Today I got to see my cousin Lucy's new kitten, Jack. While we had advised against her getting a gray striped tabby, which is a death sentence in our family, Jack is so adorable it's okay. Hopefully I'll get some pictures up soon, as I took a few today. It was especially funny to see itty bitty Jack attempting to take on Homer, my aunt's 14 lb long hair cat.

Felines aside, I'm very pleased to announce my parents are going away for the weekend, so I'm inviting some people over for a little Wii & board game party. I've already laid out a menu, and I'm determined not to bungle up cooking Japanese-style curry, which I have been craving terribly for a loooong time. I went to Global Food Market today and bought some Garam Masala, which I can use to make curry from scratch, and I bought Japanese instant curry, which I can just heat up in the microwave, and I bought Japanese curry roux for the party curry, which will be a double batch.

This might be a good time to say: I. Love. Japanese. Curry. Chicken katsu curry is my love. There's nothing like breaded fried chicken sliced atop a bed of steamed rice and smothered in curry. Oh god, I'm getting hungry just typing about it. Anyhow, a few months ago I discovered a manga called Addicted to Curry. An English translation gets updated on onemanga.com. I lovelovelove this retarded manga. It's quite silly, since most chefs don't actually get into curry battles, but nevertheless, everytime someone makes curry in the manga, it looks so good, and at the end of each chapter or so there's a recipe of whatever was made that chapter. I'm learning all sorts of neat things from Addicted to Curry, and it's making me crave the food to the point where I just can't freaking stand it anymore. I am now dedicating what little culinary drive I have to learning to make delicious curry!

Sooo... in a giant switch of topic, I think I'm getting sick again. I first got sick in December, and was sick for about 2 straight months with some kind of viral airway infection. Well, either I'm relapsing or something else was wrong with me in the first place, but I had some chestpains today, and there was more blood in my mucus than there was in December, which kind of freaks me out. So it's back to the doctor for me before I end up like I was before, semi-bedridden because most forms of movement left me breathless and with chestpain. xP

On a higher note, tomorrow night I'm going to see Mama Mia at the Fox! Yayness!