Omelettes faite

Although this is not a food blog strict, food is an integral part of my life. If I don't eat well, I don't do well, and this I learned 10 years ago when all I cared about was the next sugar high. I see now that sugar is creeping back into my life - in the form of easy carbs - and so I thought I would write about some food that I took pictures of earlier last month in the spirit of remembering to be sane and healthy.

It's February! Maybe vitamin D is low for you too. Cooking makes me feel proud and grounded, connected to the earth & creative and, in my case, helps me stay focused on the good things to keep me going.

Omelettes are awesome for so many reasons: eggs are cheap, incredibly good for you, versatile, and it's simple to be creative when you can stuff them with whatever vegetables and fat & oils and meat and mushrooms helluva spices and whatever herbs that you have on hand. And even if you don't nail the perfect omelette, it's hard to go wrong when you know how to make them, so I thought I would share three pictures of these omelettes that I made last month that filled my mouth with nutritious goodness.

I add the spices in the egg batter first (except salt) and I cook the filling in a separate pan - in this case, celery, mushrooms and probably some bacon

I use as much fat as I can to make me feel full and add the filling when the omelette is mostly done and I fold it over

There's some goat cheese hidden in the omelettes (I try to avoid too much processed cow dairy) and I made an extra effort to add a garnish of parsley

A new decade

If you had asked me when I was seventeen what I thought my blog would look like 13 years later, I would have answered: "probably kind of the same, maybe some cool new web 3.0 gadgets but altogether, a bitchin' log of my life still".

What I did not know was how important this place would become for my sanity. It's partly my lifeline. My bridge between the offline and the online world. My ethnographical account of teenage into young adult into less-young adult life, and also a place to rant and let go of some of the hardships I've experienced in modern, mostly urban society.

The way I write hasn't changed much. I seldom prepare anything in advance. After all, this blog was originally created after an english assignment in high school prompted me to create an art project with words, and my influences at the time ranged from XKCD to Jack Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness novel, On the Road (which I still haven't read but have lying around). The point is, I will continue to blog liberally.

Fading angster ❙ hiver, solstice

Okay this one is short I swear.
I'm here before the clock strikes twelve.
I feel joy, for it is the winter solstice, and I haven't blogged at night in such a long time!

Mon arbre favoris; ma stabilité naturelle

Segue equivocation into Grammatical commentary

Oh hey, I think it's another one of those "it doesn't matter what you write as long as you write" kind of posts, so I better watch out how I'm going to format this one lest someone try to infer some deeper meaning from the stylistic choices that I make about how I write and present said writing.

I'm in a slowed-down reality because although I'm pretty much doing some freewriting/free-journaling again, it won't purely be this method because I'm using pen and paper first and then transcribing onto the screen. Thus my idea-to-writ time has changed.
I type much faster than I write and that's a double-edged sword because, generally speaking, this difference in speed enables me to publish a lot of junkspeedily-typed things out there - sometimes even imaginary words - and it also enables me to be far more efficient, if not prolific.

Un des chats qui m'apporte un support moral sans équivoque avec ma vie d'écrivain non-payé