Thursday, June 8, 2017

Arroz Con Leche


Recipe: Arroz con Leche

Ingredients:

- 4 cups of water
- 2 cups of rice
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 1 can of evaporated milk- Carnation(12oz)
- 1 can of condensed milk- 'La Lechera' (14oz)
- Ground Cinnamon
- 3 Cups of Milk

Steps:

- Bring the 4 cups of water with the two cinnamon sticks to a boil
- Lower the heat (electrical stove: went from an 8 to a 3)
- Add the 2 cups of rice (stir rice occasionally)
- Let the rice cook until almost all the water has evaporated
- Add the evaporated milk along with condensed milk
- After letting the other ingredients simmer for a little while, then add the 3 cups of milk

Note: After you let it cool down, you may need to add 1-2 cups of milk (to taste).

It can either be served warm or cold, but most people prefer it cold.












Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Same girl, different zip code.

So many things have changed...

The move from California to Texas was a bit emotional. I love my family, and though they all have families of their own, I was certain I was going to miss them. But, there was a certain 'someone' that broke my heart having to leave behind; my German Shepherd, Sam. She has always been an outside dog, so the life in an apartment is definitely not for her. I am truly lucky to have family that know how much she means to me and that are able to take care of her for the time being. My brother has never been fond of dogs, and he is the one taking care of my girl now; Am I lucky or what?! I know that where she is at, she has room to run around and will not be alone for hours on end.

With all that said, not a day goes by that I don't regret not having her here. Every beautiful, sunny, warm, hot, cold, cloudy, rainy, day, I think about her; What is she doing? I could have taken her for a walk today... beautiful day for her to get a bath... heard its raining in California... I hope she is doing alright... is there thunder? glad she was never scared of it...

On Feb 6th 2016 she turned 3, human years that is. I miss having her around and having her shampoo smell in my hands. The drive from where she is to my zip code is quite long. She wasn't too fond of car rides and preferred walks instead. The again, having my brother there to take care of her and drive her around in the back of his pick-up truck when necessary can toughen her up. I am glad, because I don't think I could've done it.

Some may think that people with dogs are extreme for treating them like family members. But, dogs are indeed family members. Nobody can truly understand the joy and hassle of having a dog until you truly own one. To know that it is your responsibility to take him/her for a walk, to take him/her to the vet, to make sure they are clean and tick free, to wash their water bowl, to cry with them when their playmate and companion had to be put to sleep due to his age. Besides, they are the best secret keepers a girl could have.

Dogs have beautiful souls and all they need you to do for them is love them and take care of them. 

I miss my girl so much and I am glad that she is needed back home to be a guard dog. Love you Sam!

I do promise that one day, hopefully in the near future, I'll be able to bring you home with me. 

Me and Sam

Sam and me



My girl Sam

Duke and Sam

Duke and Sam

Duke and Sam

Duke and Sam

RIP Duke (12/02/2013)



Monday, February 8, 2016

Hardcover Classics

These Penguin Hardcover Classics are so beautiful and a must have for any reader out there. Hopefully I'll be able to acquire many of my favorites in this style.

These are the ones I currently have:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Emma By Jane Austen
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

These are the ones I wish to acquire in the near future:

Love and Friendship By Jane Austen
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Madame Bovary By Gustave Flaubert
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
The Hound of Baskervilles By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
The Sonnets and a lover's Complaint By William Shakespeare
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Les Miserables By Victor Hugo
The Odyssey By Homer
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Dracula by Bram Stoker

A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy
The Count of Monte Christo By Alexandre Dumas
Inferno By Dante Alighieri
Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Frankesntein By Mary Shelley
Bleak House By Charles Dickens
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Tales of the Marvelous and News of the Strange
Tess of the D'Urbevilles By Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd By Thomas Hardy
Gulliver's Travels By Jonathan Swift

http://www.penguin.com/static/pages/classics/hardcoverclassics/

Rory Gilmore Reading List: 340 Books

I remember falling in love with the Gilmore Girls show way after they were well into their 4th or 5th season. Luckily, my sister, a fan since the beginning, had the previews DVD seasons in her possession.
I loved how witty and smart and how they practically had a great retort for everything. Part of this I assumed, was because of all the cinema/historical/book references the show mentions throughout its 7 season course.
In the beginning I just loved the idea of reading. Little by little, as I started to find books that were interesting, reading started to become one of my hobbies.
When I found this updated list of all the books referenced in the show, I thought, "Why not?" I have read quite a few of these already but the fun part will definitely be to re-read them. Then, maybe after each one, I can write a synopsis, and encourage other people to read them as well! 
  1. 1984 by George Orwell
  2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 
  4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
  5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
  7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  9. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
  10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
  11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  13. Atonement by Ian McEwan
  14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
  15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  16. Babe by Dick King-Smith
  17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
  18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
  19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 
  21. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
  23. The Bhagava Gita
  24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built
  25. a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
  26. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  27. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
  28. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  29. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  30. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
  31. Candide by Voltaire 
  32. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
  33. Carrie by Stephen King
  34. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  35. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 
  36. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
  37. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
  38. Christine by Stephen King
  39. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 
  40. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  41. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
  42. The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
  43. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
  44. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
  45. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
  46. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
  47. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
  48. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  49. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
  50. Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac
  51. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  52. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
  53. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  54. Cujo by Stephen King
  55. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 
  56. Daisy Miller by Henry James
  57. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
  58. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
  59. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  60. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown 
  61. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  62. Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  63. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  64. Deenie by Judy Blume
  65. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that
  66. Changed America by Erik Larson
  67. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
  68. The Divine Comedy by Dante
  69. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
  70. Don Quijote by Cervantes
  71. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
  72. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  73. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
  74. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
  75. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
  76. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
  77. Eloise by Kay Thompson
  78. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
  79. Emma by Jane Austen 
  80. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
  81. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
  82. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  83. Ethics by Spinoza
  84. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
  85. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
  86. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  87. Extravagance by Gary Krist
  88. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 
  89. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
  90. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
  91. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
  92. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  93. The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
  94. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
  95. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 
  96. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
  97. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
  98. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  99. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
  100. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  101. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  102. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
  103. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
  104. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
  105. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
  106. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
  107. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
  108. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  109. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
  110. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
  111. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  112. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
  113. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 
  114. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
  115. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
  116. The Graduate by Charles Webb
  117. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  118. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  119. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  120. The Group by Mary McCarthy
  121. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  122. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
  123. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 
  124. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  125. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 
  126. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 
  127. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
  128. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
  129. Henry V by William Shakespeare
  130. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  131. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  132. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
  133. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
  134. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
  135. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
  136. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
  137. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
  138. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
  139. Howl by Allen Gingsburg
  140. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  141. The Iliad by Homer
  142. I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres
  143. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  144. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
  145. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
  146. It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
  147. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 
  148. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  149. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
  150. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
  151. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  152. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
  153. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
  154. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  155. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence
  156. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
  157. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  158. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
  159. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
  160. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  161. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
  162. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  163. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  164. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
  165. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
  166. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
  167. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 
  168. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
  169. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  170. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
  171. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 
  172. The Love Story by Erich Segal
  173. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 
  174. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  175. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
  176. Marathon Man by William Goldman
  177. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  178. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
  179. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
  180. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  181. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
  182. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken
  183. The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare
  184. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  185. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  186. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
  187. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  188. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
  189. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
  190. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
  191. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
  192. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
  193. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
  194. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  195. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
  196. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
  197. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
  198. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
  199. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 
  200. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
  201. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  202. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  203. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
  204. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
  205. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
  206. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
  207. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
  208. Night by Elie Wiesel
  209. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 
  210. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
  211. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
  212. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
  213. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  214. Old School by Tobias Wolff
  215. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  216. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  217. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  218. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  219. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  220. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
  221. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
  222. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  223. Othello by Shakespeare 
  224. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
  225. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
  226. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
  227. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
  228. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  229. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
  230. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  231. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
  232. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  233. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
  234. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
  235. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
  236. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 
  237. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
  238. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
  239. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
  240. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 
  241. Property by Valerie Martin
  242. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
  243. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  244. Quattrocento by James Mckean
  245. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
  246. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 
  247. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
  248. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
  249. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
  250. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 
  251. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
  252. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  253. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
  254. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien
  255. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
  256. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
  257. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
  258. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
  259. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  260. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  261. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
  262. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
  263. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
  264. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
  265. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
  266. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
  267. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  268. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
  269. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  270. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 
  271. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
  272. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
  273. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 
  274. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  275. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
  276. Sexus by Henry Miller
  277. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  278. Shane by Jack Shaefer
  279. The Shining by Stephen King
  280. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  281. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
  282. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  283. Small Island by Andrea Levy 
  284. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
  285. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 
  286. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
  287. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
  288. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
  289. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
  290. Songbook by Nick Hornby
  291. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
  292. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  293. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
  294. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  295. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
  296. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  297. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  298. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
  299. Stuart Little by E. B. White
  300. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  301. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
  302. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
  303. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
  304. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  305. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  306. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
  307. Time and Again by Jack Finney
  308. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 
  309. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
  310. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
  311. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
  312. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  313. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  314. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
  315. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
  316. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 
  317. Ulysses by James Joyce
  318. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
  319. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 
  320. Unless by Carol Shields
  321. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
  322. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
  323. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  324. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
  325. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
  326. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
  327. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  328. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
  329. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  330. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
  331. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
  332. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
  333. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
  334. Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
  335. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 
  336. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
  337. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
  338. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  339. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  340. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Sunday, April 21, 2013

My Puppy Sam

This is my beautiful female German Shepherd Sam


My top 3 name picks were: Emma, Samantha, and Riley.


Considering that my dog's primary quarters were going to be at my dad's house, my dad being Hispanic and all, I had to rule Riley out.

I was then going to try to play with Emma and Samantha for a couple of days to see which one I liked better.

As soon as we went to pick her up at a parking lot and I had her in my lap, I knew her name had to be Samantha; Sam for short.

I read that puppies can get confused easily and therefore should only go by a name and recommended to not use a nickname. Surprisingly she answers to both.

Since we got her we all have been calling her SAM.... so it should be a safe bet my puppy will eventually understand that that's her name.

I can't wait to start teaching her how to SIT, STAY, DOWN (to lay down), PAW (to shake paw) for starters... 

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles, CA

Ever wondered how to get to the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles?

Just type this address onto Google Maps and you will get to a road that has a plethora of different places alongside it in which you can take awesome pictures.

CANYON LAKE DR, LOS ANGELES, CA 90068

There are a lot of little streets so I would recommend to keep a map handy or a fully charged cellphone with the google maps app just to make sure you don't make a wrong turn.