Dear winter hat
Posted on | January 27, 2012 | No Comments
Come back to me. I haven’t seen you since I moved. You’re probably in a box in the closet.
Hopefully.
McDonalds
Posted on | January 25, 2012 | No Comments
Dear drivers heading to McDonald’s at 6:45 am,
I’m glad that know where the brake pedal is. Less glad though that you don’t know where your turn signal is. Also that you only know how to slam on your brakes while performing a daily scientific experiment to see how close you can come to driving past the entrance and still safely make it into McDonald’s.
I hate you. And am really close to following you into McDonald’s and getting my tire iron out and showing you how much I hate you.
Your friend,
AJ
Can’t stand
Posted on | January 21, 2012 | No Comments
I can’t stand seeing Autobot or Decepticon decals on cars.
Maybe a decade ago and three Michael Bay movies that seemed like a good idea and are entertaining enough but leave a bad taste in your I would have thought it was pretty cool. In that nostalgia kind of way.
Now it just seems moronic.
No Rain
Posted on | January 20, 2012 | No Comments
Guess who woke up to no water in his apartment. Not going to be able to shower before work today.
Although that beats yesterday when I woke up to the ceiling falling in. The apartment above us has a leak somewhere (probably in their radiator judging by where the leak is) and I definitely found a couple chunks of ceiling plaster on the floor.
Dinner
Posted on | January 14, 2012 | No Comments
Sam and I are trying to get into a dinner routine. Trying to cook something new or more involved each week.
Our usual recipes include Cajun chicken Alfredo, rice and marinated chicken, something perogi based, pizza (from scratch), soft pretzels (from scratch) and wraps (chicken, turkey, veggie). We also make veggie tacos using Morningstar fake meat once a week.
So far we’ve experimented with chili, chowder and stew (slow cooker woo!!). This morning we shared a big omelette. I cooked it up with black beans, salsa, and cheese. We threw on some cilantro and oregano from our new spice rack and put some taco sauce on the side to dip it in. It was awesome.
Our big success lately has been breading our own chicken with panko. We have tried pan frying and baking it. Using egg in the coating and without. We also have let the chicken breasts marinate in buttermilk (which was awesome) before coating it with panko.
Anyways, here’s a picture of our meal from Thursday night. Sam did most of the cooking. She used a panko, corn meal and flour breading with some random spices. We served it with green beans and both honey mustard and Franks hot sauce for dipping.
Sam says the leftover chicken was good cut up in a salad the next day. If it had any failing it was that we didn’t put enough spices into the breading. It was a little bland by our standards (we really like our food spicy).
Garbage
Posted on | January 14, 2012 | No Comments
“Because we should never leave the apartment without garbage in our hands.”
And that’s how you end a conversation with your significant other.
Dear Matt Lavin
Posted on | January 11, 2012 | No Comments
Dear Matt Lavin,
I had a dream you tried to steal my wallet.
Don’t do it!
I’ve perfected my judo chop and will use it.
Consider yourself warned.
~AJ
Meow
Posted on | January 3, 2012 | No Comments
“Meow.”
“Meow.”
“I hear you Angelo.”
“Meow.”
“Yes, I know you used the litter box. You don’t have to announce your poo.”
“Meow.”
“I don’t care that you pooed.”
“Meow.”
“Why are you staring at me?”
“Meow.”
“Please stop.”
Looks back at litter box. “Meow.”
“I’m not picking it up now. I’m not a slave to you.”
“Meow.”
“Fine.”
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He’s a persistent kitty.
New Year’s and Random Resoluteness
Posted on | January 2, 2012 | No Comments
So I don’t ever take seriously making New Year’s Resolutions. I always figure if I am going to start something I should start it.
But on the other hand I understand the significance of a turning point. I remember a few years ago where a dream on New Year’s seemed significant. At the very least I woke up and felt like I had turned a corner (from what had otherwise been a downward trend). And I suppose New Year’s Resolutions set nice goals, however temporary they seem for most people.
So to that end let me make my list like everyone else does:
- I plan to continue drawing. A drawing for each day. I admit, I fall behind, but I strive to always catch up. I take my sketchbook every where so that I can draw in the minutes I have. Its important to me, and makes me feel good.
- I plan to exercise regularly. I started this one a while ago. I started biking 40 minutes a day after work. I’ve fallen off the bandwagon over Christmas Break as I haven’t kept a regular schedule. So in order to improve my exercising I need to set it as part of my schedule even when I am not keeping a regular schedule. I can do that.
- Keep the apartment cleaner. I’ve been slowly de-cluttering my stuff over the last couple months. A few small things here, a few small things there. We did some small rearranging, moved a bookcase to the bedroom (and got rid of six books in the move), organized what was left in the living room. Kitchen is next on the list. We’ve been more on top of the dishes and doing laundry.
- I don’t know, more outdoors stuff.
The thing with these goals is that I’m not reinventing the wheel, or doing anything new, I’m just building on top of what I’m doing now. And I kinda think that is how it should be.
The Idiocy of Politics
Posted on | January 1, 2012 | No Comments
I just read a fantastic article about how multiple candidates in the Republic Presidential Run-off didn’t meet the requirements to be on the Virginia Primary Ballot.
Doing a little digging it looks like this is the first year Virginia is actually verifying signatures collected by Primary candidates. In previous years anyone who turned in 10,000 signatures that were only supposedly from Virginia citizens were put on the primary ballot. This year Virginia changed primary law to say that signatures would be have to be verified. Not a big change, primary candidates were supposed to get valid signatures anyways.
However, aside from Gingrich, who blames his shortfall of signatures on one “paid volunteer” committing fraud, the others don’t seem to have a leg to stand on. Huntsman, Bachmann, and Santorum never even turned in signatures and a petition to be in the Virginia Primary, and Perry just didn’t have enough signatures.
My favorite part of all this is the candidates are suing to be on the primary ballot. In their suit they claim they should be on the ballot to save money for the state and party that the lawsuit would entail. Basically, we can’t meet your criteria, criteria you are unfairly enforcing this year (aka – verifying signatures that are supposed to be from Virginian citizens actually are from Virginia citizens), so we will sue to be on the ballot anyways.
Forget state rights, forget following the rules, forget that the State Political Parties create Primary Rules for their Parties (aka – the Virginian Republican party created the primary rules for Republican candidates for the state). Forget all that. We didn’t follow the rules set up by our own party in the state, so we’re going to sue to get our way. By the way you should let us on there to save money we would otherwise force you to use defending these unfair rules.
That certainly does sound American these days. Not Presidential though.
Candidates Join Perry’s Virginia Lawsuit
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