Fishing!

We went fishing at Lake Perris at our favorite spot again. We always ask about other spots and have heard they catch in other areas but our area has never failed us. Today we caught 2 fish to take home and we caught like 4 others but they were too small.. One was a baby :'( All were either large mouth or small mouth bass.

So this is lake perris and we like to fish near the left mountain looking thing. It's actually an island and there's a piece that sticks out and you can fish behind it, in front of it or go a little further down and fish. It's the best place to fish (in our experience). We caught so many fish but had to let many of them go :(

This was the biggest fish we caught! Well Aaron caught it. It was 16 in when we came home to measure it. I swear it looked like it was 18 though..

Btw we were at Walmart on Valley Springs Pkwy the night before and found out they sell live bait as well!! And a bit cheaper. It was 25 nightcrawlers for $5.00 ish. I don't think the fish at Lake perris respond well to fake worms.. or the spoon bait.. or fake frogs.. because we've tried all three and we've only ever caught fish with live worms. Unless we're doing something wrong.. haha

Get paid through smartphone apps!

I decided to take advantage of my smartphone and download apps that pay you back! I got into some of them a long time ago but some of them are new. I'm writing these down to track down my progress. I did do my research before investing all my time into them. I am looking for a job right now but this is just for extra money on the side. (college loans are going to be a b*tch to pay off!) Unless you want to donate to my college fund! :P

These apps are in no particular order. I'm just going one by one on how it's listed on my phone.

I have an Android Samsung Galaxy S3 Verizon.
The first link will be for Android and the second will be for iPhone users.

Shopkick/shopkick (I have been a user for 2 years)
So shopkick is a point system app. You collect "kicks" and can redeem them for giftcards and prizes. You earn kicks by going through the Editor's books and collecting single "kicks" and also for walking into stores and opening up the app. You can also connect your credit card and earn more "kicks." They offer Target, Starbucks, Best Buy, Macy's, Old Navy, Sephora and more gift cards. They also offer Beats headphones, Coach bag ($300 giftcard to coach), a Vespa, iPad Air ($500 giftcard to Target) and other things.
 I have accumulated 60,473 "kicks" in total. I still have 16,060 "kicks" that I haven't used yet but so far I have already redeemed 4 x $25 Best Buy giftcards, 1 x $50 Nike giftcard, 1 x $10 gas card, and 1 x $10 Toys "R" Us giftcard.

Total: $170
6250 "kicks" = $25

Google Opinion Rewards (I have been a user since 02/06/2014)
This is an ANDROID ONLY app. It is a survey app and all you do is answer questions and get paid for your time. You cannot earn actual cash but you do earn cash that you can use in the Google Play Store. I believe this is good dependent on the area you live in. I live in the Suburbs while my boyfriend lives in an Urban area and he has made $6.03 while I have made $19.53.

I now have $25.18 :) (09/20/2014)




Receipt Hog/Receipt Hog (I have been a user since 07/2013)
All you do is buy your regular groceries and when you're done, take a picture of the receipt through Receipt Hog and that's it! You also get coins and can play a mini slots game to win more coins. I like this app because I don't need to look for certain things that will give me money back. All your grocery receipts will work. Ex) Target, Walmart, Stater Bros, Food 4 Less, Ralph's, Petco, Petsmart, 7-Eleven, etc.
1,000 coins will get you $5.00
1,800 coins will get you $10.00
3,200 coins will get you $20.00
4,500 coins will get you $30.00
You can redeem Cash or Amazon Credit. I have 3,805 coins. I have not redeemed anything yet but when I do, I will be sure to update and say if it worked of not! :)
I redeemed $30 Amazon credit for 4,500 points on 09/09/2014 :D 09/20/2014

Field Agent/Field Agent (I have been a user since 03/20/2014)
Keep checking the app because they are constantly updating with new jobs to do. You can also answer screeners to raise your Agent Score and to see if you are eligible for future jobs. Supposedly the higher score you have, the higher paying jobs you will get and you will have access to jobs first. Be careful to read all directions because if you fail to complete the job properly, you will not get the pay and your agent score will go down. Once you go below a certain score, no jobs will be available for you.
I have earned $13.00 for doing 3 jobs. One paid $7.00 and they sent me free carrots and dip to try out and comment on. The other was a $2.00 screener and the last was a $4.00 to locate a display and take pictures and answer questions.
I now have $26.00 from doing some random surveys :) (09/09/2014)

MyVegas/MyVegas (I have been a user since 11/08/2013)
So this is more of a game than an app. You play to win comps at Vegas! I have redeemed some for a $25 giftcard to coca-cola and a free breakfast at MGM (where I was staying). You keep playing slots to earn gold coins (loyalty points) which you use to redeem the comps. It is also a facebook game and you can link it to your mobile and your loyalty points will by synced. Your chip balance however is not synced. Facebook uses red coins as their chips and mobile will use purple chips.
*I have saved up 397,210 loyalty points (not counting the points I already used to redeem the gifts up above). Make the most and invite your friends to play and start earning to redeem for free comps!
Comps range from free appetizers and meals to free rooms.

Slidejoy (I have been a user since 05/2014)
This is an ANDROID ONLY app. If you guys have heard of locket, it's just like that. It's an app where it shows you ads on your lock screen and no matter which way you swipe, you can earn money. If you swipe right you continue to unlock your phone and if you swipe left, you can interact with the ad. It's only a couple cents per day but you get paid to unlock your phone which you already do anyway!
*I have made $4.70 so far and you can only withdraw every 3 months.



iPoll/iPoll (I have been a user since 05/24/2014)
So if you like doing surveys in your free time, I recommend this. You take simple surveys. There is also an online site where you can access even more surveys. You need a minimum of $10 before you can withdraw your balance. Some surveys online take a long time but the ones on mobile take a few minutes. Some are simple and can enter you in a drawing to win $25 or iPad. Others ask you to go to a grocery list and take pictures and answer questions. You get $5 just for signing up! I'm really unsure of this app though because I have answered a couple surveys 2 days ago and they are still pending. I will update whether or not it goes through or not because I took some surveys online which were around 10-20 minutes long and I don't feel like wasting time if i'm not going to get paid for my time.
*So far I have $20.35 and $5.50 pending. Best survey app so far!




SOTG/SOTG (I have been a user since 05/2014)
Surveys On The Go (SOTG) is also a survey app. Based on other reviews, depending on where you live, you get more surveys. I am currently in an Urban area but I live in the suburbs. It uses your GPS (if you turn it on) to find surveys near you. When you first sign up, they give you 6 surveys at $.25 each. You need a minimum of $10 to cash out. I got another set of 3 surveys at $.25 each two days later. I'm not sure how good this is but people have been saying good things so we'll see!
*I have $6.35 so far. Surveys don't come as often as iPoll.

Jingit/Jingit (I have been a user since 05/24/2014)
As far as I can see, you can watch videos and scan things at stores and it gives you direct money. There is no point system. Once you earn $3, you can apply to get their Visa card and directly transfer the balance onto the card! This is only the second day that i've been using it and apparently you don't get videos everyday so it might be slow trying to get money from the app. So far I got $.80 from watching videos and $1.75 for scanning items. I wasn't able to find some of them but the items are big name brand items such as Elmer's glue and Irish Spring Body wash. So far I have $2.55 (not enough to get the Visa card yet) but hopefully I will be able to and I can start using it when I buy small purchases!
*I got a total of $6.80 and recently they added redeemable gift cards and are giving an exra $5 to add toward your purchase of any giftcard!

PriceSpotting StockUp/StockUp (I have been a used since 05/28/2014)
I have been obsessed with this app! If you are annoyed with going around trying to find and scan a particular item that isn't there or is different from the picture shown, then you might be interested in this app! This app allows you to scan all grocery items, including health and beauty, beer, wine and spirits, baby and pet products. It allows you to scan items and find areas where it may be cheaper. The prices are input by people like us and is always updated! You are also rewarded with points to redeem for cash later on! The first 1,000 points you earn will get you your first $2 reward. Afterwards, every 1,000 points is equivalent to $1. That may seem like a lot but if you were to scan any item under the categories listed above, it will earn you 20 points. Also if you open the app, there are certain items that will earn you 30 points. I was able to get almost 2,000 points on my first day of scanning just from the items that were listed for 30 points on the app. They are also popular name brands such as tylenol and wheat thins. You can also scan as many as you want! Scan every flavor of wheat thins and you will get points! As of now, I have 13,559 points and have already redeemed my points for $10. They only allow you to redeem in $1, $5 or $10 amounts.
I have redeemed $150 through paypal. (09/20/2014)

Clashot/Clashot (I have been a user since 05/30/2014)
These apps are for people who take amazing photos! For Clashot, your photos will be sold for .99.
On Clashot, your photos are uploaded as "reports" and all photos will be available to be sold. Also, you can get monetary likes which is when a particular person likes your photo and you will receive a little bit of money for that "like".
Come follow me here :)
*Photos of mine that have been bought:
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Swagbucks (I have been a user since 07/18/2014)
All you need to do are watch videos. There are other things such as polls and surveys that will give you points as well as using their search engine. I really don't have the time for surveys so I just watch videos. Every 1,000 points is equal to $1 except amazon credit which is 450 pts = $5. For swagbucks tv, you will earn 2 pts every 5 vids. For android you can also download MovieCli.ps and Sportly.tv which will give you 2 pts every 10 videos you watch and on iphone, you can download EntertaiNow for 2 pts every 10 videos.
I now have 8,365 "swagbucks"(09/20/2014)

PerkTv (I have been a user since 06/27/2014)
There was around 2 weeks when I moved (stayed in the same state. different city) and for some reason the app kept saying users in my country were not allowed to earn pts... But for now, I have accumulated 72,296. This is only based on me watching videos. I answered some of the perk pop quiz questions for extra pts but I only got around 100 pts in total for the questions I answered. I wasn't really interested in answering questions. For this app, 5000 pts = $5 so I have around $72. Every 2 vids you watch will earn you 4 perk points.
I now have 83,332 perk points. (09/20/2014)


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These so far are the ones that I recommend! If there are other apps out there I wouldn't mind checking them out so please let me know!

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Written on 05/25/2014
Edited 09/05/2014

College!

I was taking 2 online classes and 2 on campus classes and I needed all those classes to transfer.
I was taking Psych 12, Psych 16, Poli Sci 1 and Speech. I already knew I got an "A" in Speech and a "C" in Poli Sci. I hate political science and don't understand any of it.. -.-
I knew I was/am going to get a "B" in Psych 16 (Lifespan Development) and I was just waiting for my Psych 12 (Human Sexuality) grade. I just looked online and got a "C"!! Not the best grade but a passing grade at least! I will be transferring to CSUN! yayyy!

Moving in with my best friend and rooming together. I know they say not to room with your friends but it's a new city and we might as well for the first year and see how it goes. Student loans is gonna be a bitch but I found out only Wells Fargo does student loans.. I checked Chase and BoA and they don't do student loans.. arghhh college is expensive.. I looked up houses and found places that would cost us around $600 (~$510 for rent and ~$80 for utilities and internet). I think it's a pretty good deal..
I'm so excited!

Pink Striped Nails

I did my nails like 2 days ago but I couldn't get a good picture of them but I did now! When I first did my thumb, they instantly remind me of Victoria's Secret. You can search up "victoria's secret bag" but i'm pretty sure you all know what it looks like. The typical pink and hot pink stripes or the pink and white stripes.

Now I was actually inspired by my blog theme because it was originally pink but my favorite color is blue. I may change it back to pink because it was pretty as well.

All the materials I used for this was just nail polish, tape and some scissors.

I didn't take any pictures of the process because I was too busy spilling nail polish on the bed.. haha -.- I swear it just slipped and twirled and landed on the bed.. don't do your nails on the bed!!

You just get the tape and cut it into thin strips. I didn't measure them but I found the easiest way to cut the strips is to lay the tape on the bottom blade and section off how thick you want your strips and then cut and let the top blade come down and slice it off for you. It's the easiest way. 

I used the pure ice "love" which is the lighter pink as my base and then pure ice "flirt alert" (darker pink) as the strips. Pure ice is only sold at walmart and maybe online through amazon. They're only $1.99 and they're really pigmented!

You want to wait awhile after you paint on your base color so that when you stick the tape on, it doesn't strip off the base color when you peel it off. 

Lay the strips (I used 2-3) for each nail and then paint the second color on top. Then hurry and peel the strips off. Try to strip them off the straight from the tip of the nail to the base or vice versa but don't peel in one direction. ex) Don't peel them off pulling towards the right or to the left because the strips will get narrow and you will not have nice equal lines. 

     

credits to Aaron Rodriguez for the pics ;)

Manners

Why do we need manners..

Because it's respectful..

It's what we were taught to do when we were younger..

And it keeps us classy!

Now what sparked this anger fueled post is that i'm staying at my boyfriend's apt for a while because school is out for me! It's a shared apt with 3 other guys and what pisses me off is when someone takes our food and won't fess up. You'd think that first of all you shouldn't take other people's food right? wrong. Someone is constantly taking our food. The first incident that really pissed me off is when we bought a pack of cinnamon rolls. Mind you we only ate 2 out of the whole box. There were like .. 16... or so.. And the next morning, we walked out and it's completely gone! We come out starving and getting ready to eat the cinnamon rolls for morning and nothing.

Now we asked the 2 other guys living here at the time and one is a close friend of my boyfriend's and he said he didn't touch it so we asked the other roommate. My boyfriend has lived with him before and the roommate has stolen food before and never confessed to it. Let's call him "D". So now we had this suspicion that "D" ate our food so we asked him but he said he didn't touch it either. Strike One.

Next was Halloween. You guys may or may not know that during Halloween, they start selling green tea kit kat bars!! They taste sooo yummy! So anyways around October, I was visiting my boyfriend and I bought a bag of green tea kit kats and I had extra pop tarts so I brought them over. I left them on the kitchen table while we went out to do errands. We came back and "D" was there minding his own business when I realized a lot of the kit kats were gone as well as my pop tart.. I'm really irritated now so we just ask him and he's like "Oh yeah I had some of those. Sorry." And I asked him about the pop tart and he was just like "Oh that pop tart thing? Yeah I saw it in the bag but I don't know where it went now." ... really.. He happens to be the last one to see it but not know who ate it. Plus he admitted to eating our stuff without even texting us if he could have some. Strike Two.

Today, we were eating our pita bread and hummus and  later on I got a bit hungry and I remember seeing my ice cream in the freezer yesterday so I came out to get some. GONE. wtf?! We're assuming it's "D" but.. come on. He's always been eating our food. My boyfriend already experienced him stealing his food last time he lived with him. So.. Strike Three.

What should we do?!

So far, we found that he had precooked meals in the fridge so we salted it. A lot.

Any suggestions?

By the way, we also have a new roommate who constantly likes to live in 84 degree weather.. The daily temperature outside has been in the high 90's -100's.. who wants to live in hot weather all the time?! He raises the temperature every night to the point that i'm sweating when I wake up in the middle of the night because it's so damn hot. We don't know what to do with him yet either.. grrr...

Pita Bread!

My boyfriend is taking a speech class and is doing a speech on how to make pita bread so I decided to upload the recipe here as well!

We used the recipe from http://mideastfood.about.com/od/breadsrice/r/pitabreadrecipe.htm but I'm a visual person so i'll be posting pictures as well! :)

Ingredients

- 3 Cups of flour

- 1 1/4 teaspoon of salt

- 1 package of yeast

- 1/2 cup of warm water

- 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar

- 1 cup of lukewarm water

- olive oil

1) You want to first mix the packet of yeast with 1/2 cup of warm water. Then add the 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar (we used brown here) and stir. Then let sit for 10-15 min until water it frothy. It should look like this when done!

2) While waiting for the yeast, mix 3 cups of flour and the 1 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Make a hole in the flour to add the yeast mixture in.

3)  When the yeast mixture is done, add it in as well as the 1 cup of warm water. Mix slowly and thoroughly and it should be sticky and elastic.

4) Flour your board and knead the dough for 10-15 minutes until it is smooth and not sticky.

5) Oil a bowl (preferably with a lid) with some olive oil and drop the dough in. Flip it over and take the dough out and put the non-oiled side into the bowl so it is oiled thoroughly. Now let it sit for 3 hours or until it has double in size. 

sorry for the blurry picture but we wrapped our bowl in a small towel because the weather here is in the high 90's so we have the a/c on.

6) Now you want to preheat the oven to 500 degrees and start rolling out the dough into little balls. This should make around 12 balls. You want to let it sit for 10 min while the oven is preheating. You also want to heat up the pan you will be using to cook the pita bread on so pop that in the oven as well.

7) We don't have a rolling pin so we just squashed the balls with our hands to make round circles. They shouldn't be so thick. It should be around 1/4 of an inch thick

8) With your heated pan, place the pita bread on it and cook for 4 min and then flip it and cook again for 2 min. You then want to push down with a spatula to squeeze out any air in the middle. 

Then eat with hummus and enjoy! I love tomatoes and we had some leftover from the other day when we made hummus!

how to make hummus

:)

Triple H!

What it stands for is..

Healthy Homemade Hummus!

Haha...

Anyways, so since it's summer and I have nothing to do, my boyfriend and I were craving hummus. We had just gotten one tub last week and it was my first time trying it. Yes I know i'm late with the hummus fad but I never really had interest in it and my boyfriend said it was amazing so I tried it. I'm addicted! :)

So we casually looked online how to make hummus and after looking at a few recipes, we decided to try it out. It seemed easy and it is! It tastes just like the Sabra original hummus!

Ingredients

- 2 Garbanzo beans (replacement for chickpeas)

-lemon

-1 clove of garlic

-tahini

  -sesame seeds

  -olive oil

-1 teaspoon of salt (to taste)

-grape tomatoes (garnish)

1) Now first we made the tahini because we couldn't find it. If you can find it, skip this step! 

You grind up the sesame seeds into fine "powder" and then add olive oil. It's supposed to be like a sesame paste but the consistency should be like pudding.

2) DO NOT drain the garbanzo beans. If you want, peel off the outer layer of the garbanzo beans. You can see the peels in the back of the picture! ;) After one can though, it got really tiring and it took around 20 minutes. Now since I accidentally already drained the first can, I was only able to use half of the second can and use all of it's liquid. Hummus is not a dry paste so you want to save the liquid!! You want to grind up all the garbanzo beans until it's a creamy whipped like texture!

3) Now to the tahini mixture, we squeezed half a lemon and a teaspoon of salt. We also minced up the garlic and added that to the tahini mixture as well. Then grind everything up again! You want everything to be finely grinded up!

4) Add the tahini mixture + garlic + lemon + salt and the grinded up garbanzo beans together and grind it up again! Now you want to taste it and add any more salt or the rest of the lemon in! We added the other half of the lemon.

5) Chill first then serve. It tastes better! You may want to dice up your grape tomatoes and garnish on top!

We had carrots that we were trying to finish so here is our final product! 

We made pita bread as well and those were amazing as well!! I will be uploading a pita bread recipe that we always use, next time!

Enjoy!!

Any critiques would be helpful! ;)

SUMMER!

Hello!

This is my first time blogging!
Summer is close (in 1 day for me) and I have decided to blog my way through summer. I have never liked writing diaries or entries because I’m lazy but I realize that when I do find my old journals that my mom made me write a long time ago, I love reading them. I like helping people as well and if I can do that through my blog, then i’m happy! I’m not qualified for anything that I do on my blog but I promise to try my best! After all, it is summer and I won’t be doing anything except getting ready for college and trying to find a job. 

Before I end my first post, I want to let you guys know about an app I just found out about yesterday. It’s called scantopia (<- android) and it allows you to scan everything in your house and at the store and wherever! It’s sort of like shopkick but you have the chance to redeem real change instantly. I say change because so far i’ve only earned $.10 for only 2 scans ($.05 each). I believe they give you change or tokens randomly. I did a little digging up and tokens are used to enter the “progressive jackpot” or “weird sweeps.” “progressive jackpot” is a jackpot that progressively gets larger the more people scanning items. “weird sweeps” is an opportunity to earn pretty nice stuff such as currently, they have the Acer C720 Chromebook, $100 Walmart Gift Card, and even a Punch Bag Laundry Bag. The “progressive jackpot” can go up to $1000 and people have been winning so it’s not a scam!

I’m hoping I win and I hope if you do try this app, you can enter my referral code 7R-CVG-7T. 

Scantopia (<- iphone) Can’t forget about you iphone users! ;);)