Monday, February 27, 2012

Fruit Salad


Here's what you've all been waiting for: a recipe post!

So this is Devyn's fruit salad that I made for dinner on Sunday. It's super easy, economical, delicious, healthy, smooth, irresistible and Steven liked it! What more could you ask for in a dish?

Some people prefer that the ingredients and mixing directions be in the same paragraph that way you don't have to look back and forth from the order of the ingredients back to the amounts and back to the order several times before you get it right. And by some people, I mean me.

Get a large metal bowl, the ones that make a twang sound when you flick them or hit a spoon on the side. Place a quart of Great Value Strawberry yogurt into the bowl. Use a spoon to make sure all of it makes it out. Have your helper eat the remaining yogurt and throw away tub into nearest trash receptacle (or you can wash it and use it as a food saver or you can throw away all the trash at the end in the last super step, your call). Open box of Great Value instant vanilla pudding. Ignore factory directions and place entire contents in bowl and mix with yogurt. I used a plastic spoon, a whisk would work wonderfully. Then comes the tricky part. Take an entire regular tub of Cool Whip and plop it into the bowl and FOLD it into the mixture. Don't simply mix it in. Then take 2 bags of frozen berries and mix them into the goodness. If you have a normal size mouth I recommend chopping the larger berries into smaller pieces. Use a knife. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and place in the fridge until ready to eat. I recommend letting the fruit thaw a little bit before eating. Eat for breakfast, lunch, snack, side dish, appetizer, or dessert. Serves 10ish.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Hand stands

So here is what I've been working on. It takes a few tries to get it right, so keep watching.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Another one

So here is some stuff I've been working on and something I figured out this morning. Enjoy it. Hopefully I'll have another one to post later this week. video

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Plus/minus 29 rejections in one week

So here's my dating story for the week. On Sunday night my roommate and I decided what we would do for our Friday night date. There is this thing called Humor U and it is stand up comedy put on by BYU students. One of my old roommates is one of the comedians. They also had this promotion where the first 50 tickets bought got free shirts. So we planned to get tickets and free shirts. So Devyn went at 8:00, they weren't there yet. I went at 9:00 and the tickets weren't there yet. So this happened several times. I went home and took a nap and woke up to a text from a different roommate saying he got tickets and shirts. So I got up and raced over and handicap parked in the closest place possible and bought 4 tickets and got 4 shirts. $16. Cool.

So on Monday I called a girl, Kristy, and left a message. She got back to me on Tuesday and was already busy. So then on Wednesday I started texting this girl Kirsty that I met the other day so that I could call her and ask her out. She answered the texts, but not the phone call. Then I called this girl I knew from freshman year named Stephanie and she was already busy too. And finally I wrote a note to this girl who's number I didn't have asking her out and she called back on Thursday saying she was busy too, this was Alissa. Zero for four. Not bad. And Devyn also tried setting me up with 2 blind dates that failed.

But lucky for me the ward was also hosting a ward date night and the idea was to either bring a date, or take 15 minutes to try and find a date. So I decided to try my fortune. I was lucky enough to have one other person show up without a date so we went door knocking to find dates. We ended up knocking 24 doors. 2 buildings with 4 apartments on each of the 3 floors. We found one on the top floor of the first building and the next one at the top of the second building. So our sales pitch was that we were looking for girls who didn't have plans that wanted to play bigger and better. It was just like the mission. The first one was shorter than me and pretty cute, and I was thinking how do we decide who goes with who? But the buy I was with, Spencer, said that he would get the taller girl. Thank goodness, let's just say it worked out better for me.

So we played bigger and better, we started with a stick of gum, then we got a banana, then we got a picture of the Salt Lake Temple made out of 9 tiles, then we got a brand new unopened game of candyland and we finished with a pair of shoes owned by Matt Carlino, who is a starter on the BYU basketball team. He was sleeping when we got there so his dad just gave us his old shoes. Cool. Then all the groups got together and shared their loot. Then I asked my date, keara, if she wanted to go to Humor U, but she wanted to go home so that her roommate didn't have to be alone.

So I called Steven and we went to the show dateless. I really don't know what I'm supposed to get out of this experience, but it leads me to have a pessimistic view about post mission dating...at least I have a good profile picture...

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Iron Cross

videoMom, make sure dad sees this. Just a couple things I've been working on. video

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Parking permits

So I had another good day. It started off by having one thing on the to do list. That's great!

So I worked out with Steven this morning (btw he got 2 hours of sleep and was still there at 6am to work out with me, whatta trooper). Steve bought me breakfast.

I got home showered and took a 2 hour nap.

I did my last minute studying for my last Bio test. I needed a 89% to get an A and a 65% to get an A-. So before I took the test my question was if it were really worth studying, it's not hard to get 65%. But somehow I only missed one question. I mighta tied Brad! Either I'm getting better at guessing or the computers are busted...

Then I finally got around to getting my handicap parking pass. So the form was interesting. It said I couldn't walk 200 feet without being fatigued. It said I needed help from a brace or crutches. And it said I had orthopedic surgery. I didn't want them to call me out as a liar because NOW I can walk pretty well so I took a crutch with me just in case. It worked. They gave me 2 passes. One for my car and one for the person who gives me a ride. Cool.

But here's the sad part. My next errand was getting the tires rotated at Super Walmart. There is no handicap garage. Fine. Then I went to the BYU creamery and the parking spots are so close that there is no handicap spot! Strike 2. Then I went home. I have an assigned underground parking spot, and there are no special spots above ground. So maybe before the 3 months run out I'll be able to take advantage of my crippleosity. I guess it will be nice once all the parking lots are covered in ice....And yes, I did manage to get my groceries up the stairs all by myself in one trip.

I wish I had pictures but I don't.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

A really good day

1) I figured out how to climb stairs like a regular person again
a) I got about a quarter of my home teaching done while doing it
b) Class got cancelled, so my morning turned into a 40 minute stair/walk fest.
2) I went to see the doctor
a) he said if you look at 100 patients I would be near the top
b) I can walk without crutches
c) I can take regular showers again
3) I went to physical therapy
a) I got 127 degrees. New record
b) I dominated the exercises
c) I called out one of the assistants for stalking me because she just "happened" to be running west as I was walking north to school on the same corner at the same time and says "looks like you're doing well" just on the day of the week when I don't have therapy.
4) I took my New Testament test
a) I got a 97%
b) "Awesome" "Great Job"
c) I almost choked on my spit when I saw it
5) I walked home crutch-less
a) I saw another crutcher and we had an instant connection
b) every car still stopped for me, I don't even have to break stride
6) I finished my homework
a) I did all the reading for my Friday classes
b) I finished a project due Monday
c) I went to the gym
d) I'M BLOGGING RIGHT NOW.

The only bad thing I can think of is that I had to write this post Dominican style because the internet connection conveniently broke when I tried to post it last time. That would be "e)" under "6)" but it wasn't good.

7) I got groceries
a) I can eat fruit again
b) That reminded me that Steven needs to buy me breakfast this week.