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The last minute of this video may only be funny to me.

Monday, June 29th, 2009

I love me some keyboard cat. It will without a doubt make me laugh. You can also add the last thirty seconds of “Do you wanna see my dance?” and Maisie with a cone on her head to that list. So I will use that as my excuse for the last minute of this video. Too bad you have to sit through four minutes of my chatting to get to that part. But I will tell you, there is one photo of the babies thrown into the video. So if nothing else, there’s your motivation to watch.

June 29, 2009 from Steph Corwin on Vimeo.

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Classy Cuisine

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

A while back, Sarah Marie P made herself a frito boat, and I could not get it out of my mind. This is how I operate with food. I get something in my head, and I cannot get over it until that thing is in my belly. Even better if it’s repeated a couple of times.

So when I saw that cheesy, corn chip mess in a bowl, I had to have it. Luckily my husband is always up for unhealthy meals. I was convinced that there had to be a new way to create a frito boat. So I googled and, indeed, many people have had the same ideas. So I present: Frito Boat Casserole.

Step one: Fritos!

We layered in vegetarian chili, corn, chopped onions, chopped olives, and shredded some cheddar cheese on top. Put it in the oven for about 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Easy meal when you’re craving something entirely unhealthy.

yummmm

It’s also great with guacamole. Cale worked at Chipotle for a few years back in the day. So finally I had to insist he make me some of that guacamole goodness. This is a serious treat. The best ever.

avocados. I could eat a spoonful of that.

  • 2 Hass Avocados (Cale and I would add an extra avocado the next time we make it)
  • 1/2 of a Jalapeno pepper, seeded, and minced
  • 1/4 of a red onion, finely chopped
  • 2 heaping Tablespoons of Cilantro, finely chopped
  • 1/4 of a lemon, juiced
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  • Combine all of the ingredients into a bowl, and mash together until smooth. Add additional lemon juice or salt to taste. For extra spicy guacamole, you can leave in the jalepeno seeds! (Credit: Chipotlefan, with some corrections)

Guacamole. Which belongs on everything, I think.

There’s a little peak at what we’ve been eating. I still rarely make appearances in the kitchen. Being a vegetarian has forced me be a little more creative in adding vegetables into meals. And really, my creativity has sort of reached a plateau. I need to get out my cookbooks and work with them more, but the effort of listing ingredients, going to the store to get said ingredients, and actually making the meals with these ingredients, really exhausts me with just the thought. Until then, I’ll just settle for sauteed vegetables because really, it doesn’t get much better than that when you’re hungry and tired.

There are a million things I want to do now that I think I’m finally over this illness. Thursday I got myself to the doctor, and with the diagnosis of bronchitis and a sinus infection, took my last day of antibiotics today. I’m still weaker than I’d like to be, but I’m hoping that with getting back to work tomorrow and forcing myself to get back into the routine of everyday life, I can start back up with cooking and exercising. This illness must have messed with my brain because I actually told Cale that I miss the gym. Me! I miss going to the gym. Hah. Then we can finally make our long-awaited trip to meet the little brother and sister this up-coming weekend. I’m sure I needed the extra rest, so the timing of getting sick worked out alright. But I’m ready to be better and back as an active participant in my life. It’s hard being at home, needing to rest, when really all you want to do is get out the mop and clean. Spending 24 hours a day in the house really shows you how dirty it is.

Flippin’ Fitness Winner: Congrats Sensibly Sassy! After setting up everyone with their scores in excel, Sarah was the random winner! Looks like her 30 days of exercise definitely helped her odds. Good job!

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The post where I bombard you with stuff so that you don’t give me a hard time for not writing

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Well hi.

So if you thought I died in Vegas..

You were about half right.

I got back from Vegas with an occasional *cough cough*. You know, those dainty little coughs that come and go.

Well fast forward to last Tuesday, and I was like *COUGH URGGGGJROOOTHSKG COUGH* Phlegm everywhere. Eyes crossed. Fever. Kill me now. That kind of sick. And from there I went into a Nyquil-induced coma whence I emerged today. I dragged my booty back to work, resisted my urges to ram my car into the other lane during my morning commute, because clearly a broken leg or two wouldn’t be as bad as coming into work when I still am battling a chest cold and when my body decided that four days of 20 hours of sleep wasn’t enough because oh-my-goodness I’m still exhausted.

During this coma, I managed to sleep my way through our 2 year anniversary. A day when usually I would write an adorable post about how much I love my husband and we’re meant to be, with butterflies and doves fluttering about. Instead my anniversary will forever be marked by:

but my husband brought me jamba juice, crackers, cake, gatorade, and now getting me french fries. Exactly why we’re been married for 2 years
9:54 PM Jun 10th from Tweetie

There you go, the mark of a wonderful marriage: a husband who indulges your horrendous sick-person-appetite with whatever it is you’re craving because otherwise you’d just rather starve.

Luckily we did celebrate our anniversary properly while in Vegas a few weekends ago. A weekend that involved room service of Jalapeno poppers and Champagne, my first Bloody Mary with breakfast of course, a mani/pedi for me, getting outfitted by a seriously awesome Gap employee, fabulously fancy Chinese food at Fin, the front row at the Beatles LOVE, and Cale doubling up his gambling money before left for our flight home. The Beatles LOVE was AMAZING. I cried. We bonded with the other Beatles-obsessed woman sitting next to us. I almost died from the Blackbird flying 2 inches above my head. It was worth every single penny. Actually, it was worth the entire trip.

The next weekend I flew back to Vegas for a weekend of fun with bloggers. Some I read, some I didn’t. My pre-Vegas-cram-session of reading blogs didn’t end up happening. But by the end of the trip, my faith in humanity was restored. I’m most certainly the textbook definition of an introvert, so flying to Vegas where I did not know a single person “in real life” was without-a-doubt frightening. I was ready to back out. I was literally talking myself up until I was seated in the airplane. I got there and all my anxiety was gone the moment I walked into wishcake’s and my hotel room, helped myself to her wine, and waited for them to come meet me. Everyone was just as nice as I imagined, multiplied by five hundred. I felt a little behind because I missed the group dinner with all the introductions, but spent the weekend meeting everyone and having a good time. I always knew I could stalk their name and other details I missed when I got home. I concentrated on having fun during the short time we had together. It was truly a life-altering experience. I had sunshine paired with a Bud Light at the Luxor pool, amazing pasta at Mario Batali’s, cheap wine at Zefferino, and a tall margarita-dacquiri-something-who-cares-it-was-delicious at the Mirage. There were tons of laughs the entire time. I now know that I have friends all over the United States with whom could have a fabulous time. At any time. And who I fully expect to see next year because we must do this again. And it makes me despise the fact that I’m not called “Steph Corwin” in my “real life”.

Some of the many girls that are my new BFFs. Photo courtesy of the talented and sweet Elizabeth

As if my life hasn’t been exhausting enough, this weekend I am ecstatic to go to Bakersfield to meet my new little brother and sister-in-law, who were born the day Cale and I got back from Vegas. They are both healthy and at home with Cale’s dad and wife. The little boy looks like Cale and his dad, which just makes me so gushy and happy. I am looking forward to spending the entire day trading off holding them and taking pictures of them.

That’s my life in a nutshell. I’m sad that I’ve been out-of-commission the past few days, but if you want to know some good shows to watch while you are sick: Californication and United States of Tara. Though during my bouts of unconsciousness, I did end up having some pretty crazy dreams filled with sex, drugs, and tattoos, most certainly thanks to watching two entire seasons of Californication in the span of two days. Entertaining to say the least.

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Flippin’ Fitness Finale

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about my fitness challenge. I’m aware that many people had a hard time finishing (including myself, which let’s just forget about okay?). So here are the revised entry rules: Comment here with how many days you were able to work out. Each day gets 1 entry. I’ll set it up in excel and pick a winner on Friday, June 19th.

Unfortunately I’m going to have to try this again in order to cross 30 days of exercise off my list, but it was a good effort, and those first fifteen days were awesome. Now I just have to make it over the midway point and finish those 30 days with a bang. But I’m going to take a little break in the meantime to get my health back, since I’ve been sick with a cold for about a week now. Boo. :(

Flippin’ Fit People: Diana, lucklys, steph anne, Cait, Rene’, Elizabeth, Meri, shannon, Kyla, Sensibly Sassy, ashley.star, Alyssa, Lisa, Andrea, Allison, Kourtni, Ali, Amanda, E.P., Michelle Woo, Talia, Sarah Marie P, Je, sara.jane, Lacey Bean, Amber, Lisa, Joy, Trysha, calisara, and unofficially so shhhhh… wishcake.

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