Mexican Casserole

Today I made a casserole. It has brown rice, salsa, re fried beans, corn, chilies, spinach, and cheese. It's actually not that bad for you,it's only 8 points per serving on the Weight Watchers point scale! If you want the recipe let me know and I can post it.

Today was interesting. I had to tell two girls to be quiet during lecture, went to the bookstore twice, almost got hit in my car from an aggressive driver in a Jeep, and spent my gift card at Ulta. Hope everyone's day was better than mine!

Photo a Day Challenge

Wow, long time no post. I learned that blogging is hard. It is especially hard when you have a busy life and don't know what to write about! I wanted to get back into posting more frequently so I've decided to do a photo challenge. I will take and post a picture every day for the next month. If that goes well, I'll extend the deadline! Keep in mind, I am not a photographer so these won't be the greatest pictures and I will most likely be taking pictures on my phone which does not have the greatest quality. Hope you guys like the idea!

Today's photo: my friend Lauren and I went to the video game lab on campus and had to play a computer game for class credit! I don't remember what the game was called but it was about a guy named Stanley and there was a British narrator. It was a pretty fun game!

NHL Revealed: A Season Like No Other

First of all I would like to apologize for not posting in over a month! It has been a crazy month, more to come on that later.

So this season the NHL decided to do a documentary series called NHL Revealed: A Season Like No Other. This follows players and teams that are part of the new Coors Light Stadium Series games and on their way to the Sochi Winter Olympics. The series was a seven episode series which I bought on iTunes for $1.99 and episode, I decided to save $1.00 an episode and not get the HD version. I would download an episode and watch it at the gym, each episode was about 60 minutes long.

I loved the series, mostly because I just love hockey. My only complaint is that my team, the San Jose Sharks, were not mentioned once. Even when they were recapping the Olympics and Joe Pavelski scored an important goal against Russia, I believe, his name wasn't mentioned. They showed his face but just said Team America scored and important goal. The fact that the Sharks weren't mentioned in this series bothers me a bit. Not just because they are my favorite team and I love everything about them but because the series is called NHL Revealed. Doesn't that imply that its about all of the NHL? Not just part of it? Maybe it was because the Sharks didn't participate in a Stadium Series game, but in that case shouldn't they have rename the show to something about the Stadium Series?

Anyways if you are a hockey fan I highly recommend watching this. It takes you into the lives of players you hate and you learn to not like them, but to hate them a little less.

Got My Hur Did

As many of you know I like to dye my hair, a lot. So I recently bought a box of burgundy hair dye from Target and was disappointed. The color wasn't as noticeable as I wanted it to be even though I don't like it to be super noticeable. That's when Auntie La mentioned Henna. So I looked into it and bought the burgundy dye from The Henna Guys. At first I was super nervous to do this because everything I read said it stained everything and anything, I was also nervous about the intensity of the color. 

Package of the Henna dye.

So first things first, I mixed the dye to a cake mix like consistency and I did this about an hour ahead of time because they said it needs time to rest. Then I had to cover the bathroom with plastic just in case I got dye somewhere I shouldn't have. The blogs I read about dying your hair said you should do it in the shower. So I covered the walls and put my full length mirror in the bathtub and sat down with the dye (I wish I had a picture of what the bathroom looked like because it was hilarious how much I covered it!). 

Next I separated my hair into sections and started to apply this mud to my hair. The smell was awful, okay it wasn't that bad but definitely not something I want my hair to smell like. It took me about an hour to apply the dye to all of my hair and my gloves were too big and kept sliding up so I got lots of dye all over my hands. 

After I applied all the dye the blogs said to wrap your head in plastic wrap because you have to wait at least 2 hours! The dye I bought came with a lovely shower cap so I put that on too, just for some extra protection.

I waited about 2 1/2 hours with the dye in my hair because I wasn't sure how intense the color would look against my dark hair. These first two pictures are right after I rinsed the dye out.

These pictures were taken about 4 days after I applied it. The blogs said the color settles after about 48 hours so you should wait to see if you like the color later.

These next couple of pictures were about a week later. I still couldn't get a picture that really showed the color but this is the best I could do, and now it is raining outside and I can't get a good picture with some good lighting!

So the reason it took me so long to post this was because I was trying to get the most perfect picture of my hair but I gave up. I'll post some later if I get some good ones. 

I also wanted to say how much I loved the henna dye compared to box dye. First henna is all natural, it has no chemicals or other stuff that box dyes have. Second it naturally conditions your hair! I haven't had to use conditioner since I dyed it and I wake up with awesome hair. The bad things is that after I dyed it, it took a long time to get all the mud out of my hair. The smell also stayed in my hair for about a week, but it was less intense as the week went on. But I went to the gym the next day and I sweated and my hair smelled so bad! I also blotted my sweat with my sleeve and my sweat was orange! And the last thing I am frustrated about is that the blogs said it would take a couple of weeks to wash out all the dye/mud from your hair, its been two weeks and when I wash my hair it still has a slight orange tinge to it. Overall I would most definitely dye my hair again with henna. I think next time I will leave the dye in for 3 or more hours. I like the color but want it a little more intense.

A Little Help from my Friend

Last night as I was working a late night shift redoing floor displays at the store one of my coworkers and two managers and I were reminiscing about out early high school/college years and how much out bodies have changed since then. We were all showing pictures of how skinny and different we looked. That's when my coworker decided to turn this into a competition. Starting March 1st and ending on May 1st fore very pound you lose you put 50 cents into a pot. At the end of the two months the one who has lost the most weight gets to keep all the money! I'm actually really excited about this competition. Hopefully it will actually motivate me to hit the gym more consistently. If only I wasn't so tired from my early morning yoga class! Anyways even if I don't win the competition I will still win by losing weight! Wish me luck!

Here Comes the Bride

Today Auntie La took me and Auntie Car to a flower arranging class. We didn't know what the class was making until we got there. But we soon learned we were making bridal bouquets! This class was so much fun! I learned that adults are just as bad as kids when you ask them to stop, listen, and watch before you try it yourself. It was crazy, the woman leading the class asked us to watch her first then we would all do ours and she could come around and help if you had questions. Almost every single person tried to start their bouquet while she was still explaining! There were also lots of brides in this class and they all looked like they had the potential to be a bridezilla! Overall I had a blast!

The first bouquet we made.

Auntie Car working on her first bouquet.

Auntie Car and Auntie La with their flowers.

Our work space.

All three of the first bouquets we made!

Starting the second bouquet, and all rose one.

Orange roses.

Putting it all together.

How pretty!

B-E-A-Utiful

My yellow ones.

So pretty!

Long Time No Post!

So this post goes out to the one and only Kaitlyn Phillipps! She had informed me that I haven't posted in a while, yes I agree but in my defense I have been so busy yet have nothing to talk about! School has started up again and yeah, I don't have much to say about it. 

I am taking a yoga/Pilates fusion class. Sounds fun right? Except for the fact that it is at 7:30 am. I have never had a class before 9 am in college so I don't know why I decided to shoot for the stars with this early morning one. I am also taking World Music, pretty interesting so far. Today we learned to Hula dance! That was super fun but if you know me I was awful at it. Next I have American Cultures. I expected this class to be more of a lecture class about American customs and traditions. Yeah, I was wrong. We sit in a circle and have discussions all the time. We are also reading a book about the Nevada Test Site. I am also taking Art History: Pre-Historic to Gothic art. We just finished learning about the Egyptians. that was pretty awesome! And lastly I am taking Cultural Anthropology. This class is a big lecture class so it makes me feel like I am back at OSU. Expect the first week of class I had these rude girls sit behind me that talked all through class, even when I politely asked them to be quiet! How rude!

Other than school my grandma was admitted into the hospital so that's been stressful. 

Here's an update on my New Year's Resolutions:

I joined Auntie La's gym finally. And I went today after school. I'm going to make it a habit to go everyday after school. So this means that I am driving! Yaya! I have been driving to work and school, I drove to Haley's house the other night in the pouring rain. That was an achievement in my book. And I drove to the gym today. It's the little things.

Haley has been teaching me how to take the perfect selfie, so I'll leave you with this one.