32 Months & Counting

Happy 2 years and 8 months to Peter & I!  32 months, wow, where has all the time gone?  That's practically an eternity to be with a person... Hahah.  Seriously.  


Anyway, tonight I attempted my mom's Pork & Peas recipe.  I picked up a ~5lb bag of pork butt the other night for $5.50 so I made a big batch!  I'm always scared to try out new recipes, but so far so good.  I haven't experienced too many blunders and I am quite pleased with myself.  Considering the fact that my mom does not go off of cookbooks, she just tells me the ingredients & procedures with no precise measurements (lbs, tbsp, etc.), I'm getting better at guesstimating!  Now, my pork & peas didn't taste exactly like mi madre's, but it was quite similar.  Peter loved it and went back for seconds.  I'd say mission = success.  We also have enough left overs for a meal or two!  Yay.


Up next, I'll try my hand at Beef Mushroom.  I'm slowly building up my portfolio of dishes guys!


In other news, I received my tickets from TicketHorse.com today.  5 tix to Denver Nuggets vs. Dallas Mavericks in December!  I took advantage of the Family Night deal for when my family comes up for Christmas.  For a total of $110.00 I got:

• 5 game tickets - 3rd level, 2nd row seating
• 5 pepsis
• 5 meals: choice of hot dog, pizza, nacho deluxe, salad, philly cheese steak, hamburger, or chicken tenders w/ fries

I tried finding tix to a Broncos game as well, but getting 5 seated together at a decent price is nearly impossible!  Hopefully I'll win the Canon Sweepstakes and win 4 tix to a game & a camera!  I saw that camera last night at Best Buy and it is freakin` beautiful.  I wanted to cry.  15MP, IS lens, ahhh.  I want!

I've gotten myself back into sweepstakes this past week, so hopefully I'll be getting some decent wins in the near future :)  So far this month I've managed to snag some things here and there.

• 2 tix to a Denver Nuggets preseason game (but I never claimed them since I couldn't go)
• Dark Knight collector pin set
• Tale of the Despereaux lunch box
• Pink Super Bad trucker hat
• Shorts Frisbee
• Leather GHOST RIDER wallet with chain
• Speed Racer pins
• Random movie shirt
• Push Play hat
• The Ugly Truth wife beater (L)
• Back To The Future Blue Fanny Pack
• Snow White Blu-ray combo pack with DVD

I missed a package  yesterday when Peter & I went to watch "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs."  (It's just an "OK" movie, btw.  I think I was expecting too much.  We should've watched Inglorious Basterds instead!)  I hope it's all my goodies from Shakefire!  We're planning on maybe going to the mountains tomorrow, but hopefully I don't miss it.

P.S.

Thank you Lord for all your blessings and being with my aunty today.  I could never fathom the depth of Your love.  Your love truly knows no boundaries.  (More on this later...)

Shakefire Rocks My Socks

I'm playing an all-night contest thing on Shakefire.com  ... I've won a bunch of super random things so far, so I want to keep track of what I've won so I know what I can look forward to.  Haha.  Here's the list so far.

• Dark Knight collector pin set
• Tale of the Despereaux lunch box
• Pink Super Bad trucker hat
• Shorts Frisbee
• Leather GHOST RIDER wallet with chain
  
• Speed Racer pins
• Random movie shirt
• Push Play hat
• The Ugly Truth wife beater (L)
• Back To The Future Blue Fanny Pack

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Awww & the night ended prematurely :(  They were experiencing massive hits to the site and the server couldn't handle all the traffic. Darn!  I did manage to scoop up a decent amount of prizes though :)  I had a lot of fun playing!  Hehe.  Can't wait till they all get here!  I'm especially excited for my lunch box :D

Last night, Jared called me and asked if I wanted to accompany him to a 'Party' .. guess he didn't want to be the only old fart there.  Haha!  i didn't have anything planned so I agreed.  He picked me up and we hung out at Kara & KeiLyn's for a bit.  Brendan guys' met up with us there as well.  We just conversed over some drinks & a few shots before heading out to Marcus'.  Peter brought over the doggies while he was out running for a little bit.  They were so excited to be outside!  Haha.  After that we headed over to Marcus' and just chilled, smoked some hookah (love!), and caught up with some friends.  All in all, it was a pretty fun night.  The parties these days in good ol' Greeley simply just don't compare to the ragers of back in the day ;)

The noise outside woke me up bright and early this morning and I had a really hard time going back to sleep.  I didn't drink enough water last night, so I had a headache!  Sleep couldn't come soon enough.  Thankfully, I managed to sleep off any signs of a hangover.  I was so hungry this afternoon, I ended up cooking some pork adobo!  I must say, I think I'm actually getting the hang of cooking.  My mother always made it look so easy and made it SOUND easy as well.  Perhaps I was just never confident in my abilities to cook?  I did have quite a few disasters early on.. especially with things being WAY TOO SALTY!  Now, I think things have changed.  My adobo tasted fairly similar to hers!!  I couldn't be more happier.  I just need to get a few more ingredients to make it exact!  

Well.. now, I'm not quite sure what to do with myself.  Peter should be coming home soon, so I suppose I'll just bum around till then.  We'll be heading to the hot springs tomorrow!

Hello Subconscious.

If our dreams speak our subconscious desires, then my dreams have been channeling the same message to me time and time again.  If my dreams decided to transcend thought and manifest themselves into reality, I would not fight it.


Despite waking up numerous times today, I kept falling back into the same dream.  As per the usual, there are a few significant parts that remain vivid in my mind.  I love the fact that I can remember a good portion of my dreams.  I can't imagine waking up a whole week without remembering a dream.


Anywho, it seems as if we've gone from summer and headfirst into winter!  What happened to everything in between?  I told Peter we'll have a crazy winter up ahead of us, but I didn't anticipate it starting in September!  Seriously, winter storm warnings already?  I could've sworn it was just 80+ degrees this past Sunday!


These past couple weeks have been dragging on.  I'm still dreaming about Europe.  I seriously want to move there.  Seriously.  I even looked up websites on how to achieve this.  Peter is right there with me on the idea.  I don't mind the cramped spaces, the older feel, all the walking, or crazy taxes.  I just need to find a way there, pronto!


We've also spent a good amount of the time cooking.  Peter cooked fajitas one night & two different kinds of pasta on another night.  He had marinara sauce + meatballs & he made alfredo for me!  Yum.  None of that out-of-the-can stuff either.  Homemade alfredo is the best, especially when cooked by my boyfriend!  I made oven-baked teriyaki chicken, chicken adobo, steamed sweet corn, crab dip, chili (no beans!), & the usual portuguese sausage, eggs, & rice.  Not too shabby.  The chili was the bomb diggity!  $6 for all the ingredients (thanks to Colorado prices!) & enough leftovers for a second meal!


On Sunday we had a late lunch at Old Chicago's, which was delicious.  As usual, we got way too much food.  We got the Italian Nacho's appetizer (freakin delicious!), I got the Wings & Pizza Rolls combo & he got the Wings & Pizza combo.  We were instantly hit with food coma, but I told Peter we have to stay for the rest of the Broncos game (that's why we went to OC's after all!).  We ended up winning, so that was awesome :)


Monday, it was cold and dreary, but I had to wake up early to meet with a client.  Our meeting ended up to be 2 1/2 hours long, which isn't too bad since I get paid for it :P  When I got home, we headed out for brunch at Village Inn and we both had Country Fried Steak (or was it Chicken Fried Steak?).  Food coma again.  We were supposed to watch a movie, but I ended up taking a nap and he played video games all day/night.  Haha.  Oh well.


Now I have a bunch of work to do on some websites and catching up on e-mail with clients.  Fun.