Patriotism

David had a meeting to go to at 5:30 yesterday. His meeting was in a building right behind the flag pole on campus. At 5:25 he rushed away from me because he was so worried about being late, and I started walking home.

At 5:30, I realized David had the only set of keys to our apartment.

I ran back to the building his meeting was in, frantically calling him, hoping he would have a chance to answer his phone. Unfortunately for me, flag take-down occurs right at 5:30. This means that people in uniform where patriotically taking down the flag while the national anthem blared over the speakers and 30+ people in the area stood still with their hands over their hearts out of respect.

I was frantically walking past all these patriotic people and was so embarrassed that I had act so rude so that I could get the keys from David.

Murder in the Kitchen

Today I was attempting to make this recipe for homemade Twizzlers.

My counter was covered in stuff from trying to make these.

One of the ingredients was a cup of beet juice. I was trying to mix all the ingredients on this really crowded counter, and as luck would have it, I spilled the leftover beet juice.

I had no idea until today that beet juice is the the most stain-worthy type of color. It looks like blood. Pure blood. And that is how it looked like a murder in my kitchen.

PS the recipe tastes nothing like real twizzlers and mine looked nothing like the picture, but they taste yummy anyways. They taste like fruit leather.

Broccoli Soup

I found this video where Gordon Ramsay makes broccoli soup in 5 minutes with just broccoli, water, and salt, so I went to try it out.

You blend the hot broccoli with some hot water to make the soup. And when you blend hot things, it is really hard to keep the lid of the blender pressed tightly. Trust me.

The soup is pretty yummy, but don't add too much water. Mine was very liquidy.

Cold Banana

If you go snowboarding, do not bring a banana with you as your snack. Bananas get mushy and gross in the cold, and then when you fall the banana will explode all over the inside of your fanny pack.

 Thank goodness only my camera case was in the fanny pack, not my camera.

Cardboard Box

If you have a cardboard box full of car things (oil, chains, jumper cables, etc.) in your trunk for over a year and you don't tape the bottom of the box, it will pop open when you eventually take the box out. All of your car things will spill all over the parking lot.

Blood

Welp. This happened today.

I give plasma sometimes, and today after donating I put my coat on and walked home. I took my coat off to find this gory mess. 

Bricks

Be very careful when carrying a box with a crumbly brick in it close to your mouth. Otherwise the brick will fall, get brick dust ALL in your mouth and down your shirt which will work its way down to the inside of your pants and will be so unpleasant.

I was carrying a box with a crumbly brick in it because in a class we crush a brick to find some of it's properties. I should not have held it so close to my face. And I should have closed my mouth.