Dinner for Two

With courtesy to www.allrecipes.com roomie and I made a beautiful dinner for ourselves.

"Herb Risotto"

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons canola oil
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup trimmed, diced fennel bulb
• 1 red bell pepper, diced
• 1 yellow onion, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh mint, divided
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, divided
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary, divided
• 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest, divided
• 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
• 1 1/2 cups uncooked Arborio rice
• 1/2 cup dry white wine
• 3 1/2 cups chicken stock
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Directions

1. Heat oil and butter in a medium heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add fennel, bell pepper, onion, garlic, 1 1/2 tablespoons mint, 1 1/2 tablespoons parsley, 1 tablespoon rosemary and 1 teaspoon lemon zest. Saute, stirring, until vegetables are slightly softened (about 2 to 3 minutes).

2. Stir in coriander and rice and saute, stirring, until rice grains are oil-coated (about 3 minutes). Pour in wine and stock and reduce heat to medium low. Simmer uncovered for 20 to 25 minutes, or until liquid is almost absorbed and rice is tender but firm. (Note: Stir once or twice while simmering.)

3. Remove pan from heat and season with salt and pepper to taste. Stir in remaining mint, parsley, rosemary and lemon zest, then add lemon juice and cheese. Cover saucepan with waxed paper and let stand 8 to 10 minutes before serving.

This dinner turned out AMAZING.  Leave it to the roomies to cheer me up after a stressful week :)

This Could Get Interesting

Lets say I have an evil twin.  Lets also say this twin is somewhat of a make-out whore.

You see, on monday, in leu of celebration over winning the 48/5, as you already know, I got pretty drunk.  When I get as drunk as I got the evil twin tends to take over me.  And I tend to kiss more people than intended.

All would be fine, had there not been photographic evidence of both incidences.  Yes, I kissed FA... Apparently I also kissed, lets call him CS (costar, perhaps?).  Okay, it's way more than apparent, I think I knew what I was doing the whole time.  At least my twin knew what she was doing.

Normally this wouldn't matter.  However, I actually like FA, which makes me worried that I'm jeopardizing the possibilities I have with him.  I'm just hoping that he doesn't ever get hold of the photos.  Because not only would he see a cute make-out pic of us, but he'd also see one of CS and I.  

Did I mention that CS, FA, and I are all supposed to road trip together this break to our director's hometown to film some?

Like I said, this could get interesting...

Some Photos to be Fair

I figured, to be fair, I'll post some photos so you can get a glimpse into my halloween and how crazy me and my friends can be.  In order not to incriminate anyone I'm gonna go SO@24 style, and bar out the eyes.

This one is me and my friend Jody

It was Thursday night, as you can see,

I'm sporting my awesome costume

and she was a greek goddess.

As you can see I have my ticking 

time bomb necklace on and I 

have my detonator ready!

I'm with my lovely friend

Bethany who I was fortunate

enough to get to Halloween

it up with more than once

this past weekend!

I'm pretty sure that a bomb can just 

blow up a pirate, even if they do have 

a sword...  haha, this is Tricia and I,

both of us completely sober.  We just

like to be weird I guess!

Alright I believe two posts in a day, one being pictures should be enough to have wet your appetites.  Now that I figured out how to add stuff like bars to my photos (thank you widgets for mac!)  I'll probably have a lot more photo posts!  Get excited.

yeah.

I miss this. I hope this past summer wasn't the end, because I can't give it up that easily.

Just needed to get that out.


My cousin, Dan, and his wife, Tasha, are having a baby!! She is a little less than a week late and she's in labor!!! I'm so excited. A thanksgiving baby :) I have to go sign the lease for my apartment for next year, and then I'm rushing home to wait to go see Hayden Lane Telfer! It's a boy! I don't even know how to explain my excitement!

I've changed so much this past year. I never liked kids, or babies. Now, I can't wait to hold him! How weird is it how you can change and not even notice it?


weird huh?

Fucker.

Tonight was interesting. It was a good night until about midnight-12:30ish. I was the one who was pretty adamant about waiting for him to talk to me. But low and behold I called him...to find out that he doesn't want to be my friend because I put too much "pressure" on him. Night ended in tears, then it started again with rice kitchen and sixteen candles. My roommate really cheered me up. I'm still feeling a bit down though. Tomorrow is declared mental health day for Danielle. Only going to one of my classes and the rest of the day will be spent sleeping and relaxing and forgetting he ever existed. Now the song I'm listening to is making me depressed again. Poop.

Candy

This movie, is by far the most disturbing thing I've seen in a long time. It's about two junkies who get married, they are constantly using, stealing, etc. She gets pregnant, but they still use, and she ends up miscarrying. They deliver the fetus and well I'll just leave it at that- FYI it was the most disturbing scene of a movie. It made me feel sick to my stomach.

In other news. Back to school tomorrow :-/ I love being home, I love school, I hate change, but I know, it will benefit me in the end.

One of these things first.

Vegas was really fun. I can't believe it's almost been a year since that trip.

Anyways, home for the weekend. Nothing changes here. School is so dynamic, home is so static. My mom tried to ground me for getting in a tickle fight with her..it was really funny.

Tomorrow is Sweetest Day.

A friendship might die this weekend. It's really sad. Out of sight, out of mind is true, I guess.

Off to get some reading done.

It's a beautiful day for football!

Not really. Just felt like being cheesy.

I love the football games though...usually.

Even if our defense has checked out for the season, and Hoyer keeps choking- I still love MSU Football.

I love photography too. Editing to be exact.

It has definitely been one of 'those' days.

That, that is my study space. My study space is not sufficing. Maybe if I knew how to relax, life would be easier. Too much shit going on to worry about how to relax. How do you relax when...

- You have a job interview, a paper to get done, math to understand, a quiz to study for, reading to get done, have living "situations", are dead broke, only fall for gay boys, and you can't eat because your stomach has gotten so weak from dorm food?

If you have an answer that applies to all the above...please share. Or just lend me your gun. I'll do the honors.



Needless to say, Midterm week is kicking my ass- along with everything else. I need to learn to fight- metaphorically of course.

It's all good.

MSU in the fall- is gorgeous. It's cold, though.


Today was by far an amazing day.

Woke up, off to Theater 101.
Got my scene partner today- lets just say- I made out like a bandit, hah.
The scene we're doing is an open scene- so it's pretty much up to our interpretation.
We decided that our scene is about two Exes who are planning to get back together,
however, he is still with another girl, so I basically tell him to come see me once he's
broken it off. So he comes to see me and we have dialogue, and he tried to break it off
with her but failed, so he's begging me to just get with him already, but I tell him- Come back
tomorrow.

I'm really excited for it! More so for rehearsing it haha.

I finally gave in to my cravings, and ordered insomnia cookies- pretty good- not AMAZING though.

Took a three hour nap today, so I'm doubting that I'll be able to sleep tonight.

Apartment shopping.

So, I've filled out, and payed the application to live in Campus Village apartments next year. It couldn't have worked out better. I'll be living with Calla and Kim, maybe even Danielle if she calls me back.

I feel so old when I start dealing with these kinds of things, but at the same time I feel really young. Like I know I should feel old but I always thought it would feel different, maybe. I don't know.


Anyways, I walked for an hour and 10 minutes consecutively today :) Getting some good exercise. I love stepping on crunchy things. Leaves, acorns, acorn shells. Anything along those lines. It gives me a fulfilling feeling haha. Fall is perfect for this type of hobby, with all of the leaves falling. The breeze is really nice as well. I feel like this weather forces me to think though. It's so nice, but at the same time I can't clear my mind. I keep playing over and over in my head my relationships and friendships, and all the shit that goes along with them. It gets frustrating not being able to deal with it all like I'd like to. I think I'm in need of another trip to the Red Cedar. When I'm taking pictures I have to focus on something, which takes my mind off of everything else going on. There was this couple, sitting on the edge of the Red Cedar, holding hands and cuddling. I really wanted to get a good picture of it but it would be awkward if I just photographed them, and I didn't want to be the tool to ask if I could take a picture of them. I went over on the other side of the river thinking I could get the shot from there without making it obvious, but they were gone by the time I was over there :-/

Perhaps I'll go photograph sometime this week.

Back to the dorms.

The weekend was..disappointing. Friday night was great. Saw Ash Thomas- haven't seen her in a while. Had an amazing conversation with Loren Fenn. Probably the best part of the weekend, by far. Saturday went to a party-type-thing with a bunch of people from high school. It showed me how ready I really was for College. Sunday I learned how disappointing friends can be. I also learned to stop giving someone as many chances as I have. The ball is now in his court. He can do with it as he pleases, but I'm done forcing plans. If he wants to see me, he can contact me.

Back in the box of a dorm. It sucks when the weather is a record high of 90 degrees. Lets hope I can get some sleep.



P.S. I love that duck.

Beautiful.

I sat down by the Red Cedar today. It runs right through campus, and I must say, it's quite lovely. I was photographing the ducks and all other sorts of random stuff, when I looked over and there was this amazing bird. So I got some shots of it :)


Today was a good day.

Relaxing.

Refreshing.

Just beautiful.

11:34 PM

Why did the chicken cross the road?