Tuesday, March 04, 2008

my camote had kids

a little bit over a week ago my dad cut my camote plant and put the slips into water to grow some roots, and this is what it looked like then

today, since the roots were getting quite long, i decided to plant some of the cuttings into soil.  jill got me some cups and i’m actually excited that they’re clear plastic because i’ll be able to watch the roots grow when they hit the edges of the cup!

this is what the leaves looked like before i started planted them.  as you can see, my shovel is that plastic spoon =)

here’s another leaf that was growing a great set of roots

and here’s my 5 little daughter plants sitting in their cups

a little pic of them up close before i put them on the sill

and here’s the mother plant and her 5 li’l uns sitting on the sill.  on the far right you can see another camote sitting in water growing roots.  i’m waiting for some of the shoots to grow above the water before i actually plant this next one

hopefully they’ll start growing pretty soon… i’m not sure if what i did was right because a website says “The sweet potato plants (slips) are transplanted into the rows at a depth of 3 inches with no less than 2 plant nodes in the ground and leaving at least 2 leaves or more above the ground." i didn’t have room to leave 2 leaves above the ground because my dad cut all the nodes apart.  and the leaves actually look a little bit wilted right now, ever since i’ve taken ‘em outta the water.  but, hopefully it’ll soon be time to transplant them outside!  then i can start eating camote =) oh yeah!

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

sample sale loot

so i went to this sample sale and made off with a buttload of stuff!  basically everything in the warehouse was either 5 or 10 bucks.  and it was all good quality stuff!  only problem was finding the right size for me =)

i ended up with a wetsuit, a rash guard, 9 tees, 3 jackets (the brown one is reversible), 3 sweatshirts (the green one is reversible), and 2 purses.  i know, i know, it’s alot of stuff, but i got an unbelievable discount on all this stuff!!  really really really unbelievable!! oh yeah!

i love gettin’ loot =)

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

i'm in so much pain

it hurts to breathe deep and it hurts to breath lying down.  i got semi-comfortable in a reclining position and then it hurt so bad i started crying, and then of course i couldn’t breathe when i was crying, and that i felt like i was suffocating cuz i couldn’t breathe without it hurting.  i dunno how i’m gonna go to sleep…

oh my gosh i’m in SOOOOO MUCH PAIN!!!!!!!!!!

damn this illness =(

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Monday, February 25, 2008

camote shoots

ok, so marlene thinks i’m funny for writing about my camote plant.  and for counting all the leaves every day!  hahahah… i guess that is funny, but still, i’m so excited that a plant of mine is finally growing!

it finally fell over, since it is supposed to be a vine.  i don’t have any pictures of it sprawled on the table, since it didn’t fit in the windowsill anymore now that it was growing horizontally.  i knew it was about time to make some cuttings and see if i could grow any roots on them.  i really wasn’t gutsy enough to cut my only growing plant, and when my dad came over to visit on friday, he did the honors.  he cut 12 of the leaves off and soaked them in water so they could grow roots.

here is what the plant looks like now, more bushy than tall.  those are all the smaller sprouts still left on it.  and right next to it, you can see the ramekin with all the leaves soaking.

wanna see the new roots growing on some of the cuttings?  i’m sure you do.  and yes, i do check each cutting for roots every day.  i dunno if i’m obsessive about this plant or if i’m just excited that things are growing in my care =)

anyways, here’s a pic of one of the shoots with the tiny roots growing out of it

what?  you can’t see it, you say?  oh, lemme try to zoom in:

and an even better close-up:

i think these will make some good plants some day =)

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

i lost 7 pounds and i have the week off work

and you’d think i’d be happy about it, but i’m not, really.  the only reason i’ve lost weight and got time off work is cuz this is my 3rd week of being sick.  OMG how the heck am i gonna kick this in the butt? 

it’s pretty much viral and i’m just gonna have to live with it till my immune system decides to kick in and do something about it, which is why my doctor prescribed rest for the week.  but i can’t believe i haven’t had a fever in the past 3 weeks, even when i had the chills.  isn’t that weird?  has my body just decided not to fight it at all? sheesh…

i also can’t believe that i went to maria’s to try to tempt myself to eat and did not enjoy my burrito one bit!

i REALLY must be sick…

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

go camote go!!!

it’s hard to believe that i was so happy with this growth

and that i was so happy a week later when it ‘spurted’ to this height

but oh my gosh look at what it looks like now!!!

the main stem has 15 open leaves!!!  that’s right, i count the leaves every day!  when i come home or down the stairs, i say, “hello, plant!!” and then i count the leaves.  leaf 11 opened up last monday, 12 on tuesday, 13 on wednesday, then it took till today to open up 14 and 15. 

isn’t she purrrrty?

there’s two and a half other shoots coming out of the potato but none of them are tall.  they’ll make healthy plants though.  and someday real soon, i’m gonna cut the top 8 leaves or so off of the tall shoot and make some cuttings.  i’ll have lots of mini plants!  =) i’m sooo excited!

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i so need to be better at posting

so mostly, i’ve just been puttering around on the internet lately, mostly because of my bum ankle, and also partly because i caught a cold or something like it, except 1 symptom at a time!  i tend to get sick in stages - this time, it was sniffly and congested first, which resulted in a major headache on tuesday.  i got the chills sans fever afterwards, and i couldn’t stay warm, even though i was wearing an undershirt, long sleeve shirt, thermal shirt, t-shirt, and sweatshirt, long johns, warmups, and 2 pairs of socks - and lying in bed under two comforters!  you’d think i’da been toasty warm but i wasn’t.  bleh.  stupid sickness.  and then finally that went away but in came the coughing - mostly dry, unproductive, and tearing up my throat!  i’ve caved (from only using natural remedies) and i’m taking any medicine which pertains to my one symptom at a time, so that means i’m on tussin.  much better to use medicine than lose all my larynx due to a cough!  seriously?  i can swear it’s torn back there!  it hurts to swallow!

anyways, this post wasn’t intended to be a post about my sickness but apparently that’s what’s been running my life recently.  what i did wanna post about was all the other stuff on my mind, such as the state of education in california (and much more specifically, my school), and my thoughts on religion, which are heavy and plentiful. 

but…

i don’t know if that’s a good idea.

first of all… i might say too much about the education system, or i might say things too specifically.  so i have to make sure to not reference anyone or any situation and if i can’t tell the whole story, what’s the fun in that?  suffice it to say that many times, i feel that the education system does its best to make it difficult to educate our students.  maybe i’ll say more on that later, or maybe i’ll just keep my mouth shut.  i don’t know yet, so we’ll see.

secondly, the religion issue is a touchy situation, even within my head.  i have thoughts and concerns and questions and doubts, but they’re safe in my brain.  i can ruminate the thoughts and churn ‘em around and not worry if i think something that could be *gasp* sacrilegious.  but if i write something (esp. while i’m just questioning), it makes me feel like i’m anti- everything i grew up learning.  which i really don’t think i am, or at least part of me is hoping that i’m wrong somewhere and that it will all make sense again.  however, i think that’s probably the part that bugs me the most.  it’s not so much what i believe now more than the fact that i’ve lost my naivete about the institution which raised me.  i will always be an adventist through culture and upbringing, but part of me knows that i’ve lost part of that.  no matter how much i might believe what they teach, even, i think i still will never be the good little adventist girl i used to be.  and like the sentimental fool i am, that really makes me sad.  so much so that i don’t really wanna admit it and broadcast it to the world.  -sigh- anyways… that’s why i’ve refrained from doing a religion post.  though i think it might be nearly time to write about the events that brought me to where i am/am not today.

so in all actuality, i think it might be easier to just post about my camote plant.  but i thought i’d provide some actual blog content before everyone thinks this is only a gardening blog!

eh.  i don’t feel like saying much more so be prepared for some pictures of my plant soon!

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