First Day of School

I'm a dork, and I took pictures of my first day of school, last week, like my mom used to when I was a kid.

The only difference between that day and when I was a kid, mom didn't send me to school in wrinkled clothes.... I need to work on my laundry doing skills.

yeah, I know, I need to clean.

I also got a hair cut. last time super short I think. Pretty sure I will grow it out a little now.

Green Chicken Soup

It's not so much green chicken, as it is chicken soup with green stuff, but I like the name, Green Chicken Soup.
I made this a few weeks ago, when I just needed some warm comfort food. It was freaking great.

(all ingredients can be altered to your liking, I love cabbage in my soup, you however may not)

2 chicken thighs

4 cups of chopped cabbage

1 leek

1 handfull of chopped cilantro

1/2 cup onion

4 stalks of celery

1 bag of pre cooked soba noodles

seasonings, i used: sea salt, mortons seasoning, black pepper, and ground rosemary & thyme witch i ground myself together with the sea salt in my mortar. i used about a teaspoon of each except salt, about 2 teaspoons of salt.

boil chicken until cooked in about 8 cups of water and seasonings

(here i would suggest de-boning chicken, i did not and eating was a pain in the ass)

add add all greens except cabbage boil for about 10 min, add cabbage, boil for 10 more min (this allows other veggies to flavor broth and cabbage wont be to soft)

put cold soba noodles in a bowl and spoon soup over top, this allows the noodles to warm and at the same time cool soup to an eatable temperature.

eat immediately, with chopsticks. reserve & refrigerate remains (keep unused noodles seperate from soup, upon re-heating you will follow same procedure of adding hot soup to cold noodles.)

Goal

I need to find my focus, I've never been able to focus. I barely graduated HS. I don't know how I graduated HS, luck, pitty from teachers, I dunno. College is a whole different game. Even though my classes are small it still not like my teachers go home and worry about particular students, I'm not going to get extra help if I fall behind. I need to get my ass in gear and do it myself. I slacked off summer term and while I did great in my writing class (B final grade), I sucked ass in the class I was most excited about, I don't know how it happened. yes it do. Geology was so exciting, I was so looking forward to it, but I did it online, more or less self paced. I can't do self paced. ADD doesn't let you just decide to do homework it makes you a procrastinator. I am a professional procrastinator (like now I should be reading history or oceanography, not blogging) I can't only blame my ADD, many times I thought, I should be doing school work, reading, out doing field work. but instead I focused on Paul and the deployment and after he left I just sat around being sad. C that is what i got in Geology, I am so disappointed in myself, that class was cake, I could have easily gotten an A, no papers to write, no major research. just answer questions and read the damn book, and I couldn't do that. Well it's not going to happen again, that will be the last C, I am going to kick ass this term.

I am not sure yet my exact plan but i'd like to get my Bachelors in History & Environmental Management with my minor in Natural Science (I think, may change minor again) by the time we leave here, so I can go to Grad School when we get back to the states.

Pop Culture Addictions

on a lighter note tonight I will blog pop culture. In no particular order I present you my Top Ten Pop Culture Guilty Pleasures

10. Anthony Bourdain
(haha this picture is hilarious!)



9. Nurse Jackie
(Netflix, Blockbuster, or download, whatever you do go watch some Nurse Jackie!)



8. Hello Kitty
(mild obsession)



7. Etsy
(great place for cute, hand made, things.)



6. The IT Crowd
(quite possibly the funniest sit-com of the 21'st century. Courtesy of the Brits. Freaking Briliant!! go to your Netflix and get it ASAP! totally worth it. Sadly only 3 seasons, I really really like it too!)


5. Twitter

4. Harry Potter!!!


3. (almost) all things Apple

(this includes my iPod Touch & MacBook Pro, but not iTunes, because that has been infuriating me lately)


2. Fail Blog

see more Fail Blog

1. True Blood
(my newest show, that I cannot stop watching, since I started early this afternoon....)

(although there is something skeevy about a girl that looks 15 with a guy that looks 35)

Deployment

deploy |diˈploi|
verb [ trans. ]
move (troops) into position for military action : forces were deployed at strategic locations.
• [ intrans. ] (of troops) move into position for such action : the air force began to deploy forward.
• bring into effective action; utilize : they are not always able to deploy this skill.

yep, that about sums it up.


I'm not going to lie and say this has been a piece of cake. It's only been 14 days and I have already decided that Paul is coming home, we are moving back to the states and he is getting a safe, non-deployable job at Walmart.
Okay maybe not really, but that's how I wanted it for a few days. I've started to finally pull out of the worst I think. The terrible fears are beginning to subside. It's not getting easier, but I am learning to deal with my emotions better. School is finally over, well until Monday I start again. 4 classes, World History, Pre-Algebra, Oceanography & Grammar.
I've been working on my fitness, umm... trying to. I've run down to the beach a few times. I'd do it more often but a) It's freakishly hot, and b) i've been on the verge of a mega panic attack for 2 weeks and sometimes leaving the house didn't seem like a great idea. It's hard to leave the house at all because i never know when he will call, and he cant call the cell. Only the house. Last night he called at 245 am, i was a zombie because i had taken my new 'relax' pill and was totally out of it, i remember him calling, and after a few seconds asking me if he woke me up, i guess i wasnt making much sense. I don't remember anything else. I wish I did, I really treasure hearing from him. As hard as this is I know it will make us so much stronger.
Two weeks down, about 37-ish left.

deployment

Family Fun Part 2.5

This is a continuation of Forest Adventure Park Day. After Paul and I went to the park we took Aiko to the beach, one of her favorite places.

For such a little dog, she is a great swimmer

Family Fun Day (Part Two Forest Adventure Park)

Family Fun Day (Part One)

Finally rode the Ferris Wheel. It wasnt too hot either, pretty nice actually.

Mihama-American Village Okinawa