Even bigger news...
Well, according to dropsofblood when I spoke to her this morning, she's actually coming home tomorrow now. We were planning to spend Friday night somewhere else so her mom and brother could stay at the apartment, but since I have to work Friday...I guess we're stuck at home tomorrow night. :-( We have a LOT of catching up to do...lol...
What did I do last night? Hmm...perhaps dropsofblood would be better to answer that than I.... Anyway. I tried to make dinner. I tried to get creative, that was the problem. I'm normally great in the kitchen, so you'd think something as simple as deep-fried tilapia and hush puppies would have been easy enough (I know, I know...I'm supposed to be living healthy...but I joined the gym yesterday, so that was my healthy act...the rest of the day was a freebie). Well, the hush puppies were the victim of oil that was too hot (outsides developed a perfect dark brown crust, insides were...well....doughy and soggy. LOL. The fish was ok, but tilapia isn't exactly the best fish to deep fry. The fillets are very thin and it's quite a delicate fish. Relatively flavorless when you fry it, too...much better broiled or on the grill. So, long story short, I ate the fish standing in the kitchen while making hush puppies, threw all the hush puppies in the garbage disposal, realized the fish hadn't tasted like anything and wasn't filling at all, and ate a bowl of Special K and Silk. (Didn't see that coming, did you? I turned that meal around into a healthy one in a hurry...lol.) You know, I could have just had the bowl of cereal and been done with it...and then I wouldn't have oil all over the stove, refrigerator, sink, countertops, various articles of my clothing, etc. That's the other good reason not to fry anything....I spent a half hour cleaning the kitchen last night and found more oil this morning. Ugh...
Well, I'm busy at work today, so I'll keep it short. I'm a little nervous about dropsofblood coming home. I'm hoping we're able to find her a car and that everything works out. I'm sure it will. When the eventual time comes for the wedding we're looking at probably 10 people each. My idea is we rent a cabin in Red River Gorge in the Daniel Boone National Forest. There is a nice little wedding gazebo where we can have the ceremony, all the guests can get together at a cabin (based on whoever happens to rent the biggest one, lol) for a reception (i.e. dinner, drinking, snacks, drinking...kinda like Christmas...lol), then we all go to our seperate cabins for the night, we'll host a breakfast at our cabin the next morning for all the guests who wish to come by, and that's that. After that, guests are free to stay in their cabin or go home or do whatever, but after breakfast the morning after our cabin officially becomes our honeymoon suite and is off-limits to everyone...period. LOL.
The whole thing should be quite the fiasco. My parents and her parents have never met, my dad has never met my step-dad, my mom has never met my step-mom. None of my mom's side have met my step-brothers or step-sister-in-law... Wow...maybe we should elope and have 3 seperate parties, one for her family, one for my mom's side, one for my dad's side--what do ya think? Yeah...I didn't think it would fly either, but I was hoping!!
Life's good. I've officially finished school (well, I mean, "officially" is such a relative term, lol). I've got my certificate. I just need Speech, Math, and Science to get my AA. (Six years to get an AA...wow.) Once I have the AA I'll be like a year away from my BBA though. I've put off my three core classes above far too long. I'll take German (for Speech/Comm credit) first because it interests me. Then I'll take Astronomy or Meteorology for the same reason. Then all I have left is Math (which I'm dreading). My thought is if I save the worst one for last I can just keep in mind that it's the only thing standing between me and my degree. I've got my Bachelors program all set up and ready to go, and may take some of those classes while I finish my AA. If only I knew back in '00 what I know now...I could have an MBA by now...
But it's cool. I learned from the exploits, I'm back on track. I'm financially, physically, and emotionally more healthy than I've ever been. (Oh yay, I got debt-free just in time to take out loans for my last year of my Bachelors....and grad school...well planned, Mike!!)
Hope everyone is well. Even if you're not you can pretend you're happy, and we'll all pretend we don't know better. ;-)
What did I do last night? Hmm...perhaps dropsofblood would be better to answer that than I.... Anyway. I tried to make dinner. I tried to get creative, that was the problem. I'm normally great in the kitchen, so you'd think something as simple as deep-fried tilapia and hush puppies would have been easy enough (I know, I know...I'm supposed to be living healthy...but I joined the gym yesterday, so that was my healthy act...the rest of the day was a freebie). Well, the hush puppies were the victim of oil that was too hot (outsides developed a perfect dark brown crust, insides were...well....doughy and soggy. LOL. The fish was ok, but tilapia isn't exactly the best fish to deep fry. The fillets are very thin and it's quite a delicate fish. Relatively flavorless when you fry it, too...much better broiled or on the grill. So, long story short, I ate the fish standing in the kitchen while making hush puppies, threw all the hush puppies in the garbage disposal, realized the fish hadn't tasted like anything and wasn't filling at all, and ate a bowl of Special K and Silk. (Didn't see that coming, did you? I turned that meal around into a healthy one in a hurry...lol.) You know, I could have just had the bowl of cereal and been done with it...and then I wouldn't have oil all over the stove, refrigerator, sink, countertops, various articles of my clothing, etc. That's the other good reason not to fry anything....I spent a half hour cleaning the kitchen last night and found more oil this morning. Ugh...
Well, I'm busy at work today, so I'll keep it short. I'm a little nervous about dropsofblood coming home. I'm hoping we're able to find her a car and that everything works out. I'm sure it will. When the eventual time comes for the wedding we're looking at probably 10 people each. My idea is we rent a cabin in Red River Gorge in the Daniel Boone National Forest. There is a nice little wedding gazebo where we can have the ceremony, all the guests can get together at a cabin (based on whoever happens to rent the biggest one, lol) for a reception (i.e. dinner, drinking, snacks, drinking...kinda like Christmas...lol), then we all go to our seperate cabins for the night, we'll host a breakfast at our cabin the next morning for all the guests who wish to come by, and that's that. After that, guests are free to stay in their cabin or go home or do whatever, but after breakfast the morning after our cabin officially becomes our honeymoon suite and is off-limits to everyone...period. LOL.
The whole thing should be quite the fiasco. My parents and her parents have never met, my dad has never met my step-dad, my mom has never met my step-mom. None of my mom's side have met my step-brothers or step-sister-in-law... Wow...maybe we should elope and have 3 seperate parties, one for her family, one for my mom's side, one for my dad's side--what do ya think? Yeah...I didn't think it would fly either, but I was hoping!!
Life's good. I've officially finished school (well, I mean, "officially" is such a relative term, lol). I've got my certificate. I just need Speech, Math, and Science to get my AA. (Six years to get an AA...wow.) Once I have the AA I'll be like a year away from my BBA though. I've put off my three core classes above far too long. I'll take German (for Speech/Comm credit) first because it interests me. Then I'll take Astronomy or Meteorology for the same reason. Then all I have left is Math (which I'm dreading). My thought is if I save the worst one for last I can just keep in mind that it's the only thing standing between me and my degree. I've got my Bachelors program all set up and ready to go, and may take some of those classes while I finish my AA. If only I knew back in '00 what I know now...I could have an MBA by now...
But it's cool. I learned from the exploits, I'm back on track. I'm financially, physically, and emotionally more healthy than I've ever been. (Oh yay, I got debt-free just in time to take out loans for my last year of my Bachelors....and grad school...well planned, Mike!!)
Hope everyone is well. Even if you're not you can pretend you're happy, and we'll all pretend we don't know better. ;-)