I am a DORK

So if you recall in an ealier post (Farewell Aprill) I mentioned that I had won tickets to a concert for May 22nd.. I was very excited for this show- I had seen Cobra Starship twice before and now they're huge, so I was stoked to see the difference in their show and crowd.
That was last Saturday.
I stayed up a bit late Friday night so that I could sleep in with Denver once he got home at 7 am. He didn't go to sleep until 9 am. I ended up sleeping until noon (which ROCKED) and just meandered through the apartment until he got up at FIVE. (Doors opened at 6 for the show, but at this point, we both had forgotten about it completely. Keep in mind these tickets were 30 bucks a pop that I got for free.)
Once Denver got up we bbq'd some hamburgers and hot dogs for a late lunch/early dinner and lazily attempted to make plans for the evening. We decided it'd be fun to go ice skating at the Murray ice rink with Denver sister and her/our friend, Ben. They were down and started to head over. About 10 minutes after we invited them a friend text me making sure I'd be at the show. My jaw dropped. I could not believe I'd completey forgotten. I'd even reminded Denver when he first got home that the show was that night...
We knew Taya and Ben would understand if we told them what had happened, but at that point, neither Denver or I were much in the mood for a concert. I wasn't feeling too hot and knew that crowd and volume level would only make me feel worse. Denver was in the same boat, so after we groaned about wasting the $60 worth of tickets, we went ice skating and watched Paranormal Activity with Taya and Ben and had a great time. :)

I feel like a dork for that one.. haha.

I hope everyone has great plans for Memorial Day weekend! Denver and I are going camping with Taya and Ben to somewhere by Tooele. I have no idea where exactly it is or how it'll end up being, but I am excited to take a break.
It's Denver's 20th birthday this weekend, so I'm hoping it'll be a blast for him. :)

Are you ready for the weekend?

What a busy week. I think I have some gray hair now...
Work all week haas been nuts for me. (Fortis College)
We have a new start coming up on Monday which meant today was our new student orientation which has me running around like a headless chicken from 9:30-12.
Tonight's our first graduation, which has a lot of people very excited. That'll be up at the capital from 5:30-8 or so.
Wednesday was our grand opening (seeing as they never had one before now) with a ribbon cutting and a radio station here to interview a few of the directors. (THAT was a busy day!)
Whew. There's so much more but my head's spinning already, so you get the jist of it.
I'm hoping for a relaxing weekend once this graduation is over, but I've got a feeling it's just going to fly right on by.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. :)

Lemon Pound Cake. mmmmm

So last night I made a lemon pound cake. Suppsoedly the "Perfect Pound Cake," according to Prudence Pennywise.
The recipe was fairly picky as far as my cooking experience goes, but it was a recipe she was so excited about that she only had it up on her blog for a day before taking it back off and into her secret recipe files.

I had to make it.

I will admit my downfall when cooking is the ability to read ahead in a recipe. I'm generally too lazy or hungry to read the whole thing before beginning.
Because of this, I had to use cold eggs in my cake batter rather than the room temperature eggs advised in the recipe. I'm not sure what difference this makes, but maybe once I lose the multiple pounds this pound cake will give me and attempt it again, I will use room temperature eggs and see if it turns out better.

I'm not saying it did not turn out well, however. In her recipe she suggested waiting a day before eating it- that time makes it that much tastier... It was so hard to not eat even taste it warm last night... oh man.

Denver and I had a slice of it for breakfast this morning.... yummmmm.
He told me, "I know I've cooked most everything up to this point, but you're cooking everything from now on. This is ten times better than any cake I've ever made!"

My yummy enchiladas also proved to him my potential :P I told you- if the man would just give me a chance, he'd see the light. And now I'm afraid that's all he sees and all he wants to taste from now on.. hahaha.

There's a simple glaze of lemon juice and sugar on top of the cake, and I've gotta say- that's the best part of it all... mmmmmmm.

I love lemon.

Pictures will be added, probably later tonight. Though they don't to the flavor justice :]

Happy Friday!

Chicken Enchiladas, A Success!

So as I stated in my last blog, I intended to make enchiladas tonight for Cinco de Mayo. (My first time)

I did it, and may I say, they were delicious. Thank you Prudence Pennywise. :)

Denver was so full he needed a nap afterwards.

Of course Rosco wanted to sleep on the pillow, too.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

First of all- happy Cinco de Mayo! I'm hoping to make some yummy red chile & cheese enchiladas that I discovered on Prudence Pennywise's blog this morning. I'm hoping they're not too tough.

Denver always gives me crap on how much better of a cook he is than me...

But he never gives me the chance to prove myself.

He's such a sweetheart that every time I go to make something he stops me,

gets me a glass of water or orange juice and forces me to sit down while he makes me food.

As sweet as that is- the man's going to keep me from ever learning how to cook for myself,

let alone the both of us and potentially kids one day.

[seriously reconsidering the kid part now that we have Rosco...]

So I'll let you know how that goes.. if it does at all.

So this is the latest purchase on my debit card.

[from Shabby Apple]

Online shopping can be risky, but I've been oogling over this piece for over a month before purchasing it, and now my only worry is that I've gotten my hopes up.

I'm the kind of person who has to go into everything with low expectations to be thoroughly impressed or satisfied.

I LOVE the look of this dress. But a month's worth of oogling may have serious reprocussions.. We shall see. It is supposed to arrive mid-May.

Hopefully I will pull it off as well as this model. :)

What am I designed to do?

Any advice on how I can figure out exactly what it is I want to do, career wise?


I just KNOW there is something out there that would just be perfect for me- down to the schedule, pay, and dresscode. I KNOW it. Something that I'll genuinely enjoy doing, down to my core. Maybe not every day- but as a whole, I'll know I'm doing what I was designed to do... I just wish I could put my finger right on it..

Sooo many people settle for whatever they've gotten themselves into or pick a random degree that maybe they're not passionate for but are hoping and waiting to be one day... Or they're just waiting for their 'perfect' job to come to them, and it never does.

I have no idea if the ideal job for me deals with kids or with students or patients or stethoscopes or gardening gloves.. I have so many widespread interests and no specific passions to guide me..

I love photography, but I don't see that paying the bills or keeping the savings account cushy.. And a creative career scares me- I go through creative waves. I can't always rely on myself to be creative enough to truly succeed. But that may also be because I'm new to it. Who knows what potential I might have if i took a few classes and invested in a great camera?

This is what's frustrating me.

There are SO MANY PATHS I could take.. So many if's- so many potential investments to get somewhere only to find out I went the wrong way at a fork in the road months or years ago and hundreds or thousands of dollars later.....

But it's out there, and I want to get there. I want to figure out this frustrating puzzle and be happy.
I want the real happiness acheivement brings. Not the depression and resentment settling brings..
I don't have it in me to settle.

But what is it I am supposed to do?