Look how cute she is. Man I love being an uncle.
Author: meisaj
Living in the Cleve
Nervous Dog
Move over Bad Ass Coffee. I’ve found a coffee shop with a better name. Nervous Dog Coffee. Awesome. Awesome to the max.
Less Than a Week
Here it is less than a week until my birthday and I find myself wishing it was one of those years where I had no choice as for what I was doing for my birthday, like Carrie’s wedding or something. I spent that birthday in the Pittsburgh Airport getting drunk at a bar by myself for hours. As awful as that was, it almost sounds tempting as it takes doing anything big or special for my birthday out of my hands. I don’t really want to do anything, although, seemingly the friends I have out here want to do something for my birthday. They don’t quite get that I don’t care or want to do anything.
My birthday does nothing but make me reflect upon the last year. It hasn’t been a bad year by anymeans, but I’m not sure I’ve made much life progress. Things seem to have gotten busier and yet at the same time, duller maybe. I feel like its time for upheaval again. Or at least some adventure. But that requires someone to adventure with. I’m not sure I have that someone right now.
I don’t know. I’m still doing my daily drawings and have decided this will be the month to update my daily drawings page. I haven’t posted since October. It’ll be a little bit of an effort to get it up and running, but I’m sure I can. Keeping it updated might be another matter. I post from my iMac. My 2002 iMac. I can’t use my scanner with this guy, it needs a USB that it can draw power from, and isn’t compatible with this version of OS X. I can use it on my laptop, but my laptop, while not being busted, is pretty close to it. Whatever, I’ll make it work.
I came home tonight and wanted a jack and coke. I had two, and a whiskey on the rocks. Its over a longer period of time (got home at about 6 tonight and its past 11 right now, not like I’ve drank to excess or anything tonight), but the last time I poured myself a whiskey on the rocks was a long while ago. It sort of symbolizes (at least in my head) a time period of my life. So I found it odd that I just wanted one, haven’t had that craving in a while. Although whiskey is tastey.
Anyways. Enough rambling. Off to bed. Well I have to finish my whiskey first. Then bed.
E-bay
Dear person who outbid me by 9 cents,
I hate you….
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And your mother.
Sincerely,
AJ
Poor Planning
This just seems like poor planing. Why would you put a button for a crosswalk three feet from the sidewalk where no sane person is going to try to walk to when covered in snow? However even though I say that there certainly are footprints in the snow going over to the crosswalk button. Who!! Why!! I don’t even know if crosswalk buttons do anything. From my experience they don’t do anything. But someone was desparate enough to walk through 8 inches of snow to get to the button. Moronic. Of course the original idea of this post is that where the button was placed itself is moronic.
Buffalo Chicken Pizza
Sam and I have been making pizza from scratch lately. Not that pizza out here is bad, but particularly there is no place to get a good Buffalo Chicken Pizza.
Sam had told me once that her mom had this fantastic pizza dough recipe. Turns out her mom knows nothing about this fantastic pizza dough recipe, so instead Sam and I use Mitch’s Pizza Dough Recipe. It’s pretty basic, but makes great pizza dough and can be altered as you need it. One batch of dough using the recipe makes up two pizzas. We usually make one the first night (make the dough in the morning, pizza at night) and a second pizza either that night or the next day to take to work with us.
To make good Buffalo Chicken Pizza I got rid of the sauce and instead used a base of Blue Cheese Dressing mixed with Frank’s hot sauce. Not a lot of each, and more hot sauce than blue cheese dressing, but just enough to give a good solid coat to the dough. We then topped this with chicken (that has been doused with hot sauce as well) and some spices (we added some cajun spices). Make sure to dice the chicken up pretty good so you still have chunks, but smaller chunks. We have recently started to add a little Tapatio hot sauce for some more kick to the hotness.
Throw on cheese (Sam has some official twirl the cheese to put it on technique that just confuses me) and you’re ready to bake. We just use mozzarella or buy a bag of shredded Italian cheeses or Pizza blend to use. Toss it in the oven at 375 for about twenty minutes and you’ve got yourself a great pizza. Its started to become a staple around my apartment. Its also a nice weekend activity and meal.
