Kat Johnston

Tag: sleep

  • Sketch: I need sleep… and wontons.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: I need sleep… I do.

    Just another quick post today. I need sleep – I really, really do. But first, I think I am going to make wontons. I like wontons. They are tasty, and delicious, and in a warm broth they happen to be one of the most delightfully comforting foods.

    For lack of better post content today, I’m going to tell you what is going to be in them. I’ve got some premium beef mince, and to that I’ll be adding garlic, ginger, finely chopped chives, finely chopped shallots, a little splash of soy, and perhaps a little flour if it is needed. I’ll then be dolloping that onto wonton wrappers and sealing them up all perfectly.

    Some I will have for lunch, and then the rest I will serve up for dinner in a nice warm beef broth, I think, with some wombok and perhaps some noodles… we’ll see how the mood strikes, shall we? In the meantime though… that nap is looking mighty good.

  • Sketch: I’m just tired.

    Kat Johnston: I’m feeling tired… I really am.

    I’m going to make this a fairly short post today… I’m tired. This is a picture to state that… yes, very, very literal I know. But some days, you just can’t get a whole heap of inspiration when you’re lusting after some sleep on your very favourite pillow.

    That is all.

  • So long and thanks for all the fish.

    Kat Johnston Sketch – just another quick little sketch to fill in the time… see! A sketch today! Not a photo from SL!

    Look, look, a sketch! Not a picture from Second Life showing my 1337 SL jewelry making skills. Another random title to do with fish… I don’t get it, but I like it anyway. Yay for fish. Fish are good. Even Babelfish.

    No real rhyme or reason behind the picture today, other than the fact that I had both black and red biros sitting in front of me saying ‘you need to do a sketch today: go on, be a rebel, use both of us… at once!’ So I did, and this little lady is the result. I’m actually thinking that perhaps the title of this post is in reference to her? Not so much because she might have a secret fetish for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and more to do with the fact that she’s now been turned into a bloodthirsty (yet still adorable) vampire.

    Vampires apparently have no need to eat… and perhaps she used to love fish and chips so much that she ate it for dinner every night. Or maybe she had a rare disease that required her to eat gigantic amounts of fish to balance out some vitamin deficiency and she really actually hates fish, so being bitten and turned into a vampire corrects that issue since she’s no longer… well… alive. Vampires have no need for fish. She’s just being ironic. Who knows… it’s fun to ponder though, isn’t it?

    On a related note (this may just go to explain why my mind is skipping here and there and I am raving like a lunatic), I had a nap yesterday afternoon which threw everything out of kilter and resulted in me being awake the entire night long. I dragged myself up to bed soon after daybreak and laid down as the hubby was getting ready for work. You know you love your husband (or you are exceedingly lazy) when he pulls the blind open, putting you in the path of direct, glarey sunlight first thing in the morning and then goes ‘huh… I’ll try a stake next time’… and it doesn’t result in giving him the noogeying of a lifetime.

    I’m so tired today… but to avoid another vamp-night, I think I’d best just suck it up (pun sorta intended) and stay awake for the rest of the day. Wish me luck. Those blankets are looking mighty tempting right now.

    Edit: Just for those interested… after writing this post, I came across an interesting article talking about the role of vampires and the undead in current popular media offerings here and thought I might come back and add it in. Rather interesting!

  • Bunny in the Moon.

    \'Bunny in the Moon\' by Kat Johnston

    My little dead bunny in the moon. A rough pencil sketch, then traced in black ink pen, coloured then in photoshop because I had nothing incredibly much better to do. Yay for my dead bunny!

    I will state that after the fact, I thought that it would be a good idea to give the bunny a rice-cake to hold… but I decided not to alter the picture. Different people see different things in the moon – in Japan, rather than seeing ‘the man in the moon’, the traditional image is that of a rabbit making rice-cakes.