Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

Okay, I promised you details so where to start, I’ll start it right now. What was first on my list, furthest away would be best.
I did promise to tell you about my trip to Yo Sushi before I abandoned you, so it’s a good place to start, it’ll be brief, it was a while ago now.
It was after my first expo at the end of last May. There’s not really that much to tell, but I’ll give it a go. Mum and I decided we should do something instead of sitting around all day, go out somewhere for a change. I’d already looked up Yo Sushi before, ever since Napoleon (that’s what I call my dad, I’ll tell you about it later, promise (Now I’ve promised I can’t back out )) told me about a sushi place he’d heard of at Kings Cross (not that he’d actually gone there of course, any kind of ‘foreign’ food doesn’t agree with him, the guy’s so closed-minded). So, as we decided to go out I looked it up. We intended to go on the weekend but ended going on Monday. I looked it up on Friday, or Saturday, I think, and when I went up to bed there was an enormous spider on my bedroom wall (I’m TERRIFIED of spiders, big spiders, money spiders are nice and cute, like eight legged ants almost but this was what I call a bath spider and it was freakin huge, biggest one I’ve ever seen). Unfortunately it was on a wall that’s hard to reach because it has my wardrobe to one side and a pile of crap in front so you have to lean over. Now, I was terrified of this because I kept expecting it to move. What if it moves? I’ll scream. It’ll see the shadow of the glass and move. What if I drop the glass? Suffice to say, I nearly had a panic attack (I say nearly because it wasn’t too bad and I hear real panic attacks are quite bad so I guess it was something like a panic attack) it happened twice. Eventually I caught the little bastard and put it out. It really was big. It wasn’t an illusion caused by the shadow like it usually is in my room. It really was as big as it looked. I felt a hell of a lot happier with that thing gone.
So, on the Monday we went to Kings Cross and sat down at You Sushi. Their pricing system’s pretty clever, different dishes are on different coloured plates that reflect the price and the food goes round and round on a little conveyor belt so you take what you want, stack up the empty plates when you’re done and ask for the bill, simple and easy to remember. I tried to teach mum how to use chopsticks, she struggled but managed reasonably well. I’m pretty good with chopsticks because I’ve been practicing for a couple of years now. I know that I hold them wrong but I can’t hold them the proper way without hurting my hand (I think it’s because I have long fingers (no really, they are pretty long, always have been it seems, apparently the first time Napoleon ever saw me (recently born, not just born, he was at work, so some time after) the first thing he said was along the lines of “hasn’t she got big hands” really, ta for that Napoleon, couldn’t have come up with anything more profound? First time you see your first and only child and it’s “hasn’t she got big hands”)) I digress, I’ll ***** about Napoleon later.
Like I said, I hold chopsticks wrong but my way is considerably easier. It’s hard to describe, I can’t quite remember exactly how I do it without holding some. Basically (I just got some, now I can describe it ) I have them pressed between my thumb, index and middle finger, the thumb supports both, but the bottom one mainly, and it’s one chopstick for each finger (the middle supports the bottom chopstick) the index finger does most of the work, moving the top chopstick so it’s pretty much the most basic pincer movement you can make but it’s very effective and anything too big to fit in it can’t really be eaten with chopsticks anyway, so it works perfectly (for me at least). Yo Sushi, all I can say, great place, if you’re ever there give it a go, they do hot meals too, for those who don’t like sushi, friendly staff too. They’re not just in Kings Cross, they’re at various places in London. It was a fun day out.
Like I said, not really such a big event, but my first time going out to eat sushi (and so far my last, but we recently ordered sushi in (can’t tell you about that yet, that’s part of my birthday section, makes sense to keep things together (now I can’t wander off again until I’ve told you about my birthday and I can’t do that until I fill in the other details) Maybe my second expo next time, not that much to tell about that either but there are some fun details))
Anyway, I’m done with this story so I think I’ll wrap it up here, makes no sense to write nothing for ages and then do an enormous blog entry now does it .