when I wish time would stop

Weekends are so fun.  Waking up naturally, sipping fresh carrot apple juice, and of course my favorite day, super Saturday.  That is what my friends are calling our activity-filled Saturdays.  We do everything from grocery shopping to cliff jumping to hiking.  This weekend we celebrated my boyfriend's new job and went out to dinner, went to a haunted house (the best one I have ever been to), went window shopping at the lavish Ala Moana mall in Waikiki and then my boyfriend took me jet-skiing.  It was so much fun and upon return I made chicken soup and we watched the green lantern.

I sure wish I could figure out how to make my weekends (and dark chocolate) last longer.

Adventure website

I may have found the best website on the internet.  It is infinitylist.com and it is AMAZING.  It is everything I love on one site.  It is a collection of the best videos of all kinds of extreme sports.  I decided it can be my motivation to get my homework done early.
   

adventures in the kitchen

I have really enjoyed cooking lately.  Any extra time I have I like to whip up something new and tasty.  I just wonder how long it will last.  Recently I have been fairly successful regarding the outcomes.  I guess I figure while Im having success I should keep it up. 

This is a cream of broccoli soup.  It was inspired by a Costco sample and it turned out pretty good.  Fairly healthy as well.

 
This is a passion fruit meringue pie. This was a shot in the dark but it turned out really good.  The only thing was I kneaded the dough a little too long and it came out a little harder than I wanted.  The tartness of the passion fruit and the sweetness of the meringue were a perfect match.  I doubt I will do this again considering it took me half my day.  I am learning a lot about cooking and it is so fun!

Another thing i made is a yogurt salad dressing.  It is really easy but really delicious.  You add plain greek yogurt, vinegar, garlic, pepper, olive oil, and italian seasoning.  It tastes a little like greek yogurt dressing.  I have been making it everyday and I'm not sick of it yet. 

the irrefutable truth.....

I now have an internal alarm clock of 6am.  6 AM!!!! That is the only reason why, on a saturday, when I have nothing going on, I am sitting at my computer, at 6 am.  Nothing worth being up for happens at 6 am.  Probably the opposite actually because at 6 am the cockroaches believe that the humans are still asleep and thus roam the house like they own it.  Ya, I saw the biggest (and fastest) cockroach this morning.  Don't worry though it went back under the fridge before I could smack it with the broom handle, at 6 am. 

The art of bargaining

My housemate, Bev is pro at getting great deals.  There is a swap meet every Saturday where most of the sellers know her by name.  We went there yesterday as part of a birthday weekend for my roommate/distant relative Paige.  She has many tactics to getting a good deal.  Some of them include:
-talking down your price and then walking away
-using the "we're poor college students" phrase
-throwing money at them and taking the item

She teaches us so many things. 

Peggy Sue's Diner

While on vacation with friends we ate at Peggy Sue's, an old fashioned diner like those you see scattered across, well everywhere.  They do hamburgers, shakes, and fries.  Before eating here I thought I had known hamburgers.  I'm American, raised in Santaquin where the Santaqueen and Guy Wall's burgers were a childhood staple.  But it wasn't until I went to Peggy Sue's that I experienced a real burger.  No I didn't get a fancy burger made with steak or smothered in a "secret" sauce.  I just ordered a burger with fries.  I don't know what they did or who they were calling upon to create these burgers but I will tell you I may never have another burger because of them. It does help that they had a car show out front which reminded me of home.


Cheers to Peggy Sue's and for ruining any future hamburger experience. Cheers, truly.