I like to try new recipies, this is what I did yesterday.

Directions:

• Steam cauliflower till tender.
• Drain, place in baking dish, drizzle with olive oil and salt and pepper and broil till golden brown.
• Heat little oil and sauté onions till soft but not brown.
• Add cauliflower, broth and simmer till very tender.
• Puree half mixture in blender and return to pot.
• Add cheese, bacon, cream and chives and stir till cheese melted.
• Add butter, stir till melted and serve.

 

 

 

I don´t know, maybe it´s because when you come to the certain age you try to figure out what you had achieve in your life, what your major goals will be in the future.

 

When my mother died 1996 I had to take care more and more my father and his company because my father was not able to do it himself. His grief was so deep, actually he told me later that he can´t remember my youngest child´s christening day or anything else what happened the following year. Well, it must be hard to lose love of your life after 30 years marriage. My mother was that who kept all things going. She got answer almost every question. I must say that she left me too big boots to wear. What I mean is, even how hard I work or study I never fill her place in the family. But why should I? It took many years to understand that I don´t have to be like my mother. I don´t have to work 15 – 20 hours a day (her working moral was so strict). I don´t have to know everything. It is enough that I am good at things which I am interested in. Things like different fields of computing; open source programs, Linux, programming, etc, etc. Because my grandmother take care of me when I was little my mother had possibility to be concentrated in her work. I almost had a burnout because I tried to do too much; I tried to take care of my family and same time I worked almost 15 hours a day. Then one day I just said to my father that I can´t do it anymore I am too tired, I quit.

 

Oh, I should have this brake sooner. Before that I didn´t  realize how tired I was or how grazy my timetable was. I was always rushing to the next place, worrying homework when I was at work and thinking work when I was at home. Then one morning I didn´t need to rush anywhere I could relax and drink my coffee, finally I got all the time in the world. But how long? Maybe I am one of those restless souls who just have to make plans for a future, learn new things, try to keep going. Well, maybe constant movement keep me tick :)

 

 

Well... I should study algebra, I have exam coming end of a week, but getting started is so difficult. There is so many things to do... laundry, go out with my dogs, all those interesting TV-shows to watch ( yippee, Mythbusters is coming on TV!!)... and of course writing a blog :)

I have this love/hate relationship to math. I find it very interesting, but hard to learn. I could say that I need lot of time to learn math related subjects. Like my teacher says: " There is no short paths in here, just practice, practice and once more practice."

Uh, I feel so hungry... Maybe I eat something first. If I remember right I got some delicious meat pie in the fridge... mmmmm, meat pie...

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

 

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

 

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

 

-Simone de Beauvoir-

 

Sometimes even cats and dogs can be best friends.

 

Maybe this is good example about toleration and friendship.

 

In my class I have noticed some levels of misogyny, because there is only 3 women it is so easy to diminish us. Most of men don't even speak to us. It seems to be some kind of "generally known fact" that because we are women we can´t know anything about computers *Excuse me, what did you just say??!!*  All this because one male student thinks that women, sexual minorities and foreigners (in this case incomers) are so much lower than him. Other male students don´t say anything that can interpret otherwise... Groups, big or small, always need leaders to show course. But I think this is not right goal. One of us just said that if she must be here alone she couldn´t last a week in these classes. I mentioned about this situation to one of my teachers and he just said:"Unfortunately this is male dominant line of work. But you did know this fact before you start your studies in here, didn´t you?". Well, we have to remember that even teachers are just humans, right?

 

Well, maybe this is just something about my person... I can be quite a hag if someone keeps molest me long enough. Especially, when my sex and/or orientation are used against me.

Sisters, keep your spirit high!

Which one you prefer geek or nerd? What these words actually means? Actually, it depends what kind of dictionary you use. Here is some examples.

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English:
geek\geek\ (g=ek), n. 1. A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man, who performs grotesguely disgusting acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken or snake.

2. Hence: Any eccentric or strange person; an oddball; an eccentric.

3. An intellectually inclined person, especially one who is interested in scientific or technical subjects; as, a group of geeks wearing pocket protectors;-- originally a deprecatory and contemptuous term, but in the 1990's with the increase in popularity of computers and the frequency of accumulation of great wealth by computer entrepreneurs, it has come to be used with noticeable frequency by technically competent people to refer to themselves, ironically and sometimes proudly.

Wordnet 2.0:
nerd n: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively [syn: swot, grind, wonk, dweep]

Jargon file:
nerd /n./

1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals. 2. [jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious ironic reference to sense 1) to someone who knows what's really important and interesting and doesn't care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly status games. Compare the two senses of computer geek.

The word itself appears to derive from the lines "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!" in the Dr. Seuss book "If I Ran the Zoo" (1950). (The spellings `nurd' and `gnurd' also used to be current at MIT.) How it developed its mainstream meaning is unclear, but sense 1 seems to have entered mass culture in the early 1970s (there are reports that in the mid-1960s it meant roughly "annoying misfit" without the connotation of intelligence).

An IEEE Spectrum article (4/95, page 16) once derived `nerd' in its variant form `knurd' from the word `drunk' backwards, but this bears all the earmarks of a bogus folk etymology.

Hackers developed sense 2 in self-defense perhaps ten years later, and some actually wear "Nerd Pride" buttons, only half as a joke. At MIT one can find not only buttons but (what else?) pocket protectors bearing the slogan and the MIT seal.

Well these are only examples about two little words. Words which we use determine a group of people. Now some one say:"What a BS! What a waste of time!". Maybe it is, but then you have to consider one thing English isn't my mother tongue. So, this is good way to learn English ;)

Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.

Elaine Heffner

Hmmm.... I think that our family will celebrate tomorrow because my kids will have 10 weeks summer holiday. All that hard work is over and they can relax for a while. 

I will serve coffee (and juice) and baked ice cream.

Oven Baked Ice Cream Bowls

You will need a non-stick cookie sheet and small bowls to form the ice cream bowls.

3/4 C. sugar
1 large egg
2 T. butter, melted and cooled
1 t. vanilla extract
1/4 C. milk
1/2 C. all-purpose flour, sifted

Preheat oven to 300°F. In medium mixing bowl, beat the sugar into the egg until it is thickened and pale yellow. .Beat in the butter, vanilla, and milk. Gently stir in the flour.

Grease a large non-stick cookie sheet and spread 1.5 tablespoons of the batter into a 6 inch circle using a thin, flexible spatula.

Bake for 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove each cookie from the sheet and place directly over a clean, inverted bowl.

The cookies will fall around the sides of the bowl and harden as they cool. harden as they cool so work as quickly as you can.

The Marriage of Dawn

Dawn dressed in darkness:
Welcomes the wedding of light.
Day and Night unite.

Gary Bryson

I just found this poem with attitude :) It just suits all things that has been happend lately and it made my rainy day little bit better.
Sisters you rock!

Woman with Attitude!
by Author Unknown

I shave my legs,
I sit down to pee
And I can justify
Any shopping spree.

Don't go to a barber,
But a beauty salon
Can get a massage
Without a hard-on

I can balance the checkbook,
Can pump my own gas
Can talk to my friends
About the size of my ass.

My beauty's a masterpiece,
And yes, it takes long.
At least I can admit to others
When I'm wrong.

I don't drive in circles
At any cost,
And I don't have a problem
Admitting I'm lost.

I never forget
An important date
You just gotta deal with it,
I'm usually late

I don't watch movies
With lots of gore
Don't need instant replay
To remember the score.

I won't lose my hair,
I don't get jock itch,
And just cause I'm assertive,
Don't call me a bitch.

Don't say to your friends,
Oh yeah, I can get her
In your dreams, my dear,
I can do better!

Flowers are okay,
But jewelry's best.
Would you look at my face,
Not at my chest!

I don't have a problem
With expressing my feelings
I know when you're lying,
You look at the ceiling.

Don't call me a girl,
A babe or a chick.
I am a WOMAN,
Get it, you prick?!