{"id":198,"date":"2011-10-06T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2011-10-06T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:07:00","slug":"vegan-mofo-things-i-love-thursday-tilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/vegan-mofo-things-i-love-thursday-tilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan MoFo &#8211; Things I love Thursday (TILT!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The premise behind Things I Love Thursday posts is just to list off things you love, and talk about them (or not.) I had written a lot more, but after a computer shut down and a missing autosave, I lost it all (I don&#8217;t love when that happens). <\/p>\n<p>I love Lady Grey tea. I love it even more in my DEFCON Mug at 8am. I love big 2 cup mugs, usually black, smooth, and available at museum\/gallery gift shops everywhere (except it seems, in Canada).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6217075349\/\" title=\"DSCF9394 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6095\/6217075349_16835efd0a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Defcon Cup\"><\/a><\/center><\/br\/><br \/>\nI love eating apples straight off the tree.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6205672330\/\" title=\"Fun with Apples - Spartan apple before I ate it by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6122\/6205672330_791e269b3c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Fun with Apples - Spartan apple before I ate it\"><\/a><\/center><\/br\/><br \/>\nI love and hate that my cat wants to \u201chelp\u201d me in the kitchen while I\u2019m baking\/cooking\/preparing. Then after I shoo her away for the fourth or fifth time, she\u2019ll sit on the windowsill and stare at me. Accusingly. (You can also see another thing I love in this picture &#8211; the view from outside the kitchen window. That tree is so amazingly vibrant, that it makes me smile every morning.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6215063468\/\" title=\"Emmie helps me cook. by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6060\/6215063468_171345ec13.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Emmie helps me cook.\"><\/a><\/center><\/br\/><br \/>\nI love reading the newspaper on paper, but reading all other books on an e-reader.<\/p>\n<p>I love the slow-cooker. Because without it, I probably wouldn&#8217;t be eating Peanut Almond Kale Stew at 10am.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6217030665\/\" title=\"DSCF9384 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6160\/6217030665_ac7b43c111.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"DSCF9384\"><\/a><\/center><\/br\/><br \/>\nAnd I especially love my little Toronto family. &#8211; J&#8217;s sister gave him a picture frame for his birthday a few months ago, but she drew a little post it note picture on it&#8230; we thought it was too cute to replace. The ducks on the top are from a Nerd Night Toronto grab bag from last month. Emmiecat should be in there, but I don&#8217;t have any cat figurines (Sounds like a job for the <a href=\"http:\/\/tealcatproject.com\/\">Teal Cat Project<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6217047811\/\" title=\"DSCF9391 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6172\/6217047811_7898928960.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"DSCF9391\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nOther stuff: notebooks. the smell of fresh coffee. world of warcraft &#8211; my druid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowwiki.com\/Tauren\">tauren<\/a>  is pretty adorable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6217548912\/in\/photostream\">Fancy over the sink cutting boards with colanders attached<\/a>. My kitchen. My collection of cookbooks. The weather. Bixi-ing around the city whenever I feel like it. The view from the Toronto waterfront. Freshly baked bread. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6195530719\/in\/photostream\">Discovering I could make challah<\/a>. my dill plant. Our morning routine. Making Things I love Thursday lists. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The premise behind Things I Love Thursday posts is just to list off things you love, and talk about them (or not.) I had written a lot more, but after a computer shut down and a missing autosave, I lost it all (I don&#8217;t love when that happens). 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