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Rosemarie gave me a fun project to work on this week. She bought a white rock climbing helmet last week and wanted me to paint something on it. She decided that she wanted it to be a big piece of shrimp sushi.

I ended up using Sharpies because the texture of the helmet (matte, not shiny) seemed like it would well with markers, and I had a surprising number of pink and orange markers already.

I like the back a lot.

It was kind of a fun challenge to work in 3D. I was able to blend the colours a bit, because of the plastic-y surface. It’s dried up nice but I’m not entirely sure what will happen if/when it gets wet. I sprayed it with Scotchgard, but I don’t know how that will work since that is for fabric, not helmets. Fingers crossed!

I’ll have to get her to send me some pictures with the shrimp sushi helmet in action!

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Last Friday Rosemarie, Rob, Scott and I went to the Eatery for dinner. It was our third time there and since we are all adventurous meat-eaters now we went all out and got all sorts of crazy sushi.

We had tempura vegetables and tempura tuna to start. There are no pictures of this because we were all extremely hungry and wolfed it all down really quickly. We all thought the tempura was really well done though, better than average tempura. I don’t like how large they leave the pieces of broccoli and cauliflower, but that’s me being picky. Rosemarie REALLY loved the tempura green pepper… she wanted me to write that.

Here are the rolls that we chose:

  1. Papaya New Guinea: papaya, crab, cucumber, mayo
  2. Viva Las Vegas: crab, eel, avocado, cream cheese, spicy misonnaise (tempura style)
  3. Italian Stallion: prosciutto, papaya, eel, cream cheese, hot pesto sauce
  4. Figa Roll: figs, blue cheese sauce, tempura crunch, wrapped in prosciutto
  5. Spicy Salmon Crunch: spicy tuna, cucumbers, spicy salmon, tobiko
  6. Sweet Heart: spicy tuna, scallop, tobiko, black sesame sauce
  7. Electric Banana: eel, avocado, tempura banana
  8. Crazy Spice: salmon, tempura bits, hot chili sauce
  9. Tex-Mex: california roll covered with tomato, avocado, roe and salmon

I loved everything except maybe the spicy rolls (#5 and #8). Both of them were so spicy that I couldn’t taste anything else of that piece plus the next piece that I ate. I think the Crazy Spice roll actually just had chili and garlic Sriracha sauce on it. Would not order those again. But Rob liked them, so to each his own.

Top 3 rolls of the night:

  • Katrina & Scott both say: Figa Roll, Italian Stallion, Electric Banana
  • Rosemarie says: Figa Roll, Viva Las Vegas, Tex-Mex
  • Rob says: Electric Banana, Crazy Spice, Spicy Salmon Crunch

The fig roll was really really delicious. I have never really eaten figs before but now I want more because that roll was especially pleasing to my mouth. Mmmmm. We had tried the Italian Stallion roll the last time we went to the Eatery so we already knew we wanted it again. So delicious. And the banana roll was just cool, the banana was really sweet and tasty.

Rob and Scott ate all the ginger pretty quickly and asked for more and the waitress brought over a new plate with seriously more than a cup of ginger! We thought we were going to have to pay for that, but it wasn’t on the bill. Woot.

Anyway we all had drinks too like sake margaritas and the bill ended up being just over $30 each. Not cheap for us students but a nice treat once and a while for sure. The Eatery is definitely one of my all-time favourite restaurants.

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Well my March Break is nearly over and I’m dreading school tomorrow. I have not been feeling very well so that is not helping. I had two naps today!! That never happens! I’ve also never had allergies before, which I think is what is causing my itchy eyes and mouth, and general malaise. Scott picked me up some Claritin so I’ve started taking that and hopefully it helps.

In more positive news, I got my hair cut the other day and I really like it. Sorry that the picture is so blurry… that’s an Ubuntu issue, since my webcam looks a lot better when I’m using Windows. Not sure how to fix that.

I did my Transport of Dangerous Goods online training today. I am now certified to handle radioactive stuff. Kind of cool.

We went out for St. Paddy’s day yesterday but ended up just hanging out with Brian at his house and then going out for dinner at a non-Irish place because we didn’t want to wait in line and also pay cover to get into a crowded pub. It was fun anyway and my chicken burger was tasty.

OH also on Friday we went to the Eatery with Rosemarie and Rob but I’ll save talking about that for another entry because the camera is too far away from me right now.

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Scott, Rosemarie and I went to Mt. Seymour last night, with a friend of mine from class. They have ‘ladies night’ on Monday evenings so Rosemarie and I got our tickets for free.

We did a whole big equipment switcheroo, which I think is pretty awesome. We started off with:

  • me using Rosemarie’s ski boots and skis
  • Scott using my old snowboard and his boots
  • Rosemarie using her snowboard boots and her snowboard

but then Scott’s boots were too big for my old snowboard so Rosemarie and him switched boards. So everyone was using someone else’s equipment! Funnily enough we were all happier that way than with our own stuff.

Anyway the conditions were pretty abysmal. Well that’s not entirely true, the snow was lovely and there was no ice on the ground, but the visibility was TERRIBLE.

Night skiing + snowy ice + fogged up goggles is a terrible combination. I could only see out the bottom 1 cm of my goggles, and only when I was right underneath a lamp, basically. I spent a lot of my time blindly skiing towards the light.


It was my first time skiing since our family trip to Whistler, in 2003, I think. It all came back to me though and I really enjoyed it. Skiing was 98327987827323 times more fun than snowboarding at Whistler, so I think I’m going to switch back.

I really like that picture of Rosemarie!

I should have spent more time with Scott. He was really struggling by himself, but then at the end of the night I went and found him and gave him a little lesson on turning and even linking turns. By the end of the run he did 6 turns in a row! This was a breakthrough moment. I’m not sure anyone had ever really told him what he should try and do so he was doing some kind of weird switching back and forth thingy before, left foot forward one second, then right foot forward the next. Anyway I think he’s doing quite a bit better now and hopefully understands what to do a bit more. Too bad we might not have a chance to go again this year.

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On Sunday we made homemade Montreal style bagels. I used this recipe, and they turned out pretty nice! I was surprised at how simple it actually was to make our own bagels. We just had to make the dough, knead for 10 minutes, cut up the dough and shape it into bagels, then boil for 90 seconds, dip in sesame seeds, and bake for 20 minutes.

Before baking:

I forgot to take an after baking picture. They puffed up a bit in the oven and got a nice brown colour.