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My Favorite Face

Brit — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:21:03 +0000

One of the last pictures my camera took before it broke. I love this face so much everyday /sappy.

First Full Week

Brit — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:02:04 +0000

This is the fourth of five days in the first full 40 hour week I’ve ever worked. I’m not doing too terrible, I mean, everyone does this, it can’t be that hard, right? I’m not going to lie, I can’t wait to do NOTHING this weekend.

My camera broke last night. Yeah. I’m pretty sad, as you can imagine. So, until it gets fixed/a new one is bought, I’m going to put the 365 project on hold. I could take pictures with my regular point and shoot camera, but the reason I wanted to do the project was so that I could learn more and more about my DSLR. So, yeah, suck.

Weekend in Review

Brit — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:49:36 +0000

Matt and I spent the weekend in Toledo with his parents. It was a tonnnn of fun. I always love going to hang out with Ginny.

We had some AMAZING Japanese food.

Went shopping in a tea shop.

Saw this awesome sculpture in the middle of a parking lot.

And went on a photo safari.

I’ve been ridiculously busy with work and studying for work and catching up on sleep that going into work at 715am everyday is making me lose. I love the job though, right now at least, and that’s the most important thing.

365: Week Two

Brit — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:10:05 +0000

updated daily on my flickr

Number Two

Brit — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:12:50 +0000

This is Abby. She’s the world’s second cutest dog, after Lucy-dog (of course!).

I’m quite inundated with work (and homework, from work! ugh) but I’m hoping to get a lot of picture taking in this weekend and hopefully later this week! But, for now? A well-deserved nap (I’m not used to these long ass days!).

First Day: Down

Brit — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:39:37 +0000

I made it through my first day, and although we didn’t actually eat the dinner I cooked, I baked some manicotti for the freezer (we had another batch of it last night for dinner, two nights in a row is a bit much). I let Matt take me out for dinner tonight to celebrate the new job (I’m not sure how many times we can celebrate it, but it’s so awesome, I’m sure we’ve got at least another one in us).

So far tonight: Luce has had a bath, I’ve baked manicotti, done 2 loads of laundry, taken umpteen pictures around the house for today’s 365 picture, and oh, my ASS is killing me. Yeah, that kind of killing me again. I am NOT impressed.

Ginny’s Hummous

Brit — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:52:24 +0000

I made Ginny’s recipe for hummous today. It’s absolutely fantastic. It’ll be my last batch of hummous for awhile though, as my blender blended it’s last batch of hummous. It was a sad day for about 2 minutes until I realized that means I get to get a new blender (or! maybe a food processor instead). Decisions, decisions. What blender do you use? Would you rather use a food processor?

Ginny’s Hummus

1 cup chick peas, drained
⅓ cup lemon juice
1 tablespoon garlic
⅓ cup tahini
3 tablespoons water
pinch of salt

Drain liquid from can of chick peas. Add water and drain again.

In blender, put lemon juice, garlic, salt, tahini, chick peas and part of water. Blend on low. Stir around with rubber spatula. Blend on medium or high adding water for desired thickness.

At this point, also taste for salt and lemon.

Serve in bowl and garnish with paprika and chopped parsley.

Sweet Potato Mush

Brit — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:13:39 +0000

I tried to make sweet potato fries again today. I’ve never had too much luck with sweet potato fries. They always turn out mushy and well, I love crispy on the outside fries. There’s nothing better than a fry with a crunchy outside and an unbelievably yummy inside that’s just the right amount cooked. I’ve mastered regular baked potato fries. I make them at least once a week, even if they do take at least an hour and a half to make each time. Sweet potato fries have just alluded me for so long. I don’t want to fry them. I want to bake them so I can feel less bad about eating a ridiculous amount of them.

The potatoes I made on Saturday look fantastic, but they were mushy, almost burned and not really appetizing at all.

Ohhhh, and here’s the burned potatoes …

They don’t look half bad, but they’re not what I want. So, my question is: What recipe do you use for crispy sweet potato fries?

My 365 Project: Week 1 (& a half)

Brit — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:46:23 +0000

I started doing a 365 Project where I take a photograph every day for a year on the 10th of February. It’s been 10 days, and for the most part, I’m ridiculously happy with the pictures I’ve taken. A couple of days I’ve felt fairly terrible and have just snapped something quick so that I could go to bed, but other days, I spent hours taking pictures and editing them to find the perfect picture.

Each day for the next week, the pictures (with descriptions) are posted on the 365 Collection on my flickr. I’ll post next week’s pictures on Saturday (hopefully, if everything goes alright).

Something New

Brit — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:58:45 +0000

Monday I start my new job. It’s the first job that I’ll work 40 hours a week. It’s my first real job. I’m scared to death.

The two years I spent as a flight attendant were amazing. It was a job, I just don’t know if I can call it a real job. I sat at home for days on end while “working” waiting to be called. It was awesome at the time, but I don’t get anything done while sitting around the house. Some of the time, I traveled the world; most of the time, I sat on my couch. It was an amazing opportunity, but I didn’t want to be on reserve (the sitting around waiting for a call part) the rest of my life. Getting a schedule to fly was a good 10 years away, probably even more with the merger. The life on reserve combined with the illness, and subsequent surgeries, I had while flying made me stop. I miss it sometimes. I miss traveling most. I’d give quite a bit to go to Amsterdam again.

Anyways, Monday starts my new job. Well, ok, the five weeks of training before I start my new job at the hospital. I’m nervous. I can’t lie. I’ve never had a job that was five days a week, eight hours a day. It’s daunting. How am I going to keep up with the laundry? How am I going to make dinner every night? Am I really going to pack my lunch everyday and not succumb to the crappy hospital cafeteria? I sure as hell hope so.

Matt’s still working from home, so he’ll be a help with the laundry (ok, I’m really hoping on that one). His idea of a cooked meal is a frozen meal (there’s totally nothing wrong with that, but it’s not what I want to eat every night when I get home from work) or a pasta/rice side (again, not what I want to eat every night). I’m really hoping that this will get him to want to cook more, it’s a big wish, but maybe someday it’ll happen.

I know that I can spend a good chunk of time over the weekend preparing and freezing meals, and I know that a sandwich is a perfectly acceptable dinner … but I want to make the big dinners and I don’t want to go out to eat six times a week. I want to be able to make up new recipes. I want to make amazing things. I just don’t know how that all fits in with this new working thing. I know people do it, and they really excel at it. I just don’t know how I’m going to do it. It’s a lot to do, and but if I actually try it can’t be too bad, right?

Pretty much, all I’m going to do this weekend is worry. Awesome.