Posted in internet, links on June 30, 2009| Leave a Comment »
I’m in the process of switching blog hosting from wordpress to squarespace. While the changeover is happening, it may be a little quiet here – depending on how motivated I am after Wednesday’s exam. ;)
The current url is http://yogagrrl.squarespace.com but the yoga-grrl.com should redirect soon. If you read via rss, once the redirect hits, you should see everything as usual!
Posted in entertainment, internet, links, media, tagged why the internet wins on June 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Where has this been all my life? How come no one told me about it!? I’m very disappointed in you, internets.
Posted in links, travel, tagged colorado, dogosai, new mexico, travel on April 5, 2009| Leave a Comment »
One more way in which Leadville is superior to Saginaw: when we got home, one of our neighbors had plowed our driveway for us. Out of the goodness of their heart, without being asked. In the entire 8 years we lived in Saginaw, nobody ever even OFFERED – including when Spouse threw his back out and I was stuck outside shoveling 12 inches of snow off our entire driveway. I love this place.
Santa Fe was very nice and very relaxing. While I’m in the process of uploading pictures, I will leave you with this hilarious dog story.
Posted in links, media, tagged getting involved, photos, politics, protests on March 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The slideshow is spectacular. Love, love, LOVE the posters these students came up with.
Posted in food, hausfrau, links, recommendations, tagged adventures in cooking, chutney, indian food, mint chutney, samosas on March 3, 2009| 1 Comment »
I don’t have any photos because during the cleaning/straightening on Saturday, my camera cord has gone AWOL. While some of our food on Saturday was premade (tikka masala and korma), I made the samosas and chutney myself.
The chutney recipe has been difficult because the recipes I’ve found online aren’t that similar to the fantastic chutney they had at our local restaurant in Michigan. So I tweak.
I started with this recipe. Rather than precise measures, I used an entire package of mint (the small plastic container from the grocery store) and roughly twice as much cilantro. My pepper of choice is serrano, but a jalepeno might be milder. I left out the onion, garlic, and cumin. I added two small containers of Greek yogurt and about a half a cup of skim milk. I used a drizzle of oil and then added sugar to taste. The result was tangy, sweet, and a little hot. Pretty close to perfect. It even approximated the consistency of the Kabob and Curry House chutney.
The site also has a really good recipe for samosas, if you want to try your own. Again, I tweaked it a little but it’s a really good place to start. Your mileage may vary, but I find it easier to boil the potatoes whole, let them cool, and then skin and chop them. It makes it easier for me to control the consistency of the potato (not too hard, not too soft).
Next batch of samosas will get homemade dough, so I’ll update with how that works out.
Posted in internet, links, tagged full of win, funny, pets on March 2, 2009| 1 Comment »
Posted in internet, links, media, tagged funny on February 18, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Totally awesome.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
Posted in links, media, music, recommendations, television, tagged life, music, tv on February 4, 2009| 1 Comment »
Not only is it a good crime drama with great characters and actors, it’s got fantastic music. I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Posted in books, health, links, me, miscellany, travel, yoga, tagged girl stuff, hair, how to annoy me, medical on January 27, 2009| 2 Comments »
I went to the doctor for a physical and a thyroid function test (since Mom has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer). The P.A. (or NP) proceeded to tell me that I needed to do more weight bearing exercise and cardio because yoga provides neither. I politely corrected her. Please to not be telling me what yoga practice is, when you clearly do not a) practice or b) know anything about MY practice. I had already told her I’ve been teaching for almost three years. Yoga is ABSOLUTELY weight bearing and MY yoga provides cardio work as well. Suck it, lady. The RIGHT way to go about this is to ask how much weight-bearing and cardio my practice provides, not look at me like I’m daft and speak slowly.
In related annoyance, while HIPAA does not prevent my insurance company from providing me any and all information about my benefits over the phone – including my member ID number – apparently it prevents my prescription benefit manager (Caremark) from providing any helpful information at all. Thanks for nothing, Caremark. Love you long time.
While I’m home next week I’ve got to get my contact lenses fitted and get my medical records and breast films transferred out here. There’s a great cancer center with state of the art gadgetry about an hour away, so guess where I’LL be getting my annual boob squishing? So now I’m collecting medical release forms so that I can drop them in the mail and get all of that great stuff taken care of. Moving, gotta love it.
On the kind of funny side, she said, “Wow. So your family does the cancer thing.” Ayuh. Understatement.
My new haircut is rocking my (polka dotted) socks. I blew it dry this morning and didn’t even need to flat iron it. The stylist in Frisco was the first person who has ever addressed the whacked out cowlick on the right side that makes my hair curve differently. I wasn’t initially thrilled with having to drive an hour to get my hair cut but there wasn’t a SINGLE place open in town on Saturday. As I was THISCLOSE to taking out the scissors and chopping off the offending bits myself – a plan of action that I think we can ALL agree would be a mistake – I made an appointment and the drive. The salon was very nice and it was just the stylist and me.
The picture the day of the haircut is nice, but the TEST is a picture of the haircut after you’ve washed and dried it yourself. ;)
While I have NOT assembled the pot rack, I DID pay all the bills. I have thus far sent it all through the Michian bank’s electronic system and all payments will clear by the time I’m back in town next week, so I can close the account for good. Yay!
I’m most of the way through book 8 and anticipate that I’ll get through a lot more tonight at work.
I have not packed a single thing and am thus far mostly unprepared for my trip back to MI. Go me.
Posted in cooking, food, links, tagged chicken vindaloo, chutney, indian food, mint chutney, recipes, samosas, vegetarian on January 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Chutneys
I’m going to be testing these out (and maybe making my own variations – sweet potato samosas sound delish) over the next week.
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Chicken Vindaloo, for good measure
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