I decided to cook up a delicious dinner for Sean since he's been working so hard the past few weeks. He's been so busy and has been working long shifts for the holidays. I figure even though I'm sick and can't quite clean the apartment the way I would want to I'd give it a shot. I got a ton of dishes done, sorted laundry, vacuumed, bathroom was somewhat scrubbed down, and threw trash away. There is still a lot of cleaning to do before I can even consider decorating our home with Christmas ornaments and a tree. I want Ryu to have that Christmas spirit at home and I will most likely be doing more shopping and decorating the next few weeks. I'm absolutely excited for that !

This evening I decided to go with an Italian feast since we had a lot of ingredients that just worked out for that cuisine. I made some pasta, baked rosemary potatoes, and some tofu infused fried wontons but with some Italian flavor added to the mix. It's definitely not a very healthy meal, in fact it's quite hearty. However, I enjoyed making it and ill have enough left over so that Sean and I can take some to work.

The pictures show you what kind of meal I have put together. There's really no specific recipe since I just winged it. There are times when I get lucky doing that such ad tonight, but there are also many times when my meals don't turn out right. That can be a major bummer but I'm glad that most of the meals I have made have at least been somewhat decent. The only thing different about the meal I made this evening is that they are all vegan friendly. The sausages I used in the pasta was soy and even the cheese was soy and a pretty good brand as well. It's called Daiya cheese and Sean likes using that cheese when he makes pizza because it actually melts and becomes stringy unlike other soy cheeses out there. The flavor is also pretty tasty and this is coming from an experimental vegan, hah!

The pasta was pretty much a combo of penne, onions, garlic, soy Italian sausage, capers, broccoli, olive oil, soy milk, soy cheese, with several herbs and spices. I don't have an exact measurement of how much of each ingredient I used, but I did taste it occasionally to make sure that I got the flavor that I was looking for. If you have pesto you can add that into the pasta, but since pesto is made mainly from pine nuts I couldn't have any in there (I'm allergic).

For the baked potatoes I pretty much used three medium sized russet potatoes and sliced them. I added minced garlic, diced onions, some olive oil, black pepper, salt, rosemary, garlic salt, and viola! I baked that baby for a while to make sure that the flavor was distributed evenly while it was cooking. I made sure to cover the pan with foil so that the steam helped cool the potatoes evenly as well. Rosemary potatoes happen to be the easiest dish anyone can make. Not to mention its absolutely delicious!

Last but not least are my Italian wontons. I figure a little Asian fusion wouldn't hurt. It's delicious and crunchy. I think I would have to wait and write down the recipe for you guys and for myself. Sean enjoyed these wontons and I would love to be able to make these again some day. I want to share this yummy treat with you guys so you can make these appetizers.

I'll leave the pictures for you all to enjoy now since its getting late and its almost my bedtime, lol. Ciao!

It's been a few months since I have owned my domain. It has been a while since I have written anything with real substance. That is mainly the part of blogging that I miss the most. I would say that sometimes life just comes along and that becomes way more important than any blog or site that I have managed. After refusing to renew my hosting I soon realized that I had years of posts on there I will never get back. It had then dawned on me that I linked my Tumblr to my domain at one point and anything that gets posted on my domain will relay back to Tumblr. I was able to go back and read a few old posts and it just made me miss blogging that much more. I could link my Tumblr on here for those people who may be interested in reading about my old rants, but I decided not to and to keep that away from this new blog. I wanted this blog to reflect the person who I am today and not the past. A year ago I wouldn't have thought that I would be starting a new blog, new journey, new life. It goes to show that anything can happen, will happen. I have had a very tiring, promising, amazing, yet frustrating year. Now that 2013 is just around the corner I wanted to reflect on a few details of t life that has happened this year.

I became a better version of the person I wanted to be, and that's me. I didn't think that it was possible for someone to change. Someone with my dreaded past, with my horrible habits that ended up hurting the people I loved, and most importantly hurting myself. If I kept up with my lifestyle a year back I probably would end up somewhere stupid. I can't even think of where I would end up. I made a change, for the better. I am sure that I can still be a difficult girlfriend 80% of the time, but I'm positive that I have made a significant difference. Some people like myself need something drastic to happen before change occurs. Unfortunately, I didn't like the drastic occurrence. It was definitely enough for me to step back and take a look at y life from a different perspective, hell from someone else's perspective.

Ryu's learning disability or so they call it has also been tough on our family. In the beginning of the whole ordeal I was scared, frustrated, and angry with the idea that there could be something horribly wrong with him. He's 40 months now and since we've been more involved in his learning he's improved so much. At first doctors believed that he might be autistic. As rough as it sounds I just didn't want to accept that there might be something psychologically wrong with my son. It made me feel like I did something wrong with my pregnancy or his upbringing. I know that's not the case, but the last thing I wanted to hear was that could be the issue. However, that was not the case. Ryu does have a slight learning disability and that could be because in the beginning we never encouraged him to talk. If he pointed at something we would understand him immediately and we beer followed up with a question. We assumed that what we did would cause some type of trauma. With all that said he is doing so much better now. Ryu goes to preschool once a week for his speech program and the teachers get involved and the parents have to be present as well. This way the parent would know how to deal with the situation away from school. Then Ryu goes to a daycare with an actual curricular that meets a specific type of needs and goals. Since Ryu's been attending three times a week we have seen tons of improvement and now he can talk to us. His sentences are broken into pieces but its better than him not speaking at all.  He's improved a lot and I can't wait for things to get progress further.

There is going to be so much more to write about but I will wait for another rant later.

It's weird blogging from my phone. I'm trying to get used to it since this would probably be the only device that I will be on for the next few months. I'll be working and attending to my studies and I honestly don't even have time to get on my laptop. I apologize for any future typos.

I'm here sitting at home sick and I've even sol the past week. I'm not one hundred percent sure exactly what I have, but I did lose my voice. I've been coughing and its increasingly getting worse. I do hope that I'm better next week since ill be back at work. Oh we'll. wish me luck !