Cleaning Machine

So it has been my spring break this week and I decided to do some major deep cleaning. I'm pretty sure this apartment has never really been cleaned, maybe swept here and there... It's just so gross and old. And in a basement... Anywho. I wasn't messin' around. I scrubbed the tile grout with a tooth brush, and a whole lotta bleach. But the floors looks amazing now! And I even painted the baseboards. This is a big deal for me. I felt like I was on HGTV or something. They were this nasty tan color and were so scraped up and dirty. But now look at them!

Before...

After!!

This was the kinda cleaning that would make my momma proud. So great! I feel so productive and so much happier being in a clean home!

Oh man I gotta tell you what I made for dinner tonight. I made baked southwest egg rolls with creamy chipotle dipping sauce. They were so yummy. Here is the link. It did involve a lot of chopping of veggies. Which takes quite a bit of time when you are using a $20 knife! I will show you the picture to tempt you even further :)

Brain Fry

My brain is not working very well lately. I feel like I have a 5 second delay to everything. The past two weeks have been so stressful because of school and midterms and I am sooooooo looking forward to next weekend. I get to fly to Long Beach and visit my sissy and my dearest brother-in-law for 5 whole days and bask in the warm sunlight! It's going to be glorious. Cannot wait to get out of the snow. Not like its really been snowing that much... but it has been chilly. And I hate being cold. hate hate hate. And not being with Dallas for 5 days is going to be so strange. He was gone for one night in Las Vegas for a work trip last month and it felt like he was gone for half a week!

So the situation with my cat hogging the pillow has become much much worse. He thinks that it is his pillow. And he has such a way of sneaking onto it that by the time I notice he is all situated and adorably comfortable... I tried to persuade him onto a different pillow and that worked for most of the night, but when I woke up he was spooning the top of my head again. I'm sure you all think I'm crazy for not just hitting him or something, but you just haven't SEEN how cute he looks, and how cozy! I would be so upset if someone pushed me off the bed when I was as comfy cozy as he was. I will try to snatch a picture so you can all understand the cuteness. He really loves that pillow! There was one morning where every time my alarm went off (I hit snooze like a bagillion times every morning so it goes off a lot) I would pull him down next to me and then fall back asleep and when I woke up to the alarm again he was right on top of my head again! This repeated itself about 7 times until I finally just decided to get out of bed.

That kitty cat.

Honeymoon!

So I just finally looked at our pictures from the honeymoon! We only took like 20 pictures... We are pretty terrible at taking pictures. Anyways, we went to Cancun and stayed at this all-inclusive hotel and ate tons of food and lounged around by the  pool! What a perfect week.

I felt so bad when I had to move these!

Out on the balcony!

Our very own door sash

Giant comfy beds surrounded by water. So perfect.

Dallas takin' a nap on the hammock 

Best. Nachos. Ever.

Oh can I please go back. 

Yes we had a hot tub in our room. It was awesome.

Room service on the balcony!

I'm Not Crazy

So Dallas insisted that I blog about this. I however would rather not...

This morning I couldn't find my new shirt that I bought the other weekend. I knew that I put it in the wash last night, but it wasn't with the clean clothes. I searched the washer, the dryer, the floor, all around the laundry room and the path back to our room, I searched the dirty clothes hamper, the bedroom floor, everywhere! I really wanted to wear that shirt today! So I barge into the bedroom in a craze asking Dallas, who was sound asleep, where my new shirt was. Poor guy didn't know what was going on. Anyways, ends up the shirt was in my drawer! But guys, I remember putting it in the washer machine. Whats happening to my brain? Dallas thinks I'm crazy. My theory is that someone moved it from the washer to my drawer...

Whats worse is now I don't get to wear that shirt for a whole week! We only get to do our laundry once a week because the people who live upstairs let us use their washer and dryer.

First world problems.

My Little Shopping Partner

I don't know if I am breaking the blogging rules by posting twice in one day but I must!

Soooooo my husband is amazing. Directly after I posted my last blog post Dallas comes in the room saying, "Hey, do you want to go to the mall with me?" Uhm, Yes. I hate going shopping alone. Actually I hate going places without Dallas. I'd much rather spend my time with Dallas than going shopping without him. And he must know this, since when we got to the mall he didn't need anything there and only said he had to go because he knew I needed some help getting there :)

Also, he is the best shopping partner ever. We walked into Forever 21 first and I was instantly overwhelmed. And started wandering, looking and shirts... and he reminds me that I am here to find jeans and jackets and I shouldn't spend too much time looking at shirts because I will get worn out. Uhhhhh wow. He knows me all too well.

Anyways, I have never boughten a nice pair of jeans. I think the most I have ever spent on jeans is probably 40 bucks. Well, Dallas convinced me to try on niiiice jeans, and oh man, were these jeans nice. And much much more than I have ever spent on jeans. Or any article of clothing for that matter. When I tried them on I just stayed in the dressing room for like an extra ten minutes dancing to the music in these jeans. It didn't even feel like I was wearing pants! And I hate wearing pants. Thats not weird right? Sooooooo I buy these jeans. And the cashier was wearing the same jeans in another color! They have moooooore of the same jeans!? I was so stoked! Gonna start savin for my next pair. Then Dallas says, "Uhm... Why don't you just buy another pair since you will probably wear them everyday." 8O

So my new pair is coming in the mail. And I am currently wearing my other pair. They are amazing. And I have a huge craving to play Just Dance on the Xbox Kinect so I can dance some more in these jeans.

I told Dallas he was spoiling me but he said that I deserve to spoil myself for working so hard for this past year and that I needed to buy myself something nice. Yah. That's my husband. He's amazing. And I get to be with him for eternity. Best decision I ever made... Marrying Dallas, not buying the jeans. Although buying those jeans come in a close second...

If I Only Had a Brain

So remember that assignment I stayed up late finishing a whole day early? Well guess who forgot to submit it. This girl. I realized it an hour after the deadline. I hate my brain.

So Dallas got an internship at Novell as a web developer! Whoopee! So proud of him. Was offered the job on his first interview. In celebration I made enchilada pasta last night and it was a party in my mouth. Holy cow this stuff was gooooood. Here is the link so you can all make it. Because you have to. It was seriously amazing.

I can't wait to have more of the left overs!!

And why is it that whenever I actually have the desire to go shopping, I don't have time, but as soon as I do have time I don't want to go anymore. I have the whole day to do whatever I want and I got all ready to go shopping, but I just couldn't do it. It just sounds too exhausting. I am such a terrible shopper. After about an hour of shopping everything starts to just look the same and my vision starts to blur and I can't concentrate for the life of me. Someday I will go shopping... But until then I think I will stay home and play video games with my husband ^-^

Dear Rockstar

Thank you for allowing me to stay awake last night so that I could finish my homework. I would have surely fallen asleep and postponed my assignment yet another night if it weren't for you.

However, I think you may have over exceeded my expectations of you. I did not appreciate laying in bed wide awake for an extra 2 hours before I fell asleep.

Especially when my kitty keeps hogging the pillow. I wake up with only a corner of the it under my head, while he is sprawled on top of the entire pillow. And he just looks so cozy! I never have the heart to move him...

Dallas and I had steak salad for dinner last night and it was dellliccciiouss. I would like to thank Stephen and Trisha for teaching me how to eat. When they made steak salad it was the bessst. Pretty much everything they made was delicious. I will forever think of you two whenever I make steak salad!

yummmmm.