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.
Thanks to my friend Janine (my old roommate from first year of uni!), Scott and I got free tickets to the Vancouver Fan Expo, and the Canadian Videogame Awards. We just went late in the afternoon, but we still got to see a lot of people in costumes, and it was still quite busy!
The FanExpo was mostly about comics. But they also had a few things I recognized, like good ol’ R2D2.
And the Batmobile from the old Batman and Robin TV show! I used to watch that after school! BAFF! Scott and I watched the old live action movie as well on the weekend, to get into the nerdy mood. Good thing they packed that shark repellent!
That’s Robin in the Hawaiian shirt. I would not have recognized him if he was not sitting underneath his sign. We also saw Batman, he was very tan.
I really wanted to see Cameron from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off but he didn’t show up at his table for autographs at the time he was supposed to. Bummer. That is my favourite movie.
I wasn’t really in to a lot of the stuff they had at the expo. They mostly had old comics, t-shirts, and some figurines and stuff that probably never get taken out of their packages. I did like these wallets though, especially that red one in the middle.
ANYWAY. After the Fan Expo we went to the Canadian Videogame Awards. Since we were VIP we could also go to the VIP reception.
As you can tell from our pictures above with R2, we DID NOT KNOW that it was actually going to be pretty fancy! There was red carpet, and photographers all crammed into a corner, interviewers, etc etc. I kind of shrunk down as small as possible while I skulked past the media area, so no, I didn’t get my picture taken.
They had TVs and couches and consoles with video games to try that hadn’t even come out yet. There was also free wine and beer and snacks. We stuffed our face as much as possible while awkwardly meeting new people.
“Hi, I’m Bob, I designed this video game that is nominated for 4 awards. What do you do?” “Ummm…. nothing?” At least Scott could make small talk about games since he actually plays them!?! One lady said to Scott “She doesn’t play ANY games?” but then I butted in and said I always beat him at NHL 12. Hehe.
At one point Scott went to grab a beer from the waitress and she kind of leaned away and said “its for THEM” and then he turned around and realized we were standing in front of a group of actors from The Killing. Haha. They laughed, and Scott talked with them a bit. I don’t know that show but Scott had watched the first season so he could be a real fan.
He got his picture with this guy, Billy Campbell, from The Killing and The Rocketeer.
And this girl, who apparently dies in the first 5 minutes of The Killing (not even a spoiler). Haha. I just realized she is wearing a pixelated tie, that’s pretty cool.
They were filming the awards for TV but it wasn’t live so sometimes we had to listen to the same thing twice. It was pretty fancy for Canadian standards though, haha. None of the “celebrities” were really famous at all but when surrounded by normal people I guess the host of Reviews On The Run counts as a celebrity. Haha.
That’s a picture I found on Twitter, of the table that won 8 million awards (for Superbrothers, and Deus Ex). CAN YOU SPOT SCOTT? AND MY HAIR?!
All in all, a very funny night. I’m glad we went. Thanks J9!
Cherry blossoms are back!
The view on our street.
Well that sucks. Some company has bought jornakat.com so I guess even if I did want it back I can’t have it. Hopefully most of my old readers have switched over to this site anyway by now.
We made margaritas last night. It seemed like a good way to use up the cheap tequila someone left at our house a while ago. They were yummy and much better than drinking pop, which I seem to have lost the taste for.
I did my shift at the Open House yesterday. Before I went I was worried that people were going to ask me hard questions that I wouldn’t be able to answer, but actually once I was there I really wished people would ask ANYTHING AT ALL instead of just staring at us. It was awkward. Lesley and I ran a little booth where we had a Geiger-Muller counter and a tripad with two drops of hidden radioactivity that people could try and find.
It wasn’t very busy so instead I just ate all the treats they had got to bribe us into volunteering, and chatted with the second years and teachers, which was good. I finally found out for sure that yes we will be working full time, 5 days a week over the summer.
Well I should get back to work on my essay now. Need to get some more work done before our epic 1+ hour bus ride to my grandmas’ nieces’ cousins’ daughters’ moms’ (ok I exaggerate slightly) house for dinner tonight.
We had a nice Easter dinner with Rosemarie and Rob on Monday night. Rosemarie came over in the afternoon so we could have some sister-time while Scott was at work. Gotta squeeze in as much sister-time before she leaves!! By the way, have I mentioned that she’s going to FIJI FOR A WHOLE YEAR ON EXCHANGE???????!!!! SO jealous, although hopefully Scott and I will be able to visit her at some point so that is pretty exciting. She has started up her own blog so check that out: http://threepiece.wordpress.com/
Anyway back to last Monday.
Rosemarie and I made a tourtiere (French Canadian meat pie). It was actually extremely simple to make, and very tasty. Pie dinners are so tasty.
We also had salad, mashed potatoes, peas and gravvvvvy. Om nom nom.
Rob made us a nice fruity dessert. I liked the strawberry sauce a lot.
We played some Dominion, but that game kind of annoys me. Why are the rules so vague?? I always have this feeling like we are not playing the game correctly. We also played a couple games of cribbage with my new crib board that I found in the mail room. Scott thinks I’m gross for taking it, but I think it’s ok!!!
I had a big midterm yesterday and had a lot of work due this week so I’ve been studying all week. Very boring. We have today off though because BCIT is having an Open House. I have to go in tomorrow for two hours to help out. I plan on getting a big chunk on one of my papers that is due in a couple weeks today, but so far I’ve just been procrastinating. Oops.
I got volunteered to make a poster for the Open House about nuclear medicine heart imaging. I didn’t have a lot of time to spend on it due to midterm, so I just kept it extremely extremely basic. Does the poster explain anything new to you? Scott coloured in the letters for me while watching hockey.
Speaking of hockey, my dream of a Canucks-Senators final is not off to a great start. :/ I will continue to believe it could actually happen though, until one of the teams gets knocked out.
Ok really I should do something productive now. This is a busy busy weekend so I should not be wasting precious time.