This site needs a change… I’m a fan of minimalism… but…
Also, check out: My Flavors.me page
Has anyone else tried this service? Thoughts?
This site needs a change… I’m a fan of minimalism… but…
Also, check out: My Flavors.me page
Has anyone else tried this service? Thoughts?
Since my last post, I’ve lost my unemployment benefits, picked up two part time jobs and have decided to go back to school with the intention of changing my career. I will still be involved in social media…etc… but nutrition and exercise science too. More on that later. Also, hopefully, a more dedicated effort to updating this blog regularly. With a heavier focus on social media, tech geekery, nutrition, food, and my journey to a fitter, healthier me. (Yeah, at the time of my last post, I didn’t see that last one coming either)
Onto bigger, better and far more amazing things.
Sphere: Related ContentForgive me, readers (what little I have), for I have sinned. I have not blogged in a little more than three months. My website presence has stagnated.
I don’t expect forgiveness. Maybe some semblance of understanding? A lack of things blogworthy (since we all know this blog has no niche focus) perhaps? My food tweets seem to tide over most, including myself. I’ve already detailed the reasons why I cannot be a proper food blogger.
And now a smattering of thoughts and such, because I can and I need filler. Filler, or something like it. Also, in no particular order…
Maybe I should start a series on my disaster dating life. Except it would be really short. Because I only have three stories. And I’ve given up on dating in NYC. Finding a guy at a Zoe Keating concert, on OKCupid, or via Twitter — it doesn’t work.
Especially if they end it with some variation of this line: “You’re beautiful and awesome and intelligent and witty, but I can’t see you again.” WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? You would rather have ugly, needy, dependent, and dry, so you can see that again? What?
Dating.. not for me.
Awesome, that’s the way I like to roll.
Sphere: Related ContentBut I don’t quite want to do a year in review yet. I still have two days to go. And today is promising to be pretty awesome.
I think that may be the first time I’ve ever said that.
Sphere: Related ContentThat’s an incredibly ambitious post title.
I’m not going to lie. More than 16 months of unemployment can make anyone question their usefulness to society as a whole.
I think the trick is to trick your brain into looking at it differently. I had this vision of where I wanted my career to go after I graduated. I wanted to make a change. I wanted to be the voice of change in SOMETHING. I wanted to DO something. Unfortunately for my 23 yr old self, SOMETHING and DOING are both really broad terms.
So here I am, five and a half years later… and what have I done? I’d be lying if I said nothing. (even though it feels like that more often than not) By the way, I’m only really talking about the last 11 or so months… not the last 5.5 years. I’d be talking far too long for that. I found myself. I guess this means I’ve survived the quarter life crisis?
29 in 8 months, almost 30. I know who I am and what makes myself tick. I was part of an amazing movement and set of parties, an experience, if you will
I helped make all that happen. I’ve become a sort of authority figure on things. Not necessarily things that matter… in say the workforce. But people look up to me. That’s something.
I got up to get a drink of water in the middle of this post. And managed to lose all steam. Whoops. But you get my point?
I want to DO more of SOMETHING — careerwise. I want to do something different. Something ambitious. Something where I can make a significant difference. Is that just a concept upheld by most people my age? I have nothing against the tried and true corporations that are amazing at what they do (looking at you, former employer). In fact, more power to them. But I just want more responsibility. More opportunities to do something different. More chances to take chances. More chances to be more amazing at life.
Psst. Universe — I’m still eagerly awaiting the moment where I can happily and truly exclaim I WIN at life today! again. Gives me warm fuzzies when I can do that
Because it was a holiday last week, after volunteering with my friends at the Bowery Mission, I was feeling pretty hungry. Mixing stuffing with your hands and shredding freshly roasted turkey meat for more than five hours can do that to a person. To my credit (and obvious common sense), I did NOT grab random bites from the food I was preparing.
YES –disappointingly, there are people who actually do that. 1) Unsanitary — I do not want your hands, gloved or not, in my food especially after you’ve licked your fingers. GROSS. Maybe some people in need aren’t nearly as picky as me, but dude. Seriously. 2) I don’t care how hungry you are, you eat the food that is for you, not meant for those in need. It’s not like they didn’t feed the volunteers. They did. We got pizza. We got coffee (through other volunteers’ kindness). There was Vitamin Water. Honestly, I only partook of the water. But not the point. While a friend and I were separating the meat from the bones, one lady with us commented on how good the turkey smelled, and proceeded to eat more than half of the turkey drumstick she was working on.
Seriously.
Even better was that we were volunteers. No one forced me to go. I hosted my family’s Thanksgiving party in my apartment, and in the middle of prepping for MY party, I still found time to travel and help out. The ladies who were taking handfuls of bread, turkey, and potatoes (yes, their hands were in the mashed potatoes) just stood around more than half the time, complained about having to do any work at all, and then I found out they were part of a church group. I don’t want to judge. But really?
That’s besides my point. But I really did need to vent about that. I made about 2.5 huge vats of stuffing and shredded turkey meat for more than 3 hrs. I deserved a treat.
Whole Foods is right on top of my train (2nd Ave F), so I decided to pop in (smelling of turkey and stuffing) and see if I could pick up a few snacks. First win — fresh strawberries. They smelled sweet, they were sweet. Yay! Amazing strawberries in NOVEMBER. They’re my favorite fruit, so WIN. I needed something to go with it, so I browsed all the various spreads and dips, and figured I didn’t want anything too sweet (weird, for me) and maybe my palate should be more ‘grown up’… and then I found myself in the cheese section. Totally foreign territory. My knowledge of cheese is limited to: American, Mozzarella, Cheddar, Pepperjack, Muenster and Babybel. Your standard deli cheeses. Nothing too adventurous. I read ALL the little signs on all the different cheeses in the display. My brain exploded. Literally. And my stomach was growling so loud, I was convinced that the pizza guys on the opposite end of the floor could hear it. I finally settled on Murcia Curado. Why? It said it paired well with fruit preserves. Not exactly the fresh strawberries I was carrying, but fruit! It also mentioned being good on its own, which is good news for a grazer like myself.
Other hilarious and not so grown up reason I chose it? It said (Naked Goat) on the sign. Which I later understood to mean that it’s a raw goat’s milk cheese, and unlike its other brother (sister?) cheese, it wasn’t drunken, meaning the outside wasn’t dipped in red wine. For color, I guess… and flavor? I’m not a huge fan of the reds… so naked goat it was. Learn something new every day.
It was a small quarter pound wedge, that was mostly gone by the time I got back home and ripped open the packaging. Along with half the container of strawberries. I have since bought another wedge and container of strawberries. The rate of consumption remains the same. I’d take a picture, but it’s kind of sad to be taking pictures of a mostly devoured piece of cheese and a mostly empty plastic container
I’m a self-admitted food tweeter. It says so in my Twitter bio. Frequent food tweeter (though sadly, even those food tweets have gone the way of the dodo in 2010). Here’s a typical food tweet. It’s not really my fault, I just can’t afford to eat how I want to, or where I want to anymore. Which is mostly the fault of the economy and the job market. Mostly.
If someone else were to view pictures of my daily food intake… I don’t think they’d be terribly impressed. I’ve been forced to make some drastic changes in my diet. It’s not that it’s not nutritious or not balanced due to my restricted budget… it’s just that the variety in the things I eat… well, there’s not much of it anymore. I don’t make food to be pretty, I make it to eat. Sad, given my firm live to eat policy.
I’d love to have a reasonably popular food blog. But I can’t.
And I can’t cook. I can, quite successfully, whip up steak or pancit bihon — but that’s about the extent of it. I have a tiny efficiency kitchen, or what I like to call Kitchen in a Wall… and the jobless-related dietary restrictions I now have just don’t cut it for food blog attempts.
Till I figure all that out, and when I get a reasonable income so I can eat the way I want to and where I want to… I’ll just settle for reading other food blogs. You can check them out in my blog roll on the right side of the page.
Sphere: Related ContentI apologize for any typos in advance. I’m typing this from my phone. I now have an HTC Hero and that means I abandoned buttons on my phone about seven months ago. Thank you for bearing with me.
Anyway, I’m reading staycation friend’s first post about day 1 of things to do. And there’s a link to WordPress on Android.
Hallelujah — and here I am posting from my phone. This is probably a really good thing.
I will probably post on NaNoWriMo next and my valiant efforts to break my historical word cap.
Sphere: Related ContentAnd not to actually write something. But that might happen later. Maybe.
I loaded up Facebook, or rather I reloaded my Facebook homepage and found a friend of mine had posted a link. He appears to be on staycation in NYC this week and needs ideas of things to do that are decidedly outside of his normal routine of stay inside and do all the usual routine things.
And enrich someone else’s life today.
More bonus points if the thing you suggest is actually within the NYC limits. Or you know, reasonably convenient for him to get to.
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Both videos. Let’s just take a moment and digest.
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