Top 5

This weekend:

1. Bluegrass and Blues Festival: Picked randomly from the crowd to be Santa's Helpers in a skit on stage- all access passes, meeting band members and free drinks!

2. European Accents: Needs no explanation

3. Inn Joy: Singing the night away to all your favorite 80s hits, making friends with the bartender, getting free drinks, dancing like hippies

4. Famous: Drinking Mexican beer with the goalie from the US Olympic Field Hockey team

5. Fiascos: Fell down my spiral staircase with loads of laundry, broke the handle off my car door and broke my computer charger

Oh Chicago...

Graduate?

My mom called me yesterday asking if I had my diploma with me in Chicago. My response to any question like that is 'Oh, I think I left that in that one box in the attic at home somewhere'. She then told me that it came in the mail yesterday! What?! I graduated a year and a half ago!

The best part was that my mom actually thought maybe I hadn't graduated. That I simply told her I did so she wouldn't worry, but still had some classes to finish. I suppose that would explain the receptionist job....

Oh JBU.

Worst. Day. Ever.

And to top it off, a group of teenage boys hit me with a snowball on the way off the train! Lovely.

The First Snow

Yep- today was the day. It began to snow and all I could do was sigh and groan and wish it away. But then I was heading towards the bathroom when the fire escape door swung open....and there were almost 20 clients all crowded out on the fire escape experiencing their first snow! They were all yelling 'Teacher! Teacher! Snow!' and I couldn't help but be excited with them. :)

Betty Crocker Poser

That's right. I've got the apron and the cook books and the motivation- but NO talent. Lately, everything I touch flops.

Example #1: I had an overabundance of chickpeas. So I learned how to soak and cook them (overrated, if I may add) and then attempted to make hummus. Needless to say, my hummus was clumpy, bland and as a friend of mine put it 'absolutely terrible'.



Example #2: At work yesterday, we received some extremely ripe bananas from a grocery store that was going to throw them away. I thought- 'Great! This is perfect for banana bread!' As you can see from the pictures, the bread overflowed from the bread pan. The top got crispy and the middle was nothing but liquid. In the end, I was able to salvage a little, but it wasn't quite the loaf of banana nut bread I was going for.





I'm thinking I should take a break? Or maybe just follow a recipe?