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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Just when you thought, "Oh, here she goes again--a spurt and then stops blogging," here I am to surprise you once again. Unfortunately, I don't have much to say. My sleep the last couple of nights has not been that good. Anyone have any advice about how to buy a new mattress, or when the best time to buy one is? I am looking forward to this weekend. Gavin and I are going up to Ojai tomorrow morning sometime and will stay until Sunday. I think we have plans to watch fireworks at Gavin's old high school, but I'm not certain of that. The Greene family is not a planning family. But, I am looking forward to being able to spend time with them regardless of what we do. Yesterday was awesome mostly because I get to do one of my favorite things: change the month on the calendar. I don't know why that is so fun to me, but it always is exciting to be able to lift the calendar to the next month and see the new design. Anyway, I should start getting ready for work. Hope you have a good day! - Jenny, 7/02/2009 07:15:00 AM Tuesday, June 30, 2009 In rare and exciting news, we won our softball game last night! By like 20. I suppose this team has been on the winning side for many of our games this season, but it was shocking to win by so much, especially considering we lost to this team last time! In other news, my Sunday softball team lost their game, again. We lost to the Unicorns, who wear pink t-shirts with a unicorn on them. Last summer we lost to them by 30 (no exaggeration), so I suppose it was nice that this time we only lost to them by 15. In my opinion it was because the Crippler was throwing the heat. Several strike-outs. Even though I don't have work today, I have a lot of at-home work to do. Some graphic design, and then I have to start coming up with paintings for the Catholic missionary organization that commissions their Christmas painting from me. Instead of getting right to my work today, I have had a lazy morning. I slept in until 8a, which is kinda late for me, especially on a weekday. Then I've been on the computer a bit and went to the grocery store for tonight. (I think I am going to make this salad for dinner.) Pretty soon I think I'll take a shower, then I'll start working, which may be only a small amount of time because then I have lunch plans at 11:15 a.m. Tough life, I know. Last night I also had a community meeting for Family Promise. I'll tell you something--I'll love once we're up and running. Sometimes I get frustrated because there's SO much to do in order to get it started. There were only two people who came to the community meeting and, after our presentation, they said they wanted to volunteer for us. That was pretty cool. That was our experience at the community meetings we set up. The city planner said that he did get a couple of emails and a couple of phone calls not in support of the program, and it sort of frustrates me that those people are against it without even hearing about the program. But, whatever. The final decision (about whether or not we will get the place we want to be our day center) will be made on the 13th at a planning board meeting. I am hoping that it will be positive and that I can still go to my softball game afterward. Ok, time to get started. Have a good day! - Jenny, 6/30/2009 09:23:00 AM Friday, June 26, 2009 I figure that I've posted 3x in a row - might as well finish out the week with a quick post...even though it seems that no one reads Friday posts...probably because everyone's excited about the weekend. Anyway, we had the leftovers of the middle eastern stuffed bell peppers tonight (with salt and pepper added this time) and they were much better than last night. No watermelon tonight (because Gavin and I--although mostly me, I'd say--ate it all last night), so I made us salads. I don't know about Gavin's salad, but mine was delicious. Funny, because I also made myself a salad at lunch with approximately the same ingredients and that salad was so-so. But the salad tonight - it could be a contender for best salad ever. Putting together a salad is something I typically do well...and can figure out with an odd variety of things. I'd love to get to the place where I can look in the refrigerator and put together a meal (and I mean a good meal) with what's in there. Maybe with time. People around Gavin's apartment have taken to celebrating the 4th of July way early. For the past month people have been constantly setting off fireworks. From the sound of it, some of them are big ones. Tonight I asked him when he thought his neighborhood is going up in flames. Because what goes up must come down, right? Sometimes I tell him that the gang warfare is going on heavy outside. I think he gets the point that I don't exactly like his neighborhood. Or his neighborhood cat that keeps peeing on the vents of my car. My goal for tomorrow is to do the goal that I forgot to do today: wash my car. It is filthy. Something needs to be done, otherwise I will be a menace driving the streets of Los Angeles. - Jenny, 6/26/2009 10:19:00 PM Thursday, June 25, 2009 3 posts in 3 days? Obviously Jenny's computer has been taken over by aliens. ...or maybe by the procrastinator Jenny who hasn't even put a word together for her sermon on Sunday. I know, I know, there are many pastors who haven't even looked at the scripture yet, but I really like to be done with it all by now. I have read the scripture and I have prepared my research, but I finished it early this morning. I guess I needed to relax today. Good thing that tomorrow I have the entire day off. Tonight I made Mediterranean stuffed bell peppers for Gavin and I. I got the recipe from a Woman's Health magazine that I took from the beauty shop where I had my makeup done in San Diego. I've always wanted to have a stuffed bell pepper, but I've never been brave enough. Weird, I know. So I saw this recipe where basically you saute ground beef with cumin, cinnamon and garlic, then you mix in tomato sauce, brown rice, raisins and green olives. Since I like all of those things, I thought it would be good. I sorta messed it up because I accidentally put in about double the rice that was called for...mostly because I wasn't thinking. (At first I was halving the recipe but that didn't work, so I kept the recipe as is, but accidentally put in more rice...it was a mini-crisis.) I think Gavin really liked it. I am on the fence. We both agree it'd be better with the correct amount of rice. I liked it, but by the end of the pepper, got really tired of it. It felt like it needed a little more oomph. Like for it to be a little spicier? Or maybe saltier? Maybe just salt - the magazine didn't have me add salt at all, probably because it is a "health" magazine and thinks that salt is a major no-no. Anyway, I served it with watermelon. I love watermelon. With dinner we watched The Reader (I guess there's spoilers in this paragraph). Although I was distracted by a.) how much I liked how she styled her hair during the trial, and b.) how I feel that they did a horrible job aging her during her imprisonment, I felt that the movie was interesting and thought-provoking. In particular, I thought the anguish that the main (male) character suffered was really interesting - did he support her conviction or not? How do you reconcile someone you love committing atrocious crimes, etc.? I also thought that the ravenous affair they were having was indicative of how ravenous she was to have an education, which for some reason she did not have. Then I read the Wikipedia entry about the book (I didn't know there was also a book) about how the story is more complex in the book. In the movie, I think you can argue that she was a bit...penitent for her actions. But the Wikipedia entry suggests that in the book she's more of a cold, hardened killer who wasn't repentant. I'm a little bit intrigued to read the book, but it gets really mixed reviews on Goodreads. Hmm...I'll have to think about that. - Jenny, 6/25/2009 09:37:00 PM Wednesday, June 24, 2009 So I love crisply painted lines. Part of why I am so enamored with my Babolat tennis racquet is that it is painted in these matte colors of a medium blue, black, white and red. Maybe some silver too...hard to say because it's been a few weeks since I've played tennis. But you can totally see a crisp line of where the colors touch each other. Sometimes when I am playing I have to tell myself not to focus on that and to instead focus on the game. I'd like to think maybe that's why I always lose to Colander, but I know that the truth of it is that I have way less talent and athletic skill than him. Anyway, this weekend for the wedding all of the bridesmaids got French-style manicure/pedicures. I am a huge fan of getting manicures & pedicures (although I am not a fan of paying as much as I did this weekend, but bridesmaids follow directions), but I have never before gotten a French manicure. Or pedicure. I've been interested in the French manicure, but not so much the French pedicure mostly because I feel that looks weird. Anyway, when the woman was first putting on the white on my fingernails, it was all sloppy. I was actually kind of upset about it, but I figured that I would just let it go. Good thing--because I guess the protocol is that they apply the white part kind of sloppy and then take a paintbrush with acetone on it and clear away the mess to make a smooth line. So the paint on the tips of my fingernails is already chipping off, but the smooth, crisp line is still there and I love looking at just that line. It's particularly good on both pinky fingers and both thumbs. This being said, I most likely won't get a French manicure in the future...it's just fun for now to be able to look at that crisply painted line. On a completely different note, I am watching Ninja Warrior with my dad and Gavin right now and Gavin keeps on making fun of me. When the contestant is close but the time limit is closing in, I get really stressed out and start to cover my eyes. I can't handle it. So Gavin is exasperating it by counting down loudly and getting me all riled up. And i want to marry him, why??? - Jenny, 6/24/2009 09:27:00 PM |
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