Weekend

My long weekend was painfully uneventful. I went to bed at a reasonable hour every night and woke up at noon every day because I didn't have anything better to do. I cooked a lot. I made a Shepard's pie that'll make you slap your momma. I had the realization that I should cook with lamb as much as possible while I'm here because this is the cheapest I'll ever be able to buy it.

Just about everyone is home and it's kind of nice to have the unit loud and bustling again. I'm not so lonely.

I skyped one of my best friends, Hannah, today. That was really nice.

I spent most of my day at Emma's house watching Footie and trying to understand it. She gave me a huge stack of cooking magazines to read through and I've marked up all sorts of pages. I have so many new ideas now and I'm really excited to start trying them. I think one of the things I'm most excited about, though, is a recipe for a Port Gravy to be served with a Beef Wellington. I've been trying to come up with a way to give my wellington that extra edge, and I think I found it. Also, it turns out I left my phone at her house and Ash called it a few times until she called him back and said she'd bring it over tomorrow after class.

Tonight, for tea (which, by the way, when I say "tea" that means dinner or a meal of some sort) I made a burger that was just...huge. I stuffed it with onions and cheese and mixed the mince with salt, pepper, garlic, herbs, parmesan, and Worcestershire. It was good.

I was reading cooking magazines in my room when Will came in and told me that he told his mom that I just sit home alone at Res during the weekends and she invited me to come home with Will for the weekends! He said it would probably be a few weeks before he'd head back home but, hey, at least I'll have somewhere to go and something to do some of the time! Plus, Will is a real solid guy and one of the guys here I've gotten close with. We share a lot of similar tastes in music and tattoos, so I can't see how this would be a bad thing.

By the way, I tried Vegemite the other day. It wasn't horrible. It wasn't good. But they say if you don't like something, it takes a total of eight times to fully make up your opinion on it. So, I'm definitely open to having it again.

I think it's weird that everyone back home has spring break around now. I totally forgot about that. But check this out. I've got two and a half weeks off for Easter. BAM!!!

 Making this Shepard's Pie changed the way I will make mashed potatoes forever. So perfect. 

 Working late on Black Tar

 In the words of my man, Tyler Forster....SO YOM!

 Ash snappin photos post-meal 

Ash used these to write "Hey, call me (and then a number)" on the windows of our unit, using the numbers of several of the girls in our unit. He got in trouble when the girls phones started ringing... 

You remember Teish, right? The girl whose (is it whose or who's?) room I toilet papered two nights in a row and constantly terrorize (all out of love and good sport, mind you). Well, I short sheeted her bed. Can't wait to ask her about it tomorrow. 

Cheers loves

~Daniel