Frisbee, Movies, and Cucumber Bread.

Hello, friends! So yesterday, I journeyed to Thalia's house to work on our Iron Chef competition. Wait...OH DEAR LORD! Whoa, I just realized...I haven't told you about this! Unacceptable. I give you all full permission to yell/shun/kick me at school on Monday.

WELL. I'll have to inform you. One day I was at Thalia's house and we were talking with Thalia's father, Larry, who happens to be a very good cook. We were joking around and saying "Well, we should have some sort of Iron Chef competition! Hahaha." The next day at school, Thalia informs me that we really ARE going to have this Iron Chef-ing and I was wonderfully excited. On Monday, I went over to Thalia's house again and we planned out how this was going to work. We decided that we would have 1 hour and 30 minutes to cook 3 dishes for 3 judges. Thalia was going to be my sous chef, and Thalia's father's was going to be Ben Nadler's father. [Larry and Ben's dad, Steve, are best friends, by the way.] We pondered over the secret ingredient and concluded that it should be decided by none other than....MEGAN VASSALLO! [Who, incidentally, has her last name on her mailbox! Isn't that spiffy?] She, along with much input from Thalia and me, decided that the secret ingredient would be cucumbers [not very secret anymore...]. I am SO looking forward to this.

As I was saying: I went over to Thalia's house after school yesterday to work on Iron Chef. We made these fantastic cucumber fries. GOSH. They were simply magnificent. Feeling confident, we went to work on another cucumber confection: Cucumber Bread. We had gotten the idea from zucchini bread, which is great. Plus, one of our Iron Chef rules is that one of the courses must be a dessert. However, when the bread had gotten out of the oven, we found all of the cucumbers at the bottom of the bread being all soggy and sad. Now I'm very ashamed that I made such a thing. Because it was disgusting. No lie.

After that horrible mishap, Thalia, Megan V., Thalia's mom, sister, sister's friend, and I all went to see Ghost Town. You know, that new one with Ricky Gervais? Well...it was better than expected, I suppose. I wouldn't recommend it to any of you. OH! HAHAHAHAHAHA! When we were going into the movie theater, we saw this big group of protesters chanting "Blindess is not a tragedy; but the movie is!" Goodness. We were laughing for 10 minutes straight. Not even kidding.

On the subject of movies, there are a few I would LOVE to see right now. One of which is Burn After Reading with Brad Pitt and George Clooney. I was SUPPOSED to see it with Ashley, but she decided that she was going to go to the 12:00 showing with her mother and mother's friend. Meanie.

I also want to see Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. I mean, come on. Anything with Michael Cera is worth seeing.

I believe that's about it! Oh, one last thing. I had Ultimate Frisbee practice today [they changed it to 1:30 so I can go now! Woot!], and I got an...injury. We were playing Single Box and I was trying to catch the frisbee. Willem was guarding me, so he comes running in front of me, knocks the frisbee out of the way so I can't catch it, and guess where the frisbee goes? Right into my face. Yeah. Knocked my poor little defenseless glasses off and killed my nose. So if any of you were thinking of punching me really hard in the nose, now is not a good time to do it. Just wait a bit.

And that's all. Really. I mean it. OH WAIT! Hehe. Just kidding, I'm done.

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-Ali.