Monday, September 16, 2013

New hobby

Something crazy happened to my VPN last week. I'm not sure what happened, and I'm not sure how it fixed itself, but I can finally access my blog again. Yay!

During my hiatus from blogging, I took up a grandma hobby- plants. I was never that into having plants, mainly because of the upkeep required, but also because I've never lived on my own before. Not sure why that was a factor in my decision not to own plants, but now that I live alone, I am all about making my little home pretty. Not to mention, plants can purify the air and collect dust entering the home.

So, last weekend, I set out to Shanghai's flower market to buy me some plants. I ended up getting three plants and one flower for my wine bottle vase (so nifty I know). I'm not sure what two of the plants are called in English, but the other one is mint. Aren't they awesome?


But wait, this is actually a sad story. The guy at the market told me that these plants need to be watered everyday. Being a total noob, I followed his instructions religiously and watered them a lot every morning. I was so proud of myself for remembering. Things were going well for about 5 days, and then out of nowhere two of them died. I think I drowned them in too much water. So sad. Now I am just trying to keep the last one alive.

Fingers crossed xx

4 comments:

  1. I want pictures of the corpses of the murdered plants.

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  2. I am sorry, but you can't possibly have killed the mint?? That's the easiest plant to keep besides the cactus....hell even I managed to keep them alive, when I was 8! And I killed a lot of living things...

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  3. don't worry ma dear. i killed a shit ton of plants in the past 5 years. Carl even set our cactus on fire. don't ask.

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