We made our first pizza on Friday night! Made the dough in the bread maker, which I will probably not use for that again, as it was hard to deal with out of the well since the dough was very wet. Used some “heart-healthy” spaghetti sauce, light mozarella, ham, mushrooms, and garlic. Well – garlic salt, actually. That made it a little saltier than I would have liked, but it was still pretty good.
A very yummy Korean side dish, famous in all Korean BBQ places: the sesame oil spinach, yum!
The teriyaki pork chops I put in the oven are making the apartment smell very good indeed. I’m using this pre-made marinade called “Soy Vay” – purportedly created by a Jewish boy and a Chinese girl, using no preservatives, and probably with some sort of soy product in it. Mmm.
Curt is not home yet. I’m playing hooky from homework for a few minutes so I can blog about the latest harebrained thing that’s come to my head: in an attempt (oh, yet again, and ever after) to save money, I am going to only purchase the bare minimum for the next few weeks, and blog everything I WANT to buy, every day, and compare it with everything I ACTUALLY buy. This exercise serves two purposes. No, no, it serves three:
1. It’ll help me to keep track of what I’m buying, so that I can have a more transparent (and therefore, more shameful [remember, shame is a motivator!]) record of what I’m spending my money on.
2. I’ll be more inclined to wait before I purchase something, since I am a notorious “MUST HAVE THAT THING RIGHT THIS INSTANT” type of buyer (read: no better than a three year old).
3. I have something to blog about every day for the next few weeks. Which is good because to start off my list of things I want:
Things I Want To Buy
- A book of things to blog about when I’m too lazy and/or empty-headed to think up something on my own
- Yogurt
Things I Bought
- A bunch of bananas
- A box of Cutie Clementines
Okay, enough slackery. Back later with the picture of the day, etc. Here are the thingies of the day:
Dez, beholding the Beholder.
I have solved the mystery of the un-like RSS titles! That’s the good news. The bad news is that it is too much trouble to fix them, so they will remain like that, wretched scars on my otherwise perfect web-self. Ah well.
Prompted by some fun work discussions, I have decided to try my luck at NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month (again). This time, at least one of my co-workers is participating too, so hopefully we will shame each other into sticking it out to the bitter end (we are both Asian, so shame is a powerful motivator). If you will kindly direct your eyes to the upper-ish right hand portion of the site wherein my navigation menu lies, you will see a new link for the soon-to-be-written masterpiece. There’s nothing there now. Rules are I can’t start ’til November. Anybody else want to be writing buddies? Hrm? :)
Sometimes Curt drives me crazy. Right now, I’m squinting irritably at his silly red head, waiting for him to turn around so I can resume imagining that huge red boxing gloves are pummeling his BIG SMUG – he’s turned around now, and he’s squinting back at me. GrrrrrrrrrrrrARARRRR.
He fried bacon in my kitchen tonight. Bacon, in case you all don’t know, leaves a stinks. Of the dead pig. And there is greasy animal fat splattered all over my nice. clean. stove. The bastard was even surly when I asked him to clean it.
/BASH BASH BASH!!
That’s me smashing (or, more precisely: BASHING) his face in, Batman-style.
Relationships are hard when you (I) don’t get everything your (my) way.
(/BASH BASH BASH!!)
We had Korean BBQ tonight, and it was so good. I carry the sweet, sweet scent of cooking meats on me, and I find it makes me attracted to myself. Yum, yum, yum. To meats is life!