Thursday, October 16, 2008

The Sweetest Gift

1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write that song name down no matter how silly it sounds.

IF SOMEONE SAYS "YOU'RE HOT" YOU SAY?
"Shine"

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR LIFE?
"Babylon"

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE LONG GOAL?
"Track 5"

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
"Addicted" lol

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
"Run-around"

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR LIFE?
"Girl Downtown"

WHAT DO YOU OFTEN THINK ABOUT?
"Old Dirt Hill"

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR EX?
"Mille Cherubini in Coro"

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON WHO LIKES YOU?
"Track 14" :o)

WHAT DOES YOUR BEST FRIEND ALWAYS SAY TO YOU?
"I'll Be Home for Christmas"

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
"Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us"

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SAYING?
"You Might Die Trying" lol

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
"Track 8" Well that's not exciting!

WHAT WILL BE PLAYED AT YOUR FUNERAL?
"History in the Making" :o)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
"When It's Christmas Time in Texas" I second that.

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
"Puer Natus in Bethlehem"

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR HOUSE?
"When Christ Was Born of Mary Free"

WHAT WILL YOU NAME THIS?
"The Sweetest Gift"

OKAY, so I've started listening to Christmas music early...so sue me!! ;oD

Friday, October 10, 2008

My new favorite song

I'm in love with the song While I Still Got The Time from Darius Rucker's new country album. Check it out here!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Thank goodness!

It's raining! Much needed rain. And it's forecast through the rest of the week. I can hear my plants singing.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Adventures in cooking

I love trying different recipes...here are some I made yesterday:

Homemade Applesauce This recipe came out great! It's not as sweet as what I'm used to from the grocery store, but that's a good thing in my opinion. My aunt sent me home with tons of leftover apples from her son's (my cousin's) wedding and since I don't like apple pie and eating plain apples upsets my stomach, I decided to try making applesauce. It was super easy and made the house smell so yummy! I recommend blending the cooked apple mixture in a food processor rather than with a mixer--that way you don't get apples all over your kitchen.

I also made Honey Banana Bread. Again, just to get rid of my stash of bananas in the freezer. If your bananas get to the point of no return, just freeze them and use them for banana bread or the like later. There's no point in throwing bananas out when they can still be used. It's a "healthy" recipe, so it's not the best banana bread I've ever had, but it's still pretty good.

For dinner I made Thai Noodle Salad. If the boyfriend going back for seconds is any indicator, I'd say this recipe was a success! Very easy and took no time at all to make...I wish now that I had timed it. I had my boyfriend chop the green onions and bell pepper (from my garden!), so that cut down on the time. Using canned chicken knocked the ease factor up some more. I might actually make this recipe again...hopefully the grocery store has cilantro next time.

Happy cooking!

Saturday, October 4, 2008

WCU is definitely NOT a green campus

I may get in trouble for this post, but that's a chance I'm willing to take.

I attended Western's homecoming game today. I haven't been to a game in a while so I was shocked and appalled to see that they (who "they" are I don't know--the athletic gods I suppose) are now requiring everyone, including students, to have paper tickets to get into home football games. They are no longer scanning students' cat cards.

Apparently the students are to visit a website in which they'll find their student ticket that they can then print.

What?! Wait, wait. WHAT?!?!?! Ridiculous! Absolutely ridiculous! The amount of paper is ridiculous. BECAUSE since they're printing them places other than the ticket office, they're on whole sheets of paper.

Was there a recycle bin there to recycle these? Of course not. How many can we safely say were recycled by eco-conscious students??

Because I had trouble getting in (for I didn't know this ridiculous new policy had taken place) there was a woman with a little clout helping me to get in. I don't know her name, nor her position, but I did get some insight as to why this new paper ticket thing was put into place. According to her, some cat cards weren't able to be scanned for some reason and those students couldn't get into games. Two, by using this ticket system, there are now incentives for students to attend more games and a variety of sports. Apparently you can win different prizes for going to WCU games.

First, rectify the scanning problem by getting a new scanning system or something. Or by just sending those few students whose card won't scan to the "Cat Card Validation" line like I went through today.

As far as incentives to go to sports games...it's a sad sad world when a student needs an incentive to go support their school.

I don't know how Western expects to be competitive with other NC system schools when they continue to pull stunts like this.

As far as a quick fix goes: how about put out some recycle bins and encourage ticket recycling next time?