2 Mountain Dew 24 packs
2 bags Lay’s Barbeque chips
Orange juice
Oreo 100-calorie packs
chocolate for frozen chocolate covered bananas
5 – 2 liter bottles of Coke
Dog Chow
(I asked him to add the last one. I did NOT buy him everything else on the list.)
Haven’t played in a while…But I loved the first word, so
mmmmmmm, fun!
kitchen
take!
fear
Quickie
Help Me
ped liver
loving toleration
crisp, cool, and ironed
cake
Today: Logic games and logical reasoning in a.m., logical reasoning and reading comp in p.m.
Tuesday: Logical reasoning and reading comp in a.m., practice test Tuesday night in class
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Wednesday: Logical reasoning, logic games, and writing sample in a.m., logic games and reading comp in p.m.
Thursday: Logical reasoning and reading comp in a.m. One practice test. Review in class Thursday night.
Friday: Logical reasoning, reading comp, and logic games in a.m. Dinner and Hannah Montana movie in 3D with Lucy, her best friend, and her best friend’s mom.
Saturday: Get up at the crack of dawn (7 a.m.), arrive at test center at 8:05 a.m. TAKE LSAT. Go home, relax, then go out and drink to celebrate my brilliant success.
A chocolate cake in the oven, a new book waiting to be read, and my second glass of wine in my hand.
(Shout out to my 40 year old+ readers. Remember these? Gah!)
*Thanks once again, Mrs. G.
Dear internet reader, I need your help. I am not a cook. I can safely say that I hate to cook. Baking, baking is a delicious and privileged enterprise. But cooking? I prefer laundry.
I used to tell DTE that he was responsible for cooking because I was out at work every day, while he was home. My own logic has done me in, and now I think it is only fair if I occasionally do the cooking too. Ugh.
My favorite meal is cereal. I also do grilled cheese and tomato soup quite well, but GMan hates grilled cheese and Lucy hates tomato soup, so then I have to make him tuna, and her chicken noodle, and that is just too many steps, and too many pots and pans.
The other day I got quite creative. I made a homemade chicken potpie. This is how I did it:
Unrolled ready-made pie crust. Sauteed some onion, added some frozen chicken breast strips. Once the chicken looked done, I added some canned corn, some frozen peas, and some fresh cut carrots. I poured over top of that a can of cream of chicken soup. I sprinkled it with some pepper. After it simmered a bit, I poured it into the pie crust, and then unrolled the second ready-made pie crust on top. Baked at 350 til brown.
I ate it fresh out of the oven, and found it to be very bland. I wanted to add salt, but knowing how much salt was already there from the canned corn and soup, I resisted.
So this is where I need your help. I know some of you cook, and some of you even cook well. What should I have done differently? What magic ingredient, and/or spices, should I have added? I will say that the following day I had a piece for lunch, just warmed to room temperature. It had more flavor, but still wasn’t anything to write home about. (Or, for that matter, to write on my blog about. But see previous post. I’m outta material.)
Indulge me:
I have been lazy about blogging. I have been lazy about just about everything lately. The only things I have forced myself to do is make my bed (so I’m not tempted to get back in and spend the day there), brush my teeth, and take my pill.
That does not lend itself to exciting post material.
I do look at the demeaning email I get once a day from Career Builders.com. It lists jobs that supposedly match up with my skills. Did you know that you, too, could make millions from home? All you have to do is spend from $45 – $3,000.00 and you could! You can also get paid to take surveys on line – though “paid” can mean many things, such as “get a coupon” or “get paid $1 for registering for something that will require you to pay $8.99/month for”.
I have applied for at least 4 positions at a very large, stable bank in my area. I am well qualified for any of them. So are the 100+ other people who also lost their jobs from this industry. (This is in addition to the many other jobs, solicited and unsolicited, that I have also applied for. Shame on me – I don’t want to be an insurance salesperson working on commission only. Like I said, I’m lazy.)
And so I prefer to think about other things, study for the LSAT, think about what to make for supper, do the laundry, and make sure I have enough money to pay the bills for the week. I can actually say I’m not too stressed overall about the situation; we seem to be getting by. However, my dad wants to meet with me (again) to discuss “jobs” and make sure I am looking at every possible angle. Did I mention I’m only 16?
Deny:
About six months ago I noticed that the carpet on our stairs is starting to wear thin on the high-traffic areas (namely, the front middle of each step.) Because even when I was employed I didn’t have the money to recarpet, I now climb and descend the stairs like a football player: I keep my feet apart and only walk on the far left and right edges of the steps. It’s the same kind of workout as running through the tires on the ground. I expect really strong inner thighs in a year or so.
I have two deodorant containers in my bathroom. I hate the smell of one of them and I love the other one. Due to some bizarre throwback to my Dutch heritage, or the fact that I am unemployed, I only let myself use the one I like on special occasions. Because, you know, what if I run out of my favorite? I’ll never be able to swing the $3.39 to purchase another! So I wear the kind I hate almost every day. Apparently I think that I deserve the punishment.
With thanks to Professor J.
95% Dennis Kucinich
93% Mike Gravel
77% Barack Obama
76% John Edwards
76% Chris Dodd
73% Hillary Clinton
73% Joe Biden
70% Bill Richardson
34% Rudy Giuliani
27% Ron Paul
24% John McCain
19% Mike Huckabee
15% Mitt Romney
7% Tom Tancredo
6% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
Give me a passage from the Little House series and I’ll tell from which book it comes.
GMan dreads going to Sunday school. But he came home from class the other week and asked us if we believed in God, and why. When we posed the question to him, he said “Yes, because I can just feel him sometimes.” He also acknowledged that he doesn’t think of God as a person so much as a feeling. (He loves the Daily Show and Heroes.) He wants to be the host of XPlay or work at Blockbuster when he grows up.
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Lucille informed us that there is no way she is changing her name if she gets married. And she is insistent on “voting” for Hillary Clinton. No matter what I tell her about the possibilities of Edwards or Obama, she holds firm. “Hillary! Hillary!” (She loves Kid Nation and Project Runway.) She wants to be a doctor/teacher/fashion designer/hairdresser when she grows up.
Those are MY kids!
