Keeping awake in a town hall meeting 😬
Good weekend, all!
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Mongolian Cooking
We went to a newly-opened Mongolian restaurant while in San Diego – I think it was newly-opened, it was looking kind of bare. Or maybe that’s the in-trend decor for restaurants – high, bare ceilings, and minimal decor all around.
It wasn’t the usual buffet-style Mongolian meals that we usually see, where you pick your ingredients from the display and the chef puts it all together to cook for you. We had to choose the ingredients from a menu, and then they bring everything to the table, and you cook. lol For some reason, choosing ingredients from the menu confused us, and so we asked the server to help us out.
This is what we apparently chose – vegetables, shrimp, noodles ….
… slices of beef and pork … and a big pot of broth to cook everything in.
I liked the “ying-yang” pot. I suppose that if there were two diners eating, each would have their own side to cook. In our case, since there were three of us, one side was a regular broth, and the other side was the spicy broth. So the guys cooked their meal in the spicy broth, and I had the other one all to myself 🙂
The meal was filling enough, with the noodles all mixed in. I think too that slowing down and waiting for the meats to cook helped slow down the urge to eat fast and fill up quickly.
And now that we’ve experienced this, maybe next time we won’t look like total clueless klutzes when we order and cook at the table! 🙂
Summer!
Finally! Hot weather!
Well, here in Trinidad and Tobago, it’s hot … reellll hot, as they would say.
We had an unexpected and unplanned trip … Tin was asked to come down and try out for the national soccer u-17 team, so here we are. So far, it’s been a lot of hard work and practice in the heat and humidity, but he’s holding up.
They had a break from the training over the weekend, so of course, that means … beach!
And of course … a little game of beach soccer! Can’t get away from it 😏
And where was I? Under the umbrella of course … yarning! 😁
Oh yes … time to relax …
Have a good summer, everyone!
Almost a Mandala
I’m still working on drawing a ‘real’ mandala.
I keep getting side-tracked. I start out with an idea for a finished product, and somewhere along the way, the design changes. Either I change my mind, or I forget what I had planned to do.
That’s ok … one day I’ll settle down long enough to come up with a real mandala drawing.
It’s Fall … or Summer Extended
The calendar says it’s the first day of fall, or autumn. The temperatures say it’s still summer. No matter. We can extend summer a few more weeks, I don’t mind.
Is it only me, or are the days going by faster and faster? Is it me not managing my time and schedule efficiently, or are there less hours in a day? I really don’t know where the time goes. We seem to be spinning around and around and the march of time is measured by the changing seasons and schedules, and yet I don’t feel that we’ve even stayed long enough in one season, and the next one is upon us.
I’ve also realized that one of the reasons why I haven’t blogged much is because I’ve become predictable. Just like the changing seasons, you know what I’m going to write about … the hectic and chaos of schedules, the new school year, the sports season … And yet, that is what life is all about at the moment … there’s not much going on, in between running between home, school, work, soccer games, home, school, work …
Oh, we did manage a two-week beach vacation .. yeah!!
… which didn’t stop the boys 
Pokemon-hunting everywhere on the island … you’ve heard of this game, right? lol
They even went riding all around the island to hit all those Poke-stops and catch those creatures …
I didn’t mind … that kept them busy, and I was left to my reading, crocheting, knitting and just plain being a beach bum .. We need that sometimes, don’t we?
Here’s hoping that the last quarter of the year doesn’t go so fast …
The ‘Ber Months are Here !
These days are really going too fast … It’s September already!
I’m not done with summer yet! I want one more day at the beach … I haven’t finished everything on the to-do list for summer … I’m not ready for cold weather again …
So I’m just going to sit down and try to slow it down a bit and doodle …
Hmmm … those lines don’t look even … it’s going to be another freehand doodle, and maybe in the end it’ll all look even …
It’s an Orange Day
You know how sometimes everything just lines up, but it’s not really coincidence?
Well, today is one of those days. Appropriate too, I suppose, since we’re in the middle of summer now, and it’s nice, glorious sunshine outside !
What’s orange today?
I saw an orange flower …
I was wearing orange today …
A colleague is also wearing orange …
My wall calendar, composed of photos I took, shows a flaming orange sunflower …
I helped catch an orange Pokemon for hubby … a Magmar, and it’s orange …
And I’m adding the red-orange skies too, just because 🙂
And how is your day?
