Homemade Marshmallows

Here are some more pictures of the homemade marshmallows we had at Aunt Cori's birthday party. They were delicious plain, dipped in chocolate, or roasted.

Kuchen

I tried making a new dessert. It's called Kuchen, and I'd never had it before, but Mom and Dad have. I don't think this version is really that close to authentic Kuchen(I wouldn't know.), it was made with peaches and sour cream. But I think it was better than cobbler, because cobbler never seems to work out for us.

Happy Birthday Aunt Cori!

We went out to Cristina's for Aunt Cori's birthday. It's really good, and about as normal as Mexican food gets here is Texas.


After dinner we hung out some more; laughed, told stories, and roasted homemade marshmallows with a lighter.


By the way, these were the best marshmallows I've ever tasted. Especially when covered in chocolate...


Oh, and then we ate some more. Cake. yum! Happy Birthday, Aunt Cori! I hope you had fun. :)

Room Invader

I forgot to mention...I had another little room invader. That's two now. Maybe geckos can smell fear...

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Mom and I FINALLY got to see Miss Pettigrew lives for a day! We've both wanted to see this movie for a really long time. The story was pretty weak, but it was a really cute movie.

The Story: Amy Adams is adorable. Miss Pettigrew has to help Delysia(Amy Adams) to stop being a floozy and pick a dude. She has to choose between...

A twelve year old boy(ew, look at him. He's icky.),


An old, rich, bossy dude(Lord Blackwood from Sherlock Holmes...),


And Lee Pace! Yeah, I'd go with that one too, Amy.(For anyone who hasn't caught on, I seriously like Lee Pace.)


Lee Pace plays a moody piano player(he actually learned to play the piano for this part! yes!) whose accent meanders all over Europe, but you can't blame him, becuase he's so dang cute. He even sings! No, he's not that great at that either, but who cares?! I love that he tried. Also, I love that he's in this movie.


Everyone gets a happy ending, which you pretty much knew from the beginning of the movie. Miss Pettigrew gets her man(Ciaran Hinds, who is in the bbc version of Persuasion and is in Phantom of the Opera. He's like one step down from Alan Rickman on the cool scale.), who leaves his woman(Moaning Myrtle) to be with someone who actually knows how to smile.

(Girlfriend totally has waltzing issues, so this whole scene is zoomed in on their faces, so you can't really tell. But no scene shows Lee Pace's fingers when he's playing piano, so he looks like he's faking. What's with that?)


Amy Adams realizes that Lee Pace is pretty much the cutest thing ever, and they end up happily ever after, in America, where Lee Pace doesn't need an accent.



And all the costumes are amazing. The end.

New Books

I got my new books for school! Wow, were they expensive! They cost more than all my classes. My pre-cal book was $200.


I probably could have ordered them online, but they weren't much cheaper and I knew I was going to freak out about whether they arrived in time. So I just went to the school bookstore. We were expecting it to take forever, and have to wait in line for hours, but there was no line. It didn't take long at all. It was way easy, which made me think that I'd done something wrong. But I hadn't.

Oh, and I also go my school ID. That was really easy to get too. Collin College is way less crowded than California schools I think.

New Level of Nerd

This is it. This is the post where I reveal that I have reached a new level of nerdyness never before seen. I knit a hermione hat. Nerrrd.


It's a replica of her hat in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.


I would love to knit her scarf too, but I don't know that I can find yarn colors that match the movie version, and I've never done fair isle knitting before.


Here it it! I worked on it while watching the movie and complaining about how it's not as good as the book; which I also read while knitting it...


Can you tell that Misty totally loves it?


aaaaaaand, lets just throw this picture in too. Because I like it. :P