Alessandra Loves Batter

 Sometimes I like them better than the actual cooked version
 Pancake batter, biscuit dough, cake batter, cookie dough, banana bread batter....

Oh man. Banana bread makes some good looking (and good tasting) batter. -i wish i took a picture but i forgot. (You would think I would get sick with all that raw egg I ingest, but nope. I think my body likes it too ;P)
Hey Mrs. H, I'm stealing your recipe. Thanks.

So today, Ryan and I will do nothing. Nothing at all. It feels good to do ~nothing~. I mean, its easier to plan your days when there's nothing.

me: "Hey babe let's do nothing today"
him: "Sounds good. I like that idea"
me: "Cool" : D

"I don't like photos but I don't NOT like photos"

Today's Plans
Sleep in until 1:30pm- Check
Watch Ryan Make Banana Bread- Check
Eat Banana Bread, and other foodstuffs- In Progress Check
Surf the internet for stupid videos- In Progress
Sleep

Conclusion of Today:

Best Banana Bread I've ever had. It was more like banana cake though.

Either way, I love it! Making this foreverrr.
And Ryan made it all by himself


Recap of week:
Monday went to UT with Ryan for the day since I had no school.
Tuesday Classes- FOUND OUT I GOT ACCEPTED TO UT OMGGG
Wednesday Classes
Thursday- Classes. Then had dinner and saw a movie at his apt. A Beautiful Mind. Ryan thought Russell Crowe was Mel Gibson and kept calling him a "dick" throughout the movie. -__- Sigh.
Friday- Classes. Gym. then  I cleaned my room, and i managed to persuade Ryan to clean his own apartment before i got there (Otherwise his ass woulda waited til i was there, and then guess who ends up cleaning right along with him? Yes, Me. Hell no), and then we went to Kerbey Lane where halfway through our meals we decided to switch plates. lol. It was kinda cute. Then we watched another movie together. The Bucket List. During which i zoned out and closed my eyes. Sorry, but it had boring and long parts.

Okie Doke

update:
7:00pm.
Doing "nothing" is starting to get boring :/
Headacheee. lol.-ale

HAPPY

Found out yesterday morning that i was accepted into the business school at UT.
I cried about 3 times.
My face went all tingly.
I lost my breath. Became nauseous.
I think thats what you call being in complete and utter shock.
it is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had given up and was making plans for going back home.
Ryan had given up to.
We spent about a month being mopey at the thought of being separated for the  next 2-3 years.
But alas, we're not meant to be apart : )

And i am extremely excited to go to UT, but a part of me feels conflicted.
Going back home would've really helped my parents out, financially, and with my little brother. We had a really good plan in case i got rejected. Which i was 99% sure would happen.

Anyway.
It still hasn't really hit me.
800 transfer students apply to Mccombs. 100 make it. Thats what the counselor told me at UT. I'm one of those 100. Still can't believe it.

Amen <3

Oh you're getting pictures today

YOU BET.
just wait. ;P
I have to finish cooking the brisket and get it picture perfect. :)

Man, I can't wait to have my own food blog/family cook book
I plan on convincing my mom to collaborate with me on it---OH YEAH

Update:  ...AND THE BRISKET is now picture perfect.
Found the recipe in my parent's magazine Cooking Light

Tomatoes are added at the last hour of cooking...

we omitted the olives : P

Only took 3 and a half hours!! *sarcasm*   (although the recipe said 4, but i didn't care enough)

And also, ryan cleaned the bathroom! yay
because it sucks showering with the water up to your ankles and having black mold in the tub
Its all good now..
It won't last though
This is easily the 4th time (we've/he's) cleaned it.

That's my man! My domestic dude  ;P  Love you baby <3

Hey You

So we're back again.

Expect Banana Bread soon!

Ryan's mom gave us her recipe. Looked simple. Simple=good.
Hate those 30 ingredient recipes...ugh

Also, I'm still going crazy because I'm still WAITINGGGGGG


Dang we need to post some pictures huh?

This marks the date my life was forever tarnished

Tarnished I say. I cannot say what, other than that me and my splendid lady friend will understand this post. Needless to say, the thing I was trying to avoid all my life happened, it is not traumatic in the typical sense. But alas, my life will always be 'different' now. I can never go back to the way things once were.

I just realized this could relate to me having a mini argument with my dad about mormonism (it isn't, though the metaphor is surprisingly apt)

Well, have fun all of you

Going crazy

I'm still waiting to hear from UT. It is driving me so fucking crazy. I mean, if they're going to reject me, can they just do it already. I'm getting really impatient and sad. I still have to do all that financial aid, and insurance, and housing stuff oh yeah and register for classes! Come on. I feel like everyone has heard back but me. : (

This image accurately sums up what I've been up to lately. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh...etc

On another note, last night Ryan and I saw Ponyo. We've been wanting to see it for a while. His mom got a netflix account so we just "borrowed" it from her.

Ok, so it was kind of weird. At first we were confused. But then it made sense, except for the fact that it was fucking weird. And why was the dude wearing makeup? And how did he become half human, or whatever? There was much to be desired from the movie. It was cute, but it left a lot of details out. And how in the world is Ponyo a gold fish! Not like any i've seen, i'll tell ya that.
Anyway, it wasn't as good as we expected. Maybe we're too old to appreciate it though? Who knows.

Going back home again this weekend!
There seems to be a triple date planned ;P
(edit from ale: didn't happen. :/ )(and then Hani came over to my house. Another story)
Maybe. The problem is that Ryan's boyfriend tends to be sketchy. Yes i said it. Sketchy.
I told Ryan that his little friend and I are gonna need to have a talk...
lol

-ale

It's 150, not 500

So this past weekend Ryan was in the BP-MS150 bike marathon with his father.
He managed to do 50 miles! So proud of him ;P

Too bad his butt hurt afterward, and his hands, and other things
In the meantime, i chilled with my parents, eating cream puffs and surfing the internet

Ugh i'm so full right now. So ryan and I were gonna eat two tacos each, but he gave up and so I ate 3, and he ate 1. Typical. lol. He loses weight, and I gain weight. That bastard! ;P jk

I don't know why, but this commerical reminds me of Ryan and I

Bye for now.

We are regressing into an infinite loop

.. upon entering the loop, we get closer and closer to 8:36pm but never quite reach it, but do we really get close at all? Who knows. That was the subject matter of a lecture I unfortunately took Alessandra too. Neither of us liked it. On the plus side, we did get papa johns afterwords, so it all works out I suppose. As for the rest of the weekend, my sunshine bluray now doesn't work (when it used to) because playstation firmware broke it. Because of this I have to get a new bluray (instead of just fixing the firmware.. that works). Fun stuff.

Other than that not much happened. Quite chill. For me anyways, dearest ale has tests she's got to be doing : (She'll do great though : )

Edit from Ale:
The lecture was terrifyingly confusing. I thought to myself, surely i'm not the only one that has NO FUCKING CLUE what is being heard here. Something about grim reaper and time and grim reaper and patchwork and n and m and n<m or or was it #n>#m?, something like that, and god knows what else. It went WAY over my head. I really tried to be engaged, and listen, and learn. But couldn't. Didn't help that the Professor was fucking mumbling every other word, so i was like, Uhh, I heard most of that..but---- Couldn't even finish my thoughts because he'd move right on to something else.

After his presentation I turned over to Ryan, and was about to write something on the program laid out before us (just an "O.o" face" ) and before I could even draw it Ryan goes, "yeahh--I feel the same way" LOL, i was like well at least I don't feel so stupid if even Ryan, my nerdy boyfriend, is confused as fuck too.

 

And they had free pizza, but it wasn't worth the wait... We got the hell out of there during the 5 minute intermission. (intercession? whats the word?....)

Yipee

It's Our 2 and a half year anniversary today!
yes...2 yr. 6 mo.
or    30 months.

I'll leave it  at that. Don't want to go crazy with days and hours or anything---
Anyway, we're not doing much.
In fact, I don't think we're seeing each other later today.
 :(

There's always Thursday.

BYE

Its Friday Friday Friday

Omg we (mostly I) cannot get that song out of our (my) head(s)!!

Lol, i like to be grammatically correct at all costs.

Few times have I left a restaurant leaving hungry..
Yesterday was one of those times.
Went to Friday's (haha, theme maybe? jk its coincidental)
And got this "right portion right price" dish
and yes, I eat more than the average person (i'm not ashamed of it either)
so perhaps I can't speak for everyone-- But
I ate that shit in 2 minutes. And at the end I told bridget "well that was a lovely snack" (could have paid half as much and gotten twice as full at whataburger)
-__-  So, i ask you, whose fault is it- Mine for eating too much, or theirs for not serving enough?

Ryan and I are currently just chilling. He's on his comp. I'm on mine. Abnormal college fridays.. ;P

( ps. Come'on UT, get back to me! )

Oh, and Happy April!! These months just fly by ;P