The sun will come out tomorrow-bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun!
Guys and Dolls is on right now though!!!! Makes me happy-one of my favorite musicals. gotta love it.
Deb is soon to leave and I'll have a new roommate for a couple months and then either have to move or....I'm not sure. Deb's in the lease until October-she thinks-and if I can find a new roommate-then maybe I can keep the place. either way-I'm looking at a bunch of money needed come March. How did I move here a year ago with nothing??? I have no idea! I honestly don't. So, I know I shouldn't stress-it'll be much easier with me actually being here and not in Ohio-so I should be able to find a place, blah blah blah, but I also have to save money for the vacation in September.-Oi! It's just a lot. It'll all work out though. I know...
Monday, December 15, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Slow Cooker wonderfullness
I love my slow cooker!
I'm making a roast right now-it smells great.
Cabarnet marinated. Potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, shallots, garlic. Yummy!
And I have good bread-I've been in a very big bread mood lately. Bread with soup-which i had yesterday. Now I feel the need to make some french onion soup in the slowcooker and get some french bread and good cheese...
Mac and cheese in the slowcooker... i haven't done that in a while. But I have to wait until I'm not sick anymore before I can eat cheese again.
I really want to make a pork roast and saurkraut in the slow cooker next. With New Year's just around the corner-maybe I'll do just that.
The slowcooker is like whiskey for food. You let it set and cook like whiskey ages (although whiskey ages a lot longer than the food cooks). But it just cooks and all the flavors get a chance to come out and meld together. The juices come out of the meat and flavor the vegetables. I also love a great spiced cider in the slow cooker. Apple, cinnamon, cloves, spiced rum and a little punch and orange zest! See why this thing is awesome-and your whole meal is in the dish. There's nothing else i have to do other than cut the bread when I fill my plate. That is also why this thing is wonderful-forget the multiple pot and pans! I clean the slowcooker and my plate. That's it! And it's pretty much dummy proof-it's really hard to screw it up. Just throw everything in and leave it for hours. I'm loving it!
Oh and Steve is coming on Sunday!!!!!
I'm making a roast right now-it smells great.
Cabarnet marinated. Potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, shallots, garlic. Yummy!
And I have good bread-I've been in a very big bread mood lately. Bread with soup-which i had yesterday. Now I feel the need to make some french onion soup in the slowcooker and get some french bread and good cheese...
Mac and cheese in the slowcooker... i haven't done that in a while. But I have to wait until I'm not sick anymore before I can eat cheese again.
I really want to make a pork roast and saurkraut in the slow cooker next. With New Year's just around the corner-maybe I'll do just that.
The slowcooker is like whiskey for food. You let it set and cook like whiskey ages (although whiskey ages a lot longer than the food cooks). But it just cooks and all the flavors get a chance to come out and meld together. The juices come out of the meat and flavor the vegetables. I also love a great spiced cider in the slow cooker. Apple, cinnamon, cloves, spiced rum and a little punch and orange zest! See why this thing is awesome-and your whole meal is in the dish. There's nothing else i have to do other than cut the bread when I fill my plate. That is also why this thing is wonderful-forget the multiple pot and pans! I clean the slowcooker and my plate. That's it! And it's pretty much dummy proof-it's really hard to screw it up. Just throw everything in and leave it for hours. I'm loving it!
Oh and Steve is coming on Sunday!!!!!
Monday, December 8, 2008
The joy of retail
This was a recent phone call to the bookstore I work in.
"Thank you for calling (insert store name), this is Dena."
"Yes, do you have a device that works as a cello stand?"-customer on phone
"I'm sorry, could you repeat that?"-Me
"I'm looking for the thing you put on the floor that keeps the cello from sliding around when you play it." -customer
(taking breath, thinking Really? inside my head) "Um, no sir we don't sell anything like that here."-Me
"You don't sell anything like that?"-Customer
"No we don't sell any instrument stands here."-me
"Why not? Do you know where they would?"-customer
(seriously? is this a joke?) "well, we're mainly a book store. But I imagine a music store would sell something like that." me
"Oh, ok."click. -customer
Now, this isn't the oddest or most ridiculous questions I've gotten. but it was pretty funny at the time. I mean I work in a bookstore. And yeah we have some gift product-but intruments stands?
People crack me up. They come into a store and just assume that what they want exists. They make up a book in their head that they think should be there, and want it, can't give you a title or anything, but assume that it being such an interesting and popular subject/topic; there has to be a whole section of books on it. Not really.
And someone asked me yesterday if we had a section for "chic lit"! This is not a legitimate category or literature! We don't classify fiction on who we think may like it. And why do women need their books separated out in a special area-and most of this "chic lit" is bad lit! it's in fiction-under the authot. We don't have a special section for men either! And let's just clarify that most of the store is non-fiction! Really-anything that's not fiction is non-which means that everything else in the store is non-fiction. just so you know.
"do you work here?" when i have a nametag on, am behind the counter, and holding 16 books-is a stupid question! And I will look at you like you're an idiot too! because you are. If I'm pushing a cart full of books, have a nametag on and am holding a PDT-I probably didn't bring that suff in from home-don't ask me if I work there-then I just think you're stupid! And when you ask for the new James Patterson after that-you've confirmed it. So please think before you speak! Is it really that difficult?
Okey dokey
that's my rant.
Peace!
"Thank you for calling (insert store name), this is Dena."
"Yes, do you have a device that works as a cello stand?"-customer on phone
"I'm sorry, could you repeat that?"-Me
"I'm looking for the thing you put on the floor that keeps the cello from sliding around when you play it." -customer
(taking breath, thinking Really? inside my head) "Um, no sir we don't sell anything like that here."-Me
"You don't sell anything like that?"-Customer
"No we don't sell any instrument stands here."-me
"Why not? Do you know where they would?"-customer
(seriously? is this a joke?) "well, we're mainly a book store. But I imagine a music store would sell something like that." me
"Oh, ok."click. -customer
Now, this isn't the oddest or most ridiculous questions I've gotten. but it was pretty funny at the time. I mean I work in a bookstore. And yeah we have some gift product-but intruments stands?
People crack me up. They come into a store and just assume that what they want exists. They make up a book in their head that they think should be there, and want it, can't give you a title or anything, but assume that it being such an interesting and popular subject/topic; there has to be a whole section of books on it. Not really.
And someone asked me yesterday if we had a section for "chic lit"! This is not a legitimate category or literature! We don't classify fiction on who we think may like it. And why do women need their books separated out in a special area-and most of this "chic lit" is bad lit! it's in fiction-under the authot. We don't have a special section for men either! And let's just clarify that most of the store is non-fiction! Really-anything that's not fiction is non-which means that everything else in the store is non-fiction. just so you know.
"do you work here?" when i have a nametag on, am behind the counter, and holding 16 books-is a stupid question! And I will look at you like you're an idiot too! because you are. If I'm pushing a cart full of books, have a nametag on and am holding a PDT-I probably didn't bring that suff in from home-don't ask me if I work there-then I just think you're stupid! And when you ask for the new James Patterson after that-you've confirmed it. So please think before you speak! Is it really that difficult?
Okey dokey
that's my rant.
Peace!
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