Friday, September 29, 2006
my birthday gifts put to use
for my birthday a few weeks ago, i got a couple’a coolio gifts.
the first one i got on my birthday day from perry… it’s oh-so-much fun!!!!! =) one of my students texted me on tuesday “don’t forget to bring ur ds to school” and we battled out super mario on the wifi network. isn’t that awesome? it’s pretty neat =) so far i only own “the new super mario bros” and “brain age” but i hope to one day soon own “tetris”... and if you have any other games to suggest to me lemme know please =) i just beat the mario game so i’ll be looking for a few to buy.
thank you perry for my nintendo ds lite! =)
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a couple of days later i arrived at home and puttered around for a bit before i saw a package on the end table unopened. i thought it was for rita and curious, i looked at where it was from. that’s when i saw my name on the label. SHOOT! it was for me!!! i was so excited, i had NO idea what it could be… perry was there and i asked him if he sent me something =) hahaha… then i opened it and found this really sweet knife compliments of kathy and susan.
i wanted to test it out on a variety of vegetables, especially the dreaded tomato, which i love eating but has always proven difficult to cut. so i started out making some ceviche.
here’s all the vegetables in their glory, laid out on the table, washed, and ready to be cut with the knife.
the vegetables, diced, and all piled up in a shallow bowl
the ceviche all made and ready to be marinated. you can’t tell but this bowl is as deep as it is wide. yeah… there’s 1.4 pounds of imitation crab in there, along with 8 tomatoes, 2-3 red onions, 6 green onions, 2 mexican green onions, one yellow bell pepper, one green bell pepper, half a bunch of cilantro, 3 jalapenos, and ton of lime/lemon juice. and garlic salt. man… it was SOOOO good. there were 12 people total for dinner that night (me, perry, chad, ron, jason hinkle, laurie, rita, jason, marlene, marc rolle, jeff swanson, and rowell) and we totally killed the ceviche along with the 1.5 pounds of lentils that i made…
after cutting all the vegetables (and 3 more tomatoes to go in the ceviche and lentils), these are all that i had remaining. those green tomato things are tomatillos that i bought to add bulk to the ceviche without having to buy tomatoes at $2.99 A POUND!!!! but then i didn’t end up using them. other than that, i only had a little bit of cilantro left.
i absolutely loved using my new knife and i thought i would share the joy of ceviche with you since kat and susan shared the joy of wonderful kitchen utensils with me =) that knife was some good stuff… and i know everyone loved the ceviche.
now i wanna go eat some more… =)
thank you kat and susan!!!
Sunday, September 17, 2006
getting caught up on my photos
ever since i started school/work again i’ve been slacking on my posts, but i’ve still been busy hangin out with friends and taking lotsa pictures. today has been a lazy day and so finally i had time to go through my photos, pick the good ones, touch ‘em up, and send them to costco for printing! here are a few of my favorites that got printed today (it’s also what i’ve been doing for the past 3 weeks or so...):
i went fishing for the first time ever and caught four of these bad boys! chad cleaned the first fish and then i did three of ‘em =) quite a step for the “vegetarian” that i am =)
yuko helped daryl celebrate his birthday here the day before they left for japan
me, rita, and shelia at maria’s =)
we went to hollywood to celebrate ching’s birthday
having a lotta fun with the camera… this is one of the tamer pics from our night out!
the birthday girl with her friend dMarr
this is hannah and her friend right after the opening night of “CATS” the musical
both hannah and “science kim” performed in the two week run of the play
with the roomies at my 27th birthday…
perry bought me this rose while we were at sevilla’s celebrating my birthday
and we had a lotta fun taking pictures with it!
later that week we went to moon and jess’s wedding
perry and carlo had a lotta fun with the wedding cupcakes… i’m telling you, they’re boyfriend-boyfriend!!!
me & perry at the wedding reception
jaime cracks me up… carlo wanted some iced tea and jaime kept on pouring it so that it almost overflowed.... so carlo couldn’t pick it up. check out the tiny straw he’s using! =)
all of yammerz at the wedding…
me and celeste at the campout
the entire school at the campout
that pretty much brings me up to speed… this weekend was fun… and i’ve been very unproductive today except for the pictures… so i hope you enjoy them! it is all that i did today =)
Friday, September 08, 2006
happy birthday to me!
on thursday night i got home around 10:30, tired, and ready to go to bed. rita was just about to go to sleep too… but then she decided that if i was gonna turn 27 at midnight, then we’d better stay up for it!
so… hungry and tired, we camped out on the living room couches, called perry to bring us some food and ring in my birthday with us, and he came - with fish fillets, chicken nuggets, french fries, and apple pies.
at midnight, rita and perry somewhat sang to me =) well… sorta....
it was cool though, cuz then they decided to light a candle so i could blow it out and make my wish - and we realized the smallest candles we had in the house were tealights! and then we didn’t really have anything to stick it in, so we put it right next to the apple pie.
and then we put ‘em next to the chicken nuggets…
and then i blew out the candle on top of the fish fillet!
and then we made a mountain of fries and lit the candle in that!
can you tell it was really late at night? =)
anyways, as ghetto as it may look, it still was a very creative way to bring in my birthday!
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