pinterest part 1

pinterest is my new obsession. i check it before i even check facebook now. i love that i can store everything i find in just one spot with a cute little picture to go along with the idea. the first then i have made from a pinterest find was a braided apple bread. pretty much it is an apple pie with bread.

delicious.

catch up....

* worked the 4th but got to go out and watch the fireworks in the splash park. they always put on a good show*

** got a new pan. made some homemade blueberry donuts. need to find a recipe to make them more like the old fashion donuts that you get at the store. but it was a fun first attempt.**

*** i have been wanting to make an oreo pizza for forever and since we were having a harry potter marathon get together, i thought it was the perfect opportunity. i copied the idea from craigos aka pizza pie cafe. made the dough and used a cream cheese frosting for the icing and add some oreos and caramel. it was delicious. it is all in the dough. we have a good recipe. i just need to make it a little thinner but it will be made again soon. ***

**** also i have discovered pinterest today. i am obsessed. i have now "pinned" all the recipes that i had saved on my computer to it and now all i want to do is search the web to find things i love so i can pin them. best idea ever!****

one word

if i had only one word to describe the events at camp today, it would be....poop.

you dont even want to know!

oh camp life.

i want s'more cookies!

haha. i crack myself up.

so at camp it has become a tradition now that i bring treats on monday. this week's treat was chosen for me and the idea of them was awesome, they are s'more cookies, but the recipe sucked. the cookies did not rise at all and no matter what i did, nothing helped. they pretty much just tasted like a regular chocolate chip cookie. if i were to make them again i would definitely just choose a different recipe and add the garnishes on top, but they still tasted fine. i just dont like that they were flat. it makes them look ugly.

it always takes forever to get to friday

...but now it is here!

so today, two girls were fighting and one told the other that she no longer wants to be her friend. this girl came up to me crying and i just started busting out laughing. she told me to stop and that just egged it on even more. i couldnt control myself. needless to say, they were friends again by the end of the day.

camp life.

i got some new stuff

so i went out shopping this weekend. got some good stuff. new flip flops. an american flag tank for the upcoming holiday. a plum colored shirt. and my favorite, plates and door knobs from anthropologie and my most favorite, a new pan. this pan serves different purposes. one side you can make little cakes and if you flip it over you can make eatable bowls. and so of course i had to try it out right away. i made sugar and chocolate chip cookie bowls and i am going to fill them with fruit topped off with whip cream. new favorite thing to make, i think so.

the best part about working at a summer camp

1) awesome tan
2) get to make fun/trick kids
and my favorite #3. you can show up to work looking like a mess and it doesnt matter, cause it is summer camp.

i love never getting ready for work.

ya, im watching the ring right now.

so i woke up this morning pretty much on my death bed. i wanted to die. i was laying on the bathroom floor, cold sweats galor for about an hour off and on. then finally it past. still not on my A game but better.

and even though i wasnt feeling well that didnt stop me from making some delisious cookies i had recently heard about. They are called inception cookies. Chocolate chip dough wrapped around an oreo. Yep sounds as good as it tastes!


the recipie i used for the dough i found here: http://doyouloveit.com/?p=2959

the next treat that has caught my eye is a chocolate chip and bacon cookie. Bacon, yum. Chocolate, yum. With alittle bit of maple syrup, yum. I dont think we can go wrong here.

Also the other day i watched a documentery called the cove. It was all about dophins that are lead into a cove off the coast of Japan and then they kill all these dolphins. It was so sad. So i decided to do my part and SAVE THE DOLPHINS since i mean i was an aspiring marine biologist at one point in my life.

im the perfect dog sitter

so a few days ago i was asked to watch a family friends dog while they were away. im not up to much thus far in the summer so of course i was up for the task. especially since i currently am without room and bed at my house, i was able to get the chance to have a bed again at the dog's house.

so first day starts off without a hitch. we bonded. i to ok him out. i feed him. then came night and i gathered all my belongings of entertainment to bring over with me for the night. they had a few things for me to do while i was there and one was to take the trash out to the curb to be picked up the next day. so at this time i had a few convos going on the facebook and luckily i was also texting someone at the time so i left my chats with hopes to return and took my phone with me while i took the cans out. i went into the garage through a door in the house. while in there i could not find the button to raise the garage door ( we currently had a garage door opener installed so now i assume that everyone has one) but i couldnt find the button to i thought to myself maybe it is just inside the door that leads to the garage to i went to open it.

locked.

instant panic. because at that time i didnt even know how to open the garage door either. my phone was moments away from death. i searched for a little bit longer and still couldnt find a button. i called the girl who lived there and it went straight to voice mail. dang it. next on the list call a friend that doesnt even live here and knowing he couldnt do anything even though my phone had one bar left but i was bewildered and my mind was not working and i didnt know what to do. i was locked inside of a garage.

come to find out that the garage door is not electric and i can just open it. so atleast i am out of the garage now.

so i take the cans to the curb.

i guess it is time to call my mom now. she gets ahold of the mom of the house and there is no spare key so we have to drive out to the grandparents house in the morning so we can get back and feed the dog.

so as im talking to my mom and she is telling me this, i decide i will close the garage. i have one hand holding my phone and pulling down the garage with the other. well i couldnt pull it all the way down just with the one hand so dumb me grab inthe crease that bends as it is being pulled and pull down. then the screaming starts. i cant think what to do cause my other hand is occupied and i cant pull my fingers out the crease and they are being squished to death. so i hang up the phone only to release my fingers just in time. any longer im sure they would of just fallen off.

but there i... phone almost dead, charger locked in the house with all my stuff and the dog, me shoeless in my pajamas sitting in the driveway...fingers hurting.

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.

the unibrow singer slash self talker with the mentality of a 11 year old

yep. that is the description of my roommate. she talks to herself so much that i think someone is in the room with her. and it is not the oh how quirky she talks to herself...it is the insane, needs to be put in an institution cause i am crazy, talking to myself.

and that is not all. she sings all the time. it is not horrible singing but it is not good. she sings the same words over and over and changes the tune of the song and she is so loud and it is so irritating when i am trying to go to sleep.

oh and she only watches nickelodeon or the disney channel and knows all the words to the songs. i mean i like a good icarly as much as the next 12 year old but i dont turn it on unless there is a 12 year old in the room.

oh and did i mention she has a unibrow. i know that takes the cake and initially i really wanted to be her friend because of it but then these other qualities hit me in the face and i decided she is more crazy then anything. but i give her props for sporting the uni and actually would love to do a portrait photo shoot with her cause that thing would be awesome on film.


but today was also labor day and i went and spent it with the family and we went boating. i went wake-boarding for the first time ever. i wish i had pictures but they wouldn't be embarrassing if you were wondering because I NEVER GOT UP. ugh. that is frustrating but i was reassured by my aunt that it is usually the second time out that people get up. so i will just keep telling myself that but for now all i have to walk away with from my wake boarding experience is extremely sore forearms.


BUT i was SUCCESSFUL in getting the blueberry stain out of my brand new white shirt which had only been worn approximately 3 hours before disaster struck .

hello again

summer recap.

worked alot at summer camp. had a blast with all of my coworkers. best summer thus far. last day was great. ended with the golden rabbit, some swimming, pizza party, heavyweights and a girl crapping her pants while giving me a back massage.

oh and i had my car broken into and my purse stolen. that was sucky and still 3 weeks later waiting for everything to be fixed. still dont have my license but not going to lie i feel kind of cool when i need to show ID and i use my passport.

went to seattle. it was great. loved hanging out with tiff. it was just relaxed and i loved it. started it out with some little caesars...classic us and some hocus pocus. then i got to see her play the organ and went to brunch and ate way too much but it was so good and got some cupcakes and had some awesome thrift finds. later that night we went to see the monks sing. monday involved a movie, some sushi, and a gay guy. perfect. then tuesday was BEACH DAY. i havent been to any sort of beach in i dont know how many years. the weather was perfect. and tyler came so that was fun. i didnt go in the water cause i was chicken and it was extremely cold. then it was just some hand out time at tiffs apt and then off to the airport with some ivars as i waited. perfect trip.

provo.
roommates...the asian, the 30 year old and the unibrow. enough said.
first day of school. . . almost started crying after i got home, wondering what i got myself into
school is better now.
week two....to be continued.

WHAT A WEEK....

Oh wowzers. i have a had a fun filled past few days....lets recap

last week i bought all of my material to make my quilt and have actually started on it....that is good progress in this household. i just hope the vision i have in my head can be transferred to the quilt

on friday went and hung out with some friends and went to the observation deck at the airport which is matt jones' favorite. i pretty much fell asleep cause my life has turned to patheticacy (made up word) and i cant get myself to stay up past 11 most days.

then sunday, this is the biggest of them all, i bought my ticket to go see tiffany! this is the first time i have ever actually planed out a vacation where it required me to buy a ticket ahead of time. oh i did go to europe once and that had to be planned but still i think i called my sister in the middle of the night her time and was like i am buying a ticket right now for this day hope it works...so maybe this is my second time but it feels like my first. so i am so excited to see her! oh and did i mention how awesome she is. she always sends me the coolest things...this year for my birthday she sent these...

love them. they will go great with my collection. seattle will be a great way to end summer before my college career restarts.

then monday i was summoned to jury duty...again.
i just was there last august, so maybe it has been almost a year but still there are people that have never gone. but i guess it didnt turn out that bad. it was kind of fun to see how things worked. the first day i got my assignment for a jury that was the next day so i got to go home relatively early but had to be back tuesday for court. there was 72 of us that had to go into court and after hours of sitting 22 people got to be exempted for different reasons then we had lunch. while at lunch i went and sat by a kid who is in my ward but i havent talked to him in like 3 years cause i have been gone or he has been gone and the mutual friends we had in common are no longer here. so i guess i would say that was one of the best things that came out of the whole thing. making a friend at church while not at church but randomly put on the same jury! ha. so we get back to the court room and the prosecutor and the defense attorney go on and on and ask us questions so they can narrow us down and then in the end i wasnt picked. i am glad cause i dont want to be the one that has to choose a punishment for someone. i am a wuss.

thus were my past few days.