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| When making baked chicken I suggest to use Jiffy cornbread mix instead of flour cause it tastes better and creates a "crust" that is less fried tasting. Use ranch, or some other favorite dressing, to coat the chicken before applying the mix. Helps keep it on while cooking. And I've still got to figure out just how much broth to use in the bottom of the pan to keep the chicken tender and juicy. Time before, too little. This time, too much. Made broccoli and buttered pasta to round off my meal today. It was good. I appreciate that I can cook without a recipe and that I can create whatever it is I want from just some simple ingredients around the house. Just needed to buy the broccoli from the market down the street. Got some sprouts and cabbage too. Might make a veggie pasta tomorrow. Throw in the spinach along with the others I got today. And with that, and the left over chicken, I should be ok for the rest of the week. ...I think I might need to live alone for awhile when I move next. I take better care of myself. | ||||||||||
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January 1st, 2009
satisfiedDecember 4th, 2008
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| And the coworker I thought to be least likely to list an artist wound up listing de la Tour. I was very impressed and we proceeded to discuss art in abundance. Apparently the Baroque era is what she was interested most in with art. Very nice. And whilst we were talking about art, another coworker brought up that Dali and Frida Kahlo are her favorites...and she listed so on her Secret Santa form. So, yay! for the girls getting artists listed. I think Andy Warhol was the only one listed by a guy other than Bob Ross. And? After discussing art with the only other girls in the warehouse, me and J (the Baroque lover) discussed historical literature. That was a nice surprise. Kind of a breath of fresh air too. I'd been afraid that no one read anymore...outside of working at a bookstore and therefore being naturally inclined. It was refreshing to talk art and literature. And kinda shocking with someone who has a...somewhat sullied reputation at work. Not that I care about that. But I've seen her get distracted by her shadow before. And she was distracted for awhile...she couldn't seem to figure out why there was a bump coming out of her head in her shadow...it was her ponytail. But! Art! Literature! *evil maniacal laughter* I might be able to get her to read things I like and we can talk about it. She even said she was going to an art opening this Friday night. That, my friends, is unexpected. And awesome. Hm...I'm sure there was more, but I'm tired. Got a headache when the light was on earlier and now its just annoying. Later. | ||||||||||
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surprisedDecember 1st, 2008
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| It's snowing! It's sticking! Went out with Becca to take out the trash and as I'm walking and talking I'm looking at the ground thinking, "Is that sand all over the ground...? Why would sand be everywhere??" As I'm walking back I realize it was SNOW! It's amazing and great...and I could really appreciate it if the wind weren't blowing so hard. But still! SNOW! | ||||||||||
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giddyAugust 7th, 2008
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| I'm feeling super guilty that Grayson isn't happy. I try to make myself better by telling myself she would've never made the trip. Drugged or not. She only wants to curl in my lap when I drive. And then I think, even though it's really cool that she noses up to the phone whenever I call and Mom holds up the phone to her, I think...is that just making her separation worse?? But I don't want her to forget me. But that's selfish. She deserves to be happy at Mom's... *sigh* Oh, well... Whatever... Interviews today, turning one down tomorrow. Waiting for another to call. I'll probably be pulling two jobs again. But two part time ones. Not two full time ones...or one full time and one part time. I'm shooting for 60-65 hours a week. That should be ok. And one is management. Plus, I live around the corner from both, and they're in the same mall...so...yeah. S'ok. Plus, I've recently discovered that I feel the need to spoil Fanny. Got an interior duster and a sunshade to protect his insides. Damn...I should go. Interview tomorrow that I'll be going to (to turn down the job) will be at 11am. | ||||||||||
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guiltyAugust 4th, 2008
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| Today has been all sorts of productive. Got two interviews out of the way at Spencers (waiting for the DM to call), got a call back and interview set up with Best Buy for Wednesday, and an application turned into Barnes & Noble. Spencers will most likely come through, but I want another part time job on top cause I've already been told I'll get 30hrs at most outside of Halloween. From what I remember the company doesn't pay much though. Which is cool. But money wise, Lord Fanny is an expensive girl to keep, I'll need the extra money. Plus rent is 100 bucks more each month, so I'll be stretched pretty damn thin. Luckily Fanny doesn't take much gas to keep him going and everything is in walking distance to begin with. Gas is cheap. And all potential jobs are fairly close to one another. I talk about you guys. A LOT. A ridiculous amount actually. Missing you all so damn hard right now. Got to talk with sis on the phone last night. That made me all sorts of happy and sad all at once. More happy, of course. Other sis needs to call... Becca got a snake. Ball python. All growed up already. Hand raised. She's adjusting to her aquarium for now. Her name is Lyra Martel Silvertongue. If you can guess the source of the name(s) major kudos to you. She pushed her log up against her heating pad herself today, so I think it might be getting to cold in the morning for her. Might need a heat lamp sooner than we thought. Figured we'd be safe till winter showed it's face round here. Friends I've met are good people. Haven't met them all yet. Might not. But for now I'm content to be kinda lazy. Biggest issue for now is that I can't use my comp (am currently on Becca's) on campus cause apparently there isn't a bit of legally registered software on my cousins laptop. And they have Big Brother watching all that you do on their WiFi...which is all you can connect to on campus grounds. Seeing as my comp isn't the most legit of systems, they won't let me connect to their internets. No biggie. Just means I walk about a mile downtown to a coffeeshop or something and hook up there outside of campus rules. And there's one shop I'll probably spend most of my internet time at cause of the awesome coffee they have. It's called, "Blind Dave's Mocha" and is made with chocolate ice-cream and therefore awesome. Plus it's name is Dave and that amuses me. ...Alright. I should go now. I've got to run down the street for a couple of things. Later. | ||||||||||
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mellowJuly 30th, 2008
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| First off, the parties were the awesome. Getting to see everyone before I left was great. Second, Dark Knight is awesome. Bale needs to find a pitch for his Batman voice that he can carry for a long time so that you can't tell that his voice is giving out in certain scenes. Ledger...awesome. Too bad it'll be too hard to replace that act. Means we might not get a good Harlequin cause she won't have her Joker. Ah, well. Maybe this director will give us a good Freeze and Ivy...And no matter what Carlos says, I still like Carey as the Riddler. Anyways, missing everyone already. Couple songs kinda make me want to come back or take you guys with me or something. But then I think, 10 months and then off to Austin. I can deal. Austin makes for a better roadtrip, too. Finally named my car. Even though I didn't really want to, the name seemed to fit so perfectly that I couldn't help jumping on the lameass bandwagon of car naming. The name?? The Pretentious Lord Fanny (the tranny) aka Lord Fanny...for short Why?? Cause I found myself calling it both a girl and a boy, David took my car from the front and from behind, which led to the Lord Fanny the tranny allusion. And since I put my apple stickers from my iPod on my windows so that I could be pretentious like Dwayne, my car became, "The Pretentious Lord Fanny (the tranny)". And I love the name so much I'm keeping it. Yay! Well, took off yesterday from Houston about 1pm and drove to about Marshall before I filled up cause I was low to begin with. Made it all the way to Little Rock before I needed to gas up again. Great gas mileage. Love Lord fanny, she does me right. Then it was only two hours into Memphis. Crossed the M bridge about 10:45pm or so. Lost my bearings in Downtown so we checked into a hotel off of Union. Today we went by my old elementary, old houses we lived in, dropped by Nadine's Grandma's, but she wasn't home. We're going to go see Dark Knight at 5pm at a cheap theatre we used to always go to. Then across the freeway to the drive-in to see Hellboy II. Miss going to drive in theatres. Glad I get to take her to one. She'll love it. Other than that, just going to spend the day chillaxing. Yes. Chillax. I took it there. So?? Tomorrow we'll head out kinda early to make it into IN before the apartments close at 6pm so that we can get our keys and unpack. I'll be glad to have Lord Fanny clean again. He's packed full at the moment. Hm...miss you guys. I will think of you often. I can't promise loads of texts...at least not yet. I'm going to watch my budget then try to get my own plan so that I have less minutes, but unlimited texts or something. Carlos, I'm sorry. I thought you said on the phone the other night when I talked to you at Borders that you didn't want to get together the next morning. I'm sorry. Really, I am. I'll try to update more than I had recently...but I'd been so busy. Didn't even pack everything I should have. Oh, well...I can deal. No biggie. Whatev. Ok, going to go now. Think I'm going to make sure the comp that my Aunt gave me actually works...I got a dead plug earlier so I'm going to go use the one that actually works. Later. | ||||||||||||
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calmJuly 17th, 2008
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| I feel like I'm in that South Park episode where Cartman "needs more time" after he drank Kenny's ashes. "What's the problem, doctor?" "You're son is running out of time." "What do you mean?" "It's time...he's running out of it." "So, what does he need?" "He needs more time." Yeah...That's about how I feel. I think I've come up with a solution to my moving issue. Grayson is still in the air though...damn. I really, truly don't want to put her up in a shelter. She'll either get bought or put down and I can't deal with that. Packing, moving, driving, bills, job... I think I want to be back in Houston June 1st...ish. In time for next Kon and my Mom's birthday and Nadine's graduation. And to pick up my stuff so that I can move it to my final destination. I'm going to leave much of my stuff with my Mom. I think...Only going to take vanity, table, and both little dressers. And bed. That just leaves boxes of clothes I know I'll wear/need. And some reading material. All DVDs/CDs of course are going with me. The rest I'll leave with my Mom back in my room...or Nadine's cause apparently she might be turning my room into a gym. That bites a little. Just means I need to pack up all my art off the walls too. Get everything ready for the next big move where it'll all end up. No need taking it all to IN, right? Especially since I don't have a clue who's bringing my stuff, or how. I just need to get a Uhaul come the 25-26th or something to get all my stuff back to my Mom's...that's kinda pain in the ass to use her as storage. But it's only for 10 months and I'll be back for it to take it for good. Plus, I only trust it at my Mom's. Anyways, good stuff, yeah?? Yesterday was great. Work was kinda tiring but that's to be expected. Saw Amy for awhile before both of our schedules took us separate ways. Dinner was great. Probably the last time I'll see them all at the same time. Even though I wanted to leave so damn bad, now I'm trying to convince myself that 10 months isn't that long and I'll be right back in Texas. Close enough to Mom, Dallas, and Nessa if she chooses to move back. Plus, according to a map I was looking at, it's relatively safe come the next few years. Just saying... Damn...I should really get back to packing...Plus I need sleep today. Tomorrow is a 12 hour shift. Yay... | ||||||||||||
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anxiousJuly 15th, 2008
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| Wednesday Job #1: 6am-1:30pm Thursday Job #1: 6am-10am Friday Job #1: 6am-4pm Saturday Job #1: 6am-10am Job #2: 12pm-9pm I've actually got a day off. Kinda...not both jobs. Just morning one. Out by 10am. Thursday. If I need to take Carlos to work that day I'll be in town and totally up for fun shit and distractions. If not, then off to my room to make a dent in my packing. Wednesday, tomorrow, is of course taken due to dinner plans. Friday is pakcing. Saturday is working. Not sure what my last week looks like yet. Not posted at either job...Odd for first job. Not so much second. ...Just a little over a week now. Scary. Not sure what's gonna happen. I'm looking forward to the move. But I think I'm looking forward to coming back afterwards more. And I will never say that again, and will forever deny it henceforth. 1) Gotta get Uhaul to take most of my stuff to Mom's (<---Ouch. Money is gonna hurt) 2) Finish packing 3) Find a (temporary) place for Grayson 4) Figure out exactly what is happening to my stuff 5) Get paid #3 makes me feel all sorts of sad, depressed, lonely, guilty...But, it'll only be for a year. Not even that long. I mean, once school is out next summer or whatever, we're leaving again. Then to Austin. Where the next apartment -WILL- be pet friendly. I just loves her so much...she's my lil' Grayson. So cute. | ||||||||||
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rushedJuly 13th, 2008
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| ...Shit. Can't read the Invisibles tonight. Not after all that. Too freaked out. Too paranoid. Feel someone is watching me. Wish Ashley had stayed home tonight. Hell, wish I had a way to contact her. See if she's freaked out too. That'd at least make me feel better. Wow, huh Mom? Talk about weird... I think I'm going to go take a hot shower, put on my ipod, and meditate a bit. See what we can see. Probably read some cards too... Shit...freaked out. If I don't pick up my phone for awhile, don't be surprised. ...Shit, shit. Phone just started ringing...Ok. Going now. Too freaked out. Paranoia, paranoia, someones watching me. ...night. | ||||||||||
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curiousJuly 7th, 2008
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| Just wanted to say that I need to retract any previous invitations I gave out for a going away party I wanted to have. With both jobs again and so very little time left before the move, I don't know when I'd even have the chance to breathe let alone plan a party for myself all selfishlike. Shit...haven't even started to pack yet. I'm so screwed on time, it feels like...Oh, well. It'll get done. Somehow. I could post about quite a bit, actually...But, don't feel like it just yet. Too tired. Will tomorrow...maybe. Have off both jobs. So yay....will be sleeping in. Even if sleeping late means till about 8-9am...It's not 5am and that's what counts. | ||||||||||
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