Now that I'm not restricted by words, I shall translate yesterday's CV:
1) Our dog, Rufus, confused by where the sound of the ring originated
2) Table at school with teammates from accounting and international business groups.
3) On the shuttlebus to the metro after a long day at school
4) My cell phone doesn't usually work on the metro, so after I get out I often have calls/texts as I walk to our place from the exit
5) The madness on our desks (which I would otherwise have no excuse to show you and would, in fact, likely avoid exposing :)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Corner View : Cell Phone Madness
To see what others were looking at when their cell phones rang, check out:
Monday, November 16, 2009
Easy Meals!
Here are a few treats as of late!
Spicy Chicken Soup
I completely forgot to add the sour cream until we were half done, so I just left it out. It's a tomato heavy recipe, so in order not to get too acidic, probably should be eaten quickly. That wasn't a problem in our house! I also didn't find it all that spicy. So if that's what you're looking for, add more!
Quick Cream Cheese Mashed Potatoes
These were definitely very easy. I usually make mashed potatoes with milk, butter, and cheese. I think these may be easier because they require less taste-testing for perfection. The quantities are accurate if you have big eaters at your table. I used about half of what is listed (though our potatoes were probably medium sized) and it made about 7 servings total.
Rosemary Pork Chops
I used a pork loin instead of chops. The rosemary flavor is interesting. The recipe doesn't call for browning the meat before putting it in the slow cooker, but I would recommend it just for looks. It made a lot of gravy, so I would also suggest putting other vegetables in with it to absorb that flavor and liquid.
Salad
One of my favorite things is to have a very colorful salad. I read about the variety of vitamins you need in your daily diet and it isn't always easy to get them all. Some favorite ingredients I've been including in our greens are tomatoes (red), carrots (orange), boiled egg (yellow yolk!), avocado (green), blueberries (blue) and I suppose you could also throw in grapes or beets for the purple or dark reds, or used the mixed greens with the deep purple leaves. I also add ham, walnuts, and usually my husband's homemade dressing, along with tortilla strips and a little cheese. It's a pretty hearty salad!
Spicy Chicken Soup
I completely forgot to add the sour cream until we were half done, so I just left it out. It's a tomato heavy recipe, so in order not to get too acidic, probably should be eaten quickly. That wasn't a problem in our house! I also didn't find it all that spicy. So if that's what you're looking for, add more!
Quick Cream Cheese Mashed Potatoes
These were definitely very easy. I usually make mashed potatoes with milk, butter, and cheese. I think these may be easier because they require less taste-testing for perfection. The quantities are accurate if you have big eaters at your table. I used about half of what is listed (though our potatoes were probably medium sized) and it made about 7 servings total.
Rosemary Pork Chops
I used a pork loin instead of chops. The rosemary flavor is interesting. The recipe doesn't call for browning the meat before putting it in the slow cooker, but I would recommend it just for looks. It made a lot of gravy, so I would also suggest putting other vegetables in with it to absorb that flavor and liquid.
Salad
One of my favorite things is to have a very colorful salad. I read about the variety of vitamins you need in your daily diet and it isn't always easy to get them all. Some favorite ingredients I've been including in our greens are tomatoes (red), carrots (orange), boiled egg (yellow yolk!), avocado (green), blueberries (blue) and I suppose you could also throw in grapes or beets for the purple or dark reds, or used the mixed greens with the deep purple leaves. I also add ham, walnuts, and usually my husband's homemade dressing, along with tortilla strips and a little cheese. It's a pretty hearty salad!
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Corner View : Favorite Dish
This week's topic comes from Joyce and is "your favorite dish."
I've posted many recipes already, I don't read celeb gossip magazines, and my friends wouldn't appreciate me spilling their ongoings, but the favorite dish I happen to love is that of etiquette (and sometimes advice) writers. Wait, wait, wait! I'm not a southern debutante who insists on multiple utensils at every meal. I just happen to find the writings of Miss Manners and Prudie very interesting and entertaining. Emily Yoffe is a bit more 2009 regarding the topics she works with, and thus, a lot more direct. With Judith Martin, if you go back to her older stuff, she has been quite open-minded about big picture issues for decades! (My favorite may be from her 1983 book, when asked by a reader, "What do I say when I meet a homosexual 'couple'?" she replied, "How do you do?," "How do you do?"). She's very tongue-in-cheek and many of her responses are for readers to read between the lines. She is also credited with a vast knowledge of cultures and customs, to boot. She once said in an interview,
To see how other people dish, check out:
I've posted many recipes already, I don't read celeb gossip magazines, and my friends wouldn't appreciate me spilling their ongoings, but the favorite dish I happen to love is that of etiquette (and sometimes advice) writers. Wait, wait, wait! I'm not a southern debutante who insists on multiple utensils at every meal. I just happen to find the writings of Miss Manners and Prudie very interesting and entertaining. Emily Yoffe is a bit more 2009 regarding the topics she works with, and thus, a lot more direct. With Judith Martin, if you go back to her older stuff, she has been quite open-minded about big picture issues for decades! (My favorite may be from her 1983 book, when asked by a reader, "What do I say when I meet a homosexual 'couple'?" she replied, "How do you do?," "How do you do?"). She's very tongue-in-cheek and many of her responses are for readers to read between the lines. She is also credited with a vast knowledge of cultures and customs, to boot. She once said in an interview,
"You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you're trying to deal with, they will stop dealing with you...There are plenty of people who say, 'We don't care about etiquette, but we can't stand the way so-and-so behaves, and we don't want him around!' Etiquette doesn't have the great sanctions that the law has. But the main sanction we do have is in not dealing with these people and isolating them because their behavior is unbearable."This, and I love a good, hearty soup or pasta dish! My next post will be the newest recipes we've tried this week.
To see how other people dish, check out:
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Rufus' loves: chew toys and daddy
At the risk of coming off like one of those "dog people" who takes photos of their pet and its toys and even includes 'em on their Christmas cards and blog, I'm updating what we've learned in two weeks of being a dog owner. Rufus really is something else; his personality is quite funny. He loves, loves, loves my husband. Loves. This both annoys me and amuses me. Actually, it doesn't annoy me that much, but it does crack me up. It's a good thing he's bonding with the male, as ole dad was a fair amount more cautious about taking on this live responsibility. Yours truly does the bathing, clipping, brushing all by her lonesome, but when Rufus wakes up, he does a big, long stretch of his front then his back legs, sniffs me a bit, and heads straight for the bedroom door to warm the floor while he awaits the guy sleeping to wake up. I walk the fluff ball in the mornings, someone takes him out mid-day once or twice, and then my husband walks him at night. I probably do more correcting, but that's because I'm more ADD and pay closer attention when I hear him chewing on something that doesn't sound like the toys we've given him. We both feed him after going for a walk (they say this reinforces the instinct to work for food), so I'm told that otherwise he'd only like one of us. When it's just me here, he curls up by my feet and sits and waits for me to pet him and follows me everywhere. When the male of the household gets home, I'm chopped liver!
After only two weeks, this "lifeguard" weenie dog has neither ears, nor arms, nor legs, nor stuffing in his bottom. This tennis ball is shredded, and the inside rubber part is broken into multiple pieces. We've just given Rufus a Kong for medium level chewers, so we'll see how long it lasts. At least we can encourage him chewing that by putting treats, food, or even peanut butter in it. Fortunately, he's been pretty good about not chewing things he isn't supposed to.I'm still reading Cesar Milan's book on how to raise the perfect dog. We've acknowledged that our pooch is pretty good, especially for a rescue, we just want him to be perfect. Bichons and poodles are both very intelligent breeds, so training takes a lot of consistence and patience. That's especially hard when they're so cute! We don't want him to jump up on us while we're sitting at our desks because then he'll jump up when we're at the table. But when he stands against the bathroom counter and looks at himself in the mirror, it's too funny to stop him!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Corner View : Contrast
I love today's topic from Dana , which is contrasts. I thought it would be easy, but after I started thinking about it, wasn't quite sure! I can't wait to see what everyone else has thought of for this one!
We all know that contrasts are an emphasized difference between two or more things. What can also be neat neat is the contrasts of contrasts.
There are literary contrasts (remember your English lit teachers telling you to compare and contrast ABC to XYZ in your paper?), and there are contrasting ways to even get your lit: a Kindle to read on electronic paper things centuries old, podcast to listen to what's been written, the library to read what's on microfiche, the web to order your hardcopy...
There are color contrasts: black to white, light to dark, bold to subtle. But as with the white post a few weeks back, we know that white paint is the absence of color, but white in chemistry is the combination of all colors.
There are plenty in nature: water to land, sky to ground, night to dark, dead to live, old to young. The old create the young, as when dead leaves get recycled to fertilize the new, or the water that we think is so fresh is hundreds of years old recycled through the rain, ground, oceans, and into our homes.
There are contrasts in people: kind to witchy, funny to dull, happy to sad, sick to well, Mother Theresa to Madoff, lazy to industrious, tall to short. The differences here go on and on!
To see how others from around the world define their differences, check out:
We all know that contrasts are an emphasized difference between two or more things. What can also be neat neat is the contrasts of contrasts.
There are literary contrasts (remember your English lit teachers telling you to compare and contrast ABC to XYZ in your paper?), and there are contrasting ways to even get your lit: a Kindle to read on electronic paper things centuries old, podcast to listen to what's been written, the library to read what's on microfiche, the web to order your hardcopy...
There are color contrasts: black to white, light to dark, bold to subtle. But as with the white post a few weeks back, we know that white paint is the absence of color, but white in chemistry is the combination of all colors.
There are plenty in nature: water to land, sky to ground, night to dark, dead to live, old to young. The old create the young, as when dead leaves get recycled to fertilize the new, or the water that we think is so fresh is hundreds of years old recycled through the rain, ground, oceans, and into our homes.
There are contrasts in people: kind to witchy, funny to dull, happy to sad, sick to well, Mother Theresa to Madoff, lazy to industrious, tall to short. The differences here go on and on!
To see how others from around the world define their differences, check out:
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
All Hallow's Eve
For Halloween this year, we dressed up as possibly the most fitting costumes for business students: Lumbergh and 15 pieces of flair. Note my husband's costume wouldn't be complete without the Initech mug! You can see one half of a tennis couple behind me, and Buzz Lightyear behind the UPS guy. Zach Morris' costume also had a large phone to go with it.
The best part is that the night started at about 5 for everyone (~7 for us) and we got home and to bed at a decent hour!!
Office Space amusement, in case you haven't seen it in a while.
The best part is that the night started at about 5 for everyone (~7 for us) and we got home and to bed at a decent hour!!Office Space amusement, in case you haven't seen it in a while.
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