Day: May 3, 2015

Requiem: Delia shoes.

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Oh Delia*s.  How I enjoyed your catalouges when I was in my 20s.  This is my last item of clothing from that company remaining in my closet; the company has folded.  These shoes were always fun to wear because let me tell you, many men really enjoy big, stacked shoes like this.  “Those shoes are amazing!” many men (always men!) in my age demographic would say.  Perhaps they are not as aware of the fluctuation in fashion and the shoes make them think back to their college years, when all the hot girls wore big shoes like this.

The delia*s logo:

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Three sentence movie reviews: Fire in the Sky*

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This was a well-acted exploration of male friendship and is populated with a decent amount of early-90s actors you’ve seen in a ton of other things.  It’s also about an alien abduction, but the vast majority of it deals with the fallout of those left behind. According to the expert who spoke before the movie, Hollywood got the alien part wrong.

Cost: Free. It was kind of a history pub, but McMenamins is going to start having regular History Pub-style meetings at the Mission Theater, but concerning UFO/Alien Encounter stuff.  I couldn’t find anything about it on the website to link to, but that’s what we were told.

Where watched: Mission Theater with Matt, Laurie, Burt, Brooke & Mike.

*It’s like we’re watching the sequel to “Smoke on the Water” Brooke quipped.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/1993/fire_in_the_sky.html

What’s up with me and cooking lately?

Glad you asked.

For the past year I’ve been a subscriber to SoupStones, so a nice lady from Australia sends me five recipes to make each week.  It’s $20.00 per month, which is outrageous, but the food is good, it makes the right amount of portions, I don’t have to think, and most of the meals come together quickly.  So every Friday (that’s aspirational, mostly I do this on Saturday morning) I make my grocery list for the week and then on Saturday go shopping.

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However, since the beginning of April, I’ve been taking a class on Thursday nights, which means my weekly schedule looks like this:

Monday: long work day, can’t do much when I get home.
Tuesday: tap class
Wednesday: restorative yoga
Thursday: Pattern Manipulation Class
Friday: pretty much toast

This schedule doesn’t really leave me much time to cook during the week, so I’ve been doing a week’s worth of cooking on Sunday.  It’s not my favorite thing, but  like it better than spending too much money eating out.  Plus, I know that I have food for the week.

I usually run out of steam before I complete my list, though.  As you can see, the Hot, Cheesy Chickpeas didn’t happen.  I told myself I would do them later in the week. I won’t.

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Requiem: Motion Industries Mug

IMG_3163My first job out of college was for Motion Industries.  I was the receptionist, and the company I worked for had recently been acquired by MI.  Redundednt people were being let go, everyone in the company was older than forty, and there wasn’t  really anything much to do.  I was bored and depressed and it was the kind of company that only had two holidays per year and accrued any vacation time for a full year before awarding it. I lasted eight months before fleeing.  Best part? My boss Roberta Cronin.  “You are terribly overqualified for this job, but it’s yours if you want it,” she told me about a week into my temp gig.  We made it official and I learned–not for the last time–about  the danger of settling for whatever job comes my way.