Italian Soda's

I made Italian Soda's this week here is how you do it
1. Italian Soda syrup, you can buy that at a place like Kitchen Kneads in Logan, Utah that is where I got mine. I got strawberry flavored.
2.ice
3. half and half
4. club soda-this is the first time in my life that I have bought club soda-

in a regular sized glass put in some ice and and about 4 teaspoons of syrup you can always use more to taste. then put in about 1/4 cup of half and half and fill up the rest with club soda, stir and enjoy!

Chocolate Covered Marshmallows
1. chocolate coating from Kitchen Kneads (or a store like that) in Logan, Utah. Some of the best chocolate I have tasted.
2.marshmallows
3. sticks from Kitchen Kneads.
4. cool people to make them with
5.really cool sprinkles you can get these at Kitchen Kneads too

Melt chocolate in microwave, be careful and dont burn it.... put marshmallows on a stick dip in the chocolate and put sprinkles on, easy fun fast treat :)
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gas station DRAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

almost every Saturday I volenteer at Somebodys Attic Too a thrift store in Smithfield,Utah. Almost every Saturday I go and get breadsticks or chinese food... So I decieded to go out on a limb and do something different so I told my co-worker Suzette that THIS Saturday I would go over to the gas station ( the green one) and get us some food from the grill there... So I go over there and call Suzette back to tell her what all was on the menu and she says for me to get her a bacon cheeseburger, I told her it was over 5$ so she said never mind and told me to get her something else less expensive when I hung up the phone with Suzette I saw this sign written on a whiteboard of all the daily specials and Saturday's said bacon cheeseburgers. I asked the girl behind the counter if I could get the Saturday Special of a bacon cheeseburger and how much it was, She said that signn was from last week and I could not have it at a special price and that sign was old, I said but it says Saturday and it is still up is there any way I could still have the special price, the girl got annoyed and gave me a dirty look and said NO THIS SIGN IS FROM LAST WEEK YOU CAN HAVE A BACON CHEESEBURGER BUT YOU HAVE TO GET IT AT THE REGULAR PRICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I said that's cool I will just get something else, and I ordered Suzette's stuff and started ordering my stuff and I noticed ANOTHER SIGN on whiteboard in a totally different area that said soup of the day fiesta chicken tortilla, I said Hey how much is this soup I would love to get some and she said, I HAVE NOT EVEN GOT THE SOUP ON YET TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( and it was 1230!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! like dang girl that should have been done a LONG TIME AGO) I said well this sign says??? and I said "girl you might want to think about updating your signs.................. She said LOOK I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE HERE IN CHARGE OF SIGNS!!!!!!!!!!!!! and this sign was a whiteboard attatched to a pole and she RIPPED that whiteboard off that pole and that pole was shaking back and forth so hard, I said I am sorry I have tryed to order two things off two different signs and well IDK what to even order now ???? she said YOU HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!! and I swear to you , I had said EVERYTHING in a really nice calm voice.................... she then said that I had to leave right then and right there because my kind was not wanted in that gas station, I am doubting that she had the authority to kick me out.......... I then went over to the gas station counter and told them what happened and the lady was appalled she said come on over here and I will get you some food, I said no thank you, that I would eat somewhere else... I told that girl behind the grill I WOULD be calling her manager and she said that was fine she did not care WHO I called.... but she will .... I am going to be calling to....for real and for sure!
after that I went to the chinese place and got Suzette and I tiny spicy chicken:)

another story from my trip

while I was on my trip I drove between my sisters in Harpers Ferry WV and my friend Beth's in Sterling, VA many times along the way were several little restaraunts and stuff that looked like they were frequented by "local yokels" one of them just had a wooden pig on it with the words BBQ spray painted on it...On one of my trips to Beth's house I stopped by a gas station in Paonian Springs VA. When I went in to pay for my gas the lady behind the counter said : have a happy Easter I wont I have to work.... I said I understand I have to fly on an airplane almost that whole day. She inquired where I was going I said that I was going to Utah that is where I live she then asked me if any of the men out here where kilts men like contractors and plumbers men that do blue collar type jobs... I said um no none of those men wear kilts why? in fact I have never seen a man wearing a kilt in Utah (except one guy I work with that went on a mission to Scotland and wears a kilt sometimes) She said that a man came into the gas station and said that men in CO and other places out west wear kilts when they work, and showed me a card of a man that looked like he should be on the cover of a romance novel wearing a leather kilt and it said utilikilts http://www.utilikilts.com/ Ok I just looked them up and they are out of WA as a matter of fact and if I wanted one then I would have to drive to Ogden...but I digress, any way she said this man was trying to sell her on this idea that EVERYONE OUT HERE WEARS KILTS all the men at least...especially men that do labour type jobs and her husband is a welder and he was trying to sell her some for her husband... I said I have never seen anyone out here that is doing that kind of thing that most of the men that are into that kind of thing where I live just wear Carhartts and boots, she said what kind of boots I hope they dont wear Timberlands cause if they do then it is like they are black, she said that she got a pair of Timberlands and that she cant wear them any more because she is not black. I have no idea what she was talking about??? So I said well why dont you get boots like mine (my pink ariat boots) http://www.ariat.com/products_category.aspx?pcid=9 She said those are nice can I try those on? I said yes... just so that I would have this story to tell... so I told her that I have really small feet size five and she said that she did too... She put on my boots and could not even get them up past the small part of her calf....I had to yank my pink boots off her legs... but she wants to buy a pair of Ariats now.... Then she said there were a lot of raciast people in VA very upset that Obama got elected as president I have no idea what this had to do with anything... and she said that a lot of rich women in their 30's that live in this town Waterford http://www.waterfordva-wca.org/index.shtml come in there all the time and they are wearing skin tight jeans that are really low on their hips and big sunglasses and it is like they think they are teenagers or something and they are really stuck up... have no idea where either of these subjects even CAME FROM and did not really comment on them.... and I said I had to go but I think that from now on I AM GETTING MY GAS there, I mean I know I need to visit Amanda, know I need to visit Beth... it is a logical choice :)

another funny story

Here is another funny story from my vacation. In Brunswick, MD I went in to an antique store, with my friend Beth and her kids, Alex (16) Chris(8) and Dylan (6) Chris and I went in the back and there were rows and rows of books. Chris got excited and said " I have seen places like this!" and started pulling out books just a little ways I said "what are you doing?" he said "places like this you just need to pull out the right book and you will find a secret passageway!" We then went into a cool restaraunt that also had books that you could read" Chris started pulling books again, this restaraunt is in an old renovated church and you are allowed to go into the balcony, I said "Chris you found the right book I just found the secret passage way to upstairs" and showed him the stairs to the balcony he was so excited and said " I found it"! I just thought this was really cute and wanted to share it:)

My Vacation

I recently went back to VA....If you want all the details email me and I will email you the stories I had from there but I want to share three funny stories with you that I really liked
1. I went and got my nails done at a place called Vanity Nails in Leesburg,VA and I hope that if someone googles them for a review this come up.... So I go in and everyone there is vietnemese( the technicians that is) and besides me there is just one black girl about my age getting her nails done. but there were tons of people getting pedicures done the whole time I was there which is weird cause here in Utah I dont know if I have seen any one get a pedicure any of the times that I have gotten my nails done.... So I go in and my nails are really long and they were purple and light purple on the tips the manicurist ping was so confused by this... her and this other vietnemese lady could not stop talking about my nails, finally they said to me how do you pick up paper? I said what? they said paper how do you pick it up?? I said um I have never had a problem with paper but I do with change.... and buttoning buttons.... then the other vietnemese woman that was wearing a skirt so low that I could see her bra said it is like those nails are from Hollywood It is like you have HOLLYWOOD NAILS are you from Hollywood? I said no I am from a small town in Utah on the ID border. They then said why are your nails like that then do you use those nails for your night time activities....

Later I heard from LOTS of people that I have "black girl " nails there is a big dividing line in VA and a lot of raciest people and apparently NO WHITE GIRLS IN VA have their nails done like mine.... I even heard several times why are your nails like a black girls??? I had no idea it was no OK or socially acceptable there to have my nails like this....

so there ya go story number one I have since replaced my hollywood/hooker/black girl nails with regular Utah white nails.....

my day

MY day :
Saturday March 21st 2009
I went to the RS birthday celebration. We had to show off our talents, I have never done this before, This time I put up photography, some pictures that I took of my friend Doddie's daughter, Amanda. My display looked so cute. I will try and post a picture on here. My friend Kellie played her cello and sang a solo, We had a quiz on trivia about different sisters in the ward. Someone in the RS pres. just picked one for me it was "loves to try new recipes and share them with everyone she knows" The RS pres also volenteered me to read children stories to the group, I read "the paperbag princess" and piggy pie" We also had a very nice brunch.

After that Kellie and I went and took Spike to get his rabies shot. I was a little bit late so I had to chase the vet down, but I got Spike his rabies shot :)

I went to the thrift store and volenteered.

I came back and went over to Kellie and Walter's and we decieded to the hot springs in ID.

We drove through Preston and then took a right and drove for ever past Riverdale, past everything, until finally we saw a turn off for the hot springs. We then headed up a dirt road that had a sheer drop off on one side and a dirt wall. Walter was only driving like 35 mph, but it felt like he was going 80 the road was so twisty and full of switchbacks every turn you felt like you were going to go off a cliff. When we had almost abandonded all hope of ever finding this place, we saw some faint lights in the distance ... We pulled into the parking lot which was like a river of mud, I was so upset I chose not to wear my dairy farmer boots....so I walked through this muddy parking lots with puddles which when I stepped in went over my flats. We walked into this building where there was a counter with a shattered alcohal bottle on it, and a proclamation saying that we can NOT have glass bottles there and a list of the people that broke that bottle and it said all these people are disrespectful and rude and how if we knew them we should tell them.... there was some candy for sale and some tye-dyed shirts and a big chest freezer where they had hot pockets we could buy. Walter said he was sorry that he had ate at the Burger King in Preston with all the food options they had.

We paid to use the hot springs then walked out and followed a dimley lit path to some small pools we tryed the hottest one first there were some couples in there smoking and cussing and drinking and that pool was HOT, we went to the next pool and there were a whole bunch of people in that pool smoking and cussing and drinking. They were super friendly and we had a nice time socializing with them. We went to another pool and there were people in there that were really quiet and looked at us like we were crazy, and they were smoking and drinking and if they had been talking would probably be cussing.... so we went back to the middle pool....

when it was time to close the lady turned the lights on and off several times. So we went back to the main house and I bought a magnet. It is always strange for me the places that do have magnets and the places that don't ...

This guy in the middle pool named Andy that was smoking and cussing and drinking also introduced himself to me and shook my hand. I think he was interested in me.... but um I had mentioned that I was active in the church several times, so I was just like nice to meet you besides I could barely SEE him hahahahahahah

so that was our experience at the hot springs, Walter said that he feels like when he goes there he needs to drink hahahahahah not really but still.......... and they have a website you can find it if you google Maple Grove Hot Springs Thatcher, ID