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Oh glorious weekend after a long week at school. We haven’t actually gotten that much homework yet, but being at school sucks compared to working at the hospital. I am looking forward to my first rotation at St. Pauls Hospital, next next week.


For some reason we decided to cook all sorts of things this afternoon.

I made oatmeal choc chip muffins, nutella stuffed choc chip cookies, and two mushroom spinach bacon quiches (although I should have just made one, they turned out really thin). I kind of want to cut out a circle out of one of the quiche and just put it on top of the other quiche. :/

Scott made that amazing looking cheddar jalapeno bread in the middle of the picture, and also tempered some chocolate to make chocolate covered strawberries. OM NOM NOM.

Now every single dish that we have is dirty. Also I have no idea where we are going to put all of this food. Scott said we should have a bake sale.

I think my nails turned out pretty cool last week. I used my nail stickers again. I like the bare nail parts. Pretty handy that this manicure doesn’t get messed up when your nails grow!

Well……… I don’t have much more to talk about at the moment so I guess I’m off to start the dishes now.

P.S. Thank you very much for all your nice comments on my last post. I appreciate them very much. <3

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After lunch we continued on to the Seattle Premium Outlets in Tulalip (just North of Seattle). We shopped for a couple hours but didn’t buy a whole lot. I got a pair of tall leather boots, Scott got a couple collared shirts from J. Crew, and we got a cheapo mandoline slicer that is now in the garbage. Piece of junk. The boots and shirts are nice though!!

Yeah there are some good deals to be found at the outlets but the truth is I don’t really need a lot of new clothes so I didn’t feel like buying anything. Things were still a touch more expensive than I am comfortable paying. Now if there was an H&M outlet somewhere… that would be different!!! (Is there such thing as an H&M outlet???)

On the way back we stopped at Trader Joe’s in Bellingham. SO FUN! We found so much good stuff there. It’s like Whole Foods, except NOT ridiculously expensive.

Our Trader Joe’s haul: Parmesan and rosemary rolls, papaya mango salsa (so good), falafel chips, 3 wedges of ridiculously cheap cheese, frozen ahi tuna steaks, cheap eggs, and milk chocolate covered potato chips. OM NOM NOM. Everything we’ve tried so far has been super tasty.

I was in to the potato chip bag even before we left the parking lot. :D

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The day before my school we rented a car and drove down to Washington to do some shopping. The line ups at the border weren’t too bad but then we had to go inside so Scott could get finger-printed, so it ended up taking us over an hour to cross. Bummer.

It was pretty funny after we crossed the border when Scott was driving 70 km/hr until I suddenly remembered that the speed limits are in mph, not kph. Haha. I bet people laughed at us. TAKE YOUR TIME GRANDPA, EH.

We got off the highway to get me some Taco Bell right before Tulalip but I changed my mind when I saw the Five Guys sign. I had heard about Five Guys before on the internet and really wanted to try it!

We got a small size burger each and one small fries and one small drink. The guy at the cash actually told us to just get one fries and one drink. They are so generous there they give you tons of toppings on your burger lke mushrooms and peppers and a bazillion fries and unlimited refills on drinks! It was definitely tastier than any other fast food I have had, the burger tasted like real meat and the fries were perfecto. They had one of those wacko pop machines with dozens of kinds of pop. We tried Lime Fanta, Mello Yellow, and Grape Sprite.

The people working there were super nice too. The guy at the cash noticed that we must not have been there before and asked if we wanted him to explain the menu to us (which we did!). Also he made sure to tell us that if we wanted more fries to take with us in the car they would refill the bag for us. And to take as many peanuts as we wanted. He even came out to the patio when we were eating to ask if it was good and reminded us that we could have more fries!


The small burgers were so big we didn’t need any refills of fries, haha.

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Only 22 more days left for me to complete my summer goals list!!

  1. Finally paint the cheapo wooden drawers we got from IKEA. I think I’m going to go do this RIGHT NOW.
  2. Make delicious popsicles in my new popsicle mold. once (strawberry lemonade). twice (strawberry frozen yogurt). thrice (strawberry raspberry vanilla frozen yogurt).
  3. Go swimming in the ocean for the first time in Vancouver. done!
  4. Ride the rides at the PNE. well we went on ONE ride. :/
  5. Watch fireworks. done.
  6. Finish my Settlers paintings.
  7. Sell a pair of shoes or a shirt or a painting.
  8. Go to one of the night markets in Richmond. done. twice, actually!
  9. Regularly visit the farmers market on Saturday mornings. once. twice. thrice.
  10. Read some books while I actually have the time. Insurgent (Veronica Roth), Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (Jenny Lawson), The Art of Fielding: A Novel (Chad Harbach), Geek Love (Katherine Dunn), currently reading Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn).
  11. Make a nicer looking menu planning board. done!
  12. Find a new person to play board games with. done!
  13. Try a new fruit. I guess fresh figs counts for this one.
  14. Do a successful venipuncture on a real patient. I’ve done about 75 now.
  15. Make a new blog header.
  16. Take more pictures. completely failing.

Last night was lots of fun. We drank enormous drinks that had candy in them and I ate SEVEN KINDS OF CHEESE in one meal!! (Our table shared a trio of fries [poutine, fries with gorgonzola, and truffle oil fries with parmesan], I had a three cheese grilled cheese sandwich, and my salad had feta in it). EPIC MEAL.

Scott stealing some of my drink.

I hope I can get a job at VGH next year. They are really fun/great people there.

Thinking of another challenge for me to do this month: take a photo of every dinner I have. I know I already post food pictures here and there on this blog but I only ever really post the special stuff. I think this month I’ll try to document every dinner so you can see some of our more regular dishes. We’ll see how it goes.

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PARTY TIME SATURDAY NIGHT IN POST. Scott is out at a Metallica concert and I’m in watching Gilmore Girls 2.0 I mean Bunheads. And I’m ok with that!!

We went out to the PNE earlier today. Scott’s work was having an event so we got in for free and they had a BBQ for everyone. I didn’t eat much there though because what is the point of eating boring BBQ stuff when there are so many other interesting food options to be had at the fair!!?!

It ended up being a double hot dog day. That’s a pepperogi hot dog. It had perogies and stuff on it. I had read about it on the internet last week and was pretty excited for it, but it ended up being pretty disappointing. It was so dry. I regretted choosing it. We didn’t finish it. We also had a slushie but that was it, I even passed on deep fried Oreo’s. Dunno why I’m so boring lately.

We also only went on one ride (Gravitron). Gah everything was so expensive!! And it didn’t make sense to get a ride bracelet on a Saturday. So we went home. :/

It is really hard to take a picture of the back of your own head!!! Also I should probably take pictures of my waterfall braid BEFORE I go to an amusement park.

Anyway so today didn’t end up being the most fun day ever, but it did make me even more excited to go to Six Flags Magic Mountain on the way to Fiji (hopefully).

Side note: I just saw on the Magic Mountain website that they now have the WORLDS TALLEST DROP RIDE. Scott is going to LOVE THAT!!!!

ALSO, what the heck, tickets only cost $39.99?? That’s like the cheapest good amusement park ever! I CAN’T WAIT!!!!

Lastly here is a creepy picture of myself doing a coconut oil hair treatment. I guess it made my hair a little bit softer but not really a significant amount. I think I’ll just stick to putting coconut oil on popcorn. (That is really good by the way.)