Archive for May, 2011
Me done good?
0My boss emailed me a short a liner that said “you done good.”
I fully appreciate compliments and praise, but why when I read that email do I really see “that’ll do, pig”? Lol
Matka by?by dumny
2Lately I’ve really gotten into cooking again. My roommates make fun and say I’m getting back to my roots… most everything I’ve been making is very Polish or something a Wisconsinite would make.
The other day I just felt the need to make something so I turned a whole sack of potatoes into seasoned mash potatoes. I was trying to recreate my mother’s mashed potatoes and I got really close but they are still missing something. They’re really quite amazing but not quite what I remember. Regardless, by the end of my cook-a-thon I had about 10lbs of mashed ‘tapatoes’. What the heck do you do with 10lbs of tapatoes???
Last night I decided to turn them pierogi. I started mixing up and rolling out dough… do you know how many pierogi 10lbs of potatoes make? Well I can’t tell you either because I only got halfway through the batch after several hours of work. But considering each pierogi only needs like 1 tablespoon of filling I can definitely say it makes a whole heck of a lot!
Want to guess what I’m doing tonight? Yep, making more pierogi! I think some coworkers are going to be very happy with me on Monday when they get bags of pierogi on their desk to take home.
When I was finishing up last night a roommate came by and snatched one I had cooked (I couldn’t make all those and not have a few!) and said it was the best thing I ever made. I wasn’t sure if I should be complimented or insulted! Lol.
First try
0I spent the last several nights battling an ant invasion. The ants have overtaken the house and I decided to cower in my room for the evening. I still hadn’t broken open my watercolors. I had lightly dabbled once a few weeks ago to make a simple card for a coworker to give at a birthday party, but other than that I hadn’t done anything.
So I played around and decided to draw Frye. The last episode I had watched they were walking around imitating robots so they wouldn’t get caught trying to find Bender.
Water coloring is hard! This is definitely going to take a lot of practice. It does look better in person; my phone didn’t take the greatest picture.
assessment
0For our health insurance at work we are being given the opportunity to save several hundred dollars by taking a health assessment survey along with making a follow up call to speak with an advisor. Why? I don’t know. Seems to me it’d be better if they just brought someone in and spoke with individuals face to face.
So far all I’ve heard is horror stories from people who’ve called in. People are being called morbidly obese when they are 3 lbs. over the listed healthy weight. Another person was called obese who actually had to put ON weight by their doctor and is an avid runner. I’m not hearing anything positive coming out it.
But for a few hundred dollars in saving I thought it might be worth enduring. If you know me, you know I don’t put up with much… if anything at all. So if anyone is going to be told it was going to be them if they tried to pull any punches!
I really can’t see anything positive coming out of the call but I sat down to make the call regardless. Luckily for me I was informed the advisors were in training so they couldn’t take my call. This means I’ll just have to take lunch tomorrow to do it… if I do it at all. I’m not sure how much I care about it now. I’m still on the fence about it so I may just skip it.
I think it’s stupid we’re asked to do it in the first place. Why does making this call save me money? Saving money is awesome and all but it’s just a call… It’s not a commitment to change anything. If anything I’ll just be talking about how horrible I am and how I have no plans to change anything at all, especially not for someone I don’t know on the other end of a phone call. Take this as an opportunity to better myself? Pfffbt! Whatever.
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