CSA!

Our Community Supported Agriculture farm share has started!  Hooray!  This mean from now until December, I have a share of veggies from an organic farmer on Long Island.

The first week’s meals:  (maybe the veggies will help!)
-Hash browns with roasted garlic, cheese (parm and guyere), and curly cress
-Sauteed chard with ham
-Roasted asparagus
-Green leaf lettuce salad
-Red leaf lettuce salad
-Wilted spinach salad
-Oregano chicken

Okay, so not all the ingredients are from the farmer, but sometimes we have to be creative in using everything up.

Holiday Weekend!

EJ and I, as mentioned by about every single morning, afternoon, and news show, took a stay-cation.  It was really fun!  After having the busiest week ever with every parent in town, we needed a break from everyone except ourselves.  Well, on Saturday we went fishing with 10 people, but that we pre-planned.  I didn’t catch any keepers, but I caught a pretty big fluke!

So Saturday was Sheephead Bay, Sunday was a short bus ride to Mitsuwa , a great big Asian market in NJ.  There was a specialty food fair going on, so we enjoyed takoyaki (octopus balls - so good) and black sesame ice cream and other tasty things.  We brought all kinds of fun things home.

We finally watched Juno - it was good, but the girl’s dialog was a little overwhelming sometimes, but o how I love the soundtrack!

Then Brighton Beach, snacking on Russian meats and cheeses, getting really burned (I’m having a little trouble walking…).  Yay weekend!  Now back to real life of blogging, applying for jobs, and turning the TV off when Rachel Ray comes on.  Which is now.

My new blog!

So if you read the last post, you might guess that my past few weeks of eating and exercising has been outlandish and minimal, respectively.  Therefore, time ti get FIT!

My new blog will chronicle my Wii Fit adventures - fitbeth.com!

An example of a day in Seattle…

So Portland and Seattle were wonderful!  Brian and Justin hosted is in Portland and it was fabulous to hang out - we had a fabulous dinner at Le Pigeon (mmm, duck marmalade and trail mix), a tour of the wineries (mmm), cooked out (thanks to Brian’s garden - I want a garden!), hiked (pictures to come), and had a general good time.

Seattle was good, too - here’s an example of one day:
-Breakfast at the hotel - muffins, etc.
-Pike’s Market - Piroshkys, then donuts, then chowder and crab rolls, then oysters and beer…
-Bahn Mi snack
-Vietnamese appetizers at “the best” in Seattle
-Szechuan dungenous crab (bigger than my head) and dan dan noodles

I was full.

Graduation!

There’s been a bit of a lull on bethb.org…but now I have graduated!  finished a masters!  gone to Portland and Seattle! hosted 5 days with the parents! had EJ’s parents meet my parents!  woo!

Now time to take a breath.

The past month…or two

Looking for a job! Exhausting!

The bar closed. Ej’s wearing the yellow shirt.

Easter!

This week…

My mom keeps going to these wedding fairs/bridal extravaganzas and entering me in all the drawings.  So far I’ve won: $100 gift certificate to beauty brands, a white salad bowl from Halls and a pair of silver salad servers.  Generally, these fairs are free.  I think she should do this for a long time after my wedding, too.

I need to involve her more in the planning, although there hasn’t been a lot of planning lately.  I’ll send her an email.

Last weekend was Wilco in New Haven.  I got to see Erinn, and she got to meet EJ, and we waited in line for New Haven pizza.  It was pretty tasty, (but I think I prefer Lucali’s).   We made it on the late train and were asleep by 2:00.  And we had front row tickets!!!  Up close, super stars look a little tired and sickly.  I was most impressed by the new-ish guitarist, Nells, because he was awesome, and I am not usually impressed by such things.

Did you catch the eclipse last night?

The job search should start soon. I feel a lot of pressure (internally and externally) to get a job asap! I hope that happens, as I do not want to take a temporary job or anything while I look for “the” great job, but I guess I could always do that. Hmm. Be a temp and ride out the vast number of graduates vying for jobs this spring.

Shrug. But I’d rather get one asap. (:

Trends in the Cory-Barnhart house:

-Not too much given up for Lent this year, but I am trying to wake up earlier (I am a very bad waker-upper).

-EJ has started making mango-banana-peach smoothies in the morning, and I get part of them. Yum! (Most of the time.)

-Dylan was under the weather in his spirits last week. We made a Dr’s appointment – does anyone know about doggie prozac? Or puppy-psycho-therapy? I am a social worker, I should be able to talk to him, right? Maybe I’ll look into the literature. Hmm, not much there.

-American Idol season!

-We knew this before, but they are closing “our” bar. It’s a little like Cheers, really, everyone knows my name. And it’s across the street. And it plays good music. And the bartenders are nice people and friends. And the people are good people. And it’s fun. The other bars across the street aren’t like that.

Sickness

I’ve been sick. Blah. Ej has taken care of me, though. (: And Dylan gives extra kisses. Tomorrow I stay home from work, so that is a necessary relaxing day. Work is busy, busy.

Next week: Capstone! Yay! Oh, wait, I am not excited at all. We haven’t been given much information about it except: we are to expect to be at the school from 9-5 (implied that maybe even longer if we’re motivated) Tues through Fri. We’ll be placed in a group of fellow students from different fields and methods (yay group work!) and be given a hypothetical problem. Then with our ingenuity as future social workers and the help of roaming faculty, we are to come up with…something, then submit it. The best get prizes! Woo! Maybe even lunch! Oh my! I wish I had been sick next week.

Frustrating…

Work is frustrating — I am trying to get people to do something they wouldn’t necessarily have any reason to go to (and I ask if they were even asked?), for which they have not so great skills to do…  I talked a about it today, and I realized how frustrated I was.  Sigh.  I guess the harder part is expressing my frustrations to my supervisor/the team when I have been trying to and not succeeding, and now it’s Jan and project ends in a few months.   How do I tell them it’s just really a big mess?!