Emily M-H

@aislinglady

Recently completed an editing certificate and a technical writing certificate. Books of all sorts. Local food and drink. Animals are better than people. I am not my illness (though I have many). My words are my own (no AI/LLM). She/Her.

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Emily M-H@aislinglady· 5d

Made myself a nice lil set of summer sandwiches.From the farmer’s market at the Brickworks I got light rye sourdough bread, tomatoes, and microgreens.Then I added discount avocado from the grocery store, and crunchy strips of cooked marinated tofu from my freezer.Also, some mayo and salt and pepper.

A vibrant looking sandwich on a white plate. The top piece of bread is an end piece, it is light brown and dusted with flour. There is a hint of sliced avocado peeking out from underneath it. Then there’re little green clover looking bits that are micogreens. Underneath them are slices of the most red and juicy tomato. After that are slices only crispy marinated tofu, and another layer of microgreens. Another slice of bread finishes the sandwich. Right behind it there is the hint of a second sandwich, which has been made in the same way.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· 22d

It’s exceedingly rare that I’m able to put together a proper meal for myself, and by myself, these days. Thus! Behold the dinner I’ve prepped for myself for later: cold noodle bowl.

In a white bowl, with chopsticks and a spoon sticking out, is my dinner. There are udon noodles, corn kernels, sliced ribbons of cucumber, radish micro greens, and vegan kimchi. The sauce is a mix of soy sauce, shiitake chili oil paste, and a crunchy condiment mix containing sesame seeds, onion, garlic, and mushrooms.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· 27d

This is a cucumber appreciation post. Got to love the farmers at the market!

A, white woman’s, small hand that is almost completely covered by a cucumber. Its girth is…impressive. It’s short and yet thick. The hand’s palm is completely covered and only the side of the thumb and the tips of the last two fingers are showing.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Jun 8

First off, went for a tasty lunch of aburasoba at Kajiken (a bit of a trek for a new taste, as was his tradition). Then went to Edwards Gardens (he would have gone to Kew). Lastly, got rolled ice cream as a special sweet treat (he loved ice cream). 3/4

A close up of a cluster of small, 5 petal, blue flowers, with white ring around a yellow centre. Green leaves in the background, and the sun shinning down on them.

A weir surrounded by rocks and shrubs. There is a branch of a weeping willow arched over and down. There is a frothing pool underneath it’s a sunny day.

The crown of a weeping willow as seen if you were looking straight up it. The sky is clear blue, and the sun is a halo around the very top of the tree.

Two containers of rolled ice cream on a light grey table. The container in the front has yellow rolls of ice cream (mango and coconut flavoured), a small blob of whipped cream, yellow popping boba (passion fruit flavoured), small pieces of mango fruit, and yellow drizzle (also mango). The container behind it has light brown rolls of ice cream (salted caramel flavoured), a blob of whipped cream, pink popping boba (peach flavoured), multi-coloured round sprinkles, and brown drizzle (caramel flavoured).

Emily M-H@aislinglady· May 23

I love the weather in Toronto today. I love the cool and the grey and the rain.

A pond with some lily pads on it, there’s a brick path in the foreground and shrubs and trees in the background. The shrubs and trees are mostly shade of green except for a few redbud trees that have flowered with pink-purple blooms. It’s a grey and rainy day.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Feb 5

Thanks to @jackielaubooks.bsky.social for introducing me to Isabella’s mochi doughnuts. It’s been a no good very bad day, and this was a nice treat. 🍩

2 white dishes and plastic cup on a blond wood table. The plastic cup has yuzu lemonade. The plate at the bottom of the picture has a long oval bun covered in crispy bread crumbs. The plate at the top of the picture has a mochi doughnut covered in iridescent white chocolate with a small blob in the middle of the doughnut or chewy condensed milk.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Sep 4

This is a very straightforward post on a gen Z thoughts on delayed gratification. Missing alt text in the original post so quote posting with it.

@charlierosesmith3807 10 days ago
As a gen Z American, here's my two cents on the take that our generation can't handle delayed gratification: we've watched the promise of "delayed gratification" fail Gen X and Millennials repeatedly in real time because we've had access to the internet since childhood.
In elementary and middle school, I watched in real time on TV and online as Gen X had their entire life savings wiped out by the 2008-2009 depression, and as a teenager and college kid I've seen Millennials get absolutely shafted by jobs and degrees that went in promising them stable lives and then repeatedly ripped the rug out from under them, leaving millennials with no solid career progression or economic betterment to show after over a decade of consistent effort. Even outside of the internet, I've watched my grandfather, who was a computer programmer at IBM in the 60s, have his pension retroactively canceled after being a pensioner for decades, and I've watched this man in his 80s who's had two heart attacks have to go back to work 4 days of the week as an Uber driver to make ends meet, after he spent three decades of his life in a high paid office job that promised him healthcare and pension and the entire American dream.
I don't have it in me to put up with the same shit. Maybe it's bratty and short sighted, but l've watched enough people older than me have enough of their decades of life ripped from them with the false promises of later rewards, so to my mind saying "this will pay off for you in the future" means you're not actually planning on paying out, you're hoping you can take advantage of my patience and goodwill.
Pay me my rewards now, or I'll assume you'll never intend to actually reward me.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Aug 20

I had a visits from the tomato fairy! (Not to be confused with the cucumber fairy, co world different fairies.) My brothers have been growing a bunch of different crops on their balcony this summer, and were kind enough to include several types of tomatoes for me/us. 🍅 🤤

Dozens of tomatoes in many different shape and colour, drying on white paper towel. There are round red ones of a medium size, oblong red ones of a small size, round red ones of a small size, round yellow ones of a small size, and a couple of medium sized orange ones stripped with green.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Aug 17

I had a visit from the cucumber fairy! Friends of mine always end up with a bumper crop, and are thankfully willing to share the wealth (I eat a lot of cucumbers, though this might stretch me a bit). These are very big cucumbers, probably weigh between 8-10 pounds for the 8 of them. 🥒 🤤

8 very large garden cucumbers, dripping with water as they dry on paper towel on a white and grey countertop. There is a single chopstick, with Gengar on it (a purple ghost Pokemon), to show how big the cucumbers are.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Aug 14

I haven’t had a beach day since the summer before I first got covid, so it’s been 3 years. There was a nice breeze, and no one else close by. I read a book. It was nice, though, like anything else I do, there are repercussions from my long-COVID. ☀️ 🌊 📖 😪

Looking across a yellow sandy beach to the horizon of blue sky, on a sunny day, with a lake the looks blue-green in between. There are small waves coming toward the shore.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Jul 28

My understanding is this is still true, and the triology finishes before the Wilmington Years. 🤞🏻 I am very much looking forward to the rest of Hugh and Elara’s story!

QUESTIONS ABOUT IRON AND MAGIC
Technically this book is a spin-off from our Kate Daniels series; however, it can be read as a standalone work.
For Kate Daniels fans: although this story is the first in the Iron Covenant trilogy, and the entire trilogy takes place before the events of Magic Triumphs, it is actually written to be read in the following order:
• Iron Covenant 1: Iron and Magic
• Magic Triumphs
• Iron Covenant 2
• Iron Covenant 3
You don't need to wait for Hugh's entire story to be out. If you do, it won't be as fun, because there are some revelations in Iron Covenant 2 that are best discovered after Magic Triumphs.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Jul 26

I FINALLY got to the platinum level for catching dragon types! It’s only taken almost a decade. 😭😮‍💨🐉🥳

A screen shot from Pokémon Go showing a dragon symptom in blue surrounded by a platinum circle on a green background. It’s labeled Dragon Tamer and requires having caught 2500 dragon type.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Jul 9

Something I haven’t been able to do in a long time, between long-COVID and stuff making long-COVID worse, was make a bunch of burritos for the freezer. For those days when things are especially bad but I need to eat and want something comforting. Check alt text for ingredients (if you like). 🌯💜

Got my assembly line going with all my ingredients set up and plastic wrap on a white plate for ease of wrapping up for storage later. Tortilla, then a slice of the jalapeño cheese from a multi-pack of cheese slices, then a bit of peppers and onion sautéed with tajin, scoop of refried bean with chillies from a can, scoop of Cuban beans from a can, slice of mozzarella from a multi-pack of cheese slices.

A stack of square looking burritos that are wrapped in plastic wrap and stacked two high, two deep, and three across.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Jun 10

WTF?! How did this asshole get my number?!

Doug Ford here -- join me at Ford Fest! FREE BBQ, June 13, 5-9pm @ Centennial Park, Etobicoke.
RSVP: https://ontariopc.ca/events/. fordfest
STOP to stop

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Jun 8

Happy birthday Rich, I wish you were here, but instead a cheers in your memory. I miss you! 💜🎂 🍻 🎂 🍻 💜

A white woman’s hand (mine) with a tattoo on the inside of the wrist that says “we’re all made here”, holding a silver beer can from Left Field brewery that says Ice Cold in blue capital letters. There is a water fall in the background and green shrubs in the middle ground on a sunny day.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· May 9

Well that fucking stung (it was ginger bug). ⅔ of a roll of paper towel. 3 times cleaning the floor on my hands and knees (plus cleaning the rest of my kitchen). 2 swollen and bruised knees. I barely managed a shower before I collapsed in bed. Did I get any school work done today? No I did not.

A hand covered in ginger bug and bright red gesturing to a pop can that has exploded and is sitting in a stainless steel sink.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· May 6

@jackielaubooks.bsky.social yay! Just became available on Libby!

A screen grab from the Libby app showing the cover of Jackie Lau’s Time Loops & Meet Cutes. The cover is purple with three sets of couples moving closer together from too top to bottom.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Apr 19

I voted! #Vote #Canada And I got my Spring COVID vaccine! Also, I saw some turtles today 🐢!

Two turtles on a flotilla is sticks, reeds, and grasses, in a pond on a cloudy day.

A turtle on a flotilla is sticks, reeds, and grasses, in a pond on a cloudy day

Many on a flotilla is sticks, reeds, and grasses, in a pond on a cloudy day. There are a lot of trees reflected in the water of the pond.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Apr 5

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Fuck no 🖕🏻.

A screen shot of a text message that reads:

This is Nora with Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party.
Can we count on your support in the upcoming Federal election?
STOP to Stop
The sender is not in your contact list.
Report

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Mar 4

Happy birthday 🥳

A Monarch butterfly hanging off a many blossomed dark purple flower cluster. There are black-eyes Susan’s below it, and a pink-red stone driveway in the background.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Feb 25

Today is my birthday, the first big day since my dear friend @gamingyourway.bsky.social passed away. To both celebrate and memorialize, I got a new tattoo. The dolphin is a sketch he drew for my bday a few years ago, and the icons around it are things that have meaning for our friendship.

The inside of my right ankle with a fresh tattoo on it. The central image of the tattoo is a line drawing of a dolphin. There are seven icons looping around the bottom of the dolphin, also line drawings. In clockwise order they are a musical note, a wedge of cheese, a soccer ball, a heart, a fried egg, a pint glass, and a fox face.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Feb 16

I have also temporarily lost a bench.

A large lump of snow, underneath it is a bench.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Jan 30

Tonight was book club night (Queer Book Club, courtesy of Toronto Public Library, Parkdale branch), and we discussed Blackouts by Justin Torres. This was my favourite paragraph from the book, with the best line, I think. “…ain't no shame in being a bitch, but, Lord, be a bitch that barks.”

My hunch is that Mad Man gave the dog up. Either that or he finally broke her. Anyway, she's old now, or else she's dead. But I have this fantasy that she's still chewing up the living room, still slamming against the limits of that cage, only now she's vocalized, yapping and howling, and it's a kind of music, and the whole neighborhood can hear her frustration and understand.
And the song is a lament, something camp and bluesy, about how there ain't no shame in being a bitch, but, Lord, be a bitch that barks.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Jan 11

I did something that is impressive for me these days, having long-COVID and all that entails. I made soup from scratch on my own. Now days if I want to do something from scratch that’s energy intensive I’ve needed help. Go me! Made a veggie-heavy dairy-light cream of broccoli soup. 🥣🥦🧀

A white bowl with a spoon sticking out of a greenish brown bowl of puréed soup.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Dec 25

Brunch! Fried duck eggs with tons of cracked black pepper and smoked paprika, and potato waffles (from the British import store),in honour of my dear friend who passed away a few months ago. We had similar feelings on what to do and not do this time of year, and I’ll miss my buddy who understood.

Two plates on a light wooden table. The plate on the left has slices of red heirloom tomato with red wine flavoured salt, and there are a fork and knife resting on the edge. The plate on the right has two potato waffles and two fried duck eggs. The duck eggs are covered in cracked black pepper and smoked paprika.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Dec 22

Making the yearly penne a la vodka for the holidays. Can never have enough 🧄!

A black pot with the bottom entirely covered in minced garlic. There are a some red chilli flakes dispersed through the garlic as well.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Nov 14

A Darkside (Black IPA) that he would have absolutely hated. It was very tasty, nonetheless.

A half pint of a very dark mahogany beer on a navy blue coaster with the words Granite Brewery in gold letters.

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Nov 10

Made my scratch mac&cheese yesterday. So much cheese pull. Medium cheddar, 2 yr cheddar, and mozzarella 🧀. Mustard powder, cayenne, smoked paprika in the sauce. This is before it went into the oven to crisp up more cheese on top. @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Oct 19

Went to the market at the Brick Works this morning. Delightfully misty and autumnal. 🍁

A pond with mist coming off of it in early morning sunlight. There are tress in the background. Some of the trees have lost their leaves, some of them are still covers in green leaves, and some have leaves in autumn colours (yellow, orange, red, brown).

Emily M-H@aislinglady· Sep 16

I am satisfied with this number. Also I had no idea what day I joined 😅.