a weekend to myself
as i mentioned last week, marshall was away for the weekend, leaving me to my own devices friday through most of sunday. i'd like to say that i painted the town red, tripped the light fantastic, or something equally as fun and exciting. well, i didn't. while i thought of moving the furniture around in the bedroom (i'm really itching for some kind of change-up if we're not moving anytime soon), i realized that i would not be able to move much of the furniture on my own. so, the bedroom was left alone. well, i did manage to clean things up and put things away. that's something, right?
anyway, i was quite boring this weekend. i spent friday night in watching the giants game and then catching up on the archer episodes that were available on-demand. our DVR totally lost our recording settings for archer and so we're WAY behind for this season. anyway, i'm somewhat caught up now, but i'm hoping FX decides to re-air some of the mid-season episodes at some point AND that our DVR doesn't lose our recordings again. *sigh* i woke up early saturday morning so i could ride my bike to L&P's for breakfast. i guess the main thing is that i survived the ride. it had been a little more than a month since i had last ridden my bike. that was a ride to my sister's place for dinner one evening. that was a slightly shorter ride and it didn't involve any hills. the ride to L&P's? one giant hill right at the beginning of the ride. it's an overpass, which i've ridden over before, but on THAT trip this hill was toward the end of the ride, so i was warmed up and had some momentum. i also think that coming from the other direction, the hill is much more gradual. anyway, i was on the granny-est of granny gears at the top of the hill and had to make some car wait while i got over to the side before they could merge. it was horrible. my lungs were burning and my body was tired. even a mile later my lungs were still burning and i was starting to feel just slightly dizzy. i am so horribly out of shape. i never realized how much being in school takes it out of me. i keep having to remind myself that last year at this time i was in shape because i wasn't taking any classes and i was able to wake up at 6am for triathlon training. i missing being in shape. so anyway, i made it and breakfast was good. L&P were nice enough to give me a ride home, since i didn't think i could make it home. the rest of the afternoon was making things to take to nicole's house for our girls' night of TV and sangria.
nicole made a delicious mushroom risotto. i made more of the caprese salad bites i made for her benefit party last weekend and i also made a tray of brownies. my sister kept raving about the boxed brownie mix from trader joe's. so, i decided to make some for that night. they were quite delicious, i'll agree. the night was low-key. we watched a few episodes of sex in the city and then a few episodes of friends. it was only appropriate that both nicole and i fell alseep on the couch at around 11:30pm. :P i was actually surprised i fell asleep. i opened my eyes and when the episode of friends we were just watching was over i actually was shocked. but yeah, it was time to call it a night.
sunday was productive. well, somewhat productive. it really could've been more productive than it ended up being. i did wake up and walk to the farmer's market, where i bought a few things for dinner that night (fresh goat cheese and roasted garlic ravioli from the santa cruz pasta factory) and the week (russian red kale and freshly-made duck sausage). i came home and decided while i ate lunch (a delicious to-go meal from the oaxacan booth at the farmer's market) i would watch easy a, which i picked up from target on saturday. that movie was awesome. while the plot kinda came in fits and starts, i thought the overall movie was highly entertaining. i loved everyone in the movie, even if some of the actors (like the guy who played woodchuck todd) were NOT high-school age (yeah, there's no way woodchuck todd was young enough to pull off being a high school student). grocery shopping was a one-stop event this week (normally i visit whole foods then safeway for grocery shopping), which was nice. i made a quick pomodoro sauce for our ravioli for dinner and it was fresh and hot when marshall came home later in the evening.
i was happy to have him home again. i did miss him over the weekend. although, i also did enjoy the time i had to myself, even as boring as it ended up being. we ended our weekend with a couple of episodes of weeds. i'm really starting to wonder if or when they're going to stop making the show. nancy (and, honestly, all the other characters) keeps digging her hole deeper and deeper that i don't see her getting out of it without something as drastic as a "rocks fall; everyone dies" situation. i will say that the season we're on (season 5) is better than season 4, but i'm curious how this season ends and season 6 (which we also have) begins...
oh yeah, i also managed to almost catch up with the naruto manga. i had stopped a few months ago and just kept up with the anime. granted, there was about a month when i stopped watching that because it was just annoying filler episodes. they finally picked up the manga storyline a few weeks ago, so i've been enjoying finally seeing the manga play out. so, i decided to pick up the manga again and i'm almost caught up. honestly, and i know it has to do with the fact that manga is written with kids in mind, i have a much easier time reading manga than i do american comic books. it usually takes me a number of tries on one 2-pg spread before i can comprehend what exactly is going on. first i make an initial pass on the 2 pages on the whole. then i go again looking ONLY at the dialog and thought bubbles. next, i concentrate only on the artwork/action. finally, i do another pass again, looking at the whole of everything. only then do i feel i understand enough to continue on. considering i can fly through books, this makes me feel incredibly stupid. but manga? i find manga pretty easy to follow. i dunno. so yeah, that was my big accomplishment this weekend.
i'm coming into the final 3 weeks of the semester. i'm looking forward to the end of this semester. i am worried about my final project for my research methods class. writing a research proposal just seems so daunting, even if we have already completed the majority of the work required already. but putting it all together into a research proposal format just seems big. my other project has really taken a backseat to my research class and i feel bad. normally i'm really attentive with group projects. i think the fact that there are 6 people in our group, i'm able to just sorta sit back without being noticed. i have signed up to work on the presentation and i've offered to actually GIVE our presentation, so i shouldn't feel too bad. i have an assignment for that class i have to do tonight, which is a screencast tutorial. i am going to be walking someone through creating a livejournal account, upload a user pic, how to make a post, and how to search and follow people or communities. so, um, if any of you find a random new follower after tonight, it's probably just my example account. :P i'm kinda hung-up on what my username should be. i was thinking of doing something nerdy like choosing a literary or comic book character. oooo, maybe i'll make a LJ account for pam, from archer!
...god, do we hate pam.
anyway, i was quite boring this weekend. i spent friday night in watching the giants game and then catching up on the archer episodes that were available on-demand. our DVR totally lost our recording settings for archer and so we're WAY behind for this season. anyway, i'm somewhat caught up now, but i'm hoping FX decides to re-air some of the mid-season episodes at some point AND that our DVR doesn't lose our recordings again. *sigh* i woke up early saturday morning so i could ride my bike to L&P's for breakfast. i guess the main thing is that i survived the ride. it had been a little more than a month since i had last ridden my bike. that was a ride to my sister's place for dinner one evening. that was a slightly shorter ride and it didn't involve any hills. the ride to L&P's? one giant hill right at the beginning of the ride. it's an overpass, which i've ridden over before, but on THAT trip this hill was toward the end of the ride, so i was warmed up and had some momentum. i also think that coming from the other direction, the hill is much more gradual. anyway, i was on the granny-est of granny gears at the top of the hill and had to make some car wait while i got over to the side before they could merge. it was horrible. my lungs were burning and my body was tired. even a mile later my lungs were still burning and i was starting to feel just slightly dizzy. i am so horribly out of shape. i never realized how much being in school takes it out of me. i keep having to remind myself that last year at this time i was in shape because i wasn't taking any classes and i was able to wake up at 6am for triathlon training. i missing being in shape. so anyway, i made it and breakfast was good. L&P were nice enough to give me a ride home, since i didn't think i could make it home. the rest of the afternoon was making things to take to nicole's house for our girls' night of TV and sangria.
nicole made a delicious mushroom risotto. i made more of the caprese salad bites i made for her benefit party last weekend and i also made a tray of brownies. my sister kept raving about the boxed brownie mix from trader joe's. so, i decided to make some for that night. they were quite delicious, i'll agree. the night was low-key. we watched a few episodes of sex in the city and then a few episodes of friends. it was only appropriate that both nicole and i fell alseep on the couch at around 11:30pm. :P i was actually surprised i fell asleep. i opened my eyes and when the episode of friends we were just watching was over i actually was shocked. but yeah, it was time to call it a night.
sunday was productive. well, somewhat productive. it really could've been more productive than it ended up being. i did wake up and walk to the farmer's market, where i bought a few things for dinner that night (fresh goat cheese and roasted garlic ravioli from the santa cruz pasta factory) and the week (russian red kale and freshly-made duck sausage). i came home and decided while i ate lunch (a delicious to-go meal from the oaxacan booth at the farmer's market) i would watch easy a, which i picked up from target on saturday. that movie was awesome. while the plot kinda came in fits and starts, i thought the overall movie was highly entertaining. i loved everyone in the movie, even if some of the actors (like the guy who played woodchuck todd) were NOT high-school age (yeah, there's no way woodchuck todd was young enough to pull off being a high school student). grocery shopping was a one-stop event this week (normally i visit whole foods then safeway for grocery shopping), which was nice. i made a quick pomodoro sauce for our ravioli for dinner and it was fresh and hot when marshall came home later in the evening.
i was happy to have him home again. i did miss him over the weekend. although, i also did enjoy the time i had to myself, even as boring as it ended up being. we ended our weekend with a couple of episodes of weeds. i'm really starting to wonder if or when they're going to stop making the show. nancy (and, honestly, all the other characters) keeps digging her hole deeper and deeper that i don't see her getting out of it without something as drastic as a "rocks fall; everyone dies" situation. i will say that the season we're on (season 5) is better than season 4, but i'm curious how this season ends and season 6 (which we also have) begins...
oh yeah, i also managed to almost catch up with the naruto manga. i had stopped a few months ago and just kept up with the anime. granted, there was about a month when i stopped watching that because it was just annoying filler episodes. they finally picked up the manga storyline a few weeks ago, so i've been enjoying finally seeing the manga play out. so, i decided to pick up the manga again and i'm almost caught up. honestly, and i know it has to do with the fact that manga is written with kids in mind, i have a much easier time reading manga than i do american comic books. it usually takes me a number of tries on one 2-pg spread before i can comprehend what exactly is going on. first i make an initial pass on the 2 pages on the whole. then i go again looking ONLY at the dialog and thought bubbles. next, i concentrate only on the artwork/action. finally, i do another pass again, looking at the whole of everything. only then do i feel i understand enough to continue on. considering i can fly through books, this makes me feel incredibly stupid. but manga? i find manga pretty easy to follow. i dunno. so yeah, that was my big accomplishment this weekend.
i'm coming into the final 3 weeks of the semester. i'm looking forward to the end of this semester. i am worried about my final project for my research methods class. writing a research proposal just seems so daunting, even if we have already completed the majority of the work required already. but putting it all together into a research proposal format just seems big. my other project has really taken a backseat to my research class and i feel bad. normally i'm really attentive with group projects. i think the fact that there are 6 people in our group, i'm able to just sorta sit back without being noticed. i have signed up to work on the presentation and i've offered to actually GIVE our presentation, so i shouldn't feel too bad. i have an assignment for that class i have to do tonight, which is a screencast tutorial. i am going to be walking someone through creating a livejournal account, upload a user pic, how to make a post, and how to search and follow people or communities. so, um, if any of you find a random new follower after tonight, it's probably just my example account. :P i'm kinda hung-up on what my username should be. i was thinking of doing something nerdy like choosing a literary or comic book character. oooo, maybe i'll make a LJ account for pam, from archer!
...god, do we hate pam.