Let Me Show You How It's Done

So today while I made a delicious grilled cheese sandwich, I also cleared out the dishwasher to be a kind and helpful roommate. Any time my sandwich slowly cooked to perfection, I unloaded the clean dishes and put them away. Then, while I ate, my roommate took on the role of putting the dirty dishes into the dishwasher, also being a kind and helpful roommate.

Problem with this?

I think she was making sure we'd have to work extra hard to fill it.

Okay, it probably doesn't look that bad. But our dishwasher has some space issues, and we really have to play tetris to get seven girls' dishes to fit. And this is not tetris.

So, my lovely roommate, as helpful as you were trying to be, this is not your forte. You might want to leave this part to us.

Best. Costume. Ever.

And I don't normally do single word sentences. That's how epic my costume was this year.

I think the best part was the fact we made almost everything ourselves. Not the boots and pants, but the shirt, bow, bracer, and swords were all homemade. Pretty cool.

Do you see those awesome bows and swords? Yeah, I thought they were pretty cool, too. We won't go into the fact I cut a live branch from a tree to make mine...I wanted it to be bendy, okay?

Okay, ignore how ridiculous I look pretending my sword is an arrow. We didn't have any... But really I want to talk about the epic arm bracer around my wrist. Fun story about those. I made them during General Conference to help me focus, but I was a little lacking in proper tools. That meant I was pounding little holes into the suede with a tiny nail so I could get a scissor blade through it (for the leather bindings), which took quite a bit of effort. And resulted in four sliced fingers. And a lot of blood. But that's okay, because they look awesome!

As you can see, we took ourselves very seriously, especially after I found me a stick to act as my arrow.

But really. Our costumes were totally epic. And I'm sure you would agree.