Kiery King | Bridging the Gap - Artist, Author, Filmmaker

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February 14, 2012 Health and Fitness 2 comments

We’ve been cooking most of our meals over the last week. That’s not saying much, I guess, but I feel like we’ve been cooking better meals and that’s what counts (even though we ended up having cheap fast food more times than we would have liked). It should because I spent a heck of a lot of time working on it last week too. So here’s basically what we made:

Lemon Rosemary Salmon with Carrots that we baked with it (lemony-rosemary carrots are *so* good)

Butter Bean Soup <mine is very similar minus the dill, bayleaf, and olive oil. I use Marjoram and 4 cups of water with some dry chicken broth in addition to the crushed tomatoes – my recipe is actually from my Mother-in-law. I also threw this in the crockpot and let it cook all day so I didn’t have to think about it.

Three Bean Pasta E Fagoli from Rachel Ray’s Look + Cook cookbook. We froze what was left of both soups after we had them for lunch the next day. I still have some of this in the freezer. I had to substitute the noodles though and got just small shells, and we didn’t get the fancy cheese because we couldn’t find it.

Corn, Rice, and Bean Burritos from one of our Taste of Home magazines. They were almost as good as this one local hole-in-the-wall burrito place and would have been really good with some kind of sweet potato salsa thing. But I don’t know how to make that, I just like how Bruce’s Burritos does it. I think we had salad with cucumbers with this one. We’ve beent trying to use up our lettuce, so we’ve had a few green salads interspersed all week.

Alex made Spaghetti with an amazing salad (and bread! but he didn’t make the bread) for dinner on Monday. Alex had taco’s and I had breakfast for dinner on Sunday (our cooking-ness takes a break on the weekends).

I’m going to attempt to make a kind of “fauxtisserie” chicken breast with…something for dinner for Valentines.

And then I get to start this all over again. Joy (not).

I think I’m going to go through the Slow Cooker Revolution cookbook from America’s Test Kitchen for ideas this week.

We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

February 13, 2012 Comics No comments

In honor of Valentines day. Because tomorrow is Valentines day I wanted to do something special. Initially I was going to make a filler comic that has little to do with anything and was just some kind of Valentines storyline, but I didn’t plan the story before I started on it like I usually do. I like using fireworks, and decided that I can make people in there (as time consuming as it is) and they turned out really well. It’s not Modest Medusa but it’s better than what I’ve been doing.

So instead of a comic today, I put lyrics of two of “our” songs with some cool Fireworks CS5 people because it’s us, and it’s Valentines. Below is the actual music:

Cleaning Psycho-ness

February 9, 2012 Design No comments

Occasionally I get this weird thing, where I feel like I should get rid of everything. It’s probably good, it’s like a mini minimalist kick and it’s usually localized (closets, drawers, objects, specific rooms). This time it was centered on my living room. I wasn’t feeling well and all I saw was a ton of crap all over my living room. That’s not all there was, there’s furniture too…but yeah, it was annoying me but I didn’t have any energy to do anything about it. So today, I finally felt human again and decided to tackle all of our random paper and documents and stuff that just sort of pile into a hideous mess of crap that we don’t need. The smart thing to do would be to scan and shred, but I don’t have a shredder, so I just re-organized everything important and trashed everything that we didn’t need.

That one magazine box I made in 2010…it’s gone now. I still have magazines in a cardboard box (the one I used to put gloves and hats in, I should move them into a drawer instead of my laundry basket…which I use for clothes because we have a very small dresser that’s very hard to share and it’s storing out of season clothes right now) but the quantity of magazines is half of what it was, and it’s only ones that are interesting. ^.^

I also went through all of our files in my (one) file box and organized them, labeled the last two year’s folders of tax documents and put all of the ones for this year, so far, in a manilla envelope (I really need to get another file box thing one of these days), I cleaned out both night stand drawers (one is holding our tv and one is in our bedroom) and all the random papers that were just around. Everything now is squished in it’s folder, pictures are in a box, and the red side table that used to house the heavy magazine box is finally moved to the middle of the room, which Alex thinks adds a nice little bit of modern-ness to the room (which is awesome).

In my dreams, I would have a modernly decorated home with a bohemian master bedroom. I think design wise this year, I’m going to be trying to incorporate those (now that I have a direction, ha!) as much as I can with what I have…and maybe this year, I’ll actually make it back to ikea.

I also found a home for Darth Vader.

Late Night Edits

February 8, 2012 Design, Media No comments

I had one of those weeks again – where at those times I should be getting ready for sleep, I come alive and decide to edit and update everything everywhere.

I made a new set of logos for my business – I wanted it to reflect the things I try to make: those moments when you find a piece of magic and it clicks. It’s not perfect (I don’t know how to make it completely perfect yet) but I feel like it embodies the feeling I want to create.

I made various sizes – one for facebook ^ (and coincidentally, sidebar buttons and twitter icons), one for my etsy profile, and a banner.

I also updated all of the text everywhere (etsy, facebook, here) to more accurately and succinctly reflect my art and personality – the tagline wasn’t updated in that screenshot, but I did go on to change it to Believe in Fantasy.

Because I love Pinterest

February 7, 2012 Health and Fitness 2 comments

I finished going over the last two fitness books from the library and came to the conclusion that I actually like using pinterest for finding exercises. Some of the exercises in The Perfect Body Diet I actually have pinned on my fitness tips board.

The Mayo Clinic book was very nice though, and I’m glad I skimmed it. I like their approach and if I hadn’t figured out more of what I was doing last week I think I would have gotten more from it. They were very gentle which I liked and took a lot of care in talking about things like self-image in and how your self-esteem/mood/body image relates to getting healthy. They suggest things besides just exercising – like writing notes to yourself and confidence boosting activities, which I do occasionally (write notes to myself) when I’m feeling particularly happy with humanity for those moments that I know I’m going to need it (like today).