boys and girls
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brightbluegirlThis weekend has been busy. Too busy to relax, really, which is unfortunate, considering my permanent stress level nowadays.
On Tuesday, you saw my note about job possibilities. Of course, nothing is anything more than possible, so now I'm back in a waiting mode - and even, I think, a little less stressed than before. I talked to Andrew for quite some time about it, that night, while we walked for hours. I feel better, now, that moving to St. Catharines for a terrific job opportunity (and possibly free University courses!) will not cause Andrew to resent me - we can work something out for schooling for him, and his parents know that moving to a non-B.C city is a possibility that we both aren't discounting. And of course, if that falls through, or if the other job is the one we'll take, I DID tell my mother that if I said no to the job, it would be for valid reasons, not spurious ones, and she's ok with that. And a contract position is better than none... and should get us through for awhile, anyway.
Both of these possibilities are POSITIVE. Not negative. I was bummed for awhile on Tuesday, yeah. But I'm better today.
On Tuesday morning we took advantage of the neighbour's car to drive to four different grocery stores to get everything we needed for the small dinner party we're holding tonight. (It's just us and one other couple) 4 stores!!!!
And yesterday we got up at 7am and went for a walk/run - which lasted 27 minutes and I felt was too short, then burst into crazy action. We took all our recycling to the recycling place, Andrew drove me to work so I could bike home, he did the laundry while I started cooking...
I wanted us to have a fun fancy dinner of our own last night. So the menu was marinated grilled chicken skewers with spiced eggplant on naan.
Plus, I had to start making the sorbet for tonight's meal. I couldn't find any passionfruit ANYWHERE, so the sorbet is mango/peach (and REALLY GOOD).
So I started making naan, but I only whole wheat flour (added extra yeast and baking powder, but...). Plus, I'm still not so good at baking at this altitude. The naan came out hardish and un-naan like. Edible, but more like great big naan-crackers than anything. It really depressed me, actually. Working at a new recipe is fun - but a lot of the fun is in eating the new creation.
So we used pita for the recipe instead.
We did a LOT of cooking yesterday. We made a couple of spring rolls to taste, the sorbet, the cracker-naan, the marinade for the skewers, the spiced eggplant...
Plus we went for a walk in the evening, and bought a few odds and ends.
And last night I did NOT sleep well. We were going to get up at 5:30 to go swimming, but we got to bed late (10:30) because we were finishing the spring rolls and things, and then I was WIDE awake for hours. Tense. Seeing serial killers in the shadows, and monsters under the bed. It was horrible. I tried taking one of those pills, but all it did was make me have to pee more. So we didn't get up until after 6:30, and instead of the day off working out that we had planned for tomorrow, we're taking today off. That works better for the dinner get together, anyway.
When I have children, if I am lucky enough to have a boy, I want to name him Tomas. If I am lucky enough to have a girl, I want to name her Anna.
On Tuesday, you saw my note about job possibilities. Of course, nothing is anything more than possible, so now I'm back in a waiting mode - and even, I think, a little less stressed than before. I talked to Andrew for quite some time about it, that night, while we walked for hours. I feel better, now, that moving to St. Catharines for a terrific job opportunity (and possibly free University courses!) will not cause Andrew to resent me - we can work something out for schooling for him, and his parents know that moving to a non-B.C city is a possibility that we both aren't discounting. And of course, if that falls through, or if the other job is the one we'll take, I DID tell my mother that if I said no to the job, it would be for valid reasons, not spurious ones, and she's ok with that. And a contract position is better than none... and should get us through for awhile, anyway.
Both of these possibilities are POSITIVE. Not negative. I was bummed for awhile on Tuesday, yeah. But I'm better today.
On Tuesday morning we took advantage of the neighbour's car to drive to four different grocery stores to get everything we needed for the small dinner party we're holding tonight. (It's just us and one other couple) 4 stores!!!!
And yesterday we got up at 7am and went for a walk/run - which lasted 27 minutes and I felt was too short, then burst into crazy action. We took all our recycling to the recycling place, Andrew drove me to work so I could bike home, he did the laundry while I started cooking...
I wanted us to have a fun fancy dinner of our own last night. So the menu was marinated grilled chicken skewers with spiced eggplant on naan.
Plus, I had to start making the sorbet for tonight's meal. I couldn't find any passionfruit ANYWHERE, so the sorbet is mango/peach (and REALLY GOOD).
So I started making naan, but I only whole wheat flour (added extra yeast and baking powder, but...). Plus, I'm still not so good at baking at this altitude. The naan came out hardish and un-naan like. Edible, but more like great big naan-crackers than anything. It really depressed me, actually. Working at a new recipe is fun - but a lot of the fun is in eating the new creation.
So we used pita for the recipe instead.
We did a LOT of cooking yesterday. We made a couple of spring rolls to taste, the sorbet, the cracker-naan, the marinade for the skewers, the spiced eggplant...
Plus we went for a walk in the evening, and bought a few odds and ends.
And last night I did NOT sleep well. We were going to get up at 5:30 to go swimming, but we got to bed late (10:30) because we were finishing the spring rolls and things, and then I was WIDE awake for hours. Tense. Seeing serial killers in the shadows, and monsters under the bed. It was horrible. I tried taking one of those pills, but all it did was make me have to pee more. So we didn't get up until after 6:30, and instead of the day off working out that we had planned for tomorrow, we're taking today off. That works better for the dinner get together, anyway.
When I have children, if I am lucky enough to have a boy, I want to name him Tomas. If I am lucky enough to have a girl, I want to name her Anna.
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Date: 2003-07-17 02:17 pm (UTC)in any case, i'm partial to margo and moira for girls and luke and francis for boys.
eeeeeeep! i just figured out why this is so freaky. those are my parents' names. no, really. stop that!
Re:
Date: 2003-07-17 02:19 pm (UTC)Wow. I've known I wanted those since I was a teenager.
That's totally freaky.
Naan plan
Date: 2003-07-17 07:24 pm (UTC)Everything else sounds super yummy (homemade mango/peach sorbet... wow! :-).
Also, coming back to Canada (which is relatively scrubby in most places) after being in New Mexico or Arizona for a few weeks (I certainly haven't lived there) is so... green! It's like coming back from another planet. You notice things that you never noticed before... Good luck on your job hunt, I'm on my own right now.
Re: Naan plan
Date: 2003-07-18 08:47 am (UTC)The sorbet REALLY turned out! Thanks! I love it, and my guests were thrilled. There's still some leftovers, too, which I'm very happy about. Heh.
I visited here twice before moving, and both times I felt the same way when I came back. It really WAS like coming back from a different planet, you're right.
Thanks for the luck. I wish you as much as possible in your search as well! We both deserve good jobs.