GrinningBookfairy Blog

Bday celebration one month later

grinningbookfairy — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:45:13 +0000

Because of my brothers travels, and my cousins handball games, we did not manage to celebrate our Bdays in december, so we did it yesterday.

We had two courses, because my bro was being snotty over fish course – he happily ate it afterwards! We had frozen filets of salmon, already marinated, and I decided to bake it in the oven with potatoes and vegetables, to save space on the herd. The second option as rice and Wienna stakes. I was a little afraid of doing fish, I’ve never done it in the oven, especially in this new oven! But it turned out great! I peeled and cut the potatoes, than cooked them, so they boiled for about 5 minutes, than stuck them in the oven, on baking sheet with some oil, at 120 celsius, so they started baking slowly. I added zucchini, onion, carrots, and about half an hour before end, I added fish. I let it bake, then upped the temp, because the guest were there, and added about 2dcl of white wine. I’ve done the right thing and only turned the fish once, yey me! I usually count one medium potato per person, and this time, it turned enough, than god It was waaay too much rice, but we hade it for lunch today, so all was good!

All in all, it was a great day! My bro brought his GF to meet the family, she said she’ll come again, so we behaved, hehe.

Yes, I liked that movie

grinningbookfairy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:56:41 +0000

What’s your number. It’s a corny romantic comedy, but not as typical as most of them, there as some things that are atypical, that I like, and just…I like it. (yes, another one of those

This is my 500th post!

grinningbookfairy — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:36:52 +0000

I would promise to write better, but I can’t; and as in better, I mean longer, more juicy sentences (grammatically, and ok, the topics could be more interesting too, but I live a boring life), grammatically better structured etc etc.

Now that I have told all that is bad, I will also say that I am ok with it. If I would say I am happy, I would lie, because I do not put enough effort into it to call it that. This is my sorta diary, and it seems this way because nobody talks back to me, too…See what I mean with grammatically better sentences? (and this was supposed to be a paragraph of positive things. I ain’t good with that )

So. Happy 500th!

Nom’s are out; Gb remembers

grinningbookfairy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:54:54 +0000

First thing I thought of when Academy awards were announced today was of a day few days ago, when I left my than roomie and BFF wait at the restaurant because I was watching the nominations. She id not understand (It was 5 min max, but…It was more that I told why I was late, not that I was late )

Just wanted to share…

(If you are interested in nomination, I found this fun and useful).

Me tired

grinningbookfairy — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:24:57 +0000

- – - Written on monday. Was a good girl this week, studied a lot, forgot all about a blog. - – –

Woke in the middle of the night to watch the Golden globes. Went back to sleep. Worried the whole time what will happen when I wake up because my cell was out of battery and I didn’t want to look for it at that hour ((I NEED to k now what time is it when I first open my eyes to see if I can try to go back (I wake easily and am usually not capable of going back to sleep).

Slept till 7.45, was happy with that, ate cheese with banana and honey, took the dog for a walk, put the trash out took a shower and washed my hair, dyed my hair, watches 50/50 whilst doing it, washed my hair again (good workout or my leg muscles, bending over the tub for that long – washing out henna takes forever!), dried my hair, made lunch (pasta with leek with tuna), finished checking out all the G. globes posts I could find, hoped on a bike with the dog and went for a walk and a cup of cocoa with BFF and the baby, came back, freezing, started to go through my study book, realised I have to work on my concentration, because I have none. I am pretty patient with myself at that point, because after years of not doing anything with my brain it will take time, but I really need to come up with a system.

No idea of what kind as yet I’ll post it when I figure it out!!

Ginger again!

grinningbookfairy — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:33:28 +0000

I used henna on my hair again. Last time I was at hair salon and had my hair done was 28th of october. When it’s over 2 months after having my hair dyed, they get lifeless and dull. Because I am growing my hair out (my bangs too! I can’t believe it’s been almost 3 months and they are not even over my eyes!!

It was a big mess, again, but it was enough of the product left and the color looks even, that’s enough for me!

The fruit bread; second attempt!

grinningbookfairy — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:45:04 +0000

So, I made the fruit bread again; this time, I remembered the one-third-starch ratio, and cut the fruit in big chunks; I even added some coconut shreds, and a fist full of partially crunched almonds! (I wrapped them in a kitchen towel and banged on the with the meat cleaver). I baked it on 120 Celsius, for an hour, and it turned out great! Really moist!! But I will not use cardamom the next time. It’s just not “our” kind of spice!

Otherwise, I love this recipe!!

Can’t find stuff!!

grinningbookfairy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:54:17 +0000

Why, oh why, don’t I at least note down the things I read? And why is my search engine so crappy that I can’t find the books I am certain I already read??

I founds some more Breeds books (Lora Leigh) and I just wanted to quickly check here to which book I came. I CAN’T because I didn’t finish my reviews!!!

I am angry with myself! ! ! I do remember the content, usually the writer, rarely the title; so it’s the easiest way to have it all noted in one place.

Just btw, I also want to go through the last years posts and count the number of read books….Just to get a clue

Good hockey RN vs not so good hockey RN

grinningbookfairy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:05:35 +0000

It’s Rachel Gibson (Chinooks) vs Deirdre Martin (The blades series).

I have a hard time trashing authors, so I won’t go into details; I’ll say IMHO, if you want to read a good romance novel, and you would ask me, I’ll say go for R. Gibson.

Awesome, successful day!

grinningbookfairy — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:25:19 +0000

Yesterday was great!

I got the books I need for the exam, I coped the articles, I spoke with the other professor, I bought tea and calendars, I walked around the city, I met a girl from the nearby town so I got a ride close to home…

Just today I already went through 40 pages of the book, I know it’s beginner excitement, but…yey!

I did get a vicious headache because I haven’t eaten all day – and I was s tempted takeaway sushi McDonalds, my fav pizza place…And I only drank less than half liter of liquids until I got home at 6 in the evening. I know for net time!

So far, so good!!