Good morning everybody.
It's a beautiful Sunday here
in Tokyo and since it's my boyfriend's birthday
this coming week I decided to throw a little party
for him today with some of our friends.
I woke up bright and early this morning to get ready
and there's a bunch of things I need to do before everyone gets here at 1 o'clock
So let's go do them.
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I'd thought we start off with decorating because
then even if I'm out or doing other things then people arrive earlier it'll
at least it'll be set up and look okay.
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Here we go!
I decided to go for some classic colours like the elegant man that he is
with black, silver, white and a touch of red.
Oh, and one of our friends has a little boy so
since he's meeting Rosie for the first time
I thought I would also - I picked up this for him when I was grabbing the balloons last night.
It's a little
pug dog balloon and you can drag it on the floor like this:
Rosie! I can hear Rosie spazzing out in the background.
This is my outfit for today. I'm wearing a dress from asos.com
I put some shorts on underneath 'cause it's slightly see-through and short.
Um, these are from Zara.
My shoes, they're sorta Mickey Mouse looking shoes, are from One Spoke;
and I'm wearing Cand- the Kylie Jenner li...
Kylie Jenner lipkit in Kandy K on my lips.
and there's this little tie here.
Alright; let's go get the cake!
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Okay, home.
That took a lot longer than expected.
Have to hurry now.
Noooo!
This 'b-day' part will probably be the death of me.
Stay up!
I guess we can just he happy. *sing-songy* Happy!
*sing-song; high pitch* Happy! Happy!
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Hey everybody. It's the night before the party and I'm just preparing my
which I've made before I think in my school lunch
but I'm just making this again because it's my favourite salad
to make for a party because you can make it the day before. It tastes even better the next day.
So it just makes things a lot easier.
and more organised.
So I'm going to make this; I'm just adding some chopped broccoli.
I've got about 3 tablespoons of walnuts chopped,
and then I've got...I don't know how many, like 15 big, white button mushrooms. I removed the stems of these.
and then I'm not going to waste the stems. I chopped up the mushroom stems finely
and I'm going to use them in the dressing.
and some, about, oh well this is probably more...
you need about 3 tablespoons of sundried tomatos.
So these are all chopped; these will be mixed together for the dressing part, to stuff these.
and I've also made the salad dressing. It's a parsley dressing.
I made it the night before because I like it when salad dressings have time and the flavours mix together.
So I think this will taste even better tomorrow.
I used 2 tablespoons of olive oil, a half tablespoon of white wine vinegar,
a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper.
Then there's about, 1/3 of a cup of chopped fresh parsley, and 1 garlic clove minced in there.
I'm just mixing it all together and I'm gonna keep it in the fridge overnight along with the rest of the ingredients.
and then I will continue tomorrow morning.
Okay, now I'm going to make the stuffed mushrooms.
I just took out all the stuff that I stored in the fridge overnight; everything is looking good.
Um...
So I'm just going to lightly brush the mushrooms with some olive oil.
On both sides of the mushroom...
woah!
and then lay it on this non-stick baking pan.
Thank you! <3
Just sprinkle them with a little bit of salt and pepper.
Oh, by the way, I'm preheating my oven to 170 degrees Celsius, which is... 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
On a frying pan on medium heat
I'm just adding a little bit of olive oil.
and I'm just gonna fry these up.
and then you can add some finely chopped garlic once the onions are all soft and cooked.
and the chopped up mushroom stems...
'kay, you're just going to fry them up until they're golden brown like that.
and then you're going to add 3 tablespoons of chopped walnuts.
3 tablespoons of sundried tomatoes, chopped.
Now I'm just gonna add the dressing.
Now you can remove it from heat,
and then, you basically just take spoonfuls;
take a spoonful of the stuffing and just put it inside of the mushroom.
There ya go! Now I'm just going to pop it in the oven and bake it for about 15-20 minutes
until everything is golden brown and cooked. :)
Aaaaaaa. *sads*
I also made basil, mozzarella, tomato salad 'cause it's my boyfriend's favourite.
(off camera laughing)
Oh yeah.
Our friends brought their cat *laughing*
Rosie's not even scared; she was just going up to her.
*cute voice* Hi baby.
Who's that? *laughing* Were you kissing me?
I got you a present!
What is he into right now? What stage? Like cars, or dinosaurs?
Aah, no; he's into trains.
Oh trains? Perfect, I thought that.
Wow!
What did you get?
We should open that and play with it!
This is for the new baby.
Aww, thank you!
Aw it's so cute! It's matching! Taylor, isn't it cute?
So beautiful! Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
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This is taking me back to my days of buying Barbies and it takes forever to undo!
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*frustration* Why is this so difficult?
You have to come to me to get it.
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*playing with car noises*
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*playing*
I think everyone will die in your ambulance!
Where are you going?
Do you wanna go outside?
*playing*
I think it's time for some sugar!
Cupcakes? Wanna see the cupcakes?
That is so cute!!
*laughing*
Aw, your cat is so nice just letting her.
Are you guys friends?
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*speaking in Japanese* Mom:What's his name?... Taichi(little boy): Taichi! Mom: Taichi?! ehhh, the same name!
Wow!
Wow. I'm not letting you walk my dog. *laughter*
Woah!
Okay, everybody has left now.
We all had a lot of fun; I'm just cleaning everything up, doing the dishes now.
So I'm about halfway done.
but, um, as you can see by my face, the sun is going down and shining directly in here.
I was thinking to take Rosie to the park now so she can run around a bit
and catch the last bit of sunlight and then I'll come back and finish cleaning.
Do you wanna go for a walk?
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Dishes are finally all finished! We already ate dinner, we just got some takeout Chinese food
and I ate a whole bag of chips; and my make up is looking gross.
Um, we are gonna chill now. We're going to watch a documentary;
Leonardo Dicaprio's documentary called 'Before the Flood'.
I believe it's free on FaceBook and you can also find it on YouTube.
So we're gonna just stream it from YouTube onto our TV.
and...
cause I made more snacks and I haven't ate enough today; I've eaten so much today actually
but our friends brought us these lovely grapes; so I'm going to munch on these.
Oh, and a lot of you were worried about the stairs because of Rosie
but we usually had boxes and stuff blocking it; but her gate finally arrived so this can block it.
*puppy voice* You can do it!
Good girl!
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