My sis and I bought natto (fermented soybeans I believe) from the market one day, and we finally got around to trying it. I don't remember when and where I learned about it... My Japanese teacher from uh 2 years ago mentioned it once, and he said it was good and healthy. I remember Yakitate! Japan had something on it. XD; The old man loves it even though it smells bad.

Anyway, we tried it. Ahahahah. We felt queasy after lunch. XD
It was really bitter. REALLY. The sticky part made stringy things that looked like spider webs. But the bitterness gave me a hard time. After eating some, I had to concentrate on swallowing because it wouldn't go down. ^^;; I can see how natto can be an acquired taste, though. If I eat it enough, I might grow to like it, like eating liver...
but... it was kind of expensive (in terms of my wallet), so I don't think I'll be eating it again anytime soon. XD;

Maybe we just cooked it the wrong way. At first we ate it plain, then when we struggled eating that, we fried it with egg. I added salt and soy sauce but still bitter. At some point I added banana ketchup, but even that made little difference to the taste. XD;;; There are still two packs of natto in the fridge. I don't know what to do with it. owo Need to find some recipes.

I've also been baking apple pies. XD There was a bag of apples in the fridge for a while, so I'm using them before they go bad. I still need practice in making crusts, but my mom had some ready-pie crusts almost expiring. The flour had mysteriously disappeared too. :/ Convenient coincidence.

My right wrist was sore, and I couldn't draw or play games, so I resorted to baking. XD; But peeling apples with your left is a bad idea. @___@; Peeling, cutting, and coring apples took almost an hour, and I almost peeled my finger. x_x Oh, oh, but I was watching the Food channel the other day and saw a more efficient apple cutting method. owo I want to try it out soon, but the weather lately has been too hot for baking. *sweats buckets*

Er, I'm hungry now. =w=; But it's 1AM. D8

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Other news, I finished watching Eden of the East. It might be kinda slow for some people, but I like it~! The fact that there were TWO movies after episode eleven caught me by surprise though. Agh, I thought for sure I was prepared because I knew there was one movie after the episodes but... there's another one after that? Drat... I eagerly await them though! ( A few more comments. Spoilers. )

Other than that, I feel really antsy, like there's something important I need to do, but I don't know what. ...Either that or having no work to do is stressing me out. :/ Maybe I should try getting my sleeping schedule back to... normal.

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Summer, summer. The one reason I don't like summer is because I want to do everything and nothing at the same time. This week was full of nothing because I always slept past 2am, and woke up in the afternoon. Last week, I woke up early and was totally motivated to do anything.

I just finished reading The Sign of Four and now The Study in Scarlet will be the next bedtime story. I've mixed up the order since my anthology organizes things by type of story as opposed to the publishing date. So that's the summary of my week. Sir Conan Doyle and Edogawa Conan. I got to the chapter with Kid in it, then started to read Magic Kaito. But missing chapters and pages are a bit irksome. :/

And this invitation business is a pain. =3=
But I think I had enough of Conan for a week. XD; I'll get back on track now. >.>; Note to self: Start doujin, Eternal editing, UT, PE...

Still on a mystery high.

I've been reading a little bit of The Sign of the Four every night, hoping that reading would make me fall asleep faster. Course, that really isn't working because I get excited and stay up late reading. But there was this one chapter...

"Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!"
- There are no fools so obnoxious as those of the mind!
"Wir sind gewohnt, dass die Menschen verhoehnen was sie nicht verstehen."
- We are accustomed, that people mock what they do not understand.

I wish I knew French and German, so I won't have to bother with inaccurate online translations. Then I started looking in my language textbooks. Today was Tagalog. Sad that I have trouble with some elementary vocabulary... I started looking up Mandarin online, and then I practiced reading hiragana with Detective Conan. Then I read two volumes in English...

I even played P4 today because everyone's finishing it, even those who started it after I did. Buuuut... I keep dying in the last dungeon. I grind, then I get impatient, so I move on to the next floor and die again. Bothersome really.

Then I played Professor Layton, too. I named the dog Toby. XD; I'm kind of having trouble finding Puzzle 12. 8|
Yep, mystery high. I'm all over the place today.

Maybe I'll go swimming in the morning for a change... of... pace?

I'm not sure, but maybe I'm going to throw summer school out the window.

Recently, I've been spending summer vacation... working on a personal visual novel/mystery game thing. It's been eating up my time. Now I see why these groups are made with teams. It's loads of fun though.

I've been trying to catch up on other obligations. I took on too many at once in past years. Silly young me. Think before I say, "Sure, I'll do it for you!" I'm making progress though. Now that summer doesn't have summer reading... or classes... or artist alley work, I'm doing things like, oh, that visual novel stuff and editing that I started months ago. Maybe years? I'm sure the project leaders wish I wasn't so slow.

I like to think time flies by fast, but eh... that's just me.
Well, on the bright side, I'm getting things done. Better late than never. Sorry.

On the other hand, I'm buying... stuff. Online. Those bookstore coupons really get me. Uugh, I should get a job, but I don't remember a vacation when I didn't have to worry about deadlines or waking up. Let me enjoy it this once.

But I got some mail today! It was Mushishi volume 7. But what shocked me was that this giant cardboard box came with it. D8 At first I thought it was the Kino artbook I ordered, but it couldn't be that big. It turns out it was that scratchboard piece. I got it back! 8D

Anyway, while I was cleaning, I scanned some of my old art. Here's something I drew when I was 6. ( Look what I Growd. ) Ahahah... "Growd." XD;