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Make a Sweet Treat in June

Welcome back to the Arrive on University blog. We’re excited to share a new twist on a classic treat. Even if you’re not an expert baker, we’ve got some treat ideas that anyone can make. Baking is an activity that results in the best finished product! Take some time out of your day and try one of these yummy recipes. Your Dallas, Texas kitchen is the perfect place to whip up something delicious. Remember those little desserts you used to tuck into your lunch box? Today we’re revisiting those! We love the classic Rice Krispie Treat, of course, but this new twist is a must for us. At Sweet C Designs, they traded the rice cereal for Lucky Charms in their Homemade Lucky Charms Treat recipe. INGREDIENTS 3 cups marshmallows (if using jumbo, make them heaping cups) 4 cups Lucky Charms ¼ cup butter, salted INSTRUCTIONS In a large pot, add butter and begin to melt on medium. Add marshmallows and stir constantly until mallows melt. You may see slight browning- if your mallows aren't fully melted as the sugar browns, pull them off the stove and continue stirring. They should melt from the heat. Add lucky charms to a pan and stir well to combine. Pour mixture into well-greased casserole dish and let cool. When set, cut and enjoy! Another treat we all love is that typical chocolate chip cookie! This one is a little thicker and chewier than something you may be used to. We think it will slowly become one of your favorites. The recipe comes from Sally’s Baking Addiction . They are described as “An easy, no-mixer required recipe for super chewy, soft, and perfect chocolate chip cookies.” We hope you love these sweet treat recipes. Share your favorite treat to make in your apartment by leaving a comment below.

Write a Poem in May

Welcome back to the Arrive on University Blog. This month, we’re inviting apartment residents to embrace their creative side and one of the ways we’re doing that is by writing poems. Poems are great tools you can use to spark creativity and inspiration. Whether you’re taking it easy in your Dallas, Texas apartment or just want to have a little creative fun, writing poems is a great activity for every situation. This month, we’re focusing on an online poem generator . After clicking on the previous link, select the style of poem you’d like to create. Then, fill in the blanks. It’s that simple. Here are a few poems we created using the poem generator: Pool - A Haiku by The Blog Sunshiny summer when a larger, large pool sings in spite of the work The Shiny And Sharp Keys A Poem by The Blog Whose keys are those? I think I know. Its owner is quite happy though. Full of joy like a vivid rainbow, I watch him laugh. I cry hello. He gives his keys a shake, And laughs until his belly aches. The only other sound's the break, Of distant waves and birds awake. The keys are shiny, sharp and deep, But he has promises to keep, After cake and lots of sleep. Sweet dreams come to him cheap. He rises from his gentle bed, With thoughts of kittens in his head, He eats his jam with lots of bread. Ready for the day ahead. With thanks to the poet, Robert Frost, for the underlying structure. Bacon Free verse by The Blog One afternoon I said to myself, "Why isn't the fatback more sour?" Does the fatback make you shiver? does it? I cannot help but stop and look at the savory meatloaf. A meatloaf is mouth-watering. a meatloaf is unsavoury, a meatloaf is tasty, however. When I think of croutons, I see a crust. Do croutons make you shiver? do they? Bacon is, in its way, the marshmallow of national leader. Does the bacon make you shiver? does it? Every generated blog that we’ve played around with has not made the most sense, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t had fun working on them. Share your favorite poems with us by leaving a comment below. We hope you have a great month of May!

Movie Time in Your Apartment

This month, invite a few friends over to your apartment in Dallas, Texas and watch one of these great movies from last year. Some people might argue that there’s no better way to relax than to sit back with a bowl of popcorn and enjoy a movie, or six. Battle of the Sexes “In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women’s movement, the 1973 tennis match between women’s World #1 Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-men’s-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) was billed as the BATTLE OF THE SEXES and became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world.” Kingsman 2 “Kingsman: The Secret Service introduced the world to the Kingsman — an independent, international intelligence agency operating at the highest level of discretion, whose ultimate goal is to keep the world safe. In Kingsman: The Golden Circle, our heroes face a new challenge. When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US called Statesman, dating back to the day they were both founded.” Stronger “A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.” IT “When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.” The Lego Ninjago Movie “Six young ninjas Lloyd, Jay, Kai, Cole, Zane and Nya are tasked with defending their island home, called Ninjago. By night, they're gifted warriors, using their skills and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they're ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy: high school.” American Assassin “AMERICAN ASSASSIN follows the rise of Mitch Rapp (Dylan O'Brien), a CIA black ops recruit under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton). The pair is then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets. Together the three discover a pattern in the violence leading them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent (Shiva Negar) to stop a mysterious operative (Taylor Kitsch) intent on starting a World War.” Let us know in the comments the movies that you’ll be watching in your Arrive on University apartment.

Get the Most out of Your Apartment's Space

Understanding how to utilize the space in your apartment can be difficult, and many people don’t even know where to start. We want you to get the most out of your living space here at Arrive on University in Dallas, Texas. Our floor plans run from the mid-700s to over 1,000 square feet. See if one of these storage hacks works for you! Buy folding furniture. Chairs, beds, and even tables are available as foldable furniture. These function great and take up little space when put away. Ask, “Do I need this?” Is there anything in your apartment that you haven’t used in over a year? Think critically about the items that you own and entertain the possibility that you don’t need to keep it around. Odds are, if you haven’t used it in years, you probably won’t in years to come, so get rid of it. Work your way upwards. Square footage extends from wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling. Get the most out of this space by using taller shelves. You can also try to stack shorter shelves on top of each other. If you’ve got the right shelves, you’d be surprised how much space can open up! Create different “zones” in your apartment. Organizing your living space into zones — where you eat, relax, play — can make a room feel new and larger. Keep items in their correct zone and you’ll be sure to see a difference. Make a spot for tiny items. Do you have a drawer filled with small possessions? Things like jewelry can clutter a drawer. Find a box or make something to house your small possessions. Then, use the drawer for something larger. Store your bed sheets under your mattress. Instead of taking up precious shelving space, place your folded bed sheets under the foot of your mattress. You won’t see or feel them, and you’ll have more room on your shelves. Hang your laundry bag. Switch out that laundry basket with a bag that you can hang on the back of your bedroom door. Get the most out of the space in your apartment by trying out a few of these space-saving tips! Did you find one that works for you? Let us know in the comments. Thanks for reading!

Fall in Love with a Book

This February, fall in love all over again with a book and a warm drink. In today’s blog post, we’re sharing a few of our favorite books. Your Arrive on University apartment is the perfect place to relax and get lost in a great story filled with mystery, fantasy, adventure, and more. Grab a cup of your favorite drink, wrap up in a cozy blanket, and settle in for a relaxing evening in Dallas, Texas. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult — “Jodi Picoult is never afraid to take on hot topics, and in Small Great Things, she tackles race and discrimination in a way that will grab hold of you and refuse to let you go. . . . This page-turner is perfect for book clubs.” — Popsugar Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman — “A compelling account of what happened to the Clark family and its fortune . . . a tremendous feat.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda — “Are you paying attention? You'll need to be; this thriller will test your brain with its reverse chronological structure, and it's a page-turner to boot.” — ELLE The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell — “Gladwell, a New Yorker staff writer, offers an incisive and piquant theory of social dynamics that is bound to provoke a paradigm shift in our understanding of mass behavioral change. Defining such dramatic turnarounds as the abrupt drop in crime on New York’s subways, or the unexpected popularity of a novel, as epidemics, Gladwell searches for catalysts that precipitate the ‘tipping point,’ or critical mass, that generates those events.” — Booklist We think you’ll certainly love some of these books. If you are a member of a book club, these would be great choices to read, along with others. Be sure to recommend your favorites to your friends. Check back next time for another great post like this one.

13 Quotes for Inspiration

The new year is finally here. To celebrate, we hope you took the time to write down a few goals of things that you would like to achieve throughout 2018. If you haven’t written anything down, take a few minutes in your Arrive on University apartment to record a few goals that you’d like to achieve by the year’s end. We hope that these 13 quotes will help inspire you as you go about your days in Dallas, Texas as you strive to achieve your goals. Walt Disney “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” Cavett Robert “Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” Kahlil Gibran “Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.” George Weinberg “Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.” Kelly Martin “Remove 'shoulds' from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.” W.P. Kinsella “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” Tony Robbins “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” Pope John XXIII “Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.” Vern McLellan “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” Melody Beattie “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.” George Addair “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” Chinese Proverb “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” Which quote inspires you most of all? Share in the comments below. Thanks for reading.