Newbie Blogger Thoughts

Blogging for me is a completely new concept. I have never tweeted, facebooked or blogged before starting school this fall, and it’s starting to grow on me.

While I don’t yet consider myself an entertaining blogger, (just yet) I find looking at other blogs is the best part about the whole thing. Everyone in my class inspires me every day to kick it up a notch to share fascinating things in an even more fascinating way.

                Hey Twitter

Twitter, though I rarely tweet, is so amazing. I can communicate to so many people, but I love all interesting news stories, links and photos. I’m still trying to figure out how to tweet a link, so I’ve resorted to typing out my blog link. There needs to be a Twitter tutor.

A big problem about Twitter for me is now it takes so much time away from my day. I’ve lived under a rock for so long that I can’t help but be glued to my Ipad for ridiculous amounts of time, checking out links and pictures. And I never know what to tweet. Sometimes I’ll hear or see something hilarious, and I’ll start a tweet about it but I can’t bring myself to Tweet it. I need to learn to hold back less and let my Tweets flow into the Twitterverse.

Feeble Blogger

I definitely feel like a feeble blogger at this point, technology wise. I’m still using the basic design options and am still unfamiliar with placing links and videos in my blog. (thanks Lauren Parsons for helping me post that link down there) Something I would like to try is building better designs from other websites. A few classmates have used picnic to create customized graphics for the top of their blog. That will hopefully be coming soon to this blog.

Picnik.com

Hopefully I can refine my skills and become an excellent blogger. My topic is so narrow, that I feel this is the best place to start, and it also pushes me to do some things that I maybe wouldn’t do before (like trying Sushi). I’d like to branch out into a blog about more interesting things, but this is just the push I needed to get started.

Zombie Walk 2011

I tried a delicious new dish on Oct. 14: BRAINS!!!

Zombie Sarah

I finally checked out Winnipeg's annual Zombie walk with Katie Madziak <3 from CreComm, I've always wanted to go but had to work whenever they had it. I have a zombie fetish to say the least, I am obsessed with zombie movies and have always enjoyed getting the crap scared out of me. It all began when I saw 13 Ghosts when I was around 10 against my mom's permission. I had nightmares for WEEKS, but when I recovered I wanted more horror!

My favourite horror flicks have to be Rob Zombie movies (House of 1,000 Corpses, the Devil's Rejects, the Halloween series), Resident Evil series, the 28 weeks later series and anything haunted house related. I do enjoy a Night of the Living Dead style zombie movie, but I've been spolied now by special effects and new concepts. There is also the new TV adaptation of the Walking Dead comic book, which I love because there are so many human elements to the story: love, family and side story lines. Also, how could you not want eight episodes of zombie fun. The second season came out October 16 on AMC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grWV8WZtAQc

Anyway.. Here's my experience at the Zombie Walk

Yes! Silent Hill

apparently A LOT of latex

baby zombie

soooooo many zombies!

willy wonka zombie haha

kinda dark, but crazy pregnant zombie! she was shrieking so loud, freaking scary

It was a great time, really cold out but it was amazing to see all the creativity in the Peg. We all banded together in our love for gore, horror and Halloween!

Thanks my Zombie buddy Katie Madziak <3 for devouring some innocent people with me.

Geese Migration Dinner

Once a year Events by Emma has a dinner in the fall at the Fort Whyte Centre for the geese migration. Vendors and the EBE staff, including myself, all had a wonderful dinner on Friday night.

I had gotten an email with the three meal choices, which were the usual beef, chicken and fish, but of course I had to find something wrong with all of them.

Unfortunately I don't have photos, but this was the amazing menu:




GOOSE FLIGHTS - Dinner & A Show Menu

Salad: Baby Spinach Salad with sundried cherries, fresh berries, Bosc pears and Saskatoon berry vinaigrette served with fresh baked focaccia and grilled flatbread.  

Main: Slow Roasted Prime Rib of Beef crusted with fresh rosemary and peppercorns served with wild prairie mushroom jus.
–or–
Grilled Chicken Dijonanaise served with french mustard tarragon sauce.
–or–
Stuffed Pickerel Fillet served with shrimp, scallops, roasted red pepper mousse.
All entrees are served with the daily vegetable selection.  

Dessert: Daily selection

Now it all sounds delicious but I dislike mushrooms with the steak, I can't stand mustard in the sauce for the chicken, and I'm not crazy about scallops or the sound of red pepper mousse. I knew no one was going start asking for things to be removed or added and I didn't want to reveal my pickiness, so I went with the fish.

It was incredible! The stuffing in the fish was amazing. The fish itself was moist but with a little crunch on the outside, and spices. With so much food, and a few Caesars I might add, I was ridiculously full. I couldn't even finish my desert, which is rare for me. Desert was a chocolate whoopee pie with pumpkin cheese cake filling, chocolate ice-cream, a little caramel sauce and a raspberry on top all by Chocolate Zen, who does a lot of baking for Emma's weddings.

I hate pumpkin flavoured anything, but I gave it a go. Pumpkin is just not my thing, I ate most of the ice-cream but by that point everyone was so full that barely any deserts got finished.

The salad was adorable, I did not even want to break it. A long thin piece of cucumber held the salad together perfectly, carrot sticks acting like toothpicks. It was right up my alley with dried fruit and a sweet dressing. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it!

There was another item on my diner plate I had never tried: sweet potato. That orange little mound was so different, I couldn't even tell if I liked it. I think it might have been too sweet for the rest of my plate but now I'd probably give sweet potato fries a shot now!

The down side was the weather was so awful the geese had such a hard time landing in the lake. But it was incredible! So many geese!!! The clouds threw them off a bit because the usually all come at sundown, so the poor little guys had to rearrange thier plans.

I have a total soft spot for geese; when they find thier partner they are together for life, they become lost without thier other goose. I've seen when one goose gets hit by a car and the other goose just doesn't know what to do, trying to dodge traffic to get to thier partner. So now you can say to your loved one "you're my goose."

It was an delicious meal, and I haven't seen the EBE staff since school started, so it was great catching up and visiting with the girls. I miss you EBE and can't wait for a whole summer of weddings next year!

My Poor Arteries

Even though I am so picky, I've been very slooowly widening my horizons. I have discovered if you like two things they can usually go together, I was the type of kid who could NOT have my food touching at all!

 One lunch, a few of my CreCommer ladies and I ventured out to the poutinerie in the Exchange to try the french fry heaven. With so many options to choose from I went with the bacon cheeseburger poutine. It was AMAZING. Fries, gravy, cheese, ground beef, and TONS of bacon. Yea bacon, yea.

Afterward I did feel like I seriously needed some vegetables and had a salad when I got home. I could definitely feel my arteries clogging… but it was so worth it!  

Represent being Canadian and make it at home! :D

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

I've alaways had a disgust for peanut butter, so for around 19 years of my life I never had a PB&J. I know, shocking right. My older brother is allergic to peanuts so my mom would avoid making us the popular treat, and maybe I just thought if he didn't want it (which is what my young mind thought) neither did I.

Not having it all made it seem kind of gross, and I became disgusted even at a Reese's Pieces. But one day while I was working with my friend Taylor, she discovered my PB&J vigirnity and forced me to consume one. Weeeeeell, she created a monster. I love it, and I crave it. When it was still a novelty, I probably ate one single everyday. I am not a sanwhich person at all (wait till I blog about trying subway for the first time...), so it was nice to expand my horizons of only grilled cheese or just jam.

Thank-you Taylor, for my PJ&J passion.