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You'd be amazed at what they can do when they divert that baby-hatching energy into some other enterprise."
-Tom Robbins

I feel like rather the competant homemaker today. ^_^ (just for context, I am a seventeen year old girl, in grade eleven, who has a job stocking shelves and still stays with her parents and two siblings).
Last week, I learnt from my Italian Bio teacher (er, the teacher is Italian, the course is taught in English) how to make lasagna (as was taught to my teacher by her mother in Italy). This was for a school thing, BTW, not part of course material. ("Okay, make sure you finish up your brochetta and put it on the crackers before cleaning off the table for the pig fetus disection!") Anyway, I made it all on my own this evening, from scratch. I even went and biked down to Save On Foods to buy the ingredients for it because mom forgot to last night. I made it, including the cream sauce (which smells so... good...), which makes the tomatoe sauce taste more creamy than tomatoe-bitter. Mum, Dad and Danielle really liked it, so... mission successful. ^_^

In addition, I also learnt how to crochet last week (I can already knit scarves and socks - turning the heel is murder!). I had gotten fed up with turning the heel on this sock (it would be the third time I had to redo it if I had continued), so I opted for something new... and so my sister taught me to crochet. It's damn addicting. :P I'll perhaps post pictures of my first on the round project - I just started to make a circle, and ended up with a blue thing that looks creepily similar to a poufy chef's hat. ^_^ I'm trying to make a larger floppy version of it, delibrately this time... sorta like a (red) newsboy hat.

Oh, and I saved the best for last - I had a really nice date last Thursday. :) His name is Daniel (which is creepily similar to my sister's name, but whatever), and he's just finished his first year of art school (post secondary). We went to go see "V for Vendetta", and we were both analyzing it the whole time. It's an awesome movie, by the way. Daniel was really sweet, too... We both agreed to go out again sometime. :D

I feel awesome, and competant. I survived a series of huge tests last week (hopefully relatively unscathed), I've been offered a great-paying summer job, learned how to do some cool and useful domestic stuff, and went on a nice date. Life's looking up. :)

However, here's a depressing thought... "There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when you were happy". Yeah, I hope I'm not reading this a few decades down the line thinking "what a load of crock". :P

Erm, yeah... so... bunnies and rainbows and sugar and beautiful crocheted red hats! :D