Home In Hawaii

So after 14+ hours of travel time, waking up at 4am and making J take me to the airport, I am home.

Well, I actually got home on Tuesday but I had a cold so couldn't really share the news with everyone. And by cold I mean 104.2 degree fever cold. Blah. Last time I was this sick it was because I was drunk at STIR. Wait, I was drunk at STIR this time too. Crap. There seems to be a cycle here. That's ok. Let's all blame J again.

Anyway, now I am all better. Well at least about the house and cooking dinner for the family. I made stuffed acorn squash with a spinach orzo for dinner. I'm also currently in the works of making some baguettes.

Just wanted to share that tid bit of cooking and baking goodness. I think I'm going to make some cookies this weekend. Mom want's me to make cinnamon raisin bread. I'm also thinking of pumpkin bread or pumpkin scones as she has a can of pumpkin puree lying around.

If I go to the farmers market tomorrow I'll make sure to take some pictures of what a Hawaii farmers market looks like. Oh and can I just say food prices in HI are ridiculous. I paid like $6 for two acorn squashes and $3 for generic corn flakes...well I didn't, but my mom did. WTF? More incentives for me to stay on the mainland. Food is cheap on the mainland, and now that I eat white people food instead of Asian/local food I don't have to be in the grocery store wondering why apples aren't in abbundance with butternut/acorn squash and all the other things I find at Kroger's and Whole Foods.

In other news, I got straight A's!!! I would like to thank J for that. I somehow sucked out all his smarts and was able to use it for my own good but left just enough for him since he got an A+ in stats. I'm still questioning how someone gets and A+ in grad school on their official transcript. Oh well. That just means I can tease him to actually come and bake/cook with me instead of study for stats next semester. It also might help that I will likely have stata on my computer to lure him over to do his work for AGP instead of sitting in Sanford.

Ok...that's all for now. I'll catch everyone later when I bake some goodies here at home or have some picutres to post of Hawaii. Wish I was in the snow storm hitting the east coast right now though.

Aloha!