The ingredients

• 1 pound small shell pasta
• 1 pound cucumber cut into 2 inch pieces
• 1 Medium Yellow Bell Pepper (or 2 mini)
• 1 Medium Red Bell Pepper (or 2 mini)
• 1 jalapeño chile, seeded and cut into 2 inch pieces
• 1 pound roma tomatoes diced
• 1 garlic clove
• 3 green onions
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar
• 1 bunch of parsley
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 tablespoon of black ground pepper
• Optional: Zesty Italian Dressing
• Time! Never prepare food in a rush!

Step One

First thing’s first! Wash your hands and then gather all the ingredients. Best to keep them close by so they’re ready.

Step Two

Start the small shell pasta, follow the directions on the package. Bring the water to boil, and while you’re waiting do some stuff in step three. It takes several moments to boil. Once boiling, add the pasta to the water. Keep boiling as the package states. It takes about ten minutes to complete.

Step Three

Now time to cut up your vegetables! Do this while you are preparing your pasta so you’d be done with both around the same time.

Cucumbers We’ll be cutting several cucumbers to about one or two inch strips. Don’t worry, they don’t need to be perfect. I prefer mini seedless cucumbers for this, makes it easy to chop up and looks great for garnish. If you’re using mini cucumbers like myself, save about 3. (Photo #3 in top gallery)

Jalapeño Chile Cut the ends off and seed/gut it. I prefer to use a tiny knife as it’s easy to remove by just sliding it around in a circle. Do it under running cold water to let the water carry the seeds and insides out as you loosen it with a blade. (Photo #5 & #6 in top gallery)

Bell Pepper I elected to use mini bell peppers because they’re easier to use when cooking. The reason why is when you cut off the top, the bulk of the seeds come out with the top and you do not have to worry about cleaning the insides as much trying to eliminate all the seeds which is a tough task.

Green Onion Cut up about three green onions. (Photo #9 in top gallery)

Garlic Pull off the garlic peels the best you can and smash it with your palm. Pull the weak skin away and the rest of the peel and break it into chunks. (Photo #10 in top gallery)

Parsley If you’re using a fresh bunch of parsley, remove leafs and get rid of the stems. You can use dried parsley from your spice rack instead.

Step Four

By this time the pasta should be done. Run it under cold water if it is complete. (Photo #7 in top gallery). Toss all of the vegetables (cucumber, jalapeno, bell pepper, garlic, onion & parsley) you had just chopped up into a food processor. I personally like to do a few at a time to make sure it’s perfect. Try not to puree the vegetable mix.

Step Five

Dice the tomato, or cut them into about a half of inch chunks. I do about four roma tomatoes, add as many as you’d like. This step is separate because you do not add the tomato to the food processor.

Step Six

Transfer the pasta to a large bowl. Add the vegetable mix from the food processor as well. Add all of the tomatoes. Finally, add the tablespoon of black ground pepper. I prefer Indian Malabar black peppercorns freshly grounded for mine. Add the two teaspoons of salt. Add the two tablespoons of red wine vinegar (1 tablespoon regular if you have no red wine vinegar) and two tablespoons of olive oil.

Step Seven

Mix everything together very, very, well! Toss it!

Step Eight

Let it chill in the fridge for two hours before serving.

Optional: If you want a stronger or stronger taste add some Italian dressing to it. Add as much as you want, just don’t go overboard!

Step Nine

Serve! Use halfed cherry tomatoes and the extra cucumbers to garnish the plate and extra full parsley stems (with leafs) to make it look night.

This serves about 6-8 people depending on how big of eaters everyone is.

Looks like a nice peaceful game, right? Cute pets walking around an adorable town doing business? WRONG. You couldn't be more wrong. I do now have a new problem with you Booyah games. Your use of rabbits. In fact, plain OVERUSE.

But, one thing that is really ticking me off. I seemed to only have one rabbit and a bunch of other adorable pets. Note... The rabbit is not adorable. In fact, the rabbits in the game look plain wrong. There are rabbits in all the seats at the ice cream parlor... How can my cute pets go eat ice cream or milkshake shop or whatever it is when the rabbits took all of it? The candy store perhaps? Rabbit is blocking the doorway. . Hey look! On the roof there's a rabbit. Is it an archer? What is a rabbit doing on the roof? Since when did rabbits get on roofs?

Wait, the other ice cream shop... There's a rabbit on the roof. Quick, call Oswald the elephant! He's bigger than the buildings (and somehow lives in one)... I declare him to be security even if he's a tad clumsy. Yup. We need a big elephant security guy to get this rabbit off the roof. This rabbit is stealing my cherry! That's for me, not that damn rabbit.

Everywhere on the city streets rabbits are everywhere! They're not sticking to the sidewalks. They're wandering around. They're working in construction. I do not like the rabbits. Wait... What is this? A rabbit working on construction is being lazy and eating a carrot?! Rabbits are lazy. They're not hard workers. They're not cute. They're mean. They're evil.

In fact, the prizes?! Rabbits control the loot?! Why?! Why?! Why?! Why do rabbits get to run the city and be the rich ones?

I do not like rabbits. At all. But, yet, they're overtaking my town. I want an end to these rabbits. These rabbits seem to be breeding far faster than the ones that overtook Australia before their Great Emu War. Rabbits are evil. Pure evil. Get rid of them please. I have leporiphobia. Cute bunnies are cute, but, bunnies that resemble easter bunnies, walking around, or too many, just plain wrong. I have disliked rabbits since my first memory—Which is a nightmare. I got lost in a yard full of giant rabbit posters. Scary for a three year old. Still don't like them today at twenty-two.

I am really liking PetTown by Booyah… Except for one thing. These god damn rabbits everywhere intruding on my pet town’s business. I need an exterminator.

Add squirrels. Squirrels are better. I have a name suggestion for one, “Ashkir”. In fact, know that adorable squirrel in FarmVille? Yes, I know, Zynga game… But, they make ADORABLE icons. They don’t overkill rabbits.

Obviously the squirrels look more awesome. There are four! Can you spot them all? Rabbits are pure evil, more evil than penguins! The penguins are doing something down there in Antartica… All alone. Rabbits are MORE EVIL than that.

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I spent over an hour building her face in the character creator! It’s so much fun. Luckily, I don’t own every single Sims 3 item or I’d probably STILL be going through hairstyles and clothes! I spent some time carefully choosing a lot, but, I couldn’t find a large lot so I deleted two empty ones and put down a larger lot. The challenge that inspired me was historical hotel, building a hotel across ten generations, I decided to go toward a historical home. I also enabled a story progression mod, so other sims get jobs, etc to compete with.

Her starting home was 5×5 house with a cheap chair, a desk, a cheap bed, and the cheapest computer (for her job), a stove, fridge, and one counter to have room. She had no table, no shower, nothing of that sort to start off with. So hence she had to save and buy more stuff herself! I spent all of her extra money except for $502 on trees. Her house cost less then $3,000 to build. Used cheapest materials, no foundation. It’s as a starting apartment but without a bathroom. She’d be playing in the world of Setra, the desert world!

Calliope started her first novel on day one, took a class, and registered as self employed writer. First novel was Attack in the Bear Cave. She made $16 in her first day. Writing skill was improved to 2. She then spent time making her first meal, Mac and Cheese. She’s not a cook do she didn’t burn it. Oh, calliope doesn’t have a shower! I just noticed this. Well, I guess she has to save now. Because she only earned $16, the meal cost $8 so her total was $8 for her first day.

The next few days went better. She got to writing skill three. We finished her book and was able to afford a shower! Now problem is there’s no room… Now she’ll have to save some more for a wall expansion. When she woke up, I realized she had no dresser… Oops. Guess she’ll have to save even more! Her fun meter went down and the sim decided to chat with someone over the computer before getting any work done. She actually finished the novel on her second day! After writing for a few hours she ate, played some games. She then took a shower as we found a place for it! No vathtub for now. Played more games… Slacker, and finished up that novel!

She also got offered a job to write a biography about Dave Ravini under the opportunity ‘a history of one’. So far she did pretty well in her first few days of life. I decided to leave her alone and see how she can survive on her on for a few days,if she has any independence. Her bills came in… $41! She lost more then she earned! She better get to writing more or find a career and break her dream of being an author. she did get a promotion however once her book was finished! She’s now a small-time scribe! Her earnings are now $100. Critics however didn’t like her work. Now she spent her evening staring the biography and thats now her priority.

Luckily for her when she sleeps she can sleep in! She’s the boss! No schedule… This works well, I think! Once she gets steady she should go out dating!

Money had become tight and she was dangerously close to having less then $10 left total. Calliope had become a hermit! No friends! Nobody. Being an author is tough! After a few days being n author wasn’t enough. She had to give up her dream and find a stable job. She is no longer an author. At least the cab ride was fun… Hopefully it’d all be worth it. She’s a papergirl and her writing skill is five. While waiting to go to work the next day, she wrote in hopes of writing a new novel. Oh, get this! She was late for her first day cause she was playing games!

It’s hard to believe that she could be the founder of a great family line in several generations! She’s set in Setra… A desert city!

But, Jerry convinced me to join Star Trek Online because it is the anniversary week! This week they’re giving out special prizes and a ship when I do reach end game. The game seems simple enough, but, of a universe and a story line I absolutely love! It’s going to take some getting used to, but, I can see myself losing too much time to this game.

Screenshots ahoy!

Sometimes the fog gets so bad that we cannot even see our own curb. This fog will last from like 3 am to nearly 2 pm, we’ve had fog last up to like 4 pm before. I miss the sandstorms sometimes. This fog is so weird, and has a strange smell. During this time of the year from November to April, we can get extremely cold months, heavy rain, wind so high that trees get knocked down, or even the feared black ice.

Fog is also sporadic, for example you can walk a block away sometimes it won’t be foggy for a few blocks, than all of a sudden thick as snow once again. It’s a very strange effect. I get tired of people telling me fog is nothing. Come visit California sometime buddy. I’d love to see how you can deal with tule fog if you haven’t ever seen fog so thick you can’t see your curb…

Oh, when the fog is that thick we can’t see the curb, my camera comes out as all white and dusty/glary looks. :/

In fact, I’m only a member of one RPG right now… Which is the Harry Potter RPG. Been there forever… I have yet to find a second home! So, as I looked further this RPG, Aspen Falls is different. They have these things called Borne and Marked and with the goal of integrating magical beings into our normal modern society. Magic is only taught to control it.

So, this was a kick. Something different. So, I hopped into the chatbox before reading past the home page. I instantly got overwhelmed by several members and then the chat subject changed so drastically that I got lost. I thought these people were half crazy. Crazy = fun in RPGs, right? So… I made a comic as you see above…

Now to go research that RPG more. Maybe I found a new RPG to play. =D

These are a collection of the best photographs form the Christmas season at my Aunt Trish’s house in the Los Angeles area. It was great fun! ^_^ These are also the same set on facebook. This is just the rest of the album!

I am actually quite pleased with the quality of photos. I’m still using the same camera, but, I’ve been doing a lot of practice with lightning and lightning effects. Sadly, my camera is not DSLR or I could do some much more amazing things. None of these images are photo shopped, or altered, these are the images in their raw formats (just resized). I will probably touch up the photos in a graphic’s editor one day.

My camera produces a few spots that I cannot seem to get rid of, as if dust is clinging to my lens. But, it’s not that noticeable. It’d be something I’ll edit out in the future.

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I couldn’t decide on any of them. However, Blizzard brought back Refer a Friend for $5 and it exists to level eighty. So, I decided, what the hey… and dual-boxed. If you want to multi-box I highly suggest going for HotKeyNet. It’s free and its really good and it comes with easy to use scripts and great documentation. Took me five minutes to set up and start using! Which is great!

I actually picked the first class randomly. I got mad that mages don’t seem to exist ninety percent of the time. So, I made a mage. Somehow, magically, all the mages now exist… It’s funny how Dalaran works, right? I’m on the server Proudmoore because I leveled a hunter there and got invited to a great guild. I’m loving it.

So. Above are attached images of my mages. Sorry, not a long article. This is more of a photoblog.