http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2008/09/26/color-coordinated-books/
I tried to do this in the kitchen with the cookbooks. Why didn't it go over exactly?
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
An Update on Life and Times
Well, times go on. I posted a lot in the past, but I think I was more exciting and adventurous then. I'm going to have to make a concerted effort to change my sedentary ways. It isn't like I don't do anything-i scarcely have free time, but whether it is interesting enough to blog about, that is another matter... I do suppose I could mention a bit about Hawaii. We were there Aug 7-17 - this time visiting the Big Island and Oahu. Stayed close to Waikiki Beah and swam early in the morning before all the other vacationers made it out - you know, 9:30-11:00 sort of thing. The water was so full of salt! Saltiest water I've been in and you could just float in the upright position - definitely an odd feeling. We hiked Diamond Head and drove around 2/3 of the island throughout the day. In downtown Waikiki we were quite suprised at how many different cultures of people were there on the main drag. It was expensive, our pockets felt like they had holes in them. You walk down the street and you see name brand stores of every kind and English in Not the primary language - it is a tourist town and definitely the most 'un-hawaiian' feeling town I've been to thus far. It was more like New York City of the Pacific. Alas though, that was only the last 2 days. The week before was spent at Joel's folks house :) We drove up to 9,000 feet and watched the sunset over the ocean and through a beacon of clouds - it was gorgeous. AND! This time I got to see Lava - from a safe viewing distance I assure you. It was neat to see this swirling vortex of steam as the lava entered the ocean off in the distance...
As for other items of note - we got to see Joel's sister's third child - Robyn - a little boy. He was a cutie at 4 weeks old and the other two at 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 were adorable! Oh to think that this was only a month ago... Hmm. I seem to be missing some days. This is all I've got for now.
I'm reading the Omnivore's Dilemna at the moment and... it is calling to me. I do have a few pictures to show though!
As for other items of note - we got to see Joel's sister's third child - Robyn - a little boy. He was a cutie at 4 weeks old and the other two at 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 were adorable! Oh to think that this was only a month ago... Hmm. I seem to be missing some days. This is all I've got for now.
I'm reading the Omnivore's Dilemna at the moment and... it is calling to me. I do have a few pictures to show though!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
A Tripping I will go...
I'm going to Hawaii in 16 days! I'm excited. It's just about the best thing in the whole world to look forward to... besides the wedding. I'm looking forward to that too.
Work is going great. I'm learning lots and learning to be OK with where I work. I switched my hours so I now work 7:30-4 and have a shorter commute. I'm also making a difference where I work. My team of 3 is the most productive of the 5 teams - we're carrying the company through this financial down-time and I'd like to think that I'm a big part of that. I'm no salesman, but I keep people on their toes, I keep my two bosses accountable and have helped to keep everything in order much more than the last person who had my job. It's nice. I suppose I've settled in nicely in the last 8 months. It's hard for me to even believe that it has been that long.
As for this summer, it's been quite hectic. Joel got in in May and we haven't slowed down since. He's in the crunch time for the bar exam currently and takes the test next Tuesday and Wednesday up in Albany, New York. I hope that the past 3 years of schooling and 3 months of intense studying end up paying off. He'll be looking for appts. soon in NY and then moving for good in early September. After that, it'll just be me and my folks here at the house. He's been pretty helpful in re-vamping our house. We revived the front of the house, installed a new door for my room, and added a climbing trellis for my garden. There's more, but those are the finest works of art.
We've been working out in the Flower and Vegetable gardens frequently this summer, I should like to some of the photos. My favorites are the Cannas, Gladiolas and Zinnias this summer for their vibrant colors.
In other news, Joel's sister just had her third kid (the sister out in Hawaii). She is 22 and has a 2.5 girl Aurora, 1.5 girl Savannah and 1 month old boy Kekoa Robin. They're adorable and I've had lots of fun getting little baby and toddler gifts for them. These clothes look like they could fit baby dolls. :)
Reading an Omnivore's Dilemna now, it's a dense book, but good. It has some very insightful points and is quite making me re-think my eating habits.
It's finally turned summer like here. Our cool days have past this past week and now we're in the mid 9o's each day. One thing about the Midwest that I do love is the thunderstorms. About 4 AM last night, there was thunder that shook the house and so much lightening. It lasted about a half hour and just down-poured. I loved it-though it was a bit scary at first as it sounds like a freight train or bombs or very loud noises in a half-conscious sleep.
For all the praying people out there, I'd like to send a request out for my grandpa and brother. My Grandpa fell on Sunday and I was at the ER with him and though no broken bones, he was quite showing his age. I can't imagine that is an easy transition, getting old and losing your memory. Second is for my brother as his foot wound is seemingly taking steps backward and he will be preparing for more surgery this fall...
I still love to cook and if anyone wants to see St. Louis before I head out of here for NYC, I welcome you! Has anyone run across any good recipes recently?
I envy everyone's adventures these days and love reading about them, please don't stop posting!
A good luck to all who are embarking on new adventures...
Pics of my garden: http://picasaweb.google.com/itizzy/MyGarden
I'll have to get more up on here as the summer progresses.
Happy Day!
Work is going great. I'm learning lots and learning to be OK with where I work. I switched my hours so I now work 7:30-4 and have a shorter commute. I'm also making a difference where I work. My team of 3 is the most productive of the 5 teams - we're carrying the company through this financial down-time and I'd like to think that I'm a big part of that. I'm no salesman, but I keep people on their toes, I keep my two bosses accountable and have helped to keep everything in order much more than the last person who had my job. It's nice. I suppose I've settled in nicely in the last 8 months. It's hard for me to even believe that it has been that long.
As for this summer, it's been quite hectic. Joel got in in May and we haven't slowed down since. He's in the crunch time for the bar exam currently and takes the test next Tuesday and Wednesday up in Albany, New York. I hope that the past 3 years of schooling and 3 months of intense studying end up paying off. He'll be looking for appts. soon in NY and then moving for good in early September. After that, it'll just be me and my folks here at the house. He's been pretty helpful in re-vamping our house. We revived the front of the house, installed a new door for my room, and added a climbing trellis for my garden. There's more, but those are the finest works of art.
We've been working out in the Flower and Vegetable gardens frequently this summer, I should like to some of the photos. My favorites are the Cannas, Gladiolas and Zinnias this summer for their vibrant colors.
In other news, Joel's sister just had her third kid (the sister out in Hawaii). She is 22 and has a 2.5 girl Aurora, 1.5 girl Savannah and 1 month old boy Kekoa Robin. They're adorable and I've had lots of fun getting little baby and toddler gifts for them. These clothes look like they could fit baby dolls. :)
Reading an Omnivore's Dilemna now, it's a dense book, but good. It has some very insightful points and is quite making me re-think my eating habits.
It's finally turned summer like here. Our cool days have past this past week and now we're in the mid 9o's each day. One thing about the Midwest that I do love is the thunderstorms. About 4 AM last night, there was thunder that shook the house and so much lightening. It lasted about a half hour and just down-poured. I loved it-though it was a bit scary at first as it sounds like a freight train or bombs or very loud noises in a half-conscious sleep.
For all the praying people out there, I'd like to send a request out for my grandpa and brother. My Grandpa fell on Sunday and I was at the ER with him and though no broken bones, he was quite showing his age. I can't imagine that is an easy transition, getting old and losing your memory. Second is for my brother as his foot wound is seemingly taking steps backward and he will be preparing for more surgery this fall...
I still love to cook and if anyone wants to see St. Louis before I head out of here for NYC, I welcome you! Has anyone run across any good recipes recently?
I envy everyone's adventures these days and love reading about them, please don't stop posting!
A good luck to all who are embarking on new adventures...
Pics of my garden: http://picasaweb.google.com/itizzy/MyGarden
I'll have to get more up on here as the summer progresses.
Happy Day!
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Farm Sightings
A re-post from the topside blog:
Ok, since there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that anyone will just pop up on my radar down here in St. Louis, I have to survive on other bits of farm. Music. Day after day of listening to eclectic music chosen by different people in the kitchen has stuck with me. In the past week, I have had encounters three times that have 'transported' me back.
After getting over my initial paralysis at hearing something so out of place, I eventually came up with the names of the Bands, and a little more searching led me to finding out the titles.
Ben Lee in Kohl's - We are all in this Together
UPS commercial with the Postal Service - the first 30 seconds of Such Great Heights
Kohl's again - Wrapped up in Books
Seems as if we here in the Midwest are a little behind in getting the music, trends, and fashion, but I guess that isn't really a new revelation. I just liked the little slice of something... familiar.
Ok, since there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that anyone will just pop up on my radar down here in St. Louis, I have to survive on other bits of farm. Music. Day after day of listening to eclectic music chosen by different people in the kitchen has stuck with me. In the past week, I have had encounters three times that have 'transported' me back.
After getting over my initial paralysis at hearing something so out of place, I eventually came up with the names of the Bands, and a little more searching led me to finding out the titles.
Ben Lee in Kohl's - We are all in this Together
UPS commercial with the Postal Service - the first 30 seconds of Such Great Heights
Kohl's again - Wrapped up in Books
Seems as if we here in the Midwest are a little behind in getting the music, trends, and fashion, but I guess that isn't really a new revelation. I just liked the little slice of something... familiar.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
A post devoted to the flood and Joel
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Rain - From Mar. 19 - forgot to post... or to finish wr...
It rained and rained the last few days. We got around 8" of rain in fact. That's quite unheard of for these areas. The last time I remember such a torrential downpour was back in Oct of '05 at the farm when Joel and I tried to go camping up in Maine. We started off down a road in MA having not checked the weather in advance and had to turn back a couple times from the road flooding out. We were off to check out the fall folliage and what we ended up doing was touring Maine in the rain and cloud cover and attempting to stay dry in a soggy tent. I remember, it let up for 15 min before we left camp and headed home where it started to rain again. Once we got back, we found out how much it had rained in Monterey and in Maine and saw the bridge was flooded and the roads had big gullies down the centers. What a memory. So, as it was raining hard all day long, I thought of the days of travelling. It inspired me to read ooold posts, ones from when I just started at the farm. I guess my nostaligia comes through here.
As for my life, Joel just left after being here for the week of his Spring Break. We did lots of things. I ended up losing a lot of sleep, we'd stay up late talking watching tv. When did I get to be such a junkie for tv? I don't even want to have one in the house, but somehow, from 10 until 11:30, I sit and watch the 'boob tube' as it's been called in my family. I don't have any idea how it got the name. It must be a midwestern thing too cause people around here use the term for the tv. 10:00 is Two and half Men, 10:30 is Everybody Loves Raymond and 11:00 is King of Queens. Around 11:30, I try to turn in
As for my life, Joel just left after being here for the week of his Spring Break. We did lots of things. I ended up losing a lot of sleep, we'd stay up late talking watching tv. When did I get to be such a junkie for tv? I don't even want to have one in the house, but somehow, from 10 until 11:30, I sit and watch the 'boob tube' as it's been called in my family. I don't have any idea how it got the name. It must be a midwestern thing too cause people around here use the term for the tv. 10:00 is Two and half Men, 10:30 is Everybody Loves Raymond and 11:00 is King of Queens. Around 11:30, I try to turn in
Friday, March 14, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
What is your name? Sarah
What is your quest? To find a purpose
What is your favorite color? Purple!
Ok. So, I have a job. I hate my job. I hate working for 'the man'. I hate corporate America. I can't even pretend to like it. I have a difficult time accepting my bosses who are money-grubbing fools. I don't like going to my job. I don't like my commute. I hate traffic with a passion. SUV's who think they are above the weather gods and can drive 50mph in 3'' of slush can go to hell quite frankly. You know what? Before the farm, I was fine. I was good. I was ok living in my world of naivete. I was okay with corporate America. Post-Farm, I suck at it. I hate it. It grinds on my very nerves. Every penny pinching job and action I do at work seem pointless. Yes, I'm doing my job, and I'm doing it very well. However, I get no satisfaction from it. I go home at the end of the day saying, yeah, good job, everything you didn't finish will still be there again tomorrow. It's getting to me. I find myself sinking into a funk, wishing it were time to quit this job and be on to the next... the next step of life. Hell, I'm getting married, that'll change things up. I'm ready for adventure and challenges. Instead, I'm in a job that believes in many things I don't appreciate any more, living in a house I grew up in, and in a city that I've outgrown. I guess you could say, I'm feeling a bit fruitless in my pursuit. I let things go that should have been finished long ago - Christmas cards - I still have 14 here that I'm going to send out... sometime. I just now cleaned my room to make it liveable after a few months.
I can go on, but I think I'm just whining. I think I need a new job. Has anyone else had a successful follow up to their job on the farm? Can really my best job in life be said that I was a cook on a farm?!!?
In other news, I'm getting over a 3 week long sinus infection reminiscent of my one from last Spring that landed me at the hospital and have thus been living in a haze for 3 weeks. Having a migraine for 2 of the 3 weeks made life amazing. Can you sense my sarcasm? * DRIP DRIP*
It just snowed a foot yesterday after a winter when we've had more snow than ever in my lifetime... hey, i thought I moved away from New England! It's Wednesday, and... it was also 80 degrees Sunday. In the happiest news of all, Joel gets here on Friday! He's coming in for his Spring Break, the last of his career as he is graduating in MAY!!! He'll be here in the 'Lou for the summer and then will be in NYC until I get there :) There we go, I feel like I'm in Peter Pan, that's my happy thought, the one that makes me float off the bed and fly...
Read some good books of recent: The Omnivore's Dilemna and I did just finish, Eat Pray Love. Both were pretty decent books, though oddly if you had asked while I was reading them if I liked them, I'd have said no. Odd... In retrospect, I enjoyed them, truly. I think the mood you go into a book with is often reflected in how you think about said book, or at least in my case it is.
Um, I've been reading correspondences from everyone, but with little energy to respond. I'm hoping to have that communication back up shortly. The meds are still tuning me out hard core.
I do miss cooking. I miss the big saucepans, 20 lbs. of beef and perfectly well done eggs in the morning. I miss the frangrances of the herbs, the chatter of our Argentinian Chef and the white board. I miss putting away stock, ducking in the fridge during the warm summer months and picking herbs out back from the garden. I miss the fresh veggies from Steve-o, the furtive glances of the hungry in the doorway, and the people. Nostalgia takes ahold of me every so often and I'm literally transported back into a time, a moment. A taste, a smell, a song even can take me there. It's special and I love those moments.
I just needed to put something, anything on paper. Now that the drought is over, I think I can write again more freely. BTW, I love reading everyone's blogs. It makes me feel like I'm talking to you. Peace.
What is your favorite color? Purple!
Ok. So, I have a job. I hate my job. I hate working for 'the man'. I hate corporate America. I can't even pretend to like it. I have a difficult time accepting my bosses who are money-grubbing fools. I don't like going to my job. I don't like my commute. I hate traffic with a passion. SUV's who think they are above the weather gods and can drive 50mph in 3'' of slush can go to hell quite frankly. You know what? Before the farm, I was fine. I was good. I was ok living in my world of naivete. I was okay with corporate America. Post-Farm, I suck at it. I hate it. It grinds on my very nerves. Every penny pinching job and action I do at work seem pointless. Yes, I'm doing my job, and I'm doing it very well. However, I get no satisfaction from it. I go home at the end of the day saying, yeah, good job, everything you didn't finish will still be there again tomorrow. It's getting to me. I find myself sinking into a funk, wishing it were time to quit this job and be on to the next... the next step of life. Hell, I'm getting married, that'll change things up. I'm ready for adventure and challenges. Instead, I'm in a job that believes in many things I don't appreciate any more, living in a house I grew up in, and in a city that I've outgrown. I guess you could say, I'm feeling a bit fruitless in my pursuit. I let things go that should have been finished long ago - Christmas cards - I still have 14 here that I'm going to send out... sometime. I just now cleaned my room to make it liveable after a few months.
I can go on, but I think I'm just whining. I think I need a new job. Has anyone else had a successful follow up to their job on the farm? Can really my best job in life be said that I was a cook on a farm?!!?
In other news, I'm getting over a 3 week long sinus infection reminiscent of my one from last Spring that landed me at the hospital and have thus been living in a haze for 3 weeks. Having a migraine for 2 of the 3 weeks made life amazing. Can you sense my sarcasm? * DRIP DRIP*
It just snowed a foot yesterday after a winter when we've had more snow than ever in my lifetime... hey, i thought I moved away from New England! It's Wednesday, and... it was also 80 degrees Sunday. In the happiest news of all, Joel gets here on Friday! He's coming in for his Spring Break, the last of his career as he is graduating in MAY!!! He'll be here in the 'Lou for the summer and then will be in NYC until I get there :) There we go, I feel like I'm in Peter Pan, that's my happy thought, the one that makes me float off the bed and fly...
Read some good books of recent: The Omnivore's Dilemna and I did just finish, Eat Pray Love. Both were pretty decent books, though oddly if you had asked while I was reading them if I liked them, I'd have said no. Odd... In retrospect, I enjoyed them, truly. I think the mood you go into a book with is often reflected in how you think about said book, or at least in my case it is.
Um, I've been reading correspondences from everyone, but with little energy to respond. I'm hoping to have that communication back up shortly. The meds are still tuning me out hard core.
I do miss cooking. I miss the big saucepans, 20 lbs. of beef and perfectly well done eggs in the morning. I miss the frangrances of the herbs, the chatter of our Argentinian Chef and the white board. I miss putting away stock, ducking in the fridge during the warm summer months and picking herbs out back from the garden. I miss the fresh veggies from Steve-o, the furtive glances of the hungry in the doorway, and the people. Nostalgia takes ahold of me every so often and I'm literally transported back into a time, a moment. A taste, a smell, a song even can take me there. It's special and I love those moments.
I just needed to put something, anything on paper. Now that the drought is over, I think I can write again more freely. BTW, I love reading everyone's blogs. It makes me feel like I'm talking to you. Peace.
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