Friday, June 24, 2011

The Weekend is Here.

So it is Friday morningish and I am sitting in my accounting class SO pumped to get this weekend started. Melissa and I will be viewing Green Lantern in 3D this evening and we will come home and watch Jericho. 


I officially made our reservations for the restaurant of my favorite food network star Bobby Flay. I am so excited but it was a little scary. We had to give a credit card number and if we don't show or cancel too late we get charged $100. Yikes. It will be worth it though. I loved his restaurant so much. 


By now you may have wondered why in the world our blog is called "Livin' For The City". It is a great Stevie Wonder song, but that is definitely not why we named our blog. Melissa and I HATE with a fiery and burning passion the town of Rexburg, the state of Idaho, and all things country. I have nothing against the people for the most part. There are great and bad people wherever you go. It is just with my Spanish background and us both being from the east that we tend to feel more at home in the city than in the boonies. I plan on attending law school out east and practicing in NYC or Chicago. I LOVE both of those cities so much...


So this blog is called "Livin' For The City" because it is about our adventures enduring life till we get where we want. I have always been ridiculed for not liking the mountains. I always say that to me they are just a pile of dirt. A pretty pile, but still a pile. I have no idea what to do when I am up there except just stare at the view. I get just as much pleasure looking a photograph. 


Now if you are talking about true beauty in the world. You need to go the beach. The clear water and the palm trees are very beautiful as are the cities. I love looking at the awesome architechture. I think that suburbs here in this country are ugly. Just cookie cutter shopping and strip malls that look the same anywhere you go. I love the cities that are recognizable like NYC, Chicago, LA, San Diego, San Francisco, and many more. 


So there was my rant. Love you guys, love Melissa more. 


Ill get to you soon!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Midweek Update.

Hey guys I am waiting for my accounting class to officially start so I will keep it short. 


Melissa and I have been cooking up a storm and we can't wait to show you guys what we made. It will be posted soon.


This week is kind of crazy, we are both really busy but of course we still make time for some P90X and some Jericho. 


We just got news that we are going to LAS VEGAS for July 4th weekend. Melissa's dear parents have a winter home in a town right outside of that wholesome place. I literall cannot wait to go and be in a big city setting after having been in this small town for so long. I like getting away every now and then. 


What are we going to do in Las Vegas?? Wouldn't you like to know...


If you have any suggestions as to what we should do you can comment your little heart out but there is one thing that is for sure. I am making reservations for Mesa Grill!!! -- Bobbly Flay's Restaurant :) I have eaten at the Manhattan version of Mesa Grill 4 years ago as my last hoorah before my mission. I am excited to go back again and go with Melissa. I am SOOO excited. It is the best restaurant I have ever eaten at. 


We are just trying to get through this week so we can relax for the weekend. We are always living for the weekend. 


My wife is the sweetest little thing I have ever seen. This week and all weekend she has been doing the dishes and making the bed ( I think I have made it like 3 times :/) She never complains. Ever. I love her so much and must try harder to help her out. She is the best. Probably better than your wife. 


Well we will post soon again. Or I guess I will?

Monday, June 20, 2011

El fin de semana.

Wow time sure flies by. This past week I had to go to the Newel K. Whitney business summit and I learned a lot about blogging. The owners and writers for our best bites, a cooking blog said that to have a successful blog it needs to be pleasing to the eye and you need constant posts. So I am going to write a lot more often. 


Melissa and I are Culinary masterclasses. It is nuts. We have been cooking some amazing food you would just die if you were in our kitchen. As of late we have made a toffee crunch cheesecake <-- Mind blowing. Thats all I can say about that. Melissa and I have made the purchase of a domain to blog about all of our recipes. You can find this at tastingandtelling.com. It is still rough around the edges but hey we just started. You should wait a little while till we have some things published on it. 


So as of late. 


Before I was married all I wanted to do was go out and have fun with Melissa. We wanted to go to parties and such but its different now. Melissa and I found complete joy in the following. 


Friday.
Come home and cuddle for a bit. Go grab a bite to eat and see a movie. We went to go see Soul Surfer this past Friday and it was good. I had to cringe a bit at some incredibly cheesy parts. I just felt like with some of the lines that they really needed to burst out into song or something afterwards. It was nice though. We went to Kiwi Loco afterwards and ugh... I used to like that place but now I am more of a Twizzle Berry person. I hate that I HAVE to wait in a line and pass all the ice cream I don't want to get to the one I do want and If i get to the end and want more I have to tick off everyone behind me. UGH. I also ALWAYS feel nasty and that I should VOMIT when I leave. Well Melissa likes it so I guess I will be going back. Its just at Twizzleberry there is no line. You walk up and grab the ice cream you want and you can get all the toppings you want when you want. I often enjoy toppings at the bottom of my ice cream but nope, not at Kiwi Loco. We then went home and any other weekend we would have watched Prison Break but we finished. You have to watch it. THE BEST SHOW I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!! Now we are watching Jericho which is good. One of the few good post apocalyptic thrillers out there. I leave every episode wanting more. Then we went to bed.


Saturday:
After a magical morning, I studied my brains out and took and got a 94.62 on my accounting exam. Heck. Yes. I love getting good grades on accounting stuff. I then made the cheesecake for my mother/father in law for the next day. Made this cool stained glass jello thing and then at 8 pm left the  house for the first time all day and got snow cones with the hottest woman on earth. Lucky me :). We then went home watched more Jericho and then Morning Glory which was funny and then even MORE Jericho!!!! Then off to bed we went...


Sunday. 


Had some together time, then shower, then church. We are doing this new thing in the ward where we are assigned Sunday school classes. It was small, just 4 couples...weird but ok. Then went home. Our home teachers came for 45 seconds. Literally. Then we went to the in-law's to celebrate fathers day with steak, potatoes, cheesecake and angelfood cake. YUM. Then we went home and watched more Jericho. Heaven help us when we finish. 


So yea that is an ideal weekend. Funny how the tables have turned huh? I love it though. I just love spending time with my wife. 


Stay tuned for more.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Since we got married.

Wow this is completely unacceptable that my last blog entry was for the honeymoon. I have been berated and verbally/cyberly assaulted and abused for the lack of posts. So people here it is. Jeez....


So I love being married. It is far better than they say it is. I am especially thankful that I am married to Melissa Berg this semester because we both are in the most busy semester yet. We are working all afternoon on HW but at night we get to sleep in the same bed. I feel that if we were still dating or engaged we would hardly have time to be with each other at all during the week.


I love that we are married. The weeks go by fast and the weekends too, but they are awesome. I love my friday night data nights and staying in bed all morning on saturday and getting ready for church with her on sunday and just relaxing. There is nothing better than that. Lately we have been marathoning prisonbreak. We have watched 68 episodes since we got back from the honeymoon and we are obsesssssed. Dont know what we will do once its over. 


I also love cooking with her. We kind of just trade off the cooking job. Whoever is the least busy that night gets the honor of preparing the meal that evening. It has been fun. We are culinary Gods. Melissa has surprised herself a lot with how well she is in the kitchen. She cooks great food. I try.


I just love being married. Coming home to my hott wife is the highlight of my day and I love waiting for her to come home to me. 


I am getting ready to head to class so I will update later.