New Project!

So Ryan does work for this Wine company here in Dallas and they offer a service where you can brew your own wine. Well actually you go in choose a flavor and they brew and bottle it for you, then you design the label and what not. Well we thought that was just awesome and totally wanted to create our own wine. So hw called them up to get all the details, prices and stuff. Well he then calls me and informs me that they charge $400 for 30 bottles of wine. Needless to say that dashed our hopes of having out own wine. Well Ryan was talking to his friend Damon, who brews his own beer, and he said that we could get everything we need at the homebrew store and make our own wine for under $200. So thats what we decided to do, we ventured out to the brew store yesterday and picked up a whole slew of items, everything but bottles actually. So we took it home and we are well on our way to having a tasty Italian Pinot Grigio...hopefully. I was reading the directions before we got started and there were an awful lot of steps, but not just steps, like very very specific steps that if just one of them fails the whole batch is ruined. So I am actually really really nervous but fingers crossed it works out ha ha or we are out $160. According to the directions it takes about a month just for it to be ready to be bottled, then it has to "age" for about another 3 months or so. Its all very exciting, Ive always wanted to brew my own wine, well actually I have always wanted a vinyard of my very own with my own label of wine and a resturant...but baby steps. But I will keep you posted on the whole process cause in 5-7 days we have to check the "gravity" of the liquid and if its where it needs to be we have to transfer it to the Fermentor. Ahh im so excited I hope we don't screw it up ha ha.

Halloween

Well I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween. I know we did! Ryan and I won most creative costumes at one of our Halloween parties. Ryan is gods gift to women and I was dressed as the perfect girlfriend, let me break it down for ya. Jersey - cause I like sports, Beads - cause I like to party, Banner that says Ryan is #1 - cause Im his biggest fan, Duster - cause I clean, Ladel & apron - cause I cook, Video game - cause I like the games, an Action movie - self explanitory, a skirt you can't see - a little slutty and heels - cause im also classy. It was a lot of props but one damn fine costume if I do say so myself. But other than that it was just a typical Halloween night, filled with parties, food and booze. But at the first party we went to someone brought one of "those guests".  You know the type, the ones that get drunk within the first 30 min and won't shut up or sit down. The most annoying people on the planet is what I refere to them as. But he was 18, drank a cup of Everclear and was done for.  He was up and down and kept saying the same thing over and over and over. He was like Oh my gosh you guys aren't going to invite me to another party ever again, I'm just to immature for this party. And no lie he said those two sentences at least 97 times. In like 2 hours. But other than that it was a great Halloween and our costumes totally kicked ass!

The Move...

So the move finally happened.  If you recall from my previous post I had said that I would be getting the keys Fri and I would be able to get a jump start on the move...well that didn't happen. Ryan had a work engagment he was attending so I was going to go get the keys by myself. So after work I rush from my work, to the bank, to Ryans work to pick up his money and then dashed down to the complex to get all of this done. So I made it to the office before they closed thinking hell yeah Im awesome! I walk in and Im like ok Im here to pay rent and pick up the keys. The lady looks at me and was like ok where is Ryan? I told her he was still at work and was unable to make it. She then informs me that both parties have to be present! It would have been nice to know that little piece of info before I went all kinds of out of my way to try to get all of that crap done. So needless to say I was beyond frustrated. So I go home and try to take my serious anger out on my packing....again...another fail. I went home, walked in, saw the crazy mess and collapsed on the couch. I was so frustrated I couldn't do anything but sit there and be mad. Finally after two hours of watching the food netowrk I decide I should probably get up and finish this packing since my friends were coming at 10:30 the next morning to move me. I was actually on a pretty sweet roll until I went to lift my mattress up to pull the bed skirt off, I bent down, lifted the matress, yanked the skirt off, plopped the matress back down, went to stand and I couldn't.  Yep I was stuck at a 90 degree angle in an insane amount of pain.  My back had completely locked up, I tried to move, stand, breath and couldn't.  I was stuck for about 15 min thinking to myself..."what the crap am I supposed to do?! I can't move to get my phone, will I be stuck here till morning?" Finally I was able to stand up straight but was still in insane amounts of pain.  I waddled out to the living room and tried to bend and get my phone and honest to god could not do it. The pain was far to great. Needless to say that awesome little accident haulted my packing, I was totally screwed. 
Well the next morning wasn't much better, I had to get up at 7 am to go to the store, get more packing materials, get breakfast so I could take an insane amount of Excedrine and get back to the house and pack up everything I could by 10 am so I could go back over to the complex with Ryan, sign the lease and get back to my apt by 10:30.  Thankfully all my friends showed up and we were able to move all of my packed items in only two hours. It was an insane day Im not going to lie.

Day one...

Well today is the big day...Ryan and I will be getting the keys to our brand spankin new apt! Ya know if you had asked me a year ago if I saw myself in a serious and meaninfgul relationship that would lead to me moving in with my awesome other half, Im pretty sure I would have laughed in your face. Im not going to lie...laughed, chortled if you will. But here I am with one of the most amazing men I have ever had the honor of meeting. He and I met, well ultimatly at a local bar in our neighborhood, but I like to say we met because my friend knew his friend and we kinda crashed their party one night ha ha. But thanks to Hayden (my friend) and Coaches (the bar) here we are. Happy in love and about to shack up.  Anyway more to come!! Oh and if your a foodie, like I like to consider myself visit my sisters food blog.  cookingthatdoesntsuck.blogspot.com