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Continuing my trend of posting commissioned icons that didn't come out right... Say hello to Little Dog! Mornherald's wolf mount, he and Haken raised her from a little puppy. Does that not look like a WoW style wolf?

"New" vegetable of the week was green beans. Not exactly new, I've had them at some previous point in my life, but close enough to count. I got enough to make two attempts this weekend. The first one was pretty bad, but it was unplanned so that's not surprising. I made that basic chicken breast in condensed soup recipe and threw in a handful of green beans working under the idea that they might come out tasting like everything else. Turns out the taste wasn't horrible (I didn't like it, but wasn't so bad I couldn't eat a few bites), it's just the texture that kills me. I get this "Eww, there are PLANT IN MY MOUTH! So wrong! Not food! Arg!" reaction to so many vegetables. :/

Tomorrow I'm going to try roasted green beans. Toss in olive oil and salt, then bake. I'm betting that'll come out better.

On the WoW front, I decided I'm going to faction change an alt sooner rather than later. Like tomorrow. I just need to figure out how much gold to send with him...

I decided on Crowfeathers (hunter) over Thack (druid). Class-wise, it's a toss up. I have a hunter and druid there already as my mains. Profession-wise it's another toss up. Crow has alchemy/mining, Thack has alchemy/herbing. Thack is 85, Crow is my only non-85 Horde (82).

If I move Crow, I can finish leveling him while chatting with Alliance folks (there's always someone on, often many people on), and as I'd do it through archaeology, he'd get the advantage of hasty hearth through guild perks (helps a ton with archaeology). The biggest issue is that while they're both tauren (thus UGLY), Thack being a druid means I rarely see him as his tauren self. Crow I only see as a tauren.

This will be the third time I've spent RL money on Crow. He had a realm change, then another to WRA, now from Horde to Alliance. I suppose I'll make him a worgen, as worgen are the spiffiest things around and one can't have too many worgen alts. (HMMMM. I wonder if I should wait and app him ICly into the guild instead of Thistle? Apping Thistle would bring boundless problems, one of the largest being that he and Dande can't very well interact... With Crow that would be moot, and Crow would ICly be a much better, more useful employee. No, I have no idea for a personality for him yet, but anything would be a better employee than Thistle. Must ponder this more!)

The reason for the suddenly-hurried move is a ring. A purple ring. Myrmidon's Signet. Level 53 purple agi ring. How fitting for my level 57 hunter! And I've had the darned ring for a year, waiting to be able to use it.

So... how much gold should I send? I'm down to 515K after making Thistle's Vial of Sands. I'm thinking about splitting the money half-- oh WTF. There's a 50K limit while faction changing for characters level 81+. 50K, gah. (Would people beat me if I wrote "That's nothing!"?)

I could make a bunch of vial of sand mounts and resell them on Alliance side, but if I had extras I'd much rather give them away. (And no, I can't ship them cross-server, sorry.)

I keep checking the page with the gold limits, thinking I must have missed a zero somewhere. Nope, it's really 50K. Wacky. I guess that makes it simple though! I'll finish the mount and shift Crowfeathers to blue tomorrow.

Date: 2011-06-12 07:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] socksofjello.livejournal.com
I can't eat boiled green beans. [i]Can't.[/i] The texture is damned atrocious. I think they shine best when they're eaten raw or if your cooking method enhances the crunchiness; I'm sure it'll taste awesome roasted with some salt. I don't think it could go wrong with a sprinkle of pepper, either!

Date: 2011-06-13 04:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Mmm, hopefully I'll get to try them that way tomorrow! I've eaten roasted kale and was okay with it, so hopefully the same will be true for the beans.

Date: 2011-06-12 10:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kriatyrr.livejournal.com
Green beans are one of my favorites. Too bad it's not available fresh year-round here in Norway. (IMO, it's not available fresh at all, semi-fresh at best. The American network for distribution of fresh foods is a good decade and a half ahead of ours, at least!)
When I'm in the US, I have green beans three times a week.. at least for the first two weeks.

I boil them, but not for longer than three minutes. If I'm making vegetable soup, they're the last ingredient to go in.

And canned green beans... I don't even consider those the same vegetable.. (or legume, whatever)

Date: 2011-06-13 04:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
If I could send you some, I happy would! Our farmers market have piles and piles of them for sale right now.

Date: 2011-06-12 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wow-hazmat.livejournal.com
The biggest issue is that while they're both tauren (thus UGLY)

Nuh-uh, nuh-uh! Tauren are cute! Big fuzzy cuddly lumps. Yes. ]:P

:)

Date: 2011-06-13 04:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
You can have them! *makes a loud noise so they'll spook and run your way* ;)

Date: 2011-06-12 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] veloxe.livejournal.com
(Would people beat me if I wrote "That's nothing!"?)

I was laughing more at the "Down to 515k" comment. Careful thistle or they might kick you out of the Dapper WoW Character Club! Then you'll be forced to interact with us riff raff.

The biggest issue is that while they're both tauren (thus UGLY)

So lies. But then again, maybe it's just because we tauren's don't use the mandatory amount of hair products unlike another horde race and believe we're beautiful the way we are. Not needing to alter our appear to cover up our massive addictions.

Date: 2011-06-13 04:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
I was laughing more at the "Down to 515k" comment.

Actually, shhh! I'm down to 450K on Horde now! EEEK!

But then again, maybe it's just because we tauren's don't use the mandatory amount of hair products unlike another horde race

You're covered in fur. You'd go broke trying to buy enough hair care products!

Date: 2011-06-13 05:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] veloxe.livejournal.com
Uh-oh! Be careful or they might take away your monocle and top hat privileges!

And of course we'd go broke, that's why we pull the whole "one with nature" trick so that we don't have to use as much! It's brilliant.

I was thinking recently I should totally play some more WoW. And then I remembered I would hit level cap, do about 3 instances and then quit again because PEOPLE SUCK!

Date: 2011-06-13 05:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Most people do! The trick is finding the good ones and sticking with them. :D

And noooo! Not my top hat!

Date: 2011-06-12 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teaandfailure.livejournal.com
Let me know about how the green beans go - I would like to eat them but I can't deal with them either. I definitely can't handle them at all canned. The only way I have been able to really eat them so far is taking fresh ones, blanching them for just a little while, and putting a hot mustard sauce my Chinese friend taught me on there. (It's just mustard powder and sesame oil and vinegar. Hers has sugar in it but I don't like sweet on my veggies.)

Date: 2011-06-13 04:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Some kind of overpowering sauce would maybe work for me, too. Something to cover the flavor!

I didn't get to make them tonight, but hopefully tomorrow night!

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