Monday, May 31, 2010

mmmmm

mmmmmmMONDAY. Well, sort of . . . it's sort of Tuesday . . . I time traveled. Finally fixed my flux capacitor . . . it was on the fritz. Pretty soon I will have never moved from San Diego to San Francisco, which means I will have never moved back to Ventura, and then to Sparks. I think I'll also go back and change my college major.

This past week I've done some things, made some money, spent some money, ate some food, drank way too much caffeine, and done some other things.

It's hard to post every Monday when you want to keep most of your life a secret . . . at least from certain people*. I should probably make my blog private, but I have to many anonymous readers.

* If you think you are one of these certain people, chances are you are not. How can you tell? Let's just say these people would definitely know, if you are just unsure then it's not you.

Monday, May 24, 2010

It must be Monday

Monday's seem to sneak up on me since I started PoEvMoFoReOfThYe (or something like that). Sometimes I even want to post on a different day of the week, but I resist for fear I might use up all my material for Monday. Then it's Monday and I've forgotten what it was I wanted to post about on said "different days".


I even have a white board in my apartment, and I wrote "blog ideas" on it, so that whenever I get an idea I can write it down. However, this doesn't always work because sometimes I'm in my car, or at work when I think of an idea, then by the time I get home I completely forget to write it down.

So here I am, trying to think of what it was I wanted to blog about and it's slowly coming back to me, so I think I'll talk about that now.

First of all, it's my older younger sister's birthday today so I would like to insert a special shout out to her right now.

Happy Birthday Older Younger Sister!

Secondly, I would like to talk about my bowling league.

I started last Thursday . . .and if I could use one word to describe what my bowling skills have become it would probably be . . . HORRIFIC.

I thought it would be like riding a bike, and in a way it sort of is, but you can't ride as fast for as long, and you definitely can't do some of the tricks you used to be able to do.

Our team is currently known as "Team 7", and it is comprised of myself, one of my super secret job coworkers (we'll call him M), and a couple who I will refer to as R and D.

Myself and M sort of scored the same, D was a little worse, and R is kind of amazing. Apparently his family has been bowling his whole life. He knows more about bowling than me, so obviously he's really good.

As a team we lost all three games, but it was also our first week, while everyone else was on their second week. This is important because it means that everyone else had already established their averages and had been given handicaps to go along with them. We were playing without handicaps, so we lost each game by several hundred pins.

One thing I forgot in my 13 year absence from league bowling is something I find to be really annoying . . . high fiving . . . no, you don't just high five your team members, you high five EV-ERY-ONE. And it isn't necessarily because you got a strike or picked up a spare, sometimes it's just a "good effort" high five. So pretty much after every frame . . . for every person . . . your giving eight different high fives. Is this really necessary?

All in all I am happy to be back in the game, but I need to find the time to practice more.

Thirdly, I made another batch of cupcakes for a different friends birthday. I learned from my previous mistakes and set the oven to 325 degrees. I also added more vegetable oil to the batter. I felt that these cupcakes were ten times better than the previous batch.

Finally, I am currently watching "Who's the Boss", and I must say, this show is terrible, and yet, for some reason, I keep watching it. AAAAANNNND . . . in the opening credits there is a guy named BUD WISER . . . he's some sort of producer. Really? . . .REALLY?

Monday, May 17, 2010

cupcakes

First things first. It's important that you all know I will be joining a bowling league this summer. It's time I focused on my career.

Now on to my cupcake adventure . . .

Today I forced myself to get out of bed at 8:30 in the morning so I could make cupcakes for my friends birthday.

Those of you who know me well, know I can't cook, and since baking is along the same lines, I can't do that either. But I wanted to make them for my friend so I did what anyone who can't cook or bake would do, I bought a box of cupcake mix.

When I started to make them I pretty much got confused on the first step in the directions. They said " Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees for glass and metal pans, for darkly coated pans, preheat the oven to 325 degrees".

BUT WHAT IF MY PAN IS DARK IN COLOR AND METAL!???

Contrary to the capital letters I just used, I remained calm. "I'll call my mom" I thought . . . "No, my mom is never up this early" . . . "I know! I'll text T! . . . Wait, she's at work" . . . "The beast? . . . Will she even know the answer? . . . WHATEVER, I'll just set the damn thing for 350 degrees."

Okay, crisis averted . . . or at least overlooked.

The second problem occurred in step 2 . . . I couldn't catch a break.

Step 2 : "Blend in large bowl at a low speed until moistened" . . . as in, with a mixer . . . I have no mixer . . . I was surprised I even had a cupcake pan.

Luckily I'm really strong and can whisk my little heart out.

Side note: Whisking a bowl of cake mix should be a machine at the gym . . . it's a good workout.

I feel like if you asked anyone what the most annoying thing about making cupcakes is they would all say the same thing: pouring the batter into the little cups.

These thoughts might go through your head while you're doing so:

"Did I pour too much in that one?"

"Damnit, I got some on the pan!"

"Why is it pouring so fast?"

"Crap, I don't have enough batter for that last cup."

At least that's what went through my head while I was pouring the batter.

I put them in the oven and 20ish minutes later they were done. They looked pretty good. But how did they taste?

When they were cool enough to eat, I had to do a quality check. I decided to eat it without frosting, because . . . well . . . I didn't feel like frosting it.

The first bite was pretty disappointing. It was a little dry.

I don't understand why it was so dry because the box clearly said "Moist Deluxe" . . . liars.

I frosted them anyway, and did another quality check a little later. I thought "perhaps they will taste better with the frosting on them".

They sure did. The frosting covered up the dryness of the cupcake quite well.

Mission accomplished.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Oops

I woke up this morning and realized that I forgot to post yesterday.

Am I ashamed of myself? Yes

Am I a huge hypocrite? Yes

Do I feel empty inside? Yes

Do I have a good excuse for what I've done? Maybe

Did anyone try to remind me to post via twitter? No

Did someone else NOT post again? Yes

Does he have a good excuse? Doubtful

Can we pretend today is Monday? You tell me.

Did it snow last night? Yes

Isn't it May though? Sure is.

Well then why is it still so cold? Probably because the world is about to end.

Am I going to talk about my garage sale adventure some more? No, no I don't think so.

Can I change "Post Every Monday For the Rest of the Year" to "Post Once a Week For the Rest of the Year"? Yes, I think I have that kind of power. . . . PoOnWeFoReYe (Poonweeforyee)?

Problem solved? Yes

Monday, May 3, 2010

Garage Sales

On Saturday I went on my first garage sale expedition. Yes, I've been to a garage sale before, but not like this . . . this time was different. This time I went looking for them. The other garage sales I had been to were just ones that I had stumbled upon . . . basically when they were on my block.

A few of my friends and I met at 7:30 am on Saturday (keep in mind this is the earliest I've had to wake up in like 6 months) and set out looking. Three of us were amateurs, while the fourth one was an expert. She was our leader, she could just sense where they were . . . if she thought we should go left, we went left and so on.

We found some pretty great stuff too, but I won't get into the details of every item purchased . . . at least right now.

I think I'll finish this post next Monday.