Put Away Your Dancing Shoes

kyrakitty @ 2009-07-17T14:48:00

2009-07-17T19:48:23Z

Poll: What scent do you associate with yourself? Why? What scent would like to associate with yourself?

kyrakitty @ 2009-07-07T02:31:00

2009-07-07T07:35:39Z

I cleaned my room, got my oil changed, and wore make up tonight. It was a pretty good feeling all around.

I took these pictures, because I thought Mei would appreciate this style. It's pretty 80's, but I was happy with it.

Also, here is this meme. I've done it before, but I'm doing it again. Circle jerk!

One little compliment can make you feel amazing. So give me a compliment, anything in the entire world, even that my shoelaces are pretty. Put this in your journal. And once you get some comments, put that entry in a memory or tag and when you are feeling down, just go to that entry and this will remind you how great you are.

Comments are screened so only I will know what is said, or if no one feels like catering to my demands. I hope that I did this in a way that still allows anonymous.

kyrakitty @ 2009-07-01T22:01:00

2009-07-02T03:34:02Z

Matcha Shortbread Cookies

3/4 c powdered sugar
5 oz butter
1 tsp butter flavoring
1 3/4 c flour
4 medium egg yolks
1 1/2 tbs matcha green tea powder
1 c or so granulated sugar

1. Whisk together green tea and powdered sugar.

2. Cut butter into small squares. Add the butter and green tea/sugar mixture to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix until smooth and light in color. Add butter flavoring, and mix in well.

3. Fold in flour, and mix in.

4. Mix in egg yolks, but don't over mix.

5. Refrigerate dough for at least thirty minutes.

6. Preheat oven at 350°.

7. Pull out dough and roll out until about 1/2" thick. Cut out into squares, or using cutter.

8. Put granulated sugar in bowl, and drop each cookie into bowl, covering the outside in the sugar.

9. Put on cookie tray and cook for 12-15 minutes, or until edges are golden brown.

kyrakitty @ 2009-06-27T16:40:00

2009-06-27T21:41:41Z

Feeling good today. Vacation. Time to get ready to go up to Dallas.

Going to see about making a driving mix real fast. Leave me song suggestions/mp3's here, plx.

kyrakitty @ 2009-06-19T01:04:00

2009-06-19T06:05:05Z

If you are reading this right now, you have more luxury than someone in Iran could ever hope for right now. If you are watching TV or a video on youtube, updating your status on Facebook, Tweeting, or even texting your friend, you are lucky. If you are safe in your home, and were able to sleep last night without the sounds of screaming from the rooftops, you need to know and understand what is happening to people just like you in Iran right now.

They are not the enemy. They are a people whose election has been stolen. For the first time in a long time, a voice for change struck the youth of Iran, just as it did for many people in the United States only seven months ago. Hossein Mousavi gained the support of millions of people in Iran as a Presidential candidate. He stands for progressiveness. He supports good relations with the West, and the rest of the world. He is supported with fervor as he challenges the oppressive regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

On Friday, millions of people waited for hours in line to vote in Iran's Presidential election. Later that night, as votes came in, Mousavi was alerted that he was winning by a two-thirds margin. Then there was a change. Suddenly, it was Ahmadinejad who had 68% of the vote - in areas which have been firmly against his political party, he overwhelmingly won. Within three hours, millions of votes were supposedly counted - the victor was Ahmadinejad. Immediately fraud was suspected - there was no way he could have won by this great a margin with such oppposition. Since then, reports have been coming in of burned ballots, or in some cases numbers being given without any being counted at all. None of this is confirmed, but what happened next seems to do the trick.

The people of Iran took the streets and rooftops. They shout "Death to the dictator" and "Allah o akbar." They join together to protest. Peacefully. The police attack some, but they stay strong. Riots happen, and the shouting continues all night. Text messaging was disabled, as was satellite, and websites which can spread information such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and the BBC are blocked in the country. At five in the morning, Arabic speaking soldiers (the people of Iran speak Farsi) stormed a university in the capital city of Tehran. While sleeping in their dormitories, five students were killed. Others were wounded. These soldiers are thought to have been brought in by Ahmadinejad from Lebanon. Today, 192 of the university's faculty have resigned in protest.

Mousavi requested that the government allow a peaceful rally to occur this morning - the request was denied. Many thought that it would not happen. Nevertheless, first a few thousand people showed up in the streets of Tehran. At this point, it is estimated that 1 to 2 million people were there. Mousavi spoke on the top of a car. The police stood by. For a few hours, everything was peaceful. Right now, the same cannot be said. Reports of injuries, shootings, and killings are flooding the internet. Twitter has been an invaluable source - those in Iran who still know how to access it are updating regularly with picture evidence. People are being brutally beaten. Tonight will be another night without rest for so many in Iran no older than I am. Tonight there is a Green Revolution.

For more information:
PICTURES:
here and here
NEW INFORMATION:
Here - near constant updates
Here - ONTD_political live post
ON TWITTER:
@StopAhmadi, @ProtesterHelp

دنیارابگوییدچطورآنهاانتخاباتمان دزدیده اند
Tell the world how they have stolen our election

- original post by one_hoopy_frood

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This is the closest you'll get to a con report.

2009-06-08T18:15:28Z

I was going to post these, and explain each stupid picture. But there are so many that the best you'll get is them in chronological order. If you're lucky. Watch out. This is intensely picture heavy. And if you have any questions about any specific pictures, please ask. Not all can be explained, but I can try.

Teaser:

FRIDAY

Saturday

The End

kyrakitty @ 2009-05-02T02:00:00

2009-05-02T07:01:43Z

No one would happen to have any good screenshots of Robin's backpack during Shabondy would they?

Yes, those are the cookies I made today. They're gorgeous.

2009-01-26T20:55:51Z

I need a place to put my really good cookie recipes so I can always snag them. So I'mma start doing that. I just made some fantastic cookies.

Peanut Butter Munchies

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp almond extract
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 tbsp granulated sugar

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Stir together flour, cocoa powder and baking soda; set aside.

2. In large bowl, combine 1/2 cup granulated sugar, brown sugar, butter and 1/4 cup peanut butter. Beat with electric mixer until combined. Beat in egg, milk, vanilla and almond. Beat in as much of the flour mixture as you can with mixer. Stir in any remaining flour mixture. Shape dough into 1 1/4-inch balls; set aside.

3. For filling: In small bowl, combine powdered sugar and 1/2 cup peanut butter. Beat until smooth (if necessary, use your hands). Shape into one ball per ball of dough.

4. To shape cookies, slightly flatten a chocolate ball and top with a peanut butter ball. Shape chocolate dough around peanut butter filling, completely covering filling. Reshape into ball. Repeat with remaining chocolate dough balls and peanut butter filling balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Dip bottom of glass in 2 tablespoons granulated sugar and flatten each ball slightly.

5. Bake about 8 minutes or just until cookies are set and tops are slightly cracked. Let cool.

Now I just need a cookies icon.

kyrakitty @ 2008-12-10T01:46:00

2008-12-10T07:48:30Z

why do I ever dirnk? ALl it ever does is casue problems.

Oh.

Right.

Escapism.

OLOLOLOLOLOLOlOL

Yes, we can. And that means so much.

2008-11-06T16:07:04Z

To all the Obama haters out there, even to all the people that just feel mild dislike, or don't care for him either way, I cannot understand you. There is some way that things work in your brain, and I simply can't conceive of it.

November 4th was a tremendous victory for America. It was a tremendous victory for 95% of the population. Yes, even the people that voted McCain. For eight years, eight years we've had a president who not only bumbled his way through office, too incompetent to realize that he was destroying most everything that made us great and too selfish to see and care that we, as a nation, were hurting.

I am tired of hearing the upper crust tell me what to do, how to feel, where to spend my money. I am tired of being treated like less of a person because I am not rich. Because I don't own a home, a car or a flat screen TV. I am tired of the top 5% holding 40% of this nations money, and contributing less than 50% in taxes (if they even pay, and don't find loopholes out of it).

Obama is not some miracle savior. I know this. He's just a man. He's a man who felt obligated to step up, even though it will be stress and strain on his body, his family and his sanity. He's a man who knew the nation was in trouble, and decided to come forward, regardless of the fact that people would try to kill him even before he got elected.

I don't understand what there isn't to like about this man. He has an economic policy that will work, one that will give most all of us a fighting chance at building the business or career that we would all love to build. He's trying to bring back the American dream, and make opportunity possible. He plans to get us out of a war that cannot be won. Not by us, or anyone. He wants to make it so we can all get an education, become better, smarter people. This way it won't only be the rich with a shot at a career. He wants to make it so if I get sick, or you get sick, or your child gets sick, then you can go to the hospital. You can get treated, and not be scared how you'll make rent if you get something checked out. He's made Europe like us again. In one day.

So, to all the Obama haters out there, or even people who say that the choice between McCain and Obama was picking the better of two evils, I don't understand you. I cannot conceive of remaining so blind to something so rare. This is a politician who gives a shit. This is a politician who has good policies, and falls back on reasonable thinking rather than fear mongering. He speaks to the people as though they can understand reasonable thinking, and for the first time in a very long time, we've proven we can.

Yes, we can step out of this debt. Yes, we can see our boys in the military come home. Yes, we can open our eyes, and give everyone equal rights. Yes, we can remind ourselves that the community, the nation is bigger than the individual. Yes, we can have a man representing us that does not feel we owe him, but rather knows that he owes us. And yes, we can realize that we all owe our nation.

We're a part of something, like never before. We can make a difference, and we're finally getting off of our asses to do it.

kyrakitty @ 2008-11-04T15:16:00

2008-11-04T21:17:59Z

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE, BITCHES.

kyrakitty @ 2008-10-15T23:12:00

2008-10-16T04:16:54Z

Obama is m-m-moe~

So, today I went to school and found out Kevin, one of the dudes in my Graphic Communications class reads One Piece. WAT. He's caught up. He was like, "Yeah, well, I read it in Chinese." And I told him, "Whatever. I read it in English. It's not like either of those are the original language it was published in." So I think that's awesome.

Also, the teacher in that class I think has a thing for me? At LEAST a, "this student does all the homework" thing for me. But he totally singled me out because I'm like, the only one who said anything during critique. I also tsked him later. So it's all good.

My English class totally sucks, though. Because my professor is the worst at giving us direction. The worst. I would like to actually... learn anything. It just feels like I'm wasting my time in there. :I

Tonight at work was fine. One of our customers asked if I lost weight. That was awesome. :D

kyrakitty @ 2008-08-28T00:50:00

2008-08-28T06:12:16Z

You know when things just keeping getting ridiculously worse, and all of a sudden it circles around from being horribly depressing to just being depressingly funny. Because it's just that ridiculous.

Haha, wow, my life.

Okay, so. Forrest moves out. That's mega depressing. But hey, at least I can make my room mine. Only, I can't. Because lots of his and Nile's stuff is still here. Okay. I try to deal with that. Then the AC starts leaking directly into my room, making me have to tear it apart and rip up the carpet. Forrest comes down for a night and takes all of his stuff that he cares to. Dad tries to fix AC. Realizes that he'll really just have to replace it. It's too far gone. Who knows when they'll be able to afford that. So my room is in horrible, soggy disarray for who knows how long.

I decide to go back to school. After quite a few road bumps, I manage to get enrolled and start going. Only, I owe them 3,000 dollars by November, or else. I try to get financial aid, but I'm awarded nothing. Right now I've been asked to be put on a list to see if I'll get an award. According to the guy I talked to, it is only a maybe as to whether or not I'll be awarded anything. And I won't even know when or if I'll get anything until an undisclosed amount of time. This means that I'm holding out, hoping for financial aid, not knowing if I'll get anything. If I don't get anything, I have to take a private loan out, which will end up with me paying about 5,000 dollars for this semester. And I can't just drop out now and cut my book related losses. Because Nile's fafsa said I was also going to school, I need to stay in school. If I drop out, it affects how much money he gets. And he is broke and working and trying to go to school, too.

Tonight dad's transmission just died. This is absolutely terrible for our family. It's the only car among the three of us (me, my dad, my mom) right now. My parents are flat broke, so I offered up my down payment savings for the 2009 Fit that they should get in September to help fix it up once he can get it looked at. This is something that needs to be taken care of for our family immediately. And aside from the gigantic monetary problem this causes, there are also issues like, "How are people getting to work and school?"

This leads into another thing. This is really little, but... ah. So, Tokio Hotel is playing in Houston. Rich and I got tickets, super excited to see them. Somehow both of us confused the 28th for this Friday, not this Thursday. So both of us made sure to get this Friday, not this Thursday covered (even though I kept saying "Friday the 28th", and no one noticed anything wrong with that). My boss told me to go anyway, and that she would work the shift alone, because I was looking forward to it. Rich can't go, and I have no idea how I'll even get there. Obviously it's not worth it to try to go, and I should just work my shift with all of that together. It's a little, thing, obviously. Really trivial. But I think it's pretty good icing on this cake.

I swear, this year is a test of endurance and strength of character. Granted, I don't have it nearly as hard as some people. But still. Really, the universe? Really?

Just something for school.

2008-08-27T06:11:34Z

JAMAICA KINCAID: "Girl"

Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don't walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn't have gum on it, because that way it won't hold up well after a wash; soak salt fish overnight before you cook it; is it true that you sing benna in Sunday school?; always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach; on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming; don't sing benna in Sunday school; you mustn't speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions; don't eat fruits on the street--flies will follow you; but I don't sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school; this is how to sew on a button; this is how to make a hole for the button you have just sewed on; this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and so to prevent yourself from looking like the slut I know you are so bent on becoming; this is how you iron your father's khaki shirt so that it doesn't have a crease; this is how you iron your father's khaki pants so that they don't have a crease; this is how you grow okra--far from the house, because okra tree harbors red ants; when you are growing dasheen, make sure it gets plenty of water or else it makes your throat itch when you are eating it, this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house; this is how you sweep a yard; this is how you smile to someone you don't like very much; this is how you smile to someone you don't like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely; this is how you set a table for tea; this is how you set a table for dinner; this is how you set a table for dinner with an important guest; this is how you set a table for lunch; this is how you set a table for breakfast; this is how to behave in the presence of men who don't know you very well, and this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming; be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit; don't squat down to play marbles--you are not a boy, you know; don't pick people's flowers--you might catch something; don't throw stones at blackbirds, because it might not be a blackbird at all; this is how to make a bread pudding; this is how to make doukona; this is how to make pepper pot; this is how to make a good medicine for a cold; this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child; this is how to catch a fish; this is how to throw back a fish you don't like, and that way something bad won't fall on you; this is how to bully a man; this is how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man, and if this doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up; this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quick so that it doesn't fall on you; this is how to make ends meet; always squeeze bread to make sure it's fresh; but what if the baker won't let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?

benna: calypso music�� doukona: a spicy Carribean dish�� dasheen: Carribean herb

Tease'd.

2008-06-04T02:53:00Z

Okay, so I still don't have really much in the way of OP photos, and only a few con photos, really.

So this is just a teaser until Brandee uploads her pictures or something. I stole it from Charli.

kyrakitty @ 2008-03-02T21:56:00

2008-03-03T04:05:40Z

Daily Groove

Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram

The reason I choose this song is that there's a progression in it that's the same as Picture Book. So it makes me think of it. Or they make me think of each other. Or something. I didn't have this song saved, though, because I had only seen the music video on Youtube. And the only reason I've seen that is because it's directed by Michel Gondry. Who is a great, weird director.

Speaking of Picture Book...

Bonus Groove

Picture Book (stereo) - The Kinks

That's a better version of Picture Book, because the other one sort of sucked a lot. Mono? No thanks!

In other news, it's a perfect night to go out and drink outside. Guess what I'm about to do! Fuck yeah, tomorrow off.

kyrakitty @ 2008-02-22T19:06:00

2008-02-23T01:11:00Z

Alright, guys, I'm going to go play around with fashion design, just because I'm a nerd like that. So give me some themes. I'm also going to be drawing my characters in the outfits, because why not. So if you have a specific character in mind, tell me. Otherwise I'll probably default Alejandro and Natalie.

kyrakitty @ 2008-02-05T11:48:00

2008-02-05T17:58:33Z

Ugh, I feel shitty again. Not.... sick, per se, but not good. I slept so late. For no real reason.

Daily Groove

Stay Illogical - Under The Influence Of Giants

kyrakitty @ 2008-01-29T15:29:00

2008-01-29T21:33:54Z

Daily Groove

Wounded Horse - XTC

kyrakitty @ 2007-12-27T09:51:00

2007-12-27T15:59:58Z

I'm gonna let you guys knows.

I'm not a fan of winter. It makes me cranky and miserable.

Long live warmer, longer days.

I know this isn't the best of drawings, or the most refined, but.

2007-12-25T09:27:18Z

MERRY CHRISTMAS, FUCKERS!

kyrakitty @ 2007-12-14T15:57:00

2007-12-14T22:05:38Z

at the end of my shift, I suddenly got incredibly dizzy, and felt like I was going to puke. I asked if I could leave early, because I was seriously starting to feel like I was going to fell over or vomit on a custemor or something.

Right now I'm sitting next to the toilet, hoping I'll either puke or jut feel better. What's wrong with my body?

kyrakitty @ 2007-12-10T15:32:00

2007-12-10T21:43:13Z

I'm gonna level with you guys. I'm a little tired of making cookies. I have a huge bowl of cookie dough left, though, so I'm certainly not done.

I've made mint chocolate chip cookies. mint white chocolate chip cookies. mint dark chocolate chip cookies. And again am now making mint chocolate chip cookies.

Despite the fact that I kept measuring wrong, the first batch of the mint chocolate chip cookies all turned out really well.

The rest? Hum. They vary from tray to tray. So I hope some of you guys aren't that picky. I'm not going to make the sugar cookies, because I don't think I have the patience for making even more cookies. Or the room to store them. I have made a fuck ton of cookies (thus far I've completed eight batches, according to the recipe, and am working on four more).

wtf i just cut my foot somehow while writing this. it's starting to hurt.

Anyway, tell me what type of cookies you want out of those three while I clean my foot up.

Edit: Oh yeah, and I bought the KHS Mocha today. He's SO cute and tiny. Since my last bike was Pierre, the Mocha is Pierre II? Maybe I'll change his name. He's so cute. You guys don't even know. I have to take pictures. He's a folding bike, and he already has fenders and a rack to put a basket. He also has the itty bittiest wheels, and only weighs about forty pounds. He has six gears, and an ADORABLE little bell. I also bought new lights, which are tiny and perfect for him. I gotta take pictures.

kyrakitty @ 2007-11-26T21:07:00

2007-11-27T03:15:24Z

Hey, guys. Do you want to play a game?

Rules

1. To know The Game is to play The Game. One can never stop playing.
2. To think of The Game is to lose The Game.
3. When one loses The Game, one must announce to all present that one has lost. (For example, "I just lost The Game!")
4. You have thirty minutes after losing to forget it again.

Enjoy losing.

kyrakitty @ 2007-11-11T17:57:00

2007-11-12T00:07:47Z

WHO WOULD LIKE A KITTEN?

On my way home from the Nutcracker Festival (which was pretty cool), in my neighborhood, I found a kitten skulking around. From her size, I would say she's approximately 8 weeks old. She. Is. Adorable. She's a little tortoiseshell. If I thought she might belong to somebody, I wouldn't be too concerned. But her left eye looks like it got scratched or something (maybe from fighting other cats), and she seems pretty thin. I couldn't just leave her, so I grabbed her and brought her in, much to my dad's chagrin.

But here's the thing. We can't afford to keep another cat. We already have three cats, and we live in a rather small house. They're plenty. They're more than plenty. If we didn't love each and every one of them so much, I would say we should have even fewer cats. So, if anyone is interested in taking her in, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE tell me. I would take her to the SPCA or something, but I don't want the chance that she would be put to sleep. I'm crossing my fingers, hoping one of you guys will take her. She is super duper sweet, and purrs the instant she's picked up.

I'll take and post pictures later, if anyone is actually interested.

Edit: Okay, I think the deal with her eye is that it's burnt. I just gave her a little bath (just water), and her whiskers on that side of her face are singed. It's watering, and her inner lid is half closed. Poor little baby. Please, please, please someone give her a home. Or ask your friends if they want a kitten.