pizza and vodka and pizza and vodka...

 New wheatpasting on a Smith's dumpster.

 A lovely set-up at Barnes and Noble.

 Paul and I went to Chipotle where we became friends with this dog tied up next to us.

 My first ever Chiptole burrito. I didn't even eat half of it, it was so filling.

 Paul bought a 3DS so now all he does is play Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time.

 I cleaned out Paul's car on the way to Sandy to watch X-Men: First Class. He had multiple hotdog boxes that only had tiny chunks of bun left that I mistook for breadsticks. lawl.

 Mustaches we got from Best Buy. Paul refused to buy one for me but two came out.

 We made fried chicken for dinner one night and it looked SO perfect.

 Then Paul burnt 4 pieces and it turned out that all of the chicken we made was undercooked. So we went to IHOP for dinner. hah.

 Yesterday we had Wingers for lunch...

 They put popcorn on our table and it was mostly what we ate cause it took an hour to get our food out and it was cold and gross.

 Chelsi and Merv.. so freaking cute.

Boring captions, oh well. Listing out what I've done since my arrival in SLC was even worse. 

Last night, I hung out with Mitch, his sister Chelsi and her husband Michael. After Chelsi started getting drunk, she was saying the funniest things, such as:

"With hip cat's clothes on.. He was the dick's tits."

"That's why we have to keep him inside, literally a butterfly could beat him up."

"Guys, a fucking teepee. I don't think anyone gets it!"

"Please have available a smile upon arrival."

"Please have available one chief from any tribe of Idaho."

"Teepees unite. Teepees, not peepees."

"We just reserved a teepee for 4 nights and we can't afford a wedding gift."

We reserved a teepee in Idaho for the end of July... lolyaydrunkendecisions. Now, please enjoy this video of the honey badger:

it's sunday, which means...

I'M LEAVING FOR UTAH IN TWO DAYS!

I'm so excited, ahHhhhhhh! I'm completely packed, just waiting until tomorrow afternoon to take everything out to my car cause I'm getting my oil changed, tires checked, etc etc. I'm going to leave by 5pm on Tuesday which should get me into Salt Lake around 11am on Wednesday. That night, Paul and I are either going to have dinner at Chuck-o-Rama or Golden Corral, but we don't know which one yet because all we can do is argue over which is better. On Thursday I have a bagel and coffee breakfast date at Einstein's with Natalie and Amanda, then I'm going to Discovery Gateway with the summer school program at Riley. :) Nothing is planned for Friday so far, but Paul and I are having sushi with Bridget and Becca on Saturday night. This week is going to be great. :D

training for the ballet, potter?

Tonight I discovered a tumblr site called Mustache Potter. I've spent quite a bit of time tonight browsing through all of the pages of Harry Potter gifs that have been fixed with mustaches. I love it. Definitely check it out.

In other news... I'M GOING BACK TO SALT LAKE CITY IN SIX DAYS. Not ten... SIX! Lisa didn't schedule me at all for next week so my last day is Sunday. So Paul and I figured, why not go back even earlier? He's going to hang streamers and balloons and it'll be so much fun.

I'm having trouble figuring out what I should take back with me though. I really don't plan to come back to Missouri unless absolutely necessary, but I don't want to take everything back to SLC with me on this trip. I'm not moving in to the dorms for another 2 months, so I'd rather not have my car filled with stealable items I could just leave in my room for a while. :\ Also, I'd like to pack a bit lighter this time around since the single rooms in Benchmark aren't very big. I'm having trouble deciding what books and movies to take back and if I should take my ukulele. My life is so hard. BUT I have a lot less clothing now so that should help out a bit. I'm betting that I could probably fit all of my clothes in a single tote. Whoa.

Next day edit: I was up until 3am packing. My clothes would not fit in one tote, but I did get everything but my dresses into a large suitcase. I've left out only what I'll be wearing the next six days.

Today I painted my nails, dipped them in rubbing alcohol and then pressed newspaper clippings onto them.

I also made vanilla cupcakes and iced them with the icing recipe that Evan's smokin-hot mom gave me. They were delicious. I took a pan of them out to the workers at my grandma's bank and a few to Shawna and Callie when we had lunch together at Washington Street.

I've been watching my computer install an update for my Sims games for the last four hours, I think. It's barely made any progress.. but without the update my game refuses to play. :\ I'm so bored and all I want to do is play Paul Kim's family.

sedalia

I can sum up my trip to Sedalia to get a tattoo in four pictures:

Starbucks, pre-tattoo. I look like a crazy person.

Post-tattoo, before it got wrapped up.

The most delicious cupcakes in the world, courtesy of Evan's smokin-hot mom.

My first ever Papa Murphy's pizza.

It was probably one of the best days I've had this summer, except for the part where I got a speeding ticket in Chillicothe.. 

2 weeks to go.

I've been putting off blogging because I've done nothing but work 5-close this week. You'd think I'd be making a lot of money since I've basically lived at Royal Inn the last three weeks.. No. I'm not making shit. I got my first check on Friday and it was barely over $200. I worked 5 days both weeks and stayed every night but only made $200 because of the stupid $7.25 minimum wage here. Grr.

In my frustration, I asked Beckie (my slc boss) when the summer program ended and if I could get in on that. She basically begged me to come back at the beginning of July and said she could get me hired again. SO I'm moving back to Salt Lake on June 25th now, not August 18th or whatever. That's only 2 weeks away. Yeah. I'm so freaking excited. Except, I have to bum housing off of 2-3 different people for the next month and a half because I can't live at the dorms with withdrawn classes. Boo. I'll be staying with Paul Kim for the first couple of weeks I'm back and then with Amanda for the rest of the time.. or until she gets sick of me.

I'm so pumped to get back to the people and places that I love, but at the same time I feel like an ass leaving my family so soon. When I told my mom my plans she acted like she was sad and told me she would've liked to have me around when she's on vacation for the last two weeks in July. Also, my mom's been really down lately about all the drama going on with my youngest brother and his dad. Last weekend was the first one where Nick had to stay with his dad for the entire weekend. In a few weeks he'll be staying with his dad every other week. It's breaking my mom down because she's never had to be away from Nick for such a long time and his dad is a super huge dick. He thinks he knows how to raise a child and tells my mom she's doing everything wrong and his ways of raising Nick are the right ways. So I feel bad that I won't be here to comfort her while Nick is gone.

A few days ago I made lemon butter green beans and idaho sunrise (baked eggs and bacon in potato bowls).

The potatoes look terrible but they were delicious. We only had smallish sized potatoes so even though I hollowed them out all the way, the egg whites kept falling out and ending up cooking on the pan.

I have Monday and Tuesday off and then work the rest of the week. Tomorrow morning, Scott, Rose and I are heading to Sedalia to a place called Stay True Tattoo where I'm getting the om symbol tattooed on the inside of my left wrist. Rose's boyfriend Evan lives in Sedalia so he's going to take us out for lunch at a place called Kehde's Barbecue. It's supposed to be like an Applebee's... I'm not a fan of Applebee's or barbecue, but I'm not going to complain. Rose is already freaking out that she only has two weeks left with me.

I'll blog again tomorrow. I'm gonna look sooo cute, wearing a new dress and sporting a little om symbol.

cody the coyote, he's a roadie, he's our roadie...

This week has been miserable. High 90s and humid and straight-up unbearable.

I've spent the majority of my free time inside baking and cooking. We got a new oven on Monday and its amazing. So far I've made double chocolate muffins, naan, porkchops for my grandma (I don't eat pork), and chipotle peach salsa that I later made into peach quesadillas. 

Everything turned out perfectly. My parents weren't very large fans of the salsa/quesadillas but Rose and I thought they tasted fine. They said that the inch of ginger I shredded into the salsa was about an inch too much. lol. I agree that it would have tasted better without but it was still okay.

Last night Scott and I went to Christian's house, where he showed us these awesome balls he picked up at Coachella. They light up in sync with bass beats.

Then we headed out to the lake. Scott has been hammering me to go swimming with him but I refuse because that lake is soooo disgusting. There are man-eating turtles in there and I'm pretty sure that Megan took a shit off the main dock once. So instead of swimming, the three of us laid out on the dock and watched the stars and made up some pretty ridiculous constellations. It made me really excited for the astronomy class I'm taking in the fall.

this is definitely where i parked my car!

Am I really so immature that I take pictures of the number 69 every time I see it at the grocery store?

Of course I am.

I was supposed to go camping with Scott, Christian and Rose on Thursday but it rained early in the day and Christian was too hungover to hang out. Rose and I had dinner at El Nopal then went back to my place and watched The People I've Slept With and the beginning of The Other Guys.

We spent the majority of Friday at the high school for Relay for Life. 

If you're not familiar with Relay for Life, its a 12-hour fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. There are multiple teams and the idea is to have someone from each team walking throughout the entire night. Each lap your team walks earns money for the ACS, along with whatever items your team sells - some have food, while others have games to play and souvenirs to buy. There are bags all around the track in memory of people who died from cancer and also for survivors. The names of all of these people are announced during the Luminaria and as your name/your family member's name has been called, you light the candle that is inside the bag. 

  

Besides that I guess I've watched a lot of movies during the last week... Sunshine Cleaning, Fish Out of Water, The Shining, An Education, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Love in the Afternoon, Charade, Sabrina, Elizabethtown, Eurotrip... I am such an old woman.

As such, here's a video of Rose playing with Smudge...

Aaaand a super adorable picture of my little brother Nick who would not stop harassing me to wear his sunglasses today.

c'est juin!

Dear friends, if you want to comment the button is at the top of each post, not at the bottom. Some of you posted on the previous post instead of yesterday's. Just letting you know. :)

It's June! Rose, her boyfriend Evan and I made those pesto stuffed shells I mentioned yesterday for lunch. As I predicted, I wasn't the biggest fan since there was so much ricotta. I had plenty of salad and garlic bread though, so I suppose its okay. :)

Rose made muffins this morning and got me in the mood for them.. I'm about to run downstairs and hope our oven will cooperate so I can make cinnamon and sugar donut muffins. I'll edit and update y'all when they're done.

Promised edit:

The first picture is of the cinnamon and sugar donut muffins and the second has them on the right and banana-orange-chocolate chip muffins on the left. The cinnamon ones are extremely delicious but the others are way too orangey. They have an entire orange squeezed plus the zest in them. It's hard to taste the banana or chocolate.. They're still tasty but not my favorite.

Also, you should check out this link about Nick Offerman not shaving his beard to help conserve water for World Environment Day. How awesome is this man!? Good lord.