It’s amazing, the things I can do when I have so many other things I am supposed to be doing.

I just made BBQ sauce. So here is the recipe:

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1/2 cup dark beer (I used Black Butte Porter)
• 1/4 cup unpacked brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon worchestire sauce
• Pinch of red pepper flakes

Directions

Put it all into a medium pot. Stir it up. Bring to a boil. Once boiling, continue to stir occasionally until it begins to thicken and it thoroughly mixed. Remove from heat and let cool completely before use. 

It’s sweet and spicy and great on whatever you want to put it on.

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I have two different captions for this recipe please choose whichever you prefer from the following list and pretend that I used that one:

Adult Smoothie: some assembly required
How to get drunk the healthy way 

So I made this smoothie, fully intending on it being strictly a smoothie. But then I decided I wanted to add another fruit flavor to it and I didn’t have any juice or fruit so I added peach schnapps. If you don’t want alcohol replace the schnapps with water and add in half a peach for the same flavour.

Ingredients:

• 1 Kiwi cut into small chunks
• 1 1/2 cups frozen strawberry
• 1 cup frozen mango
• 1 cup water
• peach schnapps or 1/2 peach (frozen)

Directions:

Put it all in a blender and blend until smooth. You can add as much or as little peach schnapps as you want. I put about two shots in and it is plenty peachy and not alcohol-y.

Cafe NomYen and a beautiful sunny day in Ashland.

My professor recommended I watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer for research on female portrayal in television.

Little did she know I would become addicted to the show and go through three seasons in three days. 

This is not helping me write my research paper, or my other paper, or work on my presentation that is due in a week… What have you done professor? What have you done?

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Here is a picture of what I carried home in my backpack today. Mind you, I walk about a mile each way. And I carried this around for a while. I weighed it in at just over 20 lbs. 

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Hey there thunderstorm…could you go away? I was enjoying the sunshine.

Well, it’s a long weekend! I am pretty excited about it. I have a lot of work to do but my teacher told me I was stressing out too much so she decided to assign me Buffy, Murphy Brown, and Thelma & Louise to watch this weekend to gain some first hand knowledge of women in television (and relax at the same time). She wants me to take a step back from the paper and not worry about it for now (this is my 35 page paper) because everything I have turned in so far has been excellent and she has no worries. Which is nice of her to say considering she is my teacher for all but one of my classes, so she knows how much work I have to do. But hey, if she has confidence in me, then I guess that is a good sign. 

I think she is also worried because every time she sees me she tells me I looks stressed and she is always concerned. This semester has been really tough. Lots of things going on in my life both with school and personal stuff but it is almost over.

Next semester will be much better. I will have Corey here as a support system, I will have already established myself with all my professors for Fall term, and I am taking some great classes with teachers I am excited to have. (And one class I am not excited to have but once it is over I will be completely done with all lower division work and will have completed everything I need to qualify for a Bachelors in Science despite me going for a Bachelor of Arts)

Anyway. Things are starting to get better. I hope this long weekend is as good for all of you as it is going to be for me. 

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So, it turns out I am moving. I will still be living in Ashland but, because Corey is moving in, my neighbor is annoying, and because my property management company sucks (Crane Property Management sucks guys. They have really nice and affordable places but they never respond to requests for repairs no matter how many times you call them.) I am moving to a new apartment. 

So, today I called all of the necessary places to cancel everything. Cable/internet, trash/recycling, Utilities, Gas, and Rent. I called all of the companies and let them know when my move-out date was and they let me know what I would need to do (which consists of paying one last bill, or bringing them the item associated with their company that I have been using (i.e modem, recycling bin, etc)) So, now I don’t have to worry about bills or anything, it will just be paid on that day, my security deposits will be forwarded to my parent’s house in California, and I will be packing and cleaning in spurts for the rest of the semester in between writing my huge papers and doing homework/ studying. 

I am in for a stressful last 3 weeks of school.

I will be selling my couch and my TV in case anyone is interested. They’ll be going up on craigslist sometime in the next couple weeks. Everything else will be going into storage until Corey and I find an apartment to move in to. Which reminds me, I need to call the storage company and arrange that. I found one that is reasonably priced and there was advertisement of a free moving truck which is awesome. I will let you know if that is true and how it all works out once I make the call. I also need to get my address changed through the USPS. I will change it back to my old address back home and then again when I find a new place.

It is all sorts of annoying to move and I am going to miss this apartment because I have really loved living here. It’s just difficult to live in a place where the people in charge haven’t done anything they said they would. There is a gaping hole in my front yard that was supposed to be taken care of back in September, my toilet has been broken the entire time I have lived here, there was a raccoon for months that they never did anything to take care of, and the doors have gotten wonky and there is no seal so it gets, and stays really cold in the apartment at all times. 

I hope we can find a place with a washer/dryer because that is something that I really quite like. And hopefully there is something the same size or even a smidge bigger. I hope, I hope, I hope. The other property management company out here seems to only have places outside of our budget, so i am hoping in August/ September there will be more openings within our price range. Cross your fingers for us please?!

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You all really need to follow this band page. →

allisongayle:

I mean, great music, new CD, friendly guy, awesome merch… There is no reason not to. And while you’re at it, you should probably fall in love with his music and then purchase his new CD “The Good War” for $5 + $3 shipping (US)… that’s basically a steal. You should be throwing more money at him. 

I’m just sayin’ you won’t regret it.

Oh my goodness, did I just make a delicious VEGAN soup? Yes, yes I did. 

Extra Tools:

• Hand blender or blender

Ingredients:  

• 1 Zucchini or Yellow Squash
• 1/2 yellow onion
• about 3 handfuls of fresh spinach
• 1 tbsp curry powder
• 1/2 tsp cumin 
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 1/3 cup Vegetable broth
• Salt to taste

Directions:

• Slice onion. Cut zucchini in half length wise and into 1/2 inch chunks.
• Heat olive oil in pan over medium heat.
• Cook the onion with curry and cumin powder until slightly brown and soft.
• Add in zucchini. Cook until soft and slightly browned
• Once the onion/ zucchini mixture is cooked, add in bite sized pieces of spinach and let cook until wilted.
• Add in the broth and cook until thoroughly heated. 
• Add salt to taste.
• If using a hand mixer, take out half of the mixture (mostly just the hearty chunks) and set aside, mix the remaining liquid and veggie mix until smooth. It will look like a rich green soup. Add back into the veggies taken out. Pour over rice and enjoy.
• If using a blender, it is important to let the mixture cool a bit before blending, if you add hot soup to a blender and try to blend with the cap on it could blow the top off which would be hilarious but not until after the matter. Once cooled, continue how above says. 

Possible things I would do next time:
Add a clove of garlic in when cooking the zucchini.
Possibly add in 1/4 cup of cream or sour cream when blending. 
Add more veggies. Maybe cauliflower and more squash or zucchini. 

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Okay so I am finally ready to talk about how upset I am with a couple things that happened at SOU. Everything is sorted now, and I’ve had time to think about things so it will not be a hate filled rant. Just a recollection of how sometimes really great schools can make really dumb mistakes and how you can be sure to not let it happen to you. 

Last week I went in to see my academic advisor, who’s name I will not share but we will call that person Dr. X (because how cool would it be if my advisor was Dr. X from X-men?) So, I went in to see Dr. X and we were coming up with a class schedule for my Fall 2012 term. We have met every quarter since I started at SOU. Every quarter I have mentioned how I planned to graduate from SOU in the Spring of 2013, a year from now, which would be two complete years at SOU after completing my Associates Degree at a previous college, and completing nearly all of my lower division classes there. We had planned that at least 4 classes every quarter would keep me on the right track to graduate when I wanted to. I have been sticking to that plan and yet, I will not be graduating this time next year. No, I won’t be graduating until the following Fall of 2014. This time next year I will be at least 14 upper division credits behind, no matter what.

Along with that, there was a class that I had been taking all quarter long. Just last week I come to learn that it was the wrong class and will not be counting for anything and I might as well drop, which I did, with no refund, after half a semester of being bored to death in a class that does nothing. That wasn’t Dr. X’s fault though. Dr. X was unavailable so I went to see someone else and that person didn’t quite understand what was going on and therefore, I signed up for a pointless class. Though, Dr. X didn’t catch that I was taking the wrong one when I had sent an email with my decided schedule before registering. So I suppose it is Dr. X’s fault a little bit.

The moral of the story here is to be sure to be extremely clear with your academic advisor and to double check with them that you are on the right track and taking the right classes before you register and waste your money and time. Ask your advisor to calculate out your credits and to make sure you are taking as many as you can handle. Know that there is a certain amount of credits you must reach, as well as complete certain classes and be sure to keep track of these things on your own as well as through your advisor.

This has been a vague post, though long in length. If you have questions or concerns please shoot me an ask and I will happily discuss any of these things with you. I thought my brain was more able to formulate things now but I am actually still pretty upset about it. 

Okay so this was just brought to my attention. It’s a petition to get Jon Eldridge (The SOU VP of student affairs) to shave his hair into a Mohawk. 

Literally, just that. They need 1,000 SOU student signatures. Go sign it!

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I had a lovely day today. it is quite warm and beautiful outside. 

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Tonight my friend, Casey, and I made German Chocolate cupcakes, and homemade frosting with coconut flakes and almonds. They were so freaking delicious. Really, amazing stuff. And then I stuck around for a BBQ at her place and met some pretty awesome people. I had a really good day.

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Beginning on Sunday, June 24th, we’re making some significant changes and improvements to the campus wireless network. There are two important changes:

- The wireless network will start growing from 65 access points to over 210 access points by the end of the expansion (not including the 120 access points currently in the residence halls). The expansion project will be completed by Fall Quarter.

- The Bradford Campus Manager is being replaced by Impulse Point Safe-Connect, a more user-friendly system.

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Brad Christ (Official from SOU)

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Today I received the magical Cookie Butter. Let me be the first to tell you, it is everything I had hoped it would be. If you like ginger snaps, you’re in for the treat of your life. 

Imagine the texture of Skippy peanut butter, but the flavor of gingersnaps.

I don’t know what magical genius had the idea to make a delicious cookie in spreadable form, but I want to marry them and have an endless supply of Cookie Butter. I’ll tell ya something though, I just might move to the Netherlands if this is the kind of thing that comes out of there. 

It is less calories than Nutella and I would say on the same level of deliciousness. In fact, I wish I hand’t just polished off my jar of Nutella because I bet the two combined would be like Heaven on Earth.

Let me list here their little blurb about suggested uses:

• Spread on Pancakes or Waffles (Hello tomorrow’s breakfast!)
• Peanut butter and cookie sandwich
• Serve on ice cream
• Dip pretzels or celery (totally about to do that)
• What don’t you do with something this delicious? (yes they literally wrote that)

Here are my suggestions:

• Take a spoon and shovel that gooey goodness directly into your mouth
• Dip your fingers in it and try not to gnaw them off in the process
• Dip fruit in it
• Make a Cookie butter and Marshmallow fluff sandwich (add bananas if you don’t hate them like I do)
• Find any food you dislike and smother it in cookie butter and make it much more enjoyable
• Use it to cure a bad day/week/life
• Take come cookie butter, add cookie butter, and then smother in cookie butter, eat.

I’ve been told that through unofficial taste tests, TJ’s Cookie Butter is the best of them all. But it is made by other brands and carried in other stores. If you need to know exactly what it tastes like, find any person with access to Trader Joe’s, offer them all your money to get you Cookie Butter, and remember that you heard about it from me. You can thank me later. Get Cookie Butter. Now. Do it. 

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