Back to Chicago….again

Well, I’m going back to Chicago for the third time this year. Sadly, my grandma passed away yesterday. I knew it was coming, and I talked to her nurse just minutes before it happened, but it still really sucks. She was my closest grandparent. We did get to talk on Wednesday and have hot cocoa together over the phone. Hubby is still out of communication doing his training scenario so I have no way of getting in touch with him until Friday. Does anyone want to watch my dog? J/K. I’m going in search of friends to watch her tomorrow. I guess this is kind of a downer post…sorry. I do have a little bit of good news- my final went well and I think I’ll end up with a pretty good grade in lab and class. Anyway, I would like to say the end of finals would mean that I’ll have more time to blog, but I’m not really sure. I still have to apply to a second round of Masters programs which have rapidly approaching deadlines and re-take my GREs so I may keep doing these mini updates. If I make any culinary masterpieces, I will be sure to post them!! Thanks for dropping by.

December

Yay! Its December My GREs were pretty horrific, as I told hubby it was like being kicked in the stomach continually while trying to run a race. I’m going to re-take them this month or next month. This week is finals, so I will be studying hard. Wish me luck!! Have a happy December

GREs tomorrow!

Hi guys I just wanted to post a quickie update and let you know that I’m taking my GREs tomorrow (11/5) around 1pm!!! I’m so scared/excited and about a million other feelings right now, but WISH ME LUCK!!! And send me some smarty vibes if you get a chance Have a good one!!!

I’m alive and well – see?

Hi, in keeping with the monthly updates….OCTOBER!  I’m still studying like crazy and getting a lot of my application things finished up.  My brother and his girlfriend just came for a weekend, which was awesome.  I’ve been keeping up with reading blogs as much as possible.  Today I picked up a great book at the library: Living on Live Food by Alissa Cohen and I wanted to leave y’all with a quote from the second chapter:

Look and you will find it: What is unsought will go undetected. ~Sophocles

September update

Hi guys!

A lot has been going on and its time that I posted yet another update.  Work has been very very tough lately.  I don’t want to go into all the details, but I’ve been completely swamped.  Lets say I’ve been close to bashing a fax machine with a baseball bat.  School is okayish.  I had to drop physics.  I really didn’t want to for various reasons and I had such a great teacher, but I simply had to give up something and I can take physics online next semester and Micro is only offered in the fall so…I had to drop it.  Also, I dropped it one day too late so I lost my reimbursement.  Apparently, my school has a 1 week and three day drop/add period ONLY.  Anyway, I’m glad I dropped b/c Mico is really really really hard.  Class is hard and lab is soul-suckingly hard.  The class alone is difficult, but I have the hardest teacher in the whole school for lab and it is just as much work for 1 credit as a regular separate 3 credit class.  He is so tricky. And I have been so lucky as to avoid him for 4 semesters so far…  I’ve been trying to learn the techniques, avoid all of his trick questions, and memorize bacteria names like Escherichia coli , Serratia marcescens , and Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum(yes, spelled correctly, and underlined, the Genus name capitalized, not the species name- ugh).  Ahhh gone are the good old days when I didn’t know what E. coli stood for.  Hahah.

Anyway, all in all I noticed that I wasn’t studying for the GREs nearly enough and that if I wasn’t studying for the GRE’s I wouldn’t do well on them and I definitely wouldn’t have time to write my essay and get everything together to apply for my program by November.  So, I had to really be frugal with my time.  Dropping physics was a big thing, I also cancelled our cable, which helps save money AND keeps me away from temptation.  It also meant taking a blog break.  Writing, taking pictures, reading comments, and other people’s blogs can be very time consuming, as I’m sure you guys know.  I’m now back to my 2007-2008 schedule of wake up, work, school, home, eat study, sleep, repeat.  I do miss blogging, *sniff* but I just can’t right now, and I don’t know how soon I will be able to, but I will post updates and I will still be reading and commenting around the blog-o-sphere when I get a chance!

Yesterday, I needed to get out of the house and pick up some food so I went by my favorite Korean market with, I kid you not, the meanest lady I have every met.  I don’t know if you guys have seen Gilmore Girls, but she makes Mrs. Kim look like a saint.  haha.  Her daughter came by yesterday and she was mean to her too.  LOL.  She doesn’t even let me pick what I want.  She follows me around the store and sometimes pulls a package of noodles out of my hands and gives me a different one.  She also quizzes me about what I want things for-LOL.

Her:  “What do you want that for?”

Me:  “to flavor rice?”

Her:  “No.”

Me:  “okay”

But, she has awesome food and its the only place that I can get certain things.  The whole thing is actually comical to me now and I’ve learned to just observe.  She let me walk to the back of the store yesterday without coming with me, which is actually a big step!  Anyway, I hope to post a few picts of my awesome goodies and post them when I get a spare moment.  I’m very hopeful that this will occur in the next week or so!

Also, I’m in the process of growing a Kombucha mother!  I love Kombucha tea, and its too expensive to keep buying at the store so I’m trying to grow my own.  It should take another week or two, but it was really fast and easy to get started (then you have to wait a few weeks) and I’ll let you know how it turns out next time I post!

Now, I need to get some paperwork done that followed me home from work.  Luckily, I made the most awesome chai coffee to accompany me   I threw a Yerba Matte chai tea bag in with our Dunkin Donuts dark roast and its  really really good!

p.s.  I hope this post doesn’t sound too down in the dumps.  I’m really not, I’m just stretched really thin, working toward a barely reachable goal that will be totally worth it in the end.  I’m still trying to grab little moments of happiness like a quick run around the block or some headstands during a break, or a quick update on my blog.

Miss you guys!!!  Take care