I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Chocolate Caramel Angel (May 2)

  • Today has been the 2nd of 2 very difficult, emotional, overwhelming, frustrating days. I haven't decided whether to write about my feelings in full yet, just because most of them have to do with my current employers and I can't make these posts private.
  • However, I will talk about the cooking/baking I did today. I think baking is my new outlet. I mean, I did it at home, but I'm doing it way more here. I've kind of unofficially decided to bake something each night that I stay home, to give my evening some purpose. Tonight, I bought a pre-mixed stirfry thing at HomePlus. It's basically meat (I chose pork), in a sauce with yummy seasoning and a (very) few vegetables. I cut up (I really like cutting vegetable) and added cucumber, pepper, green onion and carrot. I warmed up some leftover rice and in like 10 minutes I had a super yummy meal. And I didn't have to share so I could eat all I wanted. Oh and I had one of my many bananas that is lying around. After cleaning up all that stuff, I decided to finally try caramel. Last week, I bought the cream to prepare for it but never got around to it. Tonight, I found a lonely apple on the discount produce shelf at HP and he was my inspiration. It turned out so yummy! And it was really easy. I've been advised to try mixing in flavors, like cinnamon, coffee, and citrus. I think I will try lots of different ones because I don't really know what else to use the heavy cream for and it's going to go bad soon. After making the caramel, I ate about half the apple and then decided to drizzle brownie with caramel and warm it up. SOOOOO GOOD. It literally made me feel better. I don't know how.
  • I also received a lot of support from other TaLK scholars today. I posted on our FB page that I've gotten very homesick recently, and asked for some tips. Lots of people replied with really good ideas and it made me cry (guess who's PMS-ing...). I also got very sweet messages from Rachel and Alison, assuring me that they were also going through the same thing. I'm starting to feel a little better and made a plan to do more things outside of my apartment.
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