Day 13

My Favorite Musician and Why.



Katie Martin. She's going to be famous one day. :) This is my favorite song of hers. (Maybe because it's dedicated to me... ?)


Courtney Cook. She's pretty much an amazing singer. And she's learning to play the guitar and she's getting super good. She already knows like a million songs. She's going to be famous one day too. (I wish I could show you a video of her... but I don't have one that I can put on here...)

I'm seriously not saying this because they're my friends either. They are both extremely talented. It's true.

Umm... Famouser musicians though... I really like MC Hammer. No lie. I do. Why? Don't know. Just do. It's Maddie Hunsaker's fault... though I'm not quite sure why it's her fault. Eh... other than that... I don't know. I like a lot of stuff. I like a lot a lot a lot of choral stuff. Umm... Yeah. Anything/Anyone good. None of that poopy I have a famous parent so I think I can sing stuff. But yeah. That's it.

The Town I Live In...

IDAHO FALLS! ...It's the bomb.


This Is IF in the Winter.


This is the way fun park that we all like to go to. :)


99.99999% of my pictures involve downtown. Because that's where it's at. We are hanging out being trolls beneath the bridge by the river. word.


I know the wings are gone... but they are such a big part of IF for me that I had to include them. I think they should get re-painted yes?


More of downtown. The cool train bridge over the river.


Random alleys downtown. Best place to play ever!

The Town I WISH I Lived In...


That's Right, LOGAN! With it's cemetery (that you can't really see in the picture... but it's there..)


fun buildings on the USU campus in which you can play on rolling chairs!


A great place for first time skiers...


Angie's!! Yum!


2nd Dam. And Great trees for climbing!

The Town In Which I Currently Reside...

Ice Skating? This picture is just from when I visited during Christmas... before I actually lived here.


Katie's House! ...And Dallon's... And Nate's... And Abi's... And Stephanie's... and Whitney's... And Nicole's...


Daybreak!

Well that's it. My Dwelling places.

Make Up

In order to tell you what's in my make up bag... I would actually have to have one. I don't. I do sometimes wear Mascara. And I use my eyelash curler. I rarely wear eyeliner... and I don't usually wear eye shadow. That's pretty much it. Seriously.

So instead of rambling on about makeup I'm going to tell you about my STUPID English class. To be honest, I'm not really a fan of English classes in general but this one is definitely the worst. We don't even talk about English! We write for 15 minutes about our assigned political controversy and then spend the rest of the class talking about it. Last week it was drugs and this week it was health reform. If I wanted to take a class about politics, I would have taken a government class or something like that... but I want to talk about English. Thank you very much. It is the worst class I have ever had. Blech. And I've had some pretty bad classes (History from 1890-present... a humanities class all about global warming... and ants...)So yeah. That's really it.

FOOOOOOOD!

Day... 8? maybe. I forget.

I do not have pictures at the moment... BUUUUUT. My favorite places to eat are (in no particular order):

1. Buca Di Beppo. YUUUUUM.
2. Red Iguana. YUMMY!
3. My own house. :) ...even when it's just pb&j
4. Little ghetto places because they always have the BEST food.

...and if it's time for dessert then it's this Caribbean place with a Guava caramel dessert. yummy squared. ha.

So since that was short... let me tell you a little bit about my day. It is related to food, after all. Today in American Regional we were talking about the South. That's right, BARBECUE! Our recipes for today were:
* Carolina pulled pork sammich
* Slaw
* Fried Green Tomatoes
* Roasted Red Pepper sauce
* Potato salad
* Banana Pudding

My group decided to split things up since a lot of it took a long time to prep/cook/rest or what have you. Jess did our pork. She made the dry rub, the barbecue sauce and put the pork in the oven. She was also in charge of basting it every so often. She also made the roasted red pepper sauce and mayonnaise for the potato salad and slaw. Good deal. She did a lot and worked hard. Shayna only made the banana pudding. That's it. In a 4 hour class... AND she didn't even make angel food cake for it... just used nilla wafers. I was getting Frrrrrustrated.
I set to work on making the slaw and the potato salad. I made the MOST BEAUTIFUL hard boiled eggs I have ever seen... there was not a single hint of that green/grey ring around the yolk... and they were cooked PERFECTLY. I was quite proud of myself to be honest. :) So I did all the prep work for those... and there was a lotttt of prep work. By the time I was done with that Jess had finished the mayonnaise for me so I could put them together. I got them in the fridge and started getting our station cleaned up. We were a little behind on dishes so I gathered them up and washed them. Then it was time to start the tomatoes. I made the marinade and sliced the tomatoes. We didn't know they were supposed to marinate for about a half hour... so we didn't quite have time for that. But it was all good. I then breaded them... it said just to stick them straight from the marinade to the flour/corn meal mixture... so I did. But then they didn't look like they had enough breading...so I double breaded them. GOOD CHOICE. The groups that didn't... had soggy and not very pretty tomatoes. MINE WERE BEAUTIFUL!!! :) :) Chef thought they were great too. :) He liked ALL of my dishes today!!! (even though my red cabbage in my slaw bled...so it was the color of Barney... he said it still tasted good). It's days like today that remind me why I am actually in culinary school. I know accidents happen and I'm at school to learn... but it just feels so great to do a good job sometimes!

So... I will upload pictures later... I'm too tired to do it right now. Even though I get to sleep in for an hour because I have class at 8 instead of 7 tomorrow!!! I never thought I would be excited for an 8 am class... let alone think of it as my "late" class. but so is life I guess..

Last Thing I Purchased

Other than groceries... the last thing I purchased was... A way sweet WITCHES HAT. I'm going to a Witches Tea Party on Friday so I needed a way sweet Witches costume. :)



Today in my life... I went to Nicholas and Co. for a field trip with my purchasing class. It was SO cool. It's like a warehouse place where they store food for all these major restaurants and food places. They send stuff to Subway and Burger King (those are their major places) in Utah... and good ole IF! So soon some of the boxes I saw today could be consumed by you! ha. We also did an herb/spice tasting. It was nice to be able to learn how to recognize various items.. like chervil. What the heck is that?! It tastes like licorice. But not the yummy red kind. Gross black licorice. eew. But it's apparently really good with like creams and stuff. I dunno. haha.
Oh and today I learned how to have a real southern catfish fry! Well... as "real southern" as someone living in Utah can get. It wasn't that bad... even though I'm not really a very big fan of fish. It was better than salmon though. :)

SIng... Sing A Song.

A song to match my mood.

Well to start off... my mood is... Happy. Tonight was super fun. WAHOO. Great food. Great Friends. :) Good stuff.

My song is...

I got a feeling - black eyed peas

and...

Shine - the morning of

and...

Bust a Move - the glee version not the real one... because there is a difference. Even though they are both good.

and...

Can't Touch This - MC HAMMER

I think that's it. :) Why those? I don't know. They're the ones that popped into my head. haha.

Day 6

My dream wedding.

I honestly haven't thought about it. AT ALL. I always tell people I want to tie-dye my wedding dress (that hasn't gone over well with everyone) but that's all I've even said. Ha. Oh I do know I want chocolate covered strawberries on the top of my cake... dipped and decorated to look like they are wearing a dress/tux. I saw it in a magazine once (not that I generally look at wedding magazines... I was working in a Bridal shop) and I just thought it was cute. It is pretty much the only thing I know though. I don't have colors, flowers, ring, etc. figured out yet... and to be honest,I probably won't know what I want even while it's happening.

Well since that was lame I guess I can tell you about my weekend! Yesterday was GREAT. I got to see Cami Jo and Stephanie (some of my roomies from last year). They were home for fall break so we decided to meet up! We went to California Pizza Kitchen. YUM. We got Hawaiian Barbecue Chicken and Meat Cravers. Both sooo good (though I must admit I liked the Hawaiian one better). Then we walked around a bit to let our food settle so we could have room for cheesecake factory cheesecake. We made the mistake of getting 3 different kinds.. That is a LOT of cheesecake! But it was all soooo goood! I recommend their peanut butter chocolate one. SOOO good. ...I mostly liked it because it doesn't taste like cheesecake. Not the biggest fan... though I'm starting to get over that a little bit... but it has to have other stuff with it or I still don't like it. Ha. If my family reads this they will be really confused... they know I really really don't usually like cheesecake. But anyway, it was a GREAT night and I wish it had never ended!!

Hopefully today will be a good day too. :) I think I'm going to convince my roommate Kristi that we need to FINALLY attack the apple crisp in our fridge... since I bought ice cream and everything. :) Yummy. :) Fresh apples from my tree at home in Idaho! SO GOOD SO GOOD!

Well that's all I've got for you today. I need to go like... take a shower and stuff. ha. I watched Harry Potter this morning instead of getting ready. Go me. (It made me realize that I have only seen 1 - 4. Don't worry. Now I've seen 5 and 6 should be coming in the mail soon. Thanks Netflix!) I'm so behind. But I've read all the books... except for maybe the last one. I don't remember if I read that one or not. But I have it at my house so maybe I will have to read/reread it once I finish the movies?