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I painted my nails last night for the first time in a while. I actually have a brief reprieve from school work right now since I finished my last midterm and presentation, and finals are still two-ish weeks away. By “brief” I mean last night and today…. tomorrow I have to start studying for chemistry.

Anyway I think they turned out pretty horrible. I was trying a new technique called “dry water marbling”. Basically you paint nail polish onto a ziplock bag, smear it around a bit, let it dry, then cut out pieces and peel them off the plastic and stick them onto your nails.

It was easy enough to get the pieces stuck on to my nails, but it was hard to get rid of the extra bits around the edges. Plus my colour choices were pretty bad. I like both my index fingers and pinky fingers that are blending two similar colours together, but the other ones just look like messy lines. Blech.

I’ll try it once more and see if it turns out better next time.

We’re going out for the free dinner I won last week and I’m very excited for 7 courses of Indian food. I’ll write about it this weekend.

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Last week Scott and I went to use the vaneats.ca voucher I had bought for La Casita, in Gastown. We had been there before, and enjoyed it, so I was excited to go back.

The package was called La Casita Botanas and came with all this on a platter:

A. Chipotle Prawn, grilled in butter, garlic, & our special chipotle sauce
B. Chicken Wings, served with mole sauce on a bed of rice
C. Quesadillas, handmade folded tortillas with melted cheese and Mexican chorizo sausage
D. Cabbage Salad, served with avocado
E. Super Nachos, beef & bean salsa, cheese & veggies on fresh corn tortilla chips

The prawns were nice, perfectly cooked and pretty spicy. We only got to eat two prawns each. I wish there were more! The mole chicken wings (not pictured) were ok I guess, except they were really tiny and I don’t actually like mole. I’m sure it was very nice mole, but I can’t get past the whole CHOCOLATE element. To me they seem like dessert wings, which is pretty weird. The quesadilla was fine, although oily, because of the sausage meat.

The salad was awesome, very tasty and a nice fresh thing to eat in between the other heavier food. And the super nachos were delicious. The sauce was really yummy and melted the cheese, and the super crispy chips were so good. Definitely not healthy…. but…. delicious.

The platter was really large. We didn’t finish everything. Overall I was pretty pleased with the package. It felt really funny going to a restaurant and not ordering, but I kind of like that. Theoretically it should be some of their best stuff, shouldn’t it? I am not a picky eater, so I really appreciate getting to try a bunch of new things.

I also had a lime margarita. To be honest I preferred the margaritas we made at home the other week.

We sat in a closet. Haha.

Check out the vaneats website if you are in the Vancouver area because they have contests all the time where you can win packages (like the Indian package I won that we haven’t redeemed yet!) or you can just buy a package yourself. They’re pretty good deals.

Ha, this post seems like a sponsored post. Except…. it’s not. LOL.

La Casita Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato

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What to make when you are seriously craving sushi but don’t have a lot of time:

Sushi bowls!

All I did was cook some sushi rice in the rice cooker (then stir in a bit of rice vinegar and sugar), slice up tons of cucumber and avocado and a bit of nori. I sliced up some salmon and we topped it all with a little bit of soy sauce. It definitely satisfied my craving and took barely any time at all to make.

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Yesterday was pretty cool because I won a free meal on Twitter! Scott and I will get to have a 7 course Indian meal courtesy of vaneats.ca which is obviously awesome. I won the Siddhartha’s Nirvana package. It’s actually funny timing because we were already planning on using another vaneats.ca voucher tonight! I bought the La Casita Botanas package a few weeks ago and am definitely looking forward to eating it. I do love me some Mexican food.

The Sens loss was sad. Womp womp Canada. At least now my grades should improve a bit.

That was the other day after the Canucks loss. Lol.

Scott has been working very hard lately. I have barely seen him in the past three days!!