"Family" dinner (♪Tradition!♪)

So my room mates and I have created a tradition for Sunday night dinner.  We have a "family dinner."  Every week we have Taco Sunday.  This started when we wanted to do something together, but one of my room mates had Celiac disease (which means you can't have gluten, most common in wheat).  You would be surprised all the things people with celiac can't eat.

So instead of having to reinvent an edible dinner every week, we came up with tacos, because with corn tortillas it is completely gluten free, and really yummy.

(It helped that the first week i made tacos since my mom had taught me how.  Put the idea in their head i guess :D)

Now we split up the jobs, every week i fry the tortillas because of all of us i am the best at that specific job, and Michaela usually makes the meat and Amanda cuts the vegitables.

I'm also really lucky because they are willing to pitch in on groceries, so we switch off each week who gets what. 

Well recently we've been inviting friends and it's gotten pretty huge.  We've started asking friends to bring ingredients.

My Favorite taco memories this semester:
Exploding salsa!
my roomie forgot to check if the salsa lid was on before she shook it so it landed all over me, and even in her hair!

Vegan Taco!
My ex-roomate's boyfriend put a lot of meat on his taco (so much it was fallin out in heaps), and my other room mate's boyfriend made a sarcastic aside about him not having enough meat, and being vegan.  It was hilarious!

Silly Songs!
I was a bit loopy that day, and kinda hyper (awesome combo) so i started making up random silly songs about tacos, warrenting many weird looks from my room mate, and lots of giggles.

I believe that it is taco night that brings us closer together and keeps us on good terms with eachother.  I have noticed that the room mates that don't participate, don't become as close because they miss a load of bonding time.  I think I'll keep sunday dinner when i have my own home and family. ...When the time eventially comes.

Compliments

Most people realize to some extent how words can affect people.  One phrase can tear down or build up a vulnerable person.  For sure it can make or break a day.

One day I decided my friends needed to know just how beautifull they are.  So i proceded to tell them every chance i got.  It was awkward at first but not unbearably so.  Now it is normal.  I am pleased with every smile i can create.

One thin I did not expect to find is that as I compliment others, more seem to be compelled to compliment me back.  As if every one is waiting to express what they feel, but are waiting for the "OK."

Today i was singing as I walked along between classes, and a girl did something that i found extrordinary.  She asked what I was singing, walked along side me and asked if i would keep singing because i had "a really pretty voice, and i want to listen to you sing."  I  was stunned and touched.

I have always wished that i had a voice that "turns heads"  so even the simple motion of a head turn can mean a lot.

Actions can speak louder than words, in a sense some actions are compliments.

        They say "you are worth my time"
For example, a couple days ago I went to go get my alundry out of the dryer, only to find them already folded with a sticky note that said "love mom :) "  It brought me to tears because I had recently been sick, and being at college, away from my mom, I was thinking a lot about how she used to care for me when i was sick.  This gesture was so tiny for someone to do, but so HUGE to me.  It made me feel special, and important.

I had some friends at camp whoat lunch would go around with a colorful sign saying "free compliments" and as people would walk by they would find real things they could compliment about them.
They made so many people's day!

Thank you all you considerate people out there!

I made this star drawing using paint and then fiddled with it and these were what i got.

 

what do you think?

so i've taken to photo editing using picnik.com

Michaela my room mate.

 

this is my best friend justin

My friend Tomo!!!!

 FUN HUH?

sweet memory

so... i decided it was still too easy to get into my Facebook...(for me)
so i decided to change my password...

something harder... something.. longer like:
hippopotomonstrosequipedaliophobia (the fear of long words lol irony)
BUT
I aparently mispelled it.

but there's a lot of letters that could be switched around...

so i'm locked out of my "controles"

and its locked on off... so i now can access FB at any time

now i actually have to use self discipline!!!

great... 

so i figured out how to block fb on my computer

and for a while this worked fantastically

but then i had to work out  some scheduling and i realized how easy it was to turn off

so now...

oh dear perhaps i will have to go to face book anonymous

while i'm sure there probably is one...
i don't think there are any in my general vicinity
so i'm going to have to knock this on my own
may be i'll get some motivational stickers!!!

that will work!

(we shall see... don don don)