Boeuf Bourguignon

We started our herb garden today (no not herb, these are all very legal, and I've never seen anyone smoke parsley), or me and Longhaired Roomie did anyway. Roomie was out shopping, although she stayed strong and refrained from purchasing anything, which is more than you could say about me. I went to the supermarket to get breakfast cereals, and when I checked out, I had around ten items in the basket. 

A certain amount of items did join because I figured i might as well start baking some Runeberg tarts now, to have as snack when watching Melodifestivalen, Sweden's auditions for the Eurovision Song Contest. Should be quite a spectacle, it always is, let's hope it's triple the entertainment now that they're hosts this year. Another reason for baking Runeberg tarts would be to give them to some people at school, as they've given us marmalade.

This would have to be the touristiest I've been in London in ages, I've never had the chance to climb the Trafalgar lions (they're huge and slippery, so I was a wimp and just climbed up on its pedestal).

 The Pose

 Made friends in the Rainforest Café shop.

 Let us not forget the post title, a little something me and Roomie whipped together yesterday:

 

 

*drool*

I happened to stumble upon a reduced piece of beef brisket. Enter red wine, garlic and other delicious stuff, and you have a classic from England's southernly neighbours, le frogs.

 

TA-DAA

Alrighty then. After being back in England for almost a week, it's a good time to kickstart this blog again! Assessments behind, we still have around two weeks of holidays left, oh yeah!

I've got a project list I'm chipping away at. I've already vacuumed the house, made chocolate cupcakes and right now I'm boiling chickpeas (not really on my list, but extremely exiting nonetheless). Soon to come features are: swimming, building a gingerbread city, and colouring paper.

An eternity project is cleaning the computer and moving files to my new external hard-drive (it's small, and red, and houses one effing terabyte (!) I didn't know you could get such astounding amounts of space in such a small package.

Other christmas presents I got this year include approx 2kg of chocolate (half of which I've already devoured), the comic book Fables 2: Animal Farm, some other books (one about cupcakes, one about How to be British, and one I picked myself: Are You My Mother? (more comics)). I also happened to find a pair of ownerless leggings in my room at mom's. It's a very interesting room in the sense that many odd objects find their way there in one way or another. I also got lip balm in the shape of a moustache from lil' sis. Very handy disguise for avoiding unwanted encounters at town, or appear more British. Oh, and Roomie is stitching a cozy for my warmwater bottle. Also got all kinds of interesting spices. And a set for making raw chocolate (allegedly very much more healthy than regular chocolate, ahem). If I'm missing anything out, it's not because of spit but since I'm senile.

I practically excel at travelling back to England after Christmas break. Last year I had fever and sinusitis. This year, the night before the night before the day of departure I came down with the stomach flu, so I naturally felt a little giddy on travel day. But it seems I managed to get most things with me, and nothing dramatic happened during our trip, so all is well. I felt slightly giddy the next day too, but I managed to submit everything I needed for assessment. In the beginning of February we'll see just how giddy I was.

Not very much else going on, been playing some video games (got a whole lot from my sweet brother (who's travelling Eastern Asia with our cousin right now), and also rummaged the Steam sales. . .), but I tend to more video game and move comments in my deviantART journal instead.

A couple of days ago it was like spring here, now it's like autumn. Waiting for winter, they keep talking about snow on the forecasts. . .

Valborgsmässoafton Vappu Dayday

 Long time no write. I've been rather busy writing another academic essay (2500 words written in the most incomprehensible manner possible). Well, the deadline was yesterday, in time for the Finnish "holiday" or party time (the actual holiday is Labour Day, 1st of May, and you're free from work then, which is why you can, and should have the craziest festivities on the last of April). In Finland, many desperately gather in parks to drink and celebrate, but it's always freezing cold, and raining. Yesterday we had tremendous luck with the weather - it was like summer! A good day to eat these:

Blatantly stolen from Roomie's blog, but hey, I made them, 

the picture is practically mine too!

 together with some sima/mead and sparkling wine! In the evening we ate tortillas with home made salsa, guacamole and everything else.

My birthday was really nice, it started with a bacon and scrambled eggs breakfast along with presents!

 I got cheeseknives in four colours from Roomie!

Sugardough in five different colours from Longhaired Roomie! She thought I resembled the mascot for the doughs:

Hello!

I’m Flossie Crums and I'm seven and three quarters.
I live with my mum, dad and my brother Billie.
I love parties and camping and chocolate chip ice cream, 

but most of all I love baking cakes and cookies 

for my family and my fairy friends…

I also got two beautiful works of art from Finnish friend and the lovely lady from my group!

In the evening we ate lambchops with haricots verts, a selection of ovenbaked vegetables with creamy sauce and rosé wine:

 

For dessert, there was homemade macarons with raspberry-lemon filling:

 

Mmmmm!

 It was good, thank you very much, everyone!

In other news, there's a new phone interview scheduled for thursday, let's hope it's for real this time. . .

Oh yeah and hey! We're going to London today! Whoopay! See, Longhaired Roomie is going there anyway, and there's the group ticket thing, plus her employer will treat us to lunch, so there's no reason  not to go!