Goal Check-In

Remember my 52 goals?! Yeah, what was I thinking!? Well, it's only March so I think I'm going to survive.


Last month I finally cleaned out/organized my car, got an oil change, etc. I took my small cd case and put some of my neglected favorites in there so that I have new tunes for March! I even bought new seat covers because mine were kinda falling apart. (Note: Never buy cheap vinyly-looking ones cause they'll start chipping and tearing.) I got these light grey fabric ones. At first I was like oh, so boring but they were really inexpensive and the material I like. Now that they've been on there for a while I really like them. They match the grey-interior of my car and are pretty comfy!


One of my goals was to "explore the mines." Well, I found out that "the mines" are actually the preserves--one in the same. So, woops. Been there, done that. We did try to go back to go biking but it was the coldest, windiest, out of the blue day every and I turned back after probably biking 1/4 of a mile. We had even packed a picnic lunch. We drove to a park nearby and tried to eat there instead but I was still FREEZING my butt off (did I mention I was wearing shorts?) so we ended up eating in my car. We stopped at a cemetery on the way home. All the flowers had blown over in the wind so I tried to pick them up and put them back. Is that weird? ha.




We also went back to Pizza Fusion and got this giant pizza!


AND, *fangirl time* I MET HENRY ROLLINS THIS WEEKEND!!! eeeeek!!! I know, I know, you're so jealous, right? I wish I had been insightful enough to include this in my 52 goals. Still need to meet MacGyver.


So, I'm 8 goals down and have the rest of March to pick up 4 more. Today I'm gonna work on cleaning my messy room and organizing my closet (which happens to be another goal). Wish me luck!!


Any goals you're working on?

Kristi(E)

February in Review

February was a huge blur to me. Lots of ups and downs.

New Foods:

Okay, maybe this isn't EXACTLY new but I am in love with tofu scramble! I got this 'gimme lean sausage' for Marc. It comes in a giant roll like cookie dough would so I molded it to look like breakfast sausage. Also, RYE BREAD RULES! IDK how I ate other bread for so long. Plus hashbrowns, always gotta give credit to potatoes.

Spanikopita! So awesome. And phyllo dough really isn't as scary as I thought it would be. The first few I made did not look like pretty triangles but I got the hang of it pretty quick. Just tons of chopped up spinach, walnuts, I think I put some garlic and lemon and olive oil. Delicious!!

Avocado salad! I took the picture of the label so I could try to recreate it. Found this at my college and it's totally awesome!

Again, rye pumpernickel bread. This was one of the best dinners ever. Maple tempeh sammies, maple/cheezy broccolli and mashed sweet potatoes. This is the recipe for the broccoli. I added brown sugar and butter to the mashed potatoes and Marc is the tempeh master so I'm not positive what he did there!

Pumpkin/Chickpea fritters, garlicy kale, and mac-n-chz! The chickpea recipe can be found here and for the kale, I sauteed some garlic in olive oil and then cooked up the kale until it wilted. I really loved it!

And last but not least, this was Marc's Valentine's Day present--lots and lots (really I think I made 40 that day) of vegan Reese's hearts!! Let me know if you want a tutorial.

Other happenings:

Quit my job.

Bought a Universal Pass!

Started curling my hair (it's growing it's growing!), doing my makeup, deciding to wear clothes I don't hate. Oh this shirt is really awesome, check Deadworry out on Etsy. You know, now that I'm not a full time student working 40 hours a week I'm beginning to find time for myself.

Netflix:

So I feel really dorky admitting this but I'm sort of in love with this show, it's kind of a ditsy lawyer show.

So this model Deb dies and comes back as Jane, a big time lawyer--who happens to work with her ex-boyfriend but can't tell him who she really is. The first two seasons are on Netflix, the third you can find on the internet *coughcough and they've been signed for a fourth season this summer. So someone other than myself has to watch this show right!? It's on Lifetime but I really like it.

**SO I accidentally just closed out of my Internet browses instead of a tab. SOOO happy that blogger saves drafts. Geesh!

Watched this Ellen Page movie Mouth to Mouth. She has played some serious social commentaries in her youth. If you haven't seen Hard Candy you may not know what I mean but geez! Also, it looks like these two movies came out around the same time. She shaves her head in Mouth to Mouth and her head is shaved throughout all of Hard Candy. Tada. Private Investigator. I need to add a trigger warning to both of these movies. sex/violence.

This movie was so terrible! Basically, Nicholas Cage thinks he's a vampire. We are reading Dracula in one of my classes and my teacher mentioned this movie. I actually watched it the night of the maple tempeh sandwiches so at least dinner was good. However, if you've seen that youtube video of Nicholas Cage yelling in all of his films, the one where he yells the alphabet--that scene is from this film.

Who doesn't like a show about cupcakes? Unfortunately there's only about six episodes on Netflix but still good for a quiet afternoon/evening.

Also, I hate to post this but my rat Steve died this month :( Now Murphy is all alone but he doesn't seem to care. He took all the bedding and shoved it into the 'house' and seems to be enjoying his status as king of the castle. *cue scene from Borat*

Yup. This was basically my February. Worked on school and figuring out how to be 'me' again now that I'm not completely bombarded with work. Really want to apply to be a substitute but since it's almost summer they're not doing the training classes again until August. Still think I'm going to sign up. No real jobs who like 'people like me' in my current city of residence. Want to give myself some more time before I rush into another job I hate for the sake of 'paying the bills'. Being an adult. Didn't know how good I had it when I was snuggled up on my bookshelf bed reading Goosebumps :]