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By Rachael Chesnutt, September 18, 2009 11:16

PeopleWhoDon’tWantHealthCareReformSay WHAAA?

Click here for the full story from the QC Times.

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By Rachael Chesnutt, September 17, 2009 12:25

Uhm, can I interest anyone in the cutest picture available on the web?

You’re welcome.

Have a great day!

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By Rachael Chesnutt, September 16, 2009 11:16

So the other day my parents and I took my little niece and nephew to the park. She is almost 4 and he is 2. They are little bodies full of energy, and are quite tiring after an outing such as that. Not to mention when they run around with their shoes off, claiming that it is just impossible to make the short walk home, therefore allowing me to piggy back her all the way back in the blazing hot sun. Here are some photos from the day!

It’s pretty fun to see how many laps they can run before tiring to the point of lethargy.

I swear the funniest thing I had seen all day was when Emma showed Caesar how the slides worked. I advise you to turn down the volume as I tend to get a bit excited.

The second funniest thing I had seen all day would be the thirsty little critters attempting to lap up the disgustingly warm fountain water.

Other various entertaining activities include taking our clothes off, tiny pumpkins, trees with hands, and crossing the bridge.

That concludes our little adventure. I promise to update my flickr as soon as it lets me.

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By Rachael Chesnutt, September 12, 2009 14:25

As it ironically is the day after 9/11, the anniversary to some of the worst terrorist attacks America has ever seen, I’ve somehow unknowingly and scarcely patrioticly decided to remember something much, much different.

When I got home from work today, I was lucky enough to catch the butt end of 10 Things I Hate About You. & then I saw it. Heard it. Those foot deep dimples. That husky voice. The man who helped create the bad boy teen angst image, who aided in creating much more imaginative knight in shining armour fantasies. The man, who despite my extreme coulrophobia, made clowns sexy in a sinister way.

Though I have to get over the raging jealousy of the risque sex scene where Jake Gyllenhaal feverishly corrupts my beautiful cowboy, I still have to say he is one of my favorite actors, talent & look wise.

I even allow my boyfriend to have a mancrush, if he so willing wanted one, on Heath. How, after the amazing performance and role of ‘The Joker,’ could we ever expect him to meet his end? Someone so special, and amazing, come to his demise over happy pills and moonshine?

All I can say is that I’m dissapointed that the last few people he saw were sorry anorexic child hood star flops who still is worth millions though doesn’t appear to be doing anything of worth.

We miss you Heath!

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By Rachael Chesnutt, September 11, 2009 09:05

So I decided that I’m going to start a little recipe segment on my blog, because one of my favorite things to do is cook. Now, to be completely honest most of the things I end up cooking begin as kind of an experiment. Most of the time, thank God, everything turns out great. So when that phenomena happens, I’m going to blog you the recipes!

This first recipe is called Steak Alfredo

Ingredients:

• 1 box fettuccine
• 2 jars Alfredo sauce
• 4 tenderized steaks
• olive oil
• Italian dressing
• salt
• pepper
• onion salt
• garlic powder
• Italian seasoning
• parsley flakes

Begin to boil your water, simmering your sauce, and heating up your grill. Remember to keep your heat low, because the Alfredo sauce can and will explode all over you. Spread a generous amount of olive oil in your grill to cook the steak in. I recommend keeping your grill low, 250 to 300 degrees, to keep the steak from getting over cooked and rubbery.

Prepare your steaks by chopping them into one inch pieces. Sprinkle salt, pepper, onion salt, and garlic powder lightly over the pieces. Stir the pieces occasionally. When the steak is almost thoroughly cooked (I keep mine a bit pink in the center!) sprinkle the Italian seasoning over the top and let them heat awhile.

Adding a few large tablespoons of Italian dressing to the Alfredo sauce gives it a little extra kick. Drain your noodles, and put them back into the pan. Marinate the noodles with olive oil and Italian dressing. Layer your plate as follows: noodles, sauce, steak, parsley flakes.

I’m terrible at ordering my steps, so if you have any questions please comment me. This meal should serve 4 well. Enjoy, and let me know if it turns out well! Or, if you find any little tips or tricks to make it better, tell me! I’ll add them to this post!

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By Rachael Chesnutt, September 10, 2009 12:48

So today, while I was sitting lazily on the couch enjoying a bit of relaxation, the show ‘Maury’ came on. This episode was titled “Ghost’s caught on tape, vampires, and demons!” As a firm DISbeliever in ghosts and/or the paranormal, I had to tune in and confirm my skeptism. After the episode I decided to do some more research online, and all I found was a pathetic excuse for a legit website. The website is called Ghost Stories and Pictures, and what I think happend is someone decided to throw together a website full of stolen pictures from the internet. For example:

By clicking here, you can see that this picture is shown near the bottom of the page with the caption reading,

‘Another particularly creepy ghost picture. This picture was taken in the 60’s when a family had bought a new car. When they were showing it off for the camera the face of a man showed up in the back window of the other car in the driveway. There was nobody in either car at the time so it was a real shock for them to find they had taken a ghost picture. What made it even more of a shock was that the face looked very much like the dead father of the man posing for the picture. The same man that had taught him how to drive years before.’

Well, first off, the webmaster would assume this picture was taken in the 1960’s because of the look/make of that VW Beetle, but do you see the car in the background? It looks like a Geo Metro, to me, which wasn’t even a thought until the 1980’s. Then, just to complain about bad wording, this man posing with the VW looks like he was taught how to drive a little less recently than ‘years before.’

I just suppose that to me, stealing content that isn’t yours, creating a website out of it, and driving traffic to your website because of it is wrong. It’s called stealing, and it’s a crime!

(Plus, you just make yourself look stupid when you make mistakes like this! Bwaha I called you out!)

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By Rachael Chesnutt, September 9, 2009 13:34

Phil found something today that tickled our Harry Potter obsessed fancies. I found it quite fun, clever, unique, and fun to listen to and watch.

Check out this guy’s YouTube channel, it’s pretty neat!

That’s all from me today, I’ve been sick lately and not feeling like posting.

(Sleeping has just sounded so much better..)

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By Rachael Chesnutt, September 6, 2009 09:45

Lately, I’ve gone into a severe ravenous sushi craze. Last night we went to this restaurant called Dynasty Buffet, and if you are from around here you’ll know that people normally go there for 1 of 2 things; 1) All you can eat snow crab legs for US$10, or 2) All you can eat fresh seafood and sushi for US$10. Literally, the rest of the food there isn’t even that great.

One of the things I love most about Chinese buffets would have to be finding the weird foods, the ones that make you cringe, give a double-take, and maybe even intrigue you enough to put a few on your plate hoping your bravery withholds on the walk back to the table. I’m talking raw oysters, mussels, frog legs, crawfish, baby squid, and my favorite, stir fry octopus. Yes, I actually ate one. These baby octopus had a rubbery texture, very extremely chewy. Alas, I only ate the head, because the little suckers on the tentacles kind of grossed me out.

If only I were born in the year of the Cock! 2009 is currently the year of the Ox. I don’t remember what year is 2010.

Anyway, this sushi craving I’ve been obessing over was somewhat laid to rest today. At 9:00am central time Phil & I made a Target run, to get a few things, including Starbucks and sushi. Oddly enough, Target has a wide variety of different types of sushi. I ended up with some basic sushi (tilapia, salmon, and tuna on vinegar rice), some California rolls (my favorite, these had crab meat and was not made of raw fish), and rainbow summer rolls. The summer rolls had a lot of lettuce, tuna and salmon, and was wrapped in a condom like spring roll wrap.

Why woud you want to eat raw fish, you ask? Don’t you think you’ll get sick? DIE?! No. People, that is a big myth. Sushi grade fish is specially bred fish that is flash frozen moments after harvest. Flash freezing kills the same bacteria that fully cooking fish can. A tasty little tid bit; back in the 1800’s people would pair sushi with ginger and wasabi, as they have microbial tendencies, and they thought that would help to keep them from getting sick after eating the raw fish! Now it’s just served with the sushi because it tastes good. For more information check out this handy website, it’s a great read for sushi lovers or sushi virgins hoping to take that next big step.

I’ve also updated my flickr, so check it out for more pictures from our eventful night!

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By Rachael Chesnutt, September 5, 2009 11:52

Gah it took me ages to get all of these photos saved to the right places, but now that everything is uploaded to photobucket, vidly, and flickr, we can now enjoy this fun little blogpiece right here! It’ll be extra fun for those of you from Davenport, Iowa!

Everynow and then Phil and I like to get Caesar, and ourselves, out and about. We’ve succumb ourselves to laziness this past entire week, so it was nice to get out and walk around for awhile. We stopped at look off ‘lookout point’ that happends to be right off of ‘historical’ Washington street.

Apparently Phil’s brother tried to ride down a street nearby this steep hill and ended up breaking his collarbone. So, avid adventure seekers, beware. By the way, it takes 25cents to actually get to do the looking outing, and I think the actual mapping board might’ve been established before the date it claims, judging by the haggard state it is in.

We took Marquette all the way down to the levee and parked there. We walked along the riverside. It was deserted that time of morning, and where the sun was placed gave the illusion that the water was sparkling. It would of been quite peaceful if the two guys in their little boat hadn’t been making obnoxious bird call sounds. Not to mention, the kind of disturbing image of someone sleeping in the white gazebo, though, he did look quite comfortable.

I did find a cute little furry thing scurrying about whom I had considered making friends with until it so feverishly tried to climb into my shorts.

I had also completely forgot about the fact that the Farmer’s Market went on most weekend mornings, and I was lucky enough to get to experience my first one. Caesar was with us, and I was worried about taking him in there, until I noticed the immense surplus of canines being lead on short leashes by enthusiastic owners. We ran into a few of Phil’s friends, some of which were playing music is this cute little quartet!

It turned out to be a pretty fun walk. On a few side notes, starting with my contemplating of the kinds of human race who are now allowed to work in food services. Apparently when you’d like a ‘cheeseburger with only kethcup,’ this, sadly, is what they give you.

And on my last side note of today, Phil recently showed me this quite impressive stack of movie ticket stubs that he has been saving over many years. Yes, the top one is the newest Harry Potter movie, which we’ve seen twice!

Out of curiosity, does anyone else collect anything like this? Does anyone have memrobilia like this from over the years?

Have a great Saturday, everyone!

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By Rachael Chesnutt, September 4, 2009 13:36

So I found this nifty little website, it’s called http://likaholix.com. It’s kind of a social networking/book marking website that allows you to share with other users your ‘likes.’ Such as fine wines, power walking, Twilight, Red Lobster, http://twitter.com, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, dungeons and dragons, and so on. Pretty much search for whatever it is you like, and explain a bit about why. The best thing about the site, for all you http://facebook.com and http://twitter.com users is that you can connect the three sites and post your recent ‘likes’!

That’s all that really interested me today, later this afternoon we are going to grill out some dogs, brats, steaks, corn on the cob, and drink some beers. Should be a good weekend off.

Everyone else have a safe, yet fun, Labor day weekend!

(Yeah, I know, nobody really cares about Labor day, anyway.)