MmMMm
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I got my passport back today, complete with my own farking VISA and CERTIFICATE OF ELIGIBILITY! Holy hell, batman-- the Japanese student Visa is COOL LOOKING. It even has a hologram!!!!!!111 Yay me! I'm, like, so totally Japanese now! (haha...)


The words of wisdom for the night are such: "The hardest part about making an awesom ice cream sundae is not eating all the parts before it's done." Quoth me, before making a sundae disaster. I used up the rest of the ice cream and was keen on using up the rest of the Euphoria Fudge Sauce until I burned it while melting it in the microwave. I desperately tried to salvage it by adding milk... but it's hard to eat chocolate once the oil has separated from the cacao. So then I had this brilliant idea to melt some werthers caramels into caramel sauce which worked well but nearly arced the microwave with damn tinfoil specks in the candies. Then that brilliant idea turned into a game of trying to get the caramel out of the shot glass before it all congealed again and then trying to eat the ice cream before the caramel melted it or turned into brittle ice candy. Then I accidentally huffed my whipped cream canister because I was trying to empty the rest of it into my mouth. You know what though? It's a DAMN tasty sundae, parts of it are crunchy AND it sticks to your teeth. ; ) I AM the master!!!

Tomorrow we all leave for Portland and our pre-Glacier respite. The fire situation looked good until yesterday morning when dry thunderstorms started five MORE (but eensy) fires in the park. One is on the OTHER side of the lake up Snyder Ridge near us. But it's small and far away so we can hope and pray it stays contained. Mother of God, though, the air quality in that valley is going to SUCK. If you take a look at the map, you can see the size of the large fires (especially Roberts Complex, right across the lake from us) compared with the small ones. I'm not worried.