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So many changes in the past 6 months!

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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WOW it’s been a long time since I posted! Last time I made a post, I was in college and I was engaged. So guess what? (Like you have to, ha!) I’ve graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and have been married for almost 4 months! šŸ™‚ The wedding was small and intimate, and it was beautiful. We had it at my husband’s uncle’s house. It was so sweet of them to do that for us.

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It’s been a great few months so far. My husband and I both are currently looking for our post-grad jobs. I’ve been taking a breather, you know to relax before I jump into the workforce. I didn’t want to go straight from hectic, stressful, study-filled days right into working, you know? I needed a break to breathe, enjoy the first few months ofĀ being married, and be with the family. But nowĀ I’m ready to get a job that I love with the degree that I love.

While I’ve been spending time with the family (specifically,Ā my new brother Seba and sister Sofi), we decided to make a series on YouTube (easiest avenue right now). It’s calledĀ Haunting on Settlers Way.

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We started working on it in September and have shot enough episodes to make a trailer, which is up on our channel as of last night! The first episode will be up tomorrow. I’ll start uploading it around midnight tonight, since it’ll take a while. Sofi and Seba’s friends have been asking them non-stop when it’ll be up, so they’re all excited. And so are we!

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“Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch”

11 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Today for my anthropology class, I read Michael Pollan’s article “Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch.” It was a great article. I loved it! (I’ll provide a link at the bottom of my post.) In the article, Pollan talks about the decline of homecooked meals, the rise of fast food chains, and how the definition of “cooking” has changed over the years.

He speaks of the times in his childhood when he and his mother would watch Julia Child’s cooking show, The French Chef, in the 1960s. He enjoyed watching his mother cook meals in the kitchen from scratch. To him, cooking is just that: making a meal from scratch. Homecooked meals have seen a reduction over the past few decades, for a variety of reasons.

For one, women are working out of the house more. And I think that’s great; women in the workforce is a great thing. Women shouldn’t be restricted to the household performing domestic duties. Being a housewife shouldn’t be their only option.Ā If they want to work, they have the right to. Not to say that being a housewife is bad – I want to be one myself once I have kids. Being a wife and mother is the most important thing in the world to me, and I want to do just that once I’m married and we’re financially stable enough for it. But the point is, that should never be a woman’s only option, and it no longer isn’t. (I could say more, but I’ll save it for a future post.) So, (partially) because women are working full-time jobs more, leading to the husband and wife both working out of the house everyday, less time is spent in the kitchen.

He adds, though, that women who don’t work don’t cook as much either. They typically rely on quick results & fast food as much as women who do work.

In fact, Pollan states that the average person in America spends just half an hour in the kitchen a day! And that includes cleaning up after cooking. He adds that that’s half the time people used to spend in the kitchen when he was a child in the ’60s.

Second, the fast food industry is on the rise, and has been for quite some time.Ā This has led to laziness, in my opinion. People don’t want to spend time in the kitchen like they used to (or like their parents or grandparents used to), so they look for something quick like McDonald’s. The more ā€œquick and easyā€ options there are, the more people will turn to; eventually, if we’re not careful, people won’t cook meals at home at all anymore.

Pollan states that, based on an interview he conducted with Harry Balzer (a former ā€˜food-marketing researcher’), if we keep going at this rate, two things will happen: (1) The next generation will not know how to cook, because this generation is forgetting how (more about this in a minute) and won’t be able to teach them, and (2) the supermarket will become the next famous cook in this country. In the interview, Balzer states, ā€œWe’re all looking for someone else to cook for us. The next American cook is going to be the supermarket. Takeout from the supermarket, that’s the future. All we need now is the drive-through supermarket.ā€ And he’s right. Already when you walk into a supermarket, some of them have little cafĆ©s inside them. I think we’re already on our way to the supermarket cook. I hope we don’t get there, but I don’t know what will happen.

The second reason ties into the third: As Balzer said, we’re constantly looking for others to cook for us. As a result, we turn to quick meals, food that’s easily made, dishes we can make in less than half an hour. We start buying ingredients that already have ingredients themselves, like canned soups or cake mixes. To people today, that’s cooking: simply combining pre-made, processed foods.

While I was reading this article, which is pretty long yet fascinating, I couldn’t help but think about my boyfriend’s family. They’re Argentinean and Italian, and their food is delicious. Their meals are homemade and they never disappoint! My favorite dish that Abuela (his grandmother) makes is her homemade ravioli. She makes the noodle dough herself, cuts and shapes the noodles herself, and it looks so professionally made; not to mention, it’s absolutely delicious! They make their own sausage and salami.

In the book Around the Tuscan Table, which I have to read everyday for my class, Carole M. Counihan talks about how homecooked meals are very important to Italians. And my boyfriend’s family makes that very clear. His mother and grandparents are amazing cooks. Their dishes are so elaborate and complex, yet they make it look so easy. They haven’t strayed away from true cooking like the average American has today.

So yes, I love this class and I’ve found the readings so far to be really interesting and inspiring. Makes me wanna go cook! šŸ™‚

Oh and here’s a link to the article, if anyone’s interested in reading it:Ā http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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Patience is a virtue (and a hard one!)

30 Saturday Jun 2012

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It’s hard to believe this year is halfway over already, isn’t it? Seems like New Years was just yesterday. Each year goes by faster and faster to me, which I don’t mind. I don’t mind it ā€˜cause I’m excited to graduate college and really start my life. Don’t get me wrong, I do like college, as I mentioned in my introduction post; but after being in school since the age of 5, I’m ready to move on and do something different.

I’m ready to start working in counseling, I’m ready to be a writer, I’m ready to move out (though not financially ready), I’m ready to marry my babe…basically, I’m ready to settle down and start my life already. I should be able to do that within the next year or two, so I’m trying to be as patient as possible.

In the meantime, I’m looking for a job, which I’m hoping will be in the writing field. Or an area involving computer usage/skills, since I’ve been using the computer on my own since I was 2 years old. I’m looking at places to live once my babe and I are finally together (we’re long-distance right now, ā€˜til next year). I’m looking at student credit cards so I can finally start building credit. But most importantly, I’m focusing on my education, which not only includes my current classes, but also looking for schools in my babe’s area that I can transfer to next year.

Another thing I’m focusing on is my health. I’m a fitness freak. I workout usually around 3 days a week, for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour at a time. I became obsessed with fitness almost a year and a half ago, after my doctor told me I should be more physically active (my inactivity was causing joint pains). So I started working out for about 20 minutes a day, 5 days a week, just like he said to do; and sure enough, my joint pains went away. I felt better than I ever had in my life. I had more energy. I was hungry more often.

Through all this, I discovered something: I love working out. I love how it makes me feel. I love how it makes me look. And I love how it affects my body image. I love my abs, I love the butt-lifting effects (and butt-adding effects, since I’m so tiny and my rear is practically non-existent), and I love how my legs look.

So rather than focusing on how eager and anxious I am to finish college and start my life, I’m focusing on the here and now. By focusing on current assignments, looking for employment opportunities where I can use my skills and passions, and focusing on improving my body and health, I can learn to be more patient with myself.

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