"Kappa Eggs"

A friend from Peru and I did an art trade, kappa themed of course, and along with his sculptures, he sent along these amazing little things:


They are water-absorbing gel pellets that start out hard and teeny tiny!


Put them in water, and after a while you can see their outlines are very strange looking.


They start to unfold!


And become perfectly round and clear! The ones without the dye are invisible in the water, unless you hold it up to sunlight so that you can see the shadow of their contours in the water. The ones with dye are very strange in the water, because you can see their colored middles, and when you reach in to grab them, your fingers contact before you think they will, because the outside of it is perfectly clear.

@_@

Adventures in Advertising:

Today, I copy-pasted in some text about a community college into a city newcomer's guide, and noticed something funny.

Spartanburg Community College¹s Cherokee County Campus

See that apostrophe?  No, you don't.  It's a superscript 1.

Go Dinty Moore

Soooo EZ Open

Oatmeal Raisin Caramel Cookies

Wow, doesn't look nearly as good as it does in person.

That, my friend, is the most perfect cookie I have ever made.

Standard oatmeal raisin cookie recipe from the oatmeal box, with double the vanilla, but I added Kraft Caramel Bits, which are little bitty balls of caramel. SO. DELICIOUS.

<3

A few photos

Firstly, that sunflower I put in a bud vase is still doing well!



Yesterday we bought local! We went to a Farmer's Market, and bought teeny tiny VERY FLAVORFUL tomatoes:

(I ate one -never mind the itching- and it was SO tasty!)


We also bought a big jar of local honey for five bucks! I've heard that eating local honey can actually improve allergies. Who cares if it doesn't -- I LOVE HONEY. And a jar that big at the grocery store would actually cost more than five dollars! Next time we run out of eggs, we'll get them there, too.


The loaf of bread came from Scratch Brick Oven. It's a very strange place -- just read their description on the website. Anyhow, that loaf of bread weighed easily 2 pounds when I bought it, and I've eaten over half of it already. They make a bunch of varieties - that one is honey oat. <3