Happy Valentines Day ♥

Happy Valentines Day Everyone! (I've discovered how to change the color of the text. And who knows what I'll do next. Haha! :-D )

I hope you're all having a lovely day! I've caught a cold and it's at it's worse today. :P Not much fun. I was planning to make a pink breakfast but I was too tired this morning. Oh well. So I thought I'd do some writing. It's a perfect day to write when you have a cold. It's gray and windy outside and I have my Artemis mug full of Jasmine tea, I've got a warm sweatshirt on and I have my music on. :) I almost feel like a real writer. Haha! the only thing that would make this more perfect is if I had a heater on under my feet. Brr!

I was looking at the Map I have on this site, that shows all the people who have looked at this blog. WOWIE! I can't believe so many people all over the world have looked at this blog. It's so exciting! Hello to everybody all over the world!!! ((Jumps up and down and waves)) It's super cool! :)

I wonder how people celebrate Valentines day around the world...We've never done too much for it. My mom makes pink food (pink pancakes, pink tuna sandwiches, pink mashed potatoes, etc.) And sometimes my dad will surprise us in the morning with chocolate. This year my grandmother sent all of us kids cards.
I was planning on making pink pancakes, pink hash browns, and bacon (which is kind of pink) for breakfast, but I woke up very tired and stuffed up. I'm feeling much better so I'm going to make dinner. We're going to have roast beef (pink in the middle) pink mashed potatoes (I'll cook a beet in with the potatoes and when I mash them together it'll be pink) and red Swiss chard. YUMMY! I think that will be good. :)

What do you, my lovely readers, like to do on Vday? What are your traditions?

I'm going to go eat some lunch for now. Goat cheese, lunch meat, and GF crackers. Mmm! Happy Valentine's day everyone! :) I'll write more later.
See you later people! :-D
~Rhanna~

The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke

In which Hannah Swensen, the middle-aged owner of The Cookie Jar, is running her bakery smoothly when one day she finds the Cozy Cow Dairy delivery man dead. Shot in his truck surrounded by her Chocolate Chip Cookies. When her brother-in-law, Bill, a detective on the police force, asks for her help solving the case she accepts. During her investigation she goes garbage searching, deals with her persistent mother, bakes cookies, meets the local dentist, bakes more cookies and when the owner of the Cozy Cow Dairy goes missing suddenly, Hannah's suspicions grow. Will she solve the murder in time and live to bake more cookies??  

I read this book a while ago, so I forgot some of the plot, which makes it hard to write a review. Haha! I really like this book though. The murder scenes weren't at all gory or gross, which was nice if you don't like gory stuff. The book includes about 7 recipes for cookies that are in the story. I think it's cool! Hannah is a fun character to follow. She's smart, funny and somewhat sarcastic. and Norman, the local dentist, is very lovable and sweet. The only thing I didn't like about it, was that Hannah gave her brother-in-law all the credit for solving the murder when she did all the work. And there's one woman who is being beaten up by her husband which was annoying (don't worry! If you don't like that part  of the story the husband goes away soon). I still really liked the books. They have sort of a Nancy Drew feel, just with more murder and cookies. It was fun for me to see what it was like running a bakery. I also like Hannah's cat, Moshie.

This book is in the Hannah Swensen series.

Recommended for people who like: cookies, murder, and Minnesota winters.

Happy Belated Imbolc!



A Really cool Brigid. :)


Happy...err Belated Imbolc Everybody! It's spring time! and boy is it beautiful here! It's been in the 70s the last two weeks here. Just gorgeous!  It's January...wait...it *was* January. Now it's February. Duh! Haha! ;D

 Sorry I haven't been writing more! We moved again! but I won't get into too much detail. ;) We moved about 10 days before Christmas about 20 miles south... south?...or its it north?....or west?....or east...?......We moved 20 miles in some direction from where we used to live. ;) Haha! This house is lovely! So much bigger and less moldy. And since then I have just forgotten to write on here (plus I have been doing a lot of reading ;) )


Ok, I just want to do a quick what-books-have-I-read-lately-check-up and then I have something cool to talk about!

Blueberry Muffin Murder
the 3rd book in the series.

So I got a few books for Christmas, that I'm still working on! Mostly they were Cozy/Murder mysteries, which I love! I have been going through the Hannah Swesen mysteries by Joanne Fluke very quickly. They are about a woman named Hannah who runs a bakery in this little town, with no crime but lots of murder (What?!). Hannah likes to solve the cases (She is always the one to find the body with some kind of baked good that she made around it) and ends up getting trapped by the murderer in the end, but narrowly escaping with her life (kind of like Nancy drew, but with more murder and more baking ;D). The first book is called 'The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder' and the rest of the series has names to do with some baked good.

Terrier, the 1st book in
the Beka Cooper series.

I also read 'Terrier' by Tamora Pierce. It's in the Beka Cooper series. It's about Beka Cooper, a young girl who is training to be a 'Dog' (police. trainees are called Puppies, and bad guys are Rats) in the Lower city of Tortall. Beka is the great-great-great-great-(you get the idea ;D)-grandmother of George Cooper. George, as in Alanna's husband in the Song of Lioness quartet. Eee! :D It was VERY good! Beka is so awesome! :) I can't wait to read the next book 'Bloodhound'



The Cat Who Played
Post Office. The 6th
book in this series.



My Mom and I are listening too 'The Cat Who' series by Lillian Jackson-Braun. They are GREAT! It's about a middle aged journalist, Jim Qwilleran (Usually called Qwill) and his two cats Koko and Yum-Yum who solves murder cases. He's really funny! I'm half way through 'The Cat Who Played Post Office' It's very good!

And finally, I have been skimming through the Mythology books I got for Christmas: Bulfinch's mythology, Ovid's Metamorphosis, and some other non-fiction books. Though it takes a lot of concentration to read Bulfinch. Hahahaha!!

So now to my big news! :)  I'm going to go to this year's Not Back To School Camp!!!!! Yay!! :D I'm VERY super excited! And another cool thing is, I paid for it all by myself! I have been saving up money for years, from watching neighbors' pets, to birthday money, and I didn't know what to do with it! One time I was saving up for a horse, then I thought maybe I'd fly to the UK to see my friends, then I started saving up to buy a bakery. But now I know what I'm going to spend it on! So then my Mom had a great idea. I'll make things (wire fairies, and crafty stuff like that) and sell it to make enough money again, to go to camp again next year! I think it's a great idea! So I'm learning how to make fairies out of wire and silk flowers. I might do other stuff too, like watch neighbors' pets, make some cat toys, or something like that to sell too, and maybe (Hopefully) I can start sell my baked goods. :) That would be awesome!

 It's a camp for unschooling teens in Oregon. It's one week long (or if you want to you can stay two weeks. I'm only doing one week since it's my first time) and it has from 70 to 100 unschoolers. This is my first time going. It's in August and I'm staying for a week...by myself...for the first time ever away from home. I am nervous about being so far away from my family for so long! Golly! 

I learned about it last September from Idzie on I'm Uschooled. Yes, I Can Write.(Great blog! Idzie's a wonderful writer!)  and I got very excited when I watched this video. It gave such a warm feeling, to think what it would be like to be surrounded by people like me (not that I'm not, since I'm with my family all the time...but you know what I mean. With new people who have some of the same views as I do) Wow! So I signed up yesterday. and I can't wait for the next 6 months to go by! Haha!
I'm going to dye my hair before I go (I'm going to do it soon, but I want to save the leftover dye for August, since I never use it all at once. I've dyed my hair twice before. My dad helps me do it.) This time I want to go a big more crazy! I want to do all my hair in this color  and then I'll put my hair into two ponytails and dye just a little streak this color . Like two streaks at the bottom of my hair. Won't that look so cool! I can't wait! :D And then we're going to order some crazy purple tie-dye tights, that I can wear with my new blue tie-dye skirt. I want to start going with a colorful-hippie style. :) Or just try it out for a while. ;D

More later!
Happy readings!
~Rhanna~
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