āsuffering feels religious if you do it rightā no shut up it doesnāt. my friends laughing in the kitchen while i make dinner feels religious. the sun on my face after a long winter feels religious.
ICYMI, Rich in Color is an Ignyte Award nominee for the Ignyte Critics Award! Weāre so honored to be a finalist, and in such amazing company!
Speaking of which, if you havenāt checked out the full Ignyte Awards ballot, definitely do that ā your TBR pile will triple in size, and there are tons of must-readās there. Voting is open now through June 10th.
Looking for YA in particular? The Ignyte Awards finalists for YA are:
White Smoke by Tiffany D. JacksonĀ
This Poison Heart by Kalynn BayronĀ
Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad
(P.S. If you didnāt know, weāre over on Twitter @ rich_in_color and over at IG as @ richincolor_ya)
A fair maiden knocks on the goth ladyās door and says sheās here to find love.
The goth sighs, points across the road and says, āWitch is over there. He doesnāt do love potions because consent but he might be able to make you prettier, although 90% of the time it turns out the spell didnāt do anything but make you more confident.ā
The maiden blushes and sheepishly explains that she knows heās the witch, she just talked to him and he sent her over here.
Goth looks over her shoulder to see the himbo witch standing outside his house giving her a grin and a double thumbs up.
The pandemic legit made me rethink my zombie apocalypse team priorities. Kindness matters so much in crisis. We need strength that holds on, not just pushes away.
Hereās THE BONES BENEATH ft. EdĀ āGrimm Grinnerā Hutchinson from my new book of microfictionĀ The House of Untold Stories
every morning i wake up & get my coffee & i recite in my head this excerpt fromĀ āinvitation,ā by mary oliver:Ā āit is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.ā & i just say it over & over again until it sticks to my mind for the rest of the day. it is a serious thing. i am alive. i am so lucky. this fresh morning i get the chance to live again & again & again
#always always always reblog#the charge of the rohirrim#pelennor fields#this moment#this one#and the slaying of the witch king#without Eowynās despair#without Theodenās desperation to take his place honored in the halls of his ancestors#without Eomerās reckless abandon when he thinks his sister is dead#without the flaws#the courage#but especially without the HUMANITY of these people#Gondor wouldāve fallen#and no one wouldāve been there to draw the eye of Sauron at the critical moment#all wouldāve been lost to darkness#plus also the rohirrim are my fave
I was at our local bakery recently and came across a loaf of bread quaintly branded as a āPeasant Loafā. It was selling for over $6āthe irony of this was not lost on me.Ā
In retaliation I have decided to post what I actually think of as a peasant loaf, but with the luxury of finely ground modern flour which is less likely to break your teeth because actual peasant loaf bread is like chewing rocks unless youāre soaking it in soup or stew.Ā
This is a very simple loaf, it requires no special tools and is a fairly forgiving dough for beginners to work with. Also it has the added bonus of looking like an expensive artisan loaf, but costs literal pennies to make once you invest in the basic ingredients.
So what do you need?
Ingredients:
Plain flour (or wholewheat if you prefer)
One sachet of active dry yeast.
Salt.
Water.
Tools:
Bowl
Mug
Prep and bake time total: 2 hours 45 minutes.
Yep, thatās it. Youāll notice that thereās no quantities listed up there, and thatās because youāll be using the mug to measure everything. This helps to make sure your quantities are consistent, and means that so long as you have a mug and your ingredients, you can make bread. Heck you donāt even need a bowl, it just makes clean up easier.
Again I had Elusive Tumblr Dad help me take the photos so be warned this is going to be fairly image heavy under the cut :D
291/365. You know, I didnāt do it every day, but I did it roughly 4 out of every 5. Thatās pretty damned good in my book. Keeping my kitchen clean certainly helped my mood and general happiness in my surroundings.
Exercise every day
192/365. This was not great. And as was probably obvious, I just gave up trying about halfway through the year. I need to figure out something better than this.
Do morning face routine every day (+sunscreen if leaving apartment)
305/365. This number would be even higher if Iād been a little better about sunscreen. Still, Iām pretty pleased with this result.
Do evening face routine every day
352/365. I think I can say that my skincare routine is as close to a daily habit as it will ever be. (And I got complimented on my skin last night, so that was nice.)
Try 30 new recipes
#20 Cinnamon Pecan Sandies. These cookies are really easy to make and freeze beautifully after cooking. Iāve been eating my way through a batch all month, and I adore them.
#21 Creamy Spinach Artichoke Chicken. Decent, but I donāt think itās my favorite version of a dish with spinach, artichoke, and chicken. I served it over the last bit of couscous I found in my pantry.
21/30. The first half of the year was pretty rough, but I did a pretty good job expanding my recipe collection after that. Budget Bytes was a lifesaver in this regard, and I found a number of recipes from there I love and make repeatedly.
Read 30 books
16/30. Okay, this one really didnāt go well. Iām not exactly sure how to react to this, honestly. I...basically only did my required reading for RIC, which doesnāt make me all that happy in retrospect.
Financial
Earn $2,500 from freelance/side jobs
$3,729.45/$2,500. I did not expect to do this well, holy shit. I donāt feel like I was particularly good at being consistent with my freelance work, at least when it came to regularly pitching/reaching out to ask for assignments. Still.
Pitch to 2 new sites
1 /2. But apparently that was all I needed in order to exceed my freelance goals.
Rich in Color
Send out author interview/guest post email
9/10. Hey, just one month off is good enough for me.
Request at least 12 interviews/guest posts
10/12. Even though I didnāt reach the goal, Iām pretty happy with how many interviews/guest posts I coordinated.
Keep release calendar up to date
9/12. Not really that great a look, but thank goodness my co-bloggers picked up some of the slack. >.<
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