Questionaire part 2

So, Mr. A and I are not discussing the election.  At ALL.  It is like it doesn’t exist.  THis is good because I have been known to call him a Big Fat TRAITOR and get rather agitated about his defection to the Hillary camp in previous discussions.  Mr. A does not get agitated, even when I tried to convince him to change is vote again and again. 

I can’t help but feel like he sold me out by switching teams.  We have always agreed on politics before.  If he was a republican, I do not believe we could stay married. 

On with the questions:

4) Does your family (including any in-laws) know about and read your blog?

To my knowledge, no one on my side of the family reads my blog.  Mr. A’s older sister (SIL) and her husband (BIL) were informed of my blog’s existence by a friend who had met me before and who stumbled upon the blog randomly, I think.  Fortunately for me, BIL told me that he had heard of the blog so I could scrub it for all negative comments about him before he read it (Ha ha, just kidding! I don’t think I ever wrote any negative comments about BIL or that SIL here).  

BIL showed it to SIL who was apparently uncomfortable reading such personal information about me, so I don’t think she reads it regularly.  BIL reads from time to time and seems to particularly interested in my posts about MIL.  This is one thing we have in common (dealing with Mr. A’s mother in an inlaw way) and we rehash it endlessly when there is nothing else to do.

I also have a number of friends who read either because I a) told them about it or b) I met them via my blog or C) they stalked me (via google or by looking at their browser history when I was staying at their house like a certain Annie Malie).   At first, real life people reading my blog really freaked me out.  Now, it is no big deal.  

For the record, though, if I know you in real life and you are reading here, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.   Seriously, this will save all of us from very uncomfortable situations in which I complain about you, your feelings get hurt, and then we have to have some kind of painful confrontation in which you tell me how much I suck.   I hate confrontations.

5)  More pictures of your home projects!

Once we get more of the grunt work done, I have every intention of posting pictures and soliciting decorating advice.  Because I have been so project-focused, a lot of the house is pretty messy right now and you can’t really see the improvments like that.   I promise the pictures will show up in the near future.

6)  What do you like to fix for dinner? Do you have any easy, fast recipes you could share?  Does Mr. A like to cook any traditional Chinese dishes?

I try to cook a real meal 3 or 4 nights a week.  To me this means a main dish and two veggie or fruit sides. Or a single dish that incorporates a lot of veggies.

I particularly like to cook braised meat like (Sauerbraten), roast chicken or pork, and thai curries.  In the winter, I try to make one pot of soup a week and we also eat a lot of random stuff stir-fried with rice.  I don’t really use recipes for most things.  I have found two recipes this winter that I like, though.  Skillet Pot Pie and Balsamic Beef Stew.  I modify them both slightly (mostly I add more veggies), but you can get the jist.

Mr. A does cook Chinese sometimes.  He has about a 50/50 chance that I will like what he cooks if he doesn’t use a recipe.  His best dish is long noodles with ground pork.  We had those for Chinese New Year.  He learned that recipe from his sister and I don’t know what else goes into it.

More answers tomorrow.