Sonic + Octopus

Hi guys,

Now that I am home I can blog for you all! Hope you guys are understanding about me not blogging. When I had the time to blog I just wanted to chill or be with Schatzi. This is from Tuesday. We stayed at the house for most of my visit, but Schatzi wanted to take a trip over to Redding for motorcycle stuffs. He had seen a commercial for Sonic and asked if we could go. I don't think I've ever been to one before so I didn't know what to expect. I was surprised when we pulled up because I didn't know there were individual parking eating spot thingies . . . I have no clue what they are called. For those of you that have no clue what I am trying to talk about you park next to a menu like the one in the photo. Once you know what you want press a button and the magical box takes your order lol They bring the food out to the car! Pretty cool!

Tuesday was Schatzi's nephew's birthday so his mom wanted to make special dinner for the kids. She made hot dog octopi with green seaweed spaghetti! Aren't they adorable? She even made little faces on each one! Isn't she creative?

ALG

Stuffed Chicken

Evening,

I don't know what it is, but I have been waking at 7 for the past few days. I think I just tend to wake early when I'm with Schatzi. Getting out of bed is a totally different story though lol Usually knock back out till 9 or so. Schatzi's mom has been saying how she's worried I will starve here so we went to the store to get some food. Picked up yogurts for breakfast and some things for dinner. Schatzi's sister mentioned stuffed chicken last night and his mom thought it'd be a yummy dish to make. I am not a fan of stuffed chicken or stuffed anything for that matter, but this was really delicious! What's crazy is that it had cheese, broccoli, and SPINACH in it! Spinach! I can't stand spinach, yet I ate it. She used crushed Ritz crackers for the crust surrounding the chicken.



She had made tons of macaroni and potato salad for camping so we had them with the chicken. I stuck with the macaroni salad to accompany my lovely chicken.

Doesn't that look tasty? She kept saying how dry it was, but I don't think it was dry. This very well may be one of my new favorite chicken entrees! It  seems relatively simple, and the end result looks a beautiful golden color (guess that depends how well my timing is). I think I may need to try this on my own. I need to start learning to cook more food foods instead of sweets. Can't only be feeding my Schatzi sweets all this coming year!

ALG

Thousand Trails

Morning everyone,

For 4th of July Schatzi's aunt invited family to go to Thousand Trails to go camping. You guys may not know, but I've never really been camping before. I am not super girly girl, but I don't like getting dirty. Left the house with Schatzi's parents while he went off on his bike. Swung by his sister's house to get her and her two adorable sons. Then off we went for a twoish hour drive to the campground. Interesting car ride. Stopped for breakfast, but before that stop we had to stop so Schatzi's mom and sister could deal with one of the kid's. Poor guy got a bad nose bleed. We all felt sorry for him, but admitted he looked kind of funny with all those napkins held up on his face lol

I didn't take a lot of photos for you guys because carrying the camera everywhere would have been such a hassle. Just wanted to try to relax and not have to worry about it getting stolen or wet. At the campgrounds we didn't have phone service and that was very nice. I normally have my phone on me 24/7. I really do, ask anyone! So just left that in the tent. Only problem with that was not knowing the time.

It was hot, but we got to go down to the lake a few times to cool off. Schatzi said it's about a mile walk there and back so we must have walked a good 7 miles?

Schatzi was sweet as always and did most of the setting up. Never had to pitch a tent before, so I was a little lost. He just told me put that through there and that over there, hold this. The tent didn't seem terribly big from the outside, but on the inside it was a bit more spacious than I had expected.



Didn't have a set schedule so we kind of just did our own little thing. Here's a picture of part of Schatzi's aunt and uncle's set up.




After a very long day we headed over to the parking lot to watch the fireworks. See the table? The staff went and lined up the fireworks and lit em on there. I am afraid of being too close to fireworks ever since I burnt myself a little with one when I was younger. I don't see how they were getting all up in there lighting new ones with some already going off. At one point one of the fireworks tipped on its side. Guess who couldn't keep himself from laughing? Yup, Schatzi. There he was sitting right there next to me laughing hysterically.


This is the only photo I have of the lake. Can't say I've swam in a lake before. Took me a while to get in the water because the rocks and plants. We swam across the lake and just chilled in the middle away from all the crazy kids and families. Not a bad photo huh? Doesn't give you guys a very good idea of what the lake was like, but there ya go.

Got there Friday and left Saturday. Not even a full two days, but that's enough for me lol Think by the end of the trip we all needed away from the kids.

For someone that doesn't like outdoorsy stuff, I will admit I had a lot of fun. I got to relax, not worry about my phone, school, life I guess. To a certain degree though. Would I go again? For sure! Maybe next year lol not too soon

ALG

Forgot to mention something! On the way back from the campground Schatzi's mom almost his a deer! Sooo we were following this super slow red car out to the road, had to pull over to see if something had gone wrong with all the stuff in the back of the truck, got back on the road behind the darn red car. On top of moving so slowly he kept braking. Schatzi's mom was getting annoyed and when he straight up stopped in the middle of the road she decided to go around him. As we approached the stopped car something off to the right caught my eye. Not used to seeing deer I wasn't sure what was moving in the brush. By the time I realized it was a deer Schatzi's mom had started toward the left side of the red car. For the majority of the car ride I was quiet, but I kind of yelled out "Wait!" Luckily the deer got by and we got by the red car lol Don't think I have ever been in that situation before.

Happy Anniversary! To?

Hey guys!

So guess what today marks?! Although I will assume you all read the title of this post. Can you believe it's been a year since I started blogging? Crazy right? Come a long way since Where To Begin. I didn't plan anything special for this specific occasion, but I did happen to leave the city!

There it is. Flight 405 to Sacramento. Was a pretty short calm flight, about an hour and fifteen maybe. When I fly I like to it by the window so I can glance out if and or when I feel motion sick. Boarded with the B section and found myself a window seat. A nice lady came and sat a seat over from me. Kind of wished she had sat down next to me, but oh well. Instead, a pilot came and sat down in between the two of us.

Got off the plane, waited for my bag, and found Schatzi waiting for me. I was surprised when I saw him. He looked so different! Yet I had just Skyped with him the previous night. You guys know he is 26, and although he does't normally look hi age, he looked around 22? Maybe even younger! Since the airport is about two hours from his parents' house we stopped at Taco Bell for dinner. He kept apologizing about feeding me fast food, but to be honest that's what I've been kinda craving. So I was a happy camper lol

We got to the house late, chatted with mom for  bit, then off to bed. It is very different from home up here.

ALG

Packed Yet?

Evening!

Nearly midnight here in California. I spent a decent amount of time gathering and packing stuffs for my trip! As of now I'm good to go. Going for sixish days up north to meet and stay with Schatzi's family!

Here's some photos of what I did. Of course I couldn't do this in silence so I searched Ariana Grande Playlist on YouTube. Maybe a little too loud since my brother next door closed his door. I like to lay out my clothes so I can get an idea of what I need to match with.


Schatzi and I enjoy going out on dates every once in a while so I had to pack this bad boy with me. Normally it would sit in the plastic tray and slide on into the big box. I don't have that kind of space so I decided to use this empty cookie tin form school! Who knew it'd come in handy later huh? The tin was still half empty so I decided it'd make a good sunglasses holder as well as my few items of jewelry. Why not right? Gotta use up my space.


Being a girlyish girl I had a lot of toilettre items . . . plus I'm gonna visit my boyfriend! Must look good no? Plus it's almost a week. One thing about being a girl means you always need to be ready just in case mother nature sneaks up on ya. Besides that, I have makeup stuffs, hair, eye, teeth, etc items.





After I packed my bathroom stuffs I rolled up all my clothes and laid em on the floor. I like to think by doing this I will lower the chance of me forgetting too much at home. Doesn't look like much in this photo, but believe me it was! Luckily it's summer so shorts and tanks take up less space than sweaters and jeans!



Part of the culture. I love how the watermelon one turned out! I just hope they don't get ruined in my suitcase. Made a list of last minute things to pack when I get up Thursday morning. Hope I don't forget anything!

Guess we'll see!

ALG

Removing That Glitter Polish

Hi again,

I painted my nails last week with one of my favorite glitter polishes, but it has started to chip away. I hate when I have to remove glitter polish because it can be such a hassle! I've seen tutorials for months on YouTube on how to remove glitter polish. These are the items I used:

-acetone
-cuticle oil
-cotton rounds cut up
-foil strips

So I cut the cotton rounds so I only had to use three total. After soaking a pad in acetone I placed it onto my nail and wrapped with foil. After putting em on one hand I watched a YouTube video and just waited.


Just be careful so you don't ruin your parents' table . . . My bad! I should have had some newspaper down.



After 5ish minutes I lightly rubbed and pulled away the foil. Look how easily that came off! Guess a video would have been best to show you guys. If you'd like to see how easy this process is click here to watch cutepolish on YouTube!

Since the acetone makes my skin and nails dry, I massaged some cuticle oil all over the areas exposed to the acetone. Looks all greasy huh? Felt nice though!




I repeated the same steps to my right hand and pushed my cuticles back. Voila! Nice clean glitter polish free nails! Then of course I painted on a base coat followed by three coats of the same glitter polish!

ALG

Jim Jefferies

Morning friends,

This is a long overdue blog post. You guys remember back in March when Schatzi and I became an official couple right? Remember back in November when Schatzi and I went to see Whitney Cummings? That was our first time hanging out! Back during winter break Schatzi was texting me and asked if I'd like to go back to Gaslamp to see one of his favorite comedians, Jim Jefferies! Of course I said yes. We just had to wait for the months to go by. Y'all know how a lot can go down in a handful of months.


Things have gone quite well for us since winter break so it was a date! Officially this time lol I say officially since the first trip I didn't know was a date till the end . . . yeaaaa my bad lol Here's a bit of a better photo of the theater. I felt weird taking photos, so didn't really take any. Sorry guys!

It's hard to compare his show to Whitney's but regardless I had just as many laughs if not more. He made all sorts of jokes. Some went over my head, others Schatzi and I found ourselves glancing over at one another. It was great.

Schatzi's friends who recently moved from the East went to the show with us. Was interesting meeting them. I think it's important in a relationship to meet your partner's friends. They were nice and this was my first double date in years. Kind of felt like a little kid since they are all in their 20's. I's be open to hanging out casually with them again. Get to know his friends and all.

After the show they went home and Schatzi and I searched for a place to eat. I wasn't really hungry so it was even harder for me to choose or want to find a spot to eat. (We had this issue last time. More because of how picky I was though.) Schatzi got a little impatient with me. Can't say I blame him. I just make things so difficult sometimes. Let me remind you all that Gaslamp is full of people, smoke, loud music, etc. I am not a fan of loud or crowded places so Schatzi had me choose between two different restaurants. I chose the one that appeared more calm inside. I was surprised when we walked in because it was so quiet! A very nice restaurant too if you ask me. We were seated at a cozy little clothed table off to the side. Don't like being seated in the center of rooms. What about you guys?

He teased me for choosing the restaurant that had half the menu in a foreign language. Took me a good while to decide what to order. First off, everything seemed like it would be a bit on the large portion size for me. Secondly, I was kind of glancing at prices because I knew I wasn't paying. I can't remember the exact name of my entree, but I know I had difficulty pronouncing it lol I wasn't 100% sure what I was ordering, but it was delicious! I'll try to explain it to you. These three rolls reminded me of pinwheel sandwiches, because of the shape of course. Like a very fancy version of ham and cheese rolls in a pasta/pizza like rich sauce. If I remember correctly is was prosciutto wrapped in some sort of noodle and baked. Regardless, I can say I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can feel my mouth starting to water just thinking about my dinner that evening! It may not look like a lot of food, but believe me it was. Thank you again Schatzi!



Schatzi got this beautifully colored plate of chicken marsala. My favorite part of his plate had to be the cute little carrots ^.^ I just thought they were adorable! He offered me some, but not a fan of mushrooms so I passed. Look at the cute little purple potatoes!!

After we finished the waiter came by with the dessert tray for us to choose from. I was stuffed, but Schatzi encouraged me to help him choose one. We got a slice of cake and if I remember correctly it had some sort of gelatin layered in. My favorite part was the greenish colored gelatin!

Such a great way to end our evening out. We walked out to the street, got in the cab, and went home. Don't think I need to say it, but we were exhausted! We knocked out once our heads hit the pillows.

Is this a tradition in the making babe? Either way, it's something special and unique for us in our relationship. Thank you again for everything that evening. I needed that time to escape from all the crazy school stress! You're so talented when it comes to giving me a break from school stresses. Love you so much! See you soon!!

ALG