I Feel Pretty

The other day, I sat down to paint my nails with my usual black nail polish and decided that I wanted to do a little more this time around. I resolved upon drawing little yellow flowers and adding stems and leaves to them. I practiced first on a piece of wax paper, and then used the wax paper like an easel, putting drops of the yellow and green polish on the paper and using a toothpick to apply it. Here's a tip: designs will be much neater if you wait for each element to dry before adding another; doing this keeps the polish from all pooling together on your fingernail. Also, if I had had a clear topcoat, that would have been a great thing to add in the end. I did all right on my right hand, but the left was a little tricky, since I'm left handed. Here's how it turned out:

Fit to Be Thai-ed

Welcome to the very first post of my new blog! I'm really looking forward to the experience of this blog. I hope that you will join this picky girl on her quest to try new things.

I'm especially picky when it comes to food, so it seemed only fitting that I should try a new food for the kick-off of "Guess What I Did Today?". Anyone who has ever eaten around me can say that I'm a pretty picky eater. I'm probably most picky with vegetables; I don't really like many at all. I also have a weirdly low tolerance for spicy foods, which sometimes causes trouble, and I'm very particular with textures. For example, I generally avoid foods that have any sort of flour dusting because I really can't stand the feel of the stuff. I know, it's weird.

Now that you understand my picky eating habits, you can understand my caution in trying new foods that warrants an opening blog post. I went to a local Thai restaurant with a couple of friends to get my first taste of the exotic cuisine. I ordered the Pad Thai with chicken, seen below. Pad Thai involves rice noodles, bean sprouts, eggs, peanuts, green onions, and a sauce that I don't know the name of. Oh, and that lovely lime wedge hanging out on the side there.

Don't be fooled; there was a lot of food on that dish. It's one of those tricky plates that are secretly a bowl.

Here I am, apprehensively loading up my fork with the first taste of Pad Thai...

and trying it.
The verdict? I liked it, though I do admit to doing a bit of picking about in the Thai food. I really don't like green onions, so I only took one bite with those. The bean sprouts weren't bad, and I didn't even mind the peanuts. The rice noodles kind of weirded me out because the texture was a bit odd and they took a long time to chew, but I loved the chicken. I also really liked the eggs in it. I think that next time I go I'll probably get curry or something similar that I can eat over rice because I did like all of the seasonings.

The dessert menu made us laugh because it didn't seem very authentic. Nevertheless, we ordered a slice of chocolate mousse cake to share which was very delicious.

Looks great, right? P.S., the atmosphere of the restaurant was really great. They even had these really cool trays for our checks.
Nice, right?
So there you have it, my first taste of Thai food and the first post of my new blog. Look for more posts in the near future! Possible new things to try include driving through the canyon to Brigham City (I've never actually done it, other than driving with an instructor) and shooting a gun.

Feel free to make suggestions of things that I need to try! I'll do anything that's not too crazy ;)