Taste the Rainbow

Everything tastes better when it's colorful.  I tried a new recipe for rainbow sugar cookies.  I'll be honest, I need a better sugar cookie recipe.  Anyone have an awesome recipe for sugar cookies?

Here's how you make the dough into a rainbow:
rainbow-pinwheel-cookies

These cookies took 2 hours to make.  And yet, I love them so.

How precious, right?

Also, I saw my dear heron friend last night and today as I was out walking/running.  He's a cutie.

I guess I didn't capture the heron in this picture as was my intent...

There's a lot of cuties in my life.  Like my sister.  She finally got her own lipstick!  Now we are cuties together!

And the best lookin' thing in my life....

CUM LAUDE!

Oh, and you know what's so not cute?  Finding a fly in the water you were drinking....Oh, Texas....

NYC

Welcome to Staten Island, where the Justice family does the cat-daddy.

 And here are a few fun things we did in NYC.

Central Park on Mother's Day

Bubbles! Central Park

RIGHT: Random Statue of Liberty glasses from the 1950's; Papaya dog...Mmm; LEFT: LEGO dragon!

TOP: NY library; Rockefeller; BOTTOM: Times Square with Mom and Dad

TOP: My favorite M&M...I wish they were that big in real life; NYFD calendar...hawwwt; BOTTOM: Visiting Hersey and M&M stores at Time Square

Statue of Liberty; Kisses from NYC

Staten Island with my Dad and family; BOTTOM RIGHT Toys R Us ride

Airplane ride home: The wing has a line that says "Do not step out of this area" which I thought was funny; too bad you can't see it in the picture.  Don't worry, I won't ever step out of that area.... A guitar is my neighbor on the flight.  I am listening to my ipod "WICKED soundtrack"  My dear family you have changed me for good. :) And this artichoke pizza is DISGUSTING  :(

 

Who needs a pegasus when you have a porsche

Come fly away with me,

And I'll tell you about my day

Random sparkly Pegasus I found in a parking lot

Monday:

-Brought lunch to Carlie

-Studied NCLEX

-Went on a "run" around the village with Ross

-Saw humongous water turtles

-Got froyo with Ross

Tuesday:

-Hung out with Carlie during her lunch break

-Ate my sourdough bread sandwich with Ross

It's so happy for me to eat it!

-Was given my very own show by R-dizzle. Actually, he needs a country name not a rap name.  R-dunky... I don't know

-Went to Benihana's with Seth, Carlie, and Ross then went to froyo

-Worked out and starting trying to learn the cat daddy

-Also, look at me and this car

And maybe next time I'll get a video of me doing the cat daddy by this car.

Gingival Recession

So after I had brunch on Saturday, I planned to have a little pity party for myself due to my homesickness and then study for NCLEX.  Well, the pity party wasn't planned, but started when I ate Chick Fil A for dinner because it reminded me of how I always go with the little W kids and have recently gone with my Mom.  It made me homesick, but while I was in the drive-through my friend Ross texted me to come hot-tubbing.  So my pity party couldn't last unfortunately, haha. 
So night that was my first experience hot-tubbing.  Also, I drove my friends Ross and Kamera there and it took so long!  This Dallas traffic is nuts!  Also, a GPS is not always right, so I'm glad when I have Texan friends who know where they are going (Ross).

Chick Fil A, NCLEX book behind my computer ready to be studied, and my computer

Sunday I woke up homesick for all my girl friends.  But church was fun.  I love my new ward.  I feel like everyone is really nice to me and I feel very comfortable. 

After church was fun because I went to Sunnyvale with Carlie and Seth to look for homes.

Fake tin computer to blog on!

"I live in a schwanky place and drink fake white wine in plastic glasses"

Fake sundae...fake calories

While we were looking at homes, my friend Melissa asked if I wanted to come over to watch the fireside which was so nice because it totally helped with my missing my gal pals.

Melissa, Ross, and I watched the Fireside and had fun talking and then Ross took me in his Porsche for a Sunday night ride.  He has a lead foot, that's all I'm sayin'.

Also, thanks to my dentist friend, Ross, I now know how to properly brush my teeth.  Let's hear it for the Modified Bass Technique!  Woot!

Now to dream about fancy cars and dentists who teach you how to have clean teeth without gingival recession..........

Mi quatro y cinco de mayo

Yesterday I went top golfing.  Golfing is so different than any sport I've ever played before.  It was hard to learn the correct swing.  But before I left I made manicotti and corn.  It was divine by the way.

After Top Golf, I went to our stake singles' dance.  It was pretty crazy....at least I danced pretty crazy.  I drove there with my new friends Ross and Edward.  I was surprised who was there.  A lot of younger people (college, pre-college) and then everyone who was older (done with college, have real jobs) was from my ward.  So anyways, I had a lot of fun dancing with Kamera (girl from my ward), some boys from AZ who are here for the summer in my ward, Talbot (randomly saw him!), and some of my other ward friends.  I highly enjoyed myself and made one of my new found guy friends from my ward do a handstand push up.  Yeah, I can be persuasive.....

This morning I went and had brunch with some other friends in the ward.  Danelle is a nurse practitioner and my other friend Mike who was at Top Golf was there and Edward again.  Plus some other people that I just met who are nice.

It's kinda fun to actually have fun now that school is over!  I'm so tired from last night though!  I was so hyped up from the dance I couldn't sleep for hours!

2 am.......Still wasn't sleeping, haha.

Pirate

I feel like I must blog again for the sake of my mother.  She likes me blogs.  <--haha, so instead of writing "she likes my blogs," I accidentally wrote "me."  I won't change it because it makes me sound like a pirate.  Argh, matey!

I thought perhaps I should put up some pictures of my new room.  It's really messy and I feel frazzled, but I still don't really know where to put everything yet.

I love my LBF....little black fan.  Play off of little black dress LBD.  It worked so well last night I didn't wake up until I wanted to.  However, I had a weird dream and woke up at dawn.  Sometimes, my dreams are really weird and I'm glad I mostly can't remember them.  Really, there's a crowd of my facebook friends in a building and I can only save one?  That's terrible.  The nurse inside me is so conflicted.

You can see my NCLEX study materials in the picture as well.  I didn't study yesterday though because it was kinda an annoying day so I just wanted to relax.

Here's why it was annoying:  1) My cute tan shoes got orange junk on them from who knows what. 2) I got cat-called by a bunch of disgusting construction workers.  PS NO-I don't like being cat-called; YES-I will ignore you; MAYBE-I will flip you off. And 3) after a long day of grocery shopping all the groceries fell out of my car.  Tomatoes EVERYWHERE!

It really wasn't that bad of a day, I just wanted to be dramatic on my blog and find an excuse to not study.  The cat-calling was the worse and it made me really mad and feel disgusted.  I have pepper spray and really want to use it on people sometimes....

Also,when I finally got back to the apartment there was all these workers making holes in Carlie's dining room wall.

After they leave I clean up everything.  I'm sure we are the only apartment they come to everyday where they can see all the fresh new vacuum lines each time in their work area...

Run from the squirrel!

The squirrels here in Dallas are belligerent little beasts.  This morning I went for a run, and as I was stretching, a squirrel came up to me and wanted to pick a fight.  I have no clue why.  But he got all up in my face and was waving his tail around like crazy.  It kind scared me how close he was to me.  I was thinking "oh crap, I'm going to get rabies!" Then I turned my head to look around to see if there was a stash of nuts somewhere and when I looked back to where the squirrel was, he was gone!  I freaked out because we were by a huge tree and I could just see the squirrel being devious and jumping from the branches above and attacking me!  So then I ran...I won't say ran away from the squirrel because I don't necessarily know where it went, I'll just say I started my run... haha

Here are some things I love:

Our favorite apartment bird, the yellow-crowned night heron.  He's so cute!  And he doesn't really talk which is also nice.  Plus his little butt waddles....awww! *says like JD* (haha)

Allergy medicine is a life saver!  I have had to use it every day!  Luckily I haven't had to use my asthma medicine here as much!  Yay for breathing!  And faux tans so I don't get skin cancer!

Top: What's missing?  A GPS!  Not having to use a GPS to go to and from Walmart anymore!  Oxyclean= I feel like so many clothes have been getting stains...but it doesn't last with oxyclean!  Bottom: This cat breed called sphinx....how freakin' cute is that cat?  I will call him Fuzzy.  Grated cheese!  Yum!

And these...I kinda despise

My hair is SOO frizzy here!  Yikes!  It's like I got electrocuted.  Also, I'm getting this bad rash on my neck after I work out....hurts so bad.  And construction in the dining room.....I hate dirt.

Also, I finally got a dresser today!

After I picked up the dresser I took a pic