Happy fish!

Spaceship

Pumpkin and Ralph

So the dog wormer didn't kill my fish, but it did make Spaceship look a little pale and unhappy. unfortunately it also had no visible effect on the worms. Pumpkin was the only one with worms I could see so I set up a brackish tank and moved my mollies into it and continued to feed them the disgusting wormer/food mixture in hopes that the salt would kill the worms if the panacur didnt... and two days later, I see no worms and my fish all seem happy and alive!

Parasites and pizza.

This month I have mostly been dealing with fish issues and drinking far too much diet coke.
It seems that my fish are suffering from the hilariously named, but less hilarious to deal with, Camallanus worms, which for anyone who doesnt know, are small, red, hair like worms that cling to the fish's intestines and dangle out of their butt. it's gross. after several failed attempts to correct the problem I have now resorted to feeding them a dog wormer smashed up with their regular food into a disgusting looking gray paste...fish, it seems, will eat just about anything. anyway, it's a good possibility that I will be heading home to a tank full of bloated, floating fish...we shall see.
I also made breakfast pizza and it was awesome! I saw it on howsweeteats, I site I visit because I like the pretty food pictures, and so I made it. Also, pizza dough is super easy... so I will be making loads more pizza in the future!
Robert and I have been cleaning and organizing the studio space and finding homes for everything, which is also awesome, after my class today a couple of the parents commented on how great the studio looked and it made me feel all warm and fuzzy and proud of my amazing work space.

and thanks to Jennifer and Cole Parker of DivasInDefense I now know a variety of different ways of breaking someone's wrist!

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Limey Freedom Cookies

Partly inspired by boyfriend's request for cookies, Erin's key-lime cupcakes and July 4th discount cookie cutters at Michael's ...it's Limey Freedom Cookies! 

they were awesome, so heres the recipe: 

1 1/4 sticks of unsalted butter

1 1/2 cups flour (I used self rising)

1/2 cup  extra fine white sugar

1 tsp vanilla (plus a couple extra drops for icing)

1 lime (zest lime and juice)

powdered sugar for icing

preheat oven to 350.

cut butter into little pieces and mix in flour with fingers so its all crumbly (I usually end up adding a little extra flour) mix in sugar, vanilla, lime zest and half the juice (about 1 tablespoon) mix to form dough.

flour work surface and roll out dough to about 3/4 inch, stamp out cookies and arrange on greased cookie sheet, bake for about 17 minutes.

icing:

combine about a cup of powdered sugar, the rest of the lime juice (about another tablespoon) and a couple of drops of vanilla, mix until smooth.

when cool, spoon icing over cookies and let set.