I'm back on Canadian soil! Yay!
The Fiancé and I are back from our escapades in Tokyo, Japan. I'll have posts up hopefully soon. But let's be honest, I have a metric butt ton of baking and cooking to catch up on before Christmas. (And, of course, with my infantile immune system, I caught a Japanese disease of some kind and am now sick.)
All the things, all the time!
As Always.
-Andrea
The Half-Assed Hobbyist
Whelp. December is here.
Mind blown.
It's been an insane year. New friends, new adventures, and new experiences that I will never forget.
Apparently I'mma getting all nostalgic about only one year.... It was a pretty eventful year though. First full year away from Alberta; New friends and new places; Best friend's wedding; Total of 12 people came to visit; Also, New dream job. And it's not over. The BF is going to be giving a talk at a conference in Tokyo, Japan at the end of the week. So we'll have to be there, in Japan. Exciting/terrifying...?
So I'll hopefully have some travel posts from Japan, of course. And potentially some holiday baking posts too. (I don't actually celebrate Christmas but bring on the decorations and hot toddy/mulled wine! Mmmmmm.)
-Andrea
The Half-Assed Hobbyist
So over the last couple months I've been watching The Simpsons. As a child I wasn't 'allowed' to watch it, and I really never found that I was missing too much.
Surprisingly, the feeling of not missing much wasn't because The Simpsons isn't worth watching, quite the opposite. I felt like I wasn't missing much because The Simpsons is Such an important piece of North American culture that, despite having Never seen a full episode before this year in my life, I know the songs, the famous lines and general humour the show is loved for.
My mind has been blown more than once, finding out that playground songs I sung almost two decades ago were from a show I was forbidden to watch.
And we're only on season 5, where, in my opinion, it's only starting to hit it's stride.
Anyway, I'm happy to finally be enjoying a cultural phenomenon that has been going for over 20 years. It's pretty fun! (Minus the Itchy and Scratchy Show... that just makes me nauseous....)
-Andrea
The Half-Assed Hobbyist