Archive for April, 2009

Is someone talking about food?

Apr 26th

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We are watching this show on the History channel about what happens after we all die, and I was reading pretty much the funniest blogger ever, so I wasn’t really paying attention. And then I heard something about collapsing pancakes, and I was like, “WHAT!? That sounds yummy but dangerous. I bet they are very dense.” And then I turned to the TV and realized they said “pancake collapse” which is totally different.

Also, apparently I’ve been reading that blog too much because I’m telling stories in that style. Which I love, so I’m not sure why I care.

ps. Does anyone else have a crush on Mike Rowe (watch the video – for real)? Because I do. This would seem much less random if you were watching TV with me right now.

Easter at home

Apr 11th

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Ryan and I are staying in town this weekend. It is our first holiday that we aren’t spending with one of our families. It’s a little weird, because it feels like just a normal weekend. Obviously we miss seeing family, but it’s good to have a weekend to just chill out. It feels like we’ve been running a lot lately.

I’m working on cleaning up some clutter in one of our closets today…seeing what I can convince myself to toss or give to Goodwill and what I am just not ready to get rid of yet. I want our closets to be put to good use. We don’t have many of them and the ones we have aren’t big, so the space needs to be used intelligently. So far we’ve just been shoving stuff in them, and that’s not effective.

God, our life is exciting. We sit at home and organize stuff. I know you are on the edge of your seat waiting to see what we do next. The project for this afternoon is to get the grill out of the corner it’s been sitting in all winter. It will be a challenge because there’s about an inch to an inch and a half of ice holding the grill and the grill cover in place (the temps have been in the 40s during the day, but the corner doesn’t get much sun so it hasn’t thawed out). My idea is to get an extension cord and the hair dryer out there. Ryan seems skeptical that that will work. Whatever way we do it, it’s coming out today because we WILL GRILL FOR DINNER, DANGIT! Grilling makes it feel like spring is actually here, even if the temps don’t get above 45.

Well, I think we are off to do some grocery shopping. Happy Easter, everyone!

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Happy Birthday! Have some snow with your cake!

Apr 5th

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Today is Ryan’s dad’s 60th birthday. We missed the donkey going into the church (seriously – they have a live donkey that processes into church) because we went to early services so we could come home and assemble the grill he got for his birthday. We were planning on making hamburgers for lunch, but when you look outside it’s a winter wonderland, with snow coating everything. And it is NOT warm. Not really fabulous grilling weather. We are having lasagna instead.

I’m so anxious to get our grill out. It is still under a couple feet of snow because it is back in a corner where it doesn’t get much sun. The half a foot of extra snow we got this week did not help. I’m so sick of snow and cold. I want 70 degrees and sunshine.

I don’t know what else to talk about. Perhaps I will go read my book for a while. Oh! Speaking of books, I just got The Year of Fog in Friday’s mail from Fiona Picklebottom (at least I’m pretty sure that’s what it is – I haven’t even opened it yet), and I am super-excited to read it once I finish Mr. X by Peter Straub (I figured that since he’s written with Stephen King before I would probably like him – so far so good, although he uses lots of weird language in this book, which makes for kind of slow reading). Yay for free books – especially ones I wouldn’t have picked up on my own necessarily!

I will leave you with this quote from Stephen King, “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

  • To Do In 2011

    1. Make dinner 2 nights per week
    2. Finish James’s baby book     finished as much as possible
    3. Own a pair of comfortable dress boots
    4. Read 25 books
    5. Take a week of vacation in the summer and visit my family
    6. Try a new ingredient once a month (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec)
    7. Organize my recipe collection
    8. Develop a more efficient workspace at my office     My new desk is WAY more organized/organizable.
    9. Own investment jeans     Not Happening
    10. Go to 3 local museums
    11. Organize a group camping trip     We had 2 of them!
    12. Learn how to run     In progress!
    13. See a concert
    14. Try out four new restaurants     (Jan 21) (March 18)
    15. Acknowledge the birthdays of every person on my list     Epic fail
    16. Make something for James using some of his old clothes
    17. Watch James take his first steps/say his first real words
    18. Put pictures in all the frames in our apartment
    19. Buy a cake from a local bakery
    20. Go to a band concert at UMD
    21. Exercise more     Y Membership
    22. See my sister graduate college     I'm counting this as accomplished; I didn't watch her walk, but we had dinner with her that night.
    23. Cut back on sweets     My new job has actually helped with this; less boredom/stress = less snacking!
    24. Get rid of cable 1/3/2011
    25. Finish our wedding scrapbook project
    26. Start purchasing Christmas gifts in March at the latest     HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    27. Create a weekly menu, and stick to it!     See above: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    28. Meet someone in real life that I’ve only known on the internet
    29. Get my hair cut and style it more often     this last part is ongoing
    30. Host a party
    31. Go to church at least once per month, and make a donation each time
    32. Send thank-you notes for all gifts
    33. Make ice cream
    34. Encourage Ryan to get his first Cisco certification
    35. Try a new food     I'm counting brussel sprouts.
    36. Hang out with Alyson for an entire weekend
    37. Make more of an effort to dress up for work     No longer necessary; this is more of a nice jeans and sweater kind of place.
    38. Make a lunch (not frozen) 2 days per week.     I've been packing a peanut butter sandwich and carrots. I consider this an achievement.
    39. Take a community ed class     Swimming w/the boys
    40. Make something in our dutch oven that requires using it in the oven
    41. Go to bed before eleven more often
    42. Go to a Farmer’s Market and buy something 3 times this summer     Another failure. Although we did buy some local honey from a friend!
    43. Call my parents and sisters every other week just to check in     I think I'm doing WORSE at this than last year
    44. Make: caramel rolls from scratch (get the recipe from my grandma)
    45. Bring James on his first trip to Canada
    46. Learn to drive a stick
    47. Print out photos from our wedding and put them in an album
    48. Make breakfast more often on the weekends
    49. Keep the apartment cleaner than past years
    50. Buy a good area rug for the living room
    51. Make a general doctor’s appointment to get my cholesterol, blood pressure, etc., checked out 1/11/11
    52. Take more pictures and put some in albums
    53. Clean the basement and organize all our stuff down there     All bins labeled as of 3/13/11. This is as much organizing as is going to happen before we move
    54. Organize my jewelry
    55. Buy more bins for storage and put seasonal clothes away
    56. Donate all unused clothing/toys to Goodwill/Salvation Army

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