Tired Epiphanies (or possibly just ramblings)

Ok, so I stayed at work for 15 hours the other night (way past my bedtime) which makes one very tired. But I started thinking of things I could write about in my tired state and here they are - BULLETED:

 

• I got some majorly awesome deals at the mall on Sunday, spent over 6 hours shopping without a break, boy was I hungry! But it was worth it. I got a bunch of cute new clothes for a surprisingly low price.
• It's almost Christmas, can you believe it? Are you ready? It will be 2011 in 9 days!
• THIS is my new favorite blog - Dinner with Julie. I only discovered her two days ago and I love love love the food and pictures and the commentary is fun too. She is a great chef and the variety of the food awesome. I can't wait to make a lot of the food pictured/blogged about.
• I've decided I want to go to an Indian restaurant for the lunch buffet. Most of them have buffets layed out for lunch and you can try any and all types of Indian food available which also = AWESOME! Need to try it, LOVE Indian food!
• We use many acronyms in our everyday language and I wonder if most people even know what they are really saying spelled out. For example DVD - Digital Video Disc or CD - Compact disc. Here are a few more I've thought of (and looked up after I ran out of thought of's), did you know all of these??
• IMDB - International Movie Data Base
• VCR - Video Cassette Recorder
• e-mail - Electronic-mail
• URL - Uniform Resource Locator
• Blog - Web Log (Okay this one is a little diff)
• AKA - Also Known As
• AM - Ante Meridiem
• IQ - Intelligence Quotient
• MO - Modus Operandi
• PIN - Personal Identification Number
• SPF - Sun Protection Factor
• UPC - Universal Product Code
• AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
• Ok enough of that. I also need to mention the couple of shows that I've really enjoyed watching lately that are also FREE to watch online.
• First one is called "Dead Like Me" which is about a girl who dies and comes back as a grim reaper but in a very light hearted and slightly comical way. The show is narrated by this main grim reaper character named George (Georgia) who is only 18 at the time of her death. She is still in the same town after she dies and therefore has the problem of knowing people around, especially her family (mom,dad, and sister) who still live in the house she grew up in. The show revolves around what grim reaping is/means/accomplishes but also the relationships that George forms with other reapers and new co workers and the bonds with her family that is so close by. It's really a neat show and even has a movie that was made after the series ended much like firefly (which is another good show if you haven't seen it). Check it out at www.hulu.com
• The second is called "Wonderfalls". The plot of this show sounds even more strange but is actually pretty entertaining to watch. The main character in this show is talked to by inanimate objects who tell her to do certain things. At first she just thinks she is going crazy, but soon realizes that when she decided to ignore the advice of the objects, things go awry. It's fun and quirky and light. This one can be found on www.youtube.com by searching "wonderfalls episode 1" for example.
• And to finish it all off I have to say that I'm loving having Netflix back. We hadn't subscribed for over a year and just resigned up last week. Their database has been greatly expanded to include a great deal more movies of the Instant Watch type. Newer movies like Iron Man can now be watched instantly plus you can now watch them in three mediums - Computer, TV (through gaming console), and smart phone. That's not even mentioning all the videos you can have sent to your house each month. Definitely worth the money.

23 Ideas for a Pluvious Day

What to do on a dreary, windy, rainy, cold day? I've done some thinking and some research and here are the things I've come up with:


  1.Sleep in
  2. Update your blog
  3. Look up words to describe the current weather:

• Inclement
• Lugubrious - mournful, dismal, or gloomy
• Bleak
• Dour - sullen; gloomy
• Dreary 
• Wretched
• Pluvial, pluvious - of or pertaining to rain, esp. much rain; rainy.
• Cloudy
• Overcast
• Awful

   4. Go to the grocery store and wander through the aisles for longer than necessary
   5. Buy fun colored nail polish while at the store and paint all nails when you get home
   6. Play mindless app games on Facebook
   7. Read a book
   8. Listen to music
   9. Download and listen to a free audiobook from the library website
  10. Cook something
  11. Drink coffee, hot chocolate, or tea.
  12. Watch SwagBucks TV and try to get some more bucks!
  13. Do laundry
  14. Call a friend
  15. Eat junk food!
  16. Blog surf
  17. Do a craft
  18. Exercise (indoors or out -  Amy says running on rainy days gives you more endorphins than...)
  19. Find more people on Twitter to follow
  20. Give yourself a facial
  21. Clean the house
  22. Decorate for the current season
  23. Re-watch a favorite series (Big Love, Firefly, Friends, w/e)
 

A Few Remarks and a Recipe!

Firstly - I realized yesterday while cooking that I would cook much less without a dishwasher.

Secondly - Dr. Laura used an impressive word yesterday on her radio program - recalcitrant - which means, "marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance". Nice locution.

Thirdly - Stephanie Plum is hilarious, Sookie is awesome, and Tolliver is an exceptional character name.

And for the body of the post:
I made Chinese Vegetarian Cabbage Rolls yesterday based off this recipe with just a few alterations.
Here's to sharing food formulae!

Filling - added more soy sauce, sweet chili sauce, cottage cheese, peas, garlic powder, mushrooms.

Ready to go

Salting

Boiling

Got to use my new Ikea tongs!

Sauteing the topping - Mung bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms and then a vinegar...reduction?

Ready to be filled

All rolled up

All covered and sauced up! 

 

             Sauce - soy sauce, teryaki baste, sweet chili sauce

 Then I just baked it and voila! 

 Chinese Style Vegetarian Cabbage Rolls.

Anamnesis - the recollection or remembrance of the past; reminiscence.

I just cleaned the floors yesterday. I walked into the room this morning and saw this.

Does this picture remind you of anything from  your childhood?

Maybe this?

 

he he

"I didn't do anything, I'm just laying here."

"Those aren't my prints"

Of course they aren't Bruno : )

Professor Scrabble

Currently enjoying a cup of Gloria Jean's Butter Toffee trying to convince myself to go exercise...

And for today's post:


Words I learned from the scrabble computer player on my phone:


flaneur - idler; dawdler; loafer
steading - a farm, esp. its buildings
urial -  a wild, bearded sheep, Ovis vignei, of southern Asia, having a reddish coat.
jivy - (jive-y) -
gaol - a prison, esp. one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses
uvelae - I'll let you look this one up yourself  
sice - (in India) a groom; stable attendant
bovid - Of or belonging to the family Bovidae, which includes hoofed, hollow-horned ruminants such as cattle, sheep, goats, and buffaloes.
stotinki - a minor coin of Bulgaria, the 100th part of a lev
aria - an air or melody, an elaborate melody sung solo with accompaniment, as in an opera or oratorio.

nairu - The lowest unemployment rate that an economy can accommodate without causing inflation
tun - a large cask for holding liquids, esp. wine, ale, or beer
zin - a low palm-tree, the south-eastern corner of the desert et-Tih, the wilderness of Paran
qi - (chi, ch'i) The vital force believed in Taoism and other Chinese thought to be inherent in all things.

I thought this was interesting - the highlighted words are the ones considered misspelled by the spell checker, very curious.

Keurig Promo

Ah yes, the Keurig. I've been wanting to blog about this lovely device since I started my blog.

Ahem..(deep breath in....out...)

"With the Keurig, coffee is always available at a moments seconds notice. Just pop the handy K-Cup in and press Brew. The hot, delicious coffee will immediately flow down into (hopefully you put a receptacle under the dispenser) your cup! The coffee is always fresh and with the variety of K-Cups available, you can have a different blend with each press of the Brew button. And of course, my friends, it does not hurt to have a father in the coffee distributing business, in regard for budget."

My favorite so far is the Gloria Jean's Hazelnut but since I have run out of that, I will show you the demo with another of my favorites - Kona coffee.

And the clean up is as easy as taking the pink cup out of there and tossing it in the garbage. Sweet huh? We bought the machine within two days of trying it out at my parents house. I personally think it tastes better than the high priced coffee at Starbucks.



On another note, I learned two new words this past week - perfidious and mendacious.

Perfidious - deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful
Mendacious - telling lies, esp. habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful

No I did not come across a person matching either of these descriptions (nor am I such a person). I read them in a book, or I should say heard, since it is on audio.Now, to remember to insert them into a conversation...