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Random Youtube Tuesday is a day late today. ^^"
Actually, when I forgot to do it yesterday, I wasn't going to do it this week.
But then I came across a really random video when I was searching for fanart of one of my favorite games.
If you've played it, it's hilarious, and if you haven't, it's still random nonsense and thus enjoyable. *laughs*

More Food!

Before I start, let me mention that I added a picture to my post about the pizza I made in baking.
I will also add a picture to this one as soon as I remember where it is. ^^"

Anyways. The other day we made cinnamon rolls in baking. Actually, we made multi-purpose dough...didn't find out until the day of the class that it would be cinnamon rolls. I thought we were doing croissants.
We pulled out our dough and rolled it out - my dough was thicker, because there was less room on my counter. That's okay, I like thick cinnamon rolls.
All I put in mine was a cinnamon sugar mixture and butter. Don't like nuts and raisins.
However, to actually cook it at the school would have taken forever - I wouldn't have gotten home until 9pm, and I had a test to study for.
So I took it home to proof and bake.
See, I did have homework, Stevie!
Anyways... it turned out really good. Not as thickly coated with cinnamon as some I've had, and big and fluffy. The teacher made some thick glazing that was really good on it.

I'll put up pictures later.

Random Youtube Tuesday!

Well, over the past week and a half or so, I've gotten several games. One of the ones I bought just a few days ago for $10 at Walmart, called Line Rider 2.
I've been watching for that game for a half a year or so now, ever since I heard about it, because I really enjoyed the original flash game on the 'net.
I decided that today's RYT would be some clips of original tracks people have made on the original Line Rider game. ^^







There are tons of videos to look at, and a bunch of them are awesome. I just can't put them all up here. *laughs*

The Super Bowl

Subtitle: "You could bounce a quarter back off those tight ends!"

Last week was the Super Bowl. Hoo...rah.
I've never understood football...I don't see the point in running then stopping, running than stopping. I've always liked sports like gymnastics and tennis where the action is quick and continuous.
I do like the food though. And the commercials. So I don't disappear into my room. I load up my plate with snacks galore and run in to watch the commercials when they come on, then leave when that boring football stuff returns. As I jokingly said the other day, "They play football at the Super Bowl?"
This year, we went all out with food and stuff for my brother, who does actually enjoy watching the game part of the Super Bowl. Since Dad's in Iraq, we women watched it with him. I was tired and too lazy to get up off the couch, so I actually stuck around and watched the gameplay.
What have I been missing out on all these years? I don't know if it's the fact that one of the teams had shimmery yellow pants, but the butts were mesmerizing! This was the first superbowl I watched all the way through...didn't care who won, but I couldn't tear my eyes away.
Oh yeah, the food was good too. I wasn't impressed by the commercials this year though.

Random Youtube Tuesday!

Since we had the Super Bowl just a couple days ago (and I will have about that, you can be sure), I decided that the unofficial theme of today's youtubes could be football!

First up is a video showing a bunch of clips of football bloopers.



As for Super Bowl commercials (which I will expound upon in my upcoming blog post about it), my favorites have always been the Budweiser Clydesdale ones. Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that I love Clydesdale almost as much as I do wolves, could it?
Anyways, I was surfing through old Super Bowl commercials on youtube, and found this one rather funny.



That's it for today!

I actually made something!

Woah! After like three weeks of listening to the teacher blather on and on, I finally got to make something in my baking class!
Before I continue my happy rambles, let me rant for just a moment.
When I decided to take fundamentals of baking, I assumed that we would…well…bake. The first three weeks or so we sat…and listened to the teacher meander through the book, reading stuff at random (often reading it wrong!), attempting calculations, and just plain boring us all to death. The worst class was the one where we sat for three hours watching a set of movies about some guy making French bread where they kept reusing the video clips. Snore!
Finally, though, we got to DO something last week. We made pizza dough! It was a variation on Italian bread. Of course my dough ball has problems…first it was too dry, then too wet…it was a comedy of errors. First we’d add flour, then water, then flour again. Finally it formed into a nice puffy little ball…just in time for the class to be over.
We wrap our happy little dough balls in saran wrap (smearing them with vegetable oil first…to keep them from sticking) and leave them to rise over the weekend.
Then last night we all wandered into class, waiting impatiently for it to start so we could get on with the pizza making.
I hung around like a useless lump as people prepared the sauce – from cooking the Italian sausage and the bacon to cutting onions, green peppers, mushrooms, and zucchini. (Yes…somebody brought their own zucchini to put on their pizza. I, being sane, refrained.) At first my only contribution was to find that container of parsley that was hiding among the 30 other bottles of spices, but eventually somebody set me up sautéing onions. Maybe I should take a cooking class next year so I don’t look so lost in a kitchen!
It took us forever, but eventually we got the sauce and all the toppings done.
Then we pulled our happy not-so-little-anymore dough balls out and rolled them into happy large flat pizza crusts! Mine was less flat than most…I hate thin crust. My pizza has to be thick and slightly chewy…mmm. *wakes from daydream*
Anyways, I rolled mine out and loaded it up. (On an aside…when I was waiting in the topping line, somebody said my vaguely triangle-shaped dough looked like a heart…and after poking and pulling and prodding it into shape, I agreed. ^^) It had a medium amount of sauce (I don’t like either dry or soggy pizzas), a few of the sautéed onions, lots of sausage, bacon and pepperoni, and tons of cheese. Finally, a bunch of us dabbed a bit of the leftover bacon grease onto the crust (that is…I dabbed. Other people soaked theirs.) then popped them in the oven. After an interminable amount of cleaning – for we’d made a huge mess – our pizzas were done.
I took mine home whole and shared with the family. Mom said that “she thought something tasted off about it…I’d better make some more to figure out what.” Hm….really? Couldn’t be that it was really good and you want more, could it? *laughs*
My brother was a magician with his – it disappeared faster than doves in a Lance Burton act. Even my nibbling sister chomped hers down in record time.
Sounds like my first baking attempt was a success!

Arrrgh! Or, Test week.

For weeks now, I’ve been scraping the bottom of the idea barrel to come up with things to write about. But all of a sudden it’s like the sky has opened and is raining inspiration on my head. It’s been a veritable downpour of events that have occurred and ideas of what to write. This is the first of many blog posts over the next couple of weeks (I hope!). Y’all will be glad to see something in this blog other than youtube videos, ne? *laughs*

The first three posts in this new series of rambling (may it be long-running) are all event-based blogs. I write them first, before the events become ancient history…like the geology field trip I haven’t written about yet. Maybe I’ll just wait until later this month and write about the physical geology trip at the same time as I do the historical one. *grimace*

Anyways. Back on topic.

I was massively busy this past weekend as I madly studied for 4 tests this week. Yes, four. They popped up out of nowhere!

To begin with, yesterday we had the first *real* map test in geography. The map of Europe…160 different places and things to memorize, and I did it in two days. *die*

It was a good thing I got it all memorized in time to take the test (instead of taking advantage of the no-points-off late regulation the teacher has). We knew we were getting one bonus point for taking this (very hard) test in class, but then the professor told us to add two bonus points to our page. Very nice. I missed a place on the first map test, so that’ll definitely help make up for that. Now I must move on to the Russia map, for next Monday. *sigh*

Today there are no tests…merely studying for upcoming tests.

Tomorrow is the first test in my baking class. I have no clue how I’ll do because I have no clue what is on the test. The teacher went through the test with us yesterday, but after three-fourths of she said we needed to know is stuff she’s never mentioned. *shrug*

Thursday has the next really worrisome test – the minerals test. In physical geology we’ve been studying minerals and the properties of minerals. Thursday we get to demonstrate what we’ve learned. *yuck*

We do get to use one resource on the test, however, so that will be a big help. Last week I’d been getting pretty good at recognizing minerals. We’ll see how I do this week with a couple days left to study.

Finally, on Friday is my last test. Before we go to Waco I need to run over to the test center at the college and take the first test of my online western civilization class. I don’t know how I’ll do…I’m terrible at remembering dates and stuff, but about half the unit focuses on cultures I’ve actually studied on my own (such as Greece), so we’ll see.

And those are this week’s tests. Next week there’s even more fun to come!

*gag*

I love to go to class and learn stuff…it’s the throwing it back up onto a test paper I don’t like.

Edit: Results!

I got a 41/40 on the map test. *yayhappydance*

I got 86 out of a possible 108 points. *silentgrimace*

I got a 82 on the baking test. I think it was the highest grade in the class, though. [Everyong else got 60s and 40s. One person got a 70.] Part of the problem was that ten of the questions were on chapter 7...when the test was chapters 1-6! Teacher says, "Well...you should've studied that, too." *snort* I'm not enjoying the lecture/test part of this class...and we don't get to do as much baking as one would think. *sigh*

Finally, I got an 82.5 out of 110 points on the Western Civ test. Not great. I'll have to make it up in the other tests and the paper.

End of results show. *grins*