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.