recently

recently the days have been filled with nothing more than going to work and then going home to think and plan more things for work, cook, and then sleep. it is tough working over forty hours a week, but my internship will be over soon, so i will get to rest a little after it is over.  i tend to procrastinate. currently i am procrastinating on the last bit of homework that i will ever have to do, as well as training programs i should be working on. i would like one day to stop procrastinating, but i have been saying that since my freshman year in college. i think i should just stop trying for things that will never happen.

when me and josh met i literally could not cook a piece of chicken. i did not have any idea what i was doing in the kitchen. i have gotten significantly better thanks to him.  i tend to lean the way of cooking with chicken and rice - everything else kind of scares me, but i can make some mean chicken and rice. pictured above is last nights meal - a thai version of chicken and rice. it turned out so good. i sauteed the chicken in red pepper, then added in onion, red pepper, yellow pepper, green pepper, and anaheim pepper. then i simmered it all in trader joe's red curry sauce. it was delicious and super simple to make.

our first trip to trader joe's was a few weekends ago.  we had never been before and we were in chartlottesville, so why not see what the hype was about? it was awesome. we got a six pack of interesting beer, and the above pictured "simpler times" beer. it was pretty good. and we got our curry sauce and about 10 pounds of tortilla chips. it was such a great place. they need to build one in lynchburg.

the last photo is of our first harvest. all of it's other cucumber pals are still itty bitty, but this guy blew up. it was so exciting to find it and we ate it in a salad that night. it was a delicious cucumber. probably because i grew the plant from a seed and it has survived through a move and being transplanted and then drowned. i would someday like a little bit of land, so i can have a larger garden than i do now. if i could one day work as a farmer or florist, i think that would make me very happy.