Year Twenty Fish Finds

This week has been absolutely JAM-PACKED and I haven't been able to post about it due to the fact that we only yesterday got cable and internet (text us, FaceTime us, Facebook message us, we are no longer cavemen!) Dealing with Mediacom was one of my first learning lessons. I even got to name our wifi (BigRed) and choose the password (..lol just kidding suckers don't steal our signal)! I will try to keep this post at only children's novel length!

I turned 20! It's kind of a sad birthday because it's the "aww honey you're almost there!" year. But I had a great day with friends and even threw the first party at the house! Okay, just kidding, sorry mom. But I did have a few people over! You know the people are your real friends when they didn't even leave your house messy.

The biggest lesson I am learning at the house, besides that you actually have to water plants everyday,   is how to feed myself. Nothing screams college like wanting to make something and realizing you do not have any of the ingredients, utensils, or skills to make it whatsoever. My freezer currently contains three things: frozen salmon, frozen tilapia, and an ice-cube tray. A few days ago I decided to try my luck with tilapia on the George Foreman grill (we don't have a real grill). So I'm all excited about this delicious and healthy grown-up meal I'm about to have when I realize that we do not have lemon juice or olive oil, both things almost any recipe I saw (had to Google of course) called for. So I improvise and grab the butter and slap it on the grill. I'm feeling pretty proud of myself as I sit at the table and start eating the very thin end of the fish. Well kids, here is the main lesson to this story: you have to let frozen food thaw before you cook it.

After that embarrassing lesson I decided to put aside my pride and try again last night. I did it! Still no lemon juice or olive oil but I used butter and some seasoning salt on my thawed fish and it was delicious. I paired it with some quinoa that I made the day before because the directions made enough for an entire family and I wasn't quite that hungry.

There it is, my tilapia á la George Foreman.

Today is a huge day for the Noonan Family because on this very day, my sister Mackenzie receives her white coat! Dang, she is always setting the standards way too high for the rest of us. I'm so excited to see all that she is able to do with her life and how lit up and excited she gets from talking about cadavers. What a lady! But in all seriousness, Mac is a genius and has always been such a good model for me in hard work and following your heart to make sacrifices in order to do what you love. So proud of you Macadoo and can't wait until you can deliver my babies! She doesn't actually know for sure what field she wants to go into yet but that's what I'm pushing for.

Currently as I'm writing this on the porch, Clancy walks over to me and asks, "are you writing about our adventures last night?" 

Confused, I ask, "what adventures?"

"You know, we watched Matilda together last night and went to bed at 10 pm?"

And that pretty much sums things up right now. Today is also an exciting day for Clancy and I because our third roommate, Mary, is finally returning from Florida and we miss her dearly! Soon it will be the three amigos all officially together for good in the Big Red House!