Not going to lie...

...because I definitely wear sweatpants for most of the day.

Come home from class? sweatpants. Bedtime? Sweatpants. Any point when I don't have to interact with people I don't know? Sweatpants! Just the comfiest!

Haha...what kind of a facial expression am I making there? oh goodness.

So, what I wanted to say was that for the second week in a row, my Legacies of Mesoamerica class has been cancelled due to unknown reasons. Dang it Geoff! At this rate, I'm not going to go illustrated anything else for the rest of the year because he's got the lab keys...it's his lab. Christina, Chip, Kelsey, and I did have a lovely little sit around after going to tims though which was nice! I do love hanging out with all of them. Zoo on sunday!

In terms of work I have to be doing...I'm working on a paper right now. I have another paper due on Thursday which I have finished. (just hope the prof likes it! arg!) I finished anooooother paper, just to get it out of the way, as it isn't due until the very last day of classes. I've got a 5000-word paper due a month from friday, but the prof hasn't given us much about it so no one has actually started..which is horrible because we have to actually do a short presentation about that paper...the week before it's due. Who is actually going to have it done by then?! me..probably. haha...
There is also a 'marketing project' in the same class as the long paper, which is due in two weeks, and we all know absolutely NOTHING about.
And a group project in my other museum class which we also know nothing of, but it isn't til the end of classes either. And a quiz a week from yesterday.
And 3 midterms in two weeks. (studying has commenced. oh tlaloc why?!)
And...some finals.
And article reviews (I have to do one or two before thursday! ack!)

On the upside...it will make the next two months pass pretty quickly! If I have an unmelted brain by the end of it, everyone please clap.

In other news, I turn 20 on Sunday.

MapleSheep.

So Jimmy and I are starting at Etsy.com shop pretty soon, and this is probably going to be the first of many posts about that!
I got home from my cancelled first lecture of the day to discover that he had went ahead and started a facebook page for the shop, to promote it to friends and what-have-you, so I thought I'd give it a shave through here...

You (yes YOU) can find the official MapleSheep Shop RIGHT HERE!

Go! Go everyone who reads this, like the page and follow us on our adventure to start a knit/crochet/art shop on etsy pretty soon now!
And you know?
I think I might make tiny postcard sets to sell as well. Perhaps in sets of three? Yes!

Sunday!

The other day I made stew, and it actually turned out well!

Over that same night, Katelyn made chilli on a ten-hour cycle in the slow-cooker, and when I woke up everything smelled like it. Amazing!

Then we made pulled chicken quesadillas after I worked at the theatre yesterday night and they were also amazing~ Note hope Katelyn has chosen the food over her textbooks, and started using them as a table in the last photo there.

Unfortunately today is the last day of the happily called 'awesome food week' (reading break), and soon it will be back to the books. I've been working on the new Chacmool poster, and that is my main mission for the day...to get some small ships drawn and set into the image. We shall see how that goes!!

Reading Week Food Adventures (part 2)

Here on reading week cooking part two...I made my favourite pasta sauce of all time, of which I don't really know the name of. But I call it 'Pasta-Veggie Sauce' ! (mildly editted to fit what we had)

Finely chop an onion, 2 cloves of garlic, a few tomatoes, 2 or 3 carrots, and two sticks of celery. Put in a pot with a can of tomato sauce/paste and some chili pepper flakes, and simmer on the stove with the lid partly on for 45 minutes to an hour.
After 45 minutes to an hour, blend it into a puréed mass in the blender, then add 1/4th cup of olive oil, and return to the stove for 15 minutes with the lit fully on (after you've stirred in the oil!!).
During this time, cook your pasta.

Tada!

(This was yesterday's. Today Katelyn will make something~)

Reading Week Food Adventures (part 1)

My roommate Katelyn and I decided that during this year's reading week we would actually cook something nice every day! We went on a huge grocery-shop and got enough food to last us until probably mid-late March, and sort of planned out meals for the rest of the week!

Today I made us potato pizza! We opted out of making the pizza dough ourselves, but that might be attempted sometime in the future... hmm..

You slice the potato up as thin as you can, and coat them in a bowl with 1 tbsp of olive oil and some basil (we used basil, at least!), before laying them on an olive oil brushed pizza base, and putting in the oven at 400.F for 10-15 minutes depending on how awesome the oven is, I guess! Then some pieces of a light cheese, another 5 minutes in the oven, and eat!

It was pretty awesome!
Then I made jello, watched Bones, talked to Jim, talked to my family...and have not done any work. Good first day off!

St. Valentine's Beheading Day!

So, uhh, Jim did something lovely!

He somehow sent me a bouquet of flowers...that are cookies. Heart-shaped cookies. A Bouquet of Heart-Shaped Cookies on Valentine's Day!!

I'm overwhelmed!

(Pictured is a surprised me, and two of the large amount of <3 cookies..)
Shortly after taking this picture, I may have eaten too, even though I'm (most likely) not supposed to eat wheat things anymore. Too bad, digestive system! The Gentleman sent me cookies!!!

I'll stop being girlie now, and go back to task of drawing a battle for Chacmool's next conference... I guess.. (or both at once...)

<3

Cosmetic Ink

After a lovely evening of crafts and making lovely things for lovely gentlemen with my friend Amy all evening, I painted that nice thing on my air instead of doing some reading.

The reading isn't needed til the end of the week anyways..?

also,
(Happy Valentine's Day, Jim!)