Hardcore Slacking

I'm embarrassed! I was on such a good blogging roll, and now look! Almost an entire month has gone by since my last entry. I can only imagine how hard of a time I will have trying to come up with creative things when I go back to school. This upcoming semester, I will be juggling practicum 2 days a week, class 2 days a week, 3 jobs, and trying to squeeze in time to have a little bit of a life. Good luck right? Even more luck to finding things to post about. My life currently has just been consumed with work which is going to be my main excuse for my slacking. I haven't had a day off in weeks which stinks sometimes, but I figured I should try and save as much as I can now before school starts back up. I have managed to find some new recipes, but the crafts have really been slacking. Brent has been gone this past week and will be gone all this week for his two weeks of guard training and as much as I would like to be crafty all on my own, I need his help for quite a few things. Plus doing crafts with others is significantly more fun than doing them alone. Before Brent left however, he surprised me with a homemade dinner--one in which I wasn't allowed to enter the kitchen for--he even closed the door off to the kitchen--how serious :) 

We had a Mexican night--which doesn't surprise anyone if they know Brent at all. We made together homemade black bean and corn salsa which was unreal! It was delicious I had to have it taken away from me. Brent found the recipe so I will have to steal it from him at some point, but I know the second time we made it we added just one jalapeno which really kicked up the spice and flavor and I love jalapenos so it was perfect for me!

While Brent has been gone, I have had a couple visitors because everyone knows how much I hate being home alone in the dark. I am such a baby. I can't imagine the day I have children who will equally be scared of the dark and having to console them! Sam and Billy visited and we hit up the John Mayer concert at Blossom. 

This was the second time I've seen John Mayer and I loved him equally both times. This time maybe just a hint more because he played Comfortable which is my all time favorite John Mayer song. It wasn't on his set list and he had yet to play it on his tour, but he said he was really feeling the crowd that night so he sang it. I was on cloud nine!! 

My parents also came up for a night to stay and visit, but since I didn't take a picture with them I'll give you the next best thing...Little Lucy and her brother in law Bob spent a night facetiming and getting to know each other a little better. Bob is a mane coon and could easily stomp on Lucy, but I had a fun time getting them both on the camera :)

 While Brent has been gone- a new plant came in the mail. One in which I am a little scared of--a venus fly trap!  Apparently there aren't as high maintenance as I was worried about, but look how creepy the little guy looks! I will be curious to see if it gets any bigger and I'm still patiently waiting for the first time it opens and closes it's mouth. I'll definitely be keeping you updated. 

And I've spent just a little time in the kitchen--cooking/baking for one is also not as much fun as cooking/baking for two or a group. However, a fellow coworker had a birthday and said carrot cake was his favorite so I found a recipe for some cupcakes! The recipe is super easy, the only part I could do without is grating carrots for the batter. However I maybe cheated tonight and used the ninja to chop them up :) WAY faster than hand grating them!


I am going to try my darnedest to not wait so long to post next time...


Until next time..Xo