Monthly Archives: November 2009

Yeah yeah yeah… I know…

Posted on November 25, 2009 | 15 comments

Mood: hungry
Listening to: Good Morning, Norway….

Yeah, I know… This Sunday round-up is getting out of hand.
I seriously haven’t much to write about. Nothing has really happened..

Well, except one thing…
If you’ve read the other comments I’ve received you’d see that a site was suggested to me.

http://horrorclassics.lefora.com/

So I joined and I really love it. They have so many movies, and not just movies. Old series too, like V and Dr. Who (which made me very happy).
They even have none horror (well, kinda) movies… well, so I’ve seen one. Arsenic and old Lace..
I love that movie XD

But yeah…. If you love horror movies and like to chat to great people, then join. Yeah, you have to join to watch the movies, but it’s very painless. It’s a moments work and a little wait and then you’re sorted.

Lene

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Round-up, Tuesday style

Posted on November 17, 2009 | 7 comments

Mood: Great
Listening to: Aliens Exist – Blink 182

Yeah, I think I’ll do the Sunday round-ups when I feel like doing them on Sundays… Because this isn’t working.. lol

So.. nothing is really new… Nothing major has happened.
Well, one thing has happened. I got really desperate for a sci-fi movie, so I sat through Zardoz…
If you like to watch crazy people and naked chicks, go ahead and watch it… I seriously don’t know what to say about the movie. It is what it is…

AND… I’ve started watching MST3K movies on youtube. I’ve missed them sooo much… I even saw one with Joel… And I kinda don’t like him… he always seems like he’s bored to be there and hate watching movie… Like I know that that’s the point.. that he’s being MADE to watch the movies… but at least Mike lets his humor shine through. I saw one the other day where he was laughing/giggling his ass off… I think it was The Brute Man… and a store manager was yelling at a young man who worked there for being too much into the whole Creeper thing… And to hear the “commentators” lose it.. well, it is funny…

What else…
Oh.. I finished the scarf… *takes picture to post*

I must say I really like the colors..
Very pretty…

Erm…
I really don’t think anything else has happened. So… yeah…

Oh, I got some fabric today… so now I can make my cow snuggle outfit…
The problem, however, is to start…
I still have to make my panda jacket too…

oh bother…

Lene

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TGI Friday… again

Posted on November 13, 2009 | Comments Off on TGI Friday… again

Mood: Splendid… This Cuba Libre really did the trick..or should I say those… *winky*
Listening to: A lot of things…
Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
Robert Palmer – Addicted to Love
Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark
Various Artists – Perfect Day
Those are the ones I just “fetched”… *whistles*

So yes… How you doing?
Oh, hang on… Cuba is calling…dang… Fidel just hit me… strong bastard… Cheers!

I wasn’t really planning on making a drunken rant… and I’m not planning to… what I mean is.. I’m not ranting…
I just felt it was about time I divulged what’s been happening this past week.
The course is over… yay… but now all those jobs I applied for that I didn’t really want has started to call back to bite me in the ass.. well, one did… And it was a clothes store… and she couldn’t guarantee that I would get full time… and seeing as I have to rely on public transportation, which is expensive here, I have to have a job which is worth while for me to work at to pay for the bus… and food.. etc…
AND! *80’s dances to “dancing in the dark”*
There is another job I applied for over two weeks ago.. He called me and was all =D because my application was good and unusual.  The day he called (a Sunday) he said that we had to get together and talk… and I replied that the following Thursday was good for me… and I didn’t hear back… so on Thursday I wrote another email and he replied later saying he was busy and traveling a lot… and not to use that email, but to use another… and not to call him on that phone number but to use this one… and to call his assistant to set up a meeting… and he gave me her email address… and I sent an email to her saying I’m all open… and I got an email back telling me I had a job interview last Wednesday…
So.. on Wednesday I got there and I have to say that I felt it went crappy…
The job initially is for marketing and sales.. traveling out in the district to businesses to ask them if they want a commercial thingie on the radio.. (I forgot to say that it was a local radio needing people) (from the application I couldn’t see what they really needed, but it looked interesting, so I applied…)
But yeah…. as we talked and stuff they got the impression that I wanted to sit in the radio seat.. like be on the air and stuff… and I have to admit, even though the thought scared the living shit out of me, it would be fun XD
but still.. anything doing with radio, be it behind the scenes, doing research.. whatever… sounds like a blast to me… :3
So yeah… I really don’t think I’ll be getting the job I set out to get… hehe…
And… I think I scared one of the interviewers… at the end he asked me “where do you see yourself in 5 years time?”
and I said, honestly: “I have no idea. I’m just along for the ride, enjoying every minute. I try not to plan too much ahead.” And he looked at me like I was crazy… Like seriously O.O WTF??!?!??!?!
I can’t help it I’m not a planner…. not for the far away future… If I go on a trip, sure I make a list of the things I need to bring… and it serves as a “remember list” for when I leave said place.
But it’s hard to make a check list for 5 years ahead…
So yeah… that was my Wednesday…
Well… except for me finding the coolest yarn known to man XD
So I promptly started to knit me a new scarf… Seeing as my mother made fun of my Dr Who scarf it got depressed and hit itself in the bag it came in… afraid to come out again… I have tried to console it, but it won’t listen to me…
So I’m opting for coloures… and I’m making a scarf…
and it’s coming along quite nicely, thank you…

I have to admit that I just LOVE the colours… and I can’t wait to make the matching, not quite matching, but close, wrist warmers… It’s going to be truly awesome XD

OH, and I’ve figured out what to do if I ever get the radio job.. like the on the air kind of job…
I know I’ll be scared out of my mind… and I’ll stutter and make a fool of myself…
So… might as well have a few drinks before I go on air… XP
Cuba Libre really liberated my tongue on this blog, I’m afraid… *drum crash*

What else?
It’s snowing again… Would be nice if this snow stayed till after Christmas… no… after new year…
So yeah…
That’s what happened…. kinda… there is more.. but wait for it till Sunday… or Monday.. depends what day I’ll remember to round-up… 😉

Anyways… that’s it for me today…
Tune in tomorrow at the same time for more Lene madness =D (no, not really..)

Lene

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Chicken and veggie Spring Rolls

Posted on November 10, 2009 | 6 comments

I finally made them..
It took me long enough, but I finally made them…
And they were good…

What you’ll need:

For the meat/chicken part:

  • 2 small Chicken breasts or 300 gr of ground chicken
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp light Soy sauce (Kikoman)
  • 1 tbsp Chinese five spice

For the veggie part:

  • 4 Chinese dried mushrooms, soaked in hot water for 20 minutes and drained
  • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
  • 2 cm piece ginger, grated
  • 75g bean sprouts
  • 2 large sping onions, finely sliced
  • 1 medium carrot, finely sliced (or grated)
  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  • 1 tbsp Chinese five spice
  • 12-16 spring roll wrappers
  • 1 tbsp cornflour
  • 1 tbsp water
  • 750ml groundnut oil, for deep frying

  1. Fry up the ground chicken or the finely sliced chicken breasts in oil and then add chinese five spice and light soy sauce.  When done put it to the side to cool.
  2. In a large bowl, mix the mushrooms, garlic, ginger, beansprouts, spring onions, and sliced carrot. Add the cooled chicken and stir well to combine everything together. Add the spice and oyster sauce and stir some more.
  3. Place two spring roll wrappers on top of each other, and spoon two tablespoons of the chicken filling in the centre of the layered sheet.
  4. Mix the cornflour with the water and use to brush over the wrapper edges – this helps stop the spring rolls from bursting open while frying. Fold each of the opposite corners in, over the filling, and roll the wrapper into a cigar shape.
  5. Deep fry the spring rolls in hot oil, over a medium heat, until golden brown – about 3-5 minutes. Drain on absorbent paper before serving with sweet chilli sauce.

I served mine with rice, and I thought the were absolutely delicious!!!! They really surpised me.
It’s meant that you’ll get 6 spring rolls out of this recipe, but I ended up with 8… and they were fairly fat ones too 🙂

It takes some time to make them, but they are totally worth it.
And I didn’t really use 750 l of oil to fry them… I used a pan large enough to put two in and had enough oil to cover them half way… worked like a charm… and seeing as you have to turn them over anyway.. might as well… save oil and stuff…

Hope you enjoy…

ITADAKIMAS!!!

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Omg… another Sunday/Monday Round-up.. jeesh…

Posted on November 9, 2009 | 2 comments

Mood: Great
Listening to: A guy talking.. on TV.. Houston SPCA on Animal Planet…

Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on, to be honest.
I was going to write yesterday, but I think I just forgot… lol
So yeah… Last week and weekend.

Monday was fine… Can’t say I remembered anything happen…
Tuesday went fine… Don’t think anything exciting happened… Well, Jan went to Germany with a pal.. that’s about it…
On Wednesday I was sick, so I didn’t go to the course.  And Jan came home…
Thursday I went back to the course… still felt a little blah… but I was ok… baked rolls and stuff for the course….
Friday I went to the course…. last day… we didn’t really do much that day… we talked and ate cake.. then we went home.
Raija from the course, great lovely Finnish lady, drove me home. And we got to talk… that it was good to get out of the house to meet people and stuff… and the days went fast… and I said well, most days… when the woman course leader was in charge the days went slow… and Raija agreed. And I said I didn’t like the way she acted. That when you got a job application thingi from her you felt you HAD to apply for it, weather you wanted the job or not.
And again Raija agreed. She said that she was upset with her for yelling at one of the course attendees…
Well, I can only speak for myself, and I do agree that I didn’t like her aggressiveness…

So yeah… I’ve had a lovely relaxing weekend. Made more rolls/buns yesterday because we didn’t really get to taste the ones I made for the course.

Oh, and one day I made spring rolls FINALLY…
They were delicious… I’ll post the recipe and picture in another entry. I have to shrink the picture etc. and I can’t be bothered to do it on my tiny laptop…

G is still being an enigma… I have no idea what’s going on with him
And it is hard to send out an apb on a guy you know basically nothing about.
“Yes, American police? I want to report a guy missing. To b honest, I don’t evn know if he lived in America, but I think he does. And he’s been missing for at last two weeks. I don’t know him, like really… but I have talked to him online and now he’s gone… he goes by the name G… and I know he works with shows… ”
I’m sure they’d comb America for me…
*turns to camera*
Please, G. We miss you, please come back home…

so yeah… that was my week…

Lene

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Sunday Round-up on Monday

Posted on November 2, 2009 | 2 comments

Mood: Good
Listening to: Tiny Dancer – Elton John…

I compleetly forgot about the round up. I think I need to set an alarm or something.

But yeah… things have happened the past week.

There was the whole ugly swine flu incident and misunderstandings on my behalf. Unless they put “numbers accurate because of people in country” how am I supposed to know? I am not a mind reader yet…. as I have said many times before.

And I applied for a job… and yesterday, around 18.15 he called me and said he was very interested in the application I sent him.
I have to admit it was very good, and it did seriously not take me long to whip it up =P
But he did have some concerns… like why I have a fork lift license…
Well, I was talked into it… I got it only because I didn’t get any compassion from anyone… No one in my family said “I totally understand that you don’t want to drive, and if you don’t want to you shouldn’t…”
But instead everyone went “GO FOR IT!!!”  where upon I cried… well, not really… but I wasn’t happy…

But yeah…. I took a Carma reading..
Not a real one, but a “click on a number” Carma reading online…

Your Carma today: Decisions


You wish to do something else than what you are doing right now, or you’re in a relationship where you’re not yourself.

Action:
The time has come to make a dissuasion in your heart about what you really want to do.
Something wonderful is heading your way and you ave to trust your intuition to grasp it when the time comes.
Visualize what you want, what you wish

Earlier you have lost what you really want to do because you didn’t believe in yourself enough.
Maybe this is the new job thingie??
Maybe I’m meant to work in whatever I’m meant to work in at the job I applied for? Media? Sales? Media sales??
I don’t know… We’re having a talk one of these days. I’m just waiting for an email from him.
Oh, I saw Zombieland on Saturday..
I was very surprised that I liked it, but I did.
I didn’t think I would… but it was good…
Makes me want to kill zombies… XD
Lene

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