stone soup.

Sunday I had to come into work. (This is the day after the nasty snow storm).
At the gate the guard said, “what are you doing here today?”
I said, “I have to come into work.”
He said, “On a day like this, no you don’t.”
I said, “yeah, my boss made me.”
He said, “I highly doubt that” smiled, gave my card back to me and said “Be safe, mam.” I think he genuinely thought I was a workaholic that wanted to come in on the weekend. how amusing :)

My roommate got her car stuck in the snow last night. Just as we were about to give up and call some people to see if they wanted to help (i.e. boys) She looked up and there were two guys! The one said, “you need help?” and we gladly accepted. As soon as her car moved, I shouted thanks. They walked away without a word, handshake or anything. It was so mysterious.

Jill and I spent the day Tuesday making soup. Not necessarily because we wanted to make soup, but because I had bought too many carrots, celery and zucchini. The vegetables needed to be cooked before they went bad. We put everything in it. Potatoes, Garbanzo Beans, Rice, Celery, Carrots, Onion, Zucchini. I really appreciate that I have a roommate that doesn't like to overcook things. We really only heated the vegetables up in a frying pan, keeping them mostly firm and crisp before putting them in the soup. I had cooked a tiny bit of black beans, and dumped the whole pot in without draining them. Opps. Our soup turned a dark shade of gray-ish purple. But it tastes really good!! Now we have no produce in our fridge, but we have a big pot of soup.

On Saturday I finally made Pescado al Crema Chipotle (Fish in Chipotle cream sauce) which I had been talking about and craving for two weeks. Unfortunately, when I went to Kroger they didn't have cans of chipotles, and the little Mexican store near my house didn't have them either. Since the weather was so bad I decided to use Chiles Anchos and barbacue sauce (Salsa Lizano from Costa Rica that I had never opened). It turned out fine!

I had the chance to watch some super cute bilingual children on Saturday night. I was thrilled to talk to them in Spanish. The little girl wasn’t so keen on it though. Several of the times that I said things to her in Spanish she said “You talk too much.” Hahaha. I let her paint my toenails though, so I think she forgave me.
I go to San Diego on Saturday, and then Mexico on Sunday :) I’m pretty excited!