| Six Degrees |
[May. 23rd, 2009|09:02 pm] |
I think this is me: http://www.cuyamaca.edu/eops/dsps/resourceskin.asp
I've never heard of this before. I always thought that I was an audio learner because I remember so many specific things people say. I know my "quoting" is horrible, but it's hard to see yourself. Other times I've thought myself a visual learner, in that when I would take those skills tests in school and such where you read a passage and then answer questions, I would skim the passage, then read the questions and I would be able to find the answer by memory. Yet this description of a kinesthetic learner seems to fit better. I can watch someone do something ten times and not get it, but if I do it myself once or twice I usually have it down. Ex: putting sticker tape in the price guns at work. I've been shown how to do it by no less than six people and until recently never could do it myself. UNTIL Jennifer D. showed me by making ME do it. Now I've got it down after only ONE time. I think that means something. The stuff about having to study in short breaks really struck a chord in me. I always thought that was because I had some form of ADD or something, but maybe it's really the inactivity. When I've had to memorize lines for a play the crunch time was always me pacing and making the movements I had to make when saying the lines that got them to stick. That's why the last One Act I was in was so difficult. I had to SIT for the entire first act, pretending to be in a car. I'm kind of hit from behind here with this.
I will put it in the queue for further thought. |
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[Nov. 19th, 2008|01:39 pm] |
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$25 gift certificates for $1.40? Yes, it's true I just got $100 of gift certificates for $8 and all I have to do is wait a couple weeks for a refund of the difference. Read THIS if you don't believe me. |
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| Crock Pot |
[Nov. 10th, 2008|06:51 pm] |
In an attempt to please Steven's palate and to decrease a ridiculous grocery bill, I have attempted for the first time EVAR!
Red Beans and Rice Crock Pot Recipe of DOOOOOOOM!
Ok so it's not as exciting as all that... but it also didn't turn out as awesome as I hoped. Although it did turn out much much better than the burned re-fried beans... oh yeah those were horrid.
Slightly researched made-up recipe:
Julia's Crock Pot Red Beans and Rice
1/2 lb dry red beans
2 1/2 + 1 c. water
1 t. coriander
1 t. cumin
1/2 t. garlic
1 t. cayenne pepper
3 bay leaves
salt and pepper
1/3 kielbasa
1/2 green pepper
1 medium onion
3 c. rice
4 1/2 c. water
Soak beans overnight in 4 c. water. Put beans and water in pot and boil for 5-10 minutes (I read online that if you don't do this that you could get sick from some enzyme or summut in the beans). While beans boil: chop kielbasa into smallish chunks and fry on stove. While kielbasa is frying chop onion and green pepper, place in slow cooker and dump spices on top. Drain beans and put both beans and sausage in slow cooker, add 2 1/2 c. water, stir, put on high and wait for 3-4 hrs. Add 1 c. water and wait another 3-4 hrs. Uncover and put rice and water in rice cooker, cook. Turn off crock pot, dump beans mixture and rice in giant bowl, stir and EAT!
Ok, so don't do this recipe. I'm basically putting up what I did and it didn't turn out the best. First of all there was waaaaaay to much water, also a bit of left over rice... like three cups. Also the flavor was a bit weak. I feel that using a couple garlic cloves instead of powder would kick it up a bit and also that if there was less water the flavor would concentrate a bit better. The nice thing was that after mixing the rice and beans together the rice absorbed a good amount of the water making the whole thing less runny but also mushifying the rice a bit. I'd say it was a good learning experience and that I know what to try for next time. I suppose I should also mention that I made this is in what I believe to be a two quart crock pot so if you have a bigger pot it would be double the recipe. Although I might double the beans, rice and spices, not the green pepper and onion depending on how you feel about a pretty close ratio.
In other news I asked for a raise at work, Matt put in for it and Dwayne approved it. There was some talk of moving me to full-time in January, but I don't know considering that right now I'm running on 18 hr. schedules which always end up an hour or two under from leaving early.
On the school front I have no idea what's going on with my loan, and there's a possibility that this mess is going to cause me to not be able to pay for this semester which would erase all of the work I've done because you can't have the credits if you don't pay for them. Also the one class I need next semester is not offered which means that it hasn't been offered all year. I don't know what I'm going to do other than scream at this point. Hopefully tomorrow I'll actually have a workstation other than the living room couch. Steven and I are going to drive to Milwaukee so he can buy a desk and I can finally have mine back. After much yelling and a bit of ignoring Steven has relented on his "use the dining room table as a desk" position. It'll cost $30 more to buy the desk in store than to buy it online but they have no estimation on shipping times online and he told me it was up to me. Of course I want him to get it now. I don't really understand how you can be using someones desk and expect them to do all of their work in the middle of the living room, but then again I suppose you'd have to understand my needs when it comes to working.
Now I shall end this long-winded post and perhaps sometime soon I will post my progress in the Great Brownie Experiment! (not of DooM this time) |
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| To prove I'm still alive. |
[Sep. 19th, 2008|02:01 pm] |
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.
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[Aug. 25th, 2008|11:47 pm] |
"Would you like me to get you a cart."
"No, that's OK, why don't I just get someone to carry it out for me." |
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[May. 25th, 2008|04:47 pm] |
Finished with school for the summer.
Art History: A-
French: C
I am quite proud of myself. I know I could have done better in Art History. If I had rewritten my paper and planned out my presentation better I could have gotten an A and I know that. But I think the grade accurately reflects my performance in the class. I don't know if I could have done better in French. I think I might have made it up to a B- if I put in that extra effort, but I'm just super excited to have passed it.
Henry and I planted our tomatoes the other day. We have Big Bertha and Roma. Unfortunately when I was planting the Bertha's I broke the stem. Henry feels, of course that this is the end of the world and no tomatoes will be seen by man, but I planted the top half next to the bottom half. There was a really good root structure on there so I have hope that one of them is going to take hold and have at, but we'll be pretty lucky if both do.
I've spent all day so far cleaning the apartment. After vacuuming I called my mom and told her that I would like a new vacuum for my birthday. She gave me detailed instructions on how to check to see if mine is really broken but I told her that I didn't care because it's a piece of crap and I need a better one because of the cat hair... that has permeated every surface. I now have some clear space on the dining room table, but my desk is completely covered in all of my art supplies. I need to get that shelf sanded and stained so that I have somewhere to keep all of this crap. Everything is spiffy except the bathroom which I think I'm going to have Henry do. I swept it I think he can handle the disinfecting.
I'm kind of excited for Tuesday. My mom was going to come visit but now she's going to the doctor, so I'm using that as an excuse for Henry and I to get some stuff done. He promised that he would do all of the spring cleaning if I didn't miss any more French and I didn't miss one single day (yes I am a stubborn bitch, there should be more tricky challenges to get me to pass my classes in the future), but he only spent about 25 minutes cleaning. I have a list of things I want to do, but I tried to keep it short because we never get done all that I want to.
My next crafty enterprise is going to be calligraphy. I'm going to paint watercolor cards, smother them in glitter and write pretty things like "Happy Birthday" "Congratulations" and sappy poems in them. I'm going to leave some of them blank too of course, but I really enjoy the excuse to start another crafty thing. Even though I promised Henry I wouldn't buy any more: paint (medium), brushes, clay, beads, yarn, patterns, or fabric until I've used up at least half of what I have in a given category he did not, in fact, tell me that I couldn't start a new craft and supply myself up to the teeth for it. A sad mistake on his part, and he can't take it back now.
Anyway, that's enough for now I think. |
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| Tit Rant and other stuff... |
[May. 1st, 2008|08:49 pm] |
Can someone please explain to my why bra sizing charts are so ridiculous? In one chart I am told to measure my ribs below my bust then add five and that's my band size. Then I measure the fullest part of my bust and minus the band size from that and it's one inch for each cup size. In another I'm told to measure under my armpits on an angle over the top of my boobs dito for the finding cup size. According to these methods I am a 38C. Have you met me? Am I a goddamn 38C? I'm ready to march over to Victoria's Secret and have them measure me and see what happens when I put on a 38C. I'd think it could be funny but it'll probably be just sad. Are they serious? When I buy a brand new 34DD the band is almost perfect in tightness and the cup's a little small. I guess the cup size of a 38C and a 34DD are similar but how the hell is something that's four inches bigger around going to support... oh fuck it I hate the clothing industry.
In other news my French class sang our little French song at the International Poetry Festival... which had some serious issues like running almost a half an hour behind schedule. I started a vocal character on Rock Band and started my solo tour, doing not so horrible on medium... pitch hates me but we have a working relationship. I frosted the rest of the cupcakes which Henry made me promise not to take to work. I'm registered for three classes next semester... and attempting to wrangle my way into a fourth.
I got my last French exam back and I got a C+/B- which made me super proud of myself. That's the first time a C has made me proud of myself but I worked... relatively... hard at it. I guess that's all, just pissed of about bras. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 22nd, 2008|04:28 pm] |
While Henry and I were on our Spring Cleaning Rampage I discovered amoungst some random papers: my $50 rebate card from AT&T. Henry asked me what I was going to spend it on and when I shrugged and said, "Probably gas or groceries," he gave me a look and suggested the dress that I've been wanting for a bit. So I bought this
in black. I decided on the 11/12 because it's juniors sizing and because I have a large chest, but I have a sinking feeling I'm going to have to send it back and request a 13/14, we'll just have to wait and see. Oh, and I got free shipping because the warehouse is currently out of them, and it should ship on May 5th. I'm kind of excited for that.
So the apartment's pretty spic 'n span right now. I need to mop the kitchen floor and attack the bathroom but I'm cleaned out right now.
Still doing pretty well in my classes. I got a C on my Art History paper, but I wrote it in an hour and didn't have a thesis. I have two weeks to re-write it for a better grade so that's cool. I took a French exam yesterday and I think I hit a C, but the last one I thought I failed and got a D so maybe I managed a B-? Maybe I'll find out tomorrow.
Things I need to do:
-Plan French presentation (not allowed to have notes! must speak from memory!)
-Re-write AH paper
-Plan AH presentation
-Study for finals
-Find a Pottery prof. willing to work with me
-Regular homework etc.
The list is getting a bit shorter, but not much improvement on last week. |
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| Spring Break |
[Mar. 31st, 2008|03:56 pm] |
California was fun. We had a series of mishaps and situations were exacerbated by the fact that neither of us really likes to be "a bother" so instead of asking questions about things that weren't working we just complained about them. Like not having a microwave in our room.
I met Henry's dad, he's nice. We ate breakfast and drove him to Bob Hope Memorial Airport in Burbank so it's not like we had a heart-to-heart or anything. It tickles me that He has an even more pronounced accent than Henry's mom but Henry and his brother don't really at all. Makes me giggle.
Henry drove me around Valencia in our PT Cruiser, which I liked and he hated. I felt really far away from the dashboard considering how little those things are. He nammered on about everything that's changed and we ate at Weiner Schnitzel. I had mini corn dogs and Henry had chili cheese everything. Went to Zoom? Beach with Molly and Rachel. It was cold but I acted like a two-year old and thusly had a mound of fun. Can't wait to snag copies of the pics everyone else took. We went to Disney and my camera crapped out about halfway through the day. It was fun but I don't think the fun/price ratio was as high as Six Flags (in Illinois) is, novel though. We went to Little Tokyo twice because the first day we got there about a 20 minutes before the museum closed. I bought the complete Spiral (anime) series and after we started watching it we realized that Henry didn't get the second disk as a Christmas present he got the fourth but it's good anyway. And I splurged and bought myself three manga, which I devoured as soon as we got home and have been re-reading the rest of my collection ever since.
We also went to Santa Monica a couple of times, that was fun too. We never made it out to Hollywood but I got to eat at Johnny Rockets in Santa Monica so that was nice. We never swam in the hotel pool and we only got to park in the parking lot two out of the five nights we were there and Thursday morning we had a parking ticket from parking on the wrong side of the road.
I started to get sick on Sunday when we were leaving. Sore throat and coughing. Took some Benedryl for the plane ride which ended up being not such a good idea. They woke me up for cookies and pretzels which took about ten minutes to make me sick. I threw up twice. Once in the bathroom and once into one of those fancy barf bags... during our decent. Henry wasn't too excited to be the go-between and have to pass that to the flight attendant, but he didn't have a choice.
If you want the entertaining version of this story you're just going to have to live with that. |
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| Extreme Cynicism |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|04:48 pm] |
In the midst of a comment debate on an article I read today discussing the Target/Wal-mart conundrum I saw this gem: "It's impossible to underpay anyone who is voluntarily employed."
I think I'm going to keep my opinion to myself for the time being as I would like to see if anyone else has a response.
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| Ready for Spring |
[Feb. 24th, 2008|03:50 pm] |
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I am so sick of the cold I can hardly stand it anymore. I know I'm getting depressed because all I want to to is sleep and when I'm not sleeping I eat. I restrained myself today. I made myself lunch and ate only what was on my plate. I haven't allowed myself to go get more. I need to take a shower and get some stuff done but all I've been able to motivate myself to do is plug my camera into the 'puter and get some pics that I've taken. I'm not even motivated to finish this post. |
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[Feb. 22nd, 2008|09:42 pm] |
Apparently they're cutting hours even further back now. Tonight just after all the customers left, "Attention Employee's! We are leaving at 8:15 on the dot so put the finishing touches on your area and head to the time clock." So the shop's a mess and I have no idea what anything else looks like because I was still in the middle of writing up orders when I was pulled out of the door. If this continues that's another $20/month that I'm out and only 15 minutes away from me getting a second job.
Henry and I are probably going to be up in the Madison area for spring break. It's actually in only three weeks so we have to decide what we're doing soon. We really wanted to go to California but it would be so much more. Even if we stayed with John's mom we wouldn't be saving that much money because we'd probably have to rent a car. I feel like we could make Madison just as fun though, and there'd be time for the mauling hugging of friends. He'll be home sometime before midnight and that's when the decision will be made.
In other news Henry's trying to convince me that finishing college will allow me to "do what I want to do," but I feel that if I don't know what I want to do, then how can he know what I want to do (and if he does why isn't he telling me?) so how could he know that finishing will lead me to that? It's not like I'm not going to finish, it's just seeming pretty pointless that's all.
I'm going to make sushi tonight, for tomorrow. That's exciting. |
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[Jan. 29th, 2008|11:48 am] |
I am now officially in love with The Kills. When Henry gets home he's going to be commissioned to find me ways to get them on my IPOD so that I may enjoy them while I work out.
That is all. |
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| Laughing at Myself |
[Jan. 20th, 2008|09:22 pm] |
I posted this to the dieting communities I belong to and I thought you lovelies might like to laugh with (or at) me too!
Today I rediscovered a love of Denise Austin. Out of all the work out videos I have tried I feel like she motivates me the best. At first I thought it was because she is so sincere in her attempts to motivate you, but I have ruminated on this and come to the conclusion that this is false. I love her videos so much because I feel completely ridiculous bouncing around my inadequately sized living room attempting to do "combos" that I invariably fuck up at least ten times every session and her completely serious attitude with her pertinent comments to keep you on track allows me to laugh at myself without getting depressed and wanting to quit. I feel like we have some sort of mutual understanding about how silly we are acting and yet how important it is to do this for our bodies and ourselves. If you haven't experienced the Denise Austin phenomenon I recommend trying her out, especially if you feel like your in a rut and need a boost. I don't know if anyone else gets the same sort of feeling from her videos but the next time you get frustrated with your exercise routine just think of me in my tiny apartment living room, trying not to run into the furniture or ignite my downstairs neighbors with my "intentional stomping", missing beats and laughing at myself and hopefully you can laugh too and keep on keeping on.
Also, I found this cool online book (you can also buy it but I think it's the same thing as the free one, not sure though) while I was doing research yesterday. It's mainly aimed at women but I think the author does a good job of describing and debunking strength training. Check it out if you like.
http://www.healthline.com/hlbook/strength-training-for-women
x-posted to dietingsupport and alt_diet |
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| snagged from screamingsonik |
[Jan. 18th, 2008|10:15 pm] |
Why do YOU want to lose weight?
1. To look good naked.
2. To fit into better clothes.
3. For a competition.
4. To keep heart disease at bay.
5. To age more gracefully.
6. To stave off diabetes, or keep it in check.
7. Better bone density.
8. Better mental acuity.
9. In case of emergency (combat or disaster functionality)[ZOMBIES!].
10. Better recovery from injury or surgery.
11. Stress relief.
12. Sleep better.
13. Better self image.
14. Reduce blood cholesterol (LDL) and other negative health markers.
15. Live longer.
16. Reduce cancer risk.
17. Injury prevention.
18. Better immune system function.
19. Enhance sexual desire and performance.
20. Lower resting heart rate and blood pressure.
21. Better digestive function.
22. Reduced possibility of gallstones.
23. Reduced risk of stroke.
24. Improved balance and coordination.
25. Better complexion.
26. Less guilt associated with treats or desserts.
27. To help me meet other goals.
28. To be more like people who inspire me.
29. To prepare a healthy womb for a future baby. |
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