Hey! News and Recipes (39-42) and NaNoWriMo

[coffeesnob318]

This weekend was full of fun. Mostly, it was full of laziness, which I find fun, especially when the laziness follows a crazy week like the one I had.

News:
- I'm going to go to Memphis as a Staff Advisor on Alternative Spring Break. We're going to be working at a food bank there. We started picking our team on Friday. We are interviewing eight people this week and must narrow it down to seven by this coming Friday. I'm super excited about the trip.
- I'm now officially a Pampered Chef consultant. I am hoping to make a little extra money, and this seemed like the most feasible (i.e., flexible with my insane schedule) option.
- I have dropped down to a leg of the relay on my marathon because my fundraising wasn't going well enough to continue the full or half. I'm choosing to look at it as, "Hey, now I'm ahead of schedule." My body seems to be looking at it as "Hey, now I can be lazy," because I have never not wanted to run so much in my life.

I tried out a few recipes this weekend.

Friday, at my Pampered Chef party (at which I decided, "Hey, I could do this!"), we made two delicious but simple things. For the appetizer, we had the Antipasti Pull-Apart Pizza. I don't remember the exact ingredients, but picture a sectioned French Bread crust smothered in mozzarella, olives, red bell pepper, artichokes, and garlic. So good. For the main course/demonstration, we made the Lightning Fast Veggie Chili. It was a basic chili, but smoky (accomplished by semi-roasting the squash and adding poblano pepper). It had a kick to it. Happy.

Saturday, I slept in (nope...didn't run...not at all). For lunch, I made Tofu in Sichuan Sauce. It was even easier than I expected, and it was delicious. I'm going to add vegetables next time, but overall it was a success. For dinner, I made Ribollita Soup. I left out the stale-bread-crumbs-in-otherwise-delightful-soup step, because I do not enjoy soggy bread dishes (French toast and bread pudding, I'm looking at you). I compromised and crushed up a few saltines in my bowl before eating and then hurriedly ate those bites before they could get too soggy. Sure, I may have scalded the roof of my mouth, but that's really a small price to pay not to eat soggy bread. The soup itself was awesome. It may become my go-to veggie soup.

NaNoWriMo begins! If my behavior so far is indicative of the month's pattern, you may be hearing from me a lot. In the last few hours, I've written 665 words, played Bejeweled an obscene amount of times, started working on my NaNoWriMo 2010 playlist on YouTube, and posted this entry. Yeah...no procrastination here. *sheepish*

Who else is doing NaNo this year?

Comments

[gradeafan.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the new venture!! I love Pampered Chef. I sold Princess House in the past and although I didn't make a lot of money at it I would say the experience was one of the best growths I had in my own business here. It finally got me out of my shell enough to talk to people.

And, fyi...there is an order I've been contemplating so let me know when you have a catalog order to go in.

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[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

Cool. I should have an order ready to go in a couple of weeks. I'll send you the website link when I have it all fixed up.

[nonnierms.livejournal.com]

I want to go on Alternative Spring Break with you! When's my interview? Of course, the volunteer work I've done here, they don't want my kids along so perhaps that puts me out of the running.....well, that and the fact that I'm not a student ;)

I should do NaNo. Key word there being should.....

And, hey, if procrastination brings you here more, I'm all for it :D

[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you definitely have to be a student here. But we thank you for your interest. :P

[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

Understandable. I think I'm a glutton for punishment.

[nonnierms.livejournal.com]

I just got an email from your yahoo account that has no subject and is just a link. I'm not clicking on it just yet because I'm not sure if its valid and you meant to send it or if your email got hit with a virus :p

[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

No - pretty sure that was spam. Don't click on that.

[nonnierms.livejournal.com]

another one came through today. I got hit with one of those a few months back--kept sending out emails every day until someone let me know and I could go looking for it and delete the little bugger. I hate viruses!

[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

See, I don't even know how to go about doing that, especially since the computer I'm on isn't mine. It's the school's computer, and it's supposed to have this super-amazing virus alert system.

[nonnierms.livejournal.com]

when it happened to me, I found a trojan lurking in my files that somehow slipped past my anti-virus software. maybe alert the tech dept at the school so they can find the hole in their software and fix it?

ETA: although, no more emails have come through so they may have already spotted it and gotten it off the computer you are using :p