Food Today

• udon noodle soup
• tuna salad and crackers
• McDonald's big mac and chicken nuggets
• drinks for the day were water and McD's mocha coffee thing

okay, i can explain the McDonald's thing... honest.

you see, there was a radio commercial about big mac's being two dollars. anyway, i haven't had a big mac for years, so i decided i would have one for dinner tonight along with david. And instead of getting fries, we decided to just share a 20 piece chicken nuggets.


i have to figure out the tuna salad though, because it made my throat very stuffy like when i have an allergic reaction. So i'm trying to figure out what did it because all i did was mix mayonnaise and tuna fish together.

Alyse's Book of Facts, Volume 10, Chapter 12, Page 213

Any part of your body connected to the outside and lined with epithelial tissue is considered on the outside of your body.

So... your throat is on the outside, your mouth is on the outside, the inside of your stomach is on the outside, the inside of your intestines is on the outside and so on and so forth.

Reproductive organs are also considered to be on the outside of everyone's body.

And in fact, when you eat, what goes in one end and comes out the other is considered to have never entered inside of your body

so if you ever toot and it is very smelly and someone asks "oh my god, did that come out of you?" you can technically say "no, it was never inside of my body."

Now that is what i call critical thinking.

VT Post

okay... what the hell is up with Virgina Tech?

I was at work yesterday, and one of my coworkers *who has a son at Virgina Tech* came in freaking out about a stabbing at Virgina Tech. And then she went on and on about how when she found out it was a girl that had been stabbed, she knew her son was safe, and so on and so forth.

And I figured that Alexa and Aaron were okay, but still I asked if they had said the girl's name, but of course, my coworker was clueless and was just like "oh yeah they said it, man it was fatal too", and just kind of dismissed my question.

And then went on and on about how the attacker was another Asian kid, and how she told her son to stay away from them because there is something that happens to them in their country, so just stay away... and so on and so forth.

And of course, the computers were down so I wasn't able to look anything up on the internet, and I had my cell phone off because the battery was almost dead *i plugged it into the charger the night before, but it also kind of helps if i actually remember to plug the other end into the wall >.< *

So when I got home, I looked it up, and the girl wasn't just stabbed to death, she was friggin decapitated.

Anyway, now I'm going to have to buy Alexa and Aaron some of these:

http://www.kineda.com/stab-proof-hoodies/

An Udon Soup Kind of Day

let's see, first off, my meals yesterday:

• Asian hamburger helper with general tso's chicken
• Asian hamburger helper with general tso's chicken
• drinks for the day were iced coffee with sugar and sweet & low, water, and rootbeer

ahh yes, one could say that the best diet of all is to not have enough time to actually eat or prepare food at home and to not have enough money to buy food while you are out.

actually, i did eat plenty yesterday, it was just all the same thing. But in my defense, it was very balanced with veggies, meat, and noodles. And i wasn't allergic to any of it ^_^

I didn't have time for breakfast, but i had some coffee when i got to work at ten -- not really a replacement for breakfast, but it put something in my tummy at least. And then around one i heated up my leftovers from dinner the night before and ate about half of them.

When i got home at 2.3o i wasn't really hungry so i decided to wait for David to get home a little before four. And then he wasn't very hungry right then and said he would make himself something for dinner later, and so i ate the rest of my leftovers from dinner the night before.

And then i left for class around 5.30 and didn't get back home until after 11.oo. needless to say, i didn't really feel like eating again. although, sometimes i do get home that late, and if i haven't eaten since lunch time, i will make myself something to eat -- usually popcorn or icecream ^_^

But at that point, having extra money is dangerous, because why not just go by taco bell for a late night snack? And that is what gets me into trouble -- especially when the weather is nicer and going out doesn't mean dressing like the abominable snow man and still freezing your arse off.

First Day of School Post

yuck. i had work from 10 to 3 and school from 4.3o to 5.45 and didn't get home until almost 7.

there wasn't really anything of any significance that happened though, other than that it was officially clarified that my new task at the library is simply back-up supplies, and i'm probably not going to get much training on it.

And the woman i am working with on it doesn't really want me to work with her because i understand too many things too quickly and she is afraid that if she and i go into training together, i will learn more than her much faster and she will get confused and never learn any of it.

no really, that is exactly what she actually told me.

Anyway, haflie was really sick last night. i had given her a bath and washed all of her sheets and bed stuff and moved her into her new cage.

Then David and i cut her nails. In order to do this, David held her and fed her treats and i cut her nails.

Well, the poor thing had too much of her treat, and about an hour later she began throwing up everywhere. projectile, too.
And then she tried to burrow in her litter box which she had just pooped in.

So we took out all of her blankets and everything and i put a clean litter box with clean litter in it for her to burrow in and clean off her face with. And then i fixed a water bottle on it and proceeded to clean up after her for about an hour.

Then she just crawled into her litter box and fell asleep.

she is much better now, but i have to rewash all of her bedclothes.



and now, on that appetizing note:

today i ate:

• 2 eggs scrambled with olive oil, salt and pepper
  
• small Quizno's Tuscan Turkey sub, no lettuce or tomatoes
• asian hamburger helper with ground turkey, general tso's chicken, lemon wet cake
• drink for the day was water
  

Today's Munches

• chili and rice with parmesan cheese
• crab rangoon
• mint icecream
• lemon wet cake
• drinks for the day were milk and water
• and i even remembered my vitamin
  

Inauguration Day Sentiment

David: well now it's done, so everybody can stop bitching about bush.
Alyse: except for gay men...
David: heh

Yesteday's Munches (again)

yesteday evening was crazy. we watched a really funny movie with my family, and that was a lot of fun, but when we got home it wasn't as fun.

First, there is something weird with the microwave. it isn't as bad today as it was yesterday, but i think the plate is off wack, that and the actually rotation thingy...

Anyway, so yesterday in the afternoon while i was still by myself, i decided to take a nice bath to relax before school starts on wednesday.

and of course, instead of using the tub that i've been taking showers in for the past several months, i decided to take a bath in the nicer tub in the bedroom.

all would have been well, except that while we were cleaning up yesterday before trash day, i found alittle puddle of water on the dining room table. and i just couldn't figure out why someone would spill something on it and just leave it there like that. and how it could still be there because david and i haven't eaten there for a while because there was still stuff from new year's eve on it.

yes well, good thing too, because some of those cardboard hats did a good job soaking up the water that had leaked down from the frigging ceiling. i looked up and sure enough, you could see two spots where water had dripped down. one of my chair cushions got a little wet, but the cover soaked up most of the water and i made sure the actual cushion was dry so it won't stain.

it just missed my china cabinet and there was a little bit of water on the floor, but it came up pretty easily with a towel.

thank God mom gave me that plastic cover for my dining room table.

so uhh, i guess we won't be repairing the ceiling in the dining room until we've got everything sorted out with the bathroom in the bedroom. and we certainly won't be using that tub for a while until someone can get in there and see what the heck is wrong.

David says he's going to talk to his dad about it this week. He wants to put in a different tub in there anyway like the one his parent's have.

Water leaking from the ceiling was just one of those things that i could have done without.




okay, so. foodwise yesterday:

• chili with baked polenta and parmesan cheese
  
• popcorn *lots and lots of movie popcorn! that movie made me really hungry*
• chinese food -- steamed dumplings, crab rangoon, egg roll, general tso's chicken
• yesterday's drinks were water and milk
• i forgot to take my vitamin :(
  

Yesterday's Munches

i didn't get the chance to post yesterday/i was tired...

Ty and i did get all his English homework done though, so that is good. It's a little frustrating because i could do it by myself in about five minutes. But it isn't my homework and he needs to be able to do it. The hardest part is that it is his learning disability killing him on it, and not his laziness or anything like that.

I can read it to him and explain things to him, and he gets it. But if he has to read it himself, he doesn't get it. So most of last night, i went ahead and read everything to him, but next time I'm going to try to make it half and half and eventually get to the point where it is just him reading it. And then I explained it to him after I read it to him. And it's hard for him because he doesn't understand a lot of the vocabulary they use to explain things. So i have to explain what the words mean that they are using to explain what they mean.

I do really think that he understands a lot of the lesson now though. It just takes a lot of time and patience. I am very patient, and I will sit with him for as long as it takes, but like mom said yesterday, he leaves the house only expecting to be gone for an hour at the most and ends up staying at the townhouse for a lot longer than that.

It did take a little longer last night because we took a break so that Ty could help us put Halfie's cage together. But even that wasn't a very long break. I might try to get the townhouse made up so that he can bring Casper over on Friday evenings *which is our study time* so that if he ends up being here for a long time or over night on those days, Casper won't miss him.

Well, anyway, i also tried to explain to Ty that he needs to be home more but he just got annoyed because a lot of the time, he isn't home because of work and school and he feels like he can't really control that.

But i tried to explain to him that it isn't so much work and school that aggravates anyone, but the times that he is gone to hang out with his friends or his girlfriend. It is hard because usually if you have only a couple evenings off per month, you want to spend them with your friends. And you've lived with your family for over a decade and you just take them for granted and feel like you can spend time with them whenever you want, so why make the time?

And then usually the few times he is home, he gets yelled at or talked to or pestered about not ever being there. And he just hasn't figured out yet that he deserves to be pestered or talked to or yelled at about it. And that he does have control over coming home and making time for his family. I would say that he just needs to have the time to actually miss them, but that doesn't happen when you're living under the same roof especially if you are the one that is never there.

It's even harder since he needs to take care of Casper. But I do think that he has enough time; he just spends that time elsewhere with friends because he gets burnt out and just wants to go bowling or watch a movie with his friends. That's all fine and dandy, but when you have a family and a puppy to take care of, the family and the puppy comes first. Any friend who can't understand that isn't much of a friend. And any person who thinks that his friends should come first needs to be giving his puppy to someone who will take care of it and needs to be finding somewhere else to live. And if he can't do either of those things, then he needs to seriously reshuffle his priorities.


Anyway...
I love Ty and he is a wonderful hardworking young man with a huge heart. I just wish that he made more time for his family. But then again, that's something that we all need to work on now and again.


okay, as far as eating goes yesterday:
let's see...

• Ikea kid's size swedish meatballs w/gravy with mac and cheese and mashed red potatoes w/gravy and some chocolate mousse cake
• baked polenta and lemon wet cake
• chili with cheddar cheese, parmesan cheese and baked polenta *confession* w/some more lemon wet cake ^_^ not much, though.
  
• drinks for the day were lingonberry juice, skim milk, and water