Now that my blog is open, I find myself wanting to post for halffull. Figures, doesn’t it?

At my previous job I was able to write every single day because there was nothing to do at work. When I would ask coworkers and superiors for things to do, they would get annoyed with me because they expected me to surf the web or do personal things until there was a task, only there never was anything. When I gave my two weeks’ notice, I heard from a co-worker that they were looking for someone who “was not as eager to work.” Honestly, who in the world has ever heard of such a thing before? I suppose most people would be happy with a job like that, where, day in and day out, there was nothing to do. Truth be told, I only had one project, and that only happened quarterly: I would update some brochures and then downstairs sit by the old, slow printers to make sure the paper didn’t jam while they printed. I would end up sitting there for probably 6 hours or more for two days. The entire project would take about three or four days to do, and then I would have zero to do for the rest of the quarter.

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This morning I went ahead and baked up the Cheese Puffs listed in the Better Homes & Gardens Appetizers magazine. As I suspected, they turned out nicely. Unfortunately I had never worked with puff pastry sheets before, so I was a bit confused when I opened up the package - the recipe says to unfold your thawed puff pastry sheet and roll it out, then cut into 16 three-inch squares. When I opened up my puff pastry sheet, the pastry wasn’t completely thawed out so it broke into three sections that I was unable to put back together. I bounced back and cut them up into 16 rectangles and then rolled each rectangle into a square. Next time I will do it differently.

The puff pastry is very sweet, which went well with the chives, bacon, and cheese. If you get a chance to pick up the magazine, I would recommend it.

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It’s the final stretch before Thanksgiving! This year, I am slightly more prepared - last year I had completely forgotten until the weekend prior. The day before Thanksgiving, I took the day off and ran out to do all of my shopping. Luckily I was only cooking for Tom and myself so I didn’t have a ton of things to grab. Still, I was in a huge hurry.

The grocery store was packed with people. My strategy was to leave my cart nearby in a safe spot, and then run into an aisle, grab all of the items I needed, and then run back to my cart. Off to the next aisle and repeat the process.

This strategy was brilliant until I looked down and realized that at some point I had walked off with someone else’s cart. There were two realistic options for me:

1. Sneakily, and without honor, skulk away from the cart and go off in search of the one I had abandoned.
2. Suck up my pride and return the cart to the poor soul I had stolen it from.

In the end, I went with option #2, even though option #1 looked really, really good. I employed a much different strategy this year: Plan ahead. If you haven’t made any plans, don’t panic - there’s still time.

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Ta da! One more blog to add to the infinite interweb! I am officially breaking away from halffull - mostly. If I have something to say that relates to halffull, then I will post it on both sites. A lot of what I have to say just doesn’t really fit with halffull, and I really don’t care for a lot of the unsolicited negative comments I receive (from people who just don’t understand that what I write is humor), so Tom reluctantly set this up for me. You know what a blog is, but for those of you who are new to my writing, here is the gist of what you should know:

1. A blog acts sort of like a journal, except it is a journal that everyone with a computer can read. I stopped making journal entries on my redvsblue account about a year ago, and I haven’t had anywhere to write since. This will become my new home of thoughts.
2. I am extremely sarcastic and I like to make fun of everything. If you are offended, don’t read.
3. This is my blog. I own it. It’s MINE. It is not halffull.org. If you’re being a jerk in the comment section, I will delete your post and in its place I will make fun of you. I couldn’t do that on halffull because Tom wouldn’t allow it - but I can do that here. This does not mean you can’t be contrary, because you can. Just don’t be a jerk!

Most importantly, for those of you who are my friends and wish to comment on some posts, please keep in mind the following:

My mother is reading this.

Therefore, there will be no foul language, and nothing of a perverted nature (you know who you are). Let’s keep it clean, or I will have to edit/delete your comments. Speaking of comments, the way Tom set up the comment list is that you have to register in order to post comments. Once you register and are approved you will be an approved commenter for forever and ever!  Hooray!