I'm sick again... : ( I hate getting sick. Things are bearable during the day because I'm busy with stuff, but when I try to sleep at night, life is a nightmare... and not just because of the book I read right before I went to bed--but that does contribute to my nightmarish non-sleep.
Because of my Young Adult Lit class, I have to read a bunch of young adult books, and I was falling behind so I went to the library and just grabbed four books that had a Y/A label on them. The very first one I read, just the other night, turned out to be a horror book. I hate horror anything, I do NOT read horror books. Of course I didn't get how horrible it was until it was too late, then I went back and looked at the prologue and understood everything. Crystal clear. I cried. And that made my cold worse.
Anton found me while I was trying to stop crying and thought I was crying because of the pain from being sick. But I told him the real reason to which he gasped, "Why would you read those kinds of books?" and I told him I didn't know it was like that, and then he told me to watch one of my movies to get it out of my head. So I watched "Living it Up" with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, and I laughed the whole time--great movie.
Today Anton went to the drug store and came back with a bag FULL of drugs. He said, "Honey, I got everything you need!" I think he asked the store clerk what to get to help me and then got every single thing the person mentioned--even though I only needed like two things. It's sweet of him though. : )
We tried out some of the deer roast we brought back. It was delicious (I was getting a little tired of duck). For some reason I always have to have mustard with my roast to dip it in... I think I picked it up from Dad.
Don't have any pictures because I don't have a camera (the one on my phone makes everything blurry)... but I also don't really have anything to take pictures of. I go to school, and come home. Sometimes I get to see Anton and sometimes I get sick. That is my life.
I know it's kind of pointless to dwell on how I'll be happy when some future event comes, because then I'll always be waiting for the future and never really be happy... but I really will be happier when I no longer have homework hanging over my head. Homework is so depressing.
I think I'm rambling because I'm tired... and can't sleep because I'm all congested... which makes me even more tired. SLEEP, come to meeeeeeeeeeeee....
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Bear... in My Kitchen
So... the other night, I was debating whether or not I should go to the school to see Casablanca. I was so tired and I thought I might just hit the sack. And then I walked into the kitchen and saw a bear on my counter and Anton with a grin that covered his whole face standing next to it.
Okay... it was actually a porcupine. But it looked like a bear. Seriously--face frozen into a ferocious, yellow-toothed snarl, long, sharp claws, humongous body, black pelt... yeah. Then he started gutting it and it smelled like DEATH. So I decided to go to the movie after all.
But when I got there, they had decided to play the movie another night and there was a chess tournament going on. So I played chess all night. And then went to Kaylynn's and recorded silly things on her computer because it was 1:00 in the morning and I was still afraid to go home and face the dead porcupine smell in my house.
Anyway, he ate some that night with a Ukrainian buddy and then I told everyone in my Russian class about it and I insisted on sharing it with anyone who was interested in trying some porcupine... heh. But since it was a monster we still had plenty left.
So at 3:00 A.M. when I was half-sleeping while pretending to do homework, Anton came in and got me up to go to the kitchen with him. On the counter was the crock pot, a plate of peeled potatoes, porcupine meat, some carrots, a can of cream of chicken, and a row of seasonings. He insisted that since I am his wife and it is my job to cook, that I combine all the ingredients in the crock pot (under his careful instruction) and turn it on. I looked at him like it's 3:00 in the freaking morning and you got me up to put all this crap that you already prepared in the crock pot?
Well, I did it and we ate it 18 hours later. Surprisingly, it tasted pretty good. I still find it amazing that he saw a porcupine and brought it home for dinner. I would not have thought that animal to be edible.
Okay... it was actually a porcupine. But it looked like a bear. Seriously--face frozen into a ferocious, yellow-toothed snarl, long, sharp claws, humongous body, black pelt... yeah. Then he started gutting it and it smelled like DEATH. So I decided to go to the movie after all.
But when I got there, they had decided to play the movie another night and there was a chess tournament going on. So I played chess all night. And then went to Kaylynn's and recorded silly things on her computer because it was 1:00 in the morning and I was still afraid to go home and face the dead porcupine smell in my house.
Anyway, he ate some that night with a Ukrainian buddy and then I told everyone in my Russian class about it and I insisted on sharing it with anyone who was interested in trying some porcupine... heh. But since it was a monster we still had plenty left.
So at 3:00 A.M. when I was half-sleeping while pretending to do homework, Anton came in and got me up to go to the kitchen with him. On the counter was the crock pot, a plate of peeled potatoes, porcupine meat, some carrots, a can of cream of chicken, and a row of seasonings. He insisted that since I am his wife and it is my job to cook, that I combine all the ingredients in the crock pot (under his careful instruction) and turn it on. I looked at him like it's 3:00 in the freaking morning and you got me up to put all this crap that you already prepared in the crock pot?
Well, I did it and we ate it 18 hours later. Surprisingly, it tasted pretty good. I still find it amazing that he saw a porcupine and brought it home for dinner. I would not have thought that animal to be edible.
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