My Herb Garden / Mother's Day

 So last week, I went home for Mother's Day and decided it was a perfect time to look over my herbs. They seem to be getting along pretty well (I am sure that they love all the rain that we had). This is a picture of the chives that took over my herb garden last year. I regrettably had to pull some up... I guess my mom can use them in some tasty dishes.

Yep, they are still pretty wild looking.

 This next picture is of my cilantro (Yum!) Last year I didn't get a lot of cilantro. Hopefully that changes this year.

 This is the oregano! It has been looking bad in the past couple of years, but it looks good now!

.... And the peppermint. I got this from my aunt who got it from someone else. It keeps trying to  creep into the rest of the garden (thus the brick "wall").

Now, I am not sure about this, but I am hoping that it is sage. I love sage. Mainly because it tastes like rosemary and I can never get rosemary to stay alive for more than a season.

Look at all that wood, even after I told everyone in my compost post that wood should never be used in compost. So I had done this before I knew better and am still trying to take all of the wood out :(

Now, to get away from the herbs for a minute, I love lilacs and I just couldn't NOT take a picture of ours...

 Lovely, isn't is?

Here is our awesome apricot tree (I may tell you the story behind it later) with it's bounty of fruit

Well, not bountiful yet, but you just wait.

And to prove I didn't just laze about over Mother's Day weekend, here is the cake that I made for my mom.

And YES, I know that it has many faults, thanks for noticing. What's that? You didn't notice? ... uhm, there arrrrre no faults, I was just ... joking. That's it. I was joking


Update: some of the pictures seem to have been lost. I will try my best to re-upload them; if I can find them that is.

Update on My Reading

     Wow, I did not imagine that it would be this hard to get a copy of the Game of Thrones book at my libraries (yes I belong to 3 libraries. Is there a problem?). You all must be thinking that I should just buy it if I want to read it so badly, but I typically don't buy books from authors I haven't read yet. There is nothing I would hate more than to buy a book that I hate. (gives me shivers just thinking about it) 

     Sooo, I probably won't be reading it until the summer (what a bummer, right?), but on the bright side, I think now would be a good time to read The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing. This book was given to me by someone who was just going to throw it away. How terribly sad :'( Let's hope for an awesome read!! Happy Reading All!

Perhaps I shouldn't have title-cased that last sentence... oh well, I think it sends the message better. :)

Jane Eyre ... Completed

     Whew! I just finished reading Jane Eyre, I know that it took a long time, and I must say that it is an awesome book. I don't even know where to begin. I guess I will begin at the end (is that too corny?).

     I thought the ending was fantastic. I had my doubts as to what the ending was going to be, but luckily for my sanity that Jane Eyre ended as I ... more or less hoped (I will let you all find out for yourselves). Brontë should be applauded for her exceptional work, even more so because it came out in 1847. I have read books from the same era and have hated them. Heck! I have read books from this era and hated them. Charlotte Brontë wrote a captivating (I NEVER use this term lightly) novel that I hated putting down. Now this must be where you all are thinking, "Then why did it take you so long to read?" To which I reply that college life is busy. "Yeah, 'busy' [with air quotes]" you must think. Yes, I am busy with school, not partying like SOME people I know. (actually, I know no partyers. I am part of the nerds.)

      Now that Jane Eyre is read, I will now read  The Game of Thrones. Not because the show just came out, but because it was highly recommended by my supervisor.

If you were wondering, I would say that I was very much talking to myself. Is that a problem? "No it's not Brad. Don't worry about what they think." o.O