School has started and lots of studying has commenced.
Trying to get a job: laboratory, winery, administrative, or accounting.
Classes I'm taking: organic chemistry and bookkeeping.
Leaving my schedule open for a job ... which seems to keep eluding me.
Remaking my resume today, perhaps that will help.
Got a call from my college today (the one I'm getting the degree from, not the junior college I
am attending) ... they wanted to know if I passed the chemistry class last year. Nope ... blamed it on a death in the family and an excruciatingly painful high ankle sprain. I'm still feeling the effects of both.
Discovered what to do with all of our peppers in the garden ... the grill! Last year we pickled lots of them which I want to do this year as we ate all of those from last year. We love giardiniera (italian pickled veggies) and chilies en escabeche (mexican pickled veggies). Giardiniera is composed of a hoj poj of veggies with shallots, onions, zucchini, blends of peppers, little tomatoes, carrots, and cauliflower ... pickled with just the right amount of spice. The chilies done Mexican style are the spicy peppers with
shallots and onion with 2 types of vinegar and olive oil. Some people tell me the olive oil is the key.
The poppers made from garden fatter peppers (like jalapeno and lipstick) are flying right into everyone's mouths. We just can't seem to make enough! The last two time we stuffed them we made them with cream cheese, cheddar cheese, proscuitto, and onion bits. Mmmm, this sounds so good I'm ready to make another batch right now! I bought the pepper roaster from Sur La Table as really it has a neat tool for coring the peppers. Ben said it took a little while to get used to making them and in this attached picture he proudly shows them off! We put foil in the rack to coat the holes and make the holes custom sized for each pepper as we were doing a smaller batch than the roaster normally fitted.
I was highly irritated waking up this morning when my Wii decided to not sync or communicate with all my remotes randomly. Is this normal?
At any rate I had to go through the minorly frustrating task of re-syncing them.
I'm in love with playing Twilight Princess, the newish Zelda, however after playing all these other games that have implemented more interaction for the RPGs this one does seem quite lacking. I just keep reminding myself that it was designed in Japan probably over some years starting with an older engine.
Adam and I were in escrow on a house but backed out when we found out the septic, leach lines, and well all had issues and to top it off there was an encroachment. Yikes! An additional 60k would have been needed to fix it all ... too much of a headache with the bank not working with us. You'd think the banks would want to get these properties off their hands! But no, still profit hungry. It would have closed yesterday, sigh. When we will find a house?
Oh well, I don't have a job to help support it so it's probably all for the best.
I'm taking Lotensin for my blood pressure which now in the fourth month seems to work well. It's a beta-blocker which turns a hydroxyl group into a ketone in the liver. I've been meaning to pick up some milk thistle, which is an herbal supplement to clean the liver. I'm also under the impression that drinking water with a slice of lemon in it does the same thing, although I'm not sure how absolutely true that is.
According to a website lemon does the following:
- Lemons are antiseptic
- Lemon water has excellent digestive properties and can ease heartburn, bloating and other digestion problems
- Lemon water cleanses and stimulates the liver and kidneys
- Lemon juice contains calcium, magnesium and potassium
- Lemon juice has been known to relieve asthma
- Lemon water (hot) offers relief from cold and flu symptoms while providing some much needed Vitamin C
- Lemon juice is a great skin cleanser
All I know for sure is that when it's close to the time I need to take my blood pressure medication I get vertigo, it starts on slowly and lightly, but as the time passes by even 15 minutes it gets stronger and stronger, where it's almost made me fall down.
I'm loosely using the Wii active and admittedly not as much as I should. There's something about getting all sweaty and bopping around with a sports bra (or without if it's really hot!) living in a house with 4 other men. It's not to say I'm embarrassed but if any of them are home for long periods of time I avoid the workout in the living room. Maybe I'm not an exhibitionist?
Anyhoo, back to the job hunt. I have some pretty promising things out there with the lower pay so perhaps I can stand a chance! All my skills and I'm back to entry level work again ... oh well, gotta start somewhere in our crappy economy.
Mmmm, more peppers are calling my name. I just hope we have more cheese? This is not good for the diet is it? Well, not if I'm balancing the diet with lots of veggies! And boy is the garden exploding.
