Monday, November 30, 2009

this and that

it's almost december!!!!

tonight, i am going to bed hoping that the rain outside turns to snow and dreaming of snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes! (yes i am aware that it does not snow in southern virginia in december, but a girl can wish right?)

also, to put me further into the holiday mood pa-thug and i made a batch of Christmas cookies!


also, an update on our training: we finished the 10k just under 70 min!!! not 1/2 marathon pace but good for our first run together!




here is our official picture as we crossed the finish line (don't you love how my dad was sporting MIAMI!!!)

Thursday, November 26, 2009

happy thanksgiving!



hope everyone is having a great thanksgiving and getting very full off of good food!!!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

thanksgiving cooking

last night alex made some delicious cupcakes... hopefully she will post about them soon.  if you follow her on twitter you saw the pic of JC loving a pumpkin cupcake.


at my house lisa (with my help) made hot chocolate cupcakes!  her cowoker at work loved hot chocolate and its her birthday.  we are waiting to eat the extras until k-dawg and grandma and grandpa get here!


 



got the recipe from CUPCAKES GALORE by Gail Wagman  (it was a birthday present from MLF!!)

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Missing AJH

so many of you are beginning to make the long journey home for turkey day!!!  for the first year in 5 years i am staying put!  I am tres sad about this because this is also the first year in a few that i will not be picking AJH up from UD and transporting her home. 

our trips home in summary:
it was my senior year at the most amazing place on earth and her (ajh) freshman year and she stayed up all night on tuesday crying with her roommates becuase it would be the first time that year they would be separated.

FAST FORWARD ONE YEAR: i arrive at UD to pick AJH up and she is a wee bit hungover and smells like stale bar, she also made me stop at 4 exits looking for panda express because it was the only thing to cure her illness (irish flu).  We ended up getting a feast at Wendy's (they gave us the wrong order and our order!!- it was karma for paying for the cars behind us on the toll-way!)


I will miss her this year as she is not coming home.  perhaps i will have an extra gimlet or 3 for her!

Friday, November 20, 2009

girls weekend

its just me and lisa at home this weekend.  pa-thug and k-dawg have gone camping with the boy scouts.  Poor pa-thug.

tonight we are having buffalo chicken dip.  in college alex and i used to make this on tuesdays and get a 1.5l of sauvignon blanc.  this was not only classy but good on the waist line.

i am currently boiling the chicken and only wish lisa would let me drink a bottle or two of wine... i guess a gimlet will do!!!




recipe for buffalo chicken dip
1 pkg neufchatel cream cheese (low fat cream cheese)
1 can of chunked chicken (this grosses me out to no end so i boil chicken breast and shred them myself)
hot sauce (tonight we are using franks red-hot wing sauce)
cheddar cheese
blue cheese dressing

(if you have ever made sky-line dip (ohio people!!!) or chilli dip the prep will be familar)

decide if you want to cook in the oven or in the microwave (i always choose oven but its up to you!) if you choose oven turn to 350 and pre-heat!

take a glass dish such as a pie dish or a 9x13 (again this is your call) glass dish and spread the cream cheese on the bottom.
poor blue cheese dressing to cover all of the cream cheese
in a bowl put the chicken and put in hot sauce to taste (if you like heat add more!! with all the dairy do not be afraid to coat the chicken well!)
dump the chicken on top of the blue cheese
top generously with shredded cheddar cheese.

place in over and cook for 10 min until all cheese is melted or microwave (covered) for 5 min increments until cheese is melted. eat with chips!!!!




a picture will follow after we are done! (i told you i would add picutres!!)

Thursday, November 19, 2009

swirl

did you all sign up for daily candys new sample sale website???



Alisha Levine is the first sale and i am loving it!!! to bad i can't buy anything... (sad face)

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

lazy mornings with good friends...



we all know that i do not have a job and do basically nothing on MWF, so while laying in bed today i was chatting with Alex while she was at work.  this was the highlight of our conversation and pretty much encapsulates our conversation.

hopefully i can get a job soon...

Friday, November 13, 2009

New Obsession


Over the past week I have developed a new tv crush:  Mad Men.  I just ordered season 2 on amazon.com and plan to watch this weekend, as I am almost done with season 1 episodes.  I even got JPC to watch too.  Below is a picture of one of my favorite characters: Joan.  Seriously great drama.  Great Fashion.  What's not to like?

Hope everyone has a great weekend!  AMH is currently on her way to Chi for the wedding.  Hopefully she posts some pics when she returns!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

plung-a-way

have you all been seeing these folksy commercials for this product plunge-a-way?

its a "plant" to hid your plunger in the bathroom.  you have 3 options the banana plant, the palm plant (these too look a lot alike) or an ivy plant.

anyway they have a facebook group too.... its the second like in the google search.

would you buy this???

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

nor'easter

so there is a nor'easter moving off the coast.  being the hypochondriac/weather follower that i am i have deiced this should occupy my life until i leave for chicago. weather.com says:





good thing my i know how to properly accessorize my hunter wellies!

perhaps in another life i would warm up my visa and purchase this to properly ride out this east coast situation: vinyard vines



she just looks so happy in a jacket that insinuates impending doom or just 4 days of rain and strong hurricane force winds!  perhaps the winds will propel us to chicago FASTER!!!

Monday, November 9, 2009

Wedding Season

for most of you wedding season has ended, for me it is about to begin!  for the next 13 months i will have the privilege of celebrating the nuptials of 6 friends!  The wedding marathon begins this weekend and ends in what can only be one of the best new years ever celebrations of my life on 12/31/10.

i don't know if this is true for any of you but i feel that wedding season is shifting from summer to fall for my loved ones and personally i am quite excited!  fall and spring are the most beautiful times of year with all of the new growth of spring and the leaves and bright oranges and browns of fall.  The robust colours of autum are some of my favorites and with it being the season of thanksgiving is there a better time to celebrate the joining of two individuals?


the best part of the upcoming wedding season is that 2 of the weddings will also be a celebration of homecoming for two soldiers overseas.  Both my cousin and my dear friends KMW have had the most unimaginable task of sending their loved ones over seas to fight for our country!  I cannot wait to celebrate with them!

i cannot wait for everyone to start having babies!!!!!

Sunday, November 8, 2009

rant.

while we try and keep this blog a happy positive place i have a rant to share with you today!

last night my parents, my brother and i ate at Fellini's.  with all of us being new the the area we rely on the suggestions of friends and co-workers for places to eat!  we arrived and were told there was a 25 minute wait.  there was no waiting area except by the front door and it was quite chilly out side.  so we attempted to move to the bar.  i started as my mother went to get my brother and father.  as i made my way to the bar i was GRABBED by the hostess.  she litterly put her hands on me and yanked me backwards.  She told me there was no room for me at the bar.  Ok, i can accept that, EXCEPT just after that i watched 3 groups of middle aged people walk to the bar with out being stopped!!!!  During my 30 min wait for a table, i only once saw the hostess stop another person and that was a twenty-something couple, possible college students.

I approached the hostes and ask to have a word with her where i shared my observations.  She became hostile and continued to touch me.  Told me she did not have time to police the bar, but that was what she was doing to keep anyone not middle aged away.

I would have left but my parents insisted we stay.  I will NEVER go back.  if you live in the norfolk-virginia beach area DO NOT GO to this restaurant.

Oh and one other thing: THEY ALLOW SMOKING!!!!!  so not only was i treaty rudely but i was exposed unwillingly to a carcinogenic.  

rant over, enjoy your sunday!!!

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Friday, November 6, 2009

facebook.

over the past week i have been doing some life evaluation.  hence my sever absence from postcollegeproject.  as john mayer says it i'm having a quarter life crisis.  to he honest this has probably been going on for the past 2 years. (does this mean i'll live to 96??)

to alleviate some of the stress in my life i have decided to quit facebook.  i have done this in the past for a week or so at a time but this time i think it might be for a while.

i have weighted out the personal pros and cons for my life and for me it is the best choice.

I was one of the original facebook members.  It came out in 2004 my freshman year at miami and [lucky?]  for us miami was one of the original schools with access.  that's right facebook used to only be open to a few colleges!




i can now be reached at twitter, on the blog and in e-mail!!!

Monday, November 2, 2009

art we love

how insane is this?


all credit to rune guneriussen

you owe it to yourself to get lost on that website for 10 min today!!! 

busy week.

the curse of the procrastinator is that everything is more exciting then the task at hand.  my tasks for the week in a very important order are:

a. go to post office
b. study for test 1
b. see julie and julia (this could move down one...)
c. take test 1
d. go to class
e. VOTE!!!!
f. study for test 2 (and do the 6 chapters of reading that i just cannot DO!)
g go to class
h. take test 2

i got up at 7am to start on this nonsense and have been looking for jobs.  my life has come to resorting to looking for jobs as my procrastination tactic.  pathetic.

in more glorious news... I am loving my set of kiehl's rare earth .  no i did not purchase these they were my prize for winning the contest all of you so lovingly voted for!!!!