I came to get a new driver license at the DVM today and your hours said Monday-Thursday. I thought we were in America with the 5-day work week. And you, you’re supposed to represent and run America, so how come there’s an exception for you all? I don’t know why you think you can take every Friday off while the rest of us have to work everyday.
It’s quite rude and I do not understand it.
Sincerely,
Expired Driver License
1. My Macbook that I have had for 4, going on 5, years is sick. It froze on me the other day. I had to force it to shut down by holding down the power button. When I turned it back on, all that would come up was a gray screen. No mouse. No spinning thing. Just the gray screen. Then it would get really hot and out of control.
I took it to some mac specialists (the only Apple store is too far away). Anyway, he said it’s probably a hard drive problem. I hope it’s fixable. But if for reason it’s not, of course I haven’t backed up my hard drive yet with my new external hard drive that I got after the terrible lost hard drive incident a few months back. I’ve tried to back it up a few times, but each time there are problems, I can’t figure it out, and then I give up. I think I might cry for the rest of my life if I lose everything.
2. After having Hannah over for dinner the other night, I sent her a text saying, something like, “Hey, it was fun to have you all over tonight.” She gave me a brief response. I was afraid I had done something wrong or hurt her feelings because the response was so short. So I texted Hannah back, “I’m sorry we’re boring, but I hope you still had fun.”
Hannah’s text said, “This is T.J. silly.”
I was so confused. Why was T.J. over at Hannah’s house? I look more closely at the text. I had been texting T.J. instead of Hannah the whole time, and didn’t even realize it after a few texts.
I’m an idiot.
3. Last night I was going to make lightly breaded pork chops with scalloped potatoes. Well, I didn’t read the recipe. I just read the ingredients and mixed them all together. Then I realized I wasn’t supposed to mix the egg in with the breaded mixture, I was supposed to dip the pork chops into the egg and then the mixture. Well, I figured it all goes to the same place, so I’m sure it’ll be fine.
The breaded pork chops turned into basically this: A biscuit, then a pork chop, then a biscuit. The biscuits burned in approximately 2 minutes, the pork was no where near being done, and the biscuit junk was slipping all over the place.
I turned off the burner, dumped the biscuit pork chop sandwiches in the garbage, and told T.J., “We’re having cereal tonight.”
4. While I was shaving my legs, my razor somehow shaved off a tiny part of my finger nail. Just thinking about it makes me sick.
Yesterday, T.J. and I ran into an old friend on campus, who was with a friend. We had a funny moment that I thought I would share.
T.J.: So, what are you up to?
Friend: Just running some errands.
(T.J. thought she said, “Just running with Maren.”)
T.J. to her friend: Oh, I’m assuming you’re Maren.
Silence for a couple of seconds. No one could understand what he was talking about. I broke the silence because it was getting so awkward.
Katie: Well, that was weird. We’ll see you around.
When we were walking away, I asked T.J. was the heck he was talking about. He replied, “Well, she said she was running with Maren…” Then it hit him. “Ohhh, running some errands.”
Last night, Hannah and her date Jacob Black came over for dinner. (You might have heard of him, he’s a werewolf.) 
It was a blast to hang out with them and swap stories. Jacob told us about this brutal fight he was in a few months ago, but he won! Oh and he told us how he’s so excited to be dating someone with the same roots, since Hannah is also Native American.
Anyway, I made Pad Thai because it’s his favorite. Maybe next time he comes over, you can come too.
Here’s the Pad Thai recipe:
| 4 | cups water |
| 1 | package (6 to 8 oz) linguine-style stir-fry rice noodles (rice stick noodles) |
| 1/3 | cup fresh lime juice |
| 1/3 | cup water |
| 3 | tablespoons packed brown sugar |
| 3 | tablespoons fish sauce or soy sauce |
| 3 | tablespoons soy sauce |
| 1 | tablespoon rice vinegar or white vinegar |
| 3/4 | teaspoon ground red pepper (cayenne) |
| 3 | tablespoons vegetable oil |
| 3 | cloves garlic, finely chopped |
| 1 | medium shallot, finely chopped, or 1/4 cup finely chopped onion |
| 2 | eggs, beaten |
| 12 | oz frozen cooked peeled deveined medium shrimp, thawed |
| 1/4 | cup finely chopped dry-roasted peanuts |
| 3 | cups fresh bean sprouts |
| 4 | medium green onions, thinly sliced (1/4 cup) |
| 1/4 | cup firmly packed cilantro leaves |
P.S. Make sure you have all of your ingredients ready to go before you start this recipe. I learned that the hard way this time.
This is my friend Carrie:
I think I have blogged about her before. But because she left the 100th comment on my blog, I thought I would devote a post just to her.
So anyway, Carrie is from Oklahoma, which automatically makes her awesome because it’s a random home state, just like mine! We lived in the same Freshman dorm hall together.
Our friendship grew on the day of her birthday, our freshman year. It was during Thanksgiving break, so no one was home in our hall and I just got back into town. I was so sad that she didn’t have anyone to celebrate with on her birthday, so we hung out in my dorm room together. We had a bunch of laughs, especially when I put on a fashion show for her with all my ugly clothes….”You may think this is an animal!”
Well, Carrie and I became good friends, along with her roommate Bianca and my roommate Dana. Probably the best memory I have of all of us was when we went to East High in Salt Lake where High School Musical was filmed. We were all totally obsessed with HSM and especially with Zac Efron and ashamed to say it now, Vanessa Hudgens. In fact, on the way there, we saw a limo, convinced ourselves that they were inside and I was so excited, I cried.
We even made a video to a song from HSM. (It may seem like we were lovers in this video, but it’s supposed to be two friends upset at each other… plus we couldn’t find a boy who’d do it for us…)
To wrap up this post, I will write one of my famous acrostic poems:
C is for Cramming all of her work into the last minute, because she likes to procrastinate, just like me.
A is for Advertising because that’s her major. We are always in classes together and love working together.
R is for Refined. Carrie never says anything mean or rude. She is the sweetest!
R is for Really happy. Carrie always is smiling and laughing! She’s never in a bad mood, and if she is, she laughs it off!
I is for I’m jealous of her Zac Efron posters.
E is for Especially looks like D.J. from Full House when she gets “Yearbooked”
You’d be proud of us. Right after dinner we went to the living room and had another real FHE.
This week we sang “I am a Child of God.” It turned into a singing competition, clearly. T.J. sang (pretended to sing) bass. I just sang really loud. And at the end of the hymn, T.J. said, “Wow, I’m a really good singer.”
Then we opened up the newlywed FHE book again. We found one called “Show, not Tell.” That sounded intriguing. It said the following:
Here’s T.J.’s list, the ones that are circled are what we chose for him to focus on this week:
To clarify a few things, we didn’t circle the temple, praying, or studying the scriptures because those are obvious ones that we always work on. And also, an inverted kiss is where you put in your lips like a person without teeth and kiss. It’s very bizarre/awful/hilarious.
Anyway, it was actually a cute activity and was nice to talk about what we think we needed to work on. And to finish, we studied our scriptures and went for a Snowie with spare change!
Tonight I made this quick and easy recipe from my Betty Crocker cookbook. It takes just about 15 minutes and it’s low-fat, so you’ve got to give it a try!
1. Spray 12-inch skillet with cooking spray; heat over medium-high heat. Cook beef in skillet 2 to 4 minutes, stirring occasionally, until brown. Remove beef from skillet; keep warm.
2. Add broth, stir-fry sauce, marmalade and red pepper to skillet. Heat to boiling. Stir in pea pods and noodles; reduce heat to medium. Cover and cook about 5 minutes or until noodles are tender.
3. Stir in beef. Cook uncovered 2 to 3 minutes or until sauce is slightly thickened.
I guess since T.J. and I covered all four servings, it really wasn’t low-fat, but at least we got a serving of vegetables in the process.
I love dinosaurs. It started a few years ago when my roommate Bethany did a dinosaur impression. I became obsessed.
I love dinosaur formed foods, like this cake I saw at the store.
I love movies with dinosaurs (like Clifford).
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I love dressing up like dinosaurs (like the past two halloweens).
But most of all, I love movies about dinosaurs. That’s why T.J. and I are going to watch the Jurassic Park series this week. Starting tonight at 11 pm sharp. I can’t wait!
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21 days, or 504 hours, or 30,240 minutes left of summer.
Where did it go? Remember one of my posts way back in June when I listed some summer goals for the weekend? Did I do them that weekend? No. Did I do them this summer? NO!
So, now it’s crunch time! I made a list of ten things I’m going to do them in this short time that I have left. Please hold me up to it, so I really do it.
For some reason, I’m always scared someone is in my house or out to get me. All the time. And, it’s getting progressively worse. Whenever I hear a noise in the house, I close my eyes and ask T.J. what it was. It’s always just our neighbors, or the dishwasher, but for some reason, it won’t let up.
(Sidebar: I literally JUST heard screams outside! What the heck!?)
Anyway, I’m not sure when this started. Years ago, though. Sometimes when I was little and I was practicing the piano, I thought I saw ghosts out of the corner of my eye at the end of our hallway passing between the rooms. When I turned to look though, they weren’t there. But, I still would freak myself out.
Also, I’m scared when I go out that creepy men will kidnap and R me. Whenever I see one in a parking lot, I pull out my keys so I’m ready to jab them if they try. I used to carry pepper spray on my key chain, but I lost it about a year ago.
I can’t watch ANY scary movies, I still picture the girl in the ring coming out of my TV and the little girl in The Sixth Sense under my bed.
Lastly, I always think T.J. is going to try to scare me. I think he’s going to pop out at me, or sneak in when he comes home. He never does, he never has, but still, my crazy mind tells me he will. (Probably because I had roommates AND a father who would do that to me!)
So because of this horror that I have created for myself, I make sure the doors are always locked at home, even when I’m inside.
But tonight, I came home and the back door was unlocked. Bad news bears. And now that I’m thinking about it, what if a rapist is reading this right now and sees that my husband doesn’t lock the doors? Well, let me tell you that it was just this once!!! And be warned it will never happen again, because I gave T.J. a nice little talk about how we ALWAYS lock the doors in our house, and as soon as we aren’t in debt, we will have a security system.
Well, to end the story, I made T.J. go around the different rooms to search for boogeymen and/or intruders.
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