Day #1; "The Kids" and "Jupiter: King of the Gods"

Happy New Year!

Have fun last night? Excited for the new year? Could you honestly not care less?!

Haha~ I hung out with the beau and chums drinking Hello Kitty champagne until the wee hours of the morning.

So we've had a quiet day in today but it was a nice start for the year.

And I'm super excited for the new year~ I'm excited for blogging and this simultaneous 365 project I'm setting out on.

So with out further ado, here are my images~

"The Kids"

I asked Tyler what I should draw for my first photo of the year and he said "our children~*" which is Bella, Patches, Bookworm, and Wasabi & Ginger.
Bella is our cat, Patches is the stuffed dog I've had for forever, and the other three were gifts from Tyler over the years.
I think it's a pretty nice lil family portrait~

"Jupiter: King of the Gods"

A simple panorama of the view from our backyard in Fresno.
I was surprised when I pulled out my skymap app that the brightest spot at the very top is the planet Jupiter!
And it's hard to see but Orion is lying on his side below him in the trees.
I'm pretty pleased to have this as my very first photo for this project. (:

Happy New Year! And Tasty Tuesday #1~*

Happy New Year!

2012 was a great year filled with ups and downs~

I graduated from Mt. SAC with an Art's Associates in Humanites.

I was one of the maid of honors in my best friend's wedding.
I finally turned 21.
I left a pretty lame job that had some amazing coworkers.

I finally moved in with my boyfriend Tyler in Fresno.
I converted from a pescetarian to a vegetarian to a vegan.
And much more that I'm sure I'm totally forgetting~

While 2012 was a pretty good year, I want 2013 to be even better!
And I want to document it all, so I'm going to start blogging daily.
Monday through Friday will have different blogs each day, and since the new year starts on Tuesday the first post will be for
~Tasty Tuesday~ 

And as the days go on, each of the day's blog titles will be revealed.
I'll be queuing my blog to post automatically every day at 9:15am but besides the scheduled posts,
everyday I will post a photo that I took and a drawing that I drew~

I'm very excited to be blogging more and for what this year will unfold into~

So okay, enough mushy rambling, let's get started!

Thanksgiving this year was spent at Tyler's home with his family and my sister came to visit! 

I spend the day before and the day of cooking soooooo muuuuuccchhh~
I wanted my first ever vegan thanksgiving to be delicious as hell and guess what! It was~

I started my day by attempting to roast some pecans.
It didn't end well.

Even though it was totally disheartening for the FIRST thing I did to go horribly wrong,
everything else went quite smoothly afterwards~

I made a tofu-based pumpkin pie~
Everyone who tried it said it tasted just like normal pumpkin pie so aw yeah~~~

I also made a tofu-based sweet potato pie.
It probs look way cooler with some pecans but you know...
Also tasted pretty normal so that's good, too~ Haha

This is some green bean casserole!
I had to make a roux and it was so weird but cool.
Cooking is such an awesome hobby,
it's like chemistry but then you get to EAT IT!

Tyler's mom is very awesome and gave me a portion of stuffing/dressing that I kept vegan with a vegetable broth. She also shared some mashed potatoes and broccoli salad~
So there was absolutely no shortage of different kinds of food.

 These dinner rolls were made from scratch!
Yeast, flour, and water. And I guess time.
For my first time every making bread from scratch, they came out pretty flavorful~

And the pièce de résistance... the Trader Joe's brand holiday roast~

Tyler was the one who very nicely laid out this platter and doesn't it look great?~ 

I typically get the Tofurkey brand but decided to try the Trader Joe's one out and oh man, it is amazing!

I've got nothing against the Tofurkey one, but the Trader Joe's one looked better, had a better texture, and tasted better! 

It was seriously so good....... I want some right now........ omggggggg..g...g.g..g.......

After the seemingly endless amount of prepwork and cooking, this was the most delicious Thanksgiving I've ever had~