Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! Or, here's the best greeting spelled out in lights I saw this year: Happy Holidays Jesus!! Nope, not Happy Birthday Jesus or just Happy Holidays, but Happy Holidays Jesus. It's the sacred/profane combo meal. Great.
Time to go shopping to get stuff for Belize. It just snowed here in SoDak. last night so thinking about the rainforest might warm me up a bit.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Good Day
I think today is going to be a good day. I just found out Lauren, a friend from my Geo-Marine job in FL last summer, just got rehired by them for a Kansas-Oklahoma pipeline project and will probably be in or near Wichita at some point. How exciting. I hope I'm not in Belize when she comes through.
I am also going to be entertaining people for the first time in the new home. Emily, Jeanette and Erin are coming for lunch on Friday. I think I might make butternut squash soup again and a chicken rice soup. Last time I made butternut squash bisque was a week ago. I only had an hour to do it because I wanted to go to an archaeology society meeting. I thought, "this should be enough time." Well it got down to ten minutes before I needed to leave for the meeting and the soup was just done cooking. I hurriedly poured the boiling hot soup into the blender and pushed "puree." The hot soup made the rubbery blender lid very pliable and it was not sealing well. That combined with the pressure from all the steam pushed the lid off while I was pureeing. The soup did not fly ALL over the room, but some of it got on the counter and my sleeve. Normally, I would have stopped and waited for the soup to cool, but I wanted to eat it before I had to leave so I just kept trying to puree it. Well, the lid flew off a couple more times just adding to the mess. I finally got all the soup pureed and the mess cleaned up, but I didn't have time to eat it or change my shirt. While I was at the meeting, I put my hand on my head and found I had butternut bisque in my hair. Mmm ... snack for later. Now I have learned my lesson and I want to try this again so I can get it right.
The other exciting thing about today is that I am meeting Jeremy for lunch at this hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant in Colwich. Jeremy raves about this place all the time. Okay, Colwich is really small and it is hard to believe they have a Chinese restaurant, especially a good one. We tried to go together two other times, but it was closed both times. Hopefully it will be open today. General Tso, get yo chicken ready, here I come.
I am also going to be entertaining people for the first time in the new home. Emily, Jeanette and Erin are coming for lunch on Friday. I think I might make butternut squash soup again and a chicken rice soup. Last time I made butternut squash bisque was a week ago. I only had an hour to do it because I wanted to go to an archaeology society meeting. I thought, "this should be enough time." Well it got down to ten minutes before I needed to leave for the meeting and the soup was just done cooking. I hurriedly poured the boiling hot soup into the blender and pushed "puree." The hot soup made the rubbery blender lid very pliable and it was not sealing well. That combined with the pressure from all the steam pushed the lid off while I was pureeing. The soup did not fly ALL over the room, but some of it got on the counter and my sleeve. Normally, I would have stopped and waited for the soup to cool, but I wanted to eat it before I had to leave so I just kept trying to puree it. Well, the lid flew off a couple more times just adding to the mess. I finally got all the soup pureed and the mess cleaned up, but I didn't have time to eat it or change my shirt. While I was at the meeting, I put my hand on my head and found I had butternut bisque in my hair. Mmm ... snack for later. Now I have learned my lesson and I want to try this again so I can get it right.
The other exciting thing about today is that I am meeting Jeremy for lunch at this hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant in Colwich. Jeremy raves about this place all the time. Okay, Colwich is really small and it is hard to believe they have a Chinese restaurant, especially a good one. We tried to go together two other times, but it was closed both times. Hopefully it will be open today. General Tso, get yo chicken ready, here I come.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
I Made the News ... but you have to look pretty hard
I have one exam left and then I am done for the semester. I still have some things to take care of for my job, but the stress of school will be in remission for a month after my test tonight. Yippy skippy. Perhaps I will take tomorrow off and just sit around all day watching tv.
As part of my job, I am a member of the Wichita Historic Preservation Board. We meet once a month and most of the time we just approve or deny things like electric signs in historic districts, renovations for historic buildings, and nominations to the National Register of Historic "Things" (i.e. buildings, monuments, places, districts etc.). Well, lately the meetings have gotten a lot more heated on account of the new arena and the county's proposed demolition of buildings in the arena's footprint. There were news reporters at the last meeting and I found myslef on tv. You can see it at www.kwch.com. The clip is called "Historic Buildings" and it aired Dec. 11. I am wearing a blue/green/yellow/pink striped sweater. I tried linking directly to the clip, but it kept linking to the film clip trouble shooting page instead. Apparently I'm not knowledgeable enough to link the clip and I don't have time to figure it out right now considering I really need to study for my exam tonight.
As part of my job, I am a member of the Wichita Historic Preservation Board. We meet once a month and most of the time we just approve or deny things like electric signs in historic districts, renovations for historic buildings, and nominations to the National Register of Historic "Things" (i.e. buildings, monuments, places, districts etc.). Well, lately the meetings have gotten a lot more heated on account of the new arena and the county's proposed demolition of buildings in the arena's footprint. There were news reporters at the last meeting and I found myslef on tv. You can see it at www.kwch.com. The clip is called "Historic Buildings" and it aired Dec. 11. I am wearing a blue/green/yellow/pink striped sweater. I tried linking directly to the clip, but it kept linking to the film clip trouble shooting page instead. Apparently I'm not knowledgeable enough to link the clip and I don't have time to figure it out right now considering I really need to study for my exam tonight.
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