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| too good to be truei know i'm not typically "motherly" and i do have a tendency to complain about jt a lot but he really was a handful for a while...
BUT... i'm almost afraid to say it but he has just been amazing this whole week... i know now that i've "said" it, he's gonna wake up a monster.. but truly, he has just been so sweet and fun and communicative and understanding... sure, he doesn't listen to me sometimes when i ask him to do stuff.. but it's all normal stuff i can deal with... he rarely gets really upset and is quite fine just hanging out by himself. he's back to the calm and zen baby that i remember... it was a rough 5 months there but i'm glad we're going through smoother times... i know it'll keep going up and down for our lifetime.. but i'm really appreciating him a lot right now so leave me alone.. kekeke..
i came home, cooked dinner and while bubba and jt watched lakers, i went to the americana by myself and strolled around... picked jt up some stuff at lucky kid (they were having some kind of event) and a book and just hung out by myself. it was lovely... i'd rather be home alone by myself but bubba never leaves anywhere with jt alone so i have NOT had that since his birth... i CRAVE alone time at home... maybe one day.. *sigh*..
anyways, i tried a great recipes from kalyn's kitchen website, which i really like..
it's her roasted tilapia with black bean, mango, lime and cilantro salsa! Here it is for easy reference..
Roasted Tilapia with Black Bean, Mango, Lime, and Cilantro Salsa
(Makes about 2 cups salsa, salsa recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from this recipe featured by the National Mango Board, who provided the mangos used to test this recipe.)
4 pieces Tilapia
Salsa:
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained well
1 mango, peeled and diced
1/4 cup green onion, very thinly sliced
1/2 cup chopped cilantro (about half a bunch of cilantro)
2-3 T fresh lime juice
2-3 T olive oil
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/4 tsp. hot sauce (I used Sriracha sauce)
Follow instructions for World's Easiest Roasted Tilapia to cook the Tilapia.
Before
you start to roast tilapia, pour canned black beans into a colander
placed in the sink, and rinse well with cold water until no more foam
appears. Let beans drain, then blot dry with paper towel if they still
look wet.
Cut mango
flesh away from the pit, cutting along both sides of the flat oblong
shaped pit. (Here are excellent instructions for How to Cut a Mango
from Simply Recipes.) Cut mango into 1/2 inch dice and place in plastic
bowl. Add drained black beans, thinly sliced green onion and chopped
cilantro.
Combine 2 T
lime juice, 2 T olive oil, cumin and hot sauce in small bowl, and whisk
together. Mix into black bean mixture. Check to see if the mixture
seems too dry, and add a bit more lime juice and olive oil if needed.
Serve black bean and mango salsa spooned over hot roasted Tilapia.
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| $15 foot massage reviewwell clearly it's a deal! BUT (and it's a huge but)... i felt like someone was going to come in and raid the place or something.. something just felt a bit shady about the whole thing... and the other thing is that most of the workers were MEN.. no, ALL the workers were men and i don't know, i just kinda felt strange about it all.. and since i was tense a bit, it kinda defeated the purpose of relaxing... i felt great afterward and everyone had a good time and i'm even a bit sore this morning (which i like) but i just felt a bit wrong about it... WHY is it so cheap?? my guy was nice but apparently he had dinner right before coming up because he smelled a LOT like garlic.... not so pleasant when he's all rubbing all over you and such. .it was 30 minutes of back, shoulder and arm massage (fully clothed) and then 30 min or so of leg/foot action.... it's a bit intimate for me to feel comfortable with a guy.... i prefer women to massage me... so........... i'd go again with friends, but i wouldn't go regularly by myself or anything.. these places were like open till midnight and there's a "vip room" in the back.. hm...i wonder what goes on back there!! worth trying but i'll stick to paying premium for a full body massage in a comfortable spa atmosphere anyday.. | | |
| who washes their phone??apparently i do since i stuck it in the washing machine and BROKE it... it came out steaming and beeping and doing crazy stuff.. yup, that's what 30 min. in the washer will do... thing is, bubba doesn't want to get me a phone right now because we get more credit if we wait a month or so... luckily i had my OLD phone so i just reactivated it.. it's gross though because it's so outdated and i lost all my pictures of jt :( i have no one to blame but myself though!
this weekend is grinnell's reunion weekend (i'm an alum)... some friends are headed there and so is my bro who is going to his first reunion.. people think it's kinda strange we both went to the same college (and my cousin too) but i'm so used to the idea that i forget it's kind of a unique thing.. i like it though... anyways, i feel a little "left out" (haha china) but i think i made the right decision by not going. i think i'd just slow my friends down since they are all still single and party type of people... i'm just an old ajumma with a 2 year old and a bedtime that's before midnight. heheh..
but at least i got a teeny-weeny mini reunion with my friend ys this weekend. she came up and we had brunch and hung out with jt... jt was IN LOVE with y "ee-mo".. he kept asking for her that night.. so we hope to see you soon y ee-mo!
i'm going to moms night out with the moms club tonight. $15 hour foot massage. yeah, i totally need it... in my side of town these places are EVERYWHERE... and 2 of my friends have gone and told me it's legit and not shady... i keep thinking it's too good to be true... 15 bucks for an HOUR? anyways, i'll let y'all know how it is. :)
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| i lolo you..so after all the nightmare sleep issues, i feel like i'm now ahead of the game. at 22 months, jt is sleeping in a toddler bed, going to bed ALONE and awake and sleeping completely through the night AND taking his naps in the bed too.. up till now, we've been lugging the mattress from toddler bed to crib for nap time which was a pain.. so all of our sleep issues are RESOLVED for now... and i'm kinda thinking this is a good omen for having #2... anyways, so i've taken the task of putting him to bed at night since it takes bubba double the time because he doesn't have the heart to leave jt... so i read to him, have quiet cuddle time (about 5 minutes) and then smother him with kisses and sing him a song and rub his back. this whole thing takes about 10-15 minutes.. anyways, i then get up.. tell him night-night and he says night-night back and then i leave the room... well, on saturday night, we did our whole routine and just before i opened the door, he said "i lolo you" (his way of saying i love you)... i ALMOST DIED. seriously, tears almost spilled out.. it's the first time he said it without reciprocating... he initiated it... i RAN back to his bed and smothered him and said "i love you too" like a zillion times and then left.... bubba thought it was a fluke and that he wasn't saying it at all.. well, last night he did it again. really quietly and right before i leave the room. but he says it. i lolo you. makes your heart melt.......... | | |
| flora, the red menace i went with my friend L to see a musical last night. yup, a weeknight!! we went to see flora, the red menace at the freud playhouse at ucla... 
i won tickets and we had a really good time... eating at century city mall before heading over there. the story was great and eden espinoza was amazing (she's from wicked)... actually, the whole cast was amazing... i was looking up prices for the show for a friend and i was shocked that the tickets were $75 a piece!! and we just waltzed in to will call and picked up our free tickets - yay for winning tickets! i'm heading to chicago for my mom's memorial weekend. nothing about this trip is making me happy... i feel like i just need to get through it. but seeing my bro, cousins, dad and family all make it better.... i guess i'll be taking the overcast, wet LA weather with me.. the weather over there looks to be the same as over here today... i wonder if jt will miss me while i'm gone.. i'll be happy for the little break but i will definitely miss my little boo... | | |
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