Ze Tomato

EDIT: I just saw a mosquito buzzing around in my bedroom. I'm not sure I'm quite as excited about it getting warm as I was a half hour ago. 

We have a new oven! Behold! 

Yes, it is a "Tomato" brand oven. In this household, we now 'tomato' things, and pop some muffins into the 'tomato'. I made muffins in the tomato yesterday using THIS recipe, and they were amazing. Sorry, no pics of the muffins themselves. I have no self-control. 

Then I took a walk, because it stopped raining! (It had been raining almost continually for a month.) I'm glad the canals didn't flood, they were looking pretty high. 

This is a field of canola. As in 'canola oil'. The leaves are quite tasty stir-fried too. 

I'm in love with the building on the right. 

And the plants seem to think it's spring! 

The birds think it's spring too. 
I just hope the weather stays this nice. I'm tired of freezing, especially during the fast. 

sorry, mom

Last night I had a really, really weird dream. 

I dreamt that I was about seventeen, and I was planning my own funeral. It wasn't because I was sick or anything like that, I don't know why I was thinking about my own funeral at seventeen, but I was. 

The main thing that happened in my dream is that my mother and I argued about flowers, because she wanted to have roses at my funeral, and I said absolutely not. It's kind of funny, because that's exactly what would happen in real life. My mom loves roses and I can't stand them. 

Just throwing this out there: no roses at my funeral. 

Right now I think I want a combination of any of the following: 

• violets
• jasmine
• lilac
• tea olive
• royal paulownia
• wisteria

Pop!

Have had this stuck in my head all day. Not that I mind, it's just slightly distracting. 

And you should go check out some of Dan's other stuff. [/shameless plug]

Ministry of Names?

A couple of most excellent sites I stumbled upon while doing I-don't-know-what. 

Ministry of Type- about type, typography, lettering, calligraphy and other related things. 

The Name Inspector- on names and naming. 

las pretties

My hummingbird. His name is Corin. He adorns the side of my wardrobe. 

My flutterby/bats, yet unnamed. I talk about her a bit in this post too. 

And... the Indian tapestry I got in Malaysia. Her name is Roshni. 

not a cheeseburger, a project!

I can haz new project? 

I think I can. 

Here is Layli's site of all things Chinese (okay, not really, but it's a start). I'm thinking that I'll update it once a week or so. I'm also hoping to update Pelakîs once every week, but don't seem to be doing a great job so far. 

Is there such a thing as too many blogs? 

DUN DUN DUN!

My shower-head hates me. Seriously. The small one not so much, but the big one keeps dripping 70 degrees celsius water on my head. If I ever stop posting for a week again, you can just assume that the shower-heads revolted and are holding me for ransom.