The Oddest Thing...

Early last week, I was bored, so I went to my profile on classmates.com and updated it with several photos from the last few years...pictures of Lance and I, or of just me, in various European cities.

I also wrote a new biography.

Suddenly, I have 2 new names in my classmates.com guestbook. Unfortunately, I don't have a paid membership, so I can't see who stopped by. But I'm curious. Curious enough to pay for a membership? No. Besides, I put my Blogger address in my biography...if any former classmates really wanted to get in touch with me, I'm not hard to find. And Facebook is basically for the purpose of reconnecting with people, so they can find me there too.

Last year, someone signed my guestbook. And I got a free Gold Membership for a month, so I could finally see who left their name. It was someone I barely even knew...a guy who graduated a year or two ahead of me, who, as far as I knew, didn't even know I existed. Weird. And disappointing. I was hoping for something more exciting...like an old friend I lost touch with or better yet, someone I used to have a crush on.

I think the mystery of who left me messages is probably much more exciting than the reality, so I will probably just leave it at that.

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Thanks to inateapot for the lunch invite today. We shared a pizza at Fondi and then went to Cold Stone Creamery afterwards. It was nice to get caught up.

So today...which was a bit boring...ended up being nice after all. :)

Who Needs Rice-a-Roni?

Tonight was "make your own" night, which I have on occasion if I don't feel like making anything for dinner or if I want to give Lance the chance to fix something that he likes for himself.

So I threw a Gorton's salmon fillet in the toaster oven to bake for myself. I nuked some mixed veggies and I decided to make some Minute Rice.

But of course, Minute Rice is rather bland by itself.

I had about 1/4 cup of chicken broth left over from 2 other meals in the past week. I added enough water to make it half a cup. I added half a teaspoon of lemon herb seasoning and about 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder. When that came to a boil, I added the half cup of rice. I let that sit for 5 minutes. When it was done, I mixed in about 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese.

Yum. Oh my God. It was just SOOOOOOOO good. And it didn't even seem like Minute Rice anymore. So I'll do that again, only next time, I'll use a little less lemon herb seasoning. It was almost overpowering. But the rice was still very very tasty.