My Mouth Hates Me.

So...
I tried to go on a bike ride. Uh, mistake.

You see, my tooth has been bothering me for the past few days.
Like, a lot. Enough that I'd rather not eat anything solid. Soup and apple sauce for the past couple days...
(Better than nothing ~Especially since it's more than some people in the world eat, sadly...~ but boring as un-buttered toast. And I can't even eat that. -_-' )

I've been trying to lose weight recently, and since I hadn't really done anything for exercise today, the bike was calling me. It's a really nice bike, rides REALLY well, stops pretty much on a dime etc. etc.
Yeah, anyways... The more my heart-rate increased, the more the pulsating agony in my tooth increased...
It was like someone had taken a rubber mallet and had started pounding on the little thing...

I swear, the entire right side of my head is throbbing...
*Sigh*
 Already have a crown in this tooth, AFTER having a root canal...
Now it's going to have to be pulled.
Fun times.

HOWEVER.
I do know a recipe for a kind of corn meal/gruel/mushy substance called Grits that's really good, especially if you're sick or having mouth problems. Tasty too, which is good as it looks like I'm going to have to live on that for a few days...

Here it is!
 Makes one pretty big serving

•  One third of a cup of Quaker Oats dry Grits(You can normally find them with oatmeal in whatever store you shop at)
  
•  One cup of milk
• One cup of water
• A whisk to stir with
• A small pot

Mix all of the ingredients into the pot and stir them all together on medium heat.
Keep stirring the whole time, until the mush begins to thicken.
It should be slightly hard to stir at this point, when that happens take it off the stove and pour it into a cereal bowl. 

Now you need

• Sugar to taste
• Butter to taste. Margarine is good too.

Mix it all together, wait 'till it's cooled down a little bit, then chow down!
The Grits should be nice and fluffy and sweet!

I hope you like it as much as I do!
Tell me what you think about it in the comments, please!
What do YOU like to make when you're not feeling well? :)

See you next post!
~God Bless~!

How I Got Interested In Photography

Alright... This is my first post, and I'm not terribly good at writing, so please bear with me if this is boring, I'm just starting out... I hope this is the first of many posts as I get better at this in the upcoming years!

Have you ever heard of a co-op? It's like a sort of extra curricular thing for homeschoolers. It can be academic, or it can be more for just learning new fun things, or just doing new activities.
Mine is more for fun, and has three class periods, with a lunch break afterwards.
The people there are all very nice, and I've made a whoooooooole bunch of good friends there. :)

One year, they were offering a class on beginner's photography for second period, and since there weren't any other classes that I was interested in, and Kateniss, my best friend was going for it, I signed up for it too!
My family had an old camera that I used from time to time, although I'd never really had much of an interest in photography.

The teacher was a nice guy, very friendly and funny. He was a pretty good teacher, and I learned a decent bit about photography, like don't always put the object that you're taking a picture of in the middle of the frame, sometimes it looks better if it's more to the side.

That year at Christmas, my AMAZING parents got me a shiny AWESOME new camera for a present! It worked like a dream, the focus was awesome, the clarity was beautiful, and I couldn't ask for a better one!

I found I really enjoyed taking pictures of things in nature, landscapes, flowers, trees, animals, you name it!
But I didn't really have anywhere to post my pictures, so I ended up just stopping for a while, which I didn't like, but what was I going to do with all of these pictures? We couldn't print them, we couldn't afford to buy all of that ink and paper! So, for a few years, my love of photography had to be stifled for convenience sake, sadly. :(

One day, I was on a page I'd liked on Facebook, surfing through the pictures they'd posted. Then I saw a picture that someone had posted from another website, called deviantART.com. Hesitantly, I checked it out,  being paranoid about viruses and all that. Well, I really liked the stuff I'd found on there, so I made an account, just wanting to like pictures and comment, not really thinking about posting anything at the time, thinking that it was a site for paintings only, and I had little interest in that.

I began browsing around on there, looking at all of the amazing things that people created with their various artistic talents. And THEN... I found a photography page! I was shocked, I thought you could only post paintings and digital art on there!(I admit, it had never really occurred to me to check... I never said I was smart :p )

Well, for the next few days, my camera and I were inseparable. Everywhere I went, I had it with me, ready to grab a winning snapshot of anything that crossed my path! Sloooowly, I started getting views and favorites on the pictures, and each time I got a notification about it, I just felt amazing! :D Ever since then, photography has been the love of my life, and I couldn't be happier about being where I am today!

Here's the link to my deviantART page! ; http://linkwannabe42.deviantart.com/
Here's the link to the artist that I was interested in checking out when I first got on!;http://stephanothestatue.deviantart.com/(Sadly, she doesn't update anymore, due to lack of inspiration, but she has a new page right here! ;http://castel-eown.deviantart.com/. I gotta warn you, she swears a lot. Don't go to her page unless you're prepared for some nasty words, although it is well worth it, as she is a great artist, and a nice person!)

What inspires YOU to make art, if you do?
See ya next post!
~God bless~!