We're still doing the cooking thing. On the menu for this week: sesame peanut noodles (made them last night - they're awesome!), cumin pea soup (on the stove right now), tilapia fillets with orange-avocado-red onion-lime-hot pepper salsa, sweet pea pesto pasta, and bacon lentil soup. I think the thing I like the best about all of this cooking is ( Read more... )

I am right in the middle of making cinnamon chicken with couscous and dried fruit from a recipe I grabbed over from epicurious.com. If it tastes as good as it smells, I think it is going to be one of my new favorites ( Read more... )

Just to let all the locals know, Harry and the Potters are back and town and this time they've brought Draco and the Malfoys along with them! They have a bunch of shows in our region, including a sure to be awesome one at the big Seattle Public Library downtown. They're an amazing live show, so if you are at all into the Harry Potter books, this ( Read more... )

I was correct - I WAS up way too early this morning. I got home around 4:45, had dinner, and fell asleep until just 15 minutes ago ( Read more... )

Up very early this morning so that I can get into work in time to prep for the 2.5 hours of back to back meetings I have starting at 8 a.m. I think I got up a little too early though, since I still have 30 minutes until my bus and all I have left to do before I go is get dressed. I'm not very good at calculating how long it will take me to get ( Read more... )

I was all excited tonight, because the supermarket had organic grapes. Grapes are generally very pesticide slathered, so I grabbed the organic ones enthusiastically and put them in my basket ( Read more... )

Major disappointment: It appears that the triathlon that Mike and I are signed up to participate in two weeks from now is organized by a scammy, shammy crook who accepts pre-registration before he has even obtained permits for the race. The city in which the triathlon was to take place (Lake Chelan) has denied the race organizer (Brent Kamenka of ( Read more... )

I am 50% done with my master's degree! I am so pleased to be done for the summer. This quarter has been quite a grind and I've not had time to do any of the many fun, relaxing things that mean springtime in Seattle to me. But Yael and Tomomi are coming to visit next weekend and I can't wait! We're going to have a spa day at the Olympus Spa in ( Read more... )

This quarter is insane. I have two huge group projects due within 24 hours of each other and between trying to coordinate schedules with people to get those done and working 20 hours a week I am feeling swamped and stressed. Beyond swamped and stressed, actually. I try to just keep looking ahead to when all of this is complete, but at this point ( Read more... )

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