Stripe Bytes: June 2013

Monday, June 24, 2013

the past week

A bunch of stuff got squished into a short period of time so I am gonna tell y'all alllllll bout it. Because my life is clearly /fascinating/. JK but it's my blog so deal wit it

Tuesday: Minigolf. I'm not very good at minigolf. And I was still mono-tired. But it was fun and I got free pizza so win-win

Wednesday: Women's intern event. Aka more free food and they got people to paint our nails. I repainted mine today and I feel so inadequate compared to them ... I'm a nail-painting n00b. Look how pretty this is

Friday: Alright interns, you are required to leave work and go bowling.
Us: ...ok!

I didn't break 100 :( I don't go bowling very often so I don't get any better like ever. O well. They had these cool lights though so my bowling shoes were all glowy n trippy.

And then I drove all the way down to Golden Gardens park for a "bonfire". Quotes because whoever was supposed to show up early to get bonfire permissions failed. So there was no fire. And not much to do. But it was pretty. And then it got cold so I peaced out

Saturday: Zoo with our intern program~

And then today I tested my real world skills by making food that involved cooking meat. Had a consultation with my Dad about how to drain ground beef grease but overall I was successful minus some stuff sticking to this godawful pan. But it's a box meal how hard can it really be...

And now you know what I just did? YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST DID?
I BOUGHT TICKETS TO SEE THE BOOK OF MORMON TOUR WOOOOO

-Stripe

Saturday, June 15, 2013

on being sick far from home

So this past week basically sucked. And not because of my job or the people I am around, rather because of myself.

STUPID BODY DON'T GET SICK.

So the short plan to having a miserable week Stripe-style is as follows:

1) Get mono. Probably at the airport, slimy place...
2) Incubate that bugger for a little while. It's like an alien growing inside you and you just don't know
3) Start to get sick. Alright stomach bug I can deal with that
4) STREP THROAT WHAT
5) Oh wait, it's resistant. Aka the drugs don't make it better! COOL. MORE DOCTORS.
6) Go to hospital overnight. .__.

The thing about being sick on the other side of the country from your family is that taking care of yourself because a monumental task. You also spend a lot of time on the phone which is very difficult when your throat is swollen almsot completely shut for a day or two...

Also lemme tell you a thing. Clindamycin is fantastic at what it does, but it it the nastiest tasting pill. That bright blue coating is deceiving I tell you.

So I took time off work without pay and I'm behind on basically everything but I am out of pathetic lump mode so small victories. Yep.

Alright Stripe out. Don't do what I did this week.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

mini pigs

This is a food my Dad makes all the time at home for basically forever. Our preferred version has evolved over the years into this recipe, which is by far one of the easiest things to make I know of.

I mean, you only need two ingredients!!!! No measuring involved!! Screw tablespoons I do wat I want and what I want is lil smokiessss

So in my house we used to make big ones with hotdogs. And there was the cheese era where we'd cut a slit into the hotdog and put a cheese piece in there so it was all melty when you ate it. But the cheese era has passed and we have entered the lil smokies era. And I LOVE THIS ERA

Lil smokies in mini pigs are great for a variety of reasons:

A) They all been cooked already
B) They tiny. You don't have to cut them to fit in the blanket
C) THEY DELICIOUS

I like the part where you squish the crescent roll dough together so you can cut strips out. It amuses me... But you always do it as you go. So when you've rolled up enough piggies you can take a triangle and just make a regular roll. Cause also nom.

This has been a post about what I ate for dinner. FASCINATING

-Stripe

Saturday, June 1, 2013

roundabouts are demon spawn

Now lemme tell you a thing.

Tiny roundabouts are demon spawn.

DEMON.

SPAWN.

As you may know I've been commuting 30 minutes to Sammamish for the past two weeks until my team moves. It's a nice place, can see mountains and nature and stuffz while I'm driving and I'm going the opposite direction of most traffic both ways. But like 5 minutes away from the building is THIS THING

OK WHAT EVEN.

Normal roundabouts/traffic circles/driving circle spinny things/whatEVER are ok, but this one is TINY. What benefit does this even have over just a plain old stoplight?

The thing about this terror is that theres like, NO WAY to know what people are doing. Rule #1 for being a cautious driver is assume people are STUPID. It's a fairly safe assumption. But seriously are you going? Are you turning? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

How do you even signal in this thing?? There's probably some rules somewhere but it's definitely not intuitive and therefor its likely a BAD IDEA. I want to exit. Is that a right turn? But I'm facing straight at it? But that make me go left from where I am? WHAT IS IT????

Oh so there's a little thing that says 'yield to traffic in the circle'. YEAH RIGHT. People don't freaking yield. I imagine they just go YOLO and hit the gas because half the time they start trying to go when I'm trying to exit. Which DOESN'T WORK PEOPLE.

So you know what ends up happening half the time? I just wait forever for people to GTFO while the person behind me is like dying because they're living in Fast and Furious 213 where they drive with reckless abandon and/or I just suck. OR I end up going around the ENTRE CIRCLE. Which is so ANNOYING.

I can't wait to go back to main campus. I can WALK to work. There's no roundabouts when you walk.

LONG LIVE THE STOPLIGHT.

-Stripe