no one of consequence.

Just shuffled a few things over and dropped a simple splash plage to my top-level domain (www.dsafire.net) and adjusted the link on my blog site for the photo blog.

Everything is seamless over there now, in my charcoal and ice blue colors. The old website content was pretty useless, unfinished and outdated anyway. So now there’s direct linkage to the only things that are actually worth anything. For certain values of worth, considering we’re just talking about my blog and photo gallery.

Sadly, I remembered about a half hour after I set it up just to mirror my blog address, that doing so would break a few things I’m still hosting for friends. Oopsie. Sorry about that folks, is all better now.

For everyone else, there’s splash page.

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My sister has a MySpace, and she’s found mine. Not that I use MySpace, it just has a link to my blog on it. I hooked up with a cousin of mine there (the real blood relationship is a bit more complicated, but cousin suits it) so I figured it was only a matter of time before folks started linking up with me there.

Im kinda confused because AFAIK, she doesnt have her own PC, and doesnt have much of an online presence (as opposed to me, who has been blogging quietly for over six years now. And no, most of that stuff isnt publicly available). But then that could just be Mom deciding I dont need to know this kinda stuff again. I ask how people are and I get “fine, fine” as the answer, and have to hope she’s hitting all the salient points. Such as people falling off roofs. And yes Mom, I know you’re probably reading this.

BTW Chica, if you read this I MUST know where you got that avatar made. Post the link. Or to use proper MySpace grammar, PLZ LINK KK?

The kinda disorienting part is that my sister is linked to a couple of people out of the deep past there. The two women I’ve refered to as my “foster-sisters”, a simplifying term chosen that (at least from my end) best describes the now long-past, presumably long-dead relationship.

Im not sure how I feel about that. It’s confusing, nerve-wracking, almost frightening. That’s a very old, very deep wound, and I havent looked under the bandage in a long, long time. Part of me wishes it would stay buried in the deep past, part of me still misses that part of who I was desperately… the part that once could count on belonging there, with those people, when I belonged nowhere else. Especially right now, when I’m hemmed in by so many brick walls I can barely turn around.

Spur of the moment, I sent them both MySpace friend requests. I dont know if they’ll be seen or replied to. I dont know if either of them will ever get as far as this blog. Maybe they’ll come over and take a look, once, out of curiosity. Probably no more than that. Maybe a little voyeristic peek in every once in a while. I certainly dont expect the kind of give-and-take relationship I have with people on the Livejournal edition of this blog. Not that i’d be adverse to real contact, I just dont know if any of us has anything real to say to eachother anymore. My world, my person, my attitude has changed since they knew me, as is natural.

I guess I’ll just wait and see what happens.

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Added a new folder and a few shots to the photoblog.

You can go directly to the new stuff by clicking HERE.

Not much to get excited about. I really need to remember to grab the Elph when I leave the house.

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Working on deconstructing wonton filling the way I remember it. Up here they tend to do it a bit differently. Mostly Hong-kong style wrappers and they seem to either use more oyster sauce than im used to or they are infact actually using the ground shrimp as well. As we all know, im not a fan of seafood, so this isnt really to my taste. I remember wonton tasting very definitely of garlic and soy, YMMV. So I found what looked to be a sensible recipie online and off we go.

Experiment 1 included (to about a half lb of ground pork)

• 1 tsp oyster sauce
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 3 tbs soy sauce
• 2 lg cloves of garlic
• 1 tsp white pepper
• 1/2 cup finely diced water chestnut

Not flavorful enough. It needed green onion, but I didnt have enough for the wontons AND my chicken stir fry, so I skipped it. Probably need a DARK soy, definitely more garlic, the onion and possibly ginger. Possibly the filling just didnt sit long enough to absorb all the flavors right, since I hurried the process and didnt really let it rest. We’ll see what happens with the rest of this batch, which is freezing. This batch was just DEFINITELY not spicy enough.

Considering the possibility of forming the meat, garlic and onion up into meatballs of the right size, then marinating in my usual soy-garlic-ginger mix.

At least the wonton skins the local market had are infact proper Chinese skins and not the Hong Kong style. They’re on the small side, but they have the texture I want.

Suggestions welcomed.

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Back from the Barenaked Ladies concert at the Air Canada Center in Toronto.

Great show, although a number of my favorites didnt make it into the set list. And the crowd was a little lower energy than I like at a concert. They did “Lovers In A Dangerous Time”, so Im a happy fangirl. Ed didnt get his kiss, he tripped twice during One Week. And Kevin is totally sporting the OMGSEXY facial hair.

I’ve got my tee, and the bestest concert buyme EVER…

This is a USB key. With the show we JUST SAW on it in MP3 format. DRM free, because The Ladies believe fen have the right to listen to our music however we want to. For this, amongst a multitude of other reasons, The Ladies doth rock the mostest ever.

Ima go finish squeeing quietly in my corner and petting my USB key now.

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Impatiently waiting to hear back from Immigration.

According to their website, the probably havent even looked at our application package yet, but I’m antsy about it as all hell.

I’m tired of feeling so helpless, so useless. Im accustomed to being active at managing my reality, to working my ass off, standing on my own two feet, and getting what I damn well want in exchange. All of this sitting around and waiting has been a good break, admittedly, but the inability to go out and DO something when it needs to be done frustrates me in the extreme. I want that back, thankyouverymuch.

Here and now I just feel dependant on everyone around me and that just doesnt sit well. Especially when it turns out that some of the folks we’re depending on arent terribly dependable.

One day all of this waiting will be behind me, and the engine will be unstoppable once again. I will once again have the option of telling people to get lost and be able to take care of my own shit. Oh and on that day I will so have the *list* ready.

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