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While I am in Lorain for the next few day inbetween work I decided it would be smart to transfer all of my mom's recipes to the computer so I have them on the laptop and I can print them out all nice and neat.
Well I couldn't find many that I would actually use but I found the cookbook that my mom adores. I am flipping through the book and thought it was a little silly when i saw a recipe for grilled cheese. Then I turned the page and found one for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Seriously... who cannot figure out a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
*Edited to add
EWWWW WTF? I am not adding american cheese to my french toast or pancakes. I will also not add hotdogs to my pancakes thank you very much.
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| New Apartment is New |
[05 May 2008|12:20am] |
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Sorry so quiet lately. I have been busy busy trying to get things together and moving stuff into my new apartment. Currently I have half of my books, the mattress (but not the boxspring), and all of my Cds and DVD moved, oh and two chairs. I still have the kitchen table, two bookshelves, boxspring, dresser, more books, and exercise machine to move.
Life lessons- A fifty pound box (or more) of books up one flight of stairs is fine. Two oflights of stairs cases heavy breathing. Three flights of stairs makes your muscles twitch.
The first night in the apartment I made macaroni and tuna fish, it seemed appropriatly poor college student, and it was about all I had. Then I got ready to spend my first night alone when Ben happened to call and invited himself over. I said that was fine on the condition he brought me body wash and my spare toothbrush considering I had forgotten mine. I actually slept fine despite some strange noises and in the morning we went to a diner down the street for breakfast.
I am still running around like crazy between finals, putting in job applications, testing for jobs, and everything else. Thursday I should have internet in the apartment and that will be a relief as well. But I am in love with my new apartment, especially the view outside my bedroom window.
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| Bento Stuff Part Two |
[21 Apr 2008|08:34pm] |
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Okay so I am putting this up much later than I expected but that is because I got distracted by the phonecall saying Saturday I will be paying a deposit so I can make bento in my own apartment :) Trying not to get my hopes up too much because things can always happen between now and then but there are at least warm fuzzy feelings right now. But anyway, back to the important thing- bento stuff.
I ordered everything in this picture except the tin of cookie cutters on the far right from Ichiban Kan. I was very impressed with the company. Some things I wanted to order, like egg molds were out of stock, but I kind of expected that. I will just pick them up at a later date.
As you can see I ordered some really random things as most everything is $1.00. Working from left to right;
green bamboo roller
chopsticks
set of 4 silicon hearts- these were thicker than I had guessed
Sanrio bunny bento bag
blue drawstring bento bag
animal silicon cops
food picks- you can't even see them at this angle but they look like the stems of flowers, bones, balloon strings, umbrella bottoms, and rings
yellow and white fork/knife/spoon/chopstick sets
(2) 4 set of 100ml tight containers
round onigiri rice mold
triangle onigiri rice mold
2 yellow 400ml containers w/ snap lid
2 white 400ml containers w/ snap lid
Bear container- I thought that this was just a cover for a triangle shaped onigiri. It is actually a large container that has a 200ml blue bottom with lid that the bear head covers.
firefly chopstick case- this one doesn't want to shut all the way
bunny chopstick case
The green bag is decorated with hedgehogs and has a zipper at the top so I am currently storing all of my stuff in there.
Shipping was fast and affordable for all of the stuff that I ordered. And I was really expecting very dinky things for $1.00, but almost everything was bigger than I had expected, especially the containers.
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| Bento stuff is here! |
[21 Apr 2008|08:34pm] |
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Wheee. Big box of bento stuff (and the other things I ordered) came in the mail today. Unwrapping everything currently because I am like five. Pictures and reviews coming soon.
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| Linkblogging |
[17 Apr 2008|11:01pm] |
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Katie, I saw this and thought of you and the library. I don't think the situation is exactly the same and I wish we knew more local authors though I don't think we have enough to do something like this. But I think a writng club would be a very positive thing and the supplies for a writing club would cost very little.
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[16 Apr 2008|08:39pm] |
Frrom ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ninjatray
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| Poetry |
[14 Apr 2008|10:27pm] |
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Because I am determined to post at least one poem this month. I found one from the Book of Songs that we covered in one of my classes at LCCC.
Plop fall the plums; but there are still seven.
Let those gentlemen that would court me
Come while it is lucky!
Plop fall the plums; there are still three.
Let any gentlemen that would court me
Come before it is too late!
Plop fall the plums; in shallow baskets we lay them.
Any gentlemen who could court me
Had better speak while there is time.
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| Bento bento bento |
[14 Apr 2008|10:27pm] |
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I almost completely forgot to update that I got an email from ichiban kan this morning saying my order had been packed and shipped. The UPS site doesn't tell me much, but then it never does. All I know is I figure in a week or so I will have everything from silicon cups and storage boxes to onigiri rice ball molds.
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| Busy busy |
[14 Apr 2008|02:08am] |
So tired. I shouldn't even be online but I wanted to catch up on the flist before bed. Looks liek it isn't happening though. This weekend was spent in Cleveland and I think we hit 8 different music-related things. I'm not sure considering I lost count before Saturday. However I did notice the someone likes to spraypaint things on the Kalvin Smith (?) Library.
I got a picture of pikachu, but there was also one of batman and robin kissing that I didn't have time to stop for.
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| Sometimes... |
[02 Apr 2008|10:07am] |
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Sometimes I get into really girly moods. I feel like makeup and dresses and all that jazz. And then I do silly things like curl my hair. For the record Nicky + curls= no.
I look like I am in elementary school!
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| Mail |
[31 Mar 2008|09:54am] |
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I forgot. For anyone who has emailed me and I have not responded. I am getting email in, but unable to send email out. This has been a problem for several days and a call to the tech support was no real help.
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| Lazy Weekend |
[31 Mar 2008|09:37am] |
I spent a lazy weekend in Cleveland and it was great. I feel like I have been on the go nonstop for weeks before New York, and when I came home everything was still go, go, go. This weekend I read a book for pleasure, well I almost read a book for pleasure. I didn't quite finish it. But I pretty much watched a movie, napped, and talked with Ben all weekend. It felt wonderful to just relax for a bit.
Oh, we also took the bus up to coventry to try the thai place again. I ordered mango fried rice with shrimp and chicken for dinner and mango sticky rice for dessert. The fried rice was perfect, not too sweet and cooked mango is interesting. It almost tastes a little like apple, if it was still hard. The sticky rice was more gelatenous than I imagined it would be, but has some kind of coconut cream in/on it that tastes heavenly. I think I prefer cold mango to warm, and while everything with the mango was great, I have a feeling that it was just a little underripe as some pieces tasted better than others.
And now to run so I can exercise before work, shower, and clean up the dog's mess and whatever the cat just puked in the corner.
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| Easter |
[24 Mar 2008|12:21am] |
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One thing about my house is there is always drama. This easter should have been pretty relaxing. Ben came over early. I drove to the Giant Eagle and used the kiosk to order pictures. ($23.00 for 158 photos) People came home and we ate. Ben played my dad a few games of chess and it took entirely too long. I wanted to color easter eggs but the dudley (sp?) brand dye sucked ass. I left eggs in the coloring for 20 minutes and it literally wiped off on my hands. Now I have 2.5 hardboiled, uncolored eggs. That doesn't sound too bad, right? Too bad my aunt comes over, trips on the dog and falls hard. My mom and aunt spent the next 4 hours in the ER waiting for Xrays and all that fun stuff. Everyone went home, I cleaned the house. Work tomorrow, and I still feel like I haven't gotten a break. Exhausted, I sleep now.
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| New York Recap |
[17 Mar 2008|04:00pm] |
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It took forever and a day to upload all of the photos I took on vacation. I didn't even adjust a majority of them. But I got a nice shiny new pro flikr account to put all of the photos on, as photobucket seems to be my dumping ground for random images. So if you want to see all of the cool pictures from New York, including the ones from the Met that I did not yet have a chance to post you can check them out here.
and now maybe I go back to bed for an hour or so until Ben gets home.
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| Waiting... |
[16 Mar 2008|04:19pm] |
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I am typing this in the airport of JFK. I have quite a few pictures from my last day in New York, but there were problems with the modem at Ben's house and I was unable to upload them. I will do it probably sometime tomorrow from Ben's House. I wish vacation were longer :(
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| New York Days 5 & 6 |
[14 Mar 2008|01:41pm] |
Day five of New York was spent at the Cloisters, attempting to get a decent picture of the Unicorn tapestries. I did not think you would be allowed photography at all as I have only seen very small pictures online. You can however take pictures of the tapestries, however the lighting is atrocious. I will have to see if I can touch up the photos some in photoshop. I spent a lot of my money getting cool things at the museum gift shop, like a tote bag and some books.
After the Cloisters Ben and I met his aunt and uncle at this crazy expensive restaurant. I was really worried about sticking out and being uncomfortable, but I had a great time. His aunt is awesome and the way she blinks and carries herself reminds me a bit of Endora from the tv show bewitched. so yes I survived a fancy restaurant with no problems. Other than not being a fan of sparkling water as it just tastes like really flat 7up.
After dinner we saw a performance of Sunday in the Park with George. The show was excellent and used projections to simulate the paintings instead of cardboard cutouts like in the original. It should be no surprise that my favorite character was Dot. The music was cool, but I think the best part were her facial expressions. I believe both she and George were actually crying at points in the show.
Day six of New York was actually spent driving to and from Pennsylvania. Back in NY and chilling for a day. Dinner tonight and the Met tomorrow! (And stopping by the fancy restaurant since I left one of my bags there. d'oh!)
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| New York Day 4 |
[12 Mar 2008|09:00am] |
I didn't get home until after 1:00 last night, and went to bed instead of playing around online. My fourth day in New York was very book heavy. We visited Virgin Records, The Strand (18 miles of used books), the college library, Washington Park, stopped in the Barnes and Nobles and ended with more Italian at Puttanesca(?) before we went to the Opera.
Record Store- It was big. It had its own cafe. Otherwise not much to write home about, unless you are really into CDs, which I am not. Oh yeah, it was very badly designed, with bathrooms on only one floor and the escalators on the other side of the store where you couldn't see them.
The Strand- This was a lot like a bigger, better, half price books. I went in and told myself I was only allowed to get one thing, as I don't have that much room in my luggage. I obviously didn't want to get something that could be obtained at home, unless the manga was really, really cheap. Well they didn't have any titles I needed, but I got a cool think of Korean postcards so that I can write to people. The store even had really old, rare books you could buy. I would love to go back there with infinite time and money.
College Library- We could actually only peek from the library as you need access cards to get into the building, but the library was HUGE. I think there were seven floors above us, and Ben said there was also a study room downstairs. HUGE.
Washington Park- We didn't stay out all that long, as my ears were prone to getting cold. But Donna they have little grey squirrels. I was going to get a picture of one that was about 2 feet from me, but my camera was buried in my purse. But cute, cute, cute! also there are more dogs in New York, and bigger ones than I had imagined there would be. I am pretty sure Ben in sick of hearing "puppy"! Oh! and around the park we saw the horse buggies, with the really big horses. And one of the mounted police. I really, really wanted to pet the horse, but I didn't think Mr. Police man would like that.
Puttanesca- This Italian place was fancier than the one we went to yesterday. It took me forever to figure out the numbers next to the food were prices stripped of dollar signs and trailing digits. I ordered something that had a tomato and mushroom sauce (on the side for me) and were little packets of dough with more mushroom inside. I ate several, but then had to start squeezing some of the filling out, as there was just too much mushroom. Overall, I think I liked yesterday's place better, as it was cheaper and we had more room. Things were so crowded here, that I had a hard time holding decent conversation. I also got an apple pie for dessert, which I thought was really good, even if it had some kind of custard in it. They put the fancy, plate designing sauces on the side of the plate, but we couldn't figure out what it was. (My guess was mango and raspberry.)
B&N- Imagine the Crocker Park B$N but add at least another floor and double it in size. That is what this was like. I took a peek at the manga section, but it was relatively smaller than that of the Border's in Crocker Park. I didn't stay in here long as I throw on some hair gel and blush and headed to the opera.
Peter Grimes- Wow, I think I could do a whole entry just on this. I guess the Met is special as that it is huge. and everything is carpeted in red and very beautiful. The chandeliers hanging for the ceiling are lovely and look like stars or chunks of stibnite. Our seats were particularly awesome, being high enough in the balcony that we could see everything, but I think there were still several thousand seats above us. We were actually in seats A1 and A2, so when they raised the chandeliers, they went right past my head. Beautiful. The show itself was good. I think I liked the orchestrations the best. The story seemed like The Jungle meets Beauty and the Beast with a dash of Dr. Jekyll and Frankenstein thrown in.
Today is a little undecided in the morning, but I am thinking it will be the Cloisters, until dinner and Sunday in the Park with George this evening. wish me luck as today is the day of the super-fancy restaurant.
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| New York Day 3 |
[11 Mar 2008|01:45am] |
Today we traveled to the Museum of Modern Art, had lunch at a place called Lindy's, went to the Natural History Museum, followed with dinner at an Italian place I can't remember, and ended the day with a movie at the Angelika theater. Needless to say I am very tired and writing up short descriptions of everything.
MoMA was much larger than I expected and actually had a few things I recognized. sometimes I forget what is really considered modern art. I got to see the real Starry Night, which is a little different in person, but not dramatically different like the Monet pieces were.
Lindy's was expensive, and the cheesecake "the best in new york" was just not very impressive. I ordered chicken noodle soup and it was good but just on the verge of being too salty.
The natural history museum was huge. We were there for hours walking around and I still didn't see all of it. I can't decide what my favorite thing was, but the hall of gemstones was pretty cool. And seeing a life-sized fiberglass blue whale is just kind of crazy.
The random Italian place, Il Corallo, was actually really good. There were quite a few things on the menu that I had no clue what it was. sadly most of the pasta dishes came with angel-hair pasta (which I hate) so I went with ricotta and spinach square-shaped ravioli as I cannot remember the real name for them. Ben got essentially the same thing, but with goat cheese. I was brave and tried one. The goat cheese seemed to have much more body that the ricotta and I thought it was considerably creamier and sharper. We also got some kind of chocolate cake, but it was a bit too dark for my taste.
Angelika's was what I expected of a movie theater showing independent films. I was curious about the vegan brownies but was way too lazy to pay $3.00 for one. At one point I got confused by the bathroom signs and almost walked into the men's room, but Ben saw where I was headed and stopped me. Oh yeah, we watched the movie Persepolis at the theater, and it was actually really good, though it was depressing and reminded me a bit of Philly.
Pictures from MoMA and NHM under the cut. 
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| New York Day 2 |
[09 Mar 2008|09:43pm] |
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I am now in New York, yay! Actually I have been here for several hours, but I am finally out of the airport, fed, and currently unpacking. I might try to take a picture or two later. Ben's family is very nice and I am sure I am going to have a great week.
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| New York- Day One |
[08 Mar 2008|09:16pm] |
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This is an image of the front yard at Ben's house. There has actually been another 8 hours of continuous snow after this picture. Needless to say with the like 20 inches of snow, the flight was cancelled and the airport was actually shut down.
New flight leaves tomorrow at 3:00 pm.
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