Beat This

Ok ok, so I'm bad at updating this regularly. We've been busy.

To catch you all up:

1. We bought a house

It's wonderful! The roof went on a week late which caused some freaking out, but it all worked out in the end.

2. We painted the house (by "we" I mean Andrew, me, Nicole, Robert, Addy, Peter, Laura, Papa, Paige, Jennifer, LeeAnn & Ryan) I'll go over it more next post.

The living room got a two-tone stripe. It's beautiful and it makes me happy :)

The office we painted purple

The master bedroom we painted blue.

Sushi

I made my second round of sushi last night. It came out way way way better than my first attempt. I just need to know how to make less rice. I took pictures. I'll post them later :)

Stuff I improved upon between last time and this time:

1. I rinsed the rice so we didn't have "smelly rice"
2. I figured out how much rice to use in hosomaki and futomaki without exploding the rolls
3. I figured out that if I under fill, I will never explode a roll, but I did figure out how much filling is appropriate to have in a nice, not under filled or exploded roll
4. I timed everything better
5. I successfully attempted uramaki by lining the rice with sliced avocado (it looks like the retarded baby brother of the Dragon Rolls they make at Publix)

Andrew is the best :)

Fair

We went to the fair on Sunday. It was a lot of fun. The petting zoo was the best part. They had a baby Scottish Highlander. He was a cutie. He had tiny little horns that you could barely see through the shag. I wanted to hug it. You couldn’t see his eyes though. I was trying to see them, but he kept looking right at me preventing me from seeing them. I shouldn’t have fed him first. But it was worth it. He was like a sheepdog cow. So adorable!

There were lots of goats and rabbits and chickens, but there was a cute baby zebra and a joey as well as baby alpacas and chicks. The alpacas felt like a 4 inch thick fleece jacket. Almost as soft as the bunny we got to pet.

There were pigs too. Not the pettin’ kind, but the huge prize winnin’ kind. Seriously huge. Like the size of my desk at work huge. Or our couch huge. One was a baby, I guess, and he was itchy. It was cute to watch him scratch.

Tonight we are going to a TSO concert. It should be fun! :D

Today’s gripes:

1. I live in Florida. Born and raised. Used to it. Don’t know anything else. I’m not used to this 0% humidity. I need at least 50% or else my hair is like one big static electricity generator. And stick straight. Oh where, oh where has my humidity gone?
   
2. Why so cold? My arm is like ice. I’m sorry for whining about it yesterday. I know it was getting old. But it’s still cold today. Cold outside. Cold in the apartment. Cold in the office. The only place it’s warm is the car and I had to get out of it to go to work. >:(

More cute pictures to make everyone feel happy:

• Uh oh
• New Trading Spaces
• Vacuum
• Unicorn cat
• Grr!
• Monkey see…
• Bro!
• Muppet
• Elephant seal
• Beached plane
• "Win"
• Windows is wonderful
• Best ramp ever
• My hero is…
• Pretty drink