Jake's friend, past roommate, and victim of the crockpot disaster - Billy - is our admigo. An admigo is an individual that is part creative genius and part social psychologist. They work in the adlab, aka advertising lab, creating persuasive pieces of art.
Well, Billy agreed that a "Glauser Glovebox" should be a glovebox full of Glausers! So he used his mad photoshop skills to create our awesome header picture, using Roy Lichtenshein's art for inspiration (Jake's favorite artist)! Then I spent all last night programming xml code to make our former blog layout match our new portrait!
YEA NEW BLOG LAYOUT!!! Thanks Billy!
Monday, April 21, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Crockpot Disaster
Yesterday Jake and I invited a few of his buddies over for dinner. We wanted a last hoorah before they left for the summer (and since we won't be here when they get back).
So I decided to make my "famous" Catalina Chicken - it's super good, trust me. I bought all of the ingredients Wednesday night, and put the chicken and sauce in our crockpot to marinate overnight. The next morning Jake and I were rushing to school, we quickly looked in the crockpot manual to see how long/how hot to cook our delectable dinner. We pushed the required buttons for chicken and let it cook away.
When we got home that afternoon, our apartment smelled like pure delight! I was getting all excited, cause last time we had a dinner party, I made a crockpot roast and it was a huge success! I peered in through the glass top at our dinner - not wanting to open it (I didn't want unnecessary heat transfer) - and I decided to switch the heat setting to low.
Well, about fifteen minutes before our guests arrived I opened the chicken up! It had a funky smell. We put one on a plate to taste it... it was completely burned! How can you burn chicken in a cockpot? It's so easy to use! (I'll admit I started to panic at this point). We hurried and thawed the rest of our frozen chicken to cook on our "Grilleration" (Thanks George Foreman!). The chicken turned out great, unfortunately we didn't have a lot to eat (poor boys are probably still hungry) at least my bundt cake turned out yummy (*confession* I'm eating the cake right now!!)
Lesson Learned: If you're not sure about a recipe and you think you should call your mom to ask her for advice, but instead you just cook anyways... you probably will burn the chicken.
So I decided to make my "famous" Catalina Chicken - it's super good, trust me. I bought all of the ingredients Wednesday night, and put the chicken and sauce in our crockpot to marinate overnight. The next morning Jake and I were rushing to school, we quickly looked in the crockpot manual to see how long/how hot to cook our delectable dinner. We pushed the required buttons for chicken and let it cook away.
When we got home that afternoon, our apartment smelled like pure delight! I was getting all excited, cause last time we had a dinner party, I made a crockpot roast and it was a huge success! I peered in through the glass top at our dinner - not wanting to open it (I didn't want unnecessary heat transfer) - and I decided to switch the heat setting to low.
Well, about fifteen minutes before our guests arrived I opened the chicken up! It had a funky smell. We put one on a plate to taste it... it was completely burned! How can you burn chicken in a cockpot? It's so easy to use! (I'll admit I started to panic at this point). We hurried and thawed the rest of our frozen chicken to cook on our "Grilleration" (Thanks George Foreman!). The chicken turned out great, unfortunately we didn't have a lot to eat (poor boys are probably still hungry) at least my bundt cake turned out yummy (*confession* I'm eating the cake right now!!)
Lesson Learned: If you're not sure about a recipe and you think you should call your mom to ask her for advice, but instead you just cook anyways... you probably will burn the chicken.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Show me the money!
I just faxed in our acceptance forms to Pratt and Whitney!
Connecticut... here we come!
Connecticut... here we come!
Monday, April 14, 2008
"Connect, I Cut?"
Jake and I went to Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, CT two weeks ago (making that 14 planes this month!)
We got a phone call on Friday from P&W extending offers. Our offers were identical, they probably did that on purpose to avoid contention.
So Jake and I have been talking about moving for awhile now, and this seems like the perfect situation. It's a great company, good benefits, intellectually stimulating, interesting projects, beautiful landscape, central location, near-by big cities, etc. The major disadvantage is its relative location to our family. We won't be able to go to FHE every month, see the nieces and nephew's get baptised, go to my little brother's choir concerts, buy sporting goods from Jami at Parks, etc. All our family vacations will be coming back to Utah to catch up with everyone.
But looking at the other opportunities that we have, this seems like the best overall situation. So I think we're moving to CONNECTICUT!!! I figured if I'm going to live there, I better know how to spell the dang state, so Jake came up with this sentence: Connect, I cut? It doesn't really make sense, but I haven't had a problem spelling it since! THANKS JAKEY!
Our start date is July 21st, so if you feel like doing anything before then, give us a call before it's too late! PS - we want to go on many adventures throughout the state - so if you're in the mood for exploring.... let us know!
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