sleep all day

I apologize for being a horrible blogger and not updating once since Friday morning. See me grovel.

Friday night the boy and I watched Magnolia, which was...uhm...weird? I didn't really know much about the movie, except that there were lots of big names in it, Aimee Mann's Wise Up is used for the soundtrack at one point and frogs fall from the sky. I did't know, for instance, that it was THREE HOURS LONG. At the end of those three hours? I still didn't really get it. Or the frogs falling from the sky. Or why everyone was just screaming obscenities at eachother. Oh well.

Friday we went grocery shopping and picked up our DRESSER!!!!! And there was much rejoicing. I forgot to take pictures of it, but now it's between my side of the bed and the closet, so not only do we get to put our stuff in drawers, I get to put my jewelry box somewhere other than the floor and I get a nightstand. Nate is using the window sill, since we had to push the bed over to make room for the dresser. My biceps are sore from carrying the dresser from the car to the apartment, which is probably just another indicator that I should really start working out more, because the dresser isn't that heavy.

The QFC that we wound up at for grocery shopping was kind of expensive, compared to the place we usually go, so we wound up only getting necessary things...and booze. For our Sunday pizza extravaganza. After QFC, we stopped by the shelter to look at kitties. The shelter here is very small, which might be a good thing. It also might just be indicative of other animal rescue efforts in the area, like the Humane Society and another organization I found called 'Paws.' We hung out with Stripes and Gabriella, and of course, Nate fell in love with Stripes and I fell in love with Gabriella. Maybe because all she wanted to do was sit on my lap. And I feel bad because she's so lovey, and she's been at the shelter for almost two months. Sad =(

Sunday was the Superbowl. I made sure to watch lots of Say Yess to the Dress and Sex and the City episodes during the day, in preparation for the football later. Also, we ordered this:

Yup, that's Pizza Hut's Big Dipper. For the two of us. It's pretty much all we ate all day, besides Lay's new Chili Cheese Chips, Tortilla Chips and Salsa (for Nate) and a tuna sandwich (for me.) It actually turned out to not be that much food, especially when we stretched it out over eight hours. It was kind of perfect, too, because it's basically cheese sticks with pizza toppings that you dip (if you want -- which I don't) in marinara sauce. Yum!

So to balance out all the pizza for yesterday, I have granola, vanilla yogurt and the rest of my blue. We got a whole box of fresh-made granola at QFC for 99 cents as a "managers special," which probably means it wasn't all that fresh, but it's granola, so who cares!? It's absolutely delicious. It has cashews in it and everything.

Delish!

In other news, we might be getting a bed frame tonight, if Nate doesn't have to work. It's like we're real people living in a real house. Fancy that.

-C

Gameday!

My friend and I had plans to go out today to the science museum, so I wasn't stuck watching football with the boy, but we're lazy and it's rainy, and she decided to just come over last night instead, so I'm sitting at home. Watching football. Well, Nate is watching football. I'm sitting on the couch, pretending to be interested in what's going on. I'm not very good at pretending ;)

I made dinner last night, which was fantastic, for my friend and myself. We had salmon, coucous and fresh brussel sprouts sauteed in garlic, lemon and butter. Easily my favorite recipe for brussel sprouts. (Really though, who doesn't love things sauteed in garlic and butter.) I felt like the whole lemon was a little too much citrus for the amount of brussel sprouts we had, so the next time I make them, I'll measure stuff out and post the recipe with the correct amount of sprout to butter/garlic/lemon ratio.

Today, we are having our weekend staples: nachos and an easy tortilla soup recipe that I've modified into a bean dip. It's kind of addicting, but also super easy. And you can make it on the stove or in a crock pot!

Ingredients:
1 can vegetable broth
1 can sweet corn (drained)
1 can black beans (I usually try and drain these and then give up, b/c the liquid they're in is so thick)
1 can diced tomatoes (unseasoned, drained)
1 can refried beans
shredded cheese

Directions:
Dump everything except the cheese into the pot/crock pot and heat it up (medium on the stove, high on the crock pot,) stirring occasionally to mix everything together. When it gets to a kind of soupy consistency, add cheese and continue stirring. Once the cheese is melted, you are ready to enjoy with some tortilla chips!

(as a sidenote -- if you don't like cheese, don't eat cheese or you just don't have that much cheese, I'd probably suggest using about half the can of vegetable broth, unless you want to eat it as a soup. The whole can of vegetable broth makes it pretty soupy!)

Nate and I would eat the entire recipe's worth in one sitting, if we didn't care about how FAT we got in the process.

The Hawks lost earlier (our new team to root for, based on geographic location and the fact that they never show the East Coast games here,) but the Pats game is about to start, so it's about to get REAL LOUD up in here.

Who are y'all rooting for? Or are you like me, and just watch because you like the people you live with ;)

-C

p.s. Maybe I should invest in some earplugs...

kivinen tie

Ok, so I don't really like football, but the Seahawks just ran a 67 yard touchdown against the Saints. This game is a little ridic.

In any case, I've made the same thing for the past two nights for dinner, but I feel like I have an excuse because a) we only did half the grocery shopping today and b) I only had about 15 minutes to slap something together so Nate could eat before he went to work this evening.

The half of the grocery shopping we did was to the Asian grocery store (Uwojimaya, or some craziness like that,) is the part of the shopping that always makes me feel grateful that we live in this part of town. We got:

-one acorn squash
-one spaghetti squash
-three large yellow onions
-shallots
-garlic
-bananas
-brussel sprouts
-two sweet potatoes
-three purple potatoes
-one pound of pre-sliced white mushrooms
-fresh basil
and probably something else I'm forgetting FOR $20.

And then we went to our favorite little tiny Asian market down the street, because they have really cheap  meats, and discovered they have whole chicken breasts for $3.50. We didn't buy them today, because their salmon shipment hadn't come in for the day, so we're going back tomorrow, because you have to spend at least $5 to use a card of any kind. WIN!

I also was fairly decent looking today, even though we were only leaving the house for about 45 minutes. I even straightened my bangs, to make them look a little more socially acceptable. Be impressed!

Today's outfit consists of:
-off-brand Coral T-Shirt with Rockstar Design on the front (because, you know, I'm 14)
-Express Zelda Grey Skinnies. These things are the best, especially because they are SUPER blinged out and make me feel fancy. Express calls them jeggings, but they aren't really. They're more just really skinny jeans, not leggings mean to look like jeans. And because I refuse to say I own jeggings. I mean, really.
-Express Black, White & Metallic Silver Circle Scarf
-Chucks, black with light blue detail
-Forever 21 Grey Quilted Jacket with furry hood

Nothing too fancy, but I at least feel like I tried before I left the house.

Nate is at work this evening, so I'm by my lonesome. I'll probably play some Wii in a little bit, but for now, I'm hanging out on the couch listening to music and poking around in the new Mac App store.

-C