cooking adventures

So the last two nights Mark and i have been trying to cook dinner. Surprisingly enough, dinner hasn't turned out too bad. Saturday night we made spaghetti which is always a little easy to start with but if you know me well enough, you know i can't cook to save my life. But we did it. Tasted pretty dang good and we had enough left overs to feed all of Canada. Last night we decided to try enchiladas which are easyish too and they turned out good as well. We attempted Mexican rice and for some reason rice and i just don't mix. i don't think i have ever made rice that tasted great. I ended up not cooking it long enough so it was a little crunchy but still tasty. We had enough left overs to feed Canada and Russia this time. I like learning how to cook. It stresses me out but it's still fun and i like eating whatever it is that i made. Makes me feel accomplished! If anyone has any recipes they would like to share with me i'll attempt to make it!!

Second week of school has started. I only have one class mondays so its really handy. I practically get a four day weekend! so today i have to get quite a bit of homework done...but i have all day. so its not a big deal.

so today is kind of a big deal for one reason...IT'S MY COUSIN CARLY'S BIRTHDAY! YAY!

Happy Birthday Cousin (I'm definitely NOT grabbing my boob so don't even think that!)! I love you! I'm so glad we are such close friends! I just wish we were physically closer :[ We've been best friends for 19 years now and i've loved every minute we've spent together! We've been through so much together and i know that you know almost if not everything about me and visa versa. Grampy was so important to both of us and im glad that we could go through that loss together beacuase not many people understood how great he was. All of our matching outfits were amazing. I wish that my mom would have kept them so we could dress our kids in them...even if they are boys haha! I miss you every day and i wish that we lived closer together. It'll happen one day i swear it! I have a pile of blankets that we've made over the years in my closet. I wont ever get rid of them though, i mean...how could i, or you? They kick butt for one, but they have stories. Vermont stories and new years stories! I love all of them! I just hope you know how much i love you and you know that im always just a phone call away if you ever need anything at all! I strongly think that Grampy would be so proud of me and you and Hannah for everything we are doing right now. Miss you cousin!! Happy 19th Birthday! Glad you finally made it! ;)

Lucky Peak, 1993

My house in Boise, 1993
My house in Boise, 1993 (wearing friendship bracelets)

One of a million bathtub pictures at my house in Boise, 1993

day two

Today was the second day of class and so far so good. yesterday i had a stinken full day with math, history, english and literature. and today i just had government and dutch oven cooking! I'm so excited to start cooking in that class. my group that i was assigned to seems pretty neat so it should be super fun! I already have a crap load of homework that i'm avoiding right this second but thats ok. not too worried about it :]

I'm glad that I'm getting back into school and things but i miss summer already. I miss my family too. Ugh. i already went through all of this last year. Does it happen every year? Hope not. Anyway...i guess i don't have a whole lot to update on.

back to it!

alllllllllllllllright!! well!! I'm wrapping up my summer with a good blog entry. I'm going to try to keep up with it this school year. It's back to school time...Go ISU! My second year..it's pretty exciting. Pretty much everything is different. I'm at a new place with new roommates, who i like already, i have new classes and im trying to make new friends. School officially starts tomorrow and im excited to see what werid people i share classes with this semester. Today i got my classes all lined up and figured out my financial situation and its only 10:00ish! Feeling pretty good/tired.

I love my new place. I live in an apartment with three other girls, Allie, Kayla and Jess. They are all totally cool and i love all of their personalities! I guess i haven't been at our place very much over the last couple of days but i still like it a lot.

I have a lot to look forward to this semester and this year. I'm super excited to get everything started up. Im going to make a goal for myself to read more this year. I read plenty last year but i would like to make that more this time around.

Good Luck to everyone else starting school!!