I’m keeping this blog.

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    Look at this Clothes Mountain I should be ironing and yet here I am blogging instead

    Man, I miss blogging. And by ‘blogging’, I mean like 2011 blogging: consistent and regular, with the words as if they were flowing like a river out from my brain. Yesterday I read my old posts and I couldn’t recognise the person who wrote them. Was it really me? Because it didn’t feel like reading my own writing; it was like somebody else’s.

    When I quit teaching and decided to work from home, I thought I’d have time to be back to regular blogging (like I had promised for a gazillion times). But no, friends. I’ve been busier than I have ever imagined. Being a stay at home wife is not always rainbows and butterflies; it’s also dishes and laundry and groceries and errands. Blogging can’t be a priority right now. But I’m also too much in love to quit it for good. So here I am, making yet another promise:

    I’m keeping this blog.
    I will try my best to post once a week, at the very least.
    I don’t even care if nobody reads it:
    I’m keeping this blog.

    I have tons of stuffs I want to tell you all, like our wedding (or weddings, ’cause we had two receptions), our honeymoon, our very first ferry boat ride together, our house, and Miss Molly. And I will.

    Oh I will.

    2 February 2015

    Goodbye, Molly…

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    After months of being unable to walk with her rear feet and two weeks of being cage-ridden, Miss Molly passed away on Friday morning. It broke my heart; I had always thought that she’d have a long life and someday my children would play with her and pull her tail. Yet, I am relieved. She was in so much pain and had been like that for far too long. I’m relieved that she’s in a better place now, perhaps playing with her three kittens who went before her. She will always be remembered and missed.

    We love you, Molls.

    27 January 2015

    No-scale Pizza for Lazy Girls

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    It’s our first Saturday with nothing to do. We decided to stay at home after a week of commuting to Bandung. We’ve been super lazy since morning. We stayed in bed for hours, but when we finally got up, I decided to make a pizza. But since we don’t have kitchen scale (our kitchen still lacks a lot of stuff), I had to improvise. I made two attempts in making this pizza; the first one failed miserably (though still edible) but the second one was perfect. Trust me.

    What we need:
    For the dough
    – 9 tablespoons of flour
    – 1/4 teaspoons of salt
    – 1/2 tablespoons of cooking oil
    – 1/4 teaspoons of dry yeast
    – 1/3 small glass of warm water
    For the topping
    – 3 tablespoons of spaghetti sauce
    – 2 slices of burger meat; cut into smaller pieces
    – 1/2 onion; sliced into pieces
    – 1/2 potato; cut into small cubes
    – grated cheese


    Steps:
    – Put the flour into a medium-sized bowl. Add salt and stir. Make a small crate at the center of the mix.
    – Add the dry yeast to the warm water and stir. Put them into crate on the mix and add cooking oil.
    – Mix them all with your clean hands and then start kneading for about 15 minutes or until the dough is no longer sticky to the bowl and to your hands.
    – Leave the dough in the bowl for about 15 minutes.
    – After 15 minutes, you’ll notice that the dough is bigger now. Punch it as hard as you can, but make sure not to break the bowl.
    – Leave the dough in the bowl for about one to two hours.
    – Fry the burger meat and the potato cubes for 3 minutes. Dry them and set aside.
    – Prepare your baking pan. Put some flour (not too much) on its base so the pizza will not stick.
    – After two hours, put the dough into the baking pan. Spread it with your fingers so the dough cover all the pan’s surface. Don’t make it too thin or the pizza will be hard; don’t make it too thick either or the pizza will not be baked well. About 1 cm is better.
    – Pre-heat your oven at 220C for about 20 minutes.
    – Spread the spaghetti sauce on the dough. Put burger meat slices on top of it, followed by the potato cubes and onion. Lastly, cover them all with grated cheese.
    – Put it into the oven and bake for about 20 minutes or until the cheese start to look brown.
    – Slice and enjoy the pizza with a bottle of coke. Nothing beats pizza + coke combo.

    Now, let us continue lazing around.

    17 January 2015

    I’m Back

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    Yes, yes! I’m finally back now!

    These past three weeks have been beyond crazy: I got married, moved in with my husband, went to Jogja for our honeymoon, and just last week we went to his hometown to have our second wedding reception. It’s amazing how we didn’t forget to eat since our life was in such a fast pace.

    But now I’m back, you guys! I’ll tell you all the things that happened since the end of December later (I still need to gather all the photos from our cameras and phones. Hehe…) See you soon!

    PS. Happy new year 😉

    16 January 2015

    Before Our Vow

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    Dear Afief,
    It feels so weird. In less than 24 hours, I’m going to start a new life with someone I’ve just known for 3 years. I had this realisation a few days ago, and it made me cry myself to sleep, resulting in a pair of puffy eyes in the morning. But isn’t it weird, though?

    I met you in the middle of 2011 and now at the end of 2014, I’m marrying you. I’m devoting myself to you. After what felt like one hell of a year, and another year which turned out to be great for the both of us, we’re getting married. Eventually. This is a big leap. A lot of people were surprised when I told them that we were engaged; they were more surprised to know that we’d only be engaged for 4 months before officially tying the knot. I, too, feel like I’m still too young to get married every now and then. But I guess it is what it should be. All the things have led us here in this path. Now, I’m ready.

    But the fact remains: we’re still very young. I’m still stubborn. I really hope we can make it through our first year, second year, and all the years to come.

    So darling, let’s do this.

    26 December 2014