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Chicken Fried Rice

It sucks cooking for yourself!
I had cooking club this weekend, but ended up not going. That is AFTER I bought $50 worth of groceries for it. I couldn’t find any rice paper at any of the local markets. Katie was down, and I would have had to send her home really early in order to go to a market that had some.

Now, to eat up these groceries…

What do you do with bean sprouts?
Chicken Fried Rice!

Chicken Friend Rice
Publix brand Frozen Seasoning Mix (onions, peppers, and some other stuff too)
Rice
Chicken Broth
Chicken
Soy Sauce
Eggs
Bean Sprouts

I put the frozen veggies on to warm up a bit. Cooked 1 cup of rice with 1 can of reduced sodium chicken broth (covered) until most of the moisture was gone. I then added the chicken and cooked the 4 eggs before I stirred them in. Soy sauce and bean sprouts very last so I didn’t cook them to death.

It actually tasted pretty good! I am quite proud of myself. Not that it was really hard. Just a matter of doing it. I even washed my pan the same night! Well, I wanted to hard boil the rest of the eggs so they wouldn’t go bad.
I had gotten something new, it’s called Hoisin Sauce. It is pretty good.

Snow Angel

Uhm… I think I forgot to mention a key step in making a snow angel.

Katie went out and played in the snow just about every day when we where up north. The snow was never right for a snowman when we had time to make one, so she didn’t get to make a snow man. As you can see, it was dark out when we where out in the snow this time.

New blog design

One of the things I liked about this new website template is the ability for it to work on many different screen sizes.
This is how it looks on my 19″ monitor at whatever resolution it is set at. I am too lazy to look it up. This takes full advantage of the huge and wide screen formated monitors out there today.

This is what it looks like at 1024×768. The rightmost column, the thinnest one, tucks down under the middle column. This is your more typical 2 column blog design.

One of my design critera is that it has gotta work for my Nokia 770 at least ‘functionally’. I don’t expect it to be wonderful, just not tons of scrolly scrolly to get anywhere!

New website design.

Well, I couldn’t sleep tonight, tired, can’t think straight, but can’t sleep. Lots of fun.

I had stumbled across an interesting site layout at bloggerdesign.com/. It is rather ironic that it’s a “blogger” design site but it uses WordPress. Anyway, I liked the 3 column layout that folds up nicely for smaller screens. Resize the screen, the side columns collapse down and towards the left margin. It works OK for 800×600, a little too much right whitespace, but tolerable. it looks good at 1024×768, and freaking awesome on my 19″ monitor, what ever it is set to.

There is a little mini-nav bar on the left edge of the screen that is pretty cool, but I need to find some icons for it. It is not being populated for the time being.

I like how the post area is about 25% bigger. In the posts, the images and videos where kinda cramping any text that was flowing around them. I also like the wider side column, it is big enough for my fish-cam and my google calendar. I was thinking of running the wider column for stuff internal to my blog, and the narrower column for stuff external to my blog. The calendar kinda sorta breaks that, but I guess it is still about me, so I will say it is internal to the blog.

I think I have a good site template, I just need to work on making it “pretty” now. I want to make some kinda of fancy top for the 2 side columns and a curve/angle for the bottom right edge to lead the columns back into the main column.

I would like the design elements to be freshwater aquatic plant themed. Not sure how I would do it, so it probably won’t happen. All of my designs are so… blocky looking. **sighs**

Well, if I am going to be worth $.02 at work tomorrow I had better try and get some sleep.

Everything I own…

I stopped and checked in on my storage unit in Menomonee Falls, WI. Most of what I own is in that 10ft X 10ft storage unit. I miss my 110 gallon fish tank, my tool box (you see it? it’s too heavy to bring on the plane), my RC cars, my photo albums, and.. well… everything else!

One of these days when I get a place to live I will bring it a bit closer to where I live.

Sighs…