Artichoke Hearts!

Sooo my mama made artichokes baked and stuffed with minced garlic and butter, they were amazing!!!






And!!! i made lemonade, yummmmy, and used my adorable tea cup find from Anthropologie, originally meant to be a gift, I ended up buying my other mummy a birdhouse and massive tinker bell more to her taste^^

Second Musical Tuesday!!!!!

SO for our second musical tuesday I have chosen Never Shout Never's What is Love^^
It's a cute little video and a great song, and I love him so much I'm going to add the first song I ever heard of his, even though I couldn't find a video for it.^^


Never Shout Never - "What Is Love?" from Isaac Ravishankara on Vimeo.

RIP Neptune

My poor Neptune, I only had him almost two weeks, Juno is fine, but I found Neptune dead inside the very tower you see behind him, as I fished him out his poor little fins were coming to pieces in the water and on the net... 

The Rabbit Sitter No More...

So... Over Christmas the rabbit Blackjack whom I used to house/bunny sit for my grandma's neighbor died of cancer... He was a magical little weirdo, and so, in his memory I would like to acquire a rabbit charm for a necklace, but I don't know where to find a relatively affordable one, especially since Katie wants one too, I miss him, and I miss feeling like I'm the authority of the house. I miss the freedom, the cooking, and I miss feeding him his strawberry jelly beans most of all. These are the options I have found so far. Tomorrow is an adventure to yet another bead shop and I'm sincerely hoping this one actually has a bunny.

Dreams

So lately I've been having dreams on and off in which my ex Brandon, is actually positive to me, like he's a friend, which is weird since I dumped him for cheating on me and I really felt like I loved him, I gave him "Everything", and the last time I saw him I was going to work and he was going to see his new lady back in January.
However, last night not only was he in my dream like a friend, but Andrew tried to be all friendly with me like nothing had ever happened, like he hadn't just up and dumped me out of nowhere and stopped talking to me altogether, and then when I realized he was acting that way and questioned him he went back to pretending I don't exist. I don't know what to think about this...

So.
I've been gaining weight like crazy the last few months that I've been living with my friends' family and just going to classes. They're wonderful people but my other mother Sheri, and Jen's boyfriend Josh, are both junk food addicts and so whenever Josh felt the need to go get Adalbertos or Jack in the Box etc he's been bringing me things too. Whether I asked for it or not. Which was sweet but has contributed heavily to my new waist line. What was once a 9 or 11 in jeans is now a 13 or 15 depending on brands.
There fore:
Rachael= Not happy.
SO.
I've signed up for an aerobics class over summer and I'm really thinking I'd like to learn to belly dance, which is something I haven't done since I was a very small child back when the belly dancing group at the Renaissance Faire used to watch me for my parents. Thats like... 15 years ago-ish?
So either I find someone teaching a class or I teach myself.
If anyone happens to read this and knows of anyone teaching belly dancing classes in the Sacramento area of California, I would love the information. Sooo here is a video I found while failing at finding a video to teach me for free, I think that she shows much skill from what I know.

Belly Dancing with Laylia from LAYLIASBELLY on Vimeo.

Music Tuesday?

I think I want to have a musical day of the week, and since I think I want one today it will have to be Tuesday^^
I'm going to post music videos I like every Tuesday, well known or not^^

So today I've chosen Kate Nash, Foundations, I love her music, and her style, she's just fuckin amazing^^

Kate Nash "Foundations" from AndrayNovak on Vimeo.

ALSO in honor of 4/20 which I personally celebrated by going and seeing my high school sweetheart in the form of a band HIM!!!
I'm posting the only video I could find on Vimeo of them^^

The Funeral of Hearts from Kara West on Vimeo.