Photo Flashback

I'm realizing that I've been avoiding my poor blog for a while now and am looking for something that I can do every week (at least) so that I'll post more often. I've found that if I write a little, it leads to most posts. :)

So...Photo Flashback time! I've only had a digital camera for about 5 years and don't yet have a scanner, so I'm currently limited to what I can post, but since I take pictures ALL of the time, I have a number of photos that I can post. So here's number one!

This is from a trip that a group of us took over Thanksgiving 2004. We spent 5 days in Amsterdam, eating pancakes, drinking Heineken, and walking around the city. This photo is from a moment when I was waiting for some friends in the square that was close to home--The Leidseplein. It was nearing Christmas so the lights were up in the trees and there was a list snow/rain falling. It was a nice, quiet moment, just sitting and enjoying the square.

Thursday Dinner

So I’m back on the cooking kick again. I spent a good amount of time earlier this week looking through cookbooks, trying to pick out healthy recipes to try out. After making a (huge) list, I went to the grocery store yesterday and bought all of the ingredients. And…only bought 3 things not on my list!! (pretty good for me, actually. Too bad one of the items was chocolate ice cream pops…)

Last night I made a recipe from my sister, cheesy chicken crescents. No pictures of that one (I forgot) but it turned out pretty well. It’s basically chicken, cheese, and onions rolled into crescent rolls and then covered in a sauce made of cream of chicken soup, milk, and cheese.

Easy peasy!

Tonight was white chicken chili from the Betty Crocker cookbook (page 543). It takes 5 hours in the crock pot and was really easy to put together. I’m not totally sure about whether it’s a repeat or not, but it’s healthy (about 400 calories a serving) and with cheese, it's not bad. Everything's better with cheese.

More dinners to come!!

Things to do When You're Unemployed

Yikes. There's not that many. :)

I'm reminded of a Friends episode where Joey teaches Ross how to spend his unemployed time. They start by crank-calling Chandler at work and when they're done, Joey says something like "and that's Wednesday."

That's kind of how time works when you don't have a job. You spread out what you do over DAYS instead of hours.

Today, my day's accomplishment will be adding a link to Bob's glass shop in my sidebar here. He's been posting and creating new pieces lately so it's worth checking out again. :)

...and that's Friday.

Dreams

I've been off of work for over 4 weeks now and each day is blurring into the next...I can't believe that it's been so long since I wrote about the tub. (it's fixed, by the way)

The highlights of my last week include: cleaning out the family room closet and making a real dinner twice this week. We also found some REALLY YUMMY beans at trader joe's. So much so that Bob actually made them willingly one night! They're thai-flavored and come frozen so they're super-easy to make. Totally a repeat buy.

Trader Joe's is kind of always a highlight for me though. :)

Also, I think I've been watching too much What Not to Wear. I had a dream last night that I was chosen to get the makeover...which was AWESOME. I also knew that it was my sister that nominated me since she hates that I wear black so often. They were super-nice to me but up-close (in my dream), Stacy was OLD and wrinkly and wore too much make up. Which is INSANE because she's so pretty and cute and had great skin. My dream mind was mean to her. Rude.

I think it's because I really need a hair cut and it's pushing me to actually call and make the appointment.

Tub

So our tub's still clogged.

I called the landlord last night and he returned my call today around 11. His parents are now here to try to unclog the beast. I feel bad for them, however, because everything that they're doing, Bob and I already tried. It's just not going anywhere. But, more power to them. Maybe it'll be like the pickle jar--once they try, it'll work (I loosened it for them).

So, I'm sitting here, trying to be out of the way while my landlords parents work on my bathroom.

And of COURSE I have to pee. I may have to go to target just to use their bathrooms! (any reason to head to target...)

What to do with your time off

Day 17 of unemployment (I can't believe it's been that long). Here's my day:

7:30am: Wake up. Putz around the house
8:30-9:30am: Walk the dog, shower, get ready
9:45am: leave for interview
10:30-11:30: Uh...interview
11:30: go home
12:30: go to target to get a plunger and some drano. The tub's stopped up
1:30: eat lunch, try to fix tub
2:00: watch Lost (ahhh!! Love it)
3:00: pay bills
3:30: scrapbook

And the rest of the evening will probably just be TV watching. Today is a pretty productive day. Some days are like this:

11am: wake up
11:30am: walk dog, eat
12-10pm: watch TV

I try not to let that happen though. :) If I have at least one project a day, I'm good. So...crafty fun! Scrapbooking has been going well...I'm into 2005. Hurrah!

Hello Again!

I feel like every time I write up here, I'm apologizing for not writing more. So...sorry. I'll try to do better. :)

I've been officially unemployed for a little over two weeks now and have been amazed how easily my days fill up. I've made felt animals, gone to roller derby, gone to the auto show, and to Trader Vic's (again). During the day, I've gotten just about my fill of HGTV at this point. oof. There's only so much you can watch! :)

I've also had one interview and have another set for tomorrow. Fingers crossed that one of these will work out! Both jobs seem super-interesting and something I'd like to do. In a perfect world, I'd get to choose, but I'd be happy with either.