Mandolin, Mandolin.

Hi.
Today I got a mandolin. So I can slice vegetables. I'M SO EXCITED! I just made nuoc cham and I think I got it right. I sat and squeezed limes until my face turned blue with the lemon reamer, and then had lemonjello remove this stubborn jade bracelet from my arm, using Pam cooking spray. It worked. My arm is free again!

Then I just made Korean potato salad. They usually serve it as an appetizer, and it has ham, fuji apples, onions, potato, and carrots in it with a special mayonnaise-based sauce. Of course I don't know how to use portion control, so I made it with two of the biggest potatoes I could find, and it ended up being so much salad that I had to put it into three different containers into the fridge. A little later, I'll be making the vermacelli noodles for dinner.

We went to the Farmer's Market today, as usual. That place is SO much fun, and even more fun because it's right near our apartment. We went to look at cats at the pet store, then to Trader Joe's, then to get my eyebrows threaded because the lady who normally does them has been missing in action for a month. I went to this Indian boutique to get them done. It was a trip! The place was set up like a store, and right in the middle, there are several hair cutting stations set up. Very bizarre. But you have to appreciate that Asians will do anything and everything to make a buck. Anyway. The lady who did my eyebrows was probably the most unfriendly person in the entire universe. I guess when you're charging $7 for a threading, you can be as nasty as you want. In any case, she was done in about a minute and my eyebrows are really thin, but they're cleaned up. I had been walking around looking like Frida Kahlo for about a month now.




So that was that. Now it's almost 4 p.m. and I have a ton of laundry and cleaning to do. Next week, work is going to be hell. I can feel it. I have an important meeting with the prez tomorrow afternoon, so I really need to get prepared. I was supposed to take some more work home with me this weekend, but I didn't have a chance to do it.

My arm feels so free now that the jade is gone. Now, according to Chinese legend, I'll have bad luck for years to come. Bring it on. It can't get any worse.