Life is more than the Cubicle

Here's a recap of the past couple of meals I've made. Since I'm now done with school, I have a lot more time on my hands. So that means that I can now put a little more effort into my cooking instead of PB&J sandwiches and ramen. Someone should really do a study on how incredibly unhealthy it is to work and be...

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It's been a while since I posted and a whole bunch of stuff has happened so it's time for a recap. 1. I finished school!! *dances like a crazy person* Almost 20 years of school (including kindergarten) are finally over and done with and I plan on never, ever, ever returning unless it is for something fun like cooking or learning a new...

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I now have 7 more days until I am done with my MBA Tonight was my second to last class We got an A on our last paper (yay!) But are about halfway through our final paper which is due next tuesday (ugh) Just 7 more days! ...

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So the non-cooking thing was getting to a point of being just sheer ridiculous and I was veering dangerously into the territory of lower than depressing college student with frozen dinners, bread and butter and lunches of frozen vegetables and soups made of random items. It actually got so bad, that for Halloween, when our program sponsored a taco lunch for the whole...

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I was thinking (dangerous, I know), maybe it's time to put together a life list. Just a list of the achievable things that I can do that I want to do. Since I only have 5 more weeks left of school, maybe it's time to set up some fun goals I stumbled across this link today while on my blog feed: National Novel...

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I was trying to avoid it this year but last night, Matt and I inherited a giant pumpkin and now I have to figure out what to do with it. The main goal is to harvest its guts to make roasted pumpkin seeds I was thinking maybe of doing something cheeky and buying a smaller pumpkin, cracking it, making X's for eyes and...

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It's October Holy crap, it's october Snowboarding season will soon be upon me and well, as the boyfriend can attest to, I suck hard at snowboarding My blogreel yielded this little gem from Tim Ferriss: If you eat sh*t 10 times in a row, do two things. First, pause after each turn, or pause after getting up, and catch your breath for 20...

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I think I may have lost my cooking mojo Not sure when it happened, but lately, even when I read a delicious sounding recipe I immediately think, "Wow, this is going to take way too much EFFORT" and then I end up making some rice or popcorn Last night I at least made myself roast some vegetables only because I didn't want them...

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Last weekend, Matt and I went to Denver for our annual journey to the Great American Beer Festival. So here is what we did in picture form! We got to San Jose at "way too early" o'clock in the morning. Sat next to a priest on the way out there. Didn't notice his collar and both wondered why someone would be wearing that...

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It's been a while so here are some pictures! Matt and I attended Brews on the Bay last weekend in San Francisco. It's a beer festival for local breweries hosted on top of the USS Jeremiah which is docked in the bay on Pier 35. It was a pretty nice day but SUPER windy Matt with Alcatraz in the background Sandwich and Burger...

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Elizabeth Street This was a novel that I picked up via Kindle Daily Deals (bought it for $1.99!) and it was such a fantastic book that I keep going back to the daily deals to see if I can find something just as great.  The book follows the life of Giovanna Costa from her first love and marriage in Italy, to her husband's...

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I finished The Help this weekend in 1 day and if that's testament to my opinion about the book, then I really don't need to write much here :P The Help This book was really a joy to read. I got sucked into the world of the characters almost immediately. The book is split into sections that are narrated from a specific characters...

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The BF and I went to Napa over the weekend to celebrate his new job and to relax and get out of town. We drove up on friday night after work and had dinner in downtown Napa at a tapas place named Zuzu. The next day, we spent the morning at Oxbow public market checking out the farmers market, had some mexican breakfast...

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In the Woods In the Woods is the debut novel of author Tana French. It follows a Dublin murder investigator through a case that hits close to home. When Detective Ryan was little, he and his two best friends were involved in a gruesome crime and he was the only one who survived but with no memory of the incident or of what...

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It's really sad that Borders is closing and going out of business, but it also means that I have epic book hauls like the one I got two days ago. Honestly, I was in the store for maybe an hour and had to pare my haul down from 6 books to 4 only because my arm capacity was exceeded. The haul included: The...

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