ask the experts

Found this site when I was looking for some interwebs advice on how to tie up my new clothesline to the poles in the back yard. Well, upon further investigation (and am yet to hang up the line) there are experts for just so many of our needs! One of my favorites:

Preparing for Online Dating -- powered by ExpertVillage.com

Summary: "Watch as an expert bachelor discusses how to approach online dating in this free online video about attracting women."

Expert bachelor!! and he's the author of How to Become a Professional Bachelor!

So after watching, I decided I wasn't that impressed or convinced to give online dating a go, but he does have other videos in the series which I may need to watch before cementing my decision. However, I did decide he could really truly be a professional bachelor for, post-viewing, I imagined a dinner out with him-- nice restaurant where you sit at the table with really good posture, dim lights, fancy wine, polished silverware, the occasional hand-touching-across-the-table (just on cue), no lull in the focused-on-you conversation-- and that would be all I'd be able to handle of him and no more. Bachelor status: maintained.

yep food processored again

Tonight, recipe idea credited to Matt, it was sesame soba noodles with cucumber, bok choy and mixed greens (and we added tofu and baby corn). Food processored the dressing. You're soooo jealous.

[I know the pictures are crappy but that will all be fixed when I get my new iPhone on June 19. Or after the lines die down. (woo hoo i think i'm treating myself to an iPhone!)]

food processor strikes again!

Joshua and I made this delicious meal of food last night after I got the notion of making falafel with my I-love-having-this-thing food processor:



I worked the mixings and Josh gallantly worked the frying. We had some laughable moments while discovering the mixture was too wet and the falafel balls disintegrated in the pot o' oil (which soon turned black from all the bits in there)-- so we had to run back to WF and get some brown rice flour and ingredients for a second batch, but it was totally worth it. And did you know grapeseed oil is green? Oh but it is. All around good times. And yummy.

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So, I worked in the yard this weekend, hedged a whole bunch of bushes and got my wrists sore from manual clippers, swept the driveway, cleaned up the house a bit, and worked the food processor. Getting ready for summer par-tay par-tay times!

go neti go

I don't know exactly what happened to get me here but you can see the results and it felt like I was punched in the nose... by allergies? I did ride around a lot that day and the day before. I iced my nose with a bag of frozen edamame and bought a neti pot (which I think everyone should have)-- thank you Lauren for that bit of advice. Things were better the next morning.

Also, after perusing my grand supply of I-need-a-study-break-so-I'll-take-pictures-of-myself-with-PhotoBooth head shots, either my nose has had allergy/swollen issues before and I haven't noticed or my nose is just not as defined as I thought it was.

In summary, I would also like to thank everyone who was of such great support during this period of crisis in my life (in no particular order except boy-girl-boy-girl): Joshua, Lauren, Mark, Rebek, Matt, Jen. If I have neglected to mention you, I apologize, these were some crazy hours.

pet peeve

Why you gotta take up the entire belt for your groceries that can fit in 16" of it? And then dilly-dally and get distracted by going on and on to the clerk about the recent Britains Got Talent phenomenon Susan Boyle, kinda ruining that good moment for me. And I like(d) her too. Eegads, singing from Les Mis? I got tears. Well, almost.

This woman was clueless as to grocery check-out etiquette. And all I wanted to do was get home and eat my chips and drink my beers already. Stupidhead.

remember these?

Mark I know you must. I think I even remember that exact air fern bag they came in. Mom got these from her students at some point and I think we even had one in a magnetic pot on the fridge for a while, which looked similar to this.

This is my new mission: purchase and remember the days of yore.

a musical in real life

I've always wanted this to happen. I think the next one should be a song from Newsies.