Man Crush Monday: Eric Decker

First of all...there's a giveaway at the end of this! Read the entire post [or don't], submit some entries, and you might be rewarded with with some Victoria's Secret moneyyyy! Just in time for Valentine's day!

Chargers aren't in the playoffs. Super sad face about that. After this weekend, the Broncos and Seahawks have claimed their spots in the big game. So who is my Super Bowl pick? By default, it's the Broncos, due to Eric Decker's beautiful face. I'm thankful that he [and his equally beautiful wife] has a reality tv show that feeds my obsession. Let's enjoy some Eric Decker goodness:

Let's learn some stuff about him. He's 26, from Minnesota, and a wide receiver with the Denver Broncos since 2010. He was ALSO a baseball player <3 Went to the University of Minnesota. Unfortunately, he's married to country music artist Jessie James and they're expecting their first child. All this info is courtesy of the great wikipedia.

Searching for photos of him for this post was quite great. Minus the ones of him and his wife, of course. My favorite search was "Eric Decker Shirtless". I learned that his right cheek is his "good side" and that he's rarely photographed from the other side. The more you know :] 

In other news, Kristin over at Hopelessly Ever After is hosting a Victoria's Secret Valentine's Day Giveaway! And I'm part of it! How awesome is the image below? How revealing do we all look?! [Note for future employers, this is obviously a photoshopped photo. I am not half naked on the internet.] Make sure to enter! Good luck all!

Kristin :: Britney :: Val :: Brandi

Jess :: Morgan :: Marty :: Alicia :: Candra

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#BoloUp

The Chargers are in the payoffs! Weeeeeeeeeee.

I'm kind of a bandwagon fan with these guys, because to be honest...when they suck, I write them off. I don't stop watching, I just watch with a chip on my shoulder. They've kind of turned things around the second half of the season so I'm back on the bandwagon.

This Sunday, we play the Tim Tebow Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos for the 3rd time this season but this time it's kind of a big deal because after sliding by in the Wild Card game, we're playing towards a Division Championship and ultimately a Super Bowl! It's exciting, and I'm anxious about it.

Let's mention bolo ties real quick. Why? Because they're all the rage in San Diego right now. Seriously. This article talks about places in San Diego selling out of them recently. Why? Because Phillip Rivers has rocked them in post game interviews a couple of times and they might be lucky charms.  

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Now it's a movement. How so? #BOLOUP has taken over our usual slogan that is #BOLTUP. Also, this other stuff kind of qualifies is as a movement...

Today is ACTUALLY #BOLOTieFriday

Our local country station, KSON has a theme song.

There also is was a parody twitter account. @PhilipsBolo. That's when you know a movement is real. Except, as of 6:44 pm PST, Thursday night, it's been deleted. *EDIT, it's back up!

AND SHIRTS! Courtesy of @insurecloud.

If you've stuck around this long, I might as well tell you the quick story about why this bolo tie is a big deal and catching fire. One fan noticed Rivers wearing a Bolo Tie a few weeks ago and dropped one off at Chargers Park (Chargers training facility) for the QB and then next thing you know, the guy who made the Bolo Tie, Ted Williams, noticed Rivers wearing it in a post game interview! How cool is that?!! More details about it are on the Chargers website. He was honoring the fan that sent it to him! Good stuff!

That's about all I've got. I love that the whole city is rallying around a silly bolo tie...but like the Bud Light commercials say..."it's only weird if it doesn't work."
           
Let's go Chargers. Make a win happen this Sunday!

Insta-dump: February

With 6 classes and a full time-ish job…life hasn’t been very blog worthy so I was sitting here this morning wondering what I’d entertain my readers with. I recalled a while back my friend Kelley over at Team Gilster used to do insta-dumps…not sure if that’s what she called it but pretty much blogged about a few of her instagram photos. Stealing the idea!

1.    I shared this one on #throwbackthursday. I have a handful of favorite pictures from my childhood. This is one of them. It’s me doing a jog-a-thon thing where people pledge money per lap. I was in probably 1^st or 2^nd grade when this photo was taken. It kind of made me nostalgic and I definitely shed a few tears thinking about the good ol’ days when I had no worries.

2.    Another #tbt photo! Me and my cousin Jazmin chopping up some meat…looks like menudo and probably on a Saturday since I’m wearing a soccer uniform. Unless it’s Sunday [when most Mexicans cook up menudo] and I just slept in my uniform from the day before. This is kind of a mind bottling picture since my cousin and I have grown a lot since this photo! She just had her first baby girl in December…while still being a baby herself. Crazy how sometime’s we’re forced to grow up!

3.    String cheese trivia! Lol. It was for lunch the other day and reminded me of the laffy taffy’s and ice cream bars with jokes. The answer is 5. Shout-out to my black and blue/teal polka dot nails. It's not exactly from Pinterest, but Pinterest has inspired me to be a little more creative with my nails :]

4.    National Pancake Day. My favorite holiday! Ihop was giving away free short stacks with a recommended donation to Rady Children’s Hospital. Good cause!

5.    Bettis. Lime. Marty. Super Bowl Sunday with some of my favorites <3 Thank you Palomar Softball for introducing me to some of my best friends.

6.    Commencement details! Graduation. Graduation. GRADUATION! Finally.

7.    Ultimate Baseball Roadtrip. A late Christmas present, but probably my most favorite <3 My baseball road trip is next summer and I can’t wait. My OCD self LOVES this so I’m not aimlessly wandering cities I’ve never been to! Reading this has to take a back seat to school right now, but I can’t wait to crack it open! Shout-out to my purple and pink ombre nails! 

8.    Alicia Keys tickets :] I can’t wait for this concert. Miguel & Alicia Keys. Although I love Country music, I can enjoy some hip-hop and R&B. Alicia Keys happens to be one of my favorites! Her skills on the piano are brilliant! I’ve actually never been to a real R&B/Hip Hop concert. I usually stick to country shows which is pretty much an alllll day event. It’s going to be weird not tailgating all day and being plastered before it even starts…that’s a good thing though, I don’t want to miss this show. Haha.

9.    My not so fitted sheet. It’s making me crazy. It comes undone every.single.night for like the last 3 months. Ugggh.  

10.  I’ve been craving chocolate covered strawberries for like the last 2 months. I missed out at work one day because I was at school. It was all I could think about when I found out. I had strawberries in my lunch so I improvised. I walked to the market next door, grabbed a dark chocolate dove bar, microwaved it and dipped my strawberries. Not the best, but still pretty good!

My Super Bowl Dessert!

Mondayyyyy! I see this kid ride his unicycle to school every Monday and Wednesday and it makes me a little happy :]

Hmmm. I never ever thought there’d be a day where I blog about food…that I’ve successfully made!

I am the world’s worst cook. I can manage to mess ANYTHING  up. Brownies from a box to hard boiled eggs. Anything.

Anyways…I’ve been wanting to make this dessert from Pinterest which comes from this blog for a while so I figured Super Bowl Sunday would be the perfect opportunity!

I went shopping, and positioned them perfectly for a photo-op once I got home. I got a little eager to bake that I tore off and threw away the cream cheese boxes before I realized I should probably have them for my picture!

So the recipe is for “plain” churro cheesecake bites, but I wanted to spice it up a bit and make some sort of strawberry variation! Thanks to the help of my BFF Sara [who is the most legit chef ever] I concocted my strawberry cheesecake filling for one sheet, and then the regular cheesecake filling for the other.

Strawberry Cheesecake Filling

2 bricks of softened cream cheese

3 diced strawberries

1 tsp of vanilla extract

½ cup of sugar

1 egg

First blend the cream cheese and strawberries together to make a strawberry cream cheese.

 It didn't turn as pink or red as I'd hoped.

Then throw in the vanilla extract, sugar, and egg. Blend together to have a soft cream cheese filling. [Regular filling is the same exact thing, minus the strawberries.]

Marty mess-up: I put in a tbsp instead of tsp. Not HORRIBLE…but not the recipe. Lol. I have to put in more cream cheese into it to compensate!

Churro Cheesecake Bites 

Strawberry cheesecake filling
2 cans of crescent rolls

½ cup of sugar

2 tbsp of cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375 degrees for 20 minutes

Lay out 1 can of crescent rolls into a pan. Pour the filling over the crescent rolls leaving the sides of the crescent rolls uncovered. The consistency of the filling should NOT be runny. Lay the other can of crescent rolls over the filling and then connect the sides of the top and bottom crusts together. Note *you’ll have to do some shaping of the crescent rolls to fill over the filling, but it’s not too tough!

Then mix the sugar and cinnamon together and sprinkle ½ of it over the pre-cooked dessert.

Throw in the churro cheesecake and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes of a golden-ish brown.

Marty mess-up: After 15 minutes or it baking, I realized I forgot to drop temp to 350 degrees. I dropped it to 300 to even it out. I kind of burnt it a little. Oops!

After it’s cooked, pour the remaining half of cinnamon sugar and let it sit for an hour or until it’s cool and cut into “bites” and you now have a legit awesome super easy-ish dessert :] All of the bites were gobbled up before the game even started, so I’ll take it as a good sign!

Sorry if I messed up any cooking terms and you don't understand. Like I said, I'm pretty clueless about anything having to do with the kitchen! If you're confused...revert back to the original blog with the recipe!

30 DAY CHALLENGE: DAY 11

Day 11 – A photo that makes you angry/sad.

Blah! Life is great living in San Diego, but I guess we can't have it all. As a die hard sports fan, our lackadaisical teams kill me. We have such amazing talent on our baseball and football teams but we just can't get them to click and work as a cohesive unit.

SD 24 TB 34

Just another Chargers loss. 

When are we going to get rid of this guy?!! And Norv Turner. And AJ Smith?!!

   

30 DAY CHALLENGE: DAY 05

Day 05 – Your favorite television program.

My favorite television program...that is still airing is:

Growing up, played soccer and softball... and dabbled in karate and volleyball. As much as I wanted to and begged my parents, I never was involved in dance. The things these dancers can do and the emotion they have for their craft is amazing. I've been fortunate enough to attend a few of the live tapings up in Hollywood as well as the tours the top 10 of each season immediately after the season ends.

My favorite television show of ALL TIME is hands down The Hills <3 my love for Laguna Beach carried over to The Hills, and I'm so glad it did! As much as they pegged it as a reality show, I know it's far from that...but I still love it. I can definitely credit this show with my infatuation with Los Angeles.



...how beautiful is this cast?!! Minus Spencer. and Heidi post plastic sugery. and I'm totally "Team LC" notttt "Team Kristen" Lauren is one of my faovirte people ever, I met her at a book signing like 3 years ago. That picture is gross, so I'm not going to post it.

Lately, I don't watch much tv and when I do it's usually sports...

I am a little obsessed with teen dramas like Gossip Girl, 90212, and Pretty Little Liars

            

Some of my old school favorite:

Sex & The City