When you're strange faces come out of the rain/When you're strange no one remembers your name

I had another sweetness adventure today. Mi dia was like zis:

Aurora left the door open, so Bailey was on my pillow, and me being uncomfortable from him plus Smells and Schink making lots of noise upstairs made it so I couldn't fall back asleep, so I just got up at kill-me-dead 6:45am and went upstairs and played piano. Smells and Schink were still home, and Mum did Smell's hair last night, so I took a couple pics of it. She looked cute. Her hair's really long, and she wants to cut it. I fear she may be turn out to be like me in that respect. But they left, and I did piano for a bit more, then sorted through some recipes online in my online recipe box. Then I made some bread in the bread machine at 8:45-ish, and then sorted summore. Da came home from being on call around 9:30-10:00-ish, and he had breakfast, then I had breakfast (I mixed together plain cheerios, honey-nut, and banana-nut cheerios. I like mixing cereals; one time, I mixed together oatmeal, wheat chex, plain cheerios, and caramel fiber-one). Then at 11-ish Mum got up, and I put on some music and made her some cream of wheat, then baked some awesome cookies and some not-so-good lemon bars. They weren't lemon-y enough. But the cookies were these:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Raspberry-and-Almond-Shortbread-Thumbprints/Detail.aspx

They're so good. And I now know that I love almond extract, and that it smells like delicious. But it doesn't taste delicious when licked from the teaspoon. Neither does vanilla taste delicious. But straight vanilla tastes better than straight almond.

After that, I got dressed, and explored the forest.

And THAT was a sweetness adventure.

The past couple of times that I've explored the forest, I've not gone that far out; maybe walked for 10 mins at the most. I'm always alone, so I'm afraid of getting lost (and one time I did, but not horribly). But this time I followed the footprints that I made about a week ago, and went further, and made handprints in the snow, so I knew where I'd been and which way to go. I discovered houses, "Keep Out" signs, various animal tracks, and deer poo. The forest goes on for a LOT longer than I thought. I also found the highway. It was just so awesome; you had to be there to understand. 

Now let's step back a minute. Can you picture me in K-Ville, fresh from Cali, complaining that there was nothing to do; that everything was all hickish; that I missed the suburban area with all its shopping and hollowness and shallowness?

And now here I am, and I don't want to go back to that. I like this wilderness. That doesn't mean I like MI, because there really is NOTHING to do here unless you have money, but I like being near nature, being out in nature, exploring it, listening to it, observing it. I think if the me then knew the me now, I'd hate myself. But I hate who I was, so it's okay.

My journeying took about an hour, then I came back, had lunch, played piano a bit more, then went with Mum and Da on errands. We came back, I DDR'd, then worked on the FHE lesson that Schink was doing, then heated up dinner, and we had dinner. 

I don't remember what I did after that, but then I tried to paint, and wasn't in the mood, so I opted to photo instead, and did that, then paused for FHE, then did it some more. I had taken some pictures already, and was setting up in a different area, and got everything all perfect, and then my camera decided that it was time to die, and it did. So I plugged it in, DDR'd some more, then went back and took some more photos. After 45-ish minutes, may have been an hour; I dunno, I don't keep time when I'm in there; my camera died again. I was disappointed, but also glad: I was getting some REALLY REALLY awesome photos, but I was tired, and it's a hassle having to set the timer, and wait, and all that. I only had 100-something photos left, but that was 100-something photos that could have been awesome...eh.

And now I'm listening to music and typing this and editing photos, because I'm just dumb like that. There's this artist named Allison Harvard whose artwork and photos are AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING, and I LOVE her style, and she is so beautiful. There's this photo of hers that I got inspiration from, and tonight's set was done with that inspiration in my head. There's also this song that I'm trying to get a photo to match, and if I get the right photo, I'll post the song and the photo.

I'm really wishing now that I had a photography class, and a real studio, and a nice camera. But I'm glad for what I have.

Back to photo editing. I need to use the loo. Pardon.