It started off like any other day...

The 4th involved many things I love. Hot dogs, red vines, fireworks, watching the sandlot, hanging out with friends, giving myself a "calories don't count" day, kettle corn, sleeping in, otter pops, parade attending, and donning my Riri wig once more...best $10 I ever spent I tell you.

 The typical peace sign pose

 The far from normal "I'm creeping on you with my one good eye with my eyemask on" that was immediately sent to Pasc, Los and Tiggy Rache.

My inner fat kid loving on red vines/reason #412 as to why someone this attractive might possibly be single.

Monday DP's should be mandatory.

Yesterday was just the kind of Monday that I needed to make my week be even more rockstar than usual. First shout out to the little brosef Dos on his 22nd year of life. I finally got my amazon gift card and ordered some cookbooks I've been lusting over for months. For FHE, we went to this assisted living home for young adults and they had a dance. It was pretty much everything I love about dances combined into one fab event. I saw some other EFY people there and that always leads to a joyous experience...pssht. I love that moment when you are dancing on the dance floor and feel self conscious because you have no friends and then all of a sudden your friends come in out of nowhere and chaos happens! This happened to me and I went from awkward friendless dancing girl to watch out Beyonce, I run the world (err...dance floor? yep.) We whooped it up for 2 hours and I loved seeing people's inhibitions fly out the window while they got down and dirty on the dance floor (Not to dirty though...this be the 801 yo) After dancing, I went to the market for much needed supplies (sour licorice belts and watermelon jelly bellys...what the unhealthy?) and since I was out, Yogurtland sucked me in to buying froyo even though I had Ben and Jerry waiting on me at home #sorryhombres. I had quite the feast while watching Beauty and the Beast and then killed myself doing arms and a squat challenge. I partied like it was my birthday and want to have a dance party every day now because it was tres fun. If only Nikki and Katherine would have been there too, it would have gone to even higher levels of awesomeness. 

These girls wish they went as hard as my girls and I went tonight. I think some people may have judged my dancing/wondering who this other side of Angela is...whatevs #alreadyoverit

Dear May.

I love the change that a new month brings. May means summer is here in Utah and everyone and their mom is at Yogurtland 24/7...sick to the nast nast nast! What am I supposed to eat all summer long people? I've decided to adopt a workout routine and it is kicking my buns for real yo. I need to work on my fitness though if anyone expects me to go to 7 Peaks at all. I made a ridiculous amount of salsa for Cinco de Mayo and wish that it was here already! I love celebrating anything that involves eating my weight in Mexican food and drinking gallons of the ever delicious horchata...hi, get in my belly kthanks. Sunday, I'll def be rocking a maxi dress to hide any food babies. At least with all my working out, I can afford to eat the way I plan to come Saturday. May brings the national Jingle Bells month (mother's day + Jings' birthday), Dos' birthday and otter pop/shave ice season. Good thing I bought new clothes to wear since it looks like I plan on eating all summer according to this post #foodbabyforlife...yikes? Bring on the sweet summertime.

The Season of all Seasons.

Yogurtland 12 days of heaven (basically) discount card. Did I mention they have cran-raspberry AND eggnog froyo? Hello home for the next 12 days?

The holidays are totally underways in my apartment. Christmas decorating is happening. Christmas music is playing all the time even though Mr. Buble is totally rocking my world as of now. All I need is for the holiday baking to begin and it's super official. Can we talk about how I'll be going home to my dear sweet Southern California to spend Christmas! I've been missing it and hopefully I've been missed right back. Disneyland and beach trips and good shopping are so in order! Yay for December finally coming around!

Low Key.

Halloween this year was probably one of the greatest that I've had since moving away from home. It started Thursday when Sister Glozell came into town and I got to meet her and Flavor Flav and Antoine Dodson. Such a fun afternoon! Friday, I made the most delectable caesar salad dressing and wanted to die partied it up all weekend long. Sunday we had the most amazing ward conference this past Sunday even though I was sick and just wanted to stay in bed all day and I finally made pumpkin bagels. Monday/actual Halloween, I got really sick and stayed in bed until I hung out with mis padres when they came into town for an hour. Even though I had about 5 party invitations, I wanted nothing more than to sit at home and carve my pumpkins while having a movie marathon...lame? Kind of but it rocked. Relaxing on the couch all night is great! I don't think November could have started any better than attending a devotional with my roommate that our dear President Monson spoke at. It's going to be a great month (despite the snow on the way to devo...talk about freezing!) I can feel it!

Can we talk about how cute the spooky face one is? I wanted to die over the crooked smile.
Pumpkins + lights + The Goonies + pjs + blankets + treats = best halloween setup ever!
Toasted seeds and candy pumpkins and the halloween cups.

Hello Sir.

If you want to quit being a Smoky Smokerson and need a wifey, I am totally available for you. B. Davies can be put on hold until I see him next even though we're supposed to be creating a child sometime soon to add to my collection with Mabel Sexsmith...the conversations that I have with Senor Platanos. Homeboy be cray. I would totally marry him too but our children would be far too much for the world to handle. Also homemade anything beats buying it at the market. I have finally triumphed in making homemade rolls so I'm basically marriage ready now. I have a food baby from homemade enchiladas and the always delicious yogurtland and more homemade-ness is happening for dessert. Thank you pinterest for destroying my waistline.

It's baking time somewhere.

Apparently for me, baking time occurs between the late night hours of 10-1 pm. Who cares what time you bake though when pumpkin muffins are the outcome and the entire apartment smells like a fall spice scented heaven. Can we talk about the latest status of DR in which he referred to himself and his man posse as #provotools? Umm #junkpunchtheDBcrew and #douchebagjarfilled? Yikes and yikes again. I think I no longer care for that child. Also EJY liked this status that he was tagged in...sicknast. No more toolbox men please! I weep for their futures.

Hurry up October.

I just want a reasonable excuse to go buy 5 million pumpkins to use as decoration for...myself. Also if the "I'm Ron Burgundy?" quote can get out of my head, that would be fab. Relief Society broadcast was rockstar. Forget me nots and visiting teaching are my current loves. Good games of the weekend went to Sirs Brownie and Dick and to the gorgeous In n Out boy's car. Also EJY can answer Shell's calls so I can stop creeping DR on the facebook and just creep him in real life. Please and thanks. High 5 to myself for making my apt smell like brownies.

Just Let Me Live to Tell the Tale.

I've been the worst about writing lately but I have had so much going on right now. Classes are over and finals will be over for me on Tuesday. Wednesday will be spent packing and cleaning. Thursday and Friday are graduation days and party with the fam/spend time with friends before we all get real lives and move away from dear little Provo and Saturday will be spent driving home to dear California where we are homeless for the week...rocking right? I just might die without a kitchen so I've been cooking like nobody's biz instead of studying...whoops. In the past 36 hours I have made the following: spicy chili, strawberry jam, paneer twice (one batch failed and the other was beyond successful), wheat bread, butter paneer on top of a naan cooked pizza style, and strawberry butter. So if you see me around and I've gained 739825902 pounds, you'll know why. I'm so excited to go to California though even though living gypsy style is so not my thing. Hopefully this week goes by faster than ever. School can't end fast enough but apparently college can...post grad life, yikes?!

Food Can Complete Me.

These were some of my most favorite childhood snacks. The days that the madre put Dunkaroos in my school lunch was always a happy day.

I'm pretty sure I almost cried when I discovered my favorite flavored Fuze at the market. I hate all the other flavors and I've only seen this one in South Dakota and I may have busted out a happy dance and loaded my cart full of this sweet nectar of life.

Today was spent schooling and shopping with Vish and eating at smahburger...heaven in a burger! After that I already had a food baby but yogurtland was next dooor so a quick stop to check it out ended with a cup full of divine froyo. Earthfruits is lucky their plain tart is a little bit tarter and they have my popping boba strawberry or else I would have had to end out froyo relationship for the next best thing. I see lots of future dates with all of the mentioned food places and especially my delicious orange mango fuze. I will be sad when Rik, Michelle, Kalel and Vish all move away in 2 weeks. I will miss gathering at their apartment and having birthday parties and talking about old times and cooking together. I love that we tell fat jokes and searching for highly sought after movies at redbox. Tonight Rik almost died when he was let down by a redbox search for Tangled when I said that I had it. He almost cried and was speechless and Mustafa was like "Why have I never gotten a reaction like that in all our years of friendship?"...love them all!

Sometimes I Have a Life.

Remember how I haven't posted in half my life? Awesome. Let's change that and since I feel awful, I'll update you on the latest in my cray cray life:

-spending some time with the fam

-hanging out with the foreigns and soaking up our friendship that will be changed drastically when we all relocate in less than 3 weeks!

-deciding I hate 75 percent of the clothing and shoes in my closet and donating/selling them.

-buying a whole new wardrobe

-looking up furniture and home decor for my post college life in my styling bachelorette pad

-making homemade girl scout cookies and a million other creations + trying not to gain 500 pounds in the process

-having a laugh attack in Walmart and having this man look at me like a was a complete freak...slightly true

-eating a huge bag of sour licorice belts and wondering where the heck they went 5 minutes later

-buying 3 new Disney movies and wonder why any other film company even bothers trying to compete with the wonder that is Disney + Disney Pixar

-making a list of all my BYU crushes and lovers and laughing at the boys on it

-wondering why every jeep I see nowadays is yellow...weird

-also why is everyone else's BMW silver too? I thought silver was MY color!

-laughing at the ridiculous that is Justin Bieber EVERYWHERE!

-still being totally obsessed with the Bieber and when my friend was making fun of Justice Bureau, I got all defensive thinking he said Justin Bieber

-laughing at the fact that I had over 15 J. Bieb books + mags at the market

-Having a Bieber face contest from the pics in the magazines

-running into the awkward boy that winked at me when I was shopping a year ago and having him wink again...#awkwardmuch2.0

-going to Magelby's and getting free breadsticks because the boy didn't want to ring me up or because he's secretly into girls that are alone on friday nights and don the sweats in public look.

-working on EFY stuff

-having school kick my buns

-living on green grapes and fresh squeezed orange juice

Procrastination Station.

I really should have majored in procrastination. I would totally have my doctorate in that biz already. At least my ECE is paying off by helping me make ridiculously rad rhymes. What is the best way to procrastinate when you have a lesson to work on for tomorrow you ask? Shredding a bowl full of queso at 5 to midnight. I love me some spicy cheddar for the midnight munchies. Can we talk about the fact that I have 14+ hours of EFY training this weekend? Good thing I love EFY.

Better Cheddar.

I like me some good old fashioned mac-ing. Not the computers (I do love these), or the blue box crap. Homemade mac and crack/cheese is the best. I haven't made it in forever and I tried this new recipe...bombtastic! Some of the best ever. Basically El Pollo Loco stat...yumfest.

2 thumbs up for deliciousness.

Sometimes It's Worth It.

Remember how it decided to rain today right before I had to go to mutual?

Awesome, I hate rain.

Remember how after mutual it decided to snow and my car was covered?

Double awesome right? Too bad I hate snow even more.

Remember how I forgot to scrape my window and at the drive-thru, snow came pouring into my car and all over me?

Triple offense I say!

I guess it was worth it though for these little babies...t-t-t-t-t- tasty, tasty!

Hannah Hanna Bo Banna.

Umm, hi. I strongly dislike bananas, aka "nanas". Everything is wrong about them from the texture to the fact that they turn brown 2 seconds after you open them and the taste? Blech. Barf. Gag me. I hates them nanas. On the other hand, very select nana breads? Divine! I made some of the best kind ever tonight (along with the best mashed taters in the history of my world) I'm a strange one somedays...and now, our feature presentation: "nanas"!

Silly face making nanas in a bunch, One's joyous, one's sad and one should be punched.
I need this nana sticker. I'm all about rocking stickers on my bod.

Alright, banana split yo.

Do You Wanna?

If not for reals, we can always pack our bags run, away to McDonalds and buy happiness in a box for $2.99.

Snacks For Dinner.

Sometimes real food isn't as fun too eat as crap food. Sometimes I shouldn't look on foodgawker and find divine recipes from pretzel bites and nutella brownie bites. (Sometimes I eat chocolate now) Sometimes I bake up both things because I can't pick one over the other. Sometimes my stomach overeats this heavenly spread and feels like it's going to explode. Sometimes it is SO worth it...yumfest in my belly.

Pretzel bites are 500 times better at home than at the mall. Who knew that was possible? In case you were concerned, a very light salad accompanied the feast of a snackfest as well.

Late Night Snackage.

Celery sticks and spicy ranch. Probably less healthy but it's fine.

Just the Kind of Night.

Where I stay in, make dinner and dessert from scratch and eat it in bed while watching a movie. Loving life right now despite the craziness.

Best Mistake Ever!

Remember how I got a free Starbucks drink for my birthday? Remember how they sent me another card this week? I feel like I won the Starbucks lottery and I didn't even put out money for a ticket. Caramel Apple Spice, let's do breakfast tomorrow at your place mkay? Loving life right now. Remember how I also got a free movie ticket and I have a hot date with the J. Biebs movie Friday morning? Don't be too jeals akay?