Confession: i puffed a cigarette today..

And it was absolutely disgusting.. partly b/c my friend made it and rolled it himself. So it was 100% au natural and didn't have any of the processing chemicals that most cigs have. Anyway, moving on.

I baked my cookies today! They turned out terrible though and so not worth the show...I received this jar filled with the right amount of ingredient for chocolate oatmeal cookies from someone who could be my "future" mother in law. I say this because I actually *love* her to death, and so do my parents. In fact, my parents get along SO well with this lady and her husband that my life would be perfect if I married their son. Big if though. My parents DON'T know (actually, I'm not sure anyone knows... so this will be confession number 2) that I did make out with their son. Once. it was a moment. He and I have had random issues and even stopped talking... and soon after we started talking again, he was visiting town and had a good evening and yes. One beer left us making out.
Getting back to the cookies I baked, unfortunately, my ability to cook is about as bad as my relationship is with their son... For the life of me, I've never been able to bake such a good batch of cookies. I can't understand why. Everything else relating to cooking, I can manage.. the Betty Crocker stuff, on the other hand... no can do.

Today in general = awesome!

My friends and I had a HOT POT shindig!
I can't explain to you exactly what this is, except for it's kinda sorta like the Chinese version of FONDUE. Basically, you line up all your raw meats and vegetables up... and dip them in soup for them to cook. Atleast that's how my friend explained it to me.. and pretty much that's how it went.
Here's a recipe I found which will explain a little more into detail of how tonight went...

http://www.worldfoodieguide.com/index.php/how-to-make-chinese-hot-pot/


And here are some pictures from our actual night..

From hot pot!

From hot pot!

From hot pot!

(this is me, holding chopsticks!)

And of course, every THAI meal has to be topped off with my favorite.. thai iced tea!! Which we did...
As seen by me, here:

From hot pot!

Here's the recipe.. because again, I didn't catch it during dinner..

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/cda/recipe_print/0,1946,FOOD_9936_22609_PRINT-RECIPE-3X5-CARD,00.html

Confession number 3:
I basically professed my love to my friend, Jason. Not really... we're such great awesome friends, and he was sad today so I did the unthinkable for me... While at a bar karaoking with friends, I decided to choose OUR song, which is "Hey There Delilah" and got him on the phone so that he could hear me sing it to him... Hopefully it made his night... because I have never karaoked by myself ever before! I usually sing with someone else or in a group...

Anyway, to my group who shaped tonight.. You guys rock!

From hot pot!

Love, Lust, Lemons,
LesDeux.