat. Even I am cutting down on pasta, since I have a sinking suspicion that my stomach really can't digest it and it's doing more harm than good.

So here's to getting sick LESS in 2009!

I'm back!

Okay....maybe I didn't go anywhere to begin with. HA. First off, my apologies for not posting anything in over a month. The post office had me running ragged (and they still do, just not as often. lol) Mom ended up in the hospital the weekend of Father's Day because she had an esophagus spasm (which has the same symptoms of a heart attack, so the hospital wanted to make sure it wasn't one). We DID go up Lantern Hill about a week later with my grandfather (see Indy in the last post!), so here's some pictures!

Resting just before the top (490 feet).

Over near the silica mine after coming down from the top, looking for quartz crystals!

Mom found a turkey buzzard feather, which made her happy :).

Strange carved stone in the woods bearing the number 3. An old railroad used to circle Lantern Hill until about WWI, so maybe this is a leftover from back then, or earlier? There are several old foundations around the base as well.
BUTTONS. These buttons came from Mig, (my mom's boyfriend's mother). She's a professional seamstress but said she had no use for these buttons anymore, and some of these even belonged to her mother. I spent weeks sorting through these picking out ones I wanted to keep vs. ones I want to sell (keep an eye out on Etsy, these buttons will be making their appearance shortly!)Oh yeah, and I went digging for an hour one day. I wish it could have been longer but all I found was half a doll head and a broken vaseline glass thing (heartbreakers!). I also found a tiny Listerine bottle.
FINALLY, I moved into my office area, so here's my new workspace! Yeah, it's crammed and tiny, but it will have to do. :)
This is the room I do my Etsy shipping out of, but that part of the room is not so photogenic at the moment.
To celebrate, I made some fruit-rollup "sushi" with home-made rice-krispy treat & gusher filling and fruit rollup. This was so much fun to make, not to mention now I know how to make my own rice-krispy treats (incredibly easy).

The following are some product photos I took for Etsy that are not just photos, but also art! How fun is that? Avocado Art Glass Fruit Bowl & Candy Dish, $25

Number 107, my latest Steampunk creation! $35

Kodak Kodascope Eight 33, movie projector, $50

And this beauty... I think I'll actually hate parting with it because it's so vibrant and colorful, not to mention one of my favorite colors! 1968 Remington Ten Forty Typewriter (works!) - $55.

So that's what I've been up to...busy month! I hope to post pictures of me outside the post office truck, but I actually don't have any yet. I'll be delivering my grandparent's mail tomorrow though, so they'll probably take some of me next to the truck :D.

Good Friday, Good Afternoon...

Oh, this week. I left my ATM card at Newbury Comics in Warwick, RI on Tuesday and had to go pick it up yesterday. I ended up driving 180 miles total, yesterday. The more I drive Sophie Saab, the better she runs!


From Newbury Comics, I headed to Beavertail in Jamestown, RI. It was windy and the water was choppy & dangerous, so I didn't hunt sea glass there but did get some nice photos.

From Beavertail I went to --where else?-- Narragansett! I found an amazing lot of sea glass once again, so that's 2/2 for Narragansett & Point Judith. Can't wait to hunt for sea glass when it's more safe at Beavertail or the Newport beaches.

Finds of the day!

My first broken bit of dinnerware with a pattern! It's not that old but still cool.

Large bit of a coke bottle. I have yet to figure out why Scarborough has huge bits of very weathered glass, while the rest of the beaches just have the small standard-sized shards.

This bottle was also a Scarborough find--what a surprise when I held it up to the light! Can any bottle collectors out there identify it for me?

I was very happy to find this "black" piece at Narragansett...

...because according to its color, it's older than 1860!

They say that 1 in 200-300 pieces found will be cobalt blue.

Total sea glass finds for the day! 120 pieces. My collection has grown from 6 pieces on March 6, to 420 pieces today.

I didn't stay long at the beaches or make it a day trip--I had so many other plans for the day! I left Newbury Comics at 9:55 and left the beaches at 12:45.