Life and Times: Cooking

I love cooking, I can do it every day. For some reason it calms me and makes me happy. One of my earliest memories as a child is being in the kitchen with my grandmother. Just watching her and how making sure the people she loved were fed made her happy. I learned from her that no matter what the task was if it made someone she loved happy it was worth it. Cooking was that for her. So I picked the task and ran with it. Not everything I cook is a success but like most things in life, it is a trail and error type of situation. I try new recipes every once and a while. During this past holiday season I took on a spinach quiche.


Success!







I also tried Brownie cookies.


Work in progress. I really don't think desserts are my thing but I will keep trying.

K-liners

L: I want to be a jet setter and go to exotic places. Do you think going to exotic places make you an exotic person….hmmmm…..probably not.

K: No it makes you broke

L: Maybe when it is no longer a baby I will baby sit. Between the ages of 3-11 I am your girl……no teenagers don’t like them until they are like 20. Haha…….maybe a newborn that doesn’t cry to the age of 1. Just saying…..But your kid might be funny so it could be up for discussion.

K: Wait? Are you judging on babysitting my kids on how funny they are?

Lifes and Times: Garderning

The last two years I have started this plant collection. It started off with just two plants my Aunt asked me to keep after a visit because she couldn't take them back to Texas. Since then I have been trying my best not to kill them and I will not be defeated. There has been some loses but still the collection has been getting bigger. Now that I am getting to be serious about not killing plants maybe I should look into learning more about gardening and plant care.


This is Violet my roommates bought her for my birthday and I planted her in the back yard. I don't know if that is okay with the owners but who doesn't like flowers.










This is Mulan . I was told by my roommate's mother that she was hard to kill. We will see how long she last under my care.








This is Gladys she was given to me by a friend (Hi Rachel). I have been doing a good job taking care of her if I say so myself. She requires a lot more attention then I am used to but she seems happy, right.





This was Shelia she seems to still be making it though her color has changed and she no longer grows. I'm not going to give up on her but I have no idea how to fix her. By the way the lady that I bought her from claimed that she wouldn't require a lot of care or water. She lied.





Lastly, this is Gloria she is truly a survivor she was one of the first two plants I was given and I have yet to kill her. She has gotten smaller but still alive.

K-liners: Conversation between friends on relationships

Yeah guys are just lazy. I re-watched “He’s Just Not that Into you” the other day. And I remembered why I liked that movie. Its shows that some people are the exception, but most people are the rule. We are the rule and guys are lazy. But things do happen when its meant to, or when you make them happen. I think it’s a mix of the two. But until you find him, I thought you should have fun with all the douche bags that come before.

I guess you are right, just because you have a man doesn’t mean you still aren’t the rule. Yea I do date jerks…..that might be the problem I haven’t been having fun dating them. Maybe if the douche is my type, which he seems to be I need to at least enjoy dating him instead of making myself feel awful trying to change him. Though I don’t know how I feel about things being meant to be and making them happen…..just don’t know.

I’ll tell you this. You can’t change a man. He’s going to be who he’s going to be no matter what. So if you go into something and he acts like that. More than likely he’s going to be acting like that for the rest of the relationship. Women are the ones that change like that. They might be all sweet and romantic when they first get together then a couple of months later, there they are wearing an old t-shirt and a wrap scarf to bed. And the dude is like where are the cute little night gowns? See me, he knew about the wrap scarf, like the first time we spent the night together.

No Regrets: Self-Defense Class

At this point we all know, that I have these random things that I do because I don’t want to have any regrets later on in life. Well last year I took self-defense classes, I only attended 2 classes out of the 3 recommended but it was a great experience. I went to Tactical Martial Arts Academy off of Midlothian Turnpike, Instructor was Master English. Master English was really bad ass and knew his stuff but he couldn’t really teach the class so our instructor was Sensei Gulliksen. He taught us the basic moves that could get you out of a jam (ask me and I will show you what I remember) and the things that don't work such as pepper spray which we are taught to use when being attacked. I learned a lot and was even interested in taking some martial art classes but that's another activity for another time because they are kind of pricey.

Still to come, more pole dancing classes and Karaoke anyone!

~No Regrets because everybody dies but not everybody lives.....

K-liners

Ashley Simpson filed for Divorce! I’m never getting married. I’m going to be like Halle Berry and have a baby by a hot model and then have these hot boy toys to play with.


Yes, all men are replaceable. I love him, but he's just a man.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
~Dr. Seuss

Today I'm 27 and if you know anything about me you know I try my hardest to never celebrate my Birthday. No gifts, no parties, no discussion......

Yet this year I've been feeling like 27 will be good to me. I am going to be good to myself. We as people spend so much time allowing others to determine our happiness and I think it is time to stop, for me at least. 26 started off great for me but one issue consumed me and I let the the outcome of it control my happiness. I learned a lot from it and I learned a lot about myself. Life is too full of joy and wonderful things. I choose to laugh everyday and not sweat the small stuff. That may be hard but nothing worth really having is ever gotten without a little struggle. Should I have to struggle for my happiness, to really enjoy life, to really be myself. I don't know but that outcome is so much more important to me than anything else right now.

A friend once told me that I am an independent woman with a firecracker personality and I should never change for anyone. I really appreciated that and I choose to continue to describe myself that way. But to be happy I can not let my independence and attitude hinder that. We as women spend so much of our day thinking about what is wrong with our lives and ourselves that we don't really notice all the things we have going for ourselves. I may have this one thing that I've always wanted and I've never got it. It's that one thing that you feel once you get it, your life would be everything you want and need it to be. I don't know that, because if I am not content without it, why am I to think I will be content with it. Will I not want more......

So as I am so thankful that I get to turn a year older, I finally want to enjoy it as well. Every year I learn a little bit more about myself, the world and the people around me. I take the bad with the good, play up my strengths and remind myself that who I am is so much more important than what I have and what I do.

So in the end I realize that I can't continue to boycott my birthday, because I am not who I thought I would be and where I thought I would be at a certain age. So happy birthday to me!