A Cat Named Ted

A while back, I saw a kitten sitting in the hole of a wall in our apartment complex and thought that it looked super cute. Then, as fate would have it, after a fun date night with Joe we saw the same little kitten sitting on the stairs leading to our apartment. Being the mean and scary people we are, the poor little kitty was scared away by our presence. So as Joe watched where the kitten was hiding, I ran upstairs to put milk in a bowl to feed our new friend.

As you can see kitty really liked the milk. After standing outside
for a while watching the kitty eat, Joe decided to name him
Teodoro or Ted for short if it was a boy. I decided to
name her Sophia if it was a girl.

However, Ted was not very good at taking pictures. :)

After that first night of feeding the kitty, I was hooked. I wanted so badly to keep cute little Ted and have him/her be our very first pet. But alas, it was not meant to be. Unfortunately, our apartment complex makes pet owners pay more for rent. :( However, the next few nights we sure had fun feeding our little guy. Although with all the time that we spent caring for Ted we never actually found out if he really was a boy or girl. The world may never know. Funny. Anyway so here are some more pictures of our fun adventures. 

Joe with Ted

Me with Ted

Ted's hole in the wall.

Feeding Ted by his hole.

Cute Ted licking his lips.

Just Ted.

SUPER TED!!!

Sweet Potato Burgers

This whole... 'adventure' started because I am at the stage in life where I am a new wife who is trying to hone her cooking skills, but also trying to get healthy/ lose weight. I have to say that I am not doing to bad in both of these areas, however no one is perfect.
This leads me to my Sweet Potato Burger story. So while wasting away my life on Pinterest, the other day, I came across a recipe for Sweet Potato Burgers. Pinterest is a website that shows you a bunch of pictures (from various websites and blogs) that people post with a comment underneath. So while browsing the pins of the people I follow I came across this awesome picture of a Sweet Potato Burger. I am serious this picture made this burger look so good. Being the health conscious person that I am trying to become I repin the post and tell Joe that I want to try this recipe. And here it is... well here are the ingredients on how to completely fail at making Sweet Potato Burgers:

• 1 hour of extra cook time because you didn't know that sweet potatoes take an hour to bake
• leave out 2 tbsp of Tahini because after searching all over you have come to the conclusion that it doesn't exist
• do not form patties because your mixture sticks to your hands when you try, instead drop globs of your mixture into a frying pan
• Use so much oil that it is all over but still doesn't cook the burgers
• Cook on the highest setting possible filling your house with smoke because the burgers are STILL not cooking
• Give up in the middle of cooking because your spatula will no longer flip the burgers and you are frustrated as all get out

Luckily I had the bright idea to make ranch carrots as a side. After taking one bite of the burgers I had slaved over, I almost couldn't keep it down. Somehow Joe liked the burgers, but we decided to throw away all my hard work because it was just not worth it. I am sad to say that this was not a successful endeavor, however I am happy to say that I am absolutely 100% positive that I will never become a vegan. They put way too much effort into making something that tastes like crap. 

So class, let's review what we've learned today. Sweet Potato Burgers are a terrible idea!

So... how is married life?

Well I am married now to an amazing man, Joe, and things have been great! It is funny though, every time I see 'Single' friends they always ask me the same question. "How is married life?"

Well to all of you that are wondering, married life is great! It is not what I expected, because I expected it to be some BIG change. However, married life was a fairly smooth transition. Given we are still working on how we want to do things and what happens if this event occurs; but being married is very similar to the dating process and being engaged. We are both still getting to know each other, sharing stories, finding out dislikes, likes, learning, growing, and building our lives together. The only major difference is now we live together and do not have to say good bye at night. And that is a much welcomed change. 

There are some adjustments that have needed to be made; such as calling his family mine, realizing I do not have to explain who my brothers are, and the last name is a bit tricky. However, these changes are welcomed, even though they may take time to adjust to. 

Another expectation that I had of marriage was that once you are husband and wife you know everything there is to know about the other person. So after a while husbands and wives had nothing left to learn about the other person. This is completely false. I am still getting to know my husband and just the other day he learned something about me that he did not know. I am glad that I realized that we still needed to learn about each other now, because I feel that this will be beneficial down the road as we continually change. Good communication between husband and wife is a key to keeping a good relationship going; at least that is what I am taught at school and it makes sense.

           So for all of you who were wondering... "How is married life"... life is good, different but good.
:)