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!

Entering Bloggerville

My first attempt to blogging has been a success. Read my first blog http://byuwsr.blogspot.com/2008/08/food-lovers.html, it will leave you wanting more.