Fat and Happy

I made it home!! I actually got the day off and made it home for our new years party!!!  I honest to god didn't think i was going to be able to get home, but i did.  Thank you God!!!!  So yeah we had a lot of fun, we watched the gods must be crazy, which is an epic film, and after i fell asleep they watched star wars episode 2 and one of the pink panther movies, which are also incredibly epic.

We have these tournaments that everybody plays, stratego, golf (the card game), chess, some racing game on the ps2 and Chinese checkers...i didn't have time to finish all my tournaments, but i didn't do that bad either...i won more than i lost, which is always a plus...  And it was great to see everybody again...its been like almost three months since I've been over there.  What really made me summon the courage to ask for the day off was my sweet little sister who called me three times in a row and left her name and number every time, begging me to come over and spend new years with her...i'd have been a downright evil turd if i wouldn't have at least tried to get the day off after that.

But other than that, nothing new has happened...well i bought The Witcher, and am about to play it whenever it's 8.5 gigs finish installing...which at this rate will be sometime next year...haha

New Years!!

New Years is fast approaching!!  I'm so excited!  and a little depressed because my family is having our annual party tomorrow night and i don't think i'm going to be able to make it...the first year ever that i'm not able to make it :(  I'm going to ask my boss tomorrow if I can get Thursday off...but i'm kinda doubting it especially since it's so last minute.

Hmph.  life can be so hardcore annoying sometimes.  Do we make it more annoying then it has to be?  Do i think too much? I dunno...see the more i think about something the more complicated it gets in my head until i get a headache and im all confused and i have to hack the heads off of some zombies to think straight again.  But i still haven't made any progress at all in figuring out what i have to do.  Or is it that i know what i have to do im just so desperate to find a way around the truth that i'm not willing to admit it's staring me in the face?  Ahhh waffles what am i gonna do....

I feel like writing...

I have this desire to write on one of my many unfinished stories today...I get this urge every once and awhile and typically what happens is I spend all the free time i have to write skimming over what I've already written in all of my many unfinished novels in an attempt to decide which one to add on to...and I never actually get around to writing anything.

Or sometimes I just start a completely new one, or I'll spend hours planning in my head one technical aspect of a plot that I can't figure out and then later ditch anyways...but heck, it's fun!  So now I just have to decide which story I'm going to add on to...I'm thinking maybe the one about the girl who gets her soul separated from her body...that's one of my favorites right now.

I watched Prince of Persia last night, I've been meaning to see that movie since before it came out but just never got around to it.  I've played the awesome old win3.1 games though, so I figured it was kind of a moral obligation to watch the movie.

I had an Italian sausage and pickles and ketchup and mustard and potato salad and root beer for breakfast...it's one of my fav breakfasts...next to a humongous bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and and even bigger bowl of Raisin Nut Bran and a cup of chocolate milk...mmmmm....now I'm hungry again...dang it....well better go eat, only I think we're out of milk...so I'll have to have my cereal dry...again...bleh...

Yay for weekends!!

I'm very happy right now.  Skyrim is coming out, christmas is over, everyone has gone home, I'm going to church tomorrow, i'm spending the rest of tomorrow with someone i kind of like, my hair is curly, i figured out oblivion's fps problem and i don't have to work until Monday at 4!!! yahooo!!! lycos!!!!  google!!!!

So anyways other than those happy little things i'm basically really tired.  I got this book from Barnes and noble the other day during break at work called the ragamuffin gospel...it's a really good book but it's pretty hard for me to read because it's about grace and how the very definition of grace itself suggests the fact that it is given to those who do not deserve it.  And i'm a god helps those who help themselves sort of person, so even though i know that what Manning is saying is correct about the definition of grace, it's hard for me to accept...

happy holidays... or whatever

Sigh.  There are too many people over.  I'm hiding in a corner of my room all curled up in a blanket trying to sink into my pc but ppl are still finding me.  What am I gonna do...how am i gonna survive....what is an antisocial myopic person supposed to do when ppl she does not want to spend her Friday night with invade her house???  Hide I guess, at least thats my answer to the problem...and sleep

So yeah, True Grit was a good movie, i'm gonna go see it again prob with someone or other...I liked the story and it didn't have any sex scenes...

Oh and someone special has my thanks for making my life a little happier and sending me into a chocolate inspired high/coma. ;)

SKYRIM!!!!

I have been waiting years for this news.  Yes, YEARS my friend.  I have climbed the steep frigid mountains of Northern Tamriel, I have waded through the swamps surrounding Leyawiin,   I've wandered the impressive, Talos Plaza, staring off into the watery mists surrounding it.  I've fought Gaurs, I've ridden Gaurs.  I've faught pirates, I've saved my sister, I've hunted evil mages, and been chased by Psychic gaurds across the Niben Bay.  I've modded until my computer literally rolled over and died on me....and now !!! after 7 long years... i have news for you!!   Skyrim, the next installment in the elder scrolls series has a release date!!!! 11.11.11 and yeah, it was pre-ordered a loooooong time ago...i actually took a break today so i could run to gamestop and put my 5$ down....but yeah so im excited.

Im gonna go see True Grit now.  A friend at school recommended it, something about a girl revenging her pops death interesting...better than the crappy movie i saw the other night...black swan? i think...with natalie portman... major waste of two hours...i still dont know what the point was...but there was a little more of her touchin herself than i wanted to see....blecky blucky blllaaaaa

SNOW

So yeah, it's snowing outside.  a lot.  It wasn't that fun to drive in, but now that I'm home, it sure is pretty to look at, I'm just not looking forward to unburying my little car at 5 in the morning to go to work...ahh well, the price of beauty...

So yeah, awesome weekend.  Went with a friend down to Milwaukee, stopping at this sweet little hotel in downtown Madison on the way.  Definitely somewhere I want to go again.  Then in Milwaukee we went to the domes and i fell on my face trying to nab a cacao pod or bean or whatever they call them.  It was semi-embarrassing, especially since i never managed to get the cacao thingy and got a grass stain on my knee...I bet I'm one of the only people that could manage to get a grass stain on their pants in the middle of winter in MN...  :D

I did get some sort of delicious smelling apple thing though.  I also took a ton of pictures that I had been meaning  to post, but i left my camera/phone at somebody's house last night...darn.

It was a fun weekend, especially since now I don't have to go to school for two weeks and I just checked my grades and I still have a 4.0, (and i learned to dance).  Yippee!!!!

Ugh...just work tomorrow.  I sure hope I can remember how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I have been struggling with that lately for some reason...peanut butter....jelly....bread.....it's just beyond my comprehension!!!!

Final Written Tomorrow!!

Ugh I'm so tired...

But on the bright side our written exam is tomorrow and then I'm Free!!!!  At least from school...for two whole weeks!!! What am I gonna do with myself!?  I know!!  Work extra!!  yay...

I need a mt. dew.

Work was crazy today...phone was ringing practically every two minutes with someone wanting to order, or increase their order or cancel something off their order that was already made...ugh...every time it rang a little piece of me died, thankfully it was a very very little piece of me, or i'd be 100% dead right now.  After everything was all said and done though and the catering was totaled we did 2100+ in catering alone, which is pretty good, if i do say so myself.

The other half of my class did practicals today, i'm still depressed because my arch nemesis beat me...but i've beat him on everything else so far, so i say i'm still in the lead by a lot.  Although actually like half of the class beat my score, so I'm kinda extra depressed, i dont like that very much...Just means i'm gonna have to study harder for the written tomorrow!!  I will not be beaten again!!!

My version of black cherry ice cream, i like making my ice cream the old old fashioned way, by putting it in the freezer and then stirring it every half hour or so with a sturdy fork to keep it creamy.  If it gets chunky you can always throw it into a mixing bowl and beat it until it gets soft and un-lumpy and then freeze it again.

Silent Ninja

Yeah, so I got called a silent ninja today.  TOTALLY made my day  At last!  Someone recognizes my talent and skill.  I'm still hyped. :D

Finals this week...yipes!  Get to make the lamb stew tomorrow for real...hopefully that goes well, as long as i cook the dumb pearl onions right...they don't need sugar, just water and butter...the carrots and turnips are the ones that get glazed with sugar!  And the peas, beans, and potatoes get cooked a l'anglaise.  Remember!

Got my practice tests back, 75%..??  not good enough...study study study....must. ace. final.

House Trained Zombies FTW!!

He's called Fido, he can heel, fetch and deliver the paper.  He's will protect your children from bullies and will never wander off.  And he closely resembles your recently deceased grandfather.  That's right, i have a pet zombie.

So basically if you're not already leaping to netflix or the library or whatever to rent 'Fido,' you totally need too, funniest movie I've seen in a while.  Even better than Warriors Way.  (The clown shot a ninja!!!)

On another note, The lamb stew last night was Delicious! i'm still debating whether it was just wonderfully tender stew meat already, or if the 2.5 hour braising made it melt in the mouth like that.  Either way it was cooked to perfection.  The blanched peas and beans garnish contrasted nicely with the reddish stew liqued as did the addition of pearl onions, cooked a brun in a little hot butter and then thrown into the stew whole.  The precooking removes a lot of that strong onion-y taste and just leaves you with the tender crunch and a mild flavor.  One thing i did learn though...don't try to tourne a onion...it just isn't gonna happen...you can tourne carrots and potatoes all day...but onions...not so much...

A day in December 2010

How unique, i just made a blog.  But i'm blaming its procreation on my bff harry.  She really is the one who put me up to it, like most things.

I thought it would be interesting to chronicle my adventures as I strive to survive through three jobs and full time culinary school.  Sort of like a ongoing last will and testament, only maybe i wont die and then it'll have a happy ending.  That's the goal anyways. :)

So yeah, finals next week, have to get the primal cuts memorized and their common uses for George, bob and Paul. (that's cow, veal and sheep).  We had Jacques, the pig, memorized already for mid-terms.  But that was easier because pigs are smaller and don't have as many primal's as say, a cow.

We got to eat sweat breads on Friday, that was an interesting experience, it looked like a poached brain, and sorta tasted even worse.  Only thing is, i don't think it made me any smarter eating it...but maybe eating brains doesn't make you smarter either, zombies aren't the brightest of gods creatures....