I did stuff!
Last week I was a sicky sickerson - sinus infection and fun fun chest congestion. After a crazy busy week at work on top of that, I took Friday off to relax. V also had off so we saw The last Airbender against my better judgement. I'm not sure I should even begin to rant about why that movie should never have been made. Totally unnecessary. Also totally unnecessary was changing the pronounciation of half the character names. Really? It's not like this was based off of some ancient literary text that's open to interpretation. It was too choppy, 90% of the plot was removed and 100% of the character development. He might as well have gotten Hayden Christiansen and Natalie Portman for Sokka and Katarra since he didn't really require any acting on their part.
bah.
Anyway - Saturday I took Riyan and Zoe to see the new Karate Kid movie after we had a marathon viewing of the first two original ones a couple weeks ago. It was far more enjoyable than Airbender.
I also did a LOT of cooking this weekend for various things:
- Bread and Butter Pickles - 12 half pints succesfully packed - will be ready in 6 weeks.
- Plum Butter - 3 half pints (wish this had made more)
- Sour Cherry Jam - 4.5 half pints (extra tart)
- Sweet Potato Pancakes
- Cherry-Rhubarb-Peach Pie (For Telf & Gene's 4th of July)
- Green Chille Habenero Burgers Au Poivre (same as above)
- Chilli Pork! (Bak Kua/Singapore-style Pork Jerky)
- Grilled Chicken with Balsamic Plum Ginger glaze
- Poached Salmon with Pink Peppercorn, Lemon and Dill
Also started a taking a belly dance class last week and so far it is a lot of fun. Ordered a hip scarf online today for practice - yay!