Compliment Ninjas

So it's finals week here at school. Fun. Oh so fun.

Actually this has been a very chill finals week for me.  Now that I'm in my major, finals consist more of projects and some film analysis essays, so this has been the most relaxed finals week I have ever had!

Last night was really fun. Me and my roommate Stephanie were up late (her studying, me writing a paper) and it got to be about 1 in the morning when Steph suddenly turns to me and says:

"Riss, what if we wrote compliments on sticky notes and put them on the cars in the parking lot?"

Naturally this sounded like an amazing idea. So she pulled out the sticky notes and we started writing compliments, both normal and a little weird. Some examples include:

• You're so awesome, you could walk into Mordor and everyone would be like, "yeah, that makes sense."
• You're cooler than Mr. Rogers, which may not seem like a big deal, but that dude put on a different pair of shoes just to chill in his own home. And that's crazy cool.
• If I had a nickel for every time I thought about you, people would be like, "What are you doing with all those nickels? That's too many nickels." And they would be wrong.

We didn't get done until about 2:30 a.m. and we did 79 total. I'm pretty sure the later it got, the less sense  our compliments made...

Anyways we ended up just bringing them over to the guy's house and littering their stairs with them all. It was a nice adventure. It's always fun when you have two sleep deprived college girls trying to be quiet at 3 in the morning on a creaky staircase.

I'd like to say we're ninjas.

I'd have someone back me up, but there are no witnesses to our ninja acts. But I'd like to think that that in itself is proof enough.

Wouldn't you?

Fast, Easy Tortillas

When I was in second grade, we "made" tortillas.  And by made, I mean we actually played no part in the process.  Here's what happened:

Our teacher taught us how to grind flour. So, a group of eight-ish year old kids sat outside with two rock type things and a bunch of wheat and went to town grinding it into flour. Needless to say, it sucked. We thought it was insanely hard and stupid and not worth it!

Then our teacher took the flour mess we had created, went into the classroom for about 60 seconds (as the actual making of flour into tortillas was too complex for us), and came out with tortillas that our "flour" had "made".

Ever since then I have been under the impression that making tortillas was the hardest, longest process ever and you would have to be insane to try it.

Of course, if that were true, this post would end now.






But it doesn't. Obviously. Or, well, I hope that's obvious. Cause, there's more words. Just keep scrolling.

Well I found this recipe a while back, but had never tried it until recently. And holy cow! These are friction good! (so when I typed out that last bit, I had written "frickin", but it was auto corrected to say "friction". So I kept it. Hence the weird saying.)

These are great! Only 4 ingredients:

2 cups flour
1/2 t salt
3 T oil
3/4 cup water

Mix together all ingredients

and knead about 10 times (as more flour as needed, you don't want it too sticky. I found that about 1/3 cup more normally does it).

Or you can get fancy with your kneading skills.

And your faces. Thanks Chris.

Roll it into a ball and divide it into 8 pieces.

Spread those out into circles

and fry for about 1 minute per side on a sprayed pan.

And that's it! You're done!

 Depending on how much you flatten them, this is about their thickness.

Super easy and super good!