Food Rambling.......

Hi there! Today I am gonna talk about food... and mainly  my eating habits. (they are horrible)
Either you are reading this because you are very bored, I paid you, You like food as much as I do, You have a huge crush on me :-),or you really are that good of friend to actually want to read this crap! Any case... let me start by telling you about things I hate:
(not in any order.. I hate them all equally)
meat (any and all kinds)
any animal byproduct (anything made with animal parts... ei: gelatin, meat flavored items)
weird white creamy things such as, but not limited to: ranch, mayo (that includes mayonnaise/miracle whip) pre- melted cheese (like the cheese sauce), and yogurt (which I used to like until I ate too much of it once)
tofu... unless it is ground up and made to make something sort of creamy.. then it MIGHT be okay.
I think that is basically it for the big NOs in my food life. now on to a story! (yay! story time! Everyone gather around!)
So the last comic con I went to with Amanda, Jenna, and their boyfriends.... we all got some free ramen. (the con ALWAYS has free ramen and soda) I knew I wouldn't eat the cups of ramen because the seasoning packages were already in it (see animal byproduct if you don't understand why) BUT they usually have rice! (yay! go rice!) Alas! the rice cookers weren't working. :-( (boo!) Then out of no where I was assured that this one cup of ramen did not contain the seasoning and it was separate so I could leave mine out! (Huzzah!) I asked over and over "This does not contain meat right?" and over and over again people were assuring me that no it did not have meat in it. Let me just stop you all right there, in no way shape or form do I blame what I am about to tell you on my friends. They had no knowledge of what was actually in this cup of ramen.
 Ot of the 5 of us, 4 got this cup of ramen. (if you must know it is the spicy ones) we were all happily chowing down when.... (que startling music) Amanda saw a funny shaped noodle in hers. She quickly ate it and said that it must have been a mistake in the factory. Haha! not so! Soon someone else found one. Then another! This whole time, Jenna (who was the only one who did NOT get this type of ramen) was saying "Maybe you shouldn't eat that! Oh God! You could die!" I should have listened to her......
Soon I too found my mysterious "noodle"

 

After some peer pressure from the others to join the mystery noodle group, I ate it. It tasted funny... very funny. Flash forward to about a month ago: My lovely friends all found out what this "noodle" really was... and made a pact not to tell me. Jenna spilled the beans... That so call "noodle" really was fish ground up and pressed in to that shape. (gag! Gag! gag!) I will NOT be enjoying ANY ramen this next time at the con! Instead I have told myself I will pack delightful snacks that will keep my hunger at bay.

It is because of things like this, why I have a love/hate relationship with food. I so desperately want to love it. But then things like this happen and I don't want to eat anything for a week. Once I found out how many bug parts are in chocolate... I refused to eat chocolate for quite awhile! I am only now able to tell people the story above without actually gagging. Have you ever seen some one gag? it isn't pretty!

 

Anyways, I really wanted to share with you the top few foods I have been in love with this last week or two. Also can I say that if you are still reading this... You really are a great friend! Thank you!

Food number one:

If you live in America, then you are aware of the amazing and sometimes disgusting chip flavors Lay's comes out with. Coffee flavored ones... really Lay's?! Come on!

But as I said before there are sometimes that they get it right. Oh sooooo right!

One of these flavors (which is back for a limited time) is the Mango Salsa ones. Oh my goodness! It is heaven! Pure Heaven! I cant even begin to tell you why these are so good. They just have the right amount of sweet vs salty and an added spice that makes me want to finish a bag in record time!

But moving on....

Food number two: The Mc D's Shamrock Shake.....

 

*sigh* I simply hate the food at Mc D's. BUT their shamrock shakes have me in their greasy, gross clutches. That sweet mint flavor with the cherry on top is one thing I look forward to each spring. In fact if I am going to be honest here, I drank one already today. I can only handle a small though. My stomach after even that much milk product is screaming at me to stop. But I cant stop! I must have more! Or at least until they quit selling it again.

 

Food number three: Chili cheese fries

 

Being a vegetarian I don't get all of the same choices people who eat meat do. That being said one of the things I have missed out on my whole life has been Chili cheese fries.

That is until this last week when I came home and thought to myself, Hey! Laura! You have fries in the freezer and leftover chili in the fridge. You should make a vegetarian version of chili cheese fries!

And so a monster was born. The first couple of bites I wasn't that impressed. I even told Amanda "ehh they are good but not as amazing as everyone says they are" And NOooooo it wasn't because there wasn't any meat on them! *eye roll*

Then about halfway through the bowl of fries, cheese, and chili I had an epiphany. These things are F-ing amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (there isn't enough "!" to describe how "!" they are!) I have since then craved them and I have all my meat eaters to blame. Yes! you heard me! I blame you! If you all hadn't told me how great they are anytime you saw them on a menu at a restaurant I never would have thought to try them.

This is literally me when I eat them:

No joke! my hair even gets all crazy on me! ;-)

 

I am like the hulk only I don't turn green and I just want to eat my food.

I mean! look at it! oh gosh! I want some now!

 

So that's my ramble about food in my life. well at least the food in my life for this last week... It is Monday so...... hmmm speaking about food... I have to eat yet today. Maybe I should make a pizza. That seems like a safe choice. Yeah and a spinach salad. Hey! A girl has to counter act the badness in the pizza with something! and I sure as hell am not going to go work out!

Happy eating everyone! Peace!





Blah-humbug!

Well we made it to another Friday. You would think that today of all days I would be THRILLED! I have the weekend off, I just got paid, I don't have anything to tie me down.... but no.
There is most defanitly no sunshine in my cherios today.

I can hear you all now... "But Laura! Why are you so unhappy? You have your health, a cute dog, a warm place to lay your head down at night...... Etc...Etc...."

Yes those are all very true. I am not sick. I have a warm place to sleep at night, and Poppy my dog is pretty cute. (sometimes)

Don't let this adorable face fool you! He would poop on your bed in a heartbeat!

 

 

The doggie experts lie when they say that dogs don't plot to get even against their owners like cats... My dog does. :-/ But surprisingly that's not what made my day crappy.

 

Really it was my job. While I LOVE what I do, it is and can be super stressful. Not only do I deal with people who have hard times communicating and expressing themselves. I have a lot I have to remember. The position I am in I have been in for several month. You would think I have gotten it down by now! NOPE! Still forgetting stuff.... still f-ing up. I don't think it would be so bad but at my job I always feel like any time someone messes up that is all that anyone focuses on for the next few days. So now I have a lovely Monday to look forward to of people pointing out my mistakes. Oh joy! Yup! that makes my weekend bright as the sun!

And honestly I know I should just do what Elsa does in the movie Frozen (let it go) but sometimes it is hard to just let go of everything and drink that cup of sunshine.

That big part of me is saying... meditate! You will feel so much better!

but then that evil part of me is saying..... Psssss! Hey! You got that little bit of alcohol in the fridge. I bet it would go down real smooth right now!

I don't want you to think I am an alcoholic after that. I hardly drink. In fact the little bit of stuff I do have in the fridge has been there for at least two weeks and never opened. so... yeah. Don't judge.

Sorry I am clearly still crabby. Everything has me on edge. Including fake fights I just had with you judging me for wanting to drink ONE stinking drink!

Okay sorry I am back... so yeah, I guess I should go hunt down my cup of instant smile/sunshine. I think I need it. Thanks for letting me vent. Perhaps that's all I needed. hmmm maybe that was my cup of sunshine. ehhh well maybe I will just stay crabby for a little bit. who knows.

oh side note! I got my ceramic back from Color Me Mine! here it is!

 

I use it to hold my rocks and crystals.

 

also I cut my hair... not sure if I like it or not. I sort of feel super nerdy with it.

In kitchen, no make up.... Horrible photo! LOL

 

Well I think I got my cup of sunshine. My lovely co-host to Paranormal Mojo and awesome friend, Kris just called me. She knows how to make me smile. Now for that drink! from the looks of the picture above... I need it!! Peace out!





 



Something new... and what the heck is that?!!

Hi all! So today when I was at the grocery story I came across a really cool fruit!

So of course I'm thinking "what the hell is this? And HOW do you eat it?" So I googled this crap out!

;-) Turns out you just kind a peel away the weird spike looking skin (that ironically isn't really like spikes) and there is this fruit inside that you eat. I had to get some! And since I am trying something new each month I naturally thought this could be my February one!Hey! it doesn't take much to thrill me. Also I couldn't help but wonder if it would make me forget that it was still winter outside. I also picked up some red bananas. I googled them too... only to find out that they are like normal bananas, just taste a bit sweeter and are softer. Oh well it is like an adventure with fruit!

These are rambutans....they come from Southeast Asia.

 

 

So here we go.. on with our adventure in these odd balls of fruit. I split open one and found a weird white round piece of fruit. It had the consistency of a peeled grape.

 

The website I looked at said that it should kind of taste like a grape too... and yeah it sort of did!

 





 

 

That same site tho started to talk about the seed in the middle and then said "See Warning below!"
So I started to think,Cool! this could be one of those foods where you are like "awww lil buddy I want to eat you but you might kill me." Not so much with this fruit... the warning was just a reminder that you COULD choke on the seed. The seed is the size of an almond. Unless you are careless and or giving this to a child.. I don't think you will choke. BUT! I cant say that I would eat the seed. I think that it could be pretty bitter. There is a very thin covering over the seed and I couldn't stop from eating a bit of it... it wasn't that great in taste. Needless to say I was sad when all three were gone in my tummy. It was like eating a giant grape and I wanted more. They were, dare I say, a little ball of sunshine in my mouth. :-)

Also I wanted to say sorry to those who always look forward to my horrible drawings... I didn't really feel like it...and to be honest I got lazy. But I will make sure to put some up the next week I do a post. I pinkie swear!

Okay so until next time! Peace!!

 



Girls just want to have fun and eat glitter

Hellooo! Happy very late Valentine's day! I had actually meant to post this last weekend but I got lazy. :-) But better late then never right!?
So last Saturday (V-Day) Jenna had a game night at her place... I thought it would be special to get this bottle of wine that had (*Gasp!*) SPARKLES in it!!!! I mean really! what girl doesn't like sparkles???!!! The bottle was good size and the purple liquid in it seemed to shimmer with a silvery colored something or other in it. The taste... ahhhh the taste... yes! well, the taste at first was a lot like this:

 UNTIL you get to the aftertaste! Then its more like:

Incase you didn't gather from my drawings.... The top person was me and the other one was Amanda.
This "wine" was infused with Vodka... and it tasted like you drank a shot of it straight. So thank goodness we have Jenna as a BFF:

And so we added some sprite to it... it was pretty good then! we all got a bit tipsy with it...
Even with the added soda it still sparkled!
I feel like the liquid was something that a unicorn farted and then humans turned it in to a drink...

But I am sad to say that my pee/poop/and any other things that come out of a human body was not sparkly :-( highly disappointing!
The three of us ladies and Jenna's and Amanda's Boyfriends tried to play some games only for all of us to realize that after a few drinks we had the attention spans of toddlers. So we did some arm tattoos and goofed off. All in all it was a great night with friends and BFFS. Cant wait until next time!

The next day Jenna and I went to Color Me Mine and did some awesome and relaxing painting on ceramics. I forgot to take photos of when we got done so I guess you all will have to wait until this next Sunday to see the final projects!

Amanda's adventure!

Hi all! so this last Friday I most defiantly could have used a big box of instant smile. The grocery stores were out of instant sunshine.

Ha! Ha! Just when you thought you were safe from my horrible drawings! ;-)
Anyways, I had a semi crap-ulous week at work and my awesome (and other BFF) Jenna has been dealing with a bum knee. so we took it upon ourselves to go out to eat. I found an awesome parking spot right up front! The sun was shining things were looking up and also the air was heating up... in fact it was so nice here that I didn't think I needed my big heavy coat. so just before I exited the car I tossed my coat back inside and shut the door. And then I realized... Oh crap! I always put my keys in the pocket of the coat.

 so thank goodness I had my cellphone! I quickly dialed Amanda's number to see if she could bring the extra set of keys. And that's where the adventure turned in to a soap opera drama!
Amanda: "Hello? where are you?"
me: "Hi! hey! where are you?" (my voice frantic)
Amanda: "Where ARE you?!"
me: "No! where are you?" (getting frustrated)
Amanda: (laughing) " I asked you first!"
me: (sigh) " I am with Jenna. we are outside of this restaurant and I locked the keys in the car! so see! I need to know where you are. to see if you can bring me the extra set!"
Amanda: "okay, well do you want to know what my day has been like?"
a puzzled look crosses my face
me: " sure! what happened?"
Amanda: " I can bring you the extra set but remember last night how I told you I lost my wallet?"
(flashback to the night before)
Amanda walked in to the apartment and proceeds to tell me how she had dropped her wallet at the local gas station and a random guy had come in to the station claiming that he knew her and would give it to her. We both assumed (we live in a small town outside of the city) that it was one of our neighbors. Amanda waited up for most of the night for these guys to come home... Side note: during the time Amanda was waiting for the neighbors to come home... she found a drunk guy sleeping in the laundry room. I am telling you people! it is never a dull moment with Amanda!
(now flash forward to Friday afternoon)
Me: " yeah I remember. did you get it? who had it?"
Amanda: " I don't know?! I got up in the morning and asked around and no one seemed to know what I was talking about. so I went back to the station to see if I could look at the video of the guy. Maybe I would recognize him or something. I watched the video and saw this older guy pick my wallet up outside, go inside, head for the bathrooms, then go up to the clerk and hand it over. THEN an hour and a half later the same guy comes back in, this time he has shaved his face, and he tells the clerk that his friend had here wallet here and he was there to get it for her."
I was in shock as she told me this! Jenna sitting across from me was giving me the look "What?!"
Amanda: "so after I told them I had never seen this guy before they called the cops."
here is where I am not completely sure of the time frame but basically Amanda got a phone call from her school (she is going to be a nurse) they informed her that a man had called and said that he had her wallet and he left a phone number for her to call. Amanda calls him and he says he FOUND her wallet and that she owed him a drink for finding it could she come to this bar (a 1/2 hour away) and get it.

So the cops tell Amanda that they will go to this bar to get her wallet. While Amanda and I are on the phone and she is telling me all of this, she gets another phone call from this guy. I hang up with her so she can talk to him and I can inform Jenna of what is going on.
about 10 to 15 minutes later I get this text:

So frantically I try calling her.
Amanda: "Hello?"
me: "What?! what are you doing crazy lady?"
Amanda: "well he called me and said that he didn't realize that the bar was closed and to meet him in this other town and a different bar. I lied to him and said I was driving still. I cant get ahold of the cop and so I left a message for them telling them that he is headed to this other place. But damn it! I want my wallet!"
me: "Oh my gwd! Lady! what if he wants to kill you or something?!"
Amanda: " I will be fine! he is old and I know moves!"

(ninja Amanda)
me: (knowing I cant change her mind) "Okay but please be careful! how far are you from that place?"
Amanda: "Not very far at all."
we end our conversation and Jenna And I start to think the worse case scenarios with this situation.
a few minutes later Amanda calls me back:
me: "Hi!"
Amanda: " I got my wallet back!"
me: (thinking "thank God you aren't dead!") "So what happened?!!"
Amanda: "The cops pulled him over between towns. they are bring me my wallet. But I feel a bit bad for the guy. why do I feel bad?"
me: "I don't know. Cause he was old? I don't think that you should feel bad. I think he was a bad person and probably would have done something bad to you."
I later learned from Amanda that when the cops pulled the guy over he was heavily intoxicated.

The moral of this story friends is... don't loose your shit in small towns! they will clearly give it to anyone who comes in! :-) nawww I am just kidding. But seriously... try not to loose stuff. you never know what will happen. Unless you are up for a crazy adventure like Amanda... then... ALWAYS Loose your stuff. Also don't lock your keys inside the car.
Oh! and you are probably wondering what happened with me and the locked car. Well Jenna called her Dad and he took us to the local humane society where we hooked up with Amanda and played with all sorts of cute animals! (Support your local humane society!) Then Amanda took us back to the car with the extra set of keys.
Love and sunshine... oh wait! I forgot. the stores are out.... ummm.... love and SMILES! :-)

Something new!

Hi there! I have decided to attempt to do a blog at least once a month (hopefully more often then that ) In my blogs I want to share the new experiences I have each month ( I will get in to that here in a bit) and perhaps send out some extra cups of sunshine to those who need them! Heaven knows I have had my days where I could drink actual sunshine and need a million cups of it! ;-)
One of the things I have chosen to do this year is, each month I will pick something that I have never done before (Ei: going somewhere, cooking something, or making something) and I will then document what I experienced!
Since last month just about flew by without me finding anything new to do. I thought that I would have to just skip it and  start with the month of February. But thank goodness for BFFs! On the 31st of January, my best friend, Amanda, informed me that she was going to be staying at a local casino because she received a free night there. I was pretty happy for her and I knew that her boyfriend would be enjoying this stay too. She then suggested that I come along because her boyfriend wasn't getting off work until later. I am not one to really go and gamble... but Amanda (this is why she is my BFF)  knew just what to say to get me to come along. "They have a pool there! we could go swimming!" Those were the words that hooked me. I was in! And the more I thought about it the more I realized that 1. I had never honestly gone to a casino hotel just for swimming. 2. Since I am somewhat new to SD (I just moved here this last year) I had never gone to this casino! It was a win win! I got my "new" thing in just in time.
I didn't however think about taking photos for when I blogged later. But I can tell you that the hotel attached to the casino was super nice and they had a hot tub shaped like a lazy river, which connected to the outside. If any of you reading this are from the Midwest, then you know in Jan. it is snowy and cold! I begged Amanda to come in to the hot tub and venture outside... it was amazing! Just like I new it would be! Also! Amanda had a new first too! Seems she had never been in a hot tub while it snowed. At first we both kind of freaked out as the wind and snow swirled around us. But slowly we both took in the awesomeness. Amanda's dark hair was incased with pretty white sparkling snow by the time we both thought we should go back inside.
Here is a very POOR drawing of Amanda and I.... I am the one with the pink in the hair... I attempted to add bathing suits but.. Gosh! I forgot how much I suck at using the paint app! Please don't judge!

See! we are in the water! :-)

 

Whenever I go anywhere with Amanda we always have some type of Adventure! Before we left the hotel room to head to the lovely pool... we saw two people leaving through double doors right next to Amanda's room. We both thought to ourselves that it must be another way to get to that level. so of course as we exited her room and turn to the doors... I start to shake the handle and go "that's weird! its locked!" We BOTH see that there was a card key slot. "OH!" we say and Amanda puts her key in.. it didn't work... I happen to look up at the door to see what the heck we were doing wrong only to figure out... it was a suite! oops! So happy the couple had left before! HAHAHAHAha! Both of us got out of there fast. Honestly officer! we thought it took us to a staircase! ;-)







So that was my last day of the first month in the year 2015! On a side note, Amanda and I had some time to check out the casino floor and I did happen to win an extra $20! I would say that overall I am very excited to see what is in store for me the rest of this year. Love and Sunshine!