Update: Wednesday 10 Jul

Good evening! Uh, afternoon. Or is it morning? Well, whenever you are reading this. I don't have much to say. I'm hanging out in an empty apartment. My jalapeno seeds came up, but I planted a lot. Knowing that when they sprouted I'd have to pick which ones I want to pluck out of there. Now I don't know how long I should wait to start plucking… There are probably fifteen little sprouts. They are very cute. I would show you a picture but… wait, I think I can dig up a recent one.

Found one. You can pretend my floor isn't really dirty. I promise I vacuumed after I took that picture. Unfortunately when I watered the lettuce shoots, they fell over and the roots weren't deep enough to stay in. They all dried up and died… I cleaned them out and planted new ones—fewer, because I realized that they grow very well—deeper in the soil like they were supposed to be to begin with. Those jalapeno sprouts are so cute. I hope they don't die.

I made a mushroom soup for dinner tonight because all I had was a ton of mushrooms, plus some celery and onion. I'll have you know that I hate celery, but I eat it because I can.

It's a bit difficult to take a picture of steaming hot soup… The steam kind of gets in the way of the camera… This was extremely delicious. The recipe I followed (very, very loosely) suggested serving it with wild rice and I was very sad because that sounded like a great idea, but I haven't been able to find wild rice.

I emailed Ian several days ago to ask when I would be getting my keys. He didn't respond, so I intended to email his mother today. I want to move in on the 17th and that will be very hard to do if I don't have the keys because Ian and Amber are unavailable for whatever reason. I forgot to email her today, so I'll have to do it tomorrow if I don't forget again. 

Jenn and I are going to this fancy cook-your-own barbecue restaurant on the beach tomorrow for lunch. We payed for it months ago (it was half-price, and Jenn also had a €5-off coupon, so it was only €6 apiece instead of €17.50) and we have reservations. I guess they have little grills on each table and they bring you raw foods on skewers. Maybe they'd bring whole steaks and fish too, but that doesn't really apply to us so we may never truly know. I assume we'll just be getting veggie skewers, but I haven't been yet. I'll let you know later. ;)