Vinegar Hands

Day 10!

I spent six hours in the Student Center today working for the General Store in preparation for the 'Iolani Fair this coming weekend!

First, we packed some pickled onions. Oh, it looked so good. And with the chili peppers, aiiiyyyyooo. But my hands still smell like vinegar.

Then we made Tiffie's guri guri. I've never tried guri guri, and if you don't know what that is, here's a link. I think it's a cross between ice cream and ice cake. There were two flavors, orange and strawberry, and we made batch after batch after batch...they all smelled so good. I think I'll try to make some this summer. The recipe wasn't too hard.

Then came the hardest part of the day: coconut and pineapple cookies. Scoop dough, roll into balls, chill trays, take out trays, press cookies, place pineapples, smooth edges, then into the oven! We didn't do all of that at the same time, though, but it was, to quote another volunteer, "labor intensive."

Now if you know me, then you know about my irrational...fear...or more like apprehension...for pineapples. We used candied pineapples, but STILL. It's the same thing!

While we worked in the morning, some other workers were cooking the huli beef in the kitchen. And I'm a carnivore, and Is loves mes mys proteins, and it smelled like HEAVEN.

Anyway, it was a hard day, but it was also fun at the same time. I've never really gone (legitly) to the family fair before because States has always been on the same weekend, so I don't really know what I'm missing every year. Which is sad if you really think about it. Working pre-fair shifts every year kind of reminds me of that--I get to bake cookies, but I don't get to enjoy them at the fair with my friends. And I also realize, whenever I work before the fair, just how much work and effort goes into these two days of fair fun.

Moving on, Kendall alluded to something obnoxious that he does in his post yesterday. He tends to correct/laugh at me whenever I don't do or say something that he does differently. And yes, I do get annoyed sometimes, but it's not like I don't annoy him either. Actually, I think one of the obnoxious things that I do to him is that I tend to complain about my stress a lot to him. I don't usually complain to anyone else but him. So I am going to have to work on that, too.

And yes, we've been having more views lately! And that's awesome! But that may just mean that there are only one or two of you who just keep coming back. Which is still awesome! If you don't know Kendall, or if you have never talked to him, please do so! You don't know what you're missing!

Okay, I have to get back to my homework now.

If you can, make sure that you go to the 'Iolani Fair this weekend, April 14-15, Pa'ina in Paradise. There will be great food, games, entertainment and fun! And please support the Junior Class of 2012 by buying malasadas! Go Raiders!

TODAY......
I really loved...special limited-edition OREOS!
I smiled because...of that cookie dough smell!
Lyrics playing at this very moment as I type this portion of the blog:
"...I wanna show you a different emotion..."
(Have You Ever Been by Jimi Hendrix)
Hours of sleep last night: 6 (slept late)
Times it got COLD today: 0...well, maybe 0.5. Ahh, never mind. 0!
Friend(s) of the day: Pre-fair shift workers

--Jen :)

KEY--III

Day 2!

Okay just a thing: April is the busiest month for me. I have every Saturday this month filled and it's the fourth quarter and States for speech and debate is coming up and AP tests are coming at me like a herd of angry wildebeests (yes, it's spelled with two e's). And if you are one of our regular creepers who stalk this blog (hey there!), you should already know that I'm the stressed out and paranoid half of this friendship. But if you're new here, well, now you know. I will try my best to have really good posts but I apologize in advance if they're not as awesome as you expect them to be. Most of my posts will probably be about how stressed I was the whole day or how stressed I am about writing my posts or how I have so much work to do. And you'll just have to read all of it. Or not. You could just skim it. Which is why I have the TODAY... portion of this blog; that's something I've never done before and it's kind of cool, right? Right? Anyone else think it's cool? No? Just me? Oh ok.

Anyway, my Saturday. I woke up early because I had to be in school at 8am for the AP English workshop. I didn't expect that most of workshop would be, you know, work. I thought it would be mainly lecture-based. Guess I was wrong! We actually wrote an essay and did the multiple choice part of the test. But it helped. And it was cold. 'Cause it was at Seto Hall and it always gets cold in there. I wore a jacket.

I saw Kendall after the workshop. He took the National Spanish Exam today in the morning, and he probably talked about it in his post, I don't know, I haven't read it yet. I already took the test on Thursday. Anyway, he was wearing a DFTBA shirt. I have the same exact shirt, except it's huge because it was supposed to be Kendall's but it was a bit too small for him so he gave it to me. Although I swear his shirt looked like it was way smaller than my (originally his) DFTBA shirt.

Then, I went home. Nope, I lie. I didn't. I stayed in school because we had two rounds of debate scrimmages this afternoon. It was also cold in The Room. But I had my blazer so it was all good.

Anyway, instead of boring you with how the temperature went down and how I was prepared for it each time it did (which is something that I just tend to talk about, bear with me please, I'm weird, I know), what else should I talk about?

Oh! I saw that StarKid uploaded, I think, the first scene of Act 1 of their new show, Starship. I don't have time to watch it now so I think I'll wait until the entire show is online so that I can enjoy this supposedly out of this world (see what I did there?) production.

Um. What else? Geez, I am really terrible at this. I need an interesting topic to talk about every day because my life is too boring to write about. Like, I don't know, old sitcoms that we will forever love or angler fish reproduction or the invention of staplers or something. I need ideas. Give me some? Or not, that would be okay too.

TODAY... 
I really loved...the cinnamon twist doughnut I had for breakfast.
I smiled because...Kirsten pulled a "prank" on Winney a day late. Ahhh, Kirsten.
Lyrics playing at this very moment as I type this portion of the blog:
"...it swings, it jives. It shakes all over like a jellyfish. I kinda like it..."
(Crazy Litte Thing Called Love by Queen)
Hours of sleep last night: 8.5 hours! THIS IS WHY I LOVE FRIDAY NIGHTS.
Number of times it got COLD: 3! The last time, it was FREEZING, but it could have been much colder.

--Jen :)