Kara & Michael’s Blog

You know what Nintendo dorks and piercing fetishists have in common?
Modded Wiis.
[snort]

Working in IT can be a soul-depleting experience, but it’s also a constant annoyance to the English major that lurks inside me.
The following are words and phrases that I do not ever want to hear again in the workplace. In my experience, the number of these spouted by a person is inversely proportional to that [...]

Last night, Michael made us a tasty pasta with arugula, mushrooms, spring onions, garlic, fresh oregano and crushed red pepper flakes. He sautéed all the ingredients minus the pasta with olive oil in a cast-iron pan, taking care not to sauté the arugula or oregano for too long. The arugula was only wilted, [...]

We did so much running around last night that we came home and put our share away because it had sat out for so long. That’s why I have no pictures, but I’ll gladly list what we got:

Red Leaf Lettuce, one head.
Button Mushrooms, one paper bag.
Red Potatoes, three.
Baby Arugula, one bag.
Mint, one bag.
Beets (including [...]

Michael and I left on Friday for Binghamton, NY – where we would be staying with my family and then driving the hour to Ithaca to watch my youngest sister graduate from Cornell University.
Since Michael and I drove separately, we had our own vehicle and made our own plans for sight-seeing. On the agenda: Cornell [...]

Michael and I received our Wii Fit on Thursday, but didn’t get to do much other than register ourselves and do a few of the exercises.
Wii Fit comes with a balance board you set on the floor. The board calibrates itself to your weight and based on the weight on the sensors, can tell [...]

Kara is of the opinion that if we’re going to talk about food as much as we do on this blog, we should post more about the humdrum task of making food for dinner every night. So here’s what I did with the produce we got from our CSA this evening (see Kara’s post below [...]

Pictures:
One head of Red Leaf Lettuce.
Rhubarb, 4 stems.
2 bags, Savoy Spinach (surprisingly tasty).
Baby Bok Choy
Blurry button mushrooms.
Baggie of Oregano. For True. Smells amazing.
Kale. Michael was ecstatic.
NomNom spring onions.
Blurry Radishes.

Washington Post has a feature this week about obese children, or, pejoratively, “fat kids.”
I think this feature has been remarkably well done thus far, and it’s pretty interesting. Check out your nutritional knowledge on their quiz. I got a 65%, which isn’t great, but I guess I can be glad I don’t have [...]

In a previous post, I complained about Comcast Cable charging my credit card for a month of “triple play” service ($127) a week after I canceled my Comcast service, and then refusing to issue an immediate refund when I called them on it. Instead, they wanted to send me a paper check in 30 days. [...]