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Monday, April 04, 2005
Tired and stressed
Busy season is finally dying. Finally. I think I am too though. I mean, I really do love what I'm doing, but the long hours are getting to me.
Of course this whole time changing thing isn't helping matters, AT ALL! Why on earth do we keep up this stupid tradition anyways? I vote that we get rid of it in Alaska, and preferably throughout the US. It would make life so much easier.
Well, anyways, as you can tell, I've been working a lot. This weekend was fairly relaxing though. (Although it didn't help much today apparently.) Friday night, John and I went to Boston's for dinner (he hadn't been there yet), and then we went dancing at Club Soraya. I only danced with someone other than John once, and didn't get to do any salsas, but it was fun anyways. John, though, needs to not workout so hard the day of a dance, and he needs to not be scared to dance more than just merengue (I got him to do one or two bachatas). It'd help if he had time to take some dance classes too, but time is generally an issue there, which I understand all too well.
Saturday I finally made it in to work by a bit after noon and worked until nearly 5. 55 hour weeks don't allow for free weekends very well. Work was more stressful than usual, but I think that was mostly due to me not wanting to be there at all. After work I went shopping for some ingredients to make some costa rican dishes, and also something to make for dinner at John's. I made egg noodles with Campbell's cream of broccoli soup and broccoli on them. A variation on my favorite dish that my mom always made, which I love. And it's so easy! John loved it, so much that the next day he bought the ingredients to make it himself. John's mom might be a gourmet chef, but he still swoons over the simple stuff... i.e. my and my mom's style. ;) After dinner we went swimming for a bit, then watched Office Space.
Sunday morning... well, afternoon, I woke up thinking it was probably about 10ish, looked at my cell phone for the time and it was 12:15 p.m.! I was completely shocked. Sad thing is, I didn't discover until a few hours later that the time had changed that night. But I got up and started figuring out what ingredients I still needed for my costa rican dishes. I had only gotten the fancier ones the day before. So John and I came up with a list of things to buy and went shopping. Then I spent the afternoon taking over John's parents' kitchen (it's bigger than John's), making yuca frita (fried yuca), guacamole, tortillas con queso (cheese tortillas), and cajeta de leche (milk fudge). John was in his apartment making some sort of fancy chicken with mushrooms and a lemon herb sauce. It was very relaxing just cooking away, on my own terms and with my own timeframe. It was all a big experiment, since the only thing I'd made before was guacamole, and even that was an experiment, cause the avocados weren't as ripe as they should have been, so it took more talent in the seasoning department. Well, at any rate, the food (John's and mine) turned out well. The two of us and John's dad sat down and enjoyed it (i.e. stuffed ourselves). Then I drove home barely in time to get to bed on time, but still managed to stay up way too late. Then I couldn't get to sleep when I did try. *sigh* Stupid time change.
Well, that's the story of my weekend. I'm on a 50 hour schedule this week and am supposed to be on only 40 hours starting next week. That will be heaven! Hopefully it really does happen that soon. At any rate, 50 is better than 55, so I'm not complaining.
I'm sure there was more I wanted to say, but as always, this blog is forever long anyways, so good day all!
P.S. Did I really just say "good day" at 9 o'clock at night??? It's too damn light outside!
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Of course this whole time changing thing isn't helping matters, AT ALL! Why on earth do we keep up this stupid tradition anyways? I vote that we get rid of it in Alaska, and preferably throughout the US. It would make life so much easier.
Well, anyways, as you can tell, I've been working a lot. This weekend was fairly relaxing though. (Although it didn't help much today apparently.) Friday night, John and I went to Boston's for dinner (he hadn't been there yet), and then we went dancing at Club Soraya. I only danced with someone other than John once, and didn't get to do any salsas, but it was fun anyways. John, though, needs to not workout so hard the day of a dance, and he needs to not be scared to dance more than just merengue (I got him to do one or two bachatas). It'd help if he had time to take some dance classes too, but time is generally an issue there, which I understand all too well.
Saturday I finally made it in to work by a bit after noon and worked until nearly 5. 55 hour weeks don't allow for free weekends very well. Work was more stressful than usual, but I think that was mostly due to me not wanting to be there at all. After work I went shopping for some ingredients to make some costa rican dishes, and also something to make for dinner at John's. I made egg noodles with Campbell's cream of broccoli soup and broccoli on them. A variation on my favorite dish that my mom always made, which I love. And it's so easy! John loved it, so much that the next day he bought the ingredients to make it himself. John's mom might be a gourmet chef, but he still swoons over the simple stuff... i.e. my and my mom's style. ;) After dinner we went swimming for a bit, then watched Office Space.
Sunday morning... well, afternoon, I woke up thinking it was probably about 10ish, looked at my cell phone for the time and it was 12:15 p.m.! I was completely shocked. Sad thing is, I didn't discover until a few hours later that the time had changed that night. But I got up and started figuring out what ingredients I still needed for my costa rican dishes. I had only gotten the fancier ones the day before. So John and I came up with a list of things to buy and went shopping. Then I spent the afternoon taking over John's parents' kitchen (it's bigger than John's), making yuca frita (fried yuca), guacamole, tortillas con queso (cheese tortillas), and cajeta de leche (milk fudge). John was in his apartment making some sort of fancy chicken with mushrooms and a lemon herb sauce. It was very relaxing just cooking away, on my own terms and with my own timeframe. It was all a big experiment, since the only thing I'd made before was guacamole, and even that was an experiment, cause the avocados weren't as ripe as they should have been, so it took more talent in the seasoning department. Well, at any rate, the food (John's and mine) turned out well. The two of us and John's dad sat down and enjoyed it (i.e. stuffed ourselves). Then I drove home barely in time to get to bed on time, but still managed to stay up way too late. Then I couldn't get to sleep when I did try. *sigh* Stupid time change.
Well, that's the story of my weekend. I'm on a 50 hour schedule this week and am supposed to be on only 40 hours starting next week. That will be heaven! Hopefully it really does happen that soon. At any rate, 50 is better than 55, so I'm not complaining.
I'm sure there was more I wanted to say, but as always, this blog is forever long anyways, so good day all!
P.S. Did I really just say "good day" at 9 o'clock at night??? It's too damn light outside!
