on May 1st......

I turned 25.
Shut up. I don't want to talk about it.

(sometimes on the stair stepper when it ask me to put my age in...i still put 24)

winter 2011 in review

*Watched the whole series of Lost. (and nope i dont get it. nothing was resolved for me)

*Got sick, really really sick. Actually went to the doctor after about a month of being really sick and got some prescriptions. I haven’t been to the doctor since I was a child. The only other time I have had a prescription was when I got my tonsils out so this was a big deal. But I got better. ( so side note. i just lied. i dont even know what i was thinking. i still have my tonsils. i was meaning to put that i had a prescription when i got my wisdom teeth out. but i had read over this a few times and it wasnt till this time that i noticed i just made up a whole story about myself.... so replace tonsils with wisdom teeth)

*Took a snowboarding class and made a break through on my S turns. Finally.

*I became a teacher in a first grade class.
*Watched the whole series of Grey’s Anatomy…again ( and when i say watch...it was just on in the background)

*Festival of colors

*Went searching for easter eggs at 1 in the morning with Devin and Heather but turns out it was all a prank and there was no prizes for the eggs. We even woke up at 7am to claim our prizes only to find about 10 other people as disappointed as we were

*Saw Sugar Ray for free in concert and Jimmer (Mark McGrath is so hot right now)
*Putt – putting

*Shot some guns. getting good i might say.

*Nickle City… got some sweet tats and things that turn in to sponge animals when put in hot water….or in someone’s mouth. Ha.

*Ihop more times then I care to go. (ordering from the kids menu is frowned upon)

*Met awesome people ( a little too late in the semester then i would of liked)
*Saw someone get engaged at Sport Comedy….lame

*Went to the hot springs and got pissed when the guys wouldn’t help us find the keys

*Car broke down in the Target parking lot and wouldnt start so had to tow it with my friends truck in the middle of the night

*Midget wrestling ( and yes it was as awesome as it sounds)
Made a million desserts

*Became a pro ping pong player

*Game night!

*Had some nicely interesting roommates…cough couch lesbians


....Just a few things to wrap it all up

sugar high

I love baking. Whenever i am stressed, i bake. It a gather is coming up, i bake. If i find a new recipe online, i bake. So this past winter i did alot of baking. I am starting to get really good at it and trying new things. I really like making cakes. Here are a few things that i remembered to take pictures of this semester....


I had just gotten a new pan and it makes a checkered design so you can do two different cakes at once. This one was red velvet and chocolate. I am really good a making moist cake....just saying. I just used a basic chocolate frosting and put heath bits in between the layers. It was for Harry Potter day.

This was a three layer cake again. Same deal but with funfetti. It was christmas, thus the decoration.

So one of my favorite things to do is go to the bookstore and buy discounted baking books. From one of the books this was chosen by a friend as the dessert he most wanted me to make. It is a cheesecake with cookie dough. It wasnt bad. Cheesecake isnt my favorite mainly because i can only a little bit before i get tired of it. i things that i basically can gorge my face in and never stop.

These were some Superbowl treats. There were chocolate cupcakes with a reeses in the middle and then chocolate buttercream frosting and peanut butter buttercream frosting. I was pleasantly surprised with the buttercream frostings. It was my first time making them and they were really good. Then i also made chocolate chip and coconut cookies. I love coconut but it turns out not many others do. They were ok cookies. It was my first time making them and well i couldn't stop eating them but that is mainly because im a sucker for any kind of cookie.

Cream puffs. Delicious. Crowd pleaser. I got the recipe from my friend Steve Peper and added my own little flair to it. I made them more like sandwiches and added a sliced strawberry in the middle as a little surprise. They were really easy to make and I loved them. Thanks Steve.

This was my favorite thing i made all semester long. A three layer chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream in the middle of the layers and a chocolate gauche glaze on top. It was actually not that difficult to make and i just loved the way it looked at the end. I am now a huge fan of not frosting the whole cake.



So these were the only things i took pictures of this semester which me saying i love to bake, this is a pathetic representation of it but believe me there was more. much more treats produced. Life goal: to work in a bakery and learn some real stuff.

somebody has the case of the mondays....

BUT not me! oh man it was a pretty good monday. pretty much only things that would make me excited but thats fine. classes boring. huge 3 hour break in between classes, productive but boring until i was on my way to my music class. there was a sidewalk tent sale of things from the bookstore. i was just strolling the outside when something under the tent caught my eye. a little globe. i have been wanting a globe, just for fun so i went and checked it out. picked it up and it doubled as a pencil sharpener!! ya you are probably thing, noone even uses pencil sharpeners anymore, un contraire. i am in an art class were we have to use old school drawing pencils and i just so happen to need to sharpen.

i was super excited just for this globe pencil sharpener until my eye caught a teal beauty. . . a fanny pack!

i bet people thought i was crazy cause i just got a huge smile on my face and picked one up without hesitation and got in line. $2.68 later, my monday was awesomely complete. then i had more boring classes.

also something i have noticed about my self. i dont know if it is because i am more confident cause i am like man i have already gone through this whole getting a bachelor thing and i am just awesome but i talk so much more in my classes then i ever did in my communication - advertising classes. i raise my hand and actually volunteer answers without being called on. like today i was sitting in childrens lit and it was late afternoon and i was pretty tired, i had been up since 6 but i had been participating but my teacher was reading us a book and is was kind of lame so i was kind of dozing and in a little out of body moment and he asked a question and i immediately raised my hand and he called on me cause i was up front (which i have noticed i do that now. i am a front row sitter) but after my hand shot up i was like what am i doing i wasnt ever really paying attention but i said what i had to say, it was kind of dumb but i didnt even care.

and lastly what made me excited about today is the thought of training for a half marathon. i saw the flyer on my car this morning. it is a halloween run and it will be a cool setting. it is kind of pricey which i think is dumb but i kind of want to do it. i like the idea of training for something, i kind of feel cool. so lets see if i get the courage up to actually do it. and as i was sitting in the workout building on campus i was looking through the windows overlooking the pool and watching the swimmers and it made me miss swimming and i want to try and take it up again and go during free swim. i dont have a suit for it and they dont rent them here so this might be a problem considering it is fall now and not swim suit season. we will see what i can find.

well that was my monday.

fall is in the air

so i think i have decided what i want to be for halloween! some sewing will be involved so hopefully my christmas present gets here soon.

and i want to make this cake.

uncivilized

so i was just rimanencing back in the holliday times were me, holli and mikalyn were slackers about getting the internet so we made friends and would just bum it off of them. then i started feeling guilty about using it so i would crouch in the cold dark corner of our apt where i could sometimes steal someones internet that wasnt locked but that wasnt always successful so i then resorted to taking my laptop down to the bathroom in the managers office so i could check things. just me sitting there in the bathroom writing people on facebook. oh those were the times. then we got the internet after about 5 months of not having it and i didnt have to do those things anymore. i could surf the web from anywhere in our apt. but now, here i am again. laying on the hard floor of my apt cause i have to actually connect with the cable to the router. i feel by now the internet should just be in the air and i dont have to go through the annoying process of not having my password work. dang you comcast. i just want to internet it up in the comfort of my own bed.