Hello chaps.
I’ve written the next bit in italics cos it’s all horseh-horseh related, so I figure if you do care, read ORRN! If you don’t – skip the italics 🙂
So lol HA! I flew my kite today. That would be true if my kite had 4 legs, a lorra fluff and called itself Chika….she’s hardly been ridden the past month or so, due to the generous offerings received from the snow gods, so she was feeling…’somewhat frisky’ – to put it mildly! She was still super obedient to my voice, and she spent the first 15mins on the lunge being an annnnngel. Then, the inevitable happened, and she saw a distant lion. Her tail went up, her neck thickened up like a tbsp of flour to water (eh? what? Isn’t that the most awful simile ever?) and she started doing that snort-thing horses do when they see something spooky/scary. You know the one!? It didn’t help that it was extremely foggy and chilly, and she just wanted an excuse :p
So anyway, when she’s in that mood, when I say canter, she goes ‘yes mother’ – and leaps, bucks and kicks into and during canter! I actually had to drop my whip, use both hands and put my full body weight into leaning on the lunge rein so she wouldn’t completely take off :p Hilarious! I was just thankful I was in gloves….though it was nice; she released her inner-warmblood which I just KNOW is dying to get out; knees up round her chest, elevation like she was on pogo sticks…so good to see. After 10mins of that, I let her off the lunge and just did join up/gallop round the school for a bit. it was fun 😀
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Not like the others, I say!? Yez, it’s true. Jenny, of Peanut Butter and Jenny fame, did a post on not being like all the other ‘big’ bloggers (or small bloggers, or healthy living bloggers in general) a while back. It made me thiiiink (never a good thing), and I came up with a few of my own…
1) I have a schmanzy camera like the proper bloggers do. The difference is? I ain’t a clue how to use it right :p (actually one of my New Year’s resolutions IS to learn how to use it to my advantage!). In fact, my ‘arty’ pics are often pretty crap:
Take One:
Take Two:
Take Three:
Take Four:
See? They also regularly come out dark, for no reason:
I’m guessing that’s maybe an …. ISO (?) ….. issue. See, I really am quite dim.
The other fancy-camera biggie – I don’t drag it evvvvverywhere I go – partly I can nay be bother (it’s awkward!) but mainly cos it’s so darn precious! I don’t want to break it – something I am hiiiighly likely to do.
2) I like canned pumpkin – but real pumpkin? I can take it or leave it:
Unfortunately (for that pumpkin), it got left.
3) I love to bake – but I’m no good at baking pretty things! Take my cookies today – they’re not uniform in size, they’re pretty ugly; and even my attempt at Angela-style photography didn’t reaaaaaally work….
The above was to prove my amazing stacking skills, in case they all fell over (they did) before I took them into the big wide world of outside for the Real Photoshoot!
The relegated cookies – deemed too poor to be stacked in the tower:
At least the baking part looked delicious 😀 (that’s date syrup used instead of maple syrup)
With added figs and carob chips instead of apricots 🙂
Chia egg!
In action….
(by the way – the cookies were deLICIOUS! I had one with lunch – very much smile-worthy)
4) However much I’d like to, I never have and never will present my food nicely. Or in small portions. Some bloggers do both, and I read their posts and think ‘oh yes, tomorrow I’ll eat a tiny portion of xyz and make it look preddy’ – then tomorrow comes, and I never do:
Above, was eaten with milky banana steel cut oats, below: *Da BOMB*
Bah, what can I say – I like volume! 😀 Especially when it involves seedy toast, and lots of mushy veggies 😀
Pear on toast? Why not.
5) I love oatmeal, and I now love cereal and [soya] milk. But the thing that makes me different from the blog world? i really can leave the toppings :O. Yep, I kinda LIKE my oats without all the fuss and stuff on top! In fact, I find they get in the way – my brain gets overloaded with all the flavour combinations – which one will be the best, which little bit shall I save til last… – and I find that if I add peanut butter, it inevitably melts into the oats and I end up losing the strong PB flavour kick. It’s sad and woeful! And in regards to cereal? it’s either banana, or no banana:
Don’t even try and be fancy and add pineapple or grapes or – worst of the worst – APPLE to my cereal. It will. not. happen. I will. not. like it.
6) I don’t do yoga.
Well, that’s a lie – I DO do yoga, but my yoga ability is limited to the realms of two MTV power/Ashtanga yoga DVDs, that i have done thousands of times, mastered, but have not looked at in about 6months 😛 Really I feel there’s a closet yogini in me trying to get out – but until I live within screaming distance of a yoga studio, she’s gonna have to keep schtum!
7) I don’t have a husband. Hurrumph.
8) i have a horse instead :p (and two boys named Carter and Kovac!)
9) I’m British. Take THAT, American bloggers!!
10) I have a tendency to start posts off strong and whilst the evening is young, do something else, then come back to them late at night when I’m super tired, want to watch The American Office, read my textbook (Ok, My Sister’s Keeper – I’m bored with the textbook now) and just hit publish. Which is why my reasons stop at 10! I wrote number 9 hours ago – but this last one is all my fuzzled out brain can handle.
ALAS.
Question: How are you different from everyone else?
I’m pretty tall…and I kind of like staying home and hanging out with my sister more than anything else….I have not had any desire to socialize with outside friends at all over Christmas break. Sometimes I get self-conscious about it, but then I realize that my best friend is luckily in the same house as me, so it’s all good 🙂
I don’t have a husband! I also take photos with my phone. I’m too lazy to take a camera everywhere. I also can’t make my food look pretty. I think it is my one type of plate.
I am happiest at home – pubs and clubs are less and less appealing to me! However, also being husbandless, and with no suitable prospects at work, this means a man will literally need to turn up on my doorstep for me to meet him… I, too, struggle with yoga, and barely allow my food time to sit on the plate, let alone look pretty 😉 Jx
I’m with you on the camera thing. I don’t have a fancy one but after 2 years of owning mine I only just figured out how to turn off the flash!
I wish there were more Brit bloggers. I love the US/Canadian ones I read but it’s nice to see foods/recipes that you can go out and try without too much hassle.
I love that you eat porridge for dinner (I refuse to say oatmeal haha that’s so American.) HA, that’s one way that I’m different from other bloggers. I call it “porridge” and not “oatmeal”. I’m also different because I live in New Zealand. Not America or the UK. Take THAT you Northern Hemispherians!
xxx
Haha I’m the same as you on a lot of things! Being British (obviously!), no fancy oatmeal toppings, no husband, etc!
I’m different because I don’t have a fancy schmantzy camera, although I’d love one!
I found myself agreeing so many times!! Especially the “always making ugly things” – I always have these ideas to make my baked goods “pretty,” but in the end, I’m just like…mreh! haha. Or adding stuff to it just because it will make a better picture – I always want to do that, but then don’t because I know that’s not how I actually want to eat it, and no sense in wasting foods for the sake of something being pretty!
I used to top my oats like crazy. Now I’m pretty simple with just a nut butter, wheat germ and nuts and maybe a drizzle of maple syrup. And as for cereal? I agree – banana is the way to go, if you’re adding fruit!
I hear you on the camera, too. I wish I had a little one that I could throw in my purse…but no
and, last but not least – don’t you love how winter = millions of lions in the bush in horse’s perspectives? Teddie is quite certain that the SNOW (that he LIVES IN) that has snuck under the far side of the indoor’s door is bound to eat him. *rolleyes*
This post is so funny. I’m not like everyone else because I’ve never MET any of my blogger buddies. Sad news.
Figuring out your fancy schmancy camera isn’t too hard – I promise! I just got a DSLR for Christmas and have already gotten it figured out. Try setting your ISO to 400 in good lighting conditions and 800 in poor lighting conditions. Then, mess around with the shutter (higher number = faster shutter speed = less light that gets let through), then with the F-stop last.
psh small portions are SO overrated – especially when it comes to roasted veggies 🙂 Do what works for you girl!
LOL I can relate to 9!
“Take THAT American bloggers.” Oh my. Hahahaha.
My mother has a fancy schmancy camera (a Rebel!) and no clue how to use it. It annoys me sometimes, but only because I’m jealous.
I’m not a food blogger, so I guess my dissimilarity to popular bloggers is permissible.
But here you go anyway:
1) Diet Coke and I have an unhealthy, lovely, beautiful relationship. (I’m in love.)
2) I don’t eat oatmeal.
3) I skip breakfast a lot.
4) I don’t blog that often
shahaa i love this post!
I am different in that:
1. I have never tried a Luna bar ( it seems i am the only one- but you can understand.. we dont get them in this country!)
2. I’ve never been a huge fan of drinking my meals- like juices or smoothies- i love to chomp!
We have been having such cold and snow in Massachusetts that I am rather dreading when I have to lunge my horse – it won’t be pretty 😦
But it goes with the territory!
Hm, I don’t have a blog!
Hope you had a lurvely lurvely Christmas with your family- hope your mum is feeling much better! x
Love this post! I can relate to number 8 and 9. 😀
I eat the same breakfast every morning. And it’s usually not oatmeal 🙂 And I don’t like yoga at all!!
i’m a filipino blogger that’s why I am different 🙂
Hee hee, love this post! I’m with you in that I have a horse not a husband (and am thinking that when I FINALLY get to ride him I’ll have a similar experience!)
I also cook UGLY food, prefer plainer porridge and I’m British, woop 🙂
What makes me different is, I’m a journalist, I love football and I get the hiccups. Every. Single. Day.
Happy New Year!
Thank you for this post! I feel like I always compare myself to others, but I just need to remember that I am the best version of myself.
I love your blog, I just don’t comment too often!
I can think of a way that you’re different – you don’t have a tagline for your blog that ends in ‘one *something* at a time’ – US bloggers REALLY need to come up with something original. Cases in point:
‘Celebrating life, one crumb at a time’
‘Transforming the way you see yourself, one post it note at a time’
‘Sharing my life one bite at a time’
Oh my lord…and these people get BOOK deals!? It makes me weep.
I love your individuality. I like to smush fruit on toast too and my friends look at me weirdly, but I told them to look at your blog to see that I’m not the only person like that out there! Keep up the food combinations, I frickin love it.
Donna from Bolton, UK
What an awesome comment! Thank you 🙂
CUTE post!! And for those reasons, I read your blog. How much fun would it be if we were all the same?! Not so much.