A fun food survey

I found a cool food survey on 28 Cooks, one of my favorite food blogs. :)

Now this is a fun game!

So I saw this on Very Good Taste and thought it looked like fun, so I'm playing a long. It's a list of 100 food items that this blogger feels should be eaten by everyone. I was surprised by how much I've eaten off of this list.

If you'd like to play along:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

OK, my strike though isn't working, and I don't remember the HTML code for it, so I changed the color.

Here it goes!

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi - the poor pup
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads- is this really sweetbreads, or cow brains?
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake


-OK, some of those, I honestly don't know what they are, but it's still entertaining. :) ENJOY!

Ugly Bathroom

This winter/spring, Drew and I spent an enormous amount of money at Lowe's redoing our kitchen. We chose to do it at this time because there were a bunch of sales, and a 10% bonus on whatever bathroom and kitchen items you purchased. So we now have some Lowe's gift cards in our possession that need to be spent. We plan on buying a new front door with the money, and had initially wanted to pay for installation of the door as well. Welllll, after crunching the numbers of a new door + screen door + prof. installation, we realized it was too much money. We'd be better off if Drew and I just installed the door. Installing doors sucks. It takes a lot of time and patience to make sure it's balanced. The current door was not balanced properly, and closes on it's own. Thankfully, we've hung doors before and can do it, just neither of us really WANTS to. But we will.

So after a door purchase, I think it'll leave enough money left over that I can somewhat update our bathroom. This bathroom is just gross. It's old and I just don't like it. We're not going to have enough money to level out the step and re-plumb the shower/toilet for a while, so I have to make do with what we have. I have been thinking that I would like to rip out the current "closet" (I took the doors off a while back because the smoke smell was just saturating everything), and put in some wire-adjustable- shelving. I like those and I know it seems industrial, but I like them anyway. So, I'd want to do that, and I was thinking of sanding down the vanity and painting it some other color than what it is now. There's also a lady at work that said I can paint the top with some kind of whatever and it'll stay on the linoleum counter top. I'm going to have to look into buying some of that.- I wonder if I can get black? I was also thinking about changing out the sink faucet, and buying a new towel rack since ours is falling off every time you touch it.

So those are my thoughts. I haven't gone to price any of this out to see if it's even doable with the gift cards we have, but I thought I'd try. I'll post some pics of the ugliness. :)



The lovely sink, and our beautiful linoleum tile- LOVE IT!




We're classy


La Toilette


The linen closet that doesn't have doors cause of smoke smell issues- it still stinks, but not as bad.


The sink- Maybe black top, white base, like the kitchen? My hardwood floors look SO good though!

We should also get a "laundry room" door of some kind, but since it's oddly sized, it's hard to get anything standard, and custom ordered is a beast. ugggghhhh

So yeah, any thoughts?

Pre-organized classroom

This was my room pre-me working on it for 60+ hours this week. :) I couldn't get the pics off my phone until my screen was fixed, and then I forgot about them. So here they are.



Nasty brown chalk boards. ugh.

You know you RAWK when you think educational t-shirts are awesome!

I was at the library picking up some much anticipated book reading today and saw a shirt at the library for $8 that said catch the book worm, and it had a worm on it. I found it rather amusing. If I had had $8 on me, I would have bought one. I chuckled to myself after the realization came into my head of- 'I need that for work!' hahaha

I left work at noon today. I have some laminated things to cut out, but other than real curriculum, that we don't necessarily even start for a few days, I feel pretty ready. My classroom is as clean as it's going to get, and I have my list of things to go over in the first week. I feel ready.

I came home, exercised, showered and went to say hello to Kristi over at Oakdale. I'm so glad she's in the district with me. I get lonely being the only nooob sometimes.

I took pictures of my classroom this morning. I'll post a few here for your looking pleasure.

I'm excited to have a weekend. I want to go to farmers market tomorrow and get watermelon and corn. I love good corn, but not nasty corn. :) duh. hahaha

Ok, without further ado- picture fest!



I have made myself a little office. :D




The view of my classroom from my desk



My FAVORITE part of starting the school year- AND I got to do it on a very brand new white board!


My cutie bulletin board outside


I guess this is another angle.



And last, but definitely NOT least, my fixed LCD screen, HOORAY!!!! As you can see, I was uploading pics as I did this. hehehehe

100th POST!

I'm happy to announce that my 100th post is a survey from Kristi! YAY!


I have "new job" insomnia.... so im taking surveys... :) if ur bored or cant sleep send it on back :)

The A to Z Survey
1. A is for age: Who's age?
2. B is for beer of choice: EWWWW HOrse pee!
3. C is for career right now: What was I thinking?
4. is for your dog's name? Beans and Petey- I LOVE THEM!
5. E is for essential item you use everyday: RUnning water- can't live without it! haha
6. F is for favorite TV show at the moment: That's a toughy, I like Gray's and The Office most!
7. G is for favorite game: Would you Rather
8. H is for Home town: The city of Salt
9. I is for instruments you play: My nose!
10. J is for favorite juice: I'm not a big fan of juice. I like apple juice though
11. K is for whose butt you'd like to kick: Oh I know who they are ;)
12. L is for last place you ate: Taco Bell yesterday for Drew's 9pm cravings.
13. M is for marriage: I like it!
14. N is for your full name: Madeleine Elisabeth Jackson- I like it
15. O is for overnight hospital stays: Just one
16. P is for people you were with today: Work buddies, and Drew, and a whole lot of parents at WalMart-gah
17. Q is for quote: It is futile to do with more what can be done with fewer - Ockham
18. R is for Biggest Regret: Going to Mexico. hahaha
19. S is for status: a bit tired.
20. T is for time you woke up today: 6:00am
21. U is for underwear you have on now: You wanna know?
22. V is for vegetable you love: Cucumbers and zucchini!
23. W is for worst habit: My pessimistic issues.
24. X is for x-rays you've had: uhm, face, teeth, I think that might be it?
25. Y is for yummy food you ate today: I got a rootbeer float ice cream bar at work!
26. Z is for the zodiac sign: Pisces! The best!

I tag YOU!