Afternoon Snack

So since summer is here now, here is a afternoon snack that is light and healthy and will fill you up and its super easy to make and can take it on the go! 

Apple with Greek yogurt

What you need: 

Apple

Greek Yogurt

Peanut Butter

Honey 

Cinnamon

How to make it: 

1. Mix Greek Yogurt, peanut butter, cinnamon and honey together 

2. Cut apple - you can add any other fruit you have 

So Simple and delicious!! 

 

 

-Talk soon

Sam 

Life after University

So this past weekend I graduated from college!! Can't believe its already been 4 years! What to do now since you don't have any homework or finals to study for. Now I just work full time as a line cook at a senior living center- pretty awesome job get to cook for about 220 people daily.

I think the best part of graduating was being able to do it with my best friend/roommate!



















talk soon
-Sam

New lifestyle

So.. Starting today was the first day of my vegetarian diet. I started this diet because the past couple weeks whenever I eat any type of meat I would get sick Pretty much to the point where the sight or smell of food made me sick and didn't want to eat at all - which isn't good. 
At first I thought it was just the type of meat or where I had the meat. Not so much it didn't matter which restaurant or friends place or  even at my apartment no such luck! So I'm going to try a Lacto- Ovo Vegetarian diet from now until Feb 22 ( The start of my spring break) to see how I feel.  
So for the next month this what I can't have: 
No red meat, poultry or fish 
gelatin, animal glycerine, rennet, animal- based flavorings, animal fat 

What I Can have: 
diary,  soy products, eggs, veggies, fruit 

So We'll see how this month goes.. who knows I might stay with this lifestyle!

-Sam

Christmas Holiday

Hey y'all!

Koko & Simba 

Merry Christmas! Hope everyone has a break with their family. This Christmas I got a puppy! His name is Simba-I love the Lion King and his name is very fitting! He's a Chinook, he just turned 2 months on the 16th! He his the most adorable puppy ever!!! I've just been spending time with my family going to the festival of lights and hanging out at the house.

Little brothers, mom & I- Jamie my older sister took the picture as this guy behind her was making funny faces 

Not a lot has been going on it been a very relaxing holiday which is super nice & I wish it would last longer.

-Sam

Busy.. super busy

I know its been a while since I've written anything. Truth is between school, work and drama with a guy just haven' t had time.
So here's whats been going on:
School: 4 classes- I know that doesn't seem like a lot but at my University the class are pretty intense! We have have assignments and projects due before Christmas holiday- the holiday starts on Thursday! Did I mention that it only the 4th week of the trimester! Anyways I'm super excited to  to be away from school and back home with family and some friends in Texas!
Work: I'm a nanny who works some pretty weird hours- you would expect a nanny to work from 4-4am or 9-3pm or something like that but most nanny's dont work for someone who is a bartender. On top of that I'm starting a new job at a bakery& cafe. I know 2 jobs on top of being a full time student! Crazy right?! Well.. bills need to be paid and would like some spending money. So you got to do what you can to support oneself.
Onto the next thing I've been dealing with- guys! ughh.. apparently I attract douchebags! Here's the story- Met the guy in one of my classes last tri. He seemed really nice and he was funny and sweet and cute.  Everyone described him as So cute yet so stupid. If I was thinking clearly I would have saw that as a red flag... nope didn't think anything of it.  Well as the tri went along ( the trimester is 11 weeks long) I started to like him & I thought he liked me too. Boy was I wrong!We spent time together since we were in the same group and had this huge project to work on.  As the tri went along we would flirt with one another and  I would give some hints to him that I liked him-  I didn't want to come out and say- Hey I like you we should date. Since we still had a month before holiday break and we had 2 classes together- we spent 7 hours together each week. I would give him rides to/from school and to his work. Well the last day of class we spent the afternoon together- I took him to the doctors. I told him- everyone thinks were either dating or should date...I'm fine with whatever.. what do you think of it? He said and I quote- "I don't do girlfriends, I've been hurt before and I don't want to be hurt again.. need time to heal." What I told him- oh yeah that makes since. What I thought- "Seriously?!?! Instead of saying don't want to date.. just stay friends you make up this lame excuse.. everyone gets hurt in relationships." Anyways  went on holiday and didn't talk to him came back a week later to start Winter tri and he came up to me when I was talking to a friend and was really happy to see me and acting like nothing happened. So for the last couple weeks we have both been acting like nothing happened and he didn't say what he said and he was being nice and it was a good change...So I thought. Well on Sunday and Monday he called/text me and it really surprised me because he never did that before- all he wanted was a ride to work.  My thoughts: Seriously! we haven't really talked and this is the first thing you ask me? Nice that you  are only using me for a ride? Sorry didn't realize I was your Chauffeur!  I told him I couldn't was at church and about to go to class. Once I told him no he stopped talking to me- this was the 3rd time I told him I couldn't help him. Out of the 15 weeks that we've known each other. On Tuesday during our class I found out that not only has he been using me but he found a "new me" only difference is she smokes and drinks with him and they go out to lunch and hang out on the weekends. We spent a tri together and never once asked if I wanted to do any of that. The thing that makes everything hard is- I felt so hurt when I found out, the fact that I thought he was changing and instead he was just finding someone to do his work.  I know he's a douche and call him what ever you want.. but I feel SOOO stupid for being attracted to him and thinking that we could have something instead of  him just using me and tossing me aside when he was done with what I do for him. Live and learn.. I guess.
New Goal- find a guy that isn't a douche or stupid how hard could that be?

-Sam

So.....Life..Boys.. everything in between...

Life...
Why is that when were little we think about how are lives are going to turn out and we all have this picture in our head. We graduate from high school with our best friends and go off to college and meet new people and rule the world. Life is going to be super easy. Well sorry to burst your bubble little ones- life isn't easy! Its freaking hard!
After high school I thought the group of friends that I hanged out with every weekend for all 4 years of school, we would still be close. Not the case- You see out of the group only 2 of us went out of state for university while the other 4 stayed in Texas. I would come home for holiday break but it would be weird.. it was like I didn't know them anymore. It was like meeting them for the first time and we didn't have anything in common. Then it got to the point where they would only text or call me when they wanted to know a recipe or if that had a problem while they were cooking.   Then the one friend that I thought we would always be friends until we were super old, went and did a Disney college program and totally forgot about me. Now only talks to people that have gone to Disney and loves it as much as she does. So some say the friends that you meet in high school will be your friends for life.  I don't think so.. I think the friends you meet in middle school and primary school is where your true friends are. those friends- Katrina & Liza we have been though a lot and nothing has stopped us from taking care and keeping in touch.
I'm in my 4th year of university with 4 weeks left of the Fall trimester and it really got me thinking about my life and what I want ot do afterwards.
Life after university:
Get more experience in restaurants
Open a restaurant
Open a bakery
Work with the school districts and get better food served to the children
start a organization to end world hunger
I know it seems like a lot but I figured if you have a degree why not use to help others.
Boys...
Why do girls think boys so freaking difficult? Thats because its us- girls that are difficult! Because we dont think we can just tell the guy- Hey I like you.. let go to dinner on friday! Instead we tell our friends- I think hes cute. and that's it. Then we get super jealous if we see the boy talk to another girl.  Especially in university, you would think by now we would be at the point in our lives where we could ask the boy out. No.. not at all!  Because what goes though our minds- Um no! he will totally say no and i'll be super embarrassed to ever see his face again so.. i'll wait until he figures I like him.. that makes more sense. Girls are totally screwed up!  We all complain about boys- how stupid they are, the stupid things they do- especially in university! and why it takes them so long to figure out we like them- not sure how many hints they want you to give them before they figure out that you actually like them more than a friend.

-Sam

Drunken Cookies

So today I made some cookies, I thought what could I add to the recipe to make it a little different and decided to add  some liquor. Here's how they turned out.

here's the ingredients:

1 cup butter
3/4 granulated sugar
1 cup cake flour
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cardamon
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup Italian liquor

1. Preheat oven 350,Medium bowl combine butter and sugar 
2. small bowl- combine dry ingredients then add to butter mixture 
3. Add eggs and vanilla, chocolate chips and liquor to mixture bake for 8-10 minutes 

-Enjoy 

Sam