Cooking

Installment 002 of 'best of the week'

While due to culture norms, society, etc... - or whatever you politically correct out there would say- guys traditionally don't do much cooking, while some/most barely know how to work a microwave; I, thanks to my mother and others, actually enjoy cooking and fancy myself pretty good at it as a result of their 'teachings.' While most of my style and methods come from my mother, technique came from cooking classes and books. I feel like with the right recipe and equipment I can make anything. I make much less off the top of my head, while practically religiously altering any and all recipes. I say all this, just to set the following up and hopefully make it even more funny what I did.

Now, keep in mind, I am a college student; and if you learned anything from last week I'm kind of a procrastinator. So in short, I'm lazy and I'm cheap; I don't cook a lot nor anything fancy - not that I can't... I just haven't found reason to recently, lol. So there is a bake sale going on, today actually, and last night we made some brownies for it... First batch: forgot the Pam in the glass Pyrex dish. So we ate them. Went to bed planning to get up and go to my 8am then make brownies again.

Well... didn't wake up for my 8am class. Got up, walked and fed the dog, went and got more brownie mix, cutting time close now because I needed to do homework and shower and what have you before noon. Get the brownies out of the oven, turn it off and... Like an idiot, thinking I can start moving the brownies around immediately I try to place them onto a plate and fail hardcore; the center stays stuck to the dish because this time I got double chocolate brownie mix - which if you haven't had before, stop reading this and go get some so you can better understand - I forgot to whisk the mix fine enough and that resulted in chocolate chucks forming in the middle of the mix and I also forgot to let the entire thing cool and solidify enough before attempting the transfer. Third time was the charm though, literally. With 15 or so minutes to spare.

Procrastination

To bring focus to this blog, I'm going to make posts relating to what I feel I did best the past week. Keeping in mind if anything is worth effort it is worth my full effort; success and failure alike.

NOTICE: DON"T TRY THIS AT HOME; as procratination is not for everyone.

So while so might say it would not be a good thing to procrastinate, I decided to see how good I was at procrastinating. By the end of the week I realized I'm really good at procrastinating, I seemingly am able to block time right before things need to be done. Now while my stress is greatly increased from such actions, I found my self getting to now others better, listening a little more, be more willing and able to help with something/projects at a moments notice. I do however, if you might notice, fail to get this blog entry done on time, approximately a week late; I failed to write down on the 'To-Do' list to make this blog entry. So besides that, procrastinating actually worked out well for me I feel. I got almost 100% of my 'To-Do' list and so much more. Keep in mind however the negative side, the greatly increased stress levels from waiting till the last minute. Dealing with stress is a whole another story for another day.

Learning Installment for the day

So if you press the 'control' key on a mac and then move the mouse 'track-ball' the entire screen zooms; it was crazy. I also learned today that I really don't like the cold wind, I don't mind wind, or the cold... but both together suck.

Living and Learning

You know how some people say you live and you learn. Today/tonight I realized that it is at least partially true, we live and learn about our selves and probably just as important; we learn about others...

Watch what you say, watch you do... this isn't the land of the free... its the land of wait and see...