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I like chicken caesar salad a lot. It is my go to salad when I’ve not brought my lunch. I understand that by adding chicken, I am deviating from the original caesar salad recipe , but besides the addition of a protein, I am a stickler for the basics or acceptable modern modifications thereof. These are things beyond lettuce, croutons, Parmesan cheese and chicken that have been in my salads that should not have been, from least offensive to most offensive:
Pita chips
These were put in instead of croutons. Not a heinous transgression, by all means, and in fact pretty tasty. Acceptable to advertise as this dish as a chicken caesar salad.
Tomatoes
Maybe they just don’t know. “Tomatoes are a salad item! They should go in this here salad I’m making!”
No. They should not. I will scoff at your lack of culinary knowledge, but I understand your caesary intent.
Sauteed red peppers
Sauteed green peppers
Sauteed onions
Sauteed mushrooms
This is the only time I can recall ever returning to a restaurant and asking for my money back after having ordered a to go lunch. All of these items were placed, still hot, on top of a bed of mixed greens. If this is, in fact, “how you make” a chicken caesar salad, you need to a) advertise on your menu that you are adding foreign items into a standard, understood salad or, b) stop calling it a chicken ceasar salad. If I can’t trust my standard lunch, what can I trust in the world?
And yes, I just blogged about my lunch. Suck it.
Tags: chicken caesar salad, food, lunch, you're doing it wrong
September 30th, 2008
So much for skating anytime soon. I possibly have a tear in a ligament or the meniscus in my knee. I’ll know more for sure after an MRI and a follow up in six weeks. I am very very sad about this and have decided that the only thing that will help is if people send pictures of their cute animals. Bunnies, cats, puppies, fish. Whatever. I’ll accept babies as well. It would help even more if the cute animal/baby in question were perhaps holding a sign of encouragement. Am I asking too much? Maybe. But maybe so was Kennedy when he wanted the US to go to the moon.
Tags: knee, roller derby, sad
September 10th, 2008
Tryouts for sub pool were yesterday. I did not move up.
Am I pissed? OH YEAH. 90% at myself and 10% at the universe and everything in it.
Did I do everything I could to make it through? Probably not. But by the time I realized that it was too late.
The upside? I don’t ever want to be this angry at myself again. It’s not pretty. I know what I have to do and it involves a lot of hard work and skill repetition. It’s going to be like an 80s movie montage over here until the next tryouts. I am going to punch the next tryouts in the face. It’s going to be awesome.
The other upside? I’m going to go to Target after work and have some retail therapy. Sub pool may be out of reach until the next round, but pretty new shoes, you will be mine.
Tags: angry, roller derby
August 25th, 2008
Welcome back!
But please stop. You’re not cute. You’re annoying. Now go away.
<3 <3
me
August 8th, 2008
I’ve spent the last week being a huge excuse-maker. It’s gross.
Stop it, me.
This has been me publicly calling myself out. Buck up you fucking pansy.
August 7th, 2008
Things I said to the plumbers before I left work yesterday:
“Under the cabinets are clear, do you need me to get anything else out of your way before I leave? No? Okay then.”
“Please be careful of the ant traps I bought yesterday and laid down near where you might be working.”
“The cats shouldn’t be a problem but they might try to do a runner if you leave the door open.”
Things the plumbers did while I was at work yesterday:
Take everything out of my bathroom and dump it on the floor in front of the litter box in the closet. Including my toothbrush.
Abscond with or misplace my face soap. (What the hell, plumbers?)
Knock giant holes in my walls.
Throw away half of the ant traps.
Spill the other half.
Move furniture.
Not put anything they moved back.
Didn’t clean up.
As a bonus they didn’t lose the cats.
July 19th, 2008
If, just a suggestion, you made yourself acquainted with things like “the gas pedal” and “second gear” perhaps it wouldn’t have taken you twice as long to get to your destination as it should have. THREE of your fellow route drivers passed you.
And, you suck.
Tags: bus, public transportation, slow, suck
June 27th, 2008
What I’d like to do with my $600 check, which I should be getting around June 13th:
Get a new digital camera to replace the wet one: $250
Replace my brakes: $350
Pay for my ticket back from Fattyburger: $315
Buy my Rollercon ticket: $207
Take my cats to the vet: $150
Pay my mom back for the money she lent me to pay my taxes: $1000
Total: $2,272
Hm… I think I need to rejig my math. I didn’t even put any skate upgrades on there.
Tags: math, money, taxes
May 21st, 2008
Hi! Welcome to my pity party! Do you want to hear all about how my knee still hurts and I’m not skating? Do you? No? How about I tell you the one about how my knee pain is making me cranky? Hmm, you heard that one already? What? Twice? Damn. I bet you’ll want to pat my head and say “poor baby” when I tell you about the hell that is trying to make an appointment with Kaiser for an orthopedic specialist? Well, yes, its similar to my plight in getting regularly scheduled pelvic exams, but you know, with a different, more PG rated body part.
Oh, you’ve just remembered you left your stove on? Well, okay. But please leave the beer. And I’ll be sure to call you to tell you how my meeting with a new financial adviser goes tomorrow… yes, its about all the tax I paid… Why are you running?
(I’m fine really, this week is just testing me and doesn’t seem to be letting up.)
Tags: beer, kaiser, knee, money, pity party, roller derby, stupid fuckin fuck, taxes
May 20th, 2008
Well hello there!
I haven’t had much to say since the knee incident. I’m healing up, although I got a little over-excited about how mobile I’ve become at the bout on Saturday and spent most of Sunday with my leg pearched delicately on a pillow. I am not trying out tomorrow. I am, deep down, okay with this. I could use the extra practice and have talked to one of the vets about some private training once I’m back to normal. In the meantime, I’ll be chilling with the Enforcers, the LADD reffing crew, hopefully kickin’ ass and takin’ stats.
To make up for the lack of content, please enjoy a photo from October. We got up at ass-crack o’clock one morning to head out to Topenga to try and get some photos of surfers at sunrise. I did get a few, but I really loved this sign across the street from the beach. Click the pic for a link to the set.
Tags: beach, knee, photos, roller derby, sprain, topenga
April 14th, 2008
I, um, sprained my ankle and knee. Doing a t-stop. At a slow speed.
2-4 weeks of rest. That puts me back on skates past April 15th sub-pool tryouts.
Fuck.
Tags: ankle, knee, roller derby, spaz, sprain
April 6th, 2008
Rick-rolling. (Look it up on Wikipedia if you need to. I’ll wait.)
It’s never funny.
Also, it may cause me to plan to slice your Achilles tendons in your sleep.
Thaaaanks.
Tags: grr, hate, psa, rick-rolling, stab, violence
April 1st, 2008
– I am freakin’ full of rage today. Rarrr. Rarr. I bet you can feel my rage through the Internets.
– I am also very tired. I haven’t really slept well since Saturday when I slept all day. Probably contributing to massive rage issue.
– Also, also, my eye is twitching like I’m stressed out or something.
– On a note that’s possibly related to all of this, tryouts for derby are on April 15th.
Make of this list what you will. I am too tired to analyze it.
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I offered to let the boyfriend try to get to second base with Scarlet Johansen should he ever have the opportunity (and given the way that the holllywood types have been showing up at derby, its totally within the realm of possibility). He’s been cursing his social awkwardness ever since the offer has been made. I was just being funny, but the whole conversation got me thinking.
Do kids in other countries use culturally appropriate sports metaphors for touching a girl’s boobies? I’m sure there’s a good “I knocked her wicket right off” joke in there somewhere. See above about the tired.
March 27th, 2008
The water did in the FantasticFujiFunpix that I got for Christmas last year.
I will be accepting nominations for my new camera.
*sigh*
Tags: camera
March 14th, 2008
Dear Track,
We really have to stop meeting like this.
I appreciate the way your slopes hurtle me into the straights when I can remember to skate the track and push through the turns. I cherish your rail, which guards me from being flung out of the corners. In fact, I am even grateful for your cushy, smooshy masonite, without which I would be left to fling my ample ass onto less forgiving surfaces such as concrete or hardwood.
But seriously, Track…
It’s not you. It’s me. My left thigh has been drawn to you like cats to a laser pointer for the last two weeks. I can’t take it anymore. I’m losing sleep, literally. Like, I can’t sleep on my left side and I’m a toss-turn sleeper. I’m putting my skate down, Track (and then picking it up again… over and over… ’cause that’s how derby works) and vowing to end this torrid affair you’re having with my thigh. It will be hard, I know. It is so meaty and luscious, what track wouldn’t want to gobble that thigh up? But I know if I bend my knees and stay low and stick my ass out like I’m pooping on the track, I can put an end to my thigh’s fascination with your lovely gray surface. Also, I’m calling in reinforcements.
<3 <3
me
Tags: bruises, roller derby
March 12th, 2008
Hello!
So far the outcome of the water debacle is Purse = Fine, Camera = unsure still, but not holding out hope. I’m going to put my spare battery in and try to charge it tomorrow and hope for the best. If not, I have just enough credit card points left to get me a new one from the evil blue and yellow store… I believe Mir refers to it as “Excellent Purchase”? The more I try and boycott them, the more they suck me back in. Bastards.
On the derby front… I have been “track cleared” but not “all skate cleared.” What this means is that when the track is free, I can, with another person for safety, go and skate on it. I cannot participate in the league-wide all skates. While I’m not a danger to myself or others, the trainer I talked to is pretty sure I will get my ass handed to me and wants me to get “a little more confident.” I’m not arguing with her. All skate scares the ever-loving hell out of me, and while I want to participate to get over my fear… you know… sometimes the fear is there for a reason.
I’m at that weird point in activities where I start to plateau and get bored. I really don’t want that to happen with derby. When I started I had so few expectations of what I was going to be able to do that when I started succeeding it felt great. The successes are harder to come by now, which means I need to push that much harder to get them. Hopefully I can get my sad-sack self motivated to get to the track on non-fresh-meat days and actually make myself do the hard things. Oh, transitions! I hate you and your friend “skating backwards”! But I will CRUSH you.
Tags: camera, oh noes, roller derby, teh suck
March 11th, 2008
I managed to dump a whole liter of water in my very nice purse today because I apparently didn’t managed to close the top all the way. Also, I am a spaz.
My camera. I’m pretty sure its shorted out. Pray for it. *tear*
There will be no further Photo a day pictures until this is sorted.
Oh yeah. I also fully expect to have to pay at least 1k in taxes. Flail.
Tags: spaz
March 8th, 2008
I want my twelve dollars!
Bitches.
September 21st, 2007
Since September I have had two abnormal pap test, one colposcopy, and one biopsy, where too few cells were taken. Today I had a new pap test. A lot of my anxiety has come from this and switching doctors because of new health insurance and having to go to a giant hospital complex now for all my medical needs. And it took me two months to get this appointment. Ridiculous.
The new plan of action is to have a new pap test in six months regardless of the outcome of this one. And if the one in six months comes back abnormal then I get to start the whole thing over again. Yum.
I’m totally okay with this though. Today.
Congrats to the AT ladies who managed to keep their shit together enough to have parties. I’ll keep a look out for the photos as I now plug slowly along to try and finish my projects.
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