Amy's Random House

My Molly and Me

2011-03-18T20:53:00.001-07:00

This is my roommate Molly, we like to pretend we're a couple, complete with fights, sports and children talk....one of our dorky pass times...

Chicken Tortilla Soup!

2011-03-18T19:45:00.001-07:00

So I have also discovered my love of food and cooking for other people. I want to put recipes and pictures of my creations on here (that is the motivation talking). I have an awesome Tortilla Soup recipe that I made recently, super easy, super healthy and super cheap.

So here it is.

Start cooking 2 large chicken breasts, make sure to season these, you'll end up with more flavor, cook these until done and shred into bite sized pieces.

In a large soup pot

Saute (not caramelize) 1 cup of chopped carrots, onions, celery for about 10 minutes at a low heat in olive oil.

Mince 2 cloves of garlic, add this to sauteed veggies, you'll also want to add cumin, chili powder, minced jalapenos if you feel you need the heat and any other spice (salt, pepper, etc)

Let this cook together....for a few minutes

Add 5 cups of chicken stock, 28 oz of diced canned tomatoes, 1/2 cup chopped cilantro, your cooked chicken....let simmer

Slice up some tortillas into strips and add right before you serve...top with sour cream=amazing!!!

You can also throw in diced avocado, corn, black beans, rice?, etc...

I add lime to mine in the beginning stages as well..squeeze the full lime into the base and leave the whole thing in the soup while it is cooking...you don't have to do this if you're not a lime fan, however I can't get enough of it.

Super easy, and yummy. Try it out and let me know what you think. :)

Again, new changes

2011-03-18T19:33:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I was reading the previous blog...saying how I was going to be on this more and how I had lots of changes to report.

I now have even more changes, and I can't make any promises to being on here and adding posts more often, but maybe I will. I get motivated when I log on.

So new changes?

Dating someone new, pretty awesome!!! Different relationship than I've ever had before.
I moved into a house with Molly, once again pretty damn awesome!!!
Working at the Ports for Northland Services...awesome!!!
Not managing the Don Todd anymore...awesome!!!!
Just went to Anchorage...you guessed it, awesome!!!

So I guess you can say that everything has been awesome in the last several months.

Enjoy some photos

Apartment

2009-08-09T18:57:00.000-07:00

Oh yeah I moved into a 1 bedroom!!! Sooo much better! Love it, huge.

changes in my life

2009-08-09T18:47:00.000-07:00

Ok so massive stuff has changed since the last time that I added anything to this blog. I now have a lot of time on my hands so I figured that I could keep it up a bit more.

I am recently laid off, super happy that I have the chance to find something that I really want to do now. I am going to look at jobs that will use my degree.

I am within the last 2 months a single person again. Having a total blast being so.

I'm going to Alaska in a month and Vegas for Halloween, so I have some fun things going.

This summer has been one of the best ever! Fun weddings, fun nights, roof top partying, camping and random other things, super awesome summer.

I'll add some pictures.

Bowling night

2009-03-31T19:32:00.000-07:00

Mike and I went bowling last Friday, it was very fun, i totally sucked and Mike won- he is good at basically everything he does. I swear, he'd try to deny it but dont listen to him. Ok I'm going to go read my new favorite book!

my scrapblog

2009-03-26T17:54:00.000-07:00

you should check out my scrapblog.com/amymichelle

I love this, you can see more of what i've been up to, mostly just me and mike.

long time

2009-03-26T17:46:00.000-07:00

Ok so I still am having issues with my hand that i broke in december. I am not good about doing my physical therapy so it is still very stiff, i can do most things i need to but i can't really grip very well.

Hum, Mike and i have celebrated our 7th month this month. We're going to Whistler next month, that will be a total blast, neither of us have ever been so i'm excited.

I work at a new place, called Gibraltar Maintenance and Construction. I do their Accounts Receivables. Pretty fun....... hum other than that....i'll just post some pictures.

broken hand

2008-12-31T13:02:00.001-08:00

OH YEAH, I BROKE MY HAND. I FELL DOWN STAIRS AT WORK AND SHATTERED MY LEFT HAND (ONLY ONE BONE). IT TAKES ME ALONG TIME TO TYPE SO I DINT WANT TO TELL THE WHOLE STORY.

Ranom pics of the holiday and winter storm

2008-12-31T12:55:00.001-08:00

Hello so Mike and I had a lot of time together the last few weeks. We were snowed in at his house in kirkand for 3 days, we stayed on lk washington one night, it was beautiful. We took lots of walks and went to the casino. And then it was christmas. Happy new years!!!!

new artwork

2008-12-02T19:29:00.000-08:00

Ok so I haven't done anything in awhile but I played a bit of guitar tonight and sang and then painted some last night. I'm painting again tonight so hopefully I'll get some good things going. I'd love to get a show with my little paintings out somewhere in a coffee shop or something so I am working on that in my extra free time.

Snoqualmie falls!

2008-11-18T19:16:00.000-08:00

Snoqualmie falls is so beautiful. Mike and I headed out there for a day trip this month. The weather has been so amazing and I'm so thankful to live in such a diverse state that offers the mountains and the ocean within a short drive.

Kingston Wash day trip

2008-11-09T18:57:00.001-08:00

Mike and I went to Kingston today. It was awesome just to get out and do something that we don't normally do. Washington is seriously soooo beautiful!!! I love it here.

few things i've been up to lately

2008-10-27T16:39:00.000-07:00

I went to a halloween party this Saturday. I was a 40's pin up girl and Mike was the 40's sailor! It was a lot of fun. Then the other pics are just me and some friends out on the town and me blowing a glass bowl! So just some stuff happening, not super exciting but fun! I just love Autumn.

La Push, Washington

2008-09-23T06:54:00.000-07:00

So this weekend a few of my friends and I went to the Olympic Peninsula. It was beautiful!!! I loved La Push. We are all reading these books-the Twilight series, they are based in this area so we thought it would be fun to go. We had a blast, met locals and went off roading with them. That's about it.

tree art

2008-09-17T19:01:00.005-07:00

Another piece that i did not too long ago
if you want to read my poems go to www.poetrypoems.com/amymichelle 

cats

2008-09-17T19:01:00.004-07:00

Here are my 2 cats, Roman and Chloe.

Pad

2008-09-17T19:01:00.003-07:00

Here is my cozy little pad. Just thought i'd put it up.

pen drawings

2008-09-17T19:01:00.002-07:00

Here are some random pen and colored pencil drawings that i've done recently. nothing too grand but i haven't done this in along time so it is good to get started again.

I even thought about trying to get my stuff up for a show. Mostly just my little canvas paintings. I want to get them in a coffee shop somewhere close by.

Vampires

2008-09-17T19:01:00.001-07:00

I've been so into these books, the Twilight series. They are so teenagerish but they're awesome! I don't think I've ever read a whole series like this before. Everyone should read them, well almost everyone.

Anyways not a lot else going on here. Just reading a lot so I can get far in the series before I got on the Forks, Wa roadtrip this Saturday (that is where the books take place). Very dorky I know but if you read the books it would be a fun thing to do.

I also got a new cat, her name is Chloe. Very cute, very annoying.

Alright, later.

Sept 8, 2008

2008-09-08T20:54:00.000-07:00

I wanted to show some pictures of washington state, because it is so beautiful.

lame posting

2008-08-29T18:13:00.000-07:00

I am soooo glad it is a 3 day weekend and I have nothing that I have to do, or go or whatever! I love these weekends. I'm hanging out with my friends and my man and going to dink around the city (one of my favorite things to do). This blog thing is kind of fun I have to say. I thought blogs were really dorky, but then again I thought myspace was dumb and then I became addicted for awhile. There are so many random things I want to do in this city. Ride the duck for instance. The dorky bus/boat thing that goes around the city and points out the interesting things, they give you a duck bill shaped whistle that sounds like a duck. I also want to do the underground tour and the museum. I've never even been to the library down town, isn't that lame of me? It is fun to have someone to do that stuff with now, not that I didn't before but you know how it is...I thought about starting to take a pic a day like this one chick that has a blog. I dont know is that lame to copy someone else's idea? I mean we dont live on the same coast even so it is totally different stuff. I probably wont do one a day because I'm lazy about uploading my pictures. Anyways I gotta run and get ready for a night out with some chicks. I'm tired and not in the mood, but I gotta do it. If I had my way I'd lay in bed an watch the Al Gore documentary. :)

Some beautiful places

2008-08-27T23:11:00.001-07:00

There are so many places that I want to go! I wish traveling wasn't so expensive or I'd go much more.

Some old poetry for ya.

2008-08-27T22:44:00.000-07:00

Precious

This little man inside his house
Cries when he's alone.
He screams in agony and dispare
he begs God to show some care.
His frail frame shakes from the core
His wrinkled veiny fists clenched tight
waterfalls from his aging face
into puddles of past disgrace.
No ones coming he knows, no one knows his throbbing
The bottle is there to help him out.
though it consumes him
It hides him from those to tend
Those who want to be there, not pretending
The liquid consumes him, bitters his mind
Bitters his words
This little man is aching, Tormented by weakness
It kills him slowly-cutting off kin.
No one can stay to help, to understand
The enslaving blend consumes until it has the biggest prize of all,
Him.

Rape

Penetrating your unwanted being
Into my corpse
My timid voice is quieted
By your command
I look into your characterless black eyes
And see nothing
I am nothing

Falling

Torn away from comfortable
Spinning uncontrollably to the ground
An icy wind catches me in between
Saturating me with pain
Soaking wet with it
Waiting to dry out
But the pain keeps striking me
I'm on the ground already
Stop weighing me down
I'm already wet
I'll disintegrate with anymore
I long for the comfort of the sky
Of where i came from
Before i started to fall
I am drenched with heartache
though soon I'll dry out
and show no signs of being
wrinkled from the rain.

Youth

There is so much time, yet never enough;

Everything is tumb'ling on top of me;

I don't understand why it's all so tough,
All i want to do is scream and flee.
I am drowning in my own self doubt,
Though I feel something inside pullin' me high
I can almost breathe, i can almost shout;
I can almost think i see the sky.
I feel I am trying to save a part,
There's a struggle, when I'm near the break,
There is something, aggressing my heart,
I can breathe now, and i face the wake,
Youth is harrowing, though i stand bold,
I feel cold as i stand at the threshold.

First one, August 27th 2008

2008-08-27T22:29:00.000-07:00

So you know I'm a journaler and thought that this would be a cool way to store some things. Plus my mom set it up for me so it made it kind of easy otherwise I'd still be writing everything down with pen on paper.

I really haven't done much in the way of art for the last few years but I've recently started to work on more, so periodically when I do a new piece I'll put it up here.

I like to paint, I want to start working on a series of smaller canvas acrylic paintings of landscapes. Some of them are places I've been and some are just make believe. I also want to work on my "card series" that I've been planning since I was a child, I do some comic type pen drawings and have always wanted to do something with them even on a small scale.

I'm just going to use this as a random assortment of creative things and whatever crosses my mind, of course it will be censored since it isn't just for my private usage in my hard copied journal but this can serve a different purpose. Which is cool.