Homemade Calamari & Midnight Showing Of Brave

I am so thankful for modern day medicine that’s cheap and so readily available.  My teeth have still been hurting really bad and my dentist said there’s nothing wrong that he can see, so I’ll just have to wait it out.  I’ve been taking alternating Motrin & Tylenol every 4 hours.  I keep a bunch of them in a little plastic bag in my purse.  I really hope this tooth pain will go away soon.

Tonight Nate showed us how to make fried squid.  He & Mom went to the Asian Market in the area and found lots of interesting things.  Nate said they were only able to find small squids there.  He said you pull out the bottom tentacle part and slice up the head/body of it.

But before you cut up the body, you have to pull out this clear plastic looking thing.  Mom & I were freaking out, b/c it’s seriously like a really hard piece of plastic.  Who would have thought that was in there and was part of the squid?

Next you have to squeeze the beak (that black thing) out of the middle of the tentacles.  It’s actually pretty sharp and I’m sure if you got bit it would hurt really bad.  He pulled the short tentacles off (there are 2 long ones he said he doesn’t use) to fry those, too.

I do not like seafood at all, but I tried one little piece of the fried squid and it wasn’t fishy, but it was really rubbery.  The pieces were so small that all I could taste were the Panko bread crumbs.  Anyways, we had a Japanese smorgasbord w/ the Pocky sticks (my favorite thing from the Asian Market), weird drinks where you hit the lid and a marble drops into the drink and fizzes over, and then the most strange thing of all to find at an Asian Market…a German Milka chocolate bar.  LOL!  It was totally random food, but it was fun to try all the different stuff.

For Mom’s birthday tomorrow, she wants to go see the new Brave movie tomorrow morning.  So, I got online to buy her & Dad & Nick & Nate tickets as part of her birthday present.  I noticed that they were having a midnight showing of the movie, so I texted the Bachelorette watching group to see if they wanted to go see it w/ me.  It ended up being me, Mary, Jake, Genevieve, Christine, Steele, & his friend Hunter.  I got there an hour early to save seats, and there were only 3 people in line in front of me. 

Anyways, I am sad to say that I wasn’t really impressed w/ the movie.  It was cute, but is not one that I would run out to see again or that I would buy.  I would rent it from Red Box for Autumn to see it, but that’s it.  It was slow in some spots and there were no catchy songs.  I know it’s animated, but the part where she climbs that huge rock and isn’t even winded and then reaches out and drinks from the waterfall that is 10 feet away was so completely unrealistic.  Also, when she is having a tender moment at the end w/ her Mom, the crying/acting was horrific.  I felt like they showed all the good parts in the commercials.  I had expectations for something of Tangled’s caliber.  I do have to say that it does have a cute message.  It was all worth it though,  b/c of getting to create a fun memory w/ friends.