This Week in Funny Bunny… Vol. 1

Posted December 16, 2014 at 10:00 am in Blackjack Bunny Rabbit

I’ve been wanting to add more personal flair to this blog for years, and I’ve done that in the past, but in depressing ways. Don’t get me wrong – I love sad things in a very morbid way, because they test us, they show us our failings, and point us, should we choose, towards a better future. But the only really personal things I’ve revealed are depressing, and if you follow the weddings I post at all, it’s pretty clear that my life isn’t all doom and gloom. I’m hoping this will be a more regular, monthly (or bi-weekly in the “every 2 weeks” sense) post, that shows my life is actually 100% bunny rabbit.

My intention, and I’ll probably restate this in every post, is not to showcase any of my photography – when I’m snapping with my iPhone, it’s for snippets I want to remember for myself and about the speed of pulling out my phone. So these aren’t the sorts of photos you’ll get from your wedding, but pictures, taken mostly for facebook and instagram, that basically record my obsession with Blackjack, my bunny rabbit. 😛

So, aside from the usual Blackjack antics, and my love of the sun first thing in the morning (taken the morning after the big storm this week!), I like to take photos of books that catch my eye in bookstores. I’m not a rabid feminist, but I was caught by the mansplaining title, anyway. She starts out with an anecdote about a book she’d written and how a man, at a cocktail party, was describing this fascinating book he’d read recently… which was, of course, her own book. Not high on my reading list, but I’m a voracious reader, and if there’s kindle version available, I can see giving it a few hours.

We also have a photo of my SO, James, who likes to conduct science in our apartment. This is actually not as ridiculous as it seems – it’s just his bad luck that his experiments, while making complete sense, often look very silly! And I like to let that impression continue. 😛

The non-Blackjack photo here is of a friend’s cat, Ramses. King Ramses had just arrived from the East Coast the day before and was still checking out his new digs (including an alphabet mat that his owners had gotten for him, you know, to teach him to spell). This part of the night was post-dinner, and we were about to start a game of Munchkin, so naturally, we were just laying everything we could find on top of the cat to annoy him. As kind people do.

Speaking of Munchkin, I have a small confession – I love playing games, but I almost never do. I get scared when I don’t know the rules initially, like anxiety attack scared, and often avoid them altogether because of this. I’ve gotten so much better since meeting James, because he can teach them to me in the privacy of our apartment before I venture out into the real world. So, if I turn down a gaming night with you, it’s probably because I don’t know how to play the game yet. I’m working on it!

Last, we have a complete failure of gingerbread cookies. They might look good, but my first impression upon biting into them was, “Mmm, cardboard!” They weren’t that bad, but these chewy blocks just weren’t sweet enough to really justify all the chewing that was going on. The problem? Well, I’m one of those low-carb people – I’ll occasionally sneak a treat in, here and there, but largely, I try to stay away from starches, gluten, sugar, etc. So, I was attempting to make this recipe with 1/3rd the sugar and…well. Bad idea. Bad bad idea. I’m going to make another attempt later in the week with, at least, the proper amount of molasses, but I suspect that the maple syrup is actually key to the recipe…

And that’s all I’ve got for you this week. You’ll see another post from me next week for Brian and Jen’s wedding (we’re skipping a few weddings in between, sorry!)!