One of my go-to recipes is cheese and spinach quiche because it's easy and delicious and makes 3 meals. However, I inevitably have about a half cup of half and half left over, which usually gets thrown out. Tonight, however, I decided I was going to use it in a recipe, despite the fact that I had zero plans to go to the grocery store and not a lot ( Read more... )

Crushed ribs: On Saturday, I made the mistake of running standing straight up into contact against a scary 200 lb. prop. She dump tackled me, complete with pile-driving elbow to the chest*, and I spent the next minute or so curled up in a ball on the field making those scary, high-pitched wheezing noises you make when your lungs have been smashed ( Read more... )

"Ahimsa, I just had four eggs for breakfast. FOUR. EGGS. When did I become the sort of person who eats FOUR EGGS for breakfast ( Read more... )

Last night, I had a really vivid dream - well, actually, I had a lot of really vivid dreams*, but the one I'm talking about involved cottage cheese. I dreamed I went to the grocery store and bought cottage cheese, and that I went home and put it in the fridge. I could remember the purple container decorated with clouds and cows so vividly that when ( Read more... )

In 2009, I will NOT try to pretend that eating a bag of popcorn counts as eating a real meal.

So far, I am 0/1 on this resolution.

THINGS THAT MAKE ME FEEL LIKE A REAL ADULT ( Read more... )

I am currently enjoying a delicious snack of insta-miso soup. It is warm and yummy and, combined with the dried mango and crackers I have in my desk, a very good snack ( Read more... )

I love food. Food is awesome. Yes, I have a tendency to forget to eat it sometimes.... but, as my $75 grocery bill* from yesterday will attest, this merely signifies the shortness of my attention span, rather than my feelings regarding food ( Read more... )

Right now I am eating an omelettebreadfood that I made up for dinner. It's a whole onion, two cloves of garlic, and a carrot cut into really tiny pieces and cooked in a pan, to which I added two eggs swished with milk and a little butter. When the eggs were cooked, I dumped the whole thing on top of a piece of bread I'd toasted with a slice of ( Read more... )

Things I accomplished today:

1) Opened a bank account
It exists pretty much only so that I can a refund on my insurance (which I am required to sign up for... oh Japanese bureacracy!), but I got a shiny bank book with flowers on the front to go with it.

2) Bought a phoneI can now call people! Er, people in Japan. But I can also text Julia, which ( Read more... )