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First week of 2020
Jan. 11th, 2020 10:01 amThis week was full of surprises.
Jameson invited some friends over to the house for next week. I'm really excited! It's just an evening hang, no special occasion, but this is the first time we've had people over to the house. I've never really been a host before because frankly I've never had a space of my own to host with haha. I'm gonna clean up the house and we'll both prepare some nice food. We already have a great game collection. Yay!
I've also received an opportunity to interview for a higher position at my workplace. Yay! Who knows what will come of it, but I'm very happy for the opportunity to interview and glad to have a workplace that responds to applications. A pretty rare thing, I've learned.
And I've started court reporting classes. So far it's just going over the syllabus, but I'm sure things will pick up next week. It's so odd to be doing classes online. But hopefully it will be worth it. I've got a lot of hope invested in this choice, and not a lot of promise of reward. But there's only one life to live, and I've go to try. I owe it to myself and the people I love.
What else! My plants continue to do well, it's only been about a week so there's not been much change. A few of the lobelias bloomed and the herbs seem to be thriving.
On Thursday I made a soup mix that my Aunt had got for me the last time we visited. It's got lentils and rice, and you add broth, a variety of veggies, and meat of your choice and simmer it for about two hours. I made some chicken and turkey meatballs with parsley from my little garden. It turned out great, although a little spicy because I overdid the cayenne pepper.
I also made some "energy bars" using the base recipe from The Joy of Cooking.
There are only four ingredients: dates, almonds, cocoa powder, and a little salt.
Put them in a blender and shape them into bars or balls. Tadaaaaa.
These were super simple and they're very tasty. Alton Brown has a recipe for these in his cookbook as well, it's a bit more complicated and involves a lot more ingredients (coconut, flax seeds, pepitas, etc), so once these are consumed I'll be trying to make his next.
I was going to make salmon skewers with farro salad for dinner on Friday, but instead we decided to go to Seasons 52 for a little something special. No occasion, my parents got us a gift card and we thought it'd be nice to use it :)
I got a lovely piece of tuna on a bed of mint tabouli with tomatoes, and lemon hummus on the side. It was REALLY good, especially with a glass of red wine and an espresso dessert shot afterward!
As I type this we're chilling, digesting, watching some gaming speed runs on GDQ.
It's been a nice week. I hope 2020 will continue to be kind to us.
Jameson invited some friends over to the house for next week. I'm really excited! It's just an evening hang, no special occasion, but this is the first time we've had people over to the house. I've never really been a host before because frankly I've never had a space of my own to host with haha. I'm gonna clean up the house and we'll both prepare some nice food. We already have a great game collection. Yay!
I've also received an opportunity to interview for a higher position at my workplace. Yay! Who knows what will come of it, but I'm very happy for the opportunity to interview and glad to have a workplace that responds to applications. A pretty rare thing, I've learned.
And I've started court reporting classes. So far it's just going over the syllabus, but I'm sure things will pick up next week. It's so odd to be doing classes online. But hopefully it will be worth it. I've got a lot of hope invested in this choice, and not a lot of promise of reward. But there's only one life to live, and I've go to try. I owe it to myself and the people I love.
What else! My plants continue to do well, it's only been about a week so there's not been much change. A few of the lobelias bloomed and the herbs seem to be thriving.
On Thursday I made a soup mix that my Aunt had got for me the last time we visited. It's got lentils and rice, and you add broth, a variety of veggies, and meat of your choice and simmer it for about two hours. I made some chicken and turkey meatballs with parsley from my little garden. It turned out great, although a little spicy because I overdid the cayenne pepper.
I also made some "energy bars" using the base recipe from The Joy of Cooking.
There are only four ingredients: dates, almonds, cocoa powder, and a little salt.
Put them in a blender and shape them into bars or balls. Tadaaaaa.
These were super simple and they're very tasty. Alton Brown has a recipe for these in his cookbook as well, it's a bit more complicated and involves a lot more ingredients (coconut, flax seeds, pepitas, etc), so once these are consumed I'll be trying to make his next.
I was going to make salmon skewers with farro salad for dinner on Friday, but instead we decided to go to Seasons 52 for a little something special. No occasion, my parents got us a gift card and we thought it'd be nice to use it :)
I got a lovely piece of tuna on a bed of mint tabouli with tomatoes, and lemon hummus on the side. It was REALLY good, especially with a glass of red wine and an espresso dessert shot afterward!
As I type this we're chilling, digesting, watching some gaming speed runs on GDQ.
It's been a nice week. I hope 2020 will continue to be kind to us.
