Fear talk 3; Being Bullied

Since as far back as I can remember I’ve always been known to be a passive person.  I didn’t like confrontation, the arguing, dramas, and the negativity so I always agreed with everyone to make people happy.  In elementary school I was known as the shy quiet girl I always wanted to sit in the back never wanted to get called on.  After a certain grade I would always day dream and space out because I didn’t like school very much.  It’s not that it was hard it just felt like a lot of people were picking on me which was mainly the guys.  I had one best friend in elementary I’m pretty sure his name was Tommy.  He never picked on me and we always hanged out together and got along very well.  Until the school decided to have a new lunch system involving computers which resulted in half the school being transferred to a new school and there goes my best friend.  I think the school was called sunny or Sunnyside? Not too sure but I was pretty sad.

Even though I was bullied by some of the guys the teachers didn’t help much.  There was one teacher that was very hard on me I won’t name names but out of everyone else she picked on me the most finding every way possible to get me in trouble.  Why? I have no idea why.  She was the only teacher I remember who tried her hardest to make that school year a nightmare for me.  Which in turn made me not want to go to school I have to admit my grades dropped and I stopped focusing.  I was like well why bother if the teachers didn’t even care.  I was bullied from elementary school to 7th grade once I moved to a new city closer to my mom’s job I wasn’t bullied at all maybe like once in 8th grade but it was whatever.  Once I went into high school the bulling stopped.  My grades went back up and I was doing well in school until another big event happen in my life which I will talk about that later on.

So what I’m trying to say is bullying doesn’t last forever.  Yeah I was bullied for most of my childhood and it was pretty hard, and it did affect my life.  I didn’t have that many people to turn too, I felt alone most of the time.  But look I’m still here today being bullied can hurt you but it's just words and yes words can hurt, but sometimes you just have to ignore and look past it all.  You can’t rely on people to make you stronger you have to be strong yourself, learn to overcome difficult obstacles in your life to be better.  Things happens for a reason maybe it’s caused by your surroundings, the people around you, or you made that reason happen yourself, but whatever it is it happened for a reason.  It’s something you can learn from and become a stronger better person to have a happy life.

Going Back To School!

I haven’t been to school in a while and just been doing my thing, but I think it’s time I go back and get a career for myself.  Even though it’s not what I expected my career choice to be you have to start somewhere; I’ll be attending a vocational school. I've been researching a lots of different schools and read some good and mostly bad reviews.  I’m excited but more nervous because a lot of money is going into this and of course I want something out of it. I just have to put myself through this and try my hardest and after this is all over we will see where I’ll be.  So far everyone that works at the school is very nice and helpful, so as of now everything is off to a good start! :)

Beef Satay aka Sach Ko Jakak

A couple of weeks ago my boyfriend and I went to the night market in Westminster. It is pretty expensive once you add it all up at the end of the night.  Anyways this was the first time my boyfriend tried the meat on a stick beef satay aka in Khmer sach ko jakak and loved it.  I've always wanted to learn how to make it and been meaning to ask my mom and grandma how to but haven't had time. So since I didn't want to bother them I took to the web and found multiple recipes. So I came up with my own and it was pretty good for a first time. :)

This is how I made mine

I have a premixed turmeric powder and Thai galangal powder that I made myself which is 2 tb turmeric and 1tb and 1tsp galangal and I used 1 tb and 1tsp and a half (1/2) of that mixture

1 TB and 1 and a 1/2 tsp turmeric/gangala powder mixture
Pinch salt
Pinch pepper
2 tsp sugar
1 tb honey
2/3 cup oyster sauce
4-5 gloves garlic - minced
2 small red onion or shallots - minced
4 stalks of lemon grass – crushed and minced
1 tb oil
Slice beef
(Depending on how much sliced beef you use you might need a little more or less oyster sauce)

Lemon Grass: Hit the stalk with the back of the knife and minced (picture shown at the bottom)

Mix all ingredients together mix the beef into the sauce for about 1-2 minutes just to make sure the meat is completely coated since they will get stuck together.
Let marinate for 1 and a half hours to 4 hours or up to 24 hours
Once done marinating set oven to 375-400 degrees
Skewer the beef onto a skewer stick back and forth kind of making an S shape
Put it in the oven for about 5 minutes or less flip once and leave it in for another 5 minutes or less until it’s done

Also how long it takes to cook depends on how thin or thick your slice of beef is. So make sure to keep an eye on it, how long I keep mine in might burn yours if your meat is too thin.

You can also grill it which is usually how it is prepared but I suck at grilling so I baked it. Same deal with grilling though only need to flip once unless you want the char color to be all over the place then flip away

minced lemon grass and garlic

beef marinated for about 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours

the end result! serve with rice

Fear Talk 2: I ain’t Afraid of no Ghost! ... Um Wait!

So this is something that’s hard for me to write about because it is kind of creepy.  But you gotta do what you gotta do. Anyways I wonder how many people actually believe in the paranormal stuff.  I was always scared but I never really believed it until it started happening to me.  I could go into full detail about everything I have experience, but it will probably be SUPER long and some people will probably get bored reading such a long post.  I could always write a couple different short posts in detail about this topic later.

But for now I’ll just write about how it all started.  I have no idea how old I was I just remember that it was the summer after 7th grade.  My parents just bought this big house with a really big backyard and I loved it! Until I was left home alone because my parents went back to the old house to pick up more stuff and needed more room in the car.  I guess its true kids have wild imagination because I got spooked I kept seeing shadows coming down the stairs at the corner of my eye and I literally sat outside in the backyard till my parents came back.

After that I never thought much about it, everything was normal until I was left home alone again.  I can’t tell you much of why I was home alone I have no idea where everyone was. All I remember is sitting at the computer area which is a little space by the top of the stairs, I hear my grandma door slam shut and a big gust of wind comes around the corner under my legs and into my face as if I was sitting in front of a fan on high, that’s how strong the wind was.  At first I didn’t freak out I figured it’s just the wind so I go and check my grandma’s room and guess what... THE WINDOW WAS CLOSED! So I start to freak out a little bit but tried to remain calm turned off everything and just went to my room.

This was just the beginning it got worse until it got better my grandma always told me to show no fear and be strong, but sometimes when its things unseen it gets pretty scary.  I have so many more stories I could go on for hours writing from beds plus other things being shake in my room, to sleep paralyze, scratches and seeing figures.  It’s a whole lot of craziness.

Sweets and More Sweets.

My boyfriend is so sweet he brought me some of my favorite candies! I love the mango revolcando lollipops. I've never tried the ones that look like mini tamales and I still haven't tried it yet I've only been eating the yummie mango lollipops and tamarindo push up thing.  He also bought me one of my favorite chocolates! Lindor it’s a thick chocolaty goodness shell with a melt in your mouth chocolate on the inside.  It was hot today and I forgot that the inside would melt so I pretty much took a shot of liquid chocolate. Still good but I like it better when it’s not already melted. :)

Animal Crossing New Leaf update.. sorta

I haven’t written on here in awhile and really I’ve just been spending time with my boyfriend and playing animal crossing lol. It’s so hard to make bells! Well not really but I’m so lazy and tired of running around the island catching bugs!  I finally got my town to a perfect town! Yay! It took a while because I have a habit of leaving stuff on the ground when my pockets are full. Especially the first Sunday in august for the fireworks show! I didn’t want to catch bugs so I kept buying fortune cookies from Redds until I got every firework item. I spent probably around 33k so not bad.  I haven’t been asked to build a police station yet but I have the café! :) I’ve also almost completed my house just 1 more upgrade on the left room and 1 for the basement! Anyways enough about animal crossing here’s some pictures!

top left; boat ride to the island

top right; making a wish on a star get's you an

item in the mail the next day

bottom left; finally got shampoodle! new hair!

bottom right; getting my fortune read

Fireworks! Hello Kitty fireworks!

Sparklers and Fountains!

So many sparklers from Redds!

This is what you get:

If you talk to Isabelle during the firework show

you get a head band bobber thing.

From Redd's: Boxed Figurine, Miniature Car,

Lovely Phone (that gives out daily fortunes),

Love tester and Ten Billion Barrel (does nothing), 

Ultra Hand (goes up and down),

Ultra machine (shoots the ball as pictured),

Ultra Scope ( the flag goes down. Is it a flag?)

Cutting Grandmas Hair

The other day my grandma asked me if I could cut her hair, I've never cut anyone’s hair before so I was extremely nervous!  The only hair I cut is my own and that’s just my bangs/fringe!  I kind of knew what to do since I watch how my hair stylist would cut my hair.  I used scissors instead because I didn’t know the number clips and didn't want to accidentally make my grandma bald. I think I did pretty ok for cutting hair for the first time. Kind of not that even towards the bottom lining but I really tried!

before

after

Fear talk 1; Facing some of your fears no matter how small.

Facing some of your fears can be hard to do.  Some of my fears are a more serious issue then this one but I’ll get into that at another time.

This might sound silly but if I can’t touch the ground in any body of water I would freak out a little, it was a big issue to me.  Doesn’t matter if it’s in the pool or at the beach part of the reason is because I never learned how to swim.  I pretty much self taught when I was younger playing in the shallow end with my cousins, but I could not for the life of me learn how to tread water!

But last summer when I went to the gym with my boyfriend and his mom I got into the pool and somehow can tread water even though it was only 5 feet. It was just amazing how I never could do this before and after almost 8 years of not being in a swimming pool, I somehow can.

So when my boyfriend and I stayed at the hotel last month, the pool was 3 feet to 8 feet. I’m only 5’3-5’4 and knowing the pool goes to 8 feet I kept telling my boyfriend that I'm going to do it! I'm going to swim into the deep end! Of course my boyfriend was worried for me, but I really wanted to do it! So I did.

At first I stayed by the wall just to make sure I could do it and after swimming for a while I really wanted to try swimming and treading water in the middle of the pool at 8 feet. Which I did but I still had that weird tingling feeling I get when I can’t touch the ground but I tried not to think about it and it worked! Until I told myself not to look down to the bottom of the pool, but of course when you tell yourself not to look down, what do you do? YOU LOOK DOWN! So I freaked out a little and had to swim back to the shallow end for a quick second but I went back into 8 feet and had a wonderful time swimming with my boyfriend.

Next on the list: jumping into deep water and not look like I’m freaking out when I come up even though I’m not freaking out.  When I went to Hawaii I saw people jumping off cliffs at North shore and smaller cliffs just past Lanai lookout on Kalanianaole Hwy.  It looked pretty fun but baby steps and maybe one day I’ll get enough courage to jump off a SMALL cliff.

This is all for now, I’m not sure when I’ll be writing “Fear Talk 2” or how often I will write about this type of subject.  But I hope it interest some people when reading this,  knowing it does will give me the motivation to write more about some of my fears and how I deal with it to share with everyone.

Beef Stir Fry with Lots of Vegetables

I made beef stir fry with a bunch of different vegetables.  Whatever vegetables I found in the fridge I added it to the stir fry. There is broccoli, carrots, red bell pepper, cucumbers, tomatoes and of course beef.  It came out good and is one of the times I actually can get my brother to eat his vegetables. What I did was add some oil to the pan and the garlic cooked it until I can smell the fragrance of the garlic. I then added the broccoli and carrots coating it in the garlic and oil and added some soy sauce and let it continue to cook for a little bit before I added the beef.  After I added the beef I let it brown until it’s mostly cook I drizzled some oyster sauce over the meat, added salt, pepper, and a little bit of sugar.  After that was all mixed I added the red bell peppers waited a minute or 2 and added the cucumbers.  I saved the tomatoes for the very end since it is cherry tomatoes. After I added the cherry tomatoes and drizzled some lime ponzu sauce over everything, I mixed it up good, covered it, and let it cook for a couple more minutes and done. I served it over rice it was super yummy and the vegetables tasted delicious. 

I use Kikkoman lime ponzu sauce and I’m pretty much addicted to it.  I like putting it on my vegetables or on salmon, but I usually eat it with my version of Asian chicken and rice.   Happy Cooking :)

Casa Guadalajara is One of My Favorite Mexican Restaurants

One of my favorite Mexican restaurants of all time SO far is Casa Guadalajara located in Old Town San Diego.  They make their own tortillas and have one of the best margaritas I’ve ever had! Just so sad that it is so far away!  They have happy hour from 4pm-7pm and also have live mariachi band play during dinner time from 6pm-9pm during the week not sure when they start on the weekends. 

I ordered the Enchiladas Trio it was so good! I love the rice it was just perfect, the flavors were amazing with all the gooey cheese in every bite of the enchiladas! I can’t remember what my boyfriend ordered but it was amazing also! I just like mine better. Hehe :)  We also ordered guacamole on the side for the chips and they serve it as a cute little head with it's tongue sticking out or sucking on a tomato? Either way it's pretty cute.

We also ordered 2 margaritas 1 lime on the rocks and 1 strawberry blended.  I love my blended drinks!  They were so refreshing not too strong perfect for any hot day.  I couldn’t finish my margarita after eating all that delicious food so I had my boyfriend finished it. The ones we got weren’t even the largest size margarita they offer.  I can’t wait to go back when ever my boyfriend and I get the chance to go to San Diego again.  It might be awhile just because now it’s quiet a drive for him.  But we will see. :)

What I got.

What my boyfriend got.

Guacamole head.

Lime and strawberry margaritas.

Morongo Casino

I went to Morongo for the weekend with my parents and brother for a little family getaway.  I’ve been to Morongo casino a couple of times and its fun but I’ve never stayed in one of their rooms.  Morongo is the only casino I know that is 18 and over and with free wifi for guest.

Our room was on the 22nd floor the view was of the mountains.  The room had a living room and 2 bathrooms with a sliding door dividing the bed room and the living room.  Each room had its own ac system which was nice.  The bathroom by the front door didn’t have a lock so it was kind of like wtheck man.  The main bathroom had a Jacuzzi tube so that was cool but it was very dimmed in the bathroom wish it was a little brighter.

They have 2 swimming pools a shallow one for kids and a regular one.  There is also a lazy river and a water slide with 2 Jacuzzi, a pool side bar and cabanas for rent.

We had dinner at Potrero Canyon Buffet it had a nice selection I tried lamb for the very first time and it wasn’t that bad.  I love their mushroom risotto! I wasn’t too happy with where they sat us we were stuck in their private room area which would have been fine if it didn’t feel like they stuck every big group of family with crying babies in there.  So that was kind of disappointing.

Food court area has a couple of different things; there is Panda Express, Fatburger which is open 24/7, Nathan’s Hotdog, Haagen Daz, and LA Italian.  I tried Fatburger for the first time! Well just their chili cheese fries and it was delicious!  There is a couple other restaurant and bars around the casino that I didn’t catch the name off.

There is also an outlet down the street! Yay shopping! It is call Desert Hills Premium Outlets also known as Cabazon Outlet. Lots of stores to check out like Coach, D&G, Gucci, and more.  Anyways here are some pictures of the room!

left to right: Entry way, 1st Bathroom, Coffee and ice stuff in bathroom,

Living room facing the 1st bathroom stain glass window.

Left to right: Living with the dividing door close, with it open,

bedroom facing 2nd bathroom, and from inside the bathroom facing out.

Left to right: 2nd Bathroom, Jacuzzi, Super early morning mountain,

sun setting view.

Complimentary bowl of chocolate mints yum!

San Diego trip!

My bf and I decided to head to San Diego no idea what we were going to do I just wanted to go to San Diego :)

So on the way I was busy searching things to do in SD and decide to hit up the beaches.  We went to this beach with the longest pier I’ve ever been on.  It was so long when I got to the end all you hear is the sound of the waves no cars or street noise.  It was pretty awesome to bad I can’t remember what that beach is called.

After we left that beach we headed to La Jolla Cove. Rain or Shine it was kind of hard to find parking but eventually we did. There are a lot of sea lions that hang around on the rocks and beach area. It's so pretty I love it! Looking out into the ocean if you are lucky you can see dolphins swim by.  I saw some people kayak and snorkel it looks like a lot of fun, but I have a fear of the ocean. If I can’t touch the ground or see through the water my mind starts playing games with me and I freak out.

Now that it is officially Summer I can’t wait to go to more beaches!  Lately we’ve been exploring lots of beaches nearby and I love it!  Can’t wait to go on more adventures!

The structure at the end of this picture is just the half way point of the pier.

Smile! :) thought my camera was food.

over cast but still beautiful!

Striking a pose! It was like he/she knew I was taking a picture.

this poor little one was trying so hard to get to the top of

this rock but kept getting knocked off by the waves

Dolphins!

World Market!

I love this place! Yes it is a little expensive to pretty much kind of expensive for some things but I still love it!  I love looking in the snack areas to see what new things they have and possibly find old childhood candies those are the best!  But today I bought Chocorooms which is a cracker dipped in chocolate. It is one of my favorite chocolate cracker snacks it has a layer of milk chocolate on the bottom and a small layer of dark chocolate on top.  I also got Kit Kats in mint flavor it tasted like a crunchy andes mint.  I thought it was ok, I'm sure my boyfriend would love it!  Next item from my random shopping is Sparkling Pink Citrus Lemonade from France and it is so good! Pretty scary opening the bottle it was a loud pop like opening a champagne bottle but good thing it’s hooked onto the metal.  I think I might want to get some more I love how the cap is attached to the metal I can definitely use the bottle for other things.

4th of July Recap

I had a blast on 4^th of July with my boyfriend! We really didn’t plan on doing anything or even seeing each other just because of the distance.  But my boyfriend called and asked me to come over anyways so I did and I’m glad I did! He is the sweetest boyfriend EVER! He cooked garlic chicken pasta with garlic bread and macaroni salad.  For desert red velvet cake ice cream from Ben and Jerry. It was yummy! I was in major food coma! He also got me a gift! Animal Crossing new leaf! Yay!  I love him! :) I am definitely not use to the heat in Victorville.  After we got home from being outside in the hot sun picking up some last minute things, I started to get dizzy spells feeling super light headed walking around. Not good so I took some Advil and drank some water felt better after a while.  Later that evening we set off some fireworks in the backyard since there were so many cars in the front yard.  It was so much fun! I haven’t played with fireworks since probably when I was in elementary school I forgot how much fun it was. But anyways hope everyone had a fun and safe 4^th of July!

Can't wait to play this!

First time having this and love it! 

The fireworks begin!

This is Robo! aka Robie (ro-b) Bear of course the nickname is what I call him

hehe.  He got so much bigger from the last time I saw him!

 I got my boyfriend this hamster couple months ago,

the one he had before named Homer died last year.

Super Mini Vacation

The boyfriend and I felt like we needed to get away for a day to relax and enjoy each other’s company without any interruptions from our phones and people.  So we deiced to get a room for a night at a hotel to relax and unwind. We checked into Fairfield Hotel, I’ve never stayed here before so I didn’t know how it was going to be.  But it was actually nice!  The staff was super friendly knowing it was our first time there; they even called to check up on us.  We got a room with 2 queen because they were sold out of the rooms with a King bed.  The room wasn't that big pretty much just enough walk space for 1 person to go through at a time from the bathroom to the front door. There is free wifi for guest and breakfast in the morning from 6am-9am.  The breakfast wasn’t bad it was actually good and they also have a waffle maker! I love waffles!

That afternoon we went swimming in the pool which is 3 feet to 8 feet deep. There is also a gym but it isn’t that big and a small Jacuzzi.  For dinner we just went to Costco and ordered a pizza, watched movies, and talked.  It just felt so wonderful we really haven’t been alone in a long time and just being able to relax and talk the night away was one of the best things ever!  The next day after breakfast and checking out we went to see fast and furious 6.  It was awesome! I loved it but I was kind of sad they killed off the couple wont say who in case some people who are reading this still haven't seen it.  At the ending I guess during credits or before got me confused a little just because I don’t remember all the fast and furious movies.  But overall it was a good movie and I liked it!

Finished Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon

I finally finished Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon! Took me a while just because I had other things to do, but I eventually finished it! It isn't a long game pretty short.  There are 6 levels with 6 stages plus a bonus stage in each level from collecting all the Boos. Level 4 Secret Mine is the shortest with only 4 stages plus 1 bonus.

So over all I like this game it was fun wish it was longer. I think that since we're already collecting the dark moon pieces why not have us collect ALL 6 pieces and not have the first one just be given in the beginning.  But owell no biggie. Some stages I have to admit were a little frustrating and I kept forget to use my dark light a lot at first, but I got used to it. Like I said in my first post when I bought this game there are tons of places to explore finding money for upgrades and searching for gems.

Now I need a new game but I don't know what I want.  Animal crossing new leaf? Donkey Kong? Or maybe some games for the Wii-U...? Hmmm I don't know we will just have to see.

Random cooking!

I wanted to cook the other day but I didn’t know what.  So I took out some chicken thighs and was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with it.  I didn’t want to look up any recipe I wanted to make this all on my own.  Usually I would look up a recipe and just change a couple of things.  Anyways so what I ended up with was: Garlic and herb butter roasted chicken thighs in chicken stock, with roasted carrots, potatoes, and cabbage, with garlic mash potatoes on the side.  So much potatoes right? Well I needed to use the up the rest of the potatoes.

I didn’t use fresh herbs, didn’t have any just used what I had on hand. I oiled the roasting pan and a little bit of oil on the chickens.  Then I mixed garlic and herb spices with pepper, onion powder, paprika, and cayenne.  I mixed half of the spices with 3 tablespoons of butter and sprinkled some spices on the chicken.  I then put about 1 tsp of the butter mixture under the skin of the chicken thighs and put it in the oven at 450 degrees for 30- 35 minutes.  After it was brown and crispy I sprinkled some more seasoning on the chicken and threw in the potatoes, carrots, and cabbage along with half a can or a little bit more of chicken stock and whatever seasoning I had left I sprinkled it all over the vegetables.  I covered it with foil and continue to cook for about 30-45 minutes to make sure the chicken was completely cooked and the vegetables were tender.

Over all everything turned out really good but there are a few changes for next time I make this. First of I needed to add more seasoning the skin tasted awesome but the chicken meat itself was under season.  All because I thought it might have been too salty but nope! Could have added more.  But it’s okay that just means I have to keep working on this recipe until I get it right! :)

E.L.F Package!

My package from E.L.F (Eyes Lips Face) came today! It came early I wasn’t expecting it until Tuesday so it was a surprise.  Yay surprise package! Who doesn’t love that? :) Anyways I bought some nail polish, lipstick, fake eyelashes, eyebrow stencil, and a couple pencil sharpeners.

I like the colors of the nail polish but there are some issues.  First when I open the package there was a strong smell of nail polish I thought maybe one of the bottles leaked or broke but nope the bottle just wasn’t closed tight and I see why it wasn’t closed tight it doesn’t line up straight. Second one of the brushes had some I guess cotton fuzz at the end of the brush.  It’s not a big deal not going to kill me you get what you pay for.

I love buying from elf! So affordable and some of the products aren’t bad.

ELF bottle as received.

ELF Bottles closed tight.

what was on one of the brushes.

other stuff I bought.

Father’s day and Dad’s Birthday Weekend!

For father’s day and my dad’s birthday we spent the weekend at Pala Casino.  It’s a nice casino but I didn’t do much just because my brother isn’t 21 and I didn’t want to just leave alone in the room all day.  They have a bar in the middle of the casino with a stage that has a live band playing daily.  We ate dinner at Choices buffet the choices were good lots of different thing and definitely lots of dessert!  They have 2 chocolate fountain one milk chocolate and the other white chocolate.  Another thing is if you aren’t a VIP or elite card member I guess?  The line for the buffet is ridiculous! You could wait up to 2 hours or even more on holidays!  It is so crazy I rather just eat before dinner rush hour or just wait until it’s after the time most people would eat dinner.  I didn’t get a chance to make it over to the pool just because it was HOT and I tan easily so I didn’t really want to go out there.  But anyways that was my Father’s day and Dad’s Birthday weekend.

Japanese Gourmet Fair at Mitsuwa Marketplace

I went to Mitsuwa marketplace which is a Japanese supermarket the other day with my boyfriend and brother because they were having a Japanese gourmet fair!  I love coming to these and trying all the different Japanese food they offer.  We tried a couple different things, some of my favorite has to be the crab croquettes it was creamy on the inside and crunchy on the outside so yummie melts in your mouth awesomeness!  My other favorite had to be skewered fish cakes there were a lot of different kinds and I really have no idea what I got besides shrimp and octopus.  It was from the same vendor as the crab croquettes unfortunately I did not get the name of the vendors.  My other favorite was waffles with custard cream filling from Kobe Fugetsudo, it was delicious wasn’t too sweet just perfect!  The last thing we got that was ok I wasn’t a big fan the texture just wasn't what I expected, but it was still good it was Takoyaki with octopus from Takoya Kukuru.  Everything at the fair is made right on spot you can even watch them make it fresh and ready to serve.

I love going to Mitsuwa they have a food court with different Japanese food and other Asian food.  Their grocery section is also filled with all things Japanese and Asian.  They also have already prepared food that you can buy for lunch or picnics they make it on site and you can also watch them make it too.  Everything seems so fresh and you know that it hasn’t been sitting there for a couple of days or weeks even.  There is also a small bakery that has some good things but I usually don’t buy anything from there.  I used to go to this other bakery that was in the food court unfortunately it closed down womp womp.  But they had one of the most AMAZING cream puffs I’ve ever had so addicting too bad they had to close. :(

Didn't get to take pictures before everyone munched on all the food!

Just bought a new game!

I just got Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon! I've never played the first one I didn't even know there was a first one.  Anyways I wanted to get Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Donkey Kong Country Returns also but getting all 3 games at once? Yeah I don’t think so.  So it was either Luigi’s Mansion or Animal Crossing but Animal Crossing was sold out so Luigi’s Mansion it was.  So far the game play is pretty good I like it, lots of things to do, things to figure out, and lots of places to explore.  The only thing I don’t like about it is that from what I’ve read online you can’t save in the middle of missions you either have to complete it or start it over.  I haven’t tried exiting during a mission because why would I do that to myself and have to start over if that is the case.   It also auto saves once you get back into the lab with the other guy so don’t have to worry about that.

Let see how long it’ll take me to finish this game.  I made a rule for myself no matter how much I want a game I have to complete the one I just recently bought first before I can get another game.  I hope more fun games come out for the 3DS that interest me.  My 3DS was seriously collecting dust after I finished Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario 3D Land.  I got those games around the beginning of the year so it’s been awhile.

Surprising My Boyfriend For His Birthday

My boyfriend birthday was last week and I’ve been planning to surprise him.  I wanted to make him a theme birthday cake even though I’ve never made one before.  I was pretty nervous but it turned out great! Everything turned out amazing!  I made him a minecraft cake since he’s been playing that a lot with his little brother.

Any who on the day of, my boyfriend decided to come early which was not good for me.  I wanted to decorate the cake in the morning so I was trying to get the cake ready and look nice in a short amount of time.  He ended up having to wait in the car for about 30 minutes extra after he got here.  I really wanted to finish the cake I worked hard on those characters and was determined to finish even if he had to wait longer!

I had him close his eyes until he got seated in front of the cake.  He was pretty surprised and loved it! Making a theme cake is not something I do he couldn’t stop staring at the cake which made me happy!

His second gift was 3 chargers bags and Dead Island Riptide.  I actually had him buy this game himself so he can get the points for his GameStop card.  I told him it was a gift for my brother’s birthday which is believable because their birthdays are in the same month.  The game came with a metal case for people that preordered so I wrote “Sike but I love you!” in the empty case and put that in the Chargers bag.  His face was priceless he was so confused and thought I gave him the wrong present since I said it was for my brother.  He opened it and read the note and was like “What…. Babe are you serious? So where’s the game?” he kept looking in the bag until he found it.

After all that we headed to the beach we wanted to go to Newport Beach but decided to drive down PCH and ended up in Dana Point.  I wanted to take him to Doheny State Beach I remember it being really nice but what I do not remember is that parking was $15.  So we busted a U-turn and went somewhere else.  We found a nice little beach to relax under some big trees, when all of a sudden my boyfriend hears a really loud plane, we both saw it but didn’t think much about it until I saw that it was pulling a sign behind it saying “Julie my darling <3 will you marry me?” I’ve never seen a proposal before it was the cutest thing ever! Even though we never actually saw the couple it was still pretty cute.

Anyways after that we drove up a random hill and found a little trail that overlooks the cliffs and ocean it was amazing!  Loved the view!  We started heading back home since we were an hour away we didn’t want to get back too late for dinner at Claws.  After dinner we headed home since my boyfriend now lives an hour and a half to two hours away.

So that was it, I think I did a pretty good job in tricking and surprising him for his birthday.  I’m glad I could make his birthday one of the best ones!

the final product!

Happy Birthday!

I left my sunglasses at home so he helped out haha

the trail on the cliff overlooking the ocean