Cuisine Avec Julia

Yes this is the actual quiche i made with my African Hands. Be impressed.

Pour ma classe de français que je devais faire une vidéo de moi cuisson. Je ne peux pas pour la vie de me comprendre comment l'avez pas être sur le côté et je m'en excuse, mais c'est vraiment pour mon professeur Jim Law!

Merci!
xoxo

Julia

English:

For my French class I had to make a video of me cooking. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to not have it be sideways so I apologize, but this is really for my teacher Jim Law!

Merci!!
xoxo

Julia


Also, I promise to post something ridiculously hilarious on my blog at some point again, but right now I am to busy pretending I am Julia Childs....Wee sounds the same!!
I suggest you watch it in full screen to get the full effect... And I promise I am not sideways the entire time. You will have to ask my french teacher tomorrow if my quiche was any good. I also have included a picture of the finished product... because I don't know how to edit videos... Figuring out how to embed this was hard enough... I think I am an 80 year old stuck in a 19 year olds body!!

I'm Coming Home

I have nearly expired three times today, because I am actively searching f a ride to Walla Walla for Thanksgiving. This may seem like a seriously silly idea, seeing as Walla Walla is a jacked crazy town, I have decided to blog about it anyway. 

 I AM GOING HOME!!

I consider Walla Walla the place I grew up, all of the best times I have ever had were there and more than that I get to see one of my Favorite people in the world. Square Toothed-Girl. She is one of my very favorite people in the world, and not only that, she also has a rockin family Mountain Man, Straight Face, and Lego Man (Who I will never get over using the cruciatus curse on me!)

It is always fun to try to explain Walla Walla and the lifestyle there to someone who has never experienced it. How can you honestly? Anyone from there knows what I mean. People who have lived there know it is like no other place on earth. Especially the Mormon culture (or at least that is what I have learned). I had a group of friends who I just loved unconditionally.Now, this is a little silly, because I look at us now, only a year later and we are all over the world and half of us don't even talk to one another anymore. I suppose however, that is what life is a constant eb and flow and i accept that. 

I miss my town. I miss the roads that I know perfectly the way the town feels so small at times, and so big at times (mostly when you are in line in Walmart). I am strangely proud of it.  I love that we are home of the Walla Walla sweet onions, and that in the summer it smells like Onions in the fall it smells like burning fields and the rest of the time it just smells like earth. I love the friendships I have made, the things I have learned.I know how silly it all sounds, especially to those who live there or have lived here. But there is something there. It tugs at your heartstrings and you have to live it up. 

I am so excited also to spend time with Square Toothed-Girl. Without her I don't know how I would have survived high school, or my freshman year of high school at that. She is truly amazing, and anyone who disagrees can just go to hell ;). I love her and her DC ways. And I am so excited I get to spend a few precious days with the second coolest family in the world (sorry  I just know my family is the best)

Walla Walla, I will see you in a month!!

WOOHOOO!!

A Not So Traditional Canadian Thanksgiving.

Hello all,
After a long emotional weekend for all 19 year-old latter-day saints girls (and 18 year-old boys), I thought I would give you an update, and a story.
Yes. I am planning on going on a mission for all who wonder.
No, I won't be going for a while.  I have school
Yes, I think it is awesome.
Yes, this is going to change BYU for the better.

But that isn't what I wanted to talk about. Today I wanted to talk about the joys of Canadian Thanksgiving. For any of you who don't know(aka everyone in the world, except Canadians), it is tomorrow the 8th of October, but this year, I celebrated early due to the number of midterms I have this coming week.. Also I forgot until Friday. Meh, shiz happens..Anyway. With joy in my heart, I decided that I wanted to celebrate. Because any day that you can celebrate what you are thankful for, is a great thing (and I love stuffing).

I realized however after declaring to my lovely roommate Alice (Sarah) (her image is beside)that I had absolutely no turkey in my house, no sausage for my stuffing, and no way to get to a story because it was Sunday and I had no food. Sarah just winked at me (or tried, how I love her!) and we did what college kids do best. Improvised.                                                  

Now, my improvising could have been disastrous, but with a little help from my friends (aka) Alice (Sarah) it was a wonderful meal that I will never forget.


Surrounded by people I loved, and people I was just meeting for the first time, I sat down to Fried Chicken, with Mash Potatoes. Cranberry Almond Stuffing (with no sausage and Italian seasoning instead of sage), Peas (because you HAVE to have peas with mashed tatoes), and the most delicious pumpkin doughnut holes I have ever had. It wasn't  traditional, it wasn't with my family, it wasn't even with people I have known all my life (or even for over two years) and yet somehow it was one of the most perfect moments of my life. We did some traditional things. We had a thankful board (below), and we laughed and joked, and I just had fun.

I am so grateful for the people in my life who surround, and love me.  I am so thankful for the people who accept me the way I am, and love me. I am thankful for those have surrounded me and loved me in the last year, when everything was going wrong. I am surrounded by love, and I wish that I could adequately explain how  much it means to me. here are two pictures of notes that I received this week, that keep me going How loved I feell I wish I could thank those who sent them, but I don't have names on most of them.

 Thank you. Thank you Sarah for being someone who loves me no matter what, and deals with having to share a room with me (I will clean eventually), Thank you for being willing to sit through endless pintrest sessions, for getting me tissues when I cry, and for making sure that we always have our Diet Cokes and chocolate on Sundays.Thank you all. Those who have kept me going through my hard times. To those who I have just met and love me, and to all of you who have touched my life for the better.  I am so blessed, and loved. I have a huge family  biological and adopted. I am surrounded by the best people in the world. I am loved by the best people in the world.I love you all, I hope that each of you have people in your life who have changed it for the better. Happy Thanksgiving all.

Ladies and Gentleman welcome back my eating disorders!

I have this friend! And she is BEAUTIFUL! She has worked hard to lose some weight, and she has always been rockin' babe! Anyway!  Today her tumtum (can you tell I have younger siblings) hurt. She was bemoaning this and some TOTAL B came up to her and told her that she needed to get over it apparently everyone's tumtums hurt when their pregnant. Now this, this got me thinking. And here is what I thunked (yeah, I went there):

WHY THE F WOULD SOMEONE SAY THAT?

I felt something like this:

Now this has lead me to think.. What are five things people should never ask one another?! And here is the list!!

1. Are you  pregnant-- No I am not. But thank you for calling me fat...

2. Have you gained weight?  No, but you've obviously been taking STUPID PILLS since I've seen you last (Doctor Who reference).

3.  Team Edward orTeam  Jacob-- Honestly Can we just say Team this lady instead?

4. Are you going to eat all of that?-- Yo mofo! Don't question me!! I will SUPA SIZE IT if I want ain't nobody gonna stop me!

5. Romney or Obama? -- Seriously people, that is just asking to get a crazy as crack foaming at the mouth response, and no one wants that. No one needs that in their lives!? Do you want to get rabies, and force me to go on a Fun Run for the Cure (An Office reference for those of you who don't understand)

We should all just take Will Smith's advice and:

Now. For those of you who are thinking! "NO I have dealt with it all my life! I am sick and tired of the morons who surround me. I want something that will make me feel better. Something that while I could possibly get arrested for it, would make my life so much better!" 

This is my response:

Punch them in the face and move on.