signed, sealed, delivered.

My friend Ashley invited me over for a craft night last night, she showed me how to make an awesome carved stamp!! She made the russian doll and I made PIZZA!!! I mean, there was no other logical stamp for me to make, my brain is probably 3/4ths pizza by now. My frontal lobe is a tomato. Instead of a labotomy I would get... kabobbed?

Thanks Ashley for letting me use your supplies! I want to make tons more! Hopefully someone will buy me all the supplies I need for my birthday next week. hint hint.

Over and done with

My grandfather has finally been "memorialized" an entire month and a half later. It was a short and sweet ceremony, almost everyone said something, and there were maybe about 25 people in attendance. I enlarged a picture of me and him and my niece Jenelle on the swingset in the back yard. My Aunt Pat loved it so much I let her take it home. Afterwards we went to the house and ate and talked. Soon it came time to have a family meeting and discuss the business of who gets what. We're coming back in a few weeks to take whatever we want and estate sale the rest. Once all of that is taken care of we're throwing everything else out and cleaning the house and trying to sell it. It's probably going to be demolished, which makes me sad since I spent the majority of my life there. The house changes more and more every time I am there, the phone number was even changed because they couldn't afford the bill. That made me sad because I have known that number my whole life. I guess it's okay to have the wonderful memories live on even if the house can't. Letting go is the hardest part.

SOY!

Riot grrrl pizza party!!

I am working on a little snippet for my friends zine! but here it is now for you guys since the zine is not widely available! I might change it up a little but I wanted to post it before I forgot!

riot grrrl pizza party!!

One of the things that always bothered me about pizza is how often it is regarded as JUNK FOOD! I mean c'mon!! Pizza is super good for you if you do it right! The only thing that's unhealthy about it is the mountains of cheese "fat America" puts all over it! Let's work together to make pizza a shining beacon of health! Hell let's make it a food group (the way I consume it, it could be!) Why do you think people in Italy live so damn long? It's the pizza!!!

Let's start with the crust! Pizza dough is made out of basically:

flour - that's wheat, it's a grain! grains are fucking healthy!

olive oil- which is super good for your skin! (you pretty pretty thing you!) it's also an antioxidant and good for digestion and keeping your cholesterol in check! (that might help you balance out the mountain of cheese but you should probably do some sit ups just in case!)

Yeast - IT'S ALIVE!!

Sugar - Only a little bit to activate the yeast, If yeast was a zombie, sugar would be it's BRAINS!!!


salt - just a pinch! Sodium is good for you in small doses and needs to be replenished after you sweat a lot or exercise! It helps your cells maintain their fluid levels and one of the symptoms of sodium deficiency is flatulence aka FARTS! So if you have a hot date make sure to eat some pita chips before or something! NO BEAN DIP!

Well then, crust isn't so scary is it? Maybe next time you won't leave its discarded corpse lying on your plate to be tossed in a landfill! Pizza has feelings too! (okay it really doesn't but I am an eccentric weirdo that personalizes food) On to the Toppings!

Tomato Sauce/Tomatoes: Tomatoes are a fruit! They are a member of the deadly nightshade family and were thought to be extremely poisonous up until about 1820! Tomatoes contain large amounts of vitamin C and also have a good amount of Vitamin A, Potassium, and Iron! Tomatoes also contain loads and loads of Lycopene which is an antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in your body! Harvard researchers have discovered that men who eat 10 servings of tomatoes a week (AKA 10 slices of pizza) can cut the risk of developing prostate cancer by up to 45%!! Italian science nerds also discovered that eating 7 or more servings of raw tomatoes a week can lower the risk or developing rectal, colon, or stomach cancers by 60%!! AND nerd dudes in Israel discovered that lycopene is a powerful inhibitor of lung, breast and endometrial (that's your uterus wall) cancers!

Onions have fiber are a rich source of healthy sulfur compounds! They have cardiovascular benefits too, like reducing your blood pressure and cholestorol levels! Onions also contain Chromium which helps your body respond to insulin and keeps your blood sugar in check!

Garlic cleanses your blood and has a lot of antibiotic qualities! It is considered by some to be a cure all and might even help with your acne! it's anti- bacterial and has 1% the potency of penicillin but unlike antibiotics, most bacteria can't develop a resistance to garlic! One clove a day will keep you healthy, two cloves a day can ward off colds! Garlic is magic and gives you awesome breath!

Mushrooms are an excellent source of potassium, and a rich source of selenium which is an antioxidant that works with vitamin E to protect cells from the damaging effects of free radicals! Those darn free radicals are always trying to ruin my day!

There are also tons more, less conventional but still good for you toppings! So figure out your favorite combo and roll with it! So if I haven't convinced you to get in the kitchen and start kneading by now I don't know what will! Hopefully at least I got your mouth all watery and maybe that will motivate you to at least reach for the phone and call the delivery guy! But trust me, homemade always tastes better! Thanks for reading my angry pizza rant! And please please PLEASE stop using the "J word" when referring to my beloved pizza food!

listening to bikini kill...

...makes me want to wear pretty dresses and smash shit.

I've got to admit it's getting better.

It's getting better all the time.

I feel more positive, more productive and overall better. I can't say that I wasn't those things before, but I feel them even stronger now. I feel like I can do anything and that's really cool.

Pole beans day 8!