whisper in the dark - skillet
today was good.
=]
i got so much done.
and im happy for it.
<3anthonyjamespalanzaa.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
right now i am stuffed. i have never eaten so much in one sitting in my life.
and that's saying alot.. because allison and i definetely pack it in during sleepovers.
while i was at one of my clients today, her daughter came over and invited me to dinner with the two of them. we went to the good table in cape elizabeth/scarborough, which is a pretty sweet restaurant. we started off with deep fried mushrooms with a spicy cheese sauce, then we had soup, the only one that was the slightest bit appealing was clam chowder, they had other ones like ham and cauliflower, bean and bacon, etc... then with our main meals, came salads, so we had those as well. for my meal i had psari plaki, which is baked haddock with tomatoes and herbs on top. honestly, it was really gross, because it was lying in a puddle of water type liquid. not really my forte. then after we had finished all then, i thought we were done, but heavens no.
"who's ready for dessert?!"
*groans*
so then i also had peanut butter cheesecake.
after that we were finally done. =]
i'm probably not gunna eat until tomorrow im so full.
last night adam and i hung out. which was awesome, we had a really fun time.
we ate at pizza hut, and i owned him in the dot game. =]
after we ate we walked across the parking lot to the tiny, by tiny i mean 3 stores, mall where the theater is located.
we almost saw superhero movie, but he said that because it had started 15 minutes ago, they wouldnt be selling tickets for it. obviously they would still be selling tickets for it, unless they were all sold out, which i doubt is the case, but i was too lazy to argue with him. so we ended up seeing 10,000 bc, which was really really boring. i really wish we had seen something else. ohs wells. it was fun anyways. :)
and that's saying alot.. because allison and i definetely pack it in during sleepovers.
while i was at one of my clients today, her daughter came over and invited me to dinner with the two of them. we went to the good table in cape elizabeth/scarborough, which is a pretty sweet restaurant. we started off with deep fried mushrooms with a spicy cheese sauce, then we had soup, the only one that was the slightest bit appealing was clam chowder, they had other ones like ham and cauliflower, bean and bacon, etc... then with our main meals, came salads, so we had those as well. for my meal i had psari plaki, which is baked haddock with tomatoes and herbs on top. honestly, it was really gross, because it was lying in a puddle of water type liquid. not really my forte. then after we had finished all then, i thought we were done, but heavens no.
"who's ready for dessert?!"
*groans*
so then i also had peanut butter cheesecake.
after that we were finally done. =]
i'm probably not gunna eat until tomorrow im so full.
last night adam and i hung out. which was awesome, we had a really fun time.
we ate at pizza hut, and i owned him in the dot game. =]
after we ate we walked across the parking lot to the tiny, by tiny i mean 3 stores, mall where the theater is located.
we almost saw superhero movie, but he said that because it had started 15 minutes ago, they wouldnt be selling tickets for it. obviously they would still be selling tickets for it, unless they were all sold out, which i doubt is the case, but i was too lazy to argue with him. so we ended up seeing 10,000 bc, which was really really boring. i really wish we had seen something else. ohs wells. it was fun anyways. :)
Friday, March 28, 2008
cereal partay!
face down - red jumpsuit apparatus.
so today in psych everyone brought in a box of cereal and got to share it with everybody. it was amazing. i havent had cereal in forever.. i think the last time was at allisons bday party. and even then she didnt let me have her captain crunch. =( so i got to have captain crunch and grapenuts. both of which i havent had in a gajillion years. it was amazing.
tomorrow is going to be such a long day.
im working 7:30-5 at UPS.
then im heading out with adam to pizza hut
and we're gunna watch either 10,000 b.c. or
other movie, like superhero kid? i think its called..?
in any case it'll be fun.
my nose hurts, like i've been blowing my nose too much,
except i havent been doing that at all.
so im not sure why its hurting,
but im not impressed in the slightest.
so today in psych everyone brought in a box of cereal and got to share it with everybody. it was amazing. i havent had cereal in forever.. i think the last time was at allisons bday party. and even then she didnt let me have her captain crunch. =( so i got to have captain crunch and grapenuts. both of which i havent had in a gajillion years. it was amazing.
tomorrow is going to be such a long day.
im working 7:30-5 at UPS.
then im heading out with adam to pizza hut
and we're gunna watch either 10,000 b.c. or
other movie, like superhero kid? i think its called..?
in any case it'll be fun.
my nose hurts, like i've been blowing my nose too much,
except i havent been doing that at all.
so im not sure why its hurting,
but im not impressed in the slightest.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
blame on me - akon
tonight my culinary class put on a parent dinner at paths. it turned out really well. we had 18 parents show up, which was a lot more than chef anticipated. he didn't think anyone would want to come. but we definitely proved him wrong. =] we served swiss steak with a beef sauce or chicken with a marsala demi-glace (pronounced demi-gloss.. fyi) both with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and green beans. then for dessert we had peanut butter mousse pie or cheesecake. i had peanut butter mousse pie... i've been waiting all week to have some, and it was SO good. yum yum yum. for dinner i had the chicken with the beef sauce over it. i do not recommend mixing chicken and beef. it makes for a disgusting combination. trust me. the highlight of the night was when i finally was able to snap caesar with my towel. and i definitely got him good. =]
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so i just spent the last 85 minutes talking with allison on the phonee.
before hand we had talked for awhile... and now we're talking again.
we have such grand lives. =D
tomorrow im so excited for psych.
it's byob day.
everyone's supposed to bring
in a bowl and a box of cereal,
so that way we can have a
cereal party!
its going to be absolutely amazing.
and i cant wait.
it's the only reason i'm even
going to school tomorrow.
if we werent going to have the part,
i would have opted to stay home and sleep
until it was time for conferences.
allison - just so you know i have no pants on.
so i have a realllly busy schedule tomorrow.
i have school tomorrow till 8:20
then im going to paths to talk to talk to chef about my menu until 10:30
then im picking mom, kaylynn, and chelsea up at church from moms group.
then we have parent teacher conferences till 12:30
then we rush home so i can bring them home and pick up kaylynn
and then i bring her to the orthodontist.
after that i drop her off at home
and go to work until closing.
tonight my culinary class put on a parent dinner at paths. it turned out really well. we had 18 parents show up, which was a lot more than chef anticipated. he didn't think anyone would want to come. but we definitely proved him wrong. =] we served swiss steak with a beef sauce or chicken with a marsala demi-glace (pronounced demi-gloss.. fyi) both with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and green beans. then for dessert we had peanut butter mousse pie or cheesecake. i had peanut butter mousse pie... i've been waiting all week to have some, and it was SO good. yum yum yum. for dinner i had the chicken with the beef sauce over it. i do not recommend mixing chicken and beef. it makes for a disgusting combination. trust me. the highlight of the night was when i finally was able to snap caesar with my towel. and i definitely got him good. =]
j j j j j j j
jjjjjjjjjj
kkk
iiii
o
so i just spent the last 85 minutes talking with allison on the phonee.
before hand we had talked for awhile... and now we're talking again.
we have such grand lives. =D
tomorrow im so excited for psych.
it's byob day.
everyone's supposed to bring
in a bowl and a box of cereal,
so that way we can have a
cereal party!
its going to be absolutely amazing.
and i cant wait.
it's the only reason i'm even
going to school tomorrow.
if we werent going to have the part,
i would have opted to stay home and sleep
until it was time for conferences.
allison - just so you know i have no pants on.
so i have a realllly busy schedule tomorrow.
i have school tomorrow till 8:20
then im going to paths to talk to talk to chef about my menu until 10:30
then im picking mom, kaylynn, and chelsea up at church from moms group.
then we have parent teacher conferences till 12:30
then we rush home so i can bring them home and pick up kaylynn
and then i bring her to the orthodontist.
after that i drop her off at home
and go to work until closing.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
seems like just yesterday. we were the same.
todayy in psych we talked about whether or not when veterans from the iraq war come back, they should get disability benefits for the rest of their life. it got pretty heated between kelsey, jaclyn, jason and me. i really enjoy debating, but when people are so closed to other people opinions, like a couple were, its really hard to be able to talk about something. those two were very steadfast in believing that because you make the decision to go into the military, that you should not expect any money in return if you get hurt. they were saying that it was your choice to join the military, and fight in the war, and that you understand that by signing onto the military that theres a chance that you could get hurt and/or die.
i didnt get all bent of shape about that. the thing that really bugged me was that one of the girls said that when your back from iraq or wherever it is that you've gone to, if you come back with post traumatic stress disorder, you should suck it up, get over it, and move on with your life. i think that is so incredibly naive. if there's a chemical imbalance going on in your brain, you cant just get over it. depression and ptsd are both diseases, ones that mean something funky is going on in your head, something that you cannot control. so to just get over it is impossible. you cant just chemicals appear or disappear from the inner workings of your brain.
some people have really hard lives, maybe they grew up with only one or even no parental units in their life, guiding them through things, or they had a really hard time in school, either with a learning problem, or the circumstances were not great for learning. any of those things can attribute to a horrible childhood/teenage hood, and can make it so its hard to graduate from high school and go onto other things like college or even a job. someone might want to pursue a higher education in something like plane mechanics or medicine, and both of those things are hard to pursue either because of money or ability to find some place that will teach them what they want to know. so when they see the commercials and the advertisements on tv, magazines, school, and everywhere else known to man saying that the military is a great opportunity for the young person. the military will provide them with training and experience that will help them jump start their life. they also say that if needed, they will pay for your college after you give them a certain amount of time. sounds like a wonderful thing right? yeah it does. it sounds really good for a guy who just gets out a high school and still isn't sure what he wants to do with his life.
the men and women that serve overseas and here in america, are fighting for our country, and our freedom. they are the ones that allow us to keep living in our spoiled existence.
so who are we to tell them, "oh you're depressed because you saw a cat living in the chest cavity of a dead guy? you have ptsd and you jump every time you hear a car door slam, or you duck for cover every time a plane goes over head. oh well sorry.. we're too selfish to give you money to help treat you for your disease you got while fighting for america. i really need to be able to be able to get social security when im 85 and i need to be able to have three cars. just suck it up.. because really its all in your head."
its not their fault that they are depressed and have all these other issues. why is that we pay benefits for people who have lost a leg or an arm. we'll pay, as long as its on the outside, and we can see it. if its in your head, then forget it. that is what's happening, and i don't think that we should allow it to happen. and i do think we should put forth an act to pay benefits, or something of that sort to help these poor veterans live their life.
*phew*
.........
in culinary adam and i worked on eye of the round hunks of meat. it was incredibly disgusting. we each had a 20 lb piece to defatten and cut up. it was so gross, but i got over it and we had a lot of fun cutting it apart. i gave adam the piece that had alot of fat, and took the other one. the only problem was when i opened, there was a ton of blood in the package that spilt all over the board and counter. that was gross gross gross. yuck.
then i cooked up a couple of the steaks with a brown sauce for him and myself. it was really good if i do say so myself. =]
now im off to the grand ol' UPS store.
wahoo.
685
i didnt get all bent of shape about that. the thing that really bugged me was that one of the girls said that when your back from iraq or wherever it is that you've gone to, if you come back with post traumatic stress disorder, you should suck it up, get over it, and move on with your life. i think that is so incredibly naive. if there's a chemical imbalance going on in your brain, you cant just get over it. depression and ptsd are both diseases, ones that mean something funky is going on in your head, something that you cannot control. so to just get over it is impossible. you cant just chemicals appear or disappear from the inner workings of your brain.
some people have really hard lives, maybe they grew up with only one or even no parental units in their life, guiding them through things, or they had a really hard time in school, either with a learning problem, or the circumstances were not great for learning. any of those things can attribute to a horrible childhood/teenage hood, and can make it so its hard to graduate from high school and go onto other things like college or even a job. someone might want to pursue a higher education in something like plane mechanics or medicine, and both of those things are hard to pursue either because of money or ability to find some place that will teach them what they want to know. so when they see the commercials and the advertisements on tv, magazines, school, and everywhere else known to man saying that the military is a great opportunity for the young person. the military will provide them with training and experience that will help them jump start their life. they also say that if needed, they will pay for your college after you give them a certain amount of time. sounds like a wonderful thing right? yeah it does. it sounds really good for a guy who just gets out a high school and still isn't sure what he wants to do with his life.
the men and women that serve overseas and here in america, are fighting for our country, and our freedom. they are the ones that allow us to keep living in our spoiled existence.
so who are we to tell them, "oh you're depressed because you saw a cat living in the chest cavity of a dead guy? you have ptsd and you jump every time you hear a car door slam, or you duck for cover every time a plane goes over head. oh well sorry.. we're too selfish to give you money to help treat you for your disease you got while fighting for america. i really need to be able to be able to get social security when im 85 and i need to be able to have three cars. just suck it up.. because really its all in your head."
its not their fault that they are depressed and have all these other issues. why is that we pay benefits for people who have lost a leg or an arm. we'll pay, as long as its on the outside, and we can see it. if its in your head, then forget it. that is what's happening, and i don't think that we should allow it to happen. and i do think we should put forth an act to pay benefits, or something of that sort to help these poor veterans live their life.
*phew*
.........
in culinary adam and i worked on eye of the round hunks of meat. it was incredibly disgusting. we each had a 20 lb piece to defatten and cut up. it was so gross, but i got over it and we had a lot of fun cutting it apart. i gave adam the piece that had alot of fat, and took the other one. the only problem was when i opened, there was a ton of blood in the package that spilt all over the board and counter. that was gross gross gross. yuck.
then i cooked up a couple of the steaks with a brown sauce for him and myself. it was really good if i do say so myself. =]
now im off to the grand ol' UPS store.
wahoo.
685
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
its getting warmer =]
so today we had the cafe open at paths, because thursday and friday we only have half days. (wahoo!). adam, tom and myself manned the front, which was fun. i really enjoy working with them both. except for the fact that adam hates the front ahah. oh well. he lived through it.
chef and i talked about my internship that i'm going to be doing at the eastland hotel in downtown portland, and him and i are hopefully going to be visiting tomorrow. we'll be taking a tour and talking with the manager as well as the head chef. im hoping that the visit goes well, and that they are nice people... often people who work in restraunts/hotels are absolutely crazy, and not pleasant to be around. so hopefully this'll be a good experience because i want to be able to work there this summer and get a good 3/4 months of working there before i head to j&w.
yesterday morning when i got up, i saw that my hermit crab had come out of his shell, so later on i went to the kennel shop and got a new shell for him as well as this really cute dish for his water..(it basically takes up his entire cage thing, but whatever.) the only problem is that he hasnt moved since yesterday morning... i hope he's not dead, but you never can really tell with crabs, because they tend not to move alot. harumph.
after i got out of work tonight, i brought my bottles back to shaws. there was a heck of alot of bottlesssss. i got $8.65 from them. =]
599.
73.
chef and i talked about my internship that i'm going to be doing at the eastland hotel in downtown portland, and him and i are hopefully going to be visiting tomorrow. we'll be taking a tour and talking with the manager as well as the head chef. im hoping that the visit goes well, and that they are nice people... often people who work in restraunts/hotels are absolutely crazy, and not pleasant to be around. so hopefully this'll be a good experience because i want to be able to work there this summer and get a good 3/4 months of working there before i head to j&w.
yesterday morning when i got up, i saw that my hermit crab had come out of his shell, so later on i went to the kennel shop and got a new shell for him as well as this really cute dish for his water..(it basically takes up his entire cage thing, but whatever.) the only problem is that he hasnt moved since yesterday morning... i hope he's not dead, but you never can really tell with crabs, because they tend not to move alot. harumph.
after i got out of work tonight, i brought my bottles back to shaws. there was a heck of alot of bottlesssss. i got $8.65 from them. =]
599.
73.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
our redeemer lives.
happy easter. =]
last night april and i hung out for the first time in ages, and it was really fun.
so on the way to the mall, we stopped at cumbies to get slushies. she got strawberry banana, which tasted disgusting. i got a mix of blue raspberry, green apple and coke. pretty darn good.
so we were on our way again, stopped at a red light, and i noticed the interior light was on, and i mentioned it to april. somehow it was the funniest thing since sliced bread to her, and she proceeded to spit her bright red slushie all over her vest, shirt, pants and my car seat. we'll just say it didnt look like slushie.
we went to the mall so i could try to find something to wear today. I didnt succeed but thats okay. I found these sweet capri's (if only it would get warmer out..), as well as a shirt for $3. i also managed to lose her in aeropostale. which is saying alot because that store is flippin tiny.
this morning i got to church at 6:15 and had breakfast with chelsea, kaylynn, and mrs davidson. they had a huge amount of food. there were pancakes, biscuits with gravy, fruit, sausage, and more. it was kinda funny because everyone there besides us was at least 50 years. very weird.
chelsea and i decorated my room... we basically are amazing at drawing.
today i had to work 12-2:30. i got paid time and a half, so it made it a little less annoying.
right now kaylynns hair looks like it just got electrocuted.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
so today i gave blood.
it was incredibly gross,
because i could feel the
bloood gushing through
my veins and out into
the bag. which felt weird
and disgusting.
back in class, kj a second year
from last year came to visit
and see us all.
he basically looks the same.
this weekend adam and i are
gunna go see vantage point with
shannon && virginia possibly,
and it should be really fun.
that movie looks really good.
it was incredibly gross,
because i could feel the
bloood gushing through
my veins and out into
the bag. which felt weird
and disgusting.
back in class, kj a second year
from last year came to visit
and see us all.
he basically looks the same.
this weekend adam and i are
gunna go see vantage point with
shannon && virginia possibly,
and it should be really fun.
that movie looks really good.
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