Completely by accident. I'm usually pretty good certain safety things... I mean I'm really good about locking my doors habitually as I open the door to get out, which is probably why I locked my keys in my car.
When I groaned to Lori about it, she immediately called the police station to find out if this was something they could help with. They said yes, and within 15 minutes, a cop arrived. As he started trying to flip the lock with the long metal device thing, he says to me, "Oh just so you know, it doesn't happen often, but I'm supposed to warn you that your lock on this door may never work again after this." Thanks guy.
10 minutes of trying to unlock my car and he stops and says, "If this were a Ford, I'd have already unlocked this by now".
I guess in a way, that's a good thing (I say this now that my car is already unlocked).
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Monday, October 01, 2007
Eat Drink One Woman
I started writing this entry called "Favorite Restaurant Foods" while on the phone with BGS and he thought I was talking about one of those "You Are What You Eat" entries on Eat Drink One Woman. So I decided to write both :)
Name: Tammy
Occupation: Student/Eternal Intern
Borough: Suburbia a half hour outside The D, MI
Relationship: Taken, by someone I'm head over heels for!
What did you eat today?
I'm ashamed to say because I ate so poorly today! An iced tea, croissant, and banana for breakfast/lunch, and another iced tea and dumplings with rice and corn for dinner.
What do you never eat?
Tomatoes... even though I like salsa, marinara sauce, and ketchup. Not a big fan of olives or seafood with tentacles.
Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator, you can always find:
Shredded Mozzarella cheese, apple juice or high pulp orange juice, baby carrot sticks or some other kind of veggies for dipping, Marzetti's Veggie Dip to go with the previous item, fresh frozen fruits for smoothies or other desserts (in my freezer), eggs, sliced turkey, and a roll of croissant dough.
What is your favorite kitchen item?
My Magic Bullet, which I realize sounds like a sex toy but it is really just a small, powerful blender that I constantly use for smoothies, milkshakes, and dicing foods like boiled eggs for egg salads. Best used for pulverizing though.
Where do you eat out most frequently?
Beirut La Pita but probably because it is close to work, fast, inexpensive, tasty, and everyone I'll go out to eat with likes their food. They have this amazing dip they just call Garlic Dip, which I could live off of.
World ends tomorrow. What would you like for your last meal?
A four course fondue meal at the Melting Pot with a couple close friends (which I've mapped out below), and a ridiculous amount of wine:
1. Cheddar fondue: Aged, medium-sharp Cheddar and Emmenthaler Swiss cheeses, lager beer, garlic and seasonings. Served with diced apples, celery, and bread cubes for dipping.
2. California Salad: Mixed baby greens, Roma tomatoes, walnuts, Gorgonzola cheese, with a raspberry walnut vinaigrette dressing.
3. Coq au Vin fondue: Flavors of fresh herbs, mushrooms, garlic, spices, and burgundy wine. Served with chicken, shrimp, teriyaki beef, broccoli, potatoes, mushrooms, yellow squash, sauces for dipping (curry, chipotle, teriyaki, sour cream & chives, and Gorgonzola cheese dip), and two batters for breading (tempura and a sesame seed batter)
4. Yin Yang chocolate fondue: half dark chocolate, half white chocolate. Served with strawberries, bananas, pineapple, graham cracker covered marshmallows, oreo crumb covered marshmallows, cheese cake, and pound cake.
Name: TammyOccupation: Student/Eternal Intern
Borough: Suburbia a half hour outside The D, MI
Relationship: Taken, by someone I'm head over heels for!
What did you eat today?
I'm ashamed to say because I ate so poorly today! An iced tea, croissant, and banana for breakfast/lunch, and another iced tea and dumplings with rice and corn for dinner.
What do you never eat?
Tomatoes... even though I like salsa, marinara sauce, and ketchup. Not a big fan of olives or seafood with tentacles.
Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator, you can always find:
Shredded Mozzarella cheese, apple juice or high pulp orange juice, baby carrot sticks or some other kind of veggies for dipping, Marzetti's Veggie Dip to go with the previous item, fresh frozen fruits for smoothies or other desserts (in my freezer), eggs, sliced turkey, and a roll of croissant dough.
What is your favorite kitchen item?My Magic Bullet, which I realize sounds like a sex toy but it is really just a small, powerful blender that I constantly use for smoothies, milkshakes, and dicing foods like boiled eggs for egg salads. Best used for pulverizing though.
Where do you eat out most frequently?
Beirut La Pita but probably because it is close to work, fast, inexpensive, tasty, and everyone I'll go out to eat with likes their food. They have this amazing dip they just call Garlic Dip, which I could live off of.
World ends tomorrow. What would you like for your last meal?
A four course fondue meal at the Melting Pot with a couple close friends (which I've mapped out below), and a ridiculous amount of wine:
1. Cheddar fondue: Aged, medium-sharp Cheddar and Emmenthaler Swiss cheeses, lager beer, garlic and seasonings. Served with diced apples, celery, and bread cubes for dipping.
2. California Salad: Mixed baby greens, Roma tomatoes, walnuts, Gorgonzola cheese, with a raspberry walnut vinaigrette dressing.
3. Coq au Vin fondue: Flavors of fresh herbs, mushrooms, garlic, spices, and burgundy wine. Served with chicken, shrimp, teriyaki beef, broccoli, potatoes, mushrooms, yellow squash, sauces for dipping (curry, chipotle, teriyaki, sour cream & chives, and Gorgonzola cheese dip), and two batters for breading (tempura and a sesame seed batter)
4. Yin Yang chocolate fondue: half dark chocolate, half white chocolate. Served with strawberries, bananas, pineapple, graham cracker covered marshmallows, oreo crumb covered marshmallows, cheese cake, and pound cake.
My favorite restaurant foods
Steve and Rocky's House Salad: Assorted greens, pine nuts, grapefruit segments, red onions, dried cranberries, with a honey-mustard vinaigrette). It's a very simple salad, but with a little bit of fresh ground pepper, I can never stop eating it even when my food arrives.
Buca di Beppo's Chicken Marsala: Sautéed chicken breasts and fresh mushrooms in a sweet Marsala wine reduction. Much sweeter than any other Chicken Marsala I've ever had. Until I had Buca di Beppo's Chicken Marsala, I always felt like chicken marsala sauce at other restaurants tasted more like a gravy with a little wine mixed it, but now my opinion has changed! This is what real chicken marsala is!
Zingerman's Roadhouse Mac and Cheese: Homemade cream sauce and lots of 2-year old raw-milk Vermont cheddar caramelized with the Martelli family's artisanal macaroni from Tuscany. I'll never be able to associate the words "real mac and cheese" with "box" ever again.
Sushi House's Lion King roll: Crab meat, avocado, spicy shrimp salad. Toasted, then topped with crunched tempura. Puts a spicy spin on the California roll. Plus, I've never had sushi toasted before.
Beirut La Pita's Chicken Schwarma Sandwich: Aka "Schmarma" or "Schaaa-warma" as we now call it... grilled chicken, tomatoes (not on mine though!), pickles, and garlic sauce wrapped in pita bread and grilled.
Ajishin's Udon noodles: You can't beat a huge bowl of Udon noodles in a broth with crab, seaweed, green onion, and mushrooms for five bucks. Amazing, and you get your money's worth!
Olive Garden's Pasta e Fagioli soup: white and red beans, ground beef, tomatoes, and pasta in a savory broth. Think upper-class chili with pasta, but not as thick as chili. And you know I'm a fan of chili!
Buca di Beppo's Chicken Marsala: Sautéed chicken breasts and fresh mushrooms in a sweet Marsala wine reduction. Much sweeter than any other Chicken Marsala I've ever had. Until I had Buca di Beppo's Chicken Marsala, I always felt like chicken marsala sauce at other restaurants tasted more like a gravy with a little wine mixed it, but now my opinion has changed! This is what real chicken marsala is!
Zingerman's Roadhouse Mac and Cheese: Homemade cream sauce and lots of 2-year old raw-milk Vermont cheddar caramelized with the Martelli family's artisanal macaroni from Tuscany. I'll never be able to associate the words "real mac and cheese" with "box" ever again.
Sushi House's Lion King roll: Crab meat, avocado, spicy shrimp salad. Toasted, then topped with crunched tempura. Puts a spicy spin on the California roll. Plus, I've never had sushi toasted before.
Beirut La Pita's Chicken Schwarma Sandwich: Aka "Schmarma" or "Schaaa-warma" as we now call it... grilled chicken, tomatoes (not on mine though!), pickles, and garlic sauce wrapped in pita bread and grilled.
Ajishin's Udon noodles: You can't beat a huge bowl of Udon noodles in a broth with crab, seaweed, green onion, and mushrooms for five bucks. Amazing, and you get your money's worth!
Olive Garden's Pasta e Fagioli soup: white and red beans, ground beef, tomatoes, and pasta in a savory broth. Think upper-class chili with pasta, but not as thick as chili. And you know I'm a fan of chili!
Sunday, September 30, 2007
The truth is all there is
Events from last weekend through this weekend:
Barbecue chicken pizza
Lehv
East Lansing
Seeing Zach
Zingerman's
Whole Foods dinner
Curry lunch in Canton
Mrs. Belo
Steve and Rocky's celebration
Car shopping
Buca di Beppo
SNL
Pad Thai noodles
Barbecue chicken pizza
Lehv
East Lansing
Seeing Zach
Zingerman's
Whole Foods dinner
Curry lunch in Canton
Mrs. Belo
Steve and Rocky's celebration
Car shopping
Buca di Beppo
SNL
Pad Thai noodles
Monday, September 24, 2007
Drama drama drama
This past week has been the height of the latest dramas going on in my life. I feel like my latest frustration is not being able to hold each part of my life together.
And yet, in the midst of all the emotional turmoil, I have found a new stability in feeling incredibly/unusually happy with new friends and relationships. And strangely, I am incredibly/unusually excited to keep riding this roller coaster to find out what the conclusions are to these episodes and to find out what life dares to challenge me with next. We'll find out.
A few major things I'm looking forward to in these upcoming months: my birthday (which I told friends to keep low key... no surprises this year - I don't even want to think about it being my birthday... just a nice dinner and a few good hugs), a prospective but seemingly promising business trip to San Antonio, planned trips to visit friends, meeting my new boy's family, possibly Christmas with him and his family, and "Los Travelmates" (as DB named the group) who are planning a trip for New Year's!
Nothing's every promised tomorrow today
But we'll find a way
And yet, in the midst of all the emotional turmoil, I have found a new stability in feeling incredibly/unusually happy with new friends and relationships. And strangely, I am incredibly/unusually excited to keep riding this roller coaster to find out what the conclusions are to these episodes and to find out what life dares to challenge me with next. We'll find out.
A few major things I'm looking forward to in these upcoming months: my birthday (which I told friends to keep low key... no surprises this year - I don't even want to think about it being my birthday... just a nice dinner and a few good hugs), a prospective but seemingly promising business trip to San Antonio, planned trips to visit friends, meeting my new boy's family, possibly Christmas with him and his family, and "Los Travelmates" (as DB named the group) who are planning a trip for New Year's!
Nothing's every promised tomorrow today
But we'll find a way
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