trips trips trips

Starting to plan a visit back home to Salt Lake City for the beginning of February. You better believe that since we're driving, I will be seeing Holly Madison's Peepshow in Las Vegas on the way. For my birthday last year we saw Zumanity and it was one of the most amazing shows I have ever seen, highly recommend and would definitely see it again!


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Disney World has been a trip in the making for MONTHS now! Disneyland is a regular occurrence, since it's only an hour and a half away, but I've never been to Disney World and I've heard so many good things. A slower time of year is preferable and since kiddo's are in school most of spring (aside from Spring Break, yuck!), I was thinking it would be a perfect time to go! Of course the warmer the better, but does it even actually get COLD in Florida?


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Portland has been calling my name for years now. I finally crossed Seattle off my list back in September, but now I'm dying to see what I hear to be beautiful Portland. I never thought I'd say it, but lately I miss having four seasons, the leaves changing colors, actual trees and forests and being surrounded by gorgeous mountains, these are things San Diego doesn't offer. I really wish I would have made it to Portland last fall, but there is always this fall?


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East Coast. Last year I visited Boston for the first time with a quick pit stop in New York and Jersey. This year a vacation to Philadelphia would be fantastic. I usually do a thorough job of researching and asking around of all the must-sees and eats, but the Eastern State Penitentiary is actually the only thing on my list thus far (and of course meeting you too, Christina!).


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I've been craving a taste of Hawaii. Hawaii is one of those places that never really appealed to me, I don't like humidity and I've seen the ocean... but lately just the thought of Hawaiian food has been taunting me. Friends and family have been coming and going to Hawaii and I'm starting to become a bit jealous. This sounds like one of the best places for a good break. What is your favorite island? Favorite things to do?


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This soon-to-be underwater Poseidon Hotel in Fiji would be freaking amazing! $30,000 per couple for a weeks stay is a little steep, but who would have thought to put a resort under water?!


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ANYWHERE outside of the country. I'm just going to leave this open ended, because if I started a list now of all the places outside of the USA that I would like to visit (or even revisit), the list would never end!


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I truly believe that since you only live once, you should certainly milk this life for what it's worth! Traveling is a passion of mine, always has been and always will be. If money wasn't an issue, I would quit my job and travel immensely during my entire 20's. Any suggestions for things to do, places to go, people to see or delicious eateries to try are most certainly welcome!

Things I Hate, videos I love

For almost two years this has been my favorite youtube video out there. I love Suzi and her foul mouth and everything she hates about LA. I actually truly loathe so many things about LA, so maybe it's the urge to tell it how it is? Either way, I know this video by heart and it's something I wish I could have put together myself.



This little gem was also brought to my attention a few days ago. I don't post videos on the internet often, so you better believe I would only post it here if it was truly some of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Foodie Friday: Caprese

Tomatoes are delicious in, on or around just about anything in my opinion. Making caprese is very simple and can be done in various ways. All you really need are tomatoes (any size: grape, roma, beefsteak, plum, cherry), fresh mozzarella, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and basil.

You can use any variety of tomato in any form, I chose to use grape tomatoes and bocconcini mozzarella, sliced in halves... For those of you not familiar with fresh mozzarella, most stores sell three sizes: ciliegene (cherry size), bocconcini (bite size) and ovoline (egg size).

I sliced my grape tomatoes and bocconcini mozzarella balls in half, mixed them together, poured olive oil and balsamic vinegar over the top and added a little chopped basil for garnish.





Here are some more ways to prepare caprese that I found via google image:

fat day

My friend and I ate at several places among our busy errand-running day, and they were as followed:

When I picked Ashley up, we immediately tore open a bag of sunflower seeds, that we eventually demolished.



There was a Baskin Robbins across the street from where I took my car to get her oil changed and washed up all fancy, so we grabbed a scoop while we waited.


cookies n cream and red velvet


65 degrees, sunny, red velvet ice cream, dry roads, can't complain.

We had to hit the dreaded mall, but I turned this into a positive experience by getting an awesome veggie Hot Dog on a Stick!



On the drive home I wanted to stop at Trade Secret to get some new OPI, but the shelves were raided through and nothing good was left. THEN I started having a major Sonic craving, so Ashley and I took a mini road trip to Santee to get my Ocean Water fix... plus some onion rings and jalapeño cheddars. If you have never tried Ocean Water (like Ashley hadn't), I suggest you get into your car and drive to the nearest Sonic, wherever that might be!



Marty was anxiously awaiting our arrival, so we hung around and watched some shows on Netflix.



Hunger started setting in, so I yelped some sushi places and we headed out to RK Sushi. Cute place, good food, close to home, will be back for sure.



Ahi Poke Salad and a couple rolls later...





Now I'm home with a full tummy and happy heart.

Movie Mondays! Netflix

Not only do Jon and I own hundreds of movies combined, it doesn't help having Netflix instant streaming at our disposal in two rooms of our house and three discs coming in/out at all times. If you don't already have Netflix, I would highly consider doing so. If you have a PS3, Wii or Xbox 360 you can easily stream to your console and the disc is free if you have a minimum of one disc plan.

Right now we have a DVD Queue of 244 movies and and Instant Queue of 283 movies/tv shows, so you can see where WE are getting our money's worth.



This week we got Winnebago Man, I give it 3 out of 5 stars. It is truly hilarious how frustrated this man got while filming Winnebago sales videos in the 80s, but as the movie progresses, you see that Jack Rebney doesn't even know how he became an internet superstar, with thousands of hits on youtube. He actually has no care for the world laughing and loving these vulgar and angry clips.

Here is the trailer (NSFW):




Do me a kindness... and see this movie!

Christmas Dinner

Last night I made spaghetti with roasted garlic tomato sauce, veggie meat crumbles and sauteed mushrooms with kitty shaped garlic bread!



After we made sugar cookies and continued watching my new Six Feet Under series box set. Christmas was good and this globe was my favorite gift, what was yours?