Attitude

Today I read an article about attitude. Not the don't give me an attitude or I will fire you type of article. Instead, this was more eye opening to say the least. Not because I learned something that I didn't already know, but because sometimes we forget a out the little things and must be reminded of what makes you or breaks you.

Here's the link for the article: https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130304154223-15077789-how-to-give-yourself-a-promotion-at-work?trk=mp-author-card&_mSplash=1&rs=false

I do believe that there's nothing more important than having a good attitude. Unfortunately, sometimes regardless of what a great attitude you might have others will try to bring you down. That's when it's important to make those decisions necessary to keep you happy. Is it the friendship? The job? Whatever that negative thing is we must get rid of it!

More motivational books?

Ok, ok. I know, you're probably sitting there thinking what the heck? Another motivational post? Honestly, if it wast for LinkedIn, I probably wouldn't find so many motivational articles out there. Here's the problem though, every time I read these articles I see at least one or two books that I personally own. Which might say that I just have a large library. So just to set things straight I do not have a large collection of books. I think that if anything it says that I should perhaps start reading more of my personal books before reaching out to the Internet in search of 'literature'. With that in mind, here's the link that will take you to my newest find! I hope you like it!

http://m.inc.com/?incid=47378

Cha Ye Dan / Chinese Tea Leaf Eggs

Lately I've been craving Chinese food. Unfortunately, living in Missoula, MT doesn't provide a lot of opportunity to have some authentic Chinese food. Since my grandpa on my dad's side was Chinese, I grew up in a household where white rice is a staple. The smell of plain white rice is amazing!

To make the perfect balance in the water to rice ratio. Years ago my now husband bought a Cusinart rice cooker/ steamer all in one. However, the rice always seemed too wet. There's seriously nothing more annoying to an Asian person than poorly cooked rice. It wasn't until recently that I bought a small rice cooker. It wasn't that expensive but it was a dedicated rice cooker. Now , I have perfect rice and then I thought what better way to celebrate my new rice cooker than with some Chinese tea leaf eggs?

Note: Do not make he eggs while hungry since they take a while to cook.

I acquired this recipe from http://nookandpantry.blogspot.com/?m=1

I hope your enjoy it as much as I did :)

MITx: 7.00x Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life

Today's post is about The Secret of Life. That's the name of the class (MITx: 7.00x Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life)  that I started taking yesterday from MIT through the EDx program. These classes are called MOOC or Massive Open Online Classes, because technically anyone that has access to the internet and a desire to learn can take these free classes to expand their knowledge. EDx is currently expanding their partnerships with Universities through out the world. It's interesting to see how many people are willing to put in the time, to get a free education. Feel free to check out the website at https://www.edx.org/ and join the thousands of people around the world that are taking this wonderful class.

Duck eggs

A week ago I decided to check out the Farm Animals section in Craigslist's. This would seem like a waste of time to most people because I don't have a farm nor the room for a farm animal. At the time it seemed like a good way to pass the time. Although now that I look back I have plenty of stuff that still needs to get done.

Back to my story. There I was minding my own business when I ran across a post that said, "Fresh Duck Eggs for sale". What?! People in MT are willing to sell me their Duck Eggs? Since Peter wouldn't let's buy a pig or a cow, these duck eggs seemed pretty harmless.

I immediately emailed the post owner since I wasn't sure hat he availability of these duck eggs was, I was expecting for the seller to say that they were all gone. Instead I got an awesome, "How many would you like?". How many? I've never bought farm fresh duck eggs, frankly I've never seen duck eggs at the store. Uhhh...1? No, I can't just buy 1. How about a dozen? The seller agreed to bring them into town since he was going to be in town anyways and we would meet at a local grocery store.

So there I was driving at 8:00pm to buy duck eggs from some guy I've never met off of Craigslist. Sounds like a horror story doesn't it? The seller was really nice, and I even ended up 2 dozen duck eggs since he said his ducks laid 20 eggs a day. I was all happy and excited until I was driving home and realized I originally only wanted one duck egg, then a dozen because I couldn't just buy one and now I was going home with two dozen duck eggs!!! What on earth was I going to do with 24 duck eggs? Then Chinese duck eggs or (pickled duck eggs and tea leaf eggs) came to mind. In the meantime I was a happy to have my duck eggs. I was very excited to see what these duck eggs could do. I'll prepare a post about my pickling experience for next time.