Tom and Wendy are husband and wife! Hooray!
The wedding was great. The ceremony was fun and everything went kind of smoothly once it began and the officiant was amazing and spoke from the heart. Very nice.
And the reception was amazing too! A lot of their friends pitched in and hired the UW marching band to pop in and play some songs as a surprise for Tom. It worked! SHocked! Very fun thoguh!!! Loud...
Tom gave a good speech! As usual. =) And all the guests had fun. Including me. Everyone danced! Amazing!!!
I want to see the pictures.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
The End of the Year!
Today was the last official day of AmeriCorps.
Long time coming!
I'm very glad to leave Hickory. It is a strange place. There are many families here, and many retired people. There are stoplights all over the place. Many busy streets going to malls and chain restaurants. Too much driving is necessary. I've not enjoyed this town at all. There *is* a good brewery, whose website does not do it justice. I might miss OHB a bit. =)
And I will miss the friends from AmeriCorps. They are good people! I admire them in many different ways! And they will all do great things next year.
But I am glad this year is over. It is good to get out of this town. Is not quaint at all. And the roads are confusing and numerous. 4th St Dr SE, 4th St Ln SE, 4th St Ave SE. Even the street names lack character.
Tomorrow I pack all my things into my camry and then Monday off I go!
Long time coming!
I'm very glad to leave Hickory. It is a strange place. There are many families here, and many retired people. There are stoplights all over the place. Many busy streets going to malls and chain restaurants. Too much driving is necessary. I've not enjoyed this town at all. There *is* a good brewery, whose website does not do it justice. I might miss OHB a bit. =)
And I will miss the friends from AmeriCorps. They are good people! I admire them in many different ways! And they will all do great things next year.
But I am glad this year is over. It is good to get out of this town. Is not quaint at all. And the roads are confusing and numerous. 4th St Dr SE, 4th St Ln SE, 4th St Ave SE. Even the street names lack character.
Tomorrow I pack all my things into my camry and then Monday off I go!
Southern foods
I went out to eat at a nice restaurant with Tori tonight. She got crabcakes which had fried green tomatoes on top, so I got to taste fried green tomatoes, which I really liked, which was surprising because I do not normally like fried things nor do I like immature vegetables. But I did like this. While in NC I've tried most foods I would describe as southern:
~grits: really good! Surprising because I do not like hominy. Er... I suppose I just don't like whole hominy. Ground up, ok.
~hushpuppies: really good occasionally. Not something I'd want to eat daily or in any large quantity.
~pickled cucumber and onion: *really* good! Strange because I hate pickles. Fresh though, and perhaps the way they were prepared, I have enjoyed this.
~muscadines: type of grape. Tasty. Meaty fruit.
~sweet potato (and sweet potato casserole): I don't know that I tried sweet potatoes in WI/IA. I know they exist in these places, but they are much more prevalent in the south. Sweet potato casserole, for instance, is a Thanksgiving staple. People mush up the sweet potatoes with sugar or whatever, and then put it in a casserole and top it with a layer of *marshmallows*. How STRANGE! It is ok. Strange.
~fried green tomatoes: Again, I think this might exist in the north, but I've never tried it before. Much more common here. Really really good! Came into existence from the need to have no food waste-- before the frost, people fried up their green tomatoes.
~okra: I used a bunch of okra I got for free in some gumbo I made last year. It is interesting. Mild flavor, a bit slimy, but gave my gumbo a good, thick consistency. Very starchy. I have not tried it fried, and I hear this is fantastic, but I can imagine exactly what it would taste like, and have no real desire to try this before I leave south.
~pimento cheese: When folks bring HFH food for lunch, it is common to bring five to ten pimento cheese sandwiches for veggies or whomever. Pimento cheese is good! I think it is maybe cottage cheese, cheddar cheese, pimento peppers.. probably mayo too. I'd never heard of this food before living here, but have had it often during HFH lunches.
~sweet tea. People drink sweet tea like it is water here. It is disgusting to me. When I worked as a waitress people would very occasionally order sweet tea. I can't remember if I brought them sugar packets or if we had it in our pop machine. Anyway, it is not common in north but very very very common in south. Waitresses some places walk around with pitchers of sweet tea.
Things I did not try here that are southern:
~North Carolina BBQ. People are obsessive about BBQ. Evidently there is a whole spectrum of greatness between this restaurant and that. Whatever. My first week in Avery County I was taken to a BBQ restaurant. I tried hushpuppies for the first time there. This was about the only menu item a veggie could eat.
~livermush. TGIV (Thank goodness I'm vegetarian).
~chitlins. TGIV.
~boiled peanuts. This is very common here. I wish I had tried it, because I see signs for it all over the place. But, it is not too terribly hard to boil peanuts, so I could try it elsewhere I suppose. I've heard they are not very good. I've no idea what boiling does to the nut to make it different.
~collard greens, or greens. Typically these include bacon grease. I've no comment on this food.
I think I've remembered all of them. My favorite new foods from the south are grits and fried green tomatoes. I'm so glad I got to try these! So tangy!
~grits: really good! Surprising because I do not like hominy. Er... I suppose I just don't like whole hominy. Ground up, ok.
~hushpuppies: really good occasionally. Not something I'd want to eat daily or in any large quantity.
~pickled cucumber and onion: *really* good! Strange because I hate pickles. Fresh though, and perhaps the way they were prepared, I have enjoyed this.
~muscadines: type of grape. Tasty. Meaty fruit.
~sweet potato (and sweet potato casserole): I don't know that I tried sweet potatoes in WI/IA. I know they exist in these places, but they are much more prevalent in the south. Sweet potato casserole, for instance, is a Thanksgiving staple. People mush up the sweet potatoes with sugar or whatever, and then put it in a casserole and top it with a layer of *marshmallows*. How STRANGE! It is ok. Strange.
~fried green tomatoes: Again, I think this might exist in the north, but I've never tried it before. Much more common here. Really really good! Came into existence from the need to have no food waste-- before the frost, people fried up their green tomatoes.
~okra: I used a bunch of okra I got for free in some gumbo I made last year. It is interesting. Mild flavor, a bit slimy, but gave my gumbo a good, thick consistency. Very starchy. I have not tried it fried, and I hear this is fantastic, but I can imagine exactly what it would taste like, and have no real desire to try this before I leave south.
~pimento cheese: When folks bring HFH food for lunch, it is common to bring five to ten pimento cheese sandwiches for veggies or whomever. Pimento cheese is good! I think it is maybe cottage cheese, cheddar cheese, pimento peppers.. probably mayo too. I'd never heard of this food before living here, but have had it often during HFH lunches.
~sweet tea. People drink sweet tea like it is water here. It is disgusting to me. When I worked as a waitress people would very occasionally order sweet tea. I can't remember if I brought them sugar packets or if we had it in our pop machine. Anyway, it is not common in north but very very very common in south. Waitresses some places walk around with pitchers of sweet tea.
Things I did not try here that are southern:
~North Carolina BBQ. People are obsessive about BBQ. Evidently there is a whole spectrum of greatness between this restaurant and that. Whatever. My first week in Avery County I was taken to a BBQ restaurant. I tried hushpuppies for the first time there. This was about the only menu item a veggie could eat.
~livermush. TGIV (Thank goodness I'm vegetarian).
~chitlins. TGIV.
~boiled peanuts. This is very common here. I wish I had tried it, because I see signs for it all over the place. But, it is not too terribly hard to boil peanuts, so I could try it elsewhere I suppose. I've heard they are not very good. I've no idea what boiling does to the nut to make it different.
~collard greens, or greens. Typically these include bacon grease. I've no comment on this food.
I think I've remembered all of them. My favorite new foods from the south are grits and fried green tomatoes. I'm so glad I got to try these! So tangy!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
This is strange.
During my web browsing today (out of extreme boredom with a pointless job, and later out of delaying packing) I found the government recall website. The toy section is pretty funny/kind of scary (for example: New Easy-Bake Oven Recall Following Partial Finger Amputation; Consumers Urged to Return Toy Ovens (Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:00:00 GMT) Young children can insert their hands into the oven's front opening, and get their hands or fingers caught, posing entrapment and burn hazards.) . There is also a meat section, which is long and disgusting. Here is the totally needlesstosay point of my blog entry tonight:
Why the hell was everyone freaking out about SPINACH?
Why the hell was everyone freaking out about SPINACH?
California Firm Expands Recall of Ground Beef for Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination (Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT) United Food Group, LLC, a Vernon, Calif., establishment, is voluntarily expanding its June 3 and 6 recalls to include a total of approximately 5.7 million pounds of both fresh and frozen ground beef products produced between April 6 and April 20 because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
5.7 Million+...
Texas Firm Recalls Ground Beef Products Due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination (Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT) Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., a Sherman, Texas, establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately 40,440 pounds of ground beef products due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7.
40,440 pounds+...
California Firm Expands Recall of Ground Beef for Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination (Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT) United Food Group, LLC, a Vernon, Calif., establishment, is voluntarily expanding its June 3 recall of ground beef products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
California Firm Recalls Ground Beef For Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination (Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT) United Food Group, LLC, a Vernon, Calif., establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately 75,000 pounds of ground beef products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
Michigan Firm Recalls Beef Products Due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination (PDF only) (Fri, 11 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT) Davis Creek Meats and Seafood, a Kalamazoo, Mich., establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately 129,000 pounds of beef products, due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7.
129,000+...
Minnesota Firm Recalls Beef Trim Due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination (PDF only) (Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT) PM Beef Holdings, LLC, a Windom, Minn., establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately 117,500 pounds of beef trim products used to make ground beef, due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7.
117,500+...
California Firm Recalls Ground Beef for Possible E. COLI O157:H7 (PDF only) (Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT) Richwood Meat Co, Inc., a Merced, Calif., establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately 107,943 pounds of frozen ground beef products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
107,943 (approximately!)+...
Pennsylvania Firm Recalls Beef Products for Possible E. COLI O157:H7 (PDF only) (Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT) HFX, Inc., a South Claysburg, Penn., firm, is voluntary recalling approximately 259,230 pounds of beef products due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7.
Pennsylvania Firm Recalls Beef Products for Possible E. COLI O157:H7 - Labels for Retail Products (PDF only) (Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT) Label for retail products related to Recall 019-2007: HFX, Inc., a South Claysburg, Penn., firm, is voluntary recalling approximately 259,230 pounds of beef products due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7.
259,230=
6,354,113 Pounds!
Since APRIL! EW!
Since APRIL! EW!
I wonder what the ratio of yearly american vegetable consumption to yearly recalls due to E. coli risk is... I wonder if it is close to one. Hmmm...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Debate Question
From HFH Volunteer Coordinator in Charlotte, NC:
Hi everyone,
Mike Masto, former AmeriCorps member at Habitat Charlotte and current Site Supervisor, put together a short video to the political debate candidates regarding the importance they see on the impact volunteering and AmeriCorps can have on a community and how that would play a role in their policies if they were elected as president. This is a candidate for the Youtube debate coming up July 23rd. Please go to the following website, view Mike's video, and vote to have his question answered!!! He needs some votes. The most popular questions will get answered by the candidates.
The link is http://www.communitycounts.us/?q=demdebate&search=volunteer - and then go to the MIDDLE video. Clicking on it will play it, and then click on the ANSWER button to vote to have the candidates answer the question.
Beth Van GorpVolunteer Coordinator,Habitat for Humanity of Charlotte
Hi everyone,
Mike Masto, former AmeriCorps member at Habitat Charlotte and current Site Supervisor, put together a short video to the political debate candidates regarding the importance they see on the impact volunteering and AmeriCorps can have on a community and how that would play a role in their policies if they were elected as president. This is a candidate for the Youtube debate coming up July 23rd. Please go to the following website, view Mike's video, and vote to have his question answered!!! He needs some votes. The most popular questions will get answered by the candidates.
The link is http://www.communitycounts.us/?q=demdebate&search=volunteer - and then go to the MIDDLE video. Clicking on it will play it, and then click on the ANSWER button to vote to have the candidates answer the question.
Beth Van GorpVolunteer Coordinator,Habitat for Humanity of Charlotte
Monday, July 16, 2007
Giant Carrot
This is the carrot I used for my salad tonight. Look how long it is! I should have measured it...
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Menu Amazing
We had JohnEd and Angela over last night for dinner/drinks. Fun times! Derek's Kristin is in town, and we all never really get chances to hang out with her, so it was nice to kick it with her for awhile. Although, Derek's Annie somehow sat on her tail wrong and sprained it (evidently this is not so uncommon... I had no idea), so Derek had to take her to the vet for the second time in one day, and we actually didn't get to spend so much time hanging out with Kristin. So it goes.
Here is the menu we enjoyed:
Fresh cherries, peaches, apricots, apples, and blueberries with ricotta+goat cheese dip.
Brie and cherry quesadillas with mango/tomato/avocado salsa
Balkan cucumber salad
Asparagus and basil lasagna
Fresh-tastic! I am still full I think. I took some pictures of the fruit but none of them are very good, and then Annie got hurt so I did not take any more pictures. Plus, people usually want to eat the food once it is ready rather than wait for me to shoot it first. Imagine that.
Annie is okay but she is drugged up. Lots of tail pain. So strange that the tail is so fragile. She also has an eye infection... sad puppy right now. She's not supposed to wag her tail for two weeks! Seems rather impossible.
Now I work on throwing things away and consolidating owned items. One week to pack up two years! AGH! =)
Here is the menu we enjoyed:
Fresh cherries, peaches, apricots, apples, and blueberries with ricotta+goat cheese dip.
Brie and cherry quesadillas with mango/tomato/avocado salsa
Balkan cucumber salad
Asparagus and basil lasagna
Fresh-tastic! I am still full I think. I took some pictures of the fruit but none of them are very good, and then Annie got hurt so I did not take any more pictures. Plus, people usually want to eat the food once it is ready rather than wait for me to shoot it first. Imagine that.
Annie is okay but she is drugged up. Lots of tail pain. So strange that the tail is so fragile. She also has an eye infection... sad puppy right now. She's not supposed to wag her tail for two weeks! Seems rather impossible.
Now I work on throwing things away and consolidating owned items. One week to pack up two years! AGH! =)
Thursday, July 12, 2007
So MANY Kids!!!
This week in Hickory....
We have a group of 45 kids here to volunteer ALL WEEK LONG. Their week here reminds me of my weeks doing ASP in high school... very similar set-up. They stay in a church and they have several leaders and some of the leaders are good and some are annoying.
Kids of high school age are funny. They are all so different. So many different maturity levels... it's pretty annoying. Some of them are younger than they really are, and some are older. Just depends. On what? Nature knows.
At one point during a conversation (if you could call it that) with a kid today, which consisted of him asking a million stupid questions and saying a million stupid things and me trying to be patient, I finally put my face in my hands and said, "You... are being so YOUNG! How old are you?!?"
He is going to be a sophomore. THat makes him... 15ish. Unbelieveable amount of pointless words coming out of his mouth while he watched his friend do many shovel fulls of mulch.
In other Hickory HFH news, we set the trusses for a hipped roof yesterday... After we set them, I still could not picture what the hell was going on (this is my first hipped roof). Today I had Keith explain to me, and then I understood why I could not picture what was happening. We had two of our trusses in the wrong places. Which is why my eyeballs couldn't tell my brain how the roof was going to work. So greasy nasty crane man came back to help us switch them around, which was actually rather painless, but then greasy nasty crane man stuck around for awhile since we have a bunch of high school kids around. "Ain't got nothin' better goin' on."
No. No, you don't.
We have a group of 45 kids here to volunteer ALL WEEK LONG. Their week here reminds me of my weeks doing ASP in high school... very similar set-up. They stay in a church and they have several leaders and some of the leaders are good and some are annoying.
Kids of high school age are funny. They are all so different. So many different maturity levels... it's pretty annoying. Some of them are younger than they really are, and some are older. Just depends. On what? Nature knows.
At one point during a conversation (if you could call it that) with a kid today, which consisted of him asking a million stupid questions and saying a million stupid things and me trying to be patient, I finally put my face in my hands and said, "You... are being so YOUNG! How old are you?!?"
He is going to be a sophomore. THat makes him... 15ish. Unbelieveable amount of pointless words coming out of his mouth while he watched his friend do many shovel fulls of mulch.
In other Hickory HFH news, we set the trusses for a hipped roof yesterday... After we set them, I still could not picture what the hell was going on (this is my first hipped roof). Today I had Keith explain to me, and then I understood why I could not picture what was happening. We had two of our trusses in the wrong places. Which is why my eyeballs couldn't tell my brain how the roof was going to work. So greasy nasty crane man came back to help us switch them around, which was actually rather painless, but then greasy nasty crane man stuck around for awhile since we have a bunch of high school kids around. "Ain't got nothin' better goin' on."
No. No, you don't.
Pretty Pink Thing
I took lots of pictures of this flower in Wilmington. It has swirlies which I like.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Wilmington
Long day. Ubuntu won't work with my laptop. =( So sad! Ah, well. Otherwise, estuve ocupada estudiando espanol todos los noches. That's right, preterite. Both times I took Spanish3 I sort of zonked out as soon as we began to learn timeline grammar. Past present future AGH! SO MANY THINGS TO REMEMBER. Is easier now, since I actually want to learn. Also helps that I have taken Spanish3 twice.
Tomorrow we head to our last retreat for AmeriCorps. Thank goodness! I'm ready to be done!! We go to Wilmington, which is a very touristy city on the coast, which sort of sucks but also is kind of fun, because there is a nice beach and good restaurants/bars. Good coast seafood! Yum!! Unfortunately, it is a long drive, and I drove a lot today and now I have to drive a lot tomorrow and I get sick of all the driving all over everywhere. And North Carolina has no direct routes from point A to B! Never! Is quite annoying.
Poor Derek won't be able to swim. Injury to his arm! Laceration! Pics on flickr.
Tomorrow we head to our last retreat for AmeriCorps. Thank goodness! I'm ready to be done!! We go to Wilmington, which is a very touristy city on the coast, which sort of sucks but also is kind of fun, because there is a nice beach and good restaurants/bars. Good coast seafood! Yum!! Unfortunately, it is a long drive, and I drove a lot today and now I have to drive a lot tomorrow and I get sick of all the driving all over everywhere. And North Carolina has no direct routes from point A to B! Never! Is quite annoying.
Poor Derek won't be able to swim. Injury to his arm! Laceration! Pics on flickr.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
LOUD!
I do not like all the booming of the 4th.
All the dogs around bark loudly. "What are these strange sounds?!?" Confused, scared!
"What do these humans do?! So loud!"
Happy 'independence' day.
All the dogs around bark loudly. "What are these strange sounds?!?" Confused, scared!
"What do these humans do?! So loud!"
Happy 'independence' day.
Gnocchi
I have been hearing nice things about gorgonzola and gnocchi, and I have in my memory a friend's discovery of the tastiness of gorgonzola walnut sauce, so last night I made...
Gnocchi with Gorgonzola Walnut Sauce!
Seriously... this is the highest calorie dish I think I've ever prepared. It contains zero ingredients which are low in calories. Zero! I can't believe I made it! I was just so curious how the gnocchi would taste...
What a fun food! Little balls of fluffy potatoes. I think the next time I make gnocchi, I will physically make the gnocchi. Last night, I opened the package and threw the suckers into boiling water. They are so easy! No taste testing for doneness, these boys are done with they float up to the top of the pot! Hello, gnocchis!
The sauce was simple simple. Just butter, gorgonzola, and cream. Added the cream after the butter and cheese had mostly melted, as to avoid curdling. If I ever make this again, which I honestly probably won't, I would lighten the sauce up *big time*. Olive oil instead of butter, milk instead of cream. I think I'd enjoy that more.
I roasted some grape tomatoes for a side. Hmm... I poked them each before I broiled them, thinking that, like a hot dog, this would keep them from exploding. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I did not want explosion of tomato inside of Tori's toaster oven. Whether it was the poking or just my acute sense of when things are done cookin', the tomatoes did not explode and they were my favorite part of the meal. I love fresh things!
The gnocchi with sauce was too rich! Way too rich! I covered the gnocchis with the sauce, then added the chopped walnuts and a little grated parm. It had a nice flavor, and I loved the way the gnocchi feels and tastes, but.. after about four bites I was kind of done. Better for an appetizer maybe. On sticks. Toothpick gnocchi! NO-KEE! Like I said, if I do this gorgonzola/gnocchi combo again, I will lighten up sauce and maybe be able to enjoy more of it.
The picture is kind of blurry, and I should have gone outside, but I wanted to eat the food! I couldn't wait! So impatient!
This morning I used some of the gorgonzola in a mushroom omelet. My first-ever-omelet-experience! I mean, I've eaten them before, but never tried making them. I did good! It was yummy!
I used my new hand blender to beat the eggs. Man, that thing is slick. I love it! All fifty dollars of it!! I have used it twice so far... once for the eggs, and once for a vinaigrette (which I would normally not use a blender for, but since it's new and I like it...).
Gnocchi with Gorgonzola Walnut Sauce!
Seriously... this is the highest calorie dish I think I've ever prepared. It contains zero ingredients which are low in calories. Zero! I can't believe I made it! I was just so curious how the gnocchi would taste...
What a fun food! Little balls of fluffy potatoes. I think the next time I make gnocchi, I will physically make the gnocchi. Last night, I opened the package and threw the suckers into boiling water. They are so easy! No taste testing for doneness, these boys are done with they float up to the top of the pot! Hello, gnocchis!
The sauce was simple simple. Just butter, gorgonzola, and cream. Added the cream after the butter and cheese had mostly melted, as to avoid curdling. If I ever make this again, which I honestly probably won't, I would lighten the sauce up *big time*. Olive oil instead of butter, milk instead of cream. I think I'd enjoy that more.
I roasted some grape tomatoes for a side. Hmm... I poked them each before I broiled them, thinking that, like a hot dog, this would keep them from exploding. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I did not want explosion of tomato inside of Tori's toaster oven. Whether it was the poking or just my acute sense of when things are done cookin', the tomatoes did not explode and they were my favorite part of the meal. I love fresh things!
The gnocchi with sauce was too rich! Way too rich! I covered the gnocchis with the sauce, then added the chopped walnuts and a little grated parm. It had a nice flavor, and I loved the way the gnocchi feels and tastes, but.. after about four bites I was kind of done. Better for an appetizer maybe. On sticks. Toothpick gnocchi! NO-KEE! Like I said, if I do this gorgonzola/gnocchi combo again, I will lighten up sauce and maybe be able to enjoy more of it.
The picture is kind of blurry, and I should have gone outside, but I wanted to eat the food! I couldn't wait! So impatient!
This morning I used some of the gorgonzola in a mushroom omelet. My first-ever-omelet-experience! I mean, I've eaten them before, but never tried making them. I did good! It was yummy!
I used my new hand blender to beat the eggs. Man, that thing is slick. I love it! All fifty dollars of it!! I have used it twice so far... once for the eggs, and once for a vinaigrette (which I would normally not use a blender for, but since it's new and I like it...).
Monday, July 2, 2007
Pictures of Things
I've got a flickr account now, and wow! I am wasting a ton of time getting it set up!
Worth it though. Now I've got all my photos in sets and I do not have to have them stay on my computer taking up loads of space. I am going to get some blank CDs though, so I can burn backups of all my memorable moments.
It is fun to surf around through people's photos-- glimpsing into their lives without them knowing! There are some really fantastic photographers out there. Lots of food porn for me to learn from. And then, there's also this.
Worth it though. Now I've got all my photos in sets and I do not have to have them stay on my computer taking up loads of space. I am going to get some blank CDs though, so I can burn backups of all my memorable moments.
It is fun to surf around through people's photos-- glimpsing into their lives without them knowing! There are some really fantastic photographers out there. Lots of food porn for me to learn from. And then, there's also this.
worst.dressing.ever.
I decided to make this salsa salad for a light supper. Then I decided... hmm... "I shall create a new dressing so that when I taste this pretty salad I will feel like I am in the southwest."
I'm not even going to say what I put in the dressing. It sounds like a pretty good combo of stuff, at least to me, but alas, it was barely edible. I actually put my dressing-coated salad into my salad spinner so I could start fresh. I used this dressing instead, and ate my tasty greens and purples and reds and yellows and blacks. I LOVE COLORFUL FOOD!
Sunday, July 1, 2007
MESSINESS
My bedroom is a raging monster that must be cleaned.
Clean room now, Katie. NOWNOWNOW.
Goal for today: empty iMac harddrive so computer may be given away.
Cannot accomplish goal unless I have room to set up the computer on my floor.
Clean room must now dirty messy.
Clean room now, Katie. NOWNOWNOW.
Goal for today: empty iMac harddrive so computer may be given away.
Cannot accomplish goal unless I have room to set up the computer on my floor.
Clean room must now dirty messy.
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