Been Cookin'

Lately, both Katharine and I have become sick and tired of takeout. There are only so many choices in our area...Pizza, Roast Beef Place, Chinese food, Seafood...Pizza...Roast Beef Place...you get the idea. And the ONLY wing place that I knew of JUST closed about a week after I found out about it. So, we've started cooking again...yes, I said WE have started cooking again. Katharine has increased in the number of things she can cook that aren't desserts to 2 things now...lasagne, chicken cordon blue in the crockpot, and salmon with sweet potato cassarole. Wait...I count three things there. I made some American Chop Suey (at least that's what we called it growing up, but it's really just macaroni, ground turkey, onions, peppers, garlic, and sauce) and tonight I'm making minestrone soup from a recipe I found online with nice crusty Italian bread (and we'll make cookies because that's healthy).

Here is my Amercian Chop Suey:

{Hours later} Here is how the minestrone came out:

Hows About a Little Bit O 'Acupuncture

For the past two weeks I've been going to an acupuncturist to try and loosen up some tight muscles and it's been really interesting. If you've never had acupuncture before, they basically plug needles into various places on your body that correspond to other points in your body to relieve pressure or pain or tightness. In addition to this, they have been inserting needles directly into specific muscles and contracting them so they will eventually release themselves and not be as tight. There was even one spot that he said corresponded to my calf muscle which is regularly sore, and when he was done, the soreness was GONE. Pretty cool.

Yeah well, I'm not a doctor or an acupunturist myself so you'll have to accept my explaination as it is. So the last time I went, my doctor was teaching other doctors about acupuncture so my appointment ended up taking 2 hours instead of an hour. I guess I got my money's worth, but I also go too much information. As he slid one of the needles into my left hip area, he says "and this one I'm going to try and slip between the muscle and the bone"...what?...really?...did I need to know that? "and then watch what happens when I move the needle like this"...no really...I don't need to know what you're doing. The needle part of acupuncture doesn't bother me at all...I know the idea of needles bothers some people, but you can't really feel them once they're in. I've done acupuncture before and the needles were in my head to work on an inner ear problem. This is much easier than that until he contracts the muscle...almost jumped off the table that time. And then they leave you in the room to wonder if it's going to contract again. I just pulled out my iPhone and turned on the music and chilled out to that (and managed to take a picture with it too). The doctor thought I was multitasking...but no...working while under the influence of acupuncture is not necessary.

Phew.

Quiznos and Cake

I knew I was going to be working late today, so I took a late lunch. I went to Quiznos...because they have a pepper bar...which I don't use anymore because it's not that good. Quiznos has decent subs, even if they all taste the same...mostly. After Quiznos, I went next door to Coldstone Creamery. I'm not a huge Coldstone Creamery fan, I think it's a bit overrated...however...comma...I've never had their shakes before. The shake I chose was the BEST shake I've ever had. Or, was it cake? Or was it a shake? Oh yes my friends, it was BOTH. It was called a Cake N Shake, not to be confused with Shake N Bake.

It literally is...a shake, made from cake batter ice cream...and it has cake in it. REAL pieces of crumply good, moist and delicious CAKE blended within it. A big old cup of cake. If you've never tried this, you should go out to your nearest Coldstone and get a Cake N Shake. Wow...I still feel sick 8 hours later. And I wasn't hungry for dinner either. Go figure. I had CAKE.

They're Doing WHAT???

OK...I don't know anything about science, but I heard this morning that there's some sort of particle collider being turned on in Europe today that could "potentially" create a black hole and destroy the Earth and that some countries are against it. Seriously...here's the article if you're like me and you live in a black hole where news is concerned.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/10/lhc.collider/index.html

Now, don't get me wrong...I'm all for advancement...and Bidiak is telling me I'm wrong to care, and that he wants to stand in the waves and get mutant powers like the X-Men....but who the hell gives permission for something like this? Here are a bunch of people cheering for it:

They won't be cheering when a black hole is created and swallows them. Isn't this like playing Russian Roulette with the Earth? Or maybe I'm just having a little fun being dramatic, because as I said in the beinning, I don't care about science, but this did give me something to post this morning. Thanks killers of the Earth for letting me provide some entertainment on a Tuesday morning.