I probably could’ve paid more attention while this plant was blooming but everything just happened so fast.
4-18-09 – This stalk started sprouting last year, maybe early Autumn?
4-28-09 – 10 days later, a flower.
5-25-09 – Then I forgot about it and a month later, all this happened.
I don’t know what these are called but the blooms are very fragrant. This little bunch has been sitting in our study for a week and the whole room smells so nice.
The Star Trek movie was awesome by the way. Go see it in the theater.
I started my new job this Monday.
Orientation lasted about half a day. I may have heard the spiel three times before, but it still feels unruly with all the paperwork we have to go through. Working in HR for a stint had its perks though because now I’m more familiar with many of the programs and services they talk about.
The building is a maze of cubicles. I kept getting lost. It’s weird how they have our team set up. I sit on the 9th floor, the teammate I’m training with sits on the 7th. Another teammate, my supervisor and his bosses sit on the 6th and a third teammate sits on the 3rd floor. We should all be moving to the 6th floor by the end of the month – which translated to bureaucrat-time means we’ll move in a few months. Thus far, I’ve run laps around the perimeter of the 6th floor looking for my boss’ office (never mind that I’d been taken there three times before); poked into some random director’s office asking for the exit; interrupted countless people to locate other peoples’ offices for me; commandeered a lady on her way home to escort me to the security office to get my badge (I wasn’t allowed to wander the building without an escort until I got my badge but how else was I supposed to get my badge without walking to the security office?); maneuvered in and out between a maze of cubicles to the point where I could feel beads of sweat forming at the realization that I would be the idiot lost to the fire because I couldn’t find my stinkin’ way out. Anyway, today, even with my horrible sense of direction, I’ve finally learned my way around. We’re making progress!
I have been trying to quit my coffee habit (again) this week and have failed miserably. When you just know you’re not going to last through a 3.5-hour class, light roast = more caffeine. When you are too dim to function late in the evening, hazelnut. When you’re resolved not to have another drop of coffee, 4 pints of Lipton, milk, and sugar.
I’ve been craving lasagna for weeks, maybe even months! The problem: only I seem to be craving it and you can’t make a lasagna for one person. The solution: I have no problem eating leftovers over and over and over…
Knowing that I’m not very good at following simple directions, I went online to read a half dozen lasagna recipes. Anything that had fancy stuff like prosciutto was out. I can barely handle a dish that involves more than 5 ingredients so lasagna is already a stretch.
So I have no idea what the quantity for each is, but here’s my list of ingredients:
So I’m not very good at estimating quantity and wound up with WAY too much of everything and ended up making 2 lasagnas. 1 big one, one small one. After you pull it out of the oven and taste it, pat yourself on the back. Then go and change into stretchy pants and an oversized t-shirt.
