not having a car.

The only person you should

try to be better than,

is the person you

were yesterday.

I can’t fall asleep because im too star struck.

Thats right i said it. star struck.

I babysat for Ione Sky Lee and her husband Ben Lee.

I thought this was a cute picture of them. 

if you dont know who they are She is from the movie SAY ANYTHING. And he is a famous singer from Australia. I watched their little one named Goldie. I also watched her cousin Violet who is the daughter of Donovan Leitch and Kristy Hume.

They were really nice people. And the kids were great. blahblah. I have such a cool job!

Alright, goodnight

r

I freaking hate ants. 

Now you can give me any other bug and i can kill it. Mind you i will scream my head off and play hot lava.. but i will get the job done. Although when time is done and i have killed the spider with my hairspray….. I feel really bad that i killed that creature (God’s holy creation) I get really sad because i think about charlottes web and how nice she was to everyone and all her little babies that leave her in the wind….. 

*clears throat*

This however, does not happen when i kill ants. I am deathly afraid of ants. And here’s why.

One breezy afternoon in the year of 1996. My younger brother Andrew was three years old and i was seven. Being the adventurer that i was and pulling andrew along side me whether or not he wanted to come, i took him to a nice spot where all the flowers grew in the backyard. We started digging and pretending some weird thing that only seven year old girls could like of.

(Hopefully this is an accurate situation and not just something i made up in my head because when i was little i would do that often.)

My loving mother came outside to check up on us and she said “hey, you two have ants all over you.”I checked all over me and then i checked on my sweet innocent brother and he was covered in ants. I freaked out by this started to cry and then Andrew followed suit. I ran to go take a shower and little tiny ants went down the drain. It was disgusting and i vowed to never put myself or little andrew in that kind of trouble again.  

Not many people know this about me but i sucked my thumb till i was like twelve? I don’t remember when i stopped, but you can ask my loving older sisters who would harass me. Whatever, it happens. That same day when my life almost ended i went on the computer to play on paint. You know where you made a whole bunch of different size circles and then filled it in with cool colors? Well i started to suck my thumb again and it tasted really gross and i looked at my thumb and there was an ant on my thumb crushed by my tongue.

That’s it. I had it with ants. Never again. And ever since then i have this huge hatred towards ants.

This morning was the worst day ever. Now that i live on my own i can call on Mom to do the dirty work anymore. It’s really up to me now. :( There was a trail all through my kitchen up into my trash can. I had to clean it up. And i gagged about forty times and had to walk away about a bagillian times to get it all done.. It probably took me an hour to clean it all up.

I know there are bigger problems in the world but when Ants invade my house at 7:00am the german comes out of nowhere and attacks.

RK

Okay, so if you have been a follower of mine for awhile… I don’t even remember when i posted this but a long time ago i wanted to work out more. You know get in shape how i was in high school. Well i was really exited to start that and I did that workout for all of two days… maybe two days.. I also could have worked out twice in one day and called that two days.. All in all, i failed miserably.

Which is totally okay in my book. It just means i wasn’t ready for it or i didn’t really need it. 

Now i’m as broke as a joke here in southern cali so i don;t have any money to spend on fun things just for my essentials. I wanted to get a weird VHS tape about some workout routine from the nineties from my nearest Goodwill. 

But since i’m ridiculously good at brainstorming how to be more frugal than i already am. I decided to search on Youtube. If you have never even gone to youtube you should. There are wonderful women who teach anything you want. So i looked on youtube and found these two best friends and they are fitness celebrities who help people achieve their goals. They also have a facebook page and since im so hip i liked them. Now they said to post a “vision board” to their wall. I am in no way going to do that. 

BUT just because i won’t post it to their site doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea. 

My “vision board” is going to be all about Hawaii. My wonderful best friend of seven years(Corinne Hudson turning into Mrs. Corinne Kramarenko) is getting married in Hawaii on July 1st.

(Need i say more?)

There is no way i’m going to be in Hawaii with an okay body. Now don’t get me wrong i am totally fine with the skin i’m in… I just want to tone it up a bit in areas that look bad in pictures. hehe.

In high school i wore my Camel pack. I’m sure people who knew me back then thought i was weird. (dont get me wrong, i was weird and still am) But you are supposed to drink half your weight of water each day. Lets say you are 150lbs (which is how heavy i am) you should drink 75oz of water each day. I drink my water in a blender bottle which holds 20oz so i need to drink four of those everyday.

I’m also going to do salads everyday for lunch. I went to smart and final. (shady i know) They have plastic ware there. They have plastic to-go boxes that are the perfect amount of salad for you. They have little to-go condiment boxes to put your favorite dressing in as well. My typical one in high school consisted of mixed greens, dried cranberries, some croutons, parmesan cheese, ranch dressing and if my mom wanted to make chicken i would let her and add that sometimes to my salads. (just kidding mom i love you)

It still sounds like a good idea but i think i will add other things to my salads like some salmon to the salad or whatever fruit or veggie is in season.

Anyways thats about it. If you want to do it with me you totes can at ToneItUp! 

I’ve been doing this for a week and everyday they give you something new to do so you will never get bored.

Tightening my gluteus maximus as I type,

Rachel

” Never be afraid

to fall apart

because it is an

opportunity to

rebuild yourself

the way you wish

you had been all

along.” 

~Rae Smith

“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.”

Hi Everyone! I was looking through my food blogs the other day and i came across this recipe for making the perfect hard-boiled eggs. Now we all know the routine of making hard- boiled eggs. If you don’t know the process let me invite you to a normal day of making those special eggs.

1. Wake up feeling you want an egg salad sandwich for lunch. (Now most people think about what they are going to wear for the day or what errands they need to do before  it becomes bed time again. I don’t, i just think of food.)
2. Look in the fridge and see all the nice looking eggs that you haven’t touched yet.
3. Get a pot, fill with water, place eggs in water and let the water come to a boil. (You would think this is the easy part but it’s not. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER YOU ARE COOKING SOMETHING DURING THIS TIME. Which if you are like me, you will see something shiny and gravitate towards that.)
4. You are supposed to turn the heat down so the water simmers for about 5 mins and then turn off heat and put eggs in a very cold bowl of water and let them cool in there. 

The end result is perfectly looking eggs and the yolks are supposed to be nice and bright yellow.  This is not what happens. No, what actually happens is you get this weird nasty grey green yolk. You eat it anyways because you want your GD egg salad sandwich cryin out loud!

**takes a sip of wine**

But I now know the trick for seriously perfect looking yolks and i just have to share this knowledge with all of you. 

1. Set your oven to 325 F
2. Put eggs on an oven shelf parallel to rods (rods?) so they don’t go rolling everywhere.
3. Let them bake (boil) for 30 mins
4. Take out of oven with some tongs and set in a icy cold tub of water. (I use this time to crack that huge ice block that sits in your ice maker which doesn’t let it make anymore ice cubes and put it in there. )
5. Let them cool so you can peel off the shell.

And that’s all folks!

Now the shells might have some brown spots on them but don’t even worry it’s totally normal. 

You can now add your favorite mayo and mustard add some salt and pepper to taste and you will have a very nice egg salad sandwich.

Love you all very much.

raykay