Ensalada Deliciosa

Howdy, folks!

Today I thought I'd share with you my favorite salad recipe, one of my own culinary creations, which I wittily dub "Spinach Apple Salad." It's so simple to throw together, yet it hits the spot every time. It's great as a side salad but can be filling enough to be a meal in itself.

Ingredients:
1/3 to 1/2 bag of spinach (don't forget to rinse it off if it's not pre-washed)
1 apple, sliced into bite-sized chunks (can toss apple chunks w/ cinnamon for added flavor)
handful of walnuts (or substitute your nut of choice)
handful of raisins (or two handfuls, if you're me♥)

Toss together in medium-size bowl and serve!

♥Y♥u♥m♥m♥y♥!♥

My first day of classes went well, by the way, although my hopes of a short lab were utterly put to shame. (2 hrs & 50 min. Good thing I like my professor.)

YouTube, Ghibli and Reptiles (oh my!)

On Thursday my friend Kelli spent the night at my house (I haven't had a "sleepover" since high school at least). We had fun eating, watching movies, more snacking, painting our nails, snacking, and the next day we filmed a Youtube video that we had planned to do some time ago. Won't you give it a look?



Today I saw the Studio Ghibli film Ponyo. It was way better than I thought it would be, and definitely up to director Hayao Miyazaki's (Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle) legendary standards. I highly recommend that you see it while it's in theatres! Another benefit to supporting this film is that if it does well more Japanese movies are likely to be dubbed for English-speaking audiences. (Note: I usually avoid dubs at all costs, but this one wasn't cheesy like most dubs usually are.)

Here's the trailer:

Also, while adding annotations to our video on Thursday, I spotted a funny sight:

A lizard (brought inside and missing its tail, thanks to my two cats) had taken refuge in a stand-up fan in my living room!

My dad later took it outside, where hopefully it is safely out of reach of the devious felines.

In other news, my fall semester begins tomorrow! I'm so not looking forward to waking up early and fighting for a decent parking spot. I also hope/beg/pray that my anatomy teacher is merciful and decides not to use all three of the allotted hours for our lab. [Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease.] Science labs are the bane of my existence.

Alrighty, I'm off to prepare my things for tomorrow!

Angela

Literary Storm

It's really windy and thunder-y and generally stormy outside right now.

This makes me very happy as we almost never get to experience this kind of weather in AZ, even during what we dub "monsoon season" [overreaction much? haha].

Well lately I've been reading a bunch of teen chick lit and now I'm addicted to its fluffy predictable-storyline goodness. This week I've read:

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

its sequel, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God [neither are as raunchy as they sound, I swear!]

The Queen Geek Social Club by Laura Preble

and just finished today: The Actual Real Reality of Jennifer James by Gillian Shields

This weekend I need to go to the library [in order to further indulge my new addiction] and buy my textbooks for school, which starts on Monday[!!!] I'm not quite ready for it to start, but oh well.

Guess that's all for today!

Angela

I hope you dance.

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

-Shakespeare, Hamlet

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"Sometimes I'm clueless and I'm clumsy/ but I've got friends that love me/ and they know where I stand"
In a contemplative mood this evening. I'm realizing more and more lately that I need to cherish the friendships that I so often take for granted.

"Everything I am/ everything I long to be/ I lay it down/ at Your feet"
I'm finally at a point in my life where I'm content with who I am and have learned to accept my imperfections. But, like anyone, I still wonder and worry about the future. What will I be doing 5, 10 years from now? What will my life be like? Will I still be close to the friends I have now? Will I be married, dating, single? Where will I be living? Will I have a job that I love? Will I have a better relationship with God?

"I want your symphony/ singing in all that I am/ at the top of my lungs/ I'm giving it back"
I'm uncertain and wish I had all the answers, but I know from experience that worrying only invites fear and depression.

"I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance/ never settle for the path of least resistance/ living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking"
So here's to living in the moment and letting the future come at its own pace-God's own pace.

Angela