Utah, Garlic and New Hard Drive

So Im going to do this out of order, deal with it.

Hello all!!! :D long time no see!! lol, anyways, so the new laptop is back up and running!! The company ASUS, (thank you guys) decided to take pity on me and put a new hard drive into it for me!! Lets see if this one will last more then 4 months. Im hoping!!

So the wonderful Gentleman Friend and I headed out to his homeland of Utah!! It was hot a beautiful, as the desert should be. We mostly hung out at his parents respective homes, and meet up with his co-workers one night for a little get together. Jerry from work sent me with a Minion from McDonalds, and took pictures of him around. it was just an in and out visit, though the out was 9 hours delayed, but it allowed us to cruz around Provo.. which is Mormanville USA. Im not going to lie, I like the Mormans, they take care of their families, are nice and dont spit in front of you.. my current pet peeve...

I've never gotten out of the back of a plane before!

GF and his niece and nephew wrestling

Im on a goat...

Mmmmm.... A&W

 It was a great trip, and GF's Cousin Alicia came back with us to spend a week in SF for her 17th Bday. She's so nice and mild, plus i got to do a little tour guide! We had a chance to go down to Fort Point and see the Golden Gate. I always tell people to go down to the Presidio and Chrissy Field when their in town, its the best.

 Eventually Alicia had to head home and life got back it abnormal. This last weekend GF and I decided on a whim to head down to the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Yes, its a festival of GARLIC. The greatest. It was 10,000 degreees... not really but way to hot and traffic in the little cow town was a DISASTER. But we ate crawdads and I got a bracelet with a fish in it.. a REAL bloodfin Tetra.. Its gross and so cool, im so weird... I know animal cruelty.... oh well

 We also picked up some bacon soda which was... odd.... but that last picture is a shot of Beard Papa's cream puff. Boom. Amazing!!!

On a side note, a few weekends ago we got to do some free Tye Dye with Jo-Annes...apparently this is the Tye Dye Your Summer Campaign! Im down. :3 

BACON DAY!! Sir Francis Bacon

Hello all! So this was an epic, salt laden, artery clogging bacon fest!! :D For the event I made mini Bacon Cheesecakes, Mini Bacon Brownies, Mini Bacon cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Syrup, A Bacon Explosion (aka the Bomb), and Bacon Bleu Grilled cheese sandwiches (OMG). Steve made Bacon Wrapped Jalalpeno Poppers and Bacon Wrapped Sausages, and Brandi and Cody brought Double Bacon Pizza, and Katherine made a really yummy Bacon Asian Vegi Stir fry. Tim also came with a bottle of Mangria, and Rachel came to clean up left overs. It was SUPER fun, and we were all SO FULL we didn even make bacon cinnamon rolls or the four horseman sandwich, which is bacon wrapped dates and blue cheese on sour dough. Ok, so pictures!!

The Bacon Bomb (Explosion) is really almost more of a show piece then meal. Its DELISH but so rich, a small chunk is all even the more intrpid baconeer will do, but I think evenone should do it once, so heres the recipe. This time I added the crumbled bacon to the innerds :)

This week I have also been playing WAY to much gameboy... Because Im a nerd.... :D Anywho, heres a funny screenshot of my dragon :3

Gearing up for Bacon Day- Part Deux!! and Food Pics

Thats right ladies and genleman.. (ok, les face it, ladies and your cats, lol) The second Bacon Day is about to commence!! (To find out about the first Bacon Day click here!!)

Im busy looking over recipes and thinking about what new to debute this time around. :D So exciting!!

So after 1.5 years I may be getting interwebs at the house again.. Got a promo offer from my old interwebs company who say its available in my area finally... When I moved in before it wasnt. Not sure but $20 a month wouldnt be bad at all, and I could blog in my underpants :3 Something that would be awkward at local coffee shop.

Well, I lost my phone for the first time EVER. Of course it was that fanciest phone of phones I have ever owned, my iPhone... uuuggghhh.. And of course the insurance is useless, and they wanted to charge me $200 instead of $100 to replace it... and i would have to wait 4 days... Instead I took my moms BF's upgrade, since I pay for his phone (as payment for that LOVELY transmission he installed in my beautiful Darlene). It worked out, $70 later after tax and upgrade fee's. They wanted $50 for a case for iphone 4 and I told them Ninja PLEASE.... No really but I wanted to. Instead im trying to be extra carefull and ordered from china the GREATEST CELL CASE EVER!!

Its called Turtle Dinosaur case... Oh China.... Basically it was $2 and free shipping, looks like it has as much protection as an Otterbox and is ridiculous!! I also ordered a Otterbox Defender knock off for $2... just have to be careful till next month when the slow ass shipping comes... I REALLY wanted a silicone Pikachu, but no one had one! Disapointment China, king of knock offs! BTW there are also owls and penguins... join me in being a grown up.

Sunday we celebraed Marisol's Bday!! :D OMG 25, such a baby.. I mean.. old maid... uughhh Im old, lol!! Anyways, went to Chevy's with Gentleman Friend and he co-workers. BTW turn any ethnicity into Mexican with a sombrero!!

Toure and Jerry, Black and Philipino, proof!!! lol 

Marisol, Mexican turned mexican.. wait..... 

So Tuesday night we had INVENTORY! OMG... 8:30 pm to 4:45 am at corporate job.... We got pretty silly, including a slipper fight, getting vegitarians to eat meat and ingesting mountains of cola. I made Chili for our Potluck, and ate myself silly.

Jerry and his "Bitch Please face"

Here are a couple of shots, Ill post he slipper pile when I get some shots from the boss, didnt have my phone on my a that time... But we got 100% accuracy on our department, and  managed to not have to go count socks, omg Shoes is the best deptartment really... plus the fact my co workers are insane, like yours truely.

Pot luck, and Marci, Drew and Alexa

Shahab and Ian over Jerry's shoulder, and the Jackals!!

Yesterday Fashion Rachel and I headed to the Mission and picked up some cheap fabric to make work dresses out of! OMG yay!!! For like $13 I got enough to make almost 3 dresses... Rachels going to teach me to sew and use her surger... oh to have fashion design friends :) After a few hours of playing in Discount Fabrics we headed to a little mexican place for one of the best burrito's I've had in a long time.

A mural from inside the place

Oh ya, on Tuesday ate at the New Deli, a localvore, vegitarian and more place, my French onion soup

And for those who have been waiting, my Nail Color of the Week!! Here are all 3 weeks I have been behind on, since things havnt been working out...

Week 1, purple with blue and pink glitter on top

Week 2, transparent pink with layers of silver

Aka Glitter Sandwich

Red with micro-glitter finish, since bacon failed

Have a great day!! :D

100th Post

Hello all! how is everyone doing this lovely day? Yes, Im in a pleasent mood. This seems strange a of late, doesnt it? kidding. Im currently pushing everything out of my head, because this time tomarrow i will be meeting Gentleman Friend and we will jump on a plane for Utah!! Why Utah you ask? His family reunion. Im meeting the family but I cant even begin to try and process that right now, just trying to enjoy the fact Im gunna get to go camping, see some sights and take a trip!! I have had some wonderlust as of late... In need of adventure!!

School also starts this week, but I will miss the first week. Im not terribly worried. But thats a little nerve wracking, I'll be jumping full force into that!! Also at work they are switching over to the EVIL new schedualing system Chronos, which means we are getting raped on days off one more time, and my dear friends who are on-call get gyped on hours once more. Avoid corporations if you can ladies and gents.

So Bacon Day was a HIT! Super amazing happy time! More people then I thought showed up (which was about 1/4 of those who said they would attend) But all the best. Tim drove down from Sacto, Angera came and ditched her BF for it, and a few others. The Aunts came too! :D So good!! GF was a G and wonderful host, keeping people entertained most of the night while I was anti-social in the kitchen, this is what I do at parties. after the food Tim brought out the best game ever, Cards Against Humanity. Essentially Apples to Apple but EVIL, in the best way possible. :D We had a splendid feast of Bacon waffles, Bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers, grilled bacon and blue cheese, BLT, bacon wrapped sausages, the bacon bomb, bacon beer, bacon floats, bacon cinnamon buns, bacon brownies and failed bacon bourbon. (its just didnt taste like bacon really, more next time!) The Aunts brought a delightfull bacon zuccinni casserole which helped us from having corinaries Im sure!! Here are some shots, stolen from the Eclectic Eccentric blog ;) Thanks handsome!!

Hungry yet? Good! Because I'll share the recipe for the BOMB!

Ingrediants-

2 pounds bacon
1 pound Italian sausage
1 jar of your favorite barbeque sauce

3 cloves garlic

1/4 cup of cheddar cheese

chives is desired

1 jar of your favorite barbeque rub

take the bacon and weave it into a blanket, about 5x5 pieces. make sure the raw bacon isnt frozen or it will break. Sprinkle sparingly with rub, then lay the sausage, cheese, chopped garlic, and chives in a long tube at the bottom of the weave. Roll the bacon all the way around the mix, sealing it in a beautiful blanket.

Back at 350 for about 2 hours or until cooked through. let it sit for about 10 minutes before sutting or it will be an ungodly mess. consume vigorously!!!

 And lastly it wouldnt be fitting to have a 100th post without the felines who try to sabotage me, the GF's adorable face and things I love :) Thanks everyone!!