Happy No School For 2 Weeks Day!

The tree is decorated, and has been for a while now! Only one bulb has been shattered and I got the decorations from my parents (who we get alot of stuff from) My plan is to stock up on all Christmas decorations after the holidays and hit the ALOT% off deals.

In about 28 hours we're off to play in warmer weather with Ben's family for Christmas!! It will be my first non-white Christmas and first Christmas away from my family. I'll miss them sooooooooooo much but I think I'll be fine. I keep telling Ben it's going to snow for me in California, just a little bit. We checked on his phone what the weather looks like and it predicts 50-60 degree weather, no sign of snow, but this is good. Ben's weather app is ALWAYS wrong. It predicted clouds and rain for our whole honeymoon and not to my surprise it was beautiful, sunny, humid, the whole time, except for one day. So I'm still crossing the fingers and think it will snow.

Side note: it seems funny that we are going to have to pack a suitcase just for presents, open them, and then pack them back. It's fun and I hope Ben doesn't see everything I got him when we open the bag or worse the bag gets lost, bag please don't get lost.

I'm so excited for this break!!!!!!! I thought I was school free until I got an e-mail from a professor telling me to read over the break for the 1st day of class :( and I need to study for the GRE and finish polishing my internship application. The internship, it's a big deal, without the internship I can't take the test to become a registered dietitian. If I don't get one I have a plan B.

Plan B: move to Hawaii and open a fruit stand. Ben said he'd join me!

P.S. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Smells Like Christmas Around Here

We have a Christmas tree, and it's REAL!! (not decorated yet, but will be soon) Mmmmmm the smell of pine fills the rooms of our condo and it smells like Christmas. Monday night we looked around but we didn't find "the one." Wednesday we tried again and found it! It was at Lowe's waiting for a home. The guy who helped us was funny. I told him we needed a hole drilled in the bottom because that's what our stand required. He looked at me funny and said, "A drill? I don't know if we have a drill." I told him, "This is Lowe's you have to have a drill." They ended up having a drill and as we talked to the man from Georgia he looked at me and asked "Are you Indian or something?" Ha ha, Indian.

I don't know why I get asked, Indian. I can tell when people are wondering what I am, because they look at me and then ask something like "Hope you don't mind me asking but are you __________?" Fill in any ethnicity, I have been called everything, maybe not Antarctic or Danish, but everything else. This is the 3rd time that Indian has been guessed.

1st time- I was at EFY and a girl in my group found out I was half Japanese. She told me she thought I was Indian this whole time. She was 13, she didn't know what indians looked like.

2nd time-I told a sealer in the temple that I was from Blackfoot. He then asked it I was Indian. Nope.

3rd time-Lowe's Christmas tree man.

When I moved into Raintree, as I was getting to know my roommates for the first time, I didn't want them to wonder and hurt their brain to figure out what I was, I immediately eliminated Indian from their pool of guesses. I randomly blurted out "Guys I'm not Indian." They just looked at me and laughed.

Can you see the resemblance? We're both holding things and have dark hair. Both have a necklace, no red tattoo but I do have a red shirt, I like little birds on my shoulder. As I compare myself to Pocahontas, the famous Indian who I'm guessing everyone is comparing me to, I look more Indian than I thought.

I'm holding up the famous cake we made for our ward Christmas party. Ben's sister Mary and her husband Ryan gave us a cake pan in the shape of a cookie! We made the cakes and filled it with cookies and cream ice cream to make an ice cream cake. I was embarrassed to take it out of the freezer because it was melting, but Ben brought it out and it was a HIT! It was the biggest cake there and the first cake gone, success!

And Ben grew a beard last month for a work competition. It's gone now and we are both happy.

Human Dog

We had our first family ward party. It was a chili/dessert cook off and talent show. Ben was very anxious to get involved in the ward so he signed us up to be in the talent show. What kind of talent were we going to do? We couldn't perform our Celine Dion duet or play Heart and Soul because we knew that everyone else would already be doing that. Ben then suggested that we work on learning a new talent and perform whatever we had learned. After 3 weeks we still hadn't decided on what talent to work on.

The week of the talent show rolls around and still no talent. The only idea I had was to throw food high into the air and have Ben, mouth wide open, catch the food. So that's what we did. Following a balloon artist who created the Little Mermaid (red hair, green fins, and purple shell bra included) we were next. Our act--the Human Dog. Ben set up the circus music and we began. I threw food that progressively got bigger into Ben's mouth, I showed the audience what food I would be throwing. With each food item that got bigger, the louder the oohhh's and aaah's became. The finale consisted of a full sized rice crispy treat. Ben caught it and the crowd went wild. I was surprised at how well we did. When we practiced it didn't look promising but when it came to performing Ben didn't hold back any of his food catching skills, he caught everything (mostly).

Now our new ward should really know who we are; the circus lady and human dog!!

1 Year!!

Guess what today is? Yep you guessed it Ben and I started dating 1 year ago.

I got home from a long day at school so excited to see Ben, and his car wasn't in the parking lot. I debated on whether or not to surprise him with a BBQ bacon burger but decided I wanted to drop my stuff off. I was sad because I wanted to see him, but as I opened the door my attitude instantly changed. I found Ben and a candle lit dinner. He is the best thing that ever happened to me!! He had made his famous curry for dinner and it wouldn't have been a celebration without the bubbly. It was the best welcome home I could have received. Oh, and the flowers!! I'm one lucky girl!!

Notice the plates are licked clean. Ben's a curry master!

Now back to homework. I have alot to post about, it's been a busy month. To be continued.....

I think Ben's Turning Japanese

I think Ben's turning Japanese, I think Ben's turning Japanese I really think so

You tell me......

Ben's an expert sushi roller who received the best training straight from the famous GRANDMA MATSUURA! My grandma is the best cook EVER!! I love cooking with her and learning how to cook form her. She gave me everything I needed to roll sushi last Christmas and now I was able to finally use it.

During the break between conference sessions rolling sushi was a perfect activity!!

The Result=MMMMMMMM

Our favorite roll is ebi tempura. That's what created and a little more...We invented some rolls of our own. I call it the Shrimpy Idaho Roll. But don't let the name be deceiving. The rolls were filling and delicious!! We added tempura shrimp, onion, cucumber, and POTATOES!! It was the Perfect Roll!!

So what do you think?

This is why I love my major!

All day at school I talk about food. Today in my clinical class we talked about ways to address obesity and watched a couple clips on how more agencies have addressed the issue. Here are a few of my favorites. Hope you enjoy and eat your veggies!



This is what my econ class looks like. Everyone is falling asleep, it must be the soda.

YAAAAHHHOOO!!

So I need to blog and this is a looooonnnnnngg one. I've been getting back into the school life and getting moved into our new place with no time to blog. Things have been busy. So I'll update a little about the wedding.

Pictures from the wedding are DONE!!!! Well the ones from the temple. My photographer was Mary Clark and I loved, let me emphasize I LOVED her!! She was great to work with and she took so many marvelous pictures to capture our special day. She hustled all of us through the pictures and told everyone where to go so that we would be ready for the luncheon at noon, and she succeeded!!

I only have the pictures from her blog but I should be getting a cd with all the pictures soon. The cd is in the mail so more to come. But for now until I post more, check us out on her blog here. I can't stop looking at the pictures. They make me so HAPPY and I can't believe how quick the day went by.

Now my dress. It was my dream dress!! I found her in Seattle at a designer outlet. All the dresses there were gorgeous but they were the dresses that people would try on at stores but then have the dress ordered in. So all the dresses had been tried on 5 million times. So my dress was a little tattered and worn. The lace was coming off and it needed to be repaired. But to the rescue........Eliana, my best friend Janet it's her sister, she just finished fashion design school and she did all the alterations and made the jacket for the dress. She brought the dress back to life!! She also added the sash and I found the flower for the dress at Campus Craft and Floral, a little shop on campus. It was great I just went in there one day to see what they had and walla. I had been looking for flowers and there were about ten different ones.

The flower!!

Eliana blogged about my dress and the long process it took. She named my dress Clarysa. Check that out here. Her blog is about fashion and style and she gives some great tips. Thanks Eliana for making my dream dress come true!!


I also had some bridals taken for FREE!! I didn't post about them because I didn't want Ben to see me in the dress before the wedding day. So you can check those out here. Aria was doing some FREE sessions to update her portfolio and she did an AMAZING job too!! She brought parasols for me to use which added an Asian feel. It was perfect.


I also will have more pictures from the photographer in Blackfoot from the reception. The reception was so much FUN too!! Everyone had told me to not be disappointed when something goes wrong, because it always does. But seriously I loved everything about the day!!!
Even the drive to Blackfoot from Salt Lake.
The luncheon where Ross told a story about me peeing my pants.
The weather
All of my family and their support.
The marriage ceremony.
The Beautiful Temple.
The Pictures
All of the help and support from friends and family at the reception, it wouldn't have been able to happen without you.
The sushi, mmmmmm.
The betta fish in the centerpieces.
The Sparklers as we leftPink and Yellow
The CANDY!
The Napoleon Man tied on the back of my carThe Cake (which I thought would taste gross because wedding cake always does but when Ben shoved some up my nose gently, I got a taste of it and I LIKED IT)
The Ice Cream
Fortune Cookies (which I have 200 left over of)
The Music
The DIY projects hung up all around
The funfetti cupcakes
The 36 inch balloon
The guests
More Family
The flowers (which I thought looked purple when I picked them up but they photographed very pink in all the pictures!!)
Everything I LOVED!!!

My mom did so much to get things ready and without her nothing would have turned out the way it did. She gets an extra big HUG!!

Thanks to everyone who helped and supported us.

I loved the day and will always have such great memories or our wedding day. I was beaming and so happy in the car when we left the reception I couldn't stop smiling and telling Ben how happy I was. It really was the PERFECT DAY!

10 Days and Counting

So only 10 more days of being called Kimi Matsuura. Ben and I have made a paper chain that we eagerly tare each night. I can't wait!! All of the plans are falling into place. My dress is finished, I got bridals taken yesterday, all of the food is decided and ordered, I just have to assign out my help now. So I'm making lists and jobs for people now because all of my family will be in Salt Lake that day for the wedding so set up is going to be done by ward members, friends, and family. It's so much fun and now the time is almost here to see everything happen.

I've taken on a few Do It Yourself (DIY) projects for the wedding and I just finished my first DIY project last night and started the Tissue Paper Pom Poms. Look for them at the reception. I still have 3 more projects that I need to finish but I'll finished the letter lanterns when I go home this weekend I have the pattern already cut out. I'll get the other 2 done this week so I can take them home with me this weekend and hand them off to who ever the lucky person is that gets to set them up!!

1st DIY. I call it hanging petals.

The Pom Pom Supplies

The Result

(I wasn't too sure the picture above would turn out to look like the pom pom I had in mind but it succeed)

On another note we're still homeless. But our options are better today than any other housing day. Union Square called and said we're first on the list to rent there and we can start moving things in on Monday. And we have 4 offers in on condos now so we'll see how things pan out. Things are looking good for the one we liked the best so keep them fingers crossed. I'm kicked out of my apartment on Friday and Ben is on Monday so I hope we can seal something quick so I have somewhere to move my things.

Come on Down!!

So the update from California is we got into the Price is Right...but never got to "Come on Down." It was still fun though. It was quite a waiting process that started at 5:00 am and ended at 2:00pm. After the wait and Ben and I barely getting into the show because a group didn't show up. You are given a number and then they call you in according to your number. We were numbers 215 and 216. After your number gets called you then wait again to be interviewed. The interview really isn't an interview it they bring up 10 people altogether and the sorting hat asks you questions that are very brief. As Ben and I sat there and watched people got through there were a few people who stood out but now I know......

I know how to get onto the game show for next time or can give great advice to anyone who is going to the show. The key thing to do in the interview is DANCE. Put on those dancing shoes and figure out a way to dance for the man that asks you 2 questions (where are you from? and what do you do?), which tells him if you're a good fit for the type of person the show is looking for to "Come on Down." There was a lady a few people in front of us who responded with "I'm a dance teacher" (followed by a little jig). She ended up getting on and we were sitting right behind her so I'm sure we'll be on TV. There was also this older grandma lady who we watched and she did a little dance as well and got on too. So the secret is revealed....... DANCING!! So when the sorting hat man asks you what your name is just DANCE your name out for him and I'll guarantee a 99.7% chance of being chosen. So if you happen to be around the TV on October 23 flip it on and look for Ben and I in the audience. Or maybe place bets that day with your family/friends/strangers on what will happen on the Price is Right, since I know this is a common betting event. I can help you predict the future and maybe win a BRAND NEW CAR.The official name tags!

Dreams Do Come True

Ben and I are leaving for California today!!! His sister Julie is getting married (I still haven't met her or half of his other siblings so this will be my first or second time meeting his family) I'm super excited not only for his sister's wedding but Ben got me Price is Right tickets!!! My life long dream will finally be achieved on Monday. I'm sad Bob Barker won't be in attendance but I'll just close my eyes and plug me ears and imagine Drew Carry as Bob. So maybe we'll get lucky and one of us will be the next contestant on THE PRICE IS RIGHT!!! I'm ready to yodel, scream, and kiss Drew's cheek ha ha!

In preparation for the show we practiced last night on a group date. We went to Wal-Mart and each couple chose a different game from the price is right and then the other 2 couples were the contestants for the game. It was actually really hard and Ben and I only won one of the games. The 2 couples with the highest score at the end competed in a grocery race. The losing team put together a list of 10 items that we had to find in the store. Ben and I & Jackie and Rob made it to the finals. The couple with the best time in finding the items won. Ben and I almost won but we got soy sauce instead of terriyaki sauce. So Ben went running to get the terriyaki sauce and came back with it in excitement and this is the result.

I could have eaten Ben that night but he wouldn't have tasted as good as my mom's chicken so I didn't.

Ben has been the king of FREE lately so lets cross our fingers and hope this luck carries with us as we wait in the crowd to be on the PRICE IS RIGHT.

Free? Yes Please!

FREE samples at Cost-Co are handed out everyday, all the time. This is how Ben is. He is a constant receiver of FREE. He is the king of FREE. Every day I swear I come home and he's gotten something else FREE!! He has a talent or a friend called Craigs List that has been very loyal to him. Before I met Ben he had already gotten for $FREE.99
-a pool table
-deep freezer
-2 couches
-microwave
-photoshoot
-ect.... the list could go on

He'd told me about these things he'd gotten and recently he's been on the watch for FREE again. In the past month he's gotten so much stuff I'll try and list it. And the stuff he gets is usually in good condition and useful.
1. Lamp
2. Microwave
3. Box of Kitchen Supplies
4. Mixer and Crockpot
5. Art
6. Dresser, head board, and bed side stand. (smoke smell included)
7. Knives
8. 3-Night hotel stay
9. Jon Schmidt Tickets
10. Tacos from Taco Bell
11. Punch Cards to Maurice's
12. Hoobastank tickets
13. Weight Set
14. Papa Johns Bread sticks
15. Corn dogs + Lemonade up that's refillable for LIFE+ 300 stick on tattoos+$5 in hot dog on a stick moneys+ an antenna ball!

Number 15 is by far my favorite FREE thing that Ben has gotten. There's this Diva Deal Lady blog and she posts things that are FREE or coupons for things. One day she had posted that it was Hot Dog on a Stick's BIRTHDAY and if you go from 6-8pm you can get a FREE corn dog. So me, Ben, my roommates, and Kelson all went. When we got there sure enough they were giivng out fresh hot corn dogs. As we went to the register to order ours there was a sign that read "HOTDOG EATING CONTEST ask cashier for more information" So we asked about it and they needed 2 more poeple for the contest. Perfect, so Ben and Kelson signed up. Good thing we showed up because we supplied 2 of the 3 There were 3 people in this contest and the rules were who ever ate 8 corns dogs first WINS. Ready, Set, GO!
The 3 contestants with all 8 corns. ~Free Hats included not the beanie though~
During the contest. Ben has 3 more to go. It's a tight race in the beginning but guess who wins...?..?....?...
BEN!! One of my proudest moments, I get to marry him, Ben-The CORNDOG Eating CAMPION of the Provo MALL!! Because of his virtory we now get Free Lemonade For LIFE at Hot Dog on a Stick and the cup was full of stick on tattoos. We will never run out of hot dog tattoos (always handy to show off at 7-peaks). WINNER and gift basket. (I wanted a Free wedding as the prize) SEE the MAGIC CUP!

So since Ben gets all this free stuff I one day thought that I was contributing to the FREEness. I got a call from someone saying that I'd won a big gulp cup from Maverick. I thought really, a cup?? I won something? The guy on the phone said that he would be able to drop off the cup to me. I told him I was at work and that he could come by and drop it off. So at noon a guy with a nasty beard came to the office with a HUGE refill mug at Maverick 100 oz. That's size HUGE!! I was laughing when be brought it in to me and I asked him howI won this again? He said it was a Marverick on-line contest. I didn't remember entering any Maverick contest but cool I won. I asked how much it cost to fill up the big boy mug and he said under $1. WOW that's alot of pop for not much money. I thanked him and I havn't seen him since. I was so excited I'd been the one to bring home something FREE I immediatley told Ben on G-Chat. I was sure he was proud!

Then the other day I was showing Ben the HUGE mug and he just laughed. He said did you think you really entered a contest? I said yeah why? He then went on to tell me that he had got the mug FREE off of Craigs List and had the guy play along with me tha tI had won. Ha ha real funny, but it really was. I had thought that I really entered some stupid contest and won with all the silly contest you can enter on-line. He got me.

Ben is full of FREE and I'm glad he let me pretend. Oh the FREE things that are to come, I can only imagine. FREE furniture, no FREE beds please, FREE food, FREE Car?, FRee Turtle, FRee child, FREe water, FREE oven, FREE-Time with BEN (that's my favorite!).

Background

So this new background I chose because it had pink, yellow, and green. These are my wedding colors but I don't like the "Happily Ever After." Yeah, you want to live happily ever after but that seems too much like the end, when this is just the beginning. I wish I could photo shop it out and change it to something different like "Happily new something" Or just erase the words. Because of this I'm changing my background, but I want a wedding theme because I'll never get to put a wedding theme as my background ever. Oh the worries I face. I will go on and do better things now, like make sure the cleaner hasn't turned my dress purple.

Engagement Pics

We had engagements taken on Saturday. Our photographer was Mary Clark and I loved her!! She's great and easy to work with and told us exactly what to do, even if we were chewing 2 wads of bubble gum or holding a rooster! Here is the link to her blog. Go check them out. She's put up a good selection from our shoot. The weather was wonderful and we had fun taking them in clown shoes and all. And I have my almost real ring on! The band is what mine will look like but my diamond is different. 4 more weeks for that to come and I don't get green rings around my finger!!

The Wedding Planner

Guess what......I'm engaged!!!! Yahoo for being engaged. It still doesn't seem real to me some days, Ben asks me often if it seems real yet and I usually reply, "kinda." It sinks in more and more each day and I can't wait to exchange my little green mark (which the fake ring to nicely leaves) on my ring finger for my real ring and hopefully I can seal the dress today (p.s. it's beautiful). I feel like I've got alot done in a week and a half of being engaged. I don't feel too stressed but one day when I was reading through the check list of this bridal guide book I got at one of the dress stores and it lists things you should have done 4 to 9 months ahead (ok don't have that time) and then it has a list for 3 to 4 months ahead (I don't even have that much time). Ben and I went through the check list and marked off things that were in progress and things that we have finished. So according to the lists we've checked off 6 things as complete, 6 are in progress and 18 boxes are incomplete, blank (aahhhhh) and I should be working on the 1 to 3 months ahead list (which has 9 more things). BIG BREATH.......ok it takes baby steps. I can't just pop out and start walking, it takes a little time I have to learn to crawl and then I'll be able to walk. So I'm crawling around right now getting my dress and ideas together. Soon I will be able to walk but not without the help of Benjamin Joseph Sycamore of course.

P.S. Ben is great!! I delegate things for him to do and he's on top of it. I love planning with him, it's great!

P.S.S. I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad I'm not in school right now. It would not be a pretty sight.

Fungus Amungus

At work today we were talking about foot fungus and I'm cautious with used shoes and what not. But I did make a purchase at DI that involved shoes and the 1st thing I thought of was ew I hope this person didn't have a foot fungus. The shoes look nice and I'm very happy with the purchase, I have forgotten about the fungus.

I am also one of those germy people. I'm actually not that bad I'll share my food, I'll drink out of someones cup, sharing toothbrushes is gross, I'm a no go for food that has fallen on the ground, and clean kitchen/cooking habits are a MUST (no licking a spoon and using it again to stir the soup, ew). Some day when I get to be a mom I won't worry about my kids being all sanitary I'll let them play in the dirt (I loved that when I was a kid) but I can guarantee you I won't be letting them play with raw chicken!

Funny?, YES!

I was home for the weekend for Mother's Day and was looking through pictures on my mom's computer and came across this beauty!! It makes me laugh every time I see it so I hope you do too! Ross is graduating next week and I can't wait for him to be here in Provo with me!! We can make funny pictures together while enjoying food thanks to Dining Plus!!

Also when I was home I made a Mother's Day dinner. I bought lobster originally but then we ended up eating with my dad's whole side of the family so that will just have to wait. I wanted to make Chinese so I made a cashew chicken recipe that is sooo yummy and super easy! I also made a mango stir fry that I posted on the Menu of the Week for BYU's Women's Services and Resources (WSR). It all turned out well and I'm so grateful for my mom. She's so supportive in everything I do!!

I do some posting at work on our blog and just posted about the book I just finished, The Last Lecture. It's a great book read about it here. And I wrote something about coupons. This lady has a blog called Utah Deal Diva and as I read it I don't understand and get frustrated because she gets some much stuff for free and I want to get in on this coupon business like she does but I just don't understand how it works like she does. I commented on her blog about not understanding so maybe she will do a one-on-one lesson with me (ha ha, she's too busy getting free t.v. dinners and Kraft Cheese)

Anyways, for the long weekend my roommates and I are going to St. George and I'm going to get a tan, relax, visit the temple, eat some famous custard, and maybe a little tennis. Then on Monday I get to be with Benjamin! We're dating again and I haven't been happier!! I haven't missed being in school for one second and I don't think I will. I have to do everything I can before September hits and the school load piles on (NNOOOOOO!! I just won't think about that now, sorry if I brought it back into your remembrance) and love working everyday at WSR. I LOVE SPRING TIME, bikes rides, frozen yogurt, and no tests!! I wish my life could stay like this!

Blondies

So at Applebee's I love their Blondie Brownie that comes out warm on a skillet with vanilla ice cream to top it off. I have just gone to Applebee's to get this, I like it soo much. As I was looking at a friend's blog I found the recipe!! I'm excited to try it and I'll let you know how it compares to the real deal. Check it out here.

Dinner in a Movie!

Yesterday was a great day.  First good thing that happened was I got to go out with Jackie and Jerika.  They were my freshmen and sophomore roommates and every since they've been some of my best friends.  It was due time to get together and I was excited to see them.  We wanted to go see Ghost of Girlfriends Past and eat.   We went to the theater first to go get our tickets to make sure that it wasn't sold out.  We went to the new theater at University Mall. I hadn't realized how nice it was and all the new restaurants that were going up around it. A few more restaurants went on my list.  Ok so we get there and it was really crowded so I just dropped them off in front to have them go get the tickets. 2nd good thing that happened- we got the last 3 tickets to the movie!!  

I had originally wanted to go eat at a Mexican restaurant, but the place next to Albertson's that I had heard good things about had disappeared.  So we went to Nicolitalia in the same area with the BEST pizza in Provo.  For work we had just eaten there for a "retreat" and we had gotten the chicken pesto pizza and it easily became my new favorite.  Before we ordered the pizza we had to check how long it would take because the people at the theater said we should be 30 minutes early to get seats together.  We had an hour.  So I asked the nice girl at the register how long it would take and she told us 20 minutes and that if we were in a hurry she could just put it in a box for us and we could take it. That would work out great.  We got bread sticks too and if you get a large pizza and an order of breadsticks you get 2 free canollis (3rd good thing that happened).  The cannolis were done first so we had dessert first, then our bread sticks and then our pizza.  Once the pizza was ready we had 10 minutes to get over to the theater.  So we had to just leave.  We each scarfed one piece of pizza down in the car and were still hungry.  The geniuses that we are looked at Jerika's purse and noticed the large size.  Our breadsticks were in a smaller container that would easily fit in Jerika's big momma purse.   So we put 3 slices of pizza in the smaller container with 3 breadsticks that we still had.  Jerika was worried about getting greaseness in her purse so I searched the car for a plastic bag.  In my trunk I found a huge garbage bag, it would have to work.  So we put the container in the huge trash bag and put it in Jerika's purse.  We strolled past the movie ticket men who thought nothing of Jerika's s bulging purse.  Once we were in the theater and seated Jerika whipped out the pizza.  Eating pizza in a movie theater was the 4th good thing that happened!  The man next to us was amazed and said, "WOW!! A pizza, my wife will be impressed."  I felt like my parents this day because they always bring in pop, snacks, and they've even gotten hamburgers in, but I still think pizza and bread sticks win!  Thanks to Jerika's Big Momma purse we had a successful dinner in a movie!    

Menu of the Week

So for work I started a Menu of the Week. If anyone out there reads this or has any good healthy recipes send them my way and I'll post them. Check out my Menu of the Week!

Spring Time=FREE TIME!!

So I have break from school for the spring/summer and I am so happy! I feel like I've been handed a Get Out of School Free Card! I go to work from 9-3 and then have a day full of whatever I want to do. It's so nice! While in school everyone knows you have no free time to just do whatever. My life last semester consisted of waking up at 7, going to work until 1, going to class until 6:30, going home at 7 and having a meal prepared for me thanks to a wonderful thing called DINNER GROUP (aaawwww, with harps and glowing beams of light), then I would load my back-pack and trek up to the HBLL. Depending on my mood if I felt like I was on a roll I would stay for the library musical but if my contacts were so dry I was blinking more than breathing I would leave, talk to Ben for a few minutes and then go to sleep, maybe get a snack if I felt like it.

(Side note: I hate going to the library alone. I feel motivated and less sorry for myself knowing that someone has to suffer at nights with me as well.)

So blah, blah, blah, everyone hates homework, studying for tests, and has no free time either so stop whining I know. But I kind of feel like I need to be studying in the library. All the Asians are doing it. Next time if you happen in be in the HBLL around 11:45 look at who's still there. I guarantee you at least 72% of the people left are Asian. As you leave and enter the Library Musical the Asians are the ones flocking out from their study caves and taking over the stage. I can't let that half of me fail, so I half feel like I fit in.

(2nd side note-most people can't tell what I am. They know I'm not just a white girl, but they just can't figure out what I am. One of my best friends Janet is from Argentina and when I was around her people automatically assumed I spoke Spanish too and would habla espanol tu mi as well. People have guessed Indian, Latino, Hawaiian, but rarely do I get Asian. Indian is my favorite though. I really didn't like that because I grew up next to a reservation and I don't consider myself to look anything like the Indians I'm familiar with. So one of my roommates favorite stories about me is when I moved into Raintree my freshmen year coming to BYU. It was the night I moved in and we were all talking in the living room getting to know each other. Random as I am I said, "Guys just to let you know I'm not Indian." wheeew, what a relief for me. I had been trying to get that off my back the second I moved into the apartment. They just laughed and I did too I'm sure)

Anyways I'm half Japanese and I love Japanese Food!! I love all food actually and my dream job is to be a food critic and travel to restaurants and try their food. So as I go out to eat around Provo I'm going to be posting about different restaurants that I go too. I am also going to be starting a new Menu for the WEEK!! A request by Becki. I'm compiling recipes now and trying to figure out a format for this project.

Another thing I'm RaNdOm. One thought triggers another and then I'm off writing about something unrelated. This is why I find it hard in papers to connect ideas. They connect in my head but not to others.

So back on track I have FREE TIME this SPring and Summer so I'll be blogging more. I feel like this happy jumping man. Imagine my face being his.
But I have a list of things I want to accomplish this summer. I am already signed up for a cake decorating class, I want to start taking voice lessons, I got a book from the library, Zen and the Art or Motorcycle Maintaince, I'm helping with the meals for Special Olympics and I'm doing Pilates! I feel this is a good start. I want to fill my free time with things that I want to do cause when I'm in school I feel like I can't because I should be doing h-work. I'm so excited!! I'll let you know how things work out and if my list for the summer continues as planned or what new things I plan on adding. I'm FREE!!

Someday!

Someday I will be a faithful blogger. As for now I will be a student and go take a test!