Food: Easy "Calzones"

A food post? What is this, some kind of Pinterest-y blog?

Well, actually. When I'm bored and at home with actual food resources, I get domestic. So far this summer I've made Oreo balls twice, and I plan on making some eggless cookie dough balls soon. 

For dinner today, I made these calzone/stromboli/pizza bread things I found on Pinterest. The pin just had a series of pictures, not a real recipe, but it's simple enough that I figured it out. I took some pictures of my own, but I'm not a pro by any means, so they're not as pretty as they could be!  

Ingredients! It's super simple, dudes.

On the Road Again

I didn't learn to swim until I was at least 12.

It wasn't for lack of interest or trying or skill--I'd taken lessons as young as 5 years old, paddling around in the pool at the junior college a few minutes away with country music playing in my head.

I was relatively good at swimming, but ear surgeries got in the way. In the past I've had this recurring condition, what my mom calls a sort of benign tumor, cholesteatoma. I've had multiple surgeries on my right ear to eliminate and correct this problem, starting with tubes when I was really little (they fell out) and culminating in a reconstructive surgery when I was in high school.

Katie & Luke's Wedding Fiesta!

So yesterday evening was a lot of fun! My family and I went to my cousin's wedding reception party at this really nice place on the lake and hung out with a lot of people (most of whom I didn't know, but still!)

The sign welcoming us to Katie and Luke's reception

It was sort of funny to be having the reception now instead of after the actual wedding, but that's because Katie and Luke got married two months ago in a small ceremony on the beach in Hawaii. They had photos on display in the main room of the party, and my cousin looked beautiful--her husband looked handsome, too, of course.

Mostly what we did at the fiesta-themed party was hang out, talk, and eat. Now that I'm 21, I was able to have a couple margaritas, which I personally found exciting. Plus there were tacos, quesadillas, cake, and all the tortilla chips you could ever dream of. The party favors were little bottles of hot sauce with a Katie & Luke label on them!

The weather was beautiful, too! 

I got to hang out with my family and meet some people who hadn't seen me in years and years (most of whom I didn't remember because I was so young, haha). There was dancing, too, later on--I got out on the floor for a little bit, but the best part was when my aunt and uncle got out there with their daughter and did the wobble. It was hilarious! My dad was conveniently deep in conversation while my cousin and uncle had their father-daughter dance, thank goodness. My mom and I, of course, were busy crying. 

Dad and I being adorable

Before the sun went down, I dragged my dad into some selfies, because I don't have many recent pictures of the two of us. There were a few of these with my brother in them, too, but he wouldn't make a nice face so they're all goofy.

Anyway, there's not a lot else to tell, I guess. But it was really fun, and I loved getting to hang out with my family and party to celebrate Katie & Luke's new marriage! 

It's summer!

FINALLY.

Which is great. Except that I have no idea what to do with all my time.

I applied for several (meaning here "at least eleven") internships for the summer, but never heard back from any of them. It's disappointing, sure, but I'm trying to take it in stride. It's probably a sign that I need to slow down and stop doing one million things at once.

So I've moved out of my dorm room for the last time (been a good three years, Honors Hall), and now I'm back in my hometown until July 31, when I'll be moving into my first apartment with one of my best friends (whose blog will no doubt be linked here at some point, because Emily is a blogging superstar). Wow, that was a long sentence. Anyway, my second-ever all-As semester of college has been over for a week, and now I'm sitting at home with no car of my own just hangin' out with the family.

I'm bad at idle time--it makes me even crazier than I normally am. So here's the idea: I'm going to make a list off the top of my head of things I want to accomplish this summer, and we'll maybe check in every once in a while to see how I'm doing! Sound good? I'm going to pretend you said yes.

• Read a lot (including books from this list of YA books that deal with mental illness, and also a Harry Potter reread for the first time in ages)
• Write a lot (bloggin' here and maybe another project or two, hopefully doing Camp NaNoWriMo with Emily and another friend, Nathan, in July, and some other stuff, too!)
• Sleep a lot (rest is important!)
• Get a part-time job (I'd like to make some money this summer if at all possible)
• Try my best to get to Denton this summer for the Mountain Goats show (my favorite band of all the bands on the whole planet)
• Clean out my room (organize what I already own, get rid of what I don't need, figure out what's going to the apartment with me)

And...nothing else exactly comes to mind right now, but that's plenty to begin with, right? Also, it's midnight and I just started a 2.5 hour musical on Netflix, so uh. I should probably go and plan to sleep at some point soon. 

So there's that. I should probably come up with a better way to sign off these blogs if I'm gonna make this a Thing That I Do, but there's time for that still. For now, though:

Later, skaters!