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I wish I could rename this blog to "Anna loves pie."

Because I do.

And because I love pie, I'm trying to find a Wii Fit. Anyone who's tried to buy one knows that they are elusive and rare. I've even signed up for an RSS fedd on Wii Fit Tracker, that's supposed to tell me when they're in stock at one of the websites they track. Alas, it's done me no good. One of these days, I'll get one. And then I'll have no excuse.

Crap.

I really want some pie.

Well, not really.
I'm just always seem to be hungry when I log in to this place.

And here is today's Monday Haiku! (It is still Monday, right? I'm losing track of the days.)

The vending machine
Steals my money, makes me sad.
I wanted candy.

I think maybe I'm spread a little too thin.

But here's a Monday Haiku!

Oh, so so hungry.
I should make something to eat.
*sigh* Too much effort.

I've been in a beady mood lately and have been making a lot of jewelry. Some of this stuff is for sale. If you're interested in buying, just ask.

So this one is made from coral and apple jasper, and super long. I haven't measured it yet, but it's probably getting close to 5 feet. The benefit of long necklaces is that there are more than one way to wear them, simply by wrapping them around your neck more times. I can get this one around 4 times, although it's a little tight. I'm thinking of adding another 6 inches to it, so that's a little more comfortable. The brown beads are the apple jasper, and in better light they're speckled red and brown.

These next earrings were really simple. I just bought the shells at the bead store and attached them to earring wires. They're a little on the big side. I don't think I could get away with wearing such large earrings, but the person they are intended for as a gift could.

These are just garnet drops on chandelier bases. Most earrings are pretty quick to make, but ones like these can take hours, depending on how much I screw up. I think these were  three or four hours.

Another quick pair. Green glass beads on copper.

Oh my freaking god, I love these earrings so much. The were my mom's design originally; she picked out the beads and I helped make her a pair. I liked them so much, I made my own, although I used a different chain, and they're quite a bit longer than Mom's. I get so many compliments on them, even from complete strangers.

These are just glass pearls and silver-plated chain. Pretty quick, although you have to count the links in the chain to make sure both earrings are even. There's a matching necklace.

See? Matching necklace. It's pretty long, and I'll be adding a clasp soon to make it easy to wrap around the neck.

This bracelet was tricky to take a picture of. It's a stretchy cuff bracelet, made with cherry quartz.

This is one of my favorite necklaces. It's black freshwater pearls and stering silver chain. The chain was a gift from my mom.

I just made this one a couple days ago. It's made from shell, adventurine, and amazonite beads, seperated by links of silver-plated chain. I had originally intended to sell it, but the chain is flimsy. I don't want someone to pay money for something that might fall apart, so I'll keep it for myself. When it breaks, I can fix it easily enough.

So that's most of what I've made recently. There's been other stuff, but I'm really bad about making things and giving them away before I can photograph them.

So I was thinking.
This blog is neglected. Sad.
I hope to post more.

Where is the farthest you have ever been away from home? Did you get homesick? 
Submitted by Melissa.

I don't seem to get homesick for places anymore, I get homesick for people.

A soliloquy
Is like a monologue, but
Spelled dif-fer-rent-ly.

Close to the window
Feel the cold air on my face
Wind rustles the trees

What is the most interesting class you have ever taken? 
Submitted by Melissa. 

I have taken so many classes over the years; it would be really difficult to say which was the most interesting. I think my favorite classes have been in food science and food microbiology. It's awesome learning how food works. It's different than nutrition in that it's concerned with the chemistry of food itself, rather than the biochemistry of how food is used in the body. It's not something a lot of people think about, but there are chemical interactions going on in that bread or that pie, or that piece of dried fruit that make it what it is. The browning on the outside of the bread that makes the crust wouldn't happen if it weren't for a chemical reaction known as Maillard Browning. The heat in the oven causes a chain reaction between amino acids and sugars that ultimately results in the crusty brown deliciousness on the outside of bread. Why do we put baking powder in cake? Because that baking powder consists of two powdered chemicals, usually cream of tartar and baking soda (soda bicarbonate). When you mix the powder into the batter, cream of tartar and baking soda are able to react to one another, and produce CO2 gas. The CO2 gets trapped in the batter, making a lighter, more fluffy cake.

Anyway, that was my food science tangent. I also really loved geology and found that fascinating. And biology. And anything ending in -ology. Learning how things work is my favorite part of school.

If a waiter stopped by right now to take your order, what cocktail or drink are you having?

Tonight, Anthony and I celebrated our anniversary, by seeing a movie and going to dinner. It's been a particularly long week for me, so I didn't feel the slightest bit guilty ordering a mandarin blush. It was mandarin vodka, and a few other things. It was tasty, but I really should have gone with a cosmo or a lemon drop.