Domestic Nemesis

Whoo hoo...the cheese/cracker/dessert/wine party was a huge success! The white elephant gift exchange was off the charts! The used candle and the box of stolen office supplies were my favorites! A good time was had by all! KT's birthday pickle stole the show! PsychJ's peanut chocolate bars may have topped my peanut butter balls....they were amazing! Is it silly to post a picture of my butt? I say what the hell, I might as well post it while I'm young, so I don't have to post it when I'm old and saggy! I can't believe I'm totally done with everything! This is AWESOME! Peace! Ms. Non-Sequitur

What an awesome weekend! Thanksgiving was a smash with Thanksgiving dinner with the fam. You'll be happy to know that my green bean casserole and apple pie were SMASH HITS as well Cousin Q's turkey which was a great success (even though we cooked it upside down! :) I must also mention that my dad has lost another tooth! There is this huge gap of like 4 missing teeth right in the front! Friday was Sunny D's super birthday party, which is where all these fab pics came from! Check out Sunny D and Betty P (that's the best name I could think of!) getting jiggy wid it in the kitchen! Then we have Melly Sue and NS dancin'--love the belly hangin out Gina! And last we have Sun, NS, and PsyJ. AWWW Okay I'm almost late! Talk to you again soon! NS

Oh yeah.. FRIDAY! Whoo hooo. Want to hear about some gross things that I've done?? 1) I picked up this hair band (much to The Raj's horror) from the parking lot cement and put it in my pocket. About an hour later... I PUT IT IN MY HAIR. Gross, but I lose hair rubber bands all the time, I felt like it was just like the world giving back to me. 2) I've been picking all the skin off my thumb-- it hurts and sometimes it bleeds. Its so stoopid. Actually it looks okay today because a bunch of new skin grew back. 3) I can't think of any more gross things at the moment, but I do want to draw to your attention that Australians say the word Haich for the letter H. Isn't that cool? It would sure make it easier when little kids are learning phonics. XX Ms. Non-Sequitor

Last night I rediscovered something I haven't drank in a long time! Homade (is that a word? lol home made? homemade?) warm milk with chocolate. I guess it was hot chocolate, but it was more like heated up skim milk with some chocolate syrup added! My grandma used to make it for me I think. It's like a faint memory of warm milk...maybe it was just milk with no chocolate... The POINT is that I was doing my laundry at the same time and it almost boiled over and the stupid chocolate totally stuck to the bottom of the pan even though I was able to stir some of it back into the milk! In other food news, I made an egg scramble this morning with eggs, garlic and olives! It was awesome! I just hope the olives are okay since they are leftovers from the party I had at my house like 2 or 3 weeks ago! lol But olives are like pickled right? So they should be fine. Damn. There is something else I was going to tell everyone...but I can't bloody remember. Here are some other bits of...

I have another great breakfast recipe for you today! Ingredients: chips, cheese, coffee Directions: 1. Put the chips on a baking sheet 2. Cover the chips with cheese 3. Bake in the oven for 6 minutes 4. Brew some coffee and put it in a cup with expired milk (just one day past) 5. Serve together for breakfast Borat, that movie about that guy from Kazakhstan who terrorizes Americans is damn good. Good, but exhausting... it is soooo over the top and politically incorrect it is seriously a lot of work to watch it! Oh I guess I'll venture out into the madness and visit my cousins and uncle J who are drinking beer somewhere watching the Badger game. I wish I hadn't drank on Thursday (in celebration of the AB) and yesterday though. Oh, by the way, the Philosopher's visit went on without a hitch! He checked out the car and said to take it to the shop, YAY, then we ran some errands and ended up at the union where we drank 2 pitchers of beer! Thank goodness he is such a skillf...

Damn you paper! No, not the writing kind of paper (though I did finish a 3 pager last night), but the other kind, the abusive kind. I got this horrible paper cut on my index finger and I nearly died because of it. Please beware of sharp, evil paper :) On a lighter note, I'm trying to get rid of 5 ($5) tickets to Sat. festivities on State St. Any takers? I must actually post the letter sent to me by the dear friend, YogAl who is working on his law degree who bailed on me with his 4 friends- October 26, 2006 Dear Mrs. Non-Sequitor , You may recall that we had the opportunity to spend a few minutes together in Shanghai on June 23, 2004 regarding the Madison Halloween party . I must tell you that I greatly enjoyed our conversation and was impressed with your achievements, both socially and in life. Because of being an ignoramus , we have limited opportunity to drive to Madison to spend the weekend with you. Given the number of friends , i...

Finally! I got my phone and internet hooked up again! YAY I have a new number, which I'm not going to post...(even though I almost just did!) I have a favor to ask of anyone...does anyone have a long ethernet chord hanging around your office (uncle J maybe??? :) The chord they gave me is too small, and I think I have a chord in GB, so I don't really want to buy one if I don't have to. The thing has wireless too...but I can't figure that out. In domestic news, I bought a coffee pot yesterday! a 4 cupper...even though it's more like 2 big cups. I have to pee, not sure if that's related to the coffee. My car is still in the shop, crack in the radiator. Of course Philosopher G doesn't want me to get it fixed down here because he's got the whole thing rigged up crazy, so if they try to replace the radiator, they'll tear up all the electronic short-cuts he's done and the mechanic will no-doubt make me spend a LOT more money at his shop. SO he...

Let me know if you really don't want your picture out on cyberspace and I can take it off :) 1) Shwing on the phone 2) Everyone, taken by TALL M 3) Chwel and G 4) Buddies on the couch WHOO HOO Thank you guys for coming to the party if you made it! It was just awesome. I couldn't believe so many of my friends made it! Thanks Uncle J for the clean up advice, I was so glad I didn't have to wake up to dirty dishes, just the smell of stale beer! Awesome! Here are some highlights! Add on to in the comments if I'm forgetting something! KT saving the day and picking up the keg, since my car was in the shop (see previous post) Gina's Taco Dip (always a party winner) Neighbors from the complex (J-Man, The Raj, and TALL M) Karba and Sunny D with a cowboy hats and MY tank tops Cousin Q rockin' out Psych J's and LA L's beautiful martini glasses Templar's speakers (though....perhaps the reason for the next entry??) :) Cop busting the party for noise* Gina and Shw...

This is a picture that accurately describes the size of the pimple on my nose this morning :) Seriously. I finally decided to clean up the trash from around my kitchen sink (I dare not start the dishes yet) and I saw a bit of blue in my tupperware container that had previously held beans...(insert jaws music duuuuh duh....duuuuh....duh.....) I open the container and there is SO MUCH MOLD in there I almost died or melted to the floor like the wicked witch of the west! I violently threw the whole container in the garbage and sighed a sigh of relief. It kind of sucks because that was my 2nd to last tupperware container- but there's no way I was cleaning that thing out. Donations? In other gross news, it is really time to clean-thank god the party is Friday. There are so many hairballs around the house it is as if I had a pet. And you KNOW how I feel about pets! What else is gross, well, it's pretty gross that i have 3 hours now to complete my 2 page intro-to -my-paper before ...

Whoo hoo!! I think I found a couch!! A GREEN one that can be delivered. I'm so excited! Now I can move the brown couch to the other side of the room and save it for guests :) Hee Hee. This also means I have more places for crashers! So bring on the visitors! Yippeee AND the seller can deliever it. Hopefully he can come during the week so I can make the married guys who work on the house help lift it in. I'm so useless! But I did curl my hair today! In food news, yesterday I brought an avacado with me to the library for a snack. But it's pretty hard to snack on an avacado. Like, it's so mushy. So since there are no kitchens in the library, I had to eat it in the bathroom. I peeled it with my fingers and just ate it off the bone or seed or whatever that big thing in the middle is. So this is weird, or not, but I hear Chinese spoken EVERY day on campus! I turn around and it's just like I'm in Shanghai! I think it is helping me in my transition to America :) Lastly,...

WHOOO HOO I was so excited yesterday when I got my Radiohead paper back....I got an AB!! Is it an A-? Is it a B+? No one knows because it's an AB! Yippeee. Maybe I can make graduate school after all! I'm going to be reading today for about 6.5 hours, but at least the sun is shining! I decided to wear my birkinstock sandles, even though its bloddy freezing outside. I just can't bear the thought of wearing socks. In domestic news, I had to call SBC/ATT whatever the crap they are because it has been a week and they still haven't made the switch from Charter. I'm starting to think phone/internet companies are de debil and deep down I want to tell them they are all whores, like Ann Arbor. Sorry Ann Arbor, apparently last year my cousins and other UW students had these shirts that said, "Ann Arbor is a Whore!" I just thought that was crazy funny. I might be meeting Templar and No-Bullshit B for coffee tonight, oh I hope so! Tomorrow, Sun rise D and I a...

Earlier this evening I may have eaten the most perfect meal ever created. An egg and cheese burrito with garlic salt. I haven't had one since China. It was awesome. Basically I only eat 4 foods as you can probably tell from my writings, okay 5. Tortillas, eggs, cheese, beans, and yogurt. That's about it. And water I guess. And garlic salt :) Fine...6 I haven't done the dishes since the last time, does anyone remember when that was? I'm definately running out out of big plates, but there's a few bowls and small plates left, so I'm good for a few more days. So I took my 1-2 page paper on Radiohead's "Creep" to the Writing Center this evening. She made my paper 100% better. But since it probably started at like 25%, I'm only up to 50% now. Dear Lord, please don't let my professor think my paper is the crap that it truly is! Nah. I'm sure he'll think it's crap. But crap with potential :) maybe?? I've been thinkin...

Dear Brown Couch, (I love you Templar and the free couch, so don't take this personally) I hate you with all strength and might Your smushy cushions I want to fight I bought you a present at the rummage sale Pink eggshell foam, don't look so pale I put in the pink thing under your pillows but now you are too big, and it's so crazy to sit on you because you're puffing up like a big balooon! Maybe I should get a scissors and cut the pink thing some more, but I'd rather just stab you until you are just pieces of brown fabric and foam! HEE hehehh hehehe If only I was evil. This reminds me of the time in college when I went up to the roof with my printer and carefully planned out its execution. Then I came to my senses and simply threw it in the trash! G

In today's cooking news, I bought a salmon steak and cooked it in the George Foreman! I seasoned it with salt and voila-so easy! Cooked fish, just like that! Who knew??? I also ate some stale peanuts. The dirty dishes in the sink are getting bad, but I KNOW I can make my challenge of not washing them until Saturday! Thus going 12 days without doing dishes. Awesome! Yesterday, after a day of meetings and thinking, I decided to meet my Uncle J at the terrace for "a beer." There is a little story which involves U J telling me to buy a 22 oz. glass of beer--which I don't feel like explaining, let's just say it ened in warm beer which made us both unhappy and...okay fine...I'll tell it quick. J says, "Gina, get us a 22 oz. beer" I say, "Okay" I come back with a pitcher, because I think I'm being helpful and thus "over-ruling" my dear uncle. But I find out there is method to his madness- The reason you have to buy the 22 ...

So I'm not using teflon because....well I'm not sure why- but apparently it will give you diseases. So when I made my eggs this morning in a metal pan of some sort and they completely stuck to the it, I was so mad at pans and teflon. I guess if I use more butter, perhaps this little problem might solve itself? At least I have garlic salt which is the best seasoning for EVERYTHING. I put it on eggs, tomatoes, avacados, bread, meat (that's not pre-seasoned) cucumbers, salad, etc. I don't put it in my yogurt though. Regarding moldy drawers, we had to move a desk and dresser for cousin R yesterday. They had been sitting in this basement and were covered in MOLD. Gross. We couldn't decide how to remove the mold. I said just spray it with some household cleaner and then air it out-- seems reasonable. Unless the mold has developed some kind of immunity to cleaners and air. I've also decided to become a medicine woman. I'm reading Clan of the Cavebear aga...

So, in preparation for the party at my uncle's house on Sat. I have to carefully plan out my taco dip strategy. Since I'm trying to be calorie concious I've decided to switch up my normal recipe-- I'm going to use yogurt instead of sour cream. Now, I have no idea if it really has less calories, but somehow...I just think it will be better. I was considering using yogurt instead of the cream cheese, but that would just be too runny. Actualy Cousin Q told me it would be too runny. Hmmm.... This is how I make my taco dip cream cheese + sour cream (this time with yogurt substitute) add taco seasoning and mash together and paste on plate layer on lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and black olives and voila. I wanted to make guacamole today until I realized it was too hard , so I just ate the avacado and the leftover chicken. Speaking of Mexican (K from China, I know it's not REALLY Mexican). Cousin Q made tacos tonight. She doesn't use shells, she just uses chips an...