Food Post: Cajun Chicken Fettucine Alfredo

If there's one food that I could eat forever and ever, it's pasta. Pasta is that one dish where you can throw in everything you have and it will be one million kinds of delicious. So as I'm on a constant search for the perfect pasta dish on Pinterest (mine is here), there's one that sticks out at me and it looks a little something like this:

Cajun Chicken Fettucine Alfredo. At first, this dish sounds a bit weird because I never thought to bring cajun flavors to a cheesy dish, and yet I love the idea of it First, there's the cajun taste which I love because of the different spices that comes to the plate. Then there's the alfredo and the great thing about alfredo is that the cheeses you bring to the table can make pastas more smoky or savory. I found this amazingly delicious dish from Comfortably Domestic and it's now forever in my recipe rotation. I've made it twice at home and it is a HUGE hit.

For the ingredients and directions, hop on over to Comfortably Domestic

Reset button

I think it's time for me to push the reset button on this blog. 

Here's how my blogging cycle goes-I have an idea, I make a "I'm back and I hope to write more I promise!!!11!!!" post, then I run out of ideas, and then this blog runs dormant as spam comments fill up my inbox so quickly that it makes me dizzy. 

So here is my reset on this blog without the promise that I will update regularly. I mean, I hope to write more now that I'm out of college, have a full-time job and as a result, need an outlet to improve my writing and make my voice sound like less of a ramble of ideas (who am I kidding!). However, I can always hope to make this blog more integrated in my life as I head into Chapter 3 in my life. 

Let's see where this takes me.

Hair videos that every woman with natural hair should watch.

Hello everyone!

As I'm still working on the work clothes post that I had promised, I want to at least share a little something with you all, so here are videos that have keep me away from my flat iron. What I mean by that is that these videos help keep me on the track to have healthy and work towards having disrespectfully big hair. The advice in these videos can be followed by ANYONE, not just women with kinky curly coily hair. I hope you find these useful.

The ever so informative Naptural85 on how to grow long hair.

Whoissugar on co-washing while doing the Curly Girl method

RoleeBug  talks about her experience with the big chop

Do you have any favorite hair videos?

The Target Beauty Bag

About a month ago, Target Style ran an ad for their Summer Beauty Bag giveaway which had samples of "must have" products for the summer. Like anyone else who likes free stuff, I logged in through Facebook, gave them my information and they confirmed that my beauty bag would be here in 6-8 weeks. Fast forward to June 12th and this is what comes in. Was there anything that I could use in here? Well, let's find out.

Experimenting with: The Curly Girl Method

It's funny how two people can have a good, long chit chat over curly hair. The story is that me and my internship supervisor had a good, long discussion about curly hair-we talked about how to take care of curly hair, products and the eternal struggles of taking care of curly hair and the eternal enemy humidity. Well, one thing led to another and then she let me borrow her copy of the ever so famous, much discussed Curly Girl: The Handbook by Lorraine Massey and Michele Bender. So now that I've read this book several times, here's my takeaway:

My last semester

Hello, checking in again!

So I sit here 3 months after my last post (oops!) pondering what I'm going to make of my last semester in school. Weird for me is that my last semester is going to be 100% work experience with few seminars. No more lectures, no more hurrying to do readings at the last minute and (thankfully) no more exams.

This transition is going to be weird for several reasons. Weird in that I get to pretend to go to work for 3 1/2 months and yet, I can still participate in undergrad life as I am still an undergrad. Also, I have to wear real work clothes (in which I will update in a future post). The part that really hasn't hit me yet is that a lot of kids that I went to school with will no longer be there because they've already started their post-grad lives. So the days in which you can scroll through your phone book and just call up someone and say "Hey let's meet for lunch at Chipotle" are over because they're already at work...and technically, so am I.

Also, my new project is to make new friends as an adult. This sounds like an impossible task because a lot most people make these kinds of relationships in college. I have no idea how to go about with this except to go to work, make connections and sometimes, hit up a bar but I can make this happen. I will push my anxieties aside and make this work!

Anywho, this was such a pointless post except to put my thoughts together. After I get ready for my second internship today (eek!) I'll prepare that work clothes post as soon as I press the publish button! :D

Be great!

I WORK OUT!!! (NOW!)

It's okay...I was singing it too!

From this post on, I solemly swear to work out 3 times a week for an hour! For anyone dealing with emotional problems and stress, it is an excellent way to distract yourself from stress OR a good way to take out negative thoughts. As Memorial Day here in the US is right around the corner, it's a constant reminder that summer is coming and it's a pretty good idea that you get summer ready. I am tired of being out of breath after walking across campus, I don't want to rely on a pretty very good metabolism and I want to get healthy. GAUNTLET. THROWN!

My overall goal is to tone and to get into better shape. I'm not setting a date when I want to see results because I hope that this becomes a lifestyle change. Also, I don't want to lose any weight (I'm 5'2, ~115 pounds).

So my mission has been stated, here's where I'm starting: