Uggg

Facebook makes me want to punch walls. 

History Pet Peeve of the Night

Alright slave traders, slave ship captains, and slave owners... you really should not assume you know that a person is better off a slave than in a state of poverty...as if you knew what it was like to be either. 

First... you are not poor or hungry and thus you do not understand the plight of the poor.

Second...you were not taken from your home, sold into eternal servitude in a foreign land and forced to endure a long and deadly voyage across the Atlantic in order to become the less than human property of another person...


So... ignorant merchant in Liverpool or equally ignorant slave ship captain... you need to shut your stupid mouth.

Thank you...
Someone almost 300 years in the future. 


 

My Music Obsession Right now!

The Mother We Share - Chvrches

Recover - Chvrches

Lies - Chvrches

Gun - Chvrches

One Example That I Have a Touch of the Crazy.... and how I don't care...

In my youth and honestly...now...when I have time to read the magical genre of books called "fiction" I possessed a complete obsession with Vampires.
pre Twilight people... I am old school.


I had dozens and dozens of vampire novels as a kid...yes, as a kid...I was strange, leave me alone.

If there was a novel that had vampires in it during the 90s, I owned it, I probably read it, and I could critique it on command. 

In my senior year of high school a student had to write a research paper for their English course, I wrote mine on the way in which modern fiction treated the myth of the Vampire in comparison to the earlier versions like Dracula or 19th century poems featuring the creature....

So yea... Before Stephanie Meyer even went to college...I was a child obsessed and that is just OK with me...

And I am not going to hate on Twilight, it would be a lie to say I haven't read them, watched the movies...just reveled in the fact that my chosen little obsession from high school became popular for a bit.... but then I read this (shared by Anne Rice)"

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/news/hot-vampires

Ok let me just say it...
This list is Bullshit. 
It is complete bullshit to be clear.

Lestat 13???? WHAT
Louis...the most insipid whining man child of a vampire...above Lestat... oh WHAT ON EARTH???!!!???

And where is Gary Oldman... WHERE IS GARY OLDMAN?????!!!!!!!!!!

I may seem emotional, but you don't know how many times I watched that amazingly beautiful version of Dracula and thought that Gary Oldman WAS Dracula...he was so painfully wonderful that I...to this day...adore him.

Yes, Eric is cool...YES Damon is amazing... but neither of them hold a candle to Lestat or Dracula (Gary Oldman) and this is a fictional vampire list, not just a portrayed in TV or Movie list...

so WHERE IS MARIUS????????   Where is Zillah from Lost Souls????

This list angered my heart.
and Its not the wine talking....

GARY OLDMAN CROSSED OCEANS OF TIME DAMNIT!!!

So...that is my two cents.
And you take a good look at that and you tell all those other vampires to take a hike into a sun filled afternoon of fire water.

 

 

 

 

 

Someone Dying Is NOT Funny

Perhaps I am sensitive (I know I am) or a bit more serious than a lot of people I know and while I enjoy social media, there are some characteristics of the thing that kind of truly bother me and that includes a level of distanced insensitivity that people have because of it.

What is this about?
Why is it that when a celebrity dies, someone eventually thinks its quite alright to make some sort of distasteful joke about it?
Why is it funny that someone suffered, that something bad happened, that family and friends are hurt deeply... I don't get it.
It never fails, someone dies (today it was actor Phillip Seymore Hoffman...who I thought was amazing) and within a few hours I see at least one person make some off color remark and it kind of turns my stomach a bit.

Just because someone is famous doesn't make their death any less significant or more significant...someone died, it is sad and people are sad and its not funny, at all.

So anyway...
Its bothersome to me and I don't think I will ever get used to that trait we've acquired thanks to Social Media.

Someone had a drug problem, a drinking problem, drove too fast, had an accident, got cancer, died of old age...we all have had friends and family that experienced the same and it is never, not once...funny.

I don't think I am too mature for the internet, but I think I am at times a great deal too sensitive.

 

So I Don't Forget

A while back my husband and I bought a GPS for our car, we had used a pretty decent one on our phones for a while, but it would deplete the phone battery quickly and we wanted something a bit more complex for when we traveled.
Adam's parents live in North Florida and we visit often, especially now that we have son and so we used the GPS on the way home to see if there was a quicker route than the regular one we took and...there was...through a town called Mariana, Florida.  We liked the route because the drive was better, there were more places to stop if we needed to, and it was a bit quicker.

But....
Whenever we passed through Mariana there was this one area that was fenced it, it looked as if it were overgrown and the buildings were very old and in disrepair...and to be honest, just creepy looking.  The place looked like a set of a horror movie.  Nowhere were there any markers or signs so I had no clue what it was, just gave me an ick feeling....


So today... as I looked through reddit.... I found this.

Bodies Exhumed in Florida 

I wanted to not forget this article, because I've wondered about this place FOREVER and now I know...
I would really like to know more, but this is really creepy.  

a snapstop posted by Tampa bay news

It Snowed!

I was skeptical, but it finally did snow and now it is time to take the obligatory photos because it does not snow here often.

Snow??? GO GET SOME BREAD DAMNIT!!!!!

Maybe because I've traveled to places that have real snow storms.
Perhaps it is because in Minnesota in February, I once veered off a cleared path and sunk about two feet into snow...
and maybe it is because I look at our forecast beyond the one moment where we are slated to get some amount of the frozen stuff to realize that the morning after it is supposed to get up to 40 degrees...
but you wont be snowed in your house no matter what people.

Let's take it down a notch or two...chill out, and dont make a rush on the bread and milk because you think you will somehow magically transport to the upper north and live in a tundra.
anyway...as I saw on the internet today....
Why does the mention of snow lead to people wanting to make French Toast?


 

Quick Update

To the very few people who read my blog ( though I appreciate it greatly), school, work, baby, and just life in general is hectic as of late.  I've been compiling a slave database, working at a bookstore, learning to deal with a semi-walking toddler, and writing a paper on the medieval profit economy. 

Learning about the amount of Jews who were randomly killed by Crusaders is perplexing and depressing at the same time.  There are days when I'm like....  I picked a doom and gloom subject.

Oh... It's so cold! 

This is me. INSIDE 

Shonda's Decadent Potato Soup

It is cold for us Georgians and when we have cold weather, I want hearty and thick dinners that stick to my insides...
I wanted a soup today and searched the internet for a potato soup recipe I liked... I didn't find one (I am picky)....

I made one myself and it turned out pretty tasty!


Shonda's Decadent Potato Soup

Ingredients:

8 peeled and diced potatoes
two diced onions
two sliced carrots
2 cans of chicken broth
1 pint container of heavy cream
1 stick of butter
1 tablespoon of dried parsley
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 tablespoon cayenne pepper (I like spice)
1 tablespoon of salt
1 cup shredded pepper jack cheese
pepper to taste

You could make this less sinful by using olive oil instead of butter and 2% milk instead of heavy cream, but add cornstarch and it will not be as tasty to be fair (lol)

Finished result:

Served with garlic toast

We were really happy with the soup and it hit the spot for a warm and soothing soup on a cold day.