CarmEmily » CREATE http://carmemily.com Carmen and Emily started this blog to commemorate their long standing friendship. In February 2010 Emily joined the Navy and hasn't had reliable internet since. While Carmen wistfully awaits contact she has decided to only post pictures of the sky until Emily's return. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:44:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dinner http://carmemily.com/2011/09/19/dinner/ http://carmemily.com/2011/09/19/dinner/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:33:32 +0000 Emilily http://carmemily.com/2011/09/19/dinner/ Here is a picture of my first official dinner at the new apartment. Previously, I had been too lazy/busy to do any real grocery shopping, aside from bread, cheese and eggs, which I could live on quite happily, but don’t make much of a meal. This is a Filipino dish (I cannot pronounce the name, not even phonetically) with ground beef, eggs, tomatoes, shrimp, onions, garlic and bitter melon. I don’t know if you have ever had bitter melon (Briana once had a pleasant experience with a bitter melon, you should ask her about it) but it tastes exactly like it sounds. However, the bitterness wears off once you cook it down, and it adds a nice layer of flavor to cut the heaviness of the beef.

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]]> http://carmemily.com/2011/09/19/dinner/feed/ 2 Blogging from the phone http://carmemily.com/2011/09/13/blogging-from-the-phone/ http://carmemily.com/2011/09/13/blogging-from-the-phone/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:42:02 +0000 Emilily http://carmemily.com/2011/09/13/blogging-from-the-phone/ This is an experiment to see if posting from my phone will work. I am at the doctor’s office with my dad, hanging out in the waiting room.

Okay, well, problem #1, there is no page scrolling on the screen. So you type a few lines, then everything you are typing goes down below the screen and you can’t see it. You can still type, but it is invisible, forcing you to blindly trust the apple spell checker, which often likes to replace what I have typed with phrases like “what the duck.”

I think my dad is coming out now. I’ll upload a quick pic!

p.s. I saw you started a post on shoes. You should definitely finish it, since I am like a 7-month fashion time warp and have no idea what shoes I need to buy with this wad of cash burning a hole in my pocket!

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]]> http://carmemily.com/2011/09/13/blogging-from-the-phone/feed/ 0 yuck http://carmemily.com/2010/01/14/2457/ http://carmemily.com/2010/01/14/2457/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:19:41 +0000 Emilily http://carmemily.com/2010/01/14/2457/ Okay, I know you can’t see this photo very well, but basically it is a picture of Burger King on a lovely sunny day in McKinleyville. I tried to zoom in on the marquis, which was the reason for this picture, but it is still fuzzy. It reads “TRY NEW BK BURGER SHOTS.” What?!?!

I looked it up online, and apparently, they are trying to promote their new sliders, but whatever marketing genius came up with the term “burger shots” needs to be fired. Immediately. I mean, not only is the idea of “shooting” any form of a burger completely nauseating, but they come in a “six-pack” because, clearly, just one alcoholic-beverage reference was not cool enough.

]]> http://carmemily.com/2010/01/14/2457/feed/ 1 Last skills acquired in 2009… http://carmemily.com/2010/01/01/last-skills-acquired-in-2009/ http://carmemily.com/2010/01/01/last-skills-acquired-in-2009/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:07:07 +0000 Carmen http://carmemily.com/?p=2392 Right before the end of 2009 I learned how to saber a champagne bottle!  This is a useful skill to have especially if you happen to be riding a horse and someone hands you a bottle of champagne to toast your nobleness. Well obviously you would just bust out your trusty sword and slide the blade upwards with a smooth, swift motion hitting the top lip of the bottle at its weakest point and the top shears off. Of course the force of the bubbly keeps any glass from entering into the bottle but if you do it right there are no extra pieces of glass anywhere.  Brilliant!

]]> http://carmemily.com/2010/01/01/last-skills-acquired-in-2009/feed/ 6 Happy New Year! http://carmemily.com/2009/12/31/happy-new-year/ http://carmemily.com/2009/12/31/happy-new-year/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:09:48 +0000 Carmen http://carmemily.com/?p=2388 Well, this is my first drink of the evening… its called The Blue Moon.

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The (modified) recipe was originally from this great blog, Farmgirl Fare. It’s by this woman who one day packed up her California lifestyle and moved out to a remote, 280-acre farm in the middle of Nowhere, Missouri. I think I can relate to packing everything up and embarking on a new adventure! I also like the name of her blog, because it reminds me of The Princess Bride (Farmboy) although I doubt this has any relation to her blog at all. Anyways, there are a ton of healthy recipes, pictures of her farm animals, and a smattering of gardening tips and photos. I think this weekend I might try a batch of these blueberry breakfast bars, but with persimmons instead, since they’re weighing down the trees in the front yard.

]]> http://carmemily.com/2009/12/08/muffins/feed/ 0 My beautiful Grandma… http://carmemily.com/2009/12/08/my-beautiful-grandma/ http://carmemily.com/2009/12/08/my-beautiful-grandma/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:58:39 +0000 Carmen http://carmemily.com/?p=2326 I found this picture of my grandma (on the right) and her sister.  Isn’t she lovely?

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]]> http://carmemily.com/2009/12/08/my-beautiful-grandma/feed/ 1 Top floor of bloomingdales from my phone with tiltshift http://carmemily.com/2009/12/04/top-floor-of-bloomingdales-from-my-phone-with-tiltshift/ http://carmemily.com/2009/12/04/top-floor-of-bloomingdales-from-my-phone-with-tiltshift/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:15:01 +0000 Carmen http://carmemily.com/2009/12/04/top-floor-of-bloomingdales-from-my-phone-with-tiltshift/

]]> http://carmemily.com/2009/12/04/top-floor-of-bloomingdales-from-my-phone-with-tiltshift/feed/ 1 blog business http://carmemily.com/2009/12/03/carmen-i-just-noticed-the-time-on-my-po/ http://carmemily.com/2009/12/03/carmen-i-just-noticed-the-time-on-my-po/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:50:51 +0000 Emilily http://carmemily.com/2009/12/03/carmen-i-just-noticed-the-time-on-my-po/ I just noticed the time on my post last night was not adjusted for stupid daylight savings time. It was not 12:15 am, it was 11:15 pm. I’ve just changed our settings to reflect this. Obviously, WordPress agrees with me in that daylight savings is nothing but a useless annoyance.

]]> http://carmemily.com/2009/12/03/carmen-i-just-noticed-the-time-on-my-po/feed/ 0 picture template http://carmemily.com/2009/11/15/picture-template/ http://carmemily.com/2009/11/15/picture-template/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:08:37 +0000 Emilily http://carmemily.com/?p=2139 new orleans project testSo here’s another picture template I made! It is a lot less complicated than the last one, but I think will still work for short projects, and also is a nice way to post three images and a little type. Plus, it can be vertical or horizontal!

Just to see how it looked online, I’ve posted my last three pictures from New Orleans. This is the Mississippi River from Jackson Square. I am not sure what that is across the water, probably just more Louisiana?

I am not sure if you can tell, but along the bottom of the template I drew some graph paper. I might have to make it larger or darker for it to really show up…I guess if you just wanted to show three images, you could use the template at full size (this is medium size) and then the graph paper would show. It occurred to me that with the orange type in the banner, the graph paper, and the clean orderly arrangements of everything in P2, we have a sort of Rhodia notebook theme going on!

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