{"id":910,"date":"2013-01-25T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T06:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2013-01-25T22:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T06:45:10","slug":"a-crappy-week-and-recipe-8-greek-quinoa-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/a-crappy-week-and-recipe-8-greek-quinoa-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crappy Week and Recipe #8: Greek Quinoa Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is less about food and more about me whining&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This week has sucked. Nothing totally horrible has happened, but just a bunch of annoying things (like our fridge being left open)\u00c2\u00a0followed by one really, really annoying thing. First off, Sunday I was cleaning up a broken picture frame and sliced open my finger on a piece of glass. Not wanting to figure out if I needed stitches and how they would do stitches on a knuckle, I just patched it up best I could. Now because it&#8217;s on a knuckle, it kept reopening which was, you know, &#8220;unpleasant&#8221;. Not to mention it was my right middle finger knuckle so I couldn&#8217;t\/shouldn&#8217;t bend it, this resulted in my flipping people off any time I tried to grab anything. It&#8217;s healing now, but I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;ll scar, there goes my hand modeling career.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Matt has been sick with a flu all week, I have been feeling crappy too. This is why I get the flu shot.You may still get the flu, but if you do, it is significantly less. I have felt crappy, that &#8220;Not crappy enough to miss work. Crappy enough to not want to do anything else because all your energy went to work.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0I got off easy. Matt&#8217;s missed 2.5 days of work, I missed 1, mostly because my boss told me to so I could rest (I apparently was pale and her inner &#8220;mother hen&#8221; kicked in) and so I could take care of him. So, in my opinion, get the flu shot.<\/p>\n<p>And the final blow this week&#8230;My phone died. The pins in the charging port somehow were bent and there was no fixing it. I lost everything; contacts, old texts I had saved, and my photos that for some reason had started saving to the phone instead of the memory card. I had not backed up anything. Next time, I will sync everything to Google. I learned the hard way.<\/p>\n<p>Me, this time last year &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really Matt. I don&#8217;t need a smart phone. I don&#8217;t play with mine as much as you do. I don&#8217;t even call people. I just need something that texts easily. Really I don&#8217;t need anything fancy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me, yesterday &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My phone?!?! NOOOOOO! Not my phone! Why God, Why?! What do you mean Sprint can&#8217;t fix it?! My life is on there. I can&#8217;t go back to the old phone. I have come to far to go back. I needs it!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How a year changes you. I admit, not really for the better, but the truth is I am a convert. I &#8220;need&#8221; my smart phone now. Whether for email or texting, working out of the office, reading at the gym, taking photos (I haven&#8217;t touched my actual camera in months) and videos, couponing (JoAnn&#8217;s app, brilliant!), and yes, killing time on pinterest and facebook. . .Okay, okay and the occasional angry bird. . . I have become dependent upon my phone.<\/p>\n<p>Did you notice something missing in there? Phone calls maybe? Yes, because that is my least favorite aspect of my phone. I HATE talking on the phone. There are a couple reasons. First, I talk on the phone all day at work, it&#8217;s the bulk of my in office tasks. Second, I suffer from some hearing loss, it normally doesn&#8217;t both me unless we are in a crowded\/loud place, but it can be hard for me to make things out over a cell phone since things are more muffled and I can&#8217;t look at the person talking. I just much prefer to speak in text based format or face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, I am hurting with my first world problem. I am using Matt&#8217;s old phone until I can save up to buy a new one. Which sounds so spoiled, and it is, but I hate Matt&#8217;s old phone. I never liked using it when it was his current phone. Again, I&#8217;m whiny and spoiled, I should be thankful I even had a phone let alone a back up phone to use in the meantime. Loosing the pictures though, that stung. I think I loved that phone as a camera more than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, enough whining and on to something that went right this week. . . Thursday&#8217;s lunch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beta.abc.go.com\/shows\/the-chew\/recipes\/Greek-Quinoa-Salad-Bobby-Flay\">Green Quinoa Salad<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-909\" alt=\"IMAG0807_BURST004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMAG0807_BURST004-1024x577.jpg\" width=\"553\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMAG0807_BURST004-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMAG0807_BURST004-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><br \/>\nB<\/a>ehold, the last picture my phone took&#8230;::sigh::<\/p>\n<p>Do you like our fancy work plates? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This recipe comes from Bobby Flay. He has a new web series called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/bobby-flay-fit\/package\/index.html\">Bobby Flay Fit<\/a>. It&#8217;s very simple and, outside of cooking the quinoa, came together in about 10\u00c2\u00a0minutes. It was a perfect lunch with lots of fresh veggies. Personally, I don&#8217;t care for olives, so I left those out. The peppers too, which would have been yummy, I was just cheap. It was still delicious!! It was so good and looked so pretty, my boss asked for a bite and then immediately asked for the recipe. She loves dishes like this and has a niece who is vegan and this is something they can both enjoy by simply removing the feta. It would be a perfect summer potluck salad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is less about food and more about me whining&#8230;. This week has sucked. Nothing totally horrible has happened, but just a bunch of annoying things (like our fridge being left open)\u00c2\u00a0followed by one really, really annoying thing. First off, Sunday I was cleaning up a broken picture frame and sliced open my finger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,4],"tags":[710,709,707,679,293,706,708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}