Compliment Ninjas

So it's finals week here at school. Fun. Oh so fun.

Actually this has been a very chill finals week for me.  Now that I'm in my major, finals consist more of projects and some film analysis essays, so this has been the most relaxed finals week I have ever had!

Last night was really fun. Me and my roommate Stephanie were up late (her studying, me writing a paper) and it got to be about 1 in the morning when Steph suddenly turns to me and says:

"Riss, what if we wrote compliments on sticky notes and put them on the cars in the parking lot?"

Naturally this sounded like an amazing idea. So she pulled out the sticky notes and we started writing compliments, both normal and a little weird. Some examples include:

• You're so awesome, you could walk into Mordor and everyone would be like, "yeah, that makes sense."
• You're cooler than Mr. Rogers, which may not seem like a big deal, but that dude put on a different pair of shoes just to chill in his own home. And that's crazy cool.
• If I had a nickel for every time I thought about you, people would be like, "What are you doing with all those nickels? That's too many nickels." And they would be wrong.

We didn't get done until about 2:30 a.m. and we did 79 total. I'm pretty sure the later it got, the less sense  our compliments made...

Anyways we ended up just bringing them over to the guy's house and littering their stairs with them all. It was a nice adventure. It's always fun when you have two sleep deprived college girls trying to be quiet at 3 in the morning on a creaky staircase.

I'd like to say we're ninjas.

I'd have someone back me up, but there are no witnesses to our ninja acts. But I'd like to think that that in itself is proof enough.

Wouldn't you?

Fast, Easy Tortillas

When I was in second grade, we "made" tortillas.  And by made, I mean we actually played no part in the process.  Here's what happened:

Our teacher taught us how to grind flour. So, a group of eight-ish year old kids sat outside with two rock type things and a bunch of wheat and went to town grinding it into flour. Needless to say, it sucked. We thought it was insanely hard and stupid and not worth it!

Then our teacher took the flour mess we had created, went into the classroom for about 60 seconds (as the actual making of flour into tortillas was too complex for us), and came out with tortillas that our "flour" had "made".

Ever since then I have been under the impression that making tortillas was the hardest, longest process ever and you would have to be insane to try it.

Of course, if that were true, this post would end now.






But it doesn't. Obviously. Or, well, I hope that's obvious. Cause, there's more words. Just keep scrolling.

Well I found this recipe a while back, but had never tried it until recently. And holy cow! These are friction good! (so when I typed out that last bit, I had written "frickin", but it was auto corrected to say "friction". So I kept it. Hence the weird saying.)

These are great! Only 4 ingredients:

2 cups flour
1/2 t salt
3 T oil
3/4 cup water

Mix together all ingredients

and knead about 10 times (as more flour as needed, you don't want it too sticky. I found that about 1/3 cup more normally does it).

Or you can get fancy with your kneading skills.

And your faces. Thanks Chris.

Roll it into a ball and divide it into 8 pieces.

Spread those out into circles

and fry for about 1 minute per side on a sprayed pan.

And that's it! You're done!

 Depending on how much you flatten them, this is about their thickness.

Super easy and super good!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

We decided to embrace our fleeting childhood and decorate eggs again! So here's what we turned out with:

As much as I like the fancy eggs, my favorites are still the plain (but extremely vibrant) red and blue ones. Also, my parents were awesome and sent me a "monster egg" making kit!

It came with stickers, fake hair, and pipe cleaners. And this was weird:

 so this is what one of my eggs looked like in normal light. Cool, normal, nice. But then I took picture in sunlight instead of the kitchen light, and this is what happened:

It was glowing! Crazy!


Anyways, it was fun! I also made Easter dinner with the guys. And a bunny cake, but I'll have to upload that later.

Hope you all have a great Easter! Enjoy one of the many random activities we decided should be used to celebrate this day!

Things I Learned From My Father

I found this today while I was internet exploring (not on Internet Explorer though, so... I guess while I was "Safari-ing" the internet?). I thought it was an extremely good list, so I wanted to share it with you guys.

It has some cuss words, but I think it's a very, very good list. Some good practical advice, some funny things, and some facts about life that everyone can use!

I especially love number 20, and 35 and 45 are great too.

Blondies- the Naive Cousin

Have you ever tried blondes???

I had honestly never tried one of these bad boys until monday, when I made them for the first time for an activity. And I'm addicted. Completely. These are way good!

I call them the naive cousin of the brownie (get it... cause it's like they're blond... so... blond joke. you're welcome dad).

Make them next time you have to bring a dessert, it's a good switch up from the normal array of sweets without being too out there.

Herewego!

You're gonna need:

2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
2/3 cup oil
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

(eggs not pictured)
Turns out, I had EXACTLY 2 cups of flour left! how awesome is that? except, now I'm out of flour.
But hey, no flour means no making dessert for fun, which means no temptations around the house to ruin that whole "eating healthy" thing...

Mix together all the dry ingredients. The salt, bp and bs are in there. It's just hard to tell, cause they're all the same color. I swear. No really! Fine, don't believe me...

Then you mix together the egg, vanilla, and oil. It looks like some of the abstract art at my school.

Next, we add in my new favorite food in the world: brown sugar!

After that's all mixed, we add the dry ingredients.

Stir that all together.

Then put it all in a greased 9x13 pan. It's gonna be pretty thick, not the normal consistency of brownie mix, no worries.

Now we bake at 350 for about 25 minutes (or until a knife comes out of the middle clean)

FRICKIN GOOD! The golden crust is my favorite part. And after it cools, you can add a little fanciness to the top. (that's my baker's talk for "sprinkle with powdered sugar")

Be sure not to bake a whole batch by yourself, you may not be able to stop.

Weird Internets and Eggs

So the internet at my apartment has been rather weird lately. Mix this on top of me not having any free time, and it leads to the sad fact that I have not updated this blog in a while. But fear not readers! I have a few recipes to put up and a story for ya'll! coming soon!

But until then, please enjoy this picture of an egg I stood on it's end on the spring equinox.

With mad skills.

 Cool, huh?

Stake Conference Notes

So today was stake conference. An extra hour of sleep! But, also, two hours of sitting on the same bench. In the same spot. Without sleeping.

No promises that that last part happens all the often...

But not the point! There point is, I have a story :)

Here's how it happened:

It was the end of the 2 hours, and I was running out of things to distract myself with (expect for the number count down me and my brothers use to do to pass the time, I still do that) and that was the moment when I saw the string.

In front of me, hanging out from the little slit between the bench seat and bench back rest in front of me, was a leather string.

Being my curious self, I reached down and pulled on the string. And you know what happened??

Another string came down! Now there were two strings hanging from the bench in front of me! What was I to do?

Well, obviously, I couldn't just leave it alone. So I did the logical thing. I tied them together.

But that didn't do much. I mean, what was the point of that?

So obviously I had to do something else.

I reached down and ripped off a piece of paper from my notebook. I wrote down the following words: "Hi :)"

At this point, I took the two strings (which I think were attached to to girl's belt or dress who was sitting in front of me), rolled up the paper, and tied it in the strings.

I don't know if it stayed there when she stood up or if she even noticed but I like to think that at some point, she saw that small note and read it and is sitting in her room, questioning who that note came from or if there was a secret meaning to it! I be she is sitting on her computer while talking to a team of agents from the CIA trying to identify the handwriting to find who gave her this note! Her life may depend on it!

Ok, maybe that's exaggerating. A little.

But only maybe.