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On Friday night we watched The Descendants, last night In Time, and tonight we will go see Hunger Games!

The Descendants was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SAD. I cried A LOT. That did not help the swollen eyes situation. I miss my mom. To counteract the sob-fest we chose a dumb movie for yesterday, and yeah… it was dumb. I’m very excited for the Hunger Games movie tonight though!

We’ve seen a lot of Rosemarie lately. It’s so nice. Yesterday she came over to pick up her sushi helmet and her and Scott went to play basketball for a bit and then they played the NHL game while I worked on some homework and rubbed my eyes.

I like seeing them doing stuff together without me. :’)

We also played a game of Carcassonne and ate the dinner that Scott made (slow cooker potato soup and olive bread).

I’m feeling a bit better today. I’m well stocked with Halls and Claritin and anti-histamines and eye drops, plus I’ve been putting a damp wash cloth over my eyes when I would usually rub them and that feels really good. We’ll see how tomorrow goes– the forecasted alder pollen count is THREE HUNDRED (>85 is considered HIGH)!!!

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It’s super nice out again today. Too bad I can’t go outside.

These allergies have been really horrible the past couple weeks. My eyes burn and itch, my mouth itches, my face is sore, and my throat hurts really bad. Wahhhhhhhhh. I’ve been taking a lot of anti-histamines and trying not to touch my eyes. BUT IT FEELS SO GOOD TO RUB THEM. GAhhhhhhh.

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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.

The Eatery Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato

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Further research tells me that it’s alder pollen in particular that is rampant at the moment. Alder trees are apparently abundant in the Pacific Northwest, which maybe explains why I did not grow up with this problem in the spring. I looked outside our apartment but I can’t tell which tree is which because none of them have leaves yet, but I would not be surprised if some of them are alder. I looked through my blog from last year around this time and found nothing, but thinking back there weren’t any trees close to our windows at our old house since our entire yard was paved over, Vancouver style.

Of possible interest:

Hehe.