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March 28, 2005
she's alright with me
Now that i have someone to feed, i find myself cooking like a fiend on the weekends. I find it relaxing, as i am doing something that is not work. This weekend i made ravioli from scratch - even the pasta dough. They were good, but dense, as i don't have a pasta press, and now i totally see why you would want one. the dough is pretty hard to work with, and hard to get thin without tearing. They were good and cooked in like 3 minutes.
I also made napoleons for ben for his birthday (it was thrusday). I didn't make the puff pastry dough as it was enough scratch for me to get it frozen and make the filling and icing from scratch. the puff pastry cooked up way too puffy. must figure out how to avoid that in the future. they are yummy though.
i also tried to replace my fan and heatsink in my laptop. i ordered the replacement part, but after an hour of trying to get my damn computer apart, i went online for some instructions and found i also need some thermal contact stuff for the heat sink. so i gave up for the day. i seriously might break my computer doing this, but its fun. it would cost at least 200 to replace the fan. i would be saving at least a 100 doing it myself. and its fun. plus a new laptop is not so much more than that (well, okay like 5 times that), but i've had this laptop for a while. either it is going to melt down because of the fan issue or i'm going to break it. i don't feel like paying at least a 1/5 the cost of a new lap top to fix this one (esp. when i might be able to do it myself).
god my hip has hurt lately. today it is making is hard to concentrate. at least the sore throat/ear ache of this weekend went away.
friday evening we saw ben's old roomie, parker, in a play. it wasn't bad. he was excellent (even the papers say so). it was about marriages not lasting, which was not real great for our friends that are getting married in june. we went out to dinner with them before at a gourmet take out place. i had some great chicken salad, which i also made yesterday for lunches this week. it has cranberries and walnuts. it is really yummy. using roast chicken makes all the difference. (yes, i spent the majority of yesterday cooking or cleaning up my cooking). good times.
saturday we tried to make some sense of the chaos that was our apartment. We'd been gone for a week and had so much mail. the apartment was in disarray because ben spent the week painting. it looks great. all but the back bathroom is done. we now have a mississippi mud bedroom. a liberty blue (a.k.a. cubby blue) plan b room. my bathroom is light blue/purple. ben's bathroom is going to be a crimson red. and that night we had dinner with his parents at this bar that has amazing shrimp cocktails and burgers. it was quite random, but quite good.
and with church yesterday it was quite the busy weekend. today seems restful...ha ha not really. i am quite busy at work, as usual.
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Posted by christina at March 28, 2005 4:27 PM