I Guess It's Time To Start Over

So, I missed yesterday and I think it's official that I need to start my make-a-blog-post-everyday-for-a-month goal over.  So, that's what I am going to do; I'm going to start my goal again on Sunday since it's the first of September and it will just make it easier for me to keep track of.  I'm not going to post anything interesting today because I'm tired and just want to go to bed.  Look forward to looking at lots of sweet things tomorrow and Saturday though.

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See you guys later.

Ao no Exorcist

Since it's the only anime on my list of top four favorite series that I haven't talked about yet.  I absolutely love this series.  I believe the reason I started watching this series was because of Anime News Network.  I was just browsing their site one day and they had a banner for the series; I thought the art style was nice and that it looked interesting and so that day I went and looked into it and fell in love.

I find the religious aspect of the anime interesting and normally that would have made me balk at the series, but I like it despite these things that normally would have made me turn away.

I really love the characters in this series, there aren't many of them that I actually can't stand or anything, although I'm not a big Shiemi fan, but I tend not to be a fan of her character type.

I've gone over pairings for this series and I'm still not going to divulge my favorite/guilty pleasure/awful pairing that I like that shouldn't exist because, 1, it's awful and, 2, I'm sure that it's not that hard to guess what it is so I shouldn't need to say what it is...  It's the only pairing that I've ever liked that's like this and I hate myself for liking it, but I do anyway...  Like I said, I'm sure it's not hard to guess what it is if you know that series...

Well, not much else to say about it.  I love it.  Watch it.  There you go.

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Tomorrow I have class so hopefully there will be pictures of yummy things.

Food/Beverage Ops And Adventures On The Bus

I had my Intro to Food and Beverage Operations class today; we went to a "luxury retirement community."  It was a really nice place and it was interesting to see such a unique aspect of the food and beverage industry.

I also had a "fun" time with the bus today.  I was supposed to get on the bus for home at 5:59, but apparently in the week since I took this bus before, they changed the schedule!  Meaning I had no idea that instead of the 101 like I usually take; I needed to have taken the 80.  I had to wait at the bus stop for two hours before I was able to finally get on the bus to take me home.

Anyway, sorry about the rant.  I'll be talking about anime tomorrow, so, see you then.

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I don't have anything to say here...

And Then There Was More Fanfiction

Another fanfiction day is here and my little sister helped choose the one I'm going to post today by picking a number between 1 and 94; very scientific way of making decisions.

So, thanks to my little sister, you guys get to read a fic for Kuroko's Basketball.

Series:  Kuroko's Basketball

Pairing:  Maybe Aomine/Kise

Title:  Challenge

He was so tired of sports.

Everything was so easy for him.

Was too easy for him.

He had never found anyone that could beat him.

Until he met Aomine.

They played basketball all the time and no matter how many times they played he could just not beat the other.

He wasn’t angry though.

In fact he was ecstatic.

Finally a challenge.

He almost didn’t want to win, then the challenge would be gone.

And he’d have no excuse to hang out with the tall basketball player.

But for now, he’d try his best.

END

I'm not even that big a fan of this pairing; I just wrote it because I like writing random pairings sometimes and I feel like this pairing (or at least from this perspective) isn't completely crack.  Well, I don't really have much to say about it today, so, yeah.

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I almost didn't blog today, but I prevailed!

Missed A Day... Sorry

So, yeah, I didn't make a post yesterday... I didn't get home until 10 and then I kind of forgot; I was very upset with myself when I realized it this morning.  Nothing I can do about it now though.  I'm still not going to make myself start over because I have only missed two days and I think I can be okay with that.  It does mean that my goal won't actually be reached until September 2nd now though, but I am going to keep this up!

Today is Saturday, meaning it is time to post pictures and talk about my week.  Is everyone ready?  Then here we go.

Sunday August 18th:

I couldn't think of anything to take a picture of that day so I just took a picture of some of my lucky cats.  I actually have six of them altogether, but they're not all in the same place so I just took a picture of these ones. I'm actually slightly obsessed with lucky cats; every time I see one I want to buy them, but most of the time I am able to resist.  These guys were pretty cheap fortunately.

Monday August 19th:

Monday was my first day taking classes at the Santa Rosa Junior College Culinary Center so I figured I would take a picture of the view from the second story of the center.  This is my third year attending the school (only the first at this campus though).  I think it's really great that I'm going to be able to get my AA without having to transfer or anything because there's no way that I'd ever be able to afford to go to culinary school.  Thanks to SRJC I'm able to work towards my dream degree.

Tuesday August 20th:

    
If you remember, I made rainbow cookies on Tuesday, but I really liked how the come out so I decided to put up another picture.  It was also a blue moon on Tuesday and so I decided to take a picture of the moon as well.  It's really hard to take a picture of the moon though, so I apologize for the glare... I'm bad at taking pictures...

Wednesday August 21st:
                 
I couldn't think of anything to take a picture of yet again, so, I opted for the cookies that my mom was making that evening.  The ones on the left turned into rainbows and the ones on the right eventually got rainbow mains and became unicorns.  I thought that they were pretty cute.  And now no one has to wonder where my interest in baking/pastry came form...

Thursday August 22nd:

I know that I posted this picture already, but I only took one picture on Thursday, so, you get to look at this one again.  We finally cut into this one this morning and it was so delicious, I'm really glad that I decided to make this one.  I would have eaten the whole thing by myself, but fortunately my family and friends ate most of it and I was only able to get two pieces, otherwise I would have hated myself.

Friday August 23rd:
              
On Friday I made a lemon curd tart and raspberry sandwich cookies.  The tart was for assessment, that's why there's a pieces missing.  I ended up getting a 16/20, which is a B-; I think I'm okay with that.  It was my first assignment of the class and all, so, I think I did pretty well.  After I finished my tart I decided to make some cookies that the teacher had demonstrated a few days before and that's what you see there.  I really love raspberry so that's one of the reasons that I decided to make them too.  They were really easy too because I just made them out of the leftover tart dough.

Saturday August 24th:

I actually got this new phone on Thursday, but I didn't take a picture of it until today, so, yeah.  I got a new phone.  I'm not necessarily excited about it though.  The only reasons I got a new phone were, one, I kind of lost my old one somewhere... and, 2, I've been needing a new phone; my old one sucked, it was a 7 year old Go-phone, so it was time to upgrade.

Altogether this week was pretty nice.  I am really loving my Intro to Baking and Pastry class, so, that's nice.  I can't wait to get in the kitchen and make more stuff next week.  Look forward to lots of pictures of food.

22 posts down, 9 to go.
Hopefully I won't miss any more days...

First Day In The Kitchen

So, as I'm sure so can tell by the title of this post, today was the first day that I got to work in the kitchen in my culinary class.  It was so awesome!  Our assignment for today was to make a sweet tart, we're supposed to have it done by the end of class tomorrow, but I already got mine done.  I made an almond tart.

I was pretty pleased about how it came out.  There are a few things wrong with it; one thing wrong is that the chef didn't tell us that there were two types of tart pans, shallow and deep, and we weren't supposed to use the deep ones... Well, I accidentally grabbed a deep one.  I also got a little shrinkage; if you can see around the edges, it's kind of uneven, that's because the dough kind of pulled in on itself while it was baking.

All together I'm happy with how it came out though.  I am; however, going to make another one tomorrow and hopefully have the chef assess that one instead.  Now that I know how to avoid the mistakes I made I can fix them and make a better tart; I'll make sure to take a picture of that tomorrow too.

So, it looks like this is becoming more of a food blog than an anime blog, but, don't worry, I'll find a way to get more anime in here yet.

21 posts down, 10 to go.

I've gotten pretty good at keeping this up.

TMoHS And A Slight Change Of Schedule

The anime I am going to talk about today is The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TMoHS):

TMoHS was, not long ago, my favorite anime, but sadly it was recently replaced by Tiger & Bunny.  I still absolutely adore this series and consider it to be my second favorite series though.  Since I'm horrible at explaining things I am going to copy and paste the plot description that Wikipedia gives:


"The story follows the narrator and male protagonist Kyon, a cynical and incredulous student entering high school, who is dragged along by the title character and female protagonist Haruhi Suzumiya (who is Kyon's classmate). She is an eccentric girl seeking supernatural phenomena and figures wush as aliens, time travelers, and espers. She establishes with Kyon's reluctant help, a club to investigate mysterious events called the SOS Brigade, Haruhi later recruits three additional members: the laconic bibliophile Yuki Nagato, the shy and timid Mikuru Asahina, and the friendly transfer student Itsuki Koizumi. These members soon reveal themselves to Kyon as the extraordinary characters Haruhi, who is unaware of her own destructive reality warping power, is seeking. The three additional members have been sent by their various organizations to observe Haruhi and prevent these powers from being unleashed, leaving to Kyon the task of maintaining for Haruhi the illusion of a normal life."


Usually I'm not the biggest fan of Sci-Fi, but I love this series, mostly because the Sci-Fi isn't at the front and foremost of the series, instead it's more about the comedy and romance.  One reason that I really love this series is the characters.  Although this series is no longer at the very top of my favorite anime list, Kyon still holds the title of my number one favorite anime character.  I also really like Itsuki, of course, and I'm a huge fan or Ryoko Asakura - despite her attempts to kill Kyon.

I already told you that my favorite pairing is Itsuki/Kyon, but I also slightly enjoy - and have written a tiny short story for - Ryoko/Yuki (inspired by the movie more than anything).

I also needed to talk about a slight change of my weekly schedule that is going to happen.  I started another one of my culinary classes today and realized that I am going to be doing a LOT of baking during them, meaning, instead of having my baking day be on Tuesdays, I am going to have three baking days and those will be Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  I'll be making sure to take lots of pictures during my classes (since I'm aloud to) and I'll post them here on those days.  I am also going to be moving my anime day to Tuesday starting next week to make it easier on myself.

Hope no one minds that change.

20 down, 11 to go.
Tomorrow I should be making a tart.