Love In The Asylum

I feel bad for not updating as much lately (or only updating when I have something Doctor Who related to talk about...), but ever since I got home my life's been in a majorly low gear. Even when I do stuff, it's supremely boring stuff. Yesterday I went to my grandma's and spent the better part of the afternoon scrubbing the kitchen cabinets for her, and then used part of the money she paid me to buy a super-cute pair of Blue Beetle earrings. Today I got up just in time to watch the Argentina-Greece match (YAY ARGENTINA), baked a loaf of bread, and made dinner. I didn't actually put pants on until after 5.00pm. Not exactly riveting, right?

I'm getting to the point of wishing something would catch on fire, just because it would make this damn town less mind-numbingly boring. Except that would probably make things hotter, and it's already obscenely close to 100 degrees here. *sighs* There's just no way to turn a summer exiled in the desert into a win.

At least I'm getting a lot of cooking and baking practice in my exile. So in lieu of actual interesting content, here's an adapted recipe for rosemary chicken that turned out quite good tonight.

Ingredients

2 T olive oil
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1/2 inch strips
2 cloves garlic, crushed
3-4 sprigs of rosemary, coarsely chopped (original recipe called for 6 green onions. This is better.)
4 T Marsala wine (or any dry white wine - I used pinot grigio because that's what we had)
2 T lemon juice
salt and pepper to taste (we didn't need any)

Heat a large frying pan. Add the oil, chicken, garlic, and rosemary and sauté over high heat until the chicken in lightly browned and tender (keep a close eye, the rosemary burns quick). Remove from the pan. Add the wine and lemon juice to the pan and reduce for a minute or so. Return the chicken to the hot pan, and add salt and pepper if you want. Serve immediately. We had it with bowtie pasta in a cheese sauce and snap peas cooked with lemon and garlic - most excellent light dinner.

Oh my god, INTERNET, I MISSED YOU!!!

I have had zero internet access since Tuesday night - Wednesday the guy we are borrowing the broadband modem from needed it back, so I spent my night watching DVDs and making icons. And yesterday and today, I didn't even have my computer, let alone internet, because it was off at the shop getting optimized. It was horrible - no internet, no computer on which to game/read/watch stuff, no books I haven't read a million times because all my stuff was in storage, and to top it all off, they were supposed to come hook up our cable, but they totally and completely failed to do that. IT HAS BEEN A LONG COUPLE DAYS, YOU GUYS.

What I Have Been Doing, In Absence of Internet:

Wednesday: went to the high school with hanjuuluver . A worrying number of our former teachers are now teaching in prison.  But we hung for ages in the library, and saw Ms Davy, and also Tiny Francesca, so it was awesome. Then we met my mom at Pei Wei, where delicious Thai food was had by all. We went to the bookstore and I bought one of the new Torchwood books, Pack Animals, which was as slashy as all the reviews suggested. And then my mom took us to one of her clients' to play with the miniature horses. Cute!

Thursday: read Pack Animals, which went rather quickly. Waited around for the cable guy to show up and be useless. Then helped my dad set up the TV and spent the whole evening watching Firefly, which were literally the only DVDs I had on me.

Today: hanjuuluver  responded to my desperate plea for something, anything, to do by dragging me out of the house again, thank her psychotic ass. We got fast food, and then did shopping. I bought the Dark Knight special edition DVD for my dad's Christmas present, a 30 dollar JoAnn's gift card for my mom's, and a copy of Son of a Witch just for me. We also went to the mall, which was unsurprisingly horrifying this time of year. This evening I went with my dad to a hockey game, where we were humiliatingly crushed by Colorado. And now I am catching up on my flist and running scans with my expensive new virus scanner program. Good times!