feeling a little frustrated today... with food... & food prep. why is it such a pain to eat vegetarian food? if i ate meat, lunch & dinner would be much easier. i wouldn't spend so much time thinking, planning & worrying about it. but i spend a ridiculous amount of time dealing with food. it's past the point of pissing me off. when i worked part time, we ate better food. i had plenty of time to feel inspired to try new things (some good & some not so good) & less crushed when something didn't turn out to my liking. & i wasn't rushed to prepare things so I was able make a lot more from scratch. i don't have time/energy for this game now. i come home from work exhausted. i don't have it in me to figure out what i/we should eat for dinner. i have about 10 things i really enjoy & d likes about half really well. but that's not enough variety. so, we're trying some prepared foods... frozen stir-fry in a bag & the like. we tried the crap in a box. terrible. does anyone have suggestions of fairly simple recipes we could try??? if you do, please e-mail them to me. i'd be forever in your debt for some new, easy recipes....
on a more positive note, had a great yoga class this morning. R, my favorite teacher, is amazing! there were only 3 people in class so there was a lot of individual attention, which was helpful because we were working on backbends. R is really thoughtful & introspective & i wish i could be like her in some ways. should we move away from baltimore any time soon, i think i would miss her class the most. that's probably a little sad... i need to make more friends. now that K is officially gone for a long stretch, my social circle has become nonexistent.... which is strange because when D & i went to the farmers market yesterday, we saw more people we know than ever before & stood around chatting w/a few of 'em. it was probably my favorite trip so far. life's funny like that. (on the way home, we stopped in an open house & that was fun. although the house wasn't that exciting - but i love being nosey.)
i spent yesterday afternoon & evening in the garden, continuing to prep the beds & clean out the remaining bed from last year. lots of weeding, path straightening (moving crap & putting down wood chips) & fertilizing w/ leaf mold (black soil the garden provides - i think it's composted leaves...). things are looking pretty sharp. e cut down some bamboo for me so i could build a trellis for vines & such. exciting. i'm such a nerd - i drew my plot out on autocad before we built it. but i think the building went pretty smoothly because we knew where everything went. go nerds!
back to work in the am... i have 3 interviews scheduled & i need to check one person's references. but i don't want to check them. i just don't like this person. he sounds good on paper... but i didn't get a good sense of who he was during the phone interview. he presented himself as being excellent at EVERYTHING & that's annoying... because it's not realistic. so, i don't know what to do w/ him. interview him again & specifically focus on his weaknesses, if he can find any? reject him because i just don't have a good feeling about it? it's all a big gray area. but is it a gray area of discrimination? am i allowed to go with "i just don't get a good feeling about him?" & if i do reject him, it'll probably have to be over the phone, which is extra lame. i gotta get a backbone.
the thing is, i've had a much easier time sleeping since i've started recruiting. it's actually challenging, whereas the rest of my day is not so much. or maybe i let the challenges slide right by me... whatever. i'm sleeping better & i wanna go where the sleep is...
i close w/ some alaska videos:
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