Day 1

So this is Day 1 of my blog "Occupy My Time" and already it's doing its name justice.  Setting up my account/profile and the look and feel of this blog has thoroughly occupied my time now for the last couple hours.  I must say that those couple hours flew.  So I am still trying to figure out what I want to focus this blog on or if I'll focus on any one particular genre at all (probably not).  To any readers out there, let this be a warning to you, this blog may be all over the place.  It may deal with food and cooking, it may deal with watching particular tv shows or movies, it may deal with friends and family, it may deal with love, or it just may deal with some random thing I saw that day; nevertheless I will trudge on and bring you the happenings of a person who has "lost their way" and is looking to "find himself again".  BLAH!!!  So cheesy, huh?  I don't think I've lost my way nor need to find myself again.  Although I would like to find myself more innately and gather more understanding of who I am and want to be.  I have all these thoughts and ideas about what I would like to do but I am such a lazy procrastinator that I'm afraid I won't do them.  Or I just get distracted. Ha.  Oh, also I'm broke.  Haha - probably not a laughing matter, but it's always good to be able to laugh at yourself, right?  Well enough about me, let's move on to something else...

Last night I cooked a steak.  I had a couple steaks defrosting in the fridge and thought I'd eat one for dinner along with some leftover brown rice and vegetable-sausage medley (spicy Italian sausage, mushrooms, corn, brussel sprouts tossed with some leftover homemade pesto).  I ended up seasoning the steaks with some salt, pepper, chipotle cayenne pepper, garlic powder, thyme, oregano, and some steak seasoning.  I threw them on a hot griddle pan just to sear the outside and get some nice brown color and then I put them on a baking sheet that was pre-heating in the oven.  I kept them in the oven at 375-400 degrees for about 10 minutes - to about Medium, which is how I like my steaks.  Now let me tell you that I am in no way shape or form a cook, chef, or any other culinary professional.  I just make stuff up as I go along.  The steaks turned out well - I will I had my bbq grill, they would've came out better but oh well.  They still had some pink to them and were tasty enough for me to enjoy. 

As I ate my dinner with my glass of milk (don't hate, I'm trying to be healthy and drink milk), I watched that night's episode of Glee (yes I watch it, again don't hate, they sing good songs sometimes - whether they butcher it or not is a different story).  I don't want to talk too much about the episode but it was okay, not the greatest but okay.  I did enjoy their rendition of My Chemical Romance's Sing and I enjoyed the Diva off song choice but Lea Michele's performance was not her best.  I found it funny that she looks like she could be Idina Menzel's daughter and she ended up singing Idina's song from Rent, not to mention Idina's part.  Anybody else notice that?  I'm sure everybody did.  Other than that, the whole Beiber fever tribute band crap.... Yea... I'm not a Beiber fan in the slightest.  So BLAH!!  Also, Dianna Agron and is getting hotter.  I never thought she was when the show started but it's starting to come around; and Naya Rivera is just maintaining her hotness but there have been times when she's not, just my opinion.

So after watching Glee, I did some reading.  Reading has been my new fascination this last couple months.  I moved into a new apartment by myself and I seemed to have all this extra time on my hands so I thought I'd make up for the fact that I never completed college and I would try to help educate myself by reading more.  So last night I finished reading "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle.  I know this is a young adult book that probably should've been read in junior high but I never did and it was recommended that I do.  It took me a while to really get into it.  I think I was thrown off by the fact that it was a young adult book but the theme and ideas of the book are so out there that I feel if I had read it back then I wouldn't be able to fully grasp it like I do now - even though it still is a little "crazy".  Not "crazy" bad but "crazy" as in making your mind think.  It was good and I TEI (thoroughly enjoyed it).  That analogy was brought to you by my friends April and Raymond who said it while I was around one day I was completely lost and they wouldn't explain.  About 20 minutes later, I finally figured it out.  So now I pass it on to you dear reader.  When you enjoyed something, thoroughly enjoyed something you can just announce "I TEI".  "Trust me, it's a thing" - Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother.

I know this post is pretty long already but I just want to mention something else.  Two nights ago I finished reading "The Noticer" by Andy Andrews (I like his name).  This book along with "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch are the two books that are really speaking to me right now.  If you haven't read them, READ THEM!  I will even lend you my copy - as long as you promise to return them because they are GREAT books.  They are life changing, well unless you already follow the principles that the books talk about, which I doubt 90% of people do, myself included.  They are not self-help books or instructional books on how to lead your life.  They are just novels about these two guys lives and lessons that they've learned - lessons that everybody could probably learn.  So my final thought for the momment -

Read "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch and "The Noticer" by Andy Andrews.

The Last Lecture ; The Noticer