Ha ha, I wasn’t very nice in my anti-Thankgiving food post and I still feel like an ungrateful human being complaining about my first-world problems. Plus, I must admit I did like the food this year, or at least I liked the interesting take on the cranberry sauce from my cousin made a delicious cranberry, [...]
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Thanksgiving Food Vindicated . . . kinda.
Posted in Cooking, family on November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Thanksgiving Can I Please Have Some Mexican Food?
Posted in Cooking, family on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone always talks about how stuffed they get at Thanksgiving from eating all of the “good food,” but all I really wanna do on this holiday is VOMIT. Turkey by itself is just okay, and sometimes the ham is good but stuffing, and gravy, and green been casserole, and pumpkin pie, and cranberry-whatever-it-is etc. etc. [...]
Facebook Thanksgiving
Posted in blessings, Coco, Cold!, Cooking, credential program @SJSU, Depression, exercise, friendship, laughter, PCS, Rommel, special education, students, teaching, wedding on November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sooo, a ton of people on facebook have been writing one thing they are grateful for each day in the month of November. Apparently, since I am not one of those people, I am not as grateful as they are–at least I don’t feel like I am. Complaining about my insomnia et al is much [...]
Hostess with the Mostest!
Posted in Cooking, dance, friendship, happiness, Jump for Joy on July 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I feel super happy. Tonight, the Tsangs–Jackie, Cedi, Skylah, and soon-to-be baby boy Landon–came over for dinner, and I got to be the hostess with the mostest. Haha. I really enjoy getting the house ready for visitors and pulling together a fabulous meal to share, and I really loved being able to do something wonderful [...]
10 Year High School Reunion
Posted in beauty, Classmates, Cooking, credential program @SJSU, Mom, Rommel, Sacramento, Sexuality, teaching, travel on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, so this June was my 10 year high school reunion and there was no way in hell I was going to go. Haha. I honestly could care less about seeing people there since I already kept in contact with the few people I actually cared about. Besides, with Facebook there’s no need to go [...]
A Happy Life
Posted in Christianity, Coco, Cooking, Dad, dance, Depression, energetic, family, finances, forgiveness, friendship, happiness, hiking, laughter, marriage, Mom, reading, reconciliation, Rommel, Sexuality, travel, Uncategorized on July 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few months ago I let my imagination loose and wrote in my journal (the tangible, hand-written one) a description of the kind of life I think would make me happy. Writing about and imagining myself as happy (truly, madly, deeply, un- apologetically happy) felt liberating, so I’ve actually re-read the journal entry a few [...]
Happy Memorial Day
Posted in Cooking, family, travel on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Slept until 4 pm today cause we went to bed so late last night. I played basketball outside with the kids for like 10 minutes and started dripping sweat! OMG, so hot and humid. But I really needed the exercise because all we do is eat. Seriously, like every 2 hours. Our table looks like [...]
Andrea vs. the clams
Posted in Cooking, Rommel on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So Rommel decided to cook clams this week and bought about a gallon worth, frozen, from the Asian market. At first they were in a bag on the kitchen counter for about 1/2 hour while Rommel finished a phone call. During this time, I was in the living room hearing noises from the kitchen that [...]
Tonight’s Dinner Menu
Posted in Cooking on May 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
BBQ Chicken Cilantro Lime Quinoa Mango Salsa Cucumber Ensalada It’s all kinda random . . . haha. Both the mango salsa and the artichoke are left overs from last night’s dinner, but I made the quinoa since I needed to use cilantro while it’s still fresh, and the chicken is just to experiment with the [...]
Mmmm, a new salad recipe
Posted in Coco, Cooking, grapefruit, tea, Trader Joe's on May 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Okay, so I drank hot green tea with lemon, ate a grapefruit, and took Coco for a walk, so I’m feeling a little better already! Little things like that make a difference! Anyway, I saw an intriguing salad recipe on the Dr. Oz show with grapefruit, jicama, and pistachios: Ingredients Vinaigrette 1 small, thin Serrano [...]
