Yet Tearyne Is Ambitious…

A contact of mine from a forum that I frequent, Asuperwoman at Long Hair Care Forum asked me about how I use olive oil in cooking. This post is for you! I learned this recipe from a former schoolmate’s sister. A lot of what I am focusing on with food lately is adding in vegetables wherever possible (though lately I’ve been eating a lot more vegetarian-style meals, mostly Indian).

Enjoy! Hope this helps; I’ll be creating a series of the recipes I make with olive oil for you; I’ll link my homemade spaghetti sauce too.

Pasta with Chicken, Spinach, and Tomatoes

Ingredients:
1/8 box whole-wheat spaghetti
1 medium sized chicken breast, sliced into small chunks
2 t olive oil (for light frying)
1 t Italian seasoning

1 roma tomato
1/4 cup spinach (I used formerly frozen spinach this last time, so I just grabbed a good amount and went with it)
1 T olive oil (or more to taste)
1 t Italian seasoning (or more to taste)

Slice up roma tomato into cubes; put aside. Boil  spaghetti; in the mean time, in a small skillet, sautee chicken breast in a mixture of the 2 teaspoons of olive oil plus the Italian seasoning. Cook until completely done through. When spaghetti is finished boiling, drain; add tomato cubes, tablespoon of olive oil, remaining Italian seasoning, and spinach to pot. finally, add in the chicken cubes when done. Mix thoroughly; add more seasoning or olive oil to taste.

If you make any adjustments to this recipe, let me know; I guessed a little at some of the measurements, because I just kind of went along with it.

Bon appetite!

Twix and Maura walked 3 miles today in 33 minutes.
That’s right, life: dukes up! 


I am so insanely proud of myself. I already applied for a bunch of jobs last week, and rather than wallow in “oh, I’m a student, so I should stick to student jobs” or “there’s no part-time jobs for me”, I applied to six staff jobs at my uni. SIX. They’re clerical, and honestly, I think I could do ANY of them exceedingly well. I already had started changing around my schedule for this fall to minimize the amount of classes I have before 5 PM; I have two classes, one MW and the other TuTh, that I can’t switch, but they’re both consistently from 2-3:30-ish; I figure I can use my lunch break, WHEN I get one of those jobs, to go to class, hopefully eat during class, and head on back.

I’m also getting back into my clean eating, and me and my doggie walked 2.5-3 miles this morning! I’m planning on doing it again tonight. It’s a mile to a mile and a half each way, and it gets in my time with her plus my workout time.

But you know what I did have to own up to this weekend? How I’m saying that I want to be a fitness model, but eating non-stop out of boredom or eating fifty-leven snickerdoodles at a time. What kind of good eating habits are those?! So this morning I had scrambled eggs with half a slice of cheese, onions, and spinach and a slice of whole wheat toast. It’s lunch time now, actually, so I’ll probably have some fat-free refried beans and dip or something like that. I noticed that I am getting a little more soft in the tummy. >_>

My boyfriend is gone for the next two days on an interview. I miss him horribly; he’s like the best guy in the world. I’m really excited for him (he’s been studying for the interview for the last WEEK AND A HALF), but the job is really far away.

Taking a breath. I’m rambling a lot. But this weekend was full of so much awesome stuff!

Anyway.

I realized that I’m not ready for marriage, not in the negative way, but there’s so much more to me that I’m realizing and things that I want for do to and with myself before I can say, “Okay, guy. I’m ready to be your wife”. I think the way I was before was a mark of immaturity; hopefully I am growing up. As my boyfriend put it, when I explained this to him, “You want to be sure that, if something happens, you can stand on your own; that your identity isn’t just that you’re so-and-so’s husband/wife”.

So true.

Uhm, my Hindi is getting better. I can talk about random things (which I do IRL anyway). My organization skills are getting stronger too. Like, not mentally all the time, but at least externally. I have a better grip on my plan of action from hereon out. I might detail that later.

Anyway! Lunch! Thanks for everyone whose been reading and who replied to my last blog entry and friended me and such. Your support and input means a lot to me. Love you guys!

I am having a better day today and did yesterday than the day before. This morning I woke up and began to think and analyze where my student life went amiss, and where my focus got thrown.

Becoming a studio art major was the biggest mistake that I have made to dote in my career.

I used it as a means to get into the game design program at MSU, knowing that it wasn’t my passion; I allowed others to advise me to do something that will “actually make you some money”, and who steered me in a direction I was not concrete about. It is a very expensive major, one that I didn’t have the means to pay for, and although I enjoy art and art creation, it was not the thing I needed to focus on at that point.

Just realizing, after posting this: I love playing bassoon. I loved my bassoon. But I refused to study it in college, because I didn’t want to kill that love. I didn’t want that love to become a labor. I allowed people to change the creation of art and web design from my loves to my labors, and it killed them for me. I am not the best at them, nor do I strive to be. I do them because they are enjoyable. That’s all they should have and should ever be for me.

I’ve looked at this mistake, and will likely expand upon this and this entry more in the coming days, but I will also be moving forward from it.

My two greatest passions are teaching people and writing. I should have always recognized that, and I should have actively pursued it, unwaveringly. Right now, I have about three semesters worth of non-progress that I need to recoup. That’s a lot, for someone who has been paying for school on student loans. That’s a lot of interest-laden money out the window. But I will bounce back from it. I am ambitious. Briefly, I changed the name of this blog to “yet Casesar was ambitious”. It’s how I feel about myself.

I’ve been analyzing that operations consultant position, and determining how best to get there. I am wanting to finish up my degree in art history, which I do love (it combines my like of art with my passions for teaching and writing). I spoke to a friend yesterday, and she re-emphasized to me the need for focus; I have been everywhere since that semester in 2007 when I decided to become an art major. I haven’t had a clear plan of action. I was about to say that I had a clear idea of what classes I needed to take, but even thinking back to then, I didn’t.

My thoughts stopped, just now.

I explained my analysis with a coworker this morning, and she told me to keep a journal. I used to journal. I was a bit more focused when I journaled. That means that right now, in this phase of my life, journaling is going to be essential. I guess my next entry might be about my decisions I’ll be making to enact a new plan of action in my life, and what steps I’ll achieve to get there.

Mostly because I want to talk about this really cool laptop that I saw at Walmart yesterday for 300 bucks.

I was applying for jobs today, and I stumbled across this one. I’m not applying, but I think it’s really cool! And very similar to what I like doing/what I aim on doing. I’ll research it, learn more about it, and see if it’s not something that I’ll add to my career goals. =]

Apparently we can ditch that last blog entry about the hair routine for the time being. My coworker’s sent me her  henna recipe. Hopefully it’ll loosen my hair texture + impart color! Crossing my fingers on this one. I used henna once, but it scared me because I couldn’t get it out. Now I have to figure out, though, when I’m going to do this. Saturday mornings? Because the thing is, the stuff has to sit overnight, and it takes three whole hours to sit. Good god.

Anyway. Here’s Meli’s text:

1) take about 1 cup or henna
2) add yogurt to it … 
3) add an egg white to it
4) add 2 spoons of coffee powder and alittle (1/4 teaspoon [i assume teaspoon because it's so small]) concentrated tea water … 
5) 2 spoons of oil any oil will do (olive , coconut ) 
6) add about 10 drops of [assuming lime or lemon juice here] (not too much … )

– Mix well .. thickness as much as cake batter … 

– well keep over night … 

– apply on head till all is covered 

– keep for 3 hrs [ =[ This is the thing I hate most about henna... ]

– thn just wash it off with water (no shampoo)

– once hair is dry put oil well … keep atleast for 8hrs [If I can, I might sit under heat for awhile after...]

– then wash with shampoo n conditioner … 

Do this every week for 2 months … Then once in 2 week for 2 months … and then once a week … u will see the difference in teh 3rd week 

the process is long but guaranteed results … 

u can change the ingredients … the quantity is its all natural so no damage will be done …. 

but put yogurt n egg white n oil … it makes the hair really good … 

Gonna do this, religiously….

In order to get to 15% body fat, optimal for fitness modeling, I need to lose half of my fat weight, or 28.29 pounds. At ten pounds a month, that would put me there in September.

Hi. This will be somewhat brief. Needing to do laundry. I’m trying to work out a haircare maintenance schedule that I’ll be sticking to. It’s based on six weeks with two six week treatments and a plan of only relaxing every two months.

1. Relax
2. Deep Condition
3. Color
4. Deep Condition
5. Protein Treatment
6. Deep Condition
7. Trim Splits
8. Deep Condition

So I’ve gotten pretty busy. Work is surviving, but there have been issues cropping up in there. But I had a phone interview (in person because my phone was out) for a marketing internship at an office nearby. I had a second interview after that. It went alright, but it was last Wednesday that I had that interview and, even with the long weekend, I have not heard back from them today, so I’m not holding my breath. My car died yesterday, and if I have to get a bike I REALLY am not going to be able to afford the apartment that I’m living in right now, so I might have to move on campus. I don’t know. I’m very confused.

My two year relationship ended, and it was amicable, but everything is in shattered shambles right now. I’m trying to adjust, but I don’t think that it’s going very well on the financial side of things. Right now I am on Satisfactory Academic Progress probation because I missed assignments and had to take a fail grade for several classes, along with trying to work more just to make ends in the apartment meet. I have to file my appeal and explain to them why my life turning inside out and backwards affected my ability to complete the semester, as well as being overly ambitious. Hopefully they accept the appeal.

Right now, I’m working on trying to redo and reunderstand my goals, my capabilities, and my potential. Nothing really makes sense to me anymore. I am working on honing my skills as a web designer (adding PHP and jQuery under my belt, by the time the summer is done) as well as adding a marketing emphasis to my learning.

I feel like the more that I try to stay here in Texas, the more god or karma or whoever stabs at me. Like I’m hanging to a ledge and someone is stamping on my feet. I am a fighter, and I keep fighting, but the black spots in my vision and the inability to breathe very well anymore is getting staggering and painful.

That’s it for now. Supposed to be going to the gym, but if I end up riding a bike here all the time then the gym might be unnecessary. Goals will be forthcoming…