books, food, green, health, me
27 August 2010 | 1 Comment
Due to reading In Praise of Slowness
and some other thoughts that have been swimming around in my head lately, I’ve decided to go for a new goal.
My new goal is to cut out pre-made or over-processed foods. I guess I don’t know exactly how to define the type of food I’m talking about. I’m talking about things that people made from scratch 30 years ago but now we depend on mixes or frozen boxes for.
This isn’t a big leap for us; I already cook nearly every meal we eat at home and most of our grocery shopping is already from the perimeter of the store. I haven’t bought frozen pre-cooked chicken fingers or bagel bites since we’ve been married (5 months today!). Those used to be my go-to lunches, so if I can cut those out, it won’t be hard to stop the rest. I already no longer buy canned vegetables, they’re either fresh or frozen fresh, and we don’t buy pre-cooked meats other than pizza toppings. So for us this means no more Bisquick pancakes (I’ve made pancakes from scratch many times, so not a biggie), no more brownie or cookie mixes (everyone loves these anyway), and no more Kraft mac & cheese.
The last one will be the hardest, I eat mac and cheese for lunch all the time. Don’t get me wrong, homemade mac&cheese is no stranger to me, this is just one area where convenience has me so won over it will be hard to break the habit.
Thinking on this same topic last night I asked Shawn what he thought about getting rid of the microwave. I don’t think that idea went over too well.
family, food, green, health, me
23 August 2010 | 1 Comment
Oliver: our puppy is going to be very big—huge, the vet says. He has gained about 10lbs a month since we got him and still has a ways to go. We need somewhere to put him where he can play by himself other than our tiny balcony. We also need a place where we don’t have to worry about him trying to make new friends with people who really don’t want to be his friend when someone takes him out without a leash.
Money: payments for several of the houses we’ve looked at would be cheaper than our current rent.
No more elephants: I really don’t know how the people upstairs make so much noise.
Garden: I really want to plant a vegetable garden. Actually, I want to do this: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!
Buying the cow: We’ll have room (hopefully) for a freezer so we can buy a half of a cow.
We’re having a baby: Okay, the baby isn’t due until February, but I’m sure it would be a lot easier to make the move into a house before then than to wait until our lease is up and move with a 2 month old.
I’m pretty sure I had a lot more reasons than this when I first wanted to post on this topic, that’s what I get for being a slacker.
me, relationships, writing
3 June 2010 | 0 Comments
Wow, I’m blogging, you’re shocked, I know.
A lot has changed since I last wrote here.
I got married!
I’m this close to being getting my BA.
We got a puppy!
The vet says he is either part Mastiff or Saint Bernard. In case you don’t know, those are both considered “giant breed” dogs. She said, “he’s going to be huge.” So this will be fun.
In addition to these changes, changes will be happening here too. I’m going to try to focus more on my original goal for this site, which is to write positive posts about things that make me feel uplifted (keep me from sinking) in hopes that they will help someone (even if it is just one person) who reads it. Among these posts, which will probably vary from life things, to things in the news, to thoughts on scripture—like I’ve done on some of my previous sites—I will be writing more reviews. Right now I think the reviews will mostly be books that I enjoy and/or have a good message, but there may be an occasional CD or movie review as well.
If you have anything you would like to see reviewed here, let me know by emailing Reese@Ohbuoyancy.net
That’s all for now.
me, writing
30 June 2009 | 6 Comments
I’m becoming increasingly convinced that I am of another time and place; I should have been born in England in the 17th century.
I have a preference and tendency to use (without thinking about it) Old English. I use “dreamt,” not “dreamed;” I think the word color should have a “u” in it and many other things along these lines. I’ve always preferred British punctuation, especially when it comes to quotations. In American English, punctuation marks always go inside the quotation marks at the end of a sentence, no exception. The English way makes so much more sense; for example, with a question mark, if the question is what is in quotes then the mark is inside the quotation marks, but if the question is the whole sentence, not just what it is being quoted, the question mark is outside of the end quotation mark (How many times did I say “quotation”? Three. Did I ever say “quotation?” No.)
Just now, I was reading some 17th century literature and nearly every noun has its first letter capitalized (yes, I used a z and not an s, but trust me, it was not without hesitation). If you check my work from elementary school (not that you could do that, that would be weird) you will see that I did this more often than not.
Finally, when I was in elementary school we were still taught to use the Oxford comma. For those of you out of the punctuation nerds loop, this is the comma before “and” in: Red, white,(this guy to the left here) and blue. We’ve driven the Oxford comma into non-existence, but he’s there for a reason and I refuse to give him up!
Tagged in 17th century, america, commas, english, literature, oxford comma, puncuation, spelling
college, friends, me, music
12 June 2009 | 3 Comments
The times when I’ve had the most to post on the various blogs I’ve had are times when nothing else required much mental energy. Right now school requires most of my mental energy and a lot of my time. Lately I feel like people I know who aren’t in school don’t understand this. Yes, you work, and yes, that’s very important, but your work doesn’t have homework and papers to write. Unless you own your own business or have a very stressful job, you can hopefully relax and let go once you’re off for the day. School doesn’t work like that. It’s not a big deal, but I wish people were more understanding.
However, I’m very excited about going to see mewithoutYou tonight, hence the title.
Tagged in life, mewithoutYou, school
