Halloween!

Last night, my roommates and I went to the school dance/carnival for Halloween. We all dressed up as characters from the magic school bus. Well, most of us did anyway. It was a lot of fun getting ready and the dance was alright....last years was definitely better. Anyway, Happy late Halloween!

Roommate Visit!

I'm so excited that this post has nothing to do with my job! Since I had the weekend off, I decided to go visit my roommate Corinne who lives in Burlington, WA. It was so great seeing her, since the last time I saw her was in April!

After a long drive in the car (I hit the wonderful Seattle traffic on my way up, making a two hour car ride into a four hour one...and this was after about three hours of sleep!) I finally got to her house Friday evening. Her parents and two of her brothers were on a pioneer trek with their stake, so she had spent the last couple of days babysitting her little sisters. I could tell she was a little tired, as she was in sweats when I got there! So I helped her control the little treasures Friday and Saturday until her parents got home Saturday evening.

Saturday night Corinne and I jumped in her car and drove to Bellingham to go to dinner at Corinne's favorite restaurant, Busahra, which was a Thai food restaurant. It was pretty good.

Sunday, I went with her to her single's ward and then on the way home we stopped at Padilla Bay and took some pictures.

It was so great getting to see her! Love ya lots Corinne!

The lovely face I get from Corinne when I ask her to smile!

Padilla Bay

Finally a good smile!

The stinkin' seagulls that scared me to death!

Stalker man that was watching us the entire time we were taking pictures and then he fell asleep, so we took pictures of him!

A creepy looking church that I saw when we were driving around.

Skagit Valley

The Great Green Bean Challenge 2009!

Yesterday we started running Green Beans at my work! Normally, myself and most of my co-workers do not enjoy Green Bean season. So, to help us get through it, we've decided to hold a little competition amongst ourselves: The Great Green Bean Challenge (or The G.G.B.C.).

For the green bean "taste test", we have to bite 50 beans in half to make sure it isn't stringy or hard to chew. For me, this is the worst part of green beans, and I usually try to get it done as fast as I can. That prompted my co-worker Maranda and I to come up with the G.G.B.C. We're going to time ourselves whenever we do our biting test to see how fast we can go, and we'll see who the winner is at the end of August. We're also inviting some people from other shifts to join in the fun. We haven't come up with a good prize yet, though!

Hopefully, a little healthy competition will help us endure these next few weeks of green beans!

Chelsea Miles: Vegetable Grader Extraordinaire

So, I have officially completed my first week back at Symons Frozen Foods as a Quality Assurance Person. And let me tell ya, nothing much has changed. I still am not the biggest fan of peas (as seen from the picture) but they at least are not as bad as green beans (oh man! I'm really not looking forward to green bean season).

Anyway, just to give you the low down on what I actually do, I get the oh so important job of taking samples of the product we are running (which as of right now is peas, but we also run corn, blueberries and lima beans--neither of which I have had the opportunity to work with--and of course the dreaded green bean) and grading them based on their color, defects, maturity, and whether or not they are cooked all the way. Oh, and let's not forget the taste test! Well, at least by the end of the summer, I'll have eaten so many veggies, that I'll be good for at least a year.