thursday morning

currently listening to:



and drinking mate


and it is raining.
finally.

WHAT A GREAT MORNING!!!!!
:)

lost.

lost is over and i don't want to talk about it.*




*come find me when i have finished crying.

pigs can fly.

my office window opens.
only took me 14 months.


i wore heels.

vegan chickpea & chorizo & spinach bowl

adapted from this new york times recipe

-olive oil

-2 cups cooked chickpeas [canned is great]

-salt & black pepper

-4 oz. soy chorizo

-few handfuls of spinach [baby, or roughly chopped regular spinach] [recipe calls for 1/2 lb - i just didn't have that much around :)]

-1/4 cup sherry [i do not have sherry. i substituted with: 1/8 cup rice vinegar + 1/8 cup water + 1/2 tablespoon sugar]

1. heat a few tablespoons of oil over medium/high in pan. add chickpeas [make sure they are fairly dry] in one layer so that they all touch the pan. sprinkle with salt & pepper. reduce heat to medium and cook for about 10 minutes or so until chickpeas begin to brown

2. add chorizo and cook for another 6-8 minutes until chickpeas start to crisp up a bit

3. remove chickpea/chorizo mixture from pan and set aside. add a bit more oil - when hot, add in spinach and sherry [or substitute]

4. cook over medium/low until spinach is very soft and all of liquid has evaporated

5. add chickpea/chorizo mixture to pan and mix together.

6. EAT!!! yes, that's it!
[nytimes recipe says to sprinkle with breadcrumbs and place in broiler briefly, but, eh, probably not necessary.]


[what it should, and surprisingly DOES, look like]

k'naan

i just bought a hip hop album?




[click album cover to purchase/take a listen. in that order.]

mama mia's meatballz

i made meatballs last night.
i had a craving.
i indulged.

meatballs!

mom gave me this recipe forever ago and i had yet to use it.
they are easy as pie. er, meatballs?

1 lb chopped meat
1 egg
1/2 diced onion [1 whole onion, if on the smaller side]
handful of breadcrumbs
sprinkling of parmesan cheese
2 T parsley [i made that measurement up. just sprinkle til you're happy]
a few dashes of garlic powder
salt/pepper to taste

[really, the important thing to remember with these things is that once they are smothered in sauce and sitting atop a nice plate of noodles, they are going to be delicious. so feel free to be liberal in your preparation - i didn't quite realize how much i was until i realized just a moment ago that i really had no idea how much of each ingredient i had put in]

-in a bowl, mix all of the ingredients together. with your hands.
-form into balls.
-in a large pan over low/medium heat, fry those suckers up! [if you are using 90% or higher leanness, you may need a bit of oil in the pan. if using a fattier meat, you can just throw them right into the pan]
-and really, that's it. cover the pan if you want 'em to cook a little faster. they'll brown when they are ready. then i like to put them into the sauce pan to keep them warm while the pasta is finishing up. MMM!!

mama mia! that's a speecey spicey meata balla!!

which 30 seconds?

i would like to meet the person who decides which 30 seconds of each song goes up on itunes.

labels.

snippet of an online conversation.

though it may as well be a transcription of an actual conversation, that's how translatable this is to words.
good work, friend. you use your internet communication skills WELL.

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he might be the fastest boyfriend i've ever made

and i have never used that term with him before

anddddddd thats awkward

ahaha

THESIS

NO, I DID NOT WRITE ANOTHER ONE.
BUT KRISTINA DID.
AND SHE IS DONE!!!
YAYYY!!!!

ella ella ay ay ay

i don't care if you're trying to keep the sun off of you.

if it's 75 degrees and sunny and you are walking around with an umbrella, you still look stupid.

on saturday

i gave monique a bath.
and detailed the heck out of her, inside and out.
she is one shiny motha.

like i said

taurus to the bone.

i am drinking a 40.

and being stubborn.

an intoxicated ox is never a good thing.

do you not see the headphones in my ears?

WHY DO YOU ONLY TALK TO ME WHEN I AM TRYING TO WATCH THE BIGGEST LOSER???
AHHHHH!!!!

wetsuit

have you ever tried on a wetsuit?

it is ANNOYING.
firstly, they're supposed to be skin tight, so. imagine trying to fit another set of skin over the one you already have.
so you get your legs in. then you've gotta get your arms in. make sure not to pull them out of their sockets.
after you have successfully gotten this far, you must zip up.
did i mention the zipper was in the back?
and that there is a long string attached to the zipper so you can pull it over your shoulder and up behind your head and zip up?
and that it takes me about 5 minutes to do this?
and at this point i am about to have a stroke and die because i am SO HOT?

great.
then there's getting it off.
sounds easy.
isn't.
it's just as tight. and the only real way to get it off is to rip it off so that the suit ends up inside out. so then you have to pull the arms and legs back through before putting it back on the hanger.

that one didn't feel right? here, just try a second one on.

NOT.

the sweat that you have undoubtedly released from your pores during trial #1 will make #2 nearly IMPOSSIBLE. putting on a wetsuit while already wet does not work. i repeat: DOES. NOT. WORK.
at the end of this attempt i was seriously about to keel over. my face was bright red and i had to sit down and take a breather.

gosh, i can't wait until i find one. i don't know how much more of this i can bear.

a spoonful of sugar

is what mrs. weckesser used to give me when i had the hiccups.
i like to pretend it worked.

i have had the hiccups 3 times today.
WHY?
they are so annoying.
there is nothing gratifying about them.
at least with sneezing attacks [had one this morning in the car. slightly terrifying whilst driving around corners] there's a finality to it. aCHOO. aCHOOOOO!! you feel like you're accomplishing something. [?]
but with hiccups. gosh. you just sound stupid. and they're annoying. and you never have any idea when they will go away.
and they are embarrassing. especially when you yawn and a hiccup decides to come right at that moment and so a slightly non-human noise escapes your mouth and your boss is sitting in the other room.

blinded

i usually don't shut my shades at work until around 3:30 or so, when the sunlight becomes just a bit much for my delicate baby blues.

but today there is a large black suv outside of my window and the sun is reflecting off of the upper right hand corner of its windshield [did not think about the literal breakdown of this word until just this moment] right INTO MY EYES. and it is only 2:40. i should have another 50 minutes of open window at LEAST.

also, i wish my right ear didn't hurt when i put my awesome earrings in.