Will the Flood Behind Me put out the Fire Inside Me

I have no career aspirations. I know I'm meant for something meaningful in life, but as of right now I don't see it being in a career/job. I don't see a difference between a career or a job for me. I know other people have great dreams of what they want to be, but I just don't have it. I see a job as a way to survive financially, and nothing more. How terrible, I know. Hopefully that will change.


Do you think the university would take away my diploma if I gave them a really nasty review on their "experience survey"?

Steadily We Climb Again

I made a random bento today.

The box has chicken and vegetable potstickers, a container of chile soy sauce for the potstickers and salad, heart shaped watermelon, frozen edamame, and candied nuts.



The top contains a nutty cookie and tiny cheezits.



I'll end with one of my favorite scenes from the Office. The best part involves Creed.

Step Down into Sand

There needs to be a cure for anxiety that isn't in the form of a pill.

Quote of the Week

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

-GK Chesterton

Galloping Manic

I just completed my application for graduation. This is almost unreal for me. I feel like I've been waiting forever for this, even though it's only been 4.5 years.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I'm praying that everything goes smoothly, since my anxiety is beginning to make what-if scenarios run through my mind.

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I picked out my dress the other day. I'd been having a hard time finding the "perfect" dress, since I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted. This one came closest to being the perfect dress for me. I wanted to wait a bit longer, but the dress I picked out takes ~4 months to come in, so I didn't want to miss out and I just ordered it.

I've become really nervous about the wedding; there's way more planning than I had imagined. At the same time, I'm also incredibly antsy and excited for it! It actually feels real now, and I'm having a second wave of happiness.

And We Dance On..

I honestly do not understand how/why people want to stay in school forever.

Gosh.

What Are You Hoping For?

Tomorrow is the first day of my (I'm pretty sure) last semester. I'm going to meet with my adviser sometime this week and make absolutely sure. If I end up having to take more classes, I'll do them during winter session. I refuse to continue taking classes in 2008!


I've been looking at job options for post-graduation, and since I do not have the funds to build a rockin' bar/library, it looks like my best bets are:
Post Office, Geico (if all the billboards around here mean they're really that eager to hire..), some type of federal/state/county/city job that somehow doesn't require 3 years prior experience.
I don't think I'll find a history related job that pays enough to live off of.

Foux Da Fa Fa

Fruit and veggie bento for Boy:

Blackberries with green bear pick, raspberries, and sliced purple plums.
Sliced orange bell pepper, baby carrots, cucumbers, mozzarella with orange rabbit pick, and clickety container of ranch dressing.

The Haze Clears from your Eyes on a Sunday

Random bento lunch for the day.

Jasmine rice and beans, carrot soy sauce for the rice, honeydew nectarine slices, mixed nuts, golden raisins and cherries, and a single stroop waffle.


I need a nap.

RASENGAN

Bento lunch for today.

Pickles, carrots, wasabi almonds, bananas, and peanut butter.

What was Golden went Gray

Although I haven't played ffxi in many many months, I finally managed to give away "valuables" and officially quit.



Cheesy, yes.

It's Late in the Day

I actually made myself a bento today. No cheese!

In my piggie bento, there's lemon-crusted chicken, a mini bagel sandwich, strawberries, blueberries, mandarin oranges, and tulip cut kiwis.

Losing Surprise

For yesterday's bento, I opted for a more traditional approach. At least for one tier.

This box holds cucumbers with ranch dressing, and cheddar/mozzarella cheese. The next tier holds heart, star, and bear shaped onigiri filled with homemade chicken teriyaki. There's also a pig bottle of homemade teriyaki sauce and some black olives.


In this box, I have a homemade strawberry mascarpone mini cupcake with fresh strawberry glaze.
There's also sliced strawberries, donut peaches, mint chocolate cookies, and mixed nuts and dried fruit.

Should we go Outside

Another bento post.

A lunch bento containing a bear and circle shaped turkey/roast beef sandwiches, baby carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, a container of ranch dressing (gross!), cottage cheese (double gross!), chocolate-espresso pudding, string cheese, and a vitamin.



Fruity bento has saturn nectarines, plums, blueberries, raspberries, mixed nuts, and a weird German Joghurt chocolate thingie.



P.S. John, I'm not good at making steak, and I don't think I could nicely fit steak into a bento either.

The Difference Between the Sprout and the Bean

So I lied maybe; I don't think this post will be very interesting. My muse is not currently functioning.

Bentoness:

The first bento box I made tonight is a fruit/veggie one. The bottom tier holds cherry tomatoes, a couple of baby carrots, cut up mozzarella, cucumbers, and weird pickly thingies.



The top tier contains a halved red plum surrounded by blueberries and a sliced strawberry.



The top mini tier thing under the cover holds sesame honey cashews.



My spiffy new Naruto bento contains a boring turkey sandwich on marble rye.


Yay for nerdy, yet awesome anime!

Bored Bento

Made two more bentos. Although creativity is severely lacking today, I still had fun.


This tier contains chocolate-espresso pudding and fresh strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries.



This tier contains cottage cheese, a saturn peach, and some super tiny chocolate chip cookies.



This bento contains sushi rice sprinkled with vegetable furikake and mickey mouse cut nori. Both Brandon and I have decided that furikake tastes like fish food flakes and is generally quite nasty. No more of that.
There is also baby carrots, a carroty bottle of soy sauce, some cherry tomatoes, and a pink heart boiled egg.


In more serious news, things are coming together nicely, expect more interesting posts in the future.

Second Bento

This is my second attempt at a bento.


For the main bento I put sushi rice decorated with butterfly shaped nori, leftover turkey meatballs, a tiny container of soy sauce for the rice, some cherry tomatoes, and a "bear" shaped boiled egg. Because I was too antsy, the egg came out looking like a happy blob instead of a bear.





The side bento contains fresh strawberries, blueberries, and butterfly cut mangoes.

Yay I'm having fun with this.

First Bento!

I finally got around to creating my first bento.


The bottom tier (top tray in this picture) holds strawberries, a container of cottage cheese, macadamia nut mix, and a hard boiled egg made in the shape of a bunny . The top tier (bottom tray in picture) holds two circle-cut mango jelly sandwiches, some sliced mango and kiwi, more strawberries, and some chocolate-espresso pudding.


This is the bento closed up in my horsey container.

No I didn't eat this one (cottage cheese for me?! no way). I made it for my boyfriend/fiance when he came home for a lunch break. Although it isn't nearly as clever and well organized as the stuff pro-bento makers create, I'm pretty happy with my first attempt.

I've been Summoned

Tomorrow is my date for Jury Duty. I'm supposed to call in this afternoon to see if my group is needed. I don't wanna go!

Lächeln

Another bento package arrived today, but unfortunately I can't really do much from these pieces until other stuffs comes in.

Little container cups for sides and whatnot, and a smiley snack bento.
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I got my grades for my 2 presession classes, and I did much better than I thought I would! I am now officially finished with my Business Admin. minor.

I went to Pima Animal Care Center the other day, and my goodness that place is depressing. I fell in love with some pit bull puppies that I really wanted to adopt, but I'm not sure if that would be a good idea or not. I really want a big dog puppy, and if I got one from the county shelter, I would be saving a life too, since I think that shelter is a high-kill shelter. Bwah I don't know what to do.

Carrots?

I got my first piece(s) of stuff for my new bento-making hobby today.

Bad lighting in the picture, but they're cute little soy sauce/condiment bottles shaped like carrots and baby bottles (?).
I know I'm crazy, but at least this hobby is more interesting than my other hobbies, and it seems like it'll make my summer less boring.


In other news...
Lots of exciting planning ahead to come!

Summer!

My presession classes are over, meaning I'm free!

I've decided to take up a new hobby for the summer.. bento making! We'll see how long it keeps my interest, but I have a feeling it'll be really fun.

Engagement!

The title says it all! Brandon proposed to me on May 19, 2007.


I am so incredibly happy.