Sunday, July 19, 2009
My hands are clean!
Of the old apartment. Yey!!
I shall get my hair cut to commemorate this momentous day. It'll be super short so my blonde routes and black tips will look more like it's supposed to be that way instead of looking like I'm just lazy/broke.
...Maybe...
I love going to parties where I don't know anyone, then meeting awesome people. I talked to this one girl for a long time who re-convinced me that Seattle is a wonderful city for food. Especially if you like organic food and want to follow that route (which I do. Because hippies are fast becoming my friends). So I am now, once again, sure that I want to live in Seattle at some point for at least a year or so. Yey direction!
Another thing I love: people who love food. My favorite thing in the world is to talk about menus and bounce ideas off other people who are as enthusiastic as I.
Recipe time!!!
Super awesome hamburgers:
-Ground beef (preferable lean because it's better) mixed with salt, pepper, steak seasoning, 1 egg, bread crumbs and parmeasan cheese (or not if you don't have the ingredients. I just like to add stuff to my meat). now take a golf-ball sized ball and flatten out into a fairly thin disk, about the size of a very large persons palm. You're going to have to make two of these disks per person, so think about how much the people you're feeding can eat and size the patties accordingly.
-enough cream cheese to make a 1.5" disk for every two ground beef patties. Mix in some salt, pepper, herbs (to be super vague).
-encase the cream cheese in the patties and grill.
-saute up some peppers and onions
-now get the rest of whatever you feel like putting on your hamburger and put it all together into one fantastic, orgasmic experience.
Mmmm....summer...
posted by Katie Coffman @ 11:03 AM
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
July = awesome
So here's July. I am having incredible amounts of fun! Including multiple beach days, multiple nothing days, and as few days as possible in the old apartment (which was lonely and scary and not too happy to come back to after being in San Diego for nearly 2 weeks straight). Let's just say that I'm extremely excited to be moving out of that apartment. I'm moving back in with my parents for a while, to get a new job(s) and to save up money so I can get my own apartment sometime after octoberish. That will be awesome. That's the plan, at least, but it is, of course, flexible. (Do you like how jilted and non-flowy that last sentence is? 'cause I do.)
So cleaning the old apartment means I have interesting bruises and spackle on my fingernails.
I'm excited for my new job I'll be getting this month! It hasn't happened, nor do I have prospects yet, but I know I'm hire-able and have a good amount of experience (compared to last year).
Everythings better than last year. Yey!
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Protests and pain
Ok so I haven't done this in a long time but you know, sometimes getting computer time is hard without having a computer. So Sassy and I went to this protest because the supreme court is retarded and decided that proposition 8 was cool. Yeah. Not so much. Bastards. But the protest was honestly the coolest thing ever. I've never been to one before and now I'm excited to go to others. People were so exuberant and wanting to change the world. there were fucking 10,000 people there! or, you know, so they said. And my throat hurts. I've never yelled that much.
So life: things have been the same for the past 6 months now: work. work. work. Fun! work. work. work. Fun! Though this memorial day weekend has been the most fun I've ever had in my entire life. Memorial day wasn't mentioned at all, but I had the day off so...Sunday night was awesome. Lets just say that Dennys has very good hangover food. Kindof. If you're hungover enough to not be able to taste.
On a different note, by this time next week I'll be chillin in Hawaii. Fuck yea.
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I am so incredibly excited I can't even begin to explain. An even more amazing happenstance: Mr. newboyfriendguy is going to be in Hawaii, on the same island, at the same time as I! It's a very strange and entirely unplanned coincidence, but very fortuitous. And he enjoys the company of my other friends that are going to be there!
So that's cool.
I'm highly excited for July. Don't know what's gonna happen yet, but it's gonna be big.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
I like multitasking!
So I'm back to multitasking at the gym by reading and being on the elliptical machine. Even if it doesn't get my heart pumping like running does, I like it more because it means I get through books faster! I just finished reading The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. It's this weird Russian book by this guy who probably got killed by Stalin in the '40's because he wrote satirically about communism and the Russian government. Poor guy.
I think basically the story is about how evil is cool. Margarita sold her soul to the devil in order to gain back the sanity of her lover, the Master, and in return they got peace and happiness for the rest of eternity. The Master wrote an awesome book about Pontius Pilate that somehow freed Pilate from the eternal suffering/insomnia he'd been enduring since he killed Jesus. So that allowed Pilate to talk to Jesus as much as he wanted which made Jesus happy so he asked Satan to give the Master peace forever. Which is an odd thing for Jesus to ask of Satan, since you'd think it was the other way around, but the coolest quote is as follows: "He read the Master's work," said Mattu Levi, "and asks he you to take the Master with you and reward him with peace. Is that so difficult for you, spirit of evil?"
"Nothing is difficult for me," answered Woland,"[...] and why don't you take him with you, into the light?"
"He has not earned light, he earned peace."'
Makes you think, yeah?
And now I'm starting this book my Mom got me for Christmas about dharma (not the fun-loving free-spirit married to an uptight lawyer-type) in the city. It's basically reaffirming everything I want to think about humanity (i.e. everyone is basically good and loving but circumstances have gotten in the way of them being awesome) but have recently not been feeling so much. There's also this good idea that you can only live in the now, seeing as the past is just stories and the future is just stories you're making up. I'm not saying I'm not going to strive for goals I want to achieve, but I can see how constantly evaluating present actions in regards to future wants can make life hell.
"There's no such thing as a good day or a bad day, just how you handle them"
I don't know why I quoted that, seeing as I said it...
I love books!
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Ahh the spoils of boxing day
So I accidentally got rather drunk at Boxing Day. Oops... First time ever being drunk in front of parents. Definitely a strange experience...and one I think I'll not repeat. I completely forgot how much vodka dad puts in his banana banshees. But they're so yummy 'cause they taste like delicious and not like alcohol!
I haven't felt this hungover in quite a while.
But I did get some cool stuff! Like a steamer and a crock pot! The rest of it is ... well...boxing day shit. Fun times.
And in other news UGO has decided to save even more money by cutting my hours. Which doesn't save them much seeing as I only work 8 days a month... well, not anymore. On the one hand I need the money, but having every other Saturday off is going to be WONDERFUL. It'll make it so much easier to get through life knowing I have days off to look forward to.
Still, I'm seriously worried about the state of that business. I'm afraid it's not going to make it, which means a lot of people I know are going to be out of a job. On that note, I'm worried about this whole fucking economy. But that's old news.
Isn't that sad how I can say 'that's old news' to the continuing recession that's quickly spiraling into a severe depression? We're living in such bad times right now...But it'll get better! Yey for inaugurations!
Hope
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
And about 7 years after everybody else...
I've discovered the website 'Pandora!' I really, really like it because it gives me information that I did not previously have. I like absorbing random and useless-in-the-scheme-of-things facts.
On a cooking note: I am discovering the beauty in simplicity. You don't need a ridiculous amount of spices and other flavorings for things when only a few will work. For example:
Saute Green and yellow squash (the green ones are zucchini but for some reason the poor yellow guys don't get a name) with olive oil, minced garlic, and chopped onion. Add salt and pepper. Add half a can of diced tomatoes (unsalted is probably best seeing as you can always add more salt but it's much more painstaking and time-consuming to remove it). Then add some week-old cooked rice that has been tightly sealed in your refrigerator. If you have some random alfredo sauce lying around you should add that too, just to tie it all together (and because cheese makes everything better).
Hmm...I guess that's not all that simple now that I write it all out. But it seemed simple at the time!
Anyway, it's rather fuckin tasty, if I may say so myself.
Another old stand-by: pesto alfredo pasta. Just mix alfredo and pesto sauce in a 2-1 ratio (more alfredo please, pesto is overpowering) and add it to pasta. Delicious and takes about as long as opening a can of alfredo sauce takes.
Enough about food, let's talk about life! Which, unsurprisingly, revolves almost entirely around food...
Oh wait! So I've been running lately (on a treadmill unfortunately, only because I'm not too big of a fan of wandering the streets of Hollywood at night. That and I like breathing) and am up to 2.5 miles in 24 minutes!
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I'm pretty proud of myself actually. It's kinda cool especially since I've hated running most of my life.
Wednesday night should be awesome! I'm seeing my boyfriend's band who've been practicing a lot more lately (since getting a new guitarist and everything) and I'm pretty sure they're going to kick some fuckin ass. I've only seen them once and they surprised me with the sheer amount of talent they all have. I would say I'm biased, but at the time of seeing them I wasn't sure of anything and rather skeptical. So I'm happy to see them again.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
I think I have what they call writer's block...only I don't write
So lately my ability to correspond with other members of the human race has been significantly FAIL. I can't get out the words I want at the right time or with the right inflection. I think it's making me seem kinda crazy to a lot of people, but luckily they kinda know me well and think it's endearing. At least I hope that's what they're thinking...
In any case, people are pretty awesome. Especially a certain person who likes me and is willing to spend copious amounts of time with me of his own free will. Yey nice boys!
My one job had it's Christmas party last night. (yea, last night. hey, it's only 2 weeks after Christmas). It was so overwhelmingly Hollywoodish that we left after the free food and free drinks. I'm willing to go pretty much anywhere for free stuff, but that was almost not worth it. It's a good thing the food was ridiculously good... Though it would have been kinda fun to watch my various bosses get totally shitfaced.
On a lighter note, my other job's Christmas party (which happened at the more understandable time of the week of the 25th) was pretty cool. At least to me (others said it sucked but seeing as it was my first Christmas party ever I was rather happy with it) but it could have been the whole meeting people and such.
And to update on my completely new and improved plan for the next year: I'm going to move to Seattle in July/August. I have a multitude of reasons for this radical decision.
1. I sincerely dislike LA. I feel like the only thing anyone cares about is appearance. I know that your physical appearance is supposed to show how much you care about yourself, but it seems to have gone too far and to the realm of physical deformity here. People here don't look like human beings, they look like dolls. Not the cute ones (with the button eyes and the cozy body that you can actually hug), but the scary ones with the eyes that open and close and follow you wherever you go and the heads that fall off if you shake them too much and the bodies that look like holocaust survivors. With ginormous boobs. ... Sorry. I rant a lot when it comes to this. I'm done now before I start cursing profusely.
2. It's too hot in southern California. I get overly warm at around 75 degrees, and that seems to be the winter norm around here. Granted, in a couple decades I'm sure Seattle will be just as hot thanks to humanities' wonderful greenhouse gases (go us) but for now the North's average summer temp of about 80 max seems like the greatest thing ever.
3. I miss nature. It's really sad when you get excited about seeing a squirrel because that's the closest you've gotten to wildlife in about a year. I need trees, greenery, and actual oxygen. And silence and stars. mmmmmmm...
4. It's really difficult to imagine making tasty desserty-foods when no one eats. At least there's enough bulimics in this city to keep the restaurant industry alive.
5. I want a huge fucking hairy dog.
6. I've lived in SoCal my entire life. The idea of never trying out other places sounds...scary.
7. 5's not really a reason, I'm just sayin.
So yeah. I think I'm rather justified.
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