I heart Rachel Ray

I bought a magazine called Every Day with Rachel Ray and it's freakin' awesome. I only bought it for the pictures. But I've used 2 recipies out of it already. Apple cheddar turkey burgers and chocolate peanut butter fudge crunch bars. Those things were nothing but chocolate, sugar, butter and peanut butter. And rice crispies. They're so horribley good. I'm such a fatty.

I've decided that next time I go home I'll make those bars for the family so there's a better chance of them being happy while I'm there. And because I want to cook in a decent kitchen again.

Tomorrow I have my first photo assignment due. It's called "Flash Fill." What we had to do was take a picture of a person in the middle of the day. In the picture we exposed for the sunlit background, which makes the person 's face dark. So we used the flash off camera to light the face. I had to figure out how far away I needed my flash to be in order for the light to be right. It's actually really easy. The Guide Number is the power of your flash (relative to ISO). The Guide Number can be found by multiplying your f/stop by the distance the flash is from your subject.

So, GN = f*d. My flash's guide number is 80. I shot at f/8. 80 divided by 8 is 10. I had to put my flash 10 feet away from the subject to get a proper exposure. TA-DAA!!1!
Seriously though. I learn a lot of cool shit here.

Gosh, there's so many random things I wanted to blog about but I can't remember now. there's a creepy little spider in my room and I've just been watching it to see where it goes. I don't kill spiders unless they're coming to eat me.

I saw a couple of hilarious movies yesterday. First one is Biodome. A couple of retards sneaking into an extensive science experiment because they need a bathroom and then they end up being heroes in the end. Very silly movie. One I can imagine watching with my family.

Second one was some Canadian indie film called Young People Fucking. There was no actual sex, but a lot of acting sex with panties still in tact. It was a comedy. It followed the "stages of sex" and there were like 5 couples in the movie that all ended up fucking. Following the proper stages, of course. Foreplay, sex, orgasm, afterglow...I kinda forget what the stages were. The couples were stereotypical awkward types of couples: 2 best friends (guy and girl), exes, first date, a real couple that had stopped having sex and the girl ends up using a strap-on on the dude. None of this was graphic at all. You see some boobs and butt, but who hasn't, right? It was really funny.

I'm not homophobic at all. There's nothing wrong with homosexuality. And I'm not offended by it at all, but I don't know what the hell to say when Bryan gives me details about dude sex. Gay sex. BUTT SEX! I'm just like, "really? okay. that's...nice." How many girls out there have boyfriends who have sex with dudes AND chicks? Just think of the possibilities!! Yeah, no. bad joke.

Bryan got me this cleaning solution for my pieces. Mah bubblah that I love so much even though Bryan chipped the carb :( It went a very long time without any cleaning at all. I scraped it for like an hour before Bryan told me I could just buy a cleaner. You just pour the cleaner in the pipe, cover up all the holes and shake it around for a minute. Then rinse it out until all the stuff is gone. It's totally clean. I'm gonna keep my pieces clean and shiny from now on!!