Rant about life among other things

Since it is almost three o'clock in the morning it is officially Monday. Which means that I have the rest of today and until 6pm tomorrow until classes start. I am prepping myself kind of, for the late nights. But I know that it will still be hard. I'm excited though. I love learning in labs, I hate doing the classroom shit. I know how my brain works and it doesn't do well with trying to read something off a page and memorizing it. It does well when I do something with my hands. I'm a kinesiology learner or whatever it is called. I learn by doing. I learn not to put too much nutmeg in a carrot cake by putting too much in the cake and having it taste badly. And I can do math better than some because I can just do it, I know it may sound weird but most of the time I can just see how to do the problem and then do it. I may not be able to solve it in my head but I can figure out how to solve and then use a calculator to solve it. My dependency to calculators is kind of sad though. Many simple math problems get confused in my head, and I have a hard time trying to do math in my head. I hate that degrees require people to have English credits or have Leadership credits. I'm not good at English and I'm not that good at trying to lead. I have a hard time trying to teach someone something. Like I tried to help a friend in math last year and I don't know if I helped or not because I could see how to do it, but I couldn't explain how she should do it.

I need to go to sleep and stop ranting about random shit. I need to find a few pictures, and decide what I want for Christmas. Okay so that was brought to you by the sleep deprived blogger. Now back to our regularly scheduled programing.

This time tomorrow evening I shall be in a baking and pastry lab. I will be exhausted and just starting with actual lab work. But I don't really know since this is a chef I haven't had before. Some chefs like to do lecture at the end, some like to do it in the middle of class while stuff is baking.

I don't have a recipe for cheese fondue, other wise I would put it up because we had delicious cheese fondue for dinner this evening. Although we didn't have a waiter with cow pants on. We were in Switzerland and we went to a restaurant and got the three different kinds of fondue and our waiter had on pants that were white with black splotches, like a cow, thus the cow pants. I want cow pants... but I could just deal with the comfy black and white checked pants that I have to wear to class. I hemmed my pants for class today, normally my mom does it because I don't know how to sew. But I'm learning how to slowly, with the help of my mom. Tomorrow before I go to class my dad and I are going to go do shanagins and Christmas shopping. So that's what I've got going on. Oh and I'm making a scarf for my mom's mom. (Which is not my Grandma Jo). The scarf is really soft and I only worked on it for like four hours today and it is probably a little less than half way done, which is amazing because I get distracted easily with crafts like that.

Turkey Day

Before I get to Turkey Day I'm going to to blog about Wednesday. And that I have a new page.
Jesse and I hung out. We went to visit his sister Chasity. She has two boys named Bradley and Christian. They are cute boys and funny too. Bradley is almost ten and Christian is five as he reminded me over and over again while I tried to hug him. We just stayed for a little while but then we had to get back to my Grandma Jo's house to meet with Jesse's brother Ricky. Ricky also has two boys named Riley and Devon. They are cute too. And full of energy. Jesse plays with them a lot. Like he was making Riley walk on the ceiling. I'm really glad that I got to see Ricky, Diane (his wife) and their cute boys. Riley is a little bit more open to me than Devon is. I think it is because Riley can remember me but Devon can't.
On Turkey Day my Grandma Jo went to Church and I stayed back and made some carrot cupcakes. And the best frosting that I have ever made. I don't know what made it different from other times I made frosting but it was delicious. We then went over to my Auntie V's house for dinner. When we got there Auntie M was trying to make mashed potatoes. I say trying because she left the potatoes in her trunk over night and they were frozen. So when she put them in the boiling water thinking that they would thaw out and then cook. Well they kind of didn't follow her plan. They instead turned to sponges and felt really gross. She then scrambled around to find other potatoes and cook them. It seemed like everything my Auntie M touched food wise didn't turn out as planed. Because not only did the potatoes turn out how they did but when she was working on the candied yams the marshmallows were messed up. Jimmy and Sara brought their baby boy Cayden who is absolutely a mommas boy. If he saw his mom he would start to cry until you gave him back to his mom. John and Stevie brought their baby girl Lily and she is absolutely gorgeous. She found fart noises funny and would laugh when I would make them with my mouth. There were lots of funny things that were said but you had to be their for them to be funny.
I flew back at about 10 am this morning and I woke up at about 6 am to get to the airport on time. I hate getting up early, that's why I would rather have ppm labs than am labs. On the airplane the flight attendant said some funny things. She started out with "if you could pretend to give us your attention for a moment." She then went on to say that "there maybe 50 ways to leave a lover but their are only 6 ways to leave this aircraft." Also she said "if we expected to lose cabin pressure then we wouldn't have come to work today, but if we happen to lose cabin pressure. In order to live stop screaming, let go of your neighbor and grab on to the yellow masks that fall down." It brightened my day a little bit because I was mad because there were annoying little kids that were screaming and older teens behind me that were talking and were annoying as well. And it wouldn't have been a problem had my iPod been charged or I had the charger in my bag.


Cayden




Lily




All the snow that got dumped the day I got to Utah




My Grandma's cat trying to close the computer



Riley walking on the ceiling.



Snow, Snow and More Snow

Last night there was supposed to be this big huge blizzard and the news stations and what not were trying to scare us into being prepared for a HUGE snow storm. It lasted for a few hours didn't dump as much snow as it did on Saturday. Whatever.
On Monday my cousin Jesse came over and we went to see my cousin Lily. I had promised my mom that I was going to get lots of pictures of Lily, but me being the genius that I am I forgot my camera. Oh well I'll see her again soon and I'll get pictures of her then. The funny thing about Lily was that she didn't seem to like Jesse. I was holding her and like every time she would look at Jesse she would start to cry and get upset. At one point she gave him THE saddest look a baby could give you. I thought it was really cute and kind of funny. But she warmed up to after she got her bottle. After the bottle it was nap time so Jesse and I went to the movies. We went to see the movie Due Date. It was pretty funny. My cousin and I need to stop going to R rated movies together... lets just say it get awkward.
Tuesday started out with my Grandma Jo and I going to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. It to me was kind of a let down. My favorite Harry Potter movie is still the third one. However I still can't wait for the second part. My aunts Monica and Vera were supposed to come over with their grandchildren. But since there was supposed to be some huge snow storm they decided against it. My cousin Jesse also was supposed to come over but also decided against it. So instead we just got ready for the storm to hit and prepared to lose electricity. I read a book and listened to music. My Tuesday was a little boring, besides the movie. Oh well, that's how it goes sometimes. My cousin Jesse is going to come over later on today and we are going to do something, I don't know what yet. I've only seen two of my cousins and one didn't even know that I was here. Most of my cousins work and what not, and I understand that they are busy. I just would like to know that you would like to see me while I'm here, whether or not you actually can come is a different story...
We just looked out the back door at my Grandma's house and you can barely tell it snowed in one area because of the amount of leaves that fell on top of the snow. I will upload pictures later.

Church

I apologize ahead of time if my post today doesn't make sense in parts, I'm really sleepy for no reason. I can't seem to fall asleep though so here I am blogging.
We woke up this morning to probably about a foot of snow covering the ground and trees and all that stuff. I'll have pictures at the end. And because today is Sunday my Grandma Jo goes to church every week. Well my Pappa Eddie has pneumonia and my Grandma doesn't want him to go out in the cold and what not. I ended up shoveling a pathway and a place for the dog Baby to go out and go potty in. Then my cousin Jimmy came over with his wife Sara and their baby boy, Cayden. They shoveled the driveway. I took my Grandma Jo to church, something that I don't do. We went to church, made Grandma feel good, and then went shopping. Now let me tell you something, my Grandma Jo spoils me, a lot. I'm her favorite, well at least her favorite granddaughter. Anyway, we went shopping and then came back home and started watching Harry Potter. She continued her work on knitting a hat while I figured out how to knit a scarf with a loom. Grandma Jo stuck her tongue out at me because I was able to pick it up quickly and she still doesn't really know how to do it. And now its only 8 pm and I want to go to bed. Well I've wanted to go to bed since about 6 pm when I ate dinner.  So I'll upload pictures and say good night. I was going to upload pictures but I can't seem to get it to work right now...

Grandma's House

Since I got to Utah today, I won't be posting recipes until I get back to Colorado, since I didn't think to bring recipes with me. The plane was delayed about 10 minutes to begin with and then we hit like 130mph headwinds is what I think that captain said, so that delayed us even more. Also it was a very bumpy airplane ride. And as I have stated before I'm not good with flying, the actual flying wasn't so bad because I slept most of the way. But before hand I decided to toss my cookies, (I was contemplating the different ways of saying I barfed. Tossed my cookies seemed as good as any of the others). Also random people were trying to talk to me. I was just trying to listen to my music and read my book. But no they had to try and ask me questions and what not, and would not leave me alone, no matter how evil I tried to look at them. Whatever. I'm just glad that I didn't puke on the person next to me on the plane. (Which I have done before, not on purpose.)
I finally arrived at my Grandma's house and she decided that we would have chicken salad sandwiches. I was hungry so I said sure why not. Only to discover that what she calls chicken salad is just chicken from a can with mayo. In my house its got all kinds of stuff in it, like pickles, celery, and even onion. (I love me some onion). So she scooped some out and let me make it how I wanted it. It was good I ate my whole sandwich, (which is unusual for me because I don't really eat that many sandwiches, except a number 1 with onion from Jimmy Johns). And then we were supposed to be going to a wedding celebration party. We got already to go and then looked outside and it was snowing. We decided not to let us getting ready go to waste. We went down the street to Artic Circle and got shakes. Then came back and watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, because Grandma had never seen it, and we plan on going to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 on Tuesday. I have to catch her up on all the Harry Potter movies she has missed. As I sit here typing this it is still snowing, and there is already probably a could four to five inches accumulated. I love snow. I just wish I could be snowboarding, oh well I'll enjoy my time with my family.

Update: Bruchetta

So a few things went wrong with my bruchetta. First off I didn't have mozzarella, and then I didn't have french bread. I ended up using hamburger buns because thats what we had. I also ended up using Parmesan, but I kind of had planned on that anyway. And when I finally had it finished it was not that great. I was eating the tomatoes with the sauce by them selves, and it was pretty good, but I think that you need to have french bread. I mostly think that you need the french bread because while trying to eat one piece it completely fell apart in my hands. Oh well. It was a good try. Other than the bruchetta kind of being a let down dinner was delicious. The chicken was delicious as always. I'll post the recipe at a later date.

Sorry if it doesn't make sense at parts, I'm sleepy.

Bruchetta

So I leave for Utah tomorrow... I'm excited! I packed yesterday, and then decided that I needed to do laundry so I had other clothes to take. (Let me clarify, I don't do laundry, my mom does.) Still I'm packed and ready to go. I can't wait to see my cousins and my grandma and my aunties and uncle. I think I'm most excited to meet my newest cousin (if its my cousins baby does it still make it my cousin or is it my second cousin or what?). Anyway its a baby and she is really cute from the pictures I've seen and from what I've read on the blog Lily Makes Three. Also I'm excited to go see the Harry Potter movie, which I'm taking my grandma to.

I wanted to go snowboarding today, but I was not allowed to go. :( So I'm stuck in the house doing nothing but being lazy and lounging in my pajamas, like I usually do when I have nothing else to do...
My toes are really cold today and I have no idea why.

I added a new page to my blog and this page is just going to be a bunch of links to pages in my blog so you can find a recipe that you want faster. Instead of trying to search through the whole blog to find one.

I decided to do the bruchetta recipe that I found online because I was reading a magazine and they had recipes for bruchetta, but they weren't the typical bruchetta recipes. And it made me want to make bruchetta, so I found the recipe and I'm going to make it for dinner with some chicken on the side, (let me clarify again, I'm just going to help make dinner, my mother is going to do the chicken). I'll let you know what I think of it later, but for now here it is.

It says 6 Roma tomatoes, but I think that I'll just use whatever tomatoes I can get my hands on/what my mother buys
3 cloves of garlic
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup basil (it says fresh basil but I'm using the kind that comes in a jar and isn't fresh)
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
2 cups mozzarella (but again I'm just going to estimate and I might use parmesan)
1 French baguette

Preheat the oven on broil. Dice or chop the tomatoes (depends on how big of pieces you want). Then combine tomatoes, garlic, oil, vinegar, basil, salt and pepper in a bowl and allow to set for about 10 minutes. Slice the bread into about 3/4 inch slices and then broil for about 1-2 minutes on sheet pan. Take out of oven and then place the tomato mixture on the bread. Sprinkle the cheese over the mixture, and broil for about 5ish minutes or until cheese is melted.