If cavemen created fire...

Why can't I?

My night was going ok, my bf and I watched A Cinderella Story (seriously, there was nothing better on), I heated up some leftovers and cleaned the cat box.

Nothing unusual.

Then that little pyromaniac voice in the back of my head told me to light a fire. I told it, "ok!".

I know it's not really cold enough in Albuquerque to have a fire, but the nights are starting the get chilly and it didn't help that the cooler had been on high for a good portion of the day even when the temp had started going down.

Long story short, I spent 2 hours making the apartment smell like an ashtray, myself smell like a smoked ham and get a fire going for about 10 minutes total before completely giving up.

Oh well, at least it gave me a reason to go take a nice relaxing bath.

Me make good food, share recipe

Ok, so it's not really a recipe, it's more of a theory.

It's for a baked chicken and peach dish.
All you need are:
-chicken breasts
-fresh sliced peaches (or one large can of no sugar added sliced peaches, drained, if peaches are out of season)
-ground ginger
-ground cloves
-brown sugar
-splash of lemon juice

Preheat your oven to 350°F. In a lightly greased baking dish, layer the chicken breasts and peach slices. Sprinkle with brown sugar, ground ginger and cloves and pour about a tablespoon or two lemon juice over it all. Bake this for about 30 minutes, basting occasionally, until the juices run clear.

I thickened the sauce with a bit of cornstarch and water and served this with mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli.

This recipe works well if you add in a bit of ground cinammon or allspice also. I added some dried mint and it didn't hurt the flavor at all.

If you like a sweeter main dish, try this.

You may like it.

Ugh! Rescue me from my friends!

All I want is to go out and have no drama afterwards.

Maybe this is why I never want to go out with the girls anymore...

>_<


I think I'd be happy as a complete shut-in.

I need to stop thinking, it makes my brain hurt!

So, I've been talking to my baby sister recently and she's worried because she doesn't know what she wants to do when she "grows up" and how our other sister is in college and our cousins and everyone else on God's green earth!
Being the good brother I am, I comforted her by reminding her I was 5 years older than her and I wasn't in school and I still didn't know what I wanted to do for a living. (I guess she just assumed I loved working for CDS and Hastings so much that I would just keep them until I died!)

This got me really thinking though... What do I want to do when I grow up? @_@

Wow.

I don't know.

This is one of those things they never really help you with through grade school. All through elementary school, they tell you that you can be whatever you want to be.
A cowboy.
A princess.
An astronaut.
A Power Ranger.
The President.
These are all great to play pretend with, but when was the last time you looked at the job market for any of these careers? They're not really open fields.

Then you get into middle and high school and all of a sudden everyone's telling you that you need to decide what you want to be!

Just decide!

Doesn't matter that you don't know anything about anything!

Just make a choice!

No one tells you what's really out there, or what's involved in what you want to do or how to go about doing it. Just a lot of vague answers...
My favorite was: "Just go to college..."
"What college offers it?"
"You know, that one... in that one place... in that state over yonder!"
"Oh yeah, that one!"
*rolls eyes*

And this is where the fun comes in: Colleges.

It's ok though, you made up your mind, right? That must be what's right.

Or not.

I thought it would be great to go into school to study culinary arts because I enjoy cooking. This was not the same type of cooking I enjoyed. This turned out to be a very expensive mistake since I dropped out in the second semester. It just wasn't what I wanted to do after all.

Ok, so I made a decision, I tried and failed. No big deal, right?

Now what do I want to do though?

And how do I do it?

I change my mind about a dozen times a day.
I've thought about finishing up the culinary arts degree, but I love cooking as a stress reliever and don't think I could deal with starting in someone else's kitchen and their rules.
I've thought about becoming a massage therapist. That seems like it would be a rewarding career and a way to help people.
Maybe journalism? Thought about that a couple times in high school.
What about a mortuary technician? I've been watching a lot of CSI recently and working with living, breathing, annoying people makes me want to work with the dead. Too bad I have zombiphobia.

Maybe I'll just...

...

...Make up my mind later! >_<

Help!!

Yeah, I know I'm bad at updates!

It's been freaking months since I've had the chance to write a new blog. Last time was when... November? December? Something like that. All I know is I had just started working my two jobs (both of which I still have, w00t me!) and I didn't have any internet. Now I have no computer, but I do have access to Ravyn's and we have a steady internet connection as of 3 days ago! Maybe I'll find some more time between work to update this.
I keep meaning to post up some pics, but I'm usually the last person to get access to any.
Of course I started writing this at almost midnight and I need to go get some sleep. I'll try getting back on here tomorrow and writing up something important.

Good night.

Been a long time...

Good morning!
I decided it was time to put up a new blog. I'd like to say that so much has happened in six months, but it really hasn't. I've bounced around a few jobs since losing my job at Bravo in June. I tried the Olive Garden and wanted to die after a day and a half, went to a Greek restaurant and was treated horribly and made no money... I tried the grocery store cashier thing, but money is the dirtiest thing on the planet!
I have finally found something I truly enjoy though. I am working as a demo person over at Costco. It pays well and I have the opportunity to advance and that excites me! I am also doing the two job thing right now and working as a barista in the Hastings cafe on Juan Tabo and Lomas (if you're in Albuquerque) also.
I want to upload some recent pics and whatnot, but Ravyn is the cameraman and has all the pics on his hard drive and I don't have access to them. He could share them over the network, but we are sharing one wireless adapter between us right now since mine died a month ago (it's my turn to use it right now while he's at work). I would just get pics with my phone, but that's been dead for over two months now. I feel so cut off from the world! Maybe this is why I'm working two jobs... just to be around people!
Hopefully I will keep this more up to date than I have been, but no promises. I really do want to get in some more details about my job hunting and on my current job. I promise to also get pics up from my vacation and from meeting Paula Deen and tell that story!
Hope to see y'all soon!

Interview and Vacation

Something happened earlier this week that set me out on a course to find a new job. I have applied at several places and yesterday I got a call back from the one place I didn't expect. I got called for an interview with the High Finance restaurant. Any Albuquerque locals know that this is the restaurant on top of the Sandia Peak accessible only by the Sandia Tram. The name says it all! This could be my chance to make some money as a server!
Another thing I get to look forward to is leaving on vacation tomorrow, if you can call Wyoming a vacation. I think just having the chance to leave Albuquerque is enough of a vaction for anyone. Ravyn and I will be leaving tomorrow for my hometown of Lovell, WY (population 2000, 1992 of which are Mormon). My parents and sisters are already on their way up there from their homes in Texas. My parents will be staying with my grandma and Ravyn, my sisters and I will be staying at my cousin's. This will be the first time I see my family in over a year and a half.
I'm so excited!
I know after about 4 days though, I will be ready to get away and miss them from a distance again.
I know there is internet access at my grandma's, since she runs a trucking company out of her home. I will get online to check for comments and e-mail and hopefully post up a few pictures of the trip! Take care and talk to y'all soon!
(I say all that like I have more than 2 readers on my blog.)

Huzzah!

I had a productive day. I made decent tips at work this evening (even if I did screw up a credit card) and I finally cleaned my aquarium earlier today. :)
It really doesn't take a lot for me to feel like I had a good day.