Lunch Break

I'm at work again: eating chobani yogurt and strawberry coconut tea whilst on break. One of my dear roommates is finally back in the USofA and she is going to see the glory house tomorrow, complete with the new lamp I just finished. It took approximately one week to complete the shade- a large drum with hundreds of little fabric circles bunched and glued all over it. Thank God we had fabric scraps in numbers, and leftover prom dress silks from my junior year.

But really, the shade is lovely. Now I'm pondering a backsplash for my kitchen sink. This seems like a job for the glass marker. Roommates' forum for filing kitchen complaints, sending greetings, or being very silly. Hmm....

I was on a date night the other day, and I ate the best dessert of my entire life, and that is a monumental thing (considering that I work next door to a fabulous chef who once baked for the Presidents Bush). It was a mango pie. Simply garnished with a scooch of whipped cream and a light drizzle to the side. I immediately made my own when I got home, and tried mango nectar and key lime juice as the base. Little did I know I would be getting a key lime pie with a mystery flavor and too much corn starch with that experiment. It wasn't bad, but I was not satisfied. Last week I tried mango purée, because surely that would provide the definitive mango flavor I so greatly craved. Wrong again! I got the consistency of pumpkin pie (blegh!) and semi-decent mango flavor. Although my family loved it, I was still underwhelmed. And so the test continues...on to mango extract! If that flops, I shall hang my head in despair until a better ingredient comes into my power.

Yogurt cup is empty, time to wipe some tables.