I love to cook almost as much as I love to eat! What I do not love is trying to figure out what to make for dinner. In my household, trying to figure out what to make goes something like this...
"What do you want for dinner?"
"I don't know; what do you want?"
"I don't know...that's why I'm asking you!"
"Well, what are you in the mood for?"
"I really don't care...anything is fine..."
I have yet to find the recipe for "Anything" :-P (and I have a lot of recipes!) Do you ever feel like you have eaten "that" a lot lately? I know I do... While basking in the light of my refrigerator and freezer like some sun-worshiping beach goddess, I am mentally checking off all of the things I have compared to all of the things I *could* make. More often then not I end up shutting the doors disgusted with the uninspiring list of options.
I know there are tons of food blogs, websites, and on and on out there for people like me, but don't you have to have some sort of idea of what you're looking for in the first place? I usually end up hungry and frustrated when trying to navigate all of the food pages out in www land! So where do you go? Is there some place where you can say "I have <blank> and <blank>...what can I make?" I am sure there is; I just haven't found it.
So, the question remains...what is for dinner?
11.10.12
8.10.12
The light at the end of the tunnel!
I started this blog as a way to get things off of my mind, but unfortunately, I have been so busy with school and life in general that I have had very little time to get anything off my mind! As a result, I am sitting here with an over-full brain and a bad headache.
We are entering the final week of the Fall I school term. I *might* have bitten off more than I could realistically chew this term. My classes have been very time-consuming and taxing. "Well, stupid...you're in college!", you might be saying. Yes, I know - I should expect to be challenged. After all, what good is any education if you don't learn anything, right?
Actually, this whole blog thing stemmed from being in a really difficult (for me) English writing class; I was feeling quite stifled and my fingers were itching to type all sorts of random, sassy things that would have ensured a reward of a big fat 'F' for the term. Writing essays based on essays in our textbook is not very exciting stuff, let me assure you! Honestly, I think the textbook authors went and found the most obscure, boring essays they could - in fact, I think "obscure", "boring", and "difficult to read" were required elements in order to be considered for inclusion into our textbook!
In case you haven't picked up on it yet, I struggled with this class. Ultimately, now that I am nearing completion, though, I have developed a new appreciation for the goals and core learning outcomes of this writing course. This appreciation does not mean that I want to take a bunch of other classes like it, and I am going to study like the dickens so I don't have to worry about repeating EN106, but all in all, it really wasn't as bad as I made it out to be in my mind. Amazing thing, that brain of ours...it can make a pebble feel like a 1/2 ton rock, and make the task of reading a simple essay feel like wading through War and Peace.
Don't even get me started on my Management class (I'll do that all on my own)! I think my favorite saying in reference to this class was, "She (meaning my instructor) hates me!" Does she really hate me? Probably not... She's been teaching for ages, and I am sure that once she finishes grading my final assignment, I will instantly leave her memory. Is she a good instructor? Yes, there is no doubt she knows her stuff. So why do I think she hates me? We had a little run-in during Week 2. Long story short, she approved my research paper topic in an email, and then did not approve it in the classroom. Don't tell anyone, but I got mad enough (and stressed enough) to leak out a few tears over this. This paper, which is worth 20% of our grade, was supposed to be about a business or organization that we had first-hand knowledge of. Because of my limited work experience in larger organizations, I ended up choosing the last company I worked for (which is no longer in business). Let me make this clear...I was a manager there! I could easily apply the principles of management to my experience there! Anyway, I ended up having to write about my husband's last squadron. Guess who has never been in the Air Force - yours truly... I have no first-hand knowledge of the squadron or general Air Force functions/structure. That paper was a NIGHTMARE!!
So now that I have spent multiple paragraphs ranting and whining to you all, let me share with you some of the positive things that have come out of Fall I. First, I started this blog because of one of my classes. Second, I have a much better appreciation for academic writing (but I'm still going to avoid it like the plague). Third, I learned a lot about the Air Force, (probably more than I'll ever need to know), which may come in handy when making small-talk at the next Air Force function that I have to attend. Finally, I learned that homework gets done a lot faster when you don't keep stopping to cuss and whine!
Until next time...
We are entering the final week of the Fall I school term. I *might* have bitten off more than I could realistically chew this term. My classes have been very time-consuming and taxing. "Well, stupid...you're in college!", you might be saying. Yes, I know - I should expect to be challenged. After all, what good is any education if you don't learn anything, right?
Actually, this whole blog thing stemmed from being in a really difficult (for me) English writing class; I was feeling quite stifled and my fingers were itching to type all sorts of random, sassy things that would have ensured a reward of a big fat 'F' for the term. Writing essays based on essays in our textbook is not very exciting stuff, let me assure you! Honestly, I think the textbook authors went and found the most obscure, boring essays they could - in fact, I think "obscure", "boring", and "difficult to read" were required elements in order to be considered for inclusion into our textbook!
In case you haven't picked up on it yet, I struggled with this class. Ultimately, now that I am nearing completion, though, I have developed a new appreciation for the goals and core learning outcomes of this writing course. This appreciation does not mean that I want to take a bunch of other classes like it, and I am going to study like the dickens so I don't have to worry about repeating EN106, but all in all, it really wasn't as bad as I made it out to be in my mind. Amazing thing, that brain of ours...it can make a pebble feel like a 1/2 ton rock, and make the task of reading a simple essay feel like wading through War and Peace.
Don't even get me started on my Management class (I'll do that all on my own)! I think my favorite saying in reference to this class was, "She (meaning my instructor) hates me!" Does she really hate me? Probably not... She's been teaching for ages, and I am sure that once she finishes grading my final assignment, I will instantly leave her memory. Is she a good instructor? Yes, there is no doubt she knows her stuff. So why do I think she hates me? We had a little run-in during Week 2. Long story short, she approved my research paper topic in an email, and then did not approve it in the classroom. Don't tell anyone, but I got mad enough (and stressed enough) to leak out a few tears over this. This paper, which is worth 20% of our grade, was supposed to be about a business or organization that we had first-hand knowledge of. Because of my limited work experience in larger organizations, I ended up choosing the last company I worked for (which is no longer in business). Let me make this clear...I was a manager there! I could easily apply the principles of management to my experience there! Anyway, I ended up having to write about my husband's last squadron. Guess who has never been in the Air Force - yours truly... I have no first-hand knowledge of the squadron or general Air Force functions/structure. That paper was a NIGHTMARE!!
So now that I have spent multiple paragraphs ranting and whining to you all, let me share with you some of the positive things that have come out of Fall I. First, I started this blog because of one of my classes. Second, I have a much better appreciation for academic writing (but I'm still going to avoid it like the plague). Third, I learned a lot about the Air Force, (probably more than I'll ever need to know), which may come in handy when making small-talk at the next Air Force function that I have to attend. Finally, I learned that homework gets done a lot faster when you don't keep stopping to cuss and whine!
Until next time...
21.9.12
Awww - it's a blog of my very own!
Hello out there in Blogger-land! Welcome to my first attempt at blogging. I know it's been around for eons, and you would think that with my penchant for all things new and shiny, I would have jumped on this a long time ago. The truth is, though, I just realized recently that I *might* have some things of interest to share with other people (maybe not, but hey - it's what I tell myself when I'm having one of those days).
I guess we should start things off with a little bit about me, and a little bit about this blog. I am 37 years old, and currently a full-time college student. My spouse has been in the Air Force for 14 years. We have been together for about 8 of those 14 years (sometimes it feels closer to 40). He has a daughter who stays with us part-time (very awesome girl!), and we have two dogs that I am sure I will blog about from time to time. Laila is a four-year-old Boxer, and Vivaldi (Vivvi) is a one-year-old Schnorkie rescue. Yeah, there's a reason why you don't see a ton of Schnorkies for sale - it's because I don't think that breed was ever supposed to happen! She has a face that only a mother (and father) could love, but she is all heart and personality so, over time, she definitely grows on all of those around her. Oh, and a fish...we have a fish named Bam-Bam of the Oscar variety. We had a Pebbles, too, up until about a month ago when she decided life in the tank was too tough and flipped out of the top, plummeting to a tragic death on the hardwood floor below. Thankfully we noticed she was missing, and Donnie located her behind the tank
before she started to stink.
So that's the very basic information on my life - as we move along I will blog about some of my interests, thoughts, and hobbies, and you will get to know me a little bit better. Why did I start this blog? Well...my head has been full of things that I *want* to say, but I never do and it's starting to interfere with my ability to think clearly about important things like school...and dinner... Maybe if I start a blog it will help me de-clutter my brain. Right now I am a thought-hoarder, and it's starting to get a little crazy up in there.
There you have it - I'm using a blog as a mind-vacuum/dust mop...this should be interesting...
I guess we should start things off with a little bit about me, and a little bit about this blog. I am 37 years old, and currently a full-time college student. My spouse has been in the Air Force for 14 years. We have been together for about 8 of those 14 years (sometimes it feels closer to 40). He has a daughter who stays with us part-time (very awesome girl!), and we have two dogs that I am sure I will blog about from time to time. Laila is a four-year-old Boxer, and Vivaldi (Vivvi) is a one-year-old Schnorkie rescue. Yeah, there's a reason why you don't see a ton of Schnorkies for sale - it's because I don't think that breed was ever supposed to happen! She has a face that only a mother (and father) could love, but she is all heart and personality so, over time, she definitely grows on all of those around her. Oh, and a fish...we have a fish named Bam-Bam of the Oscar variety. We had a Pebbles, too, up until about a month ago when she decided life in the tank was too tough and flipped out of the top, plummeting to a tragic death on the hardwood floor below. Thankfully we noticed she was missing, and Donnie located her behind the tank
before she started to stink.
So that's the very basic information on my life - as we move along I will blog about some of my interests, thoughts, and hobbies, and you will get to know me a little bit better. Why did I start this blog? Well...my head has been full of things that I *want* to say, but I never do and it's starting to interfere with my ability to think clearly about important things like school...and dinner... Maybe if I start a blog it will help me de-clutter my brain. Right now I am a thought-hoarder, and it's starting to get a little crazy up in there.
There you have it - I'm using a blog as a mind-vacuum/dust mop...this should be interesting...
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