Minute44 - Dan Schonhaar

Been a while since I’ve done one of these eh? Thought I’d give you all an Idea of what I’ve been up to recently… if you’re interested. Of course this is only gonna be the “interesting” stuff and not actually everything. Well the most important thing I’ve been doing, as far as I’m concerned is spending more time with my lovely girlfriend Nat. Because of our work patterns we get very few whole days together so when she took some time off before the Christmas rush I thought it was high time to make up for lost time together.

We got up to loads on our days off. We visited several cities including Nottingham Sheffield and Leicester and we got two new additions to the family (pictured left). The two shiny Droplets by the one and only JamFactory fit right in on my desk and, indeed our home. Meanwhile, the other member of our family, Juno-Kitteh has had her lady parts removed so she can take her first steps into the great outdoors. She recovered from the operation very well indeed and despite vomiting mere minutes after she was fitted with a head-cone (yeah it was a mess) she’s been doing just fine.

Oh, I thought I should mention that I have seen both Tropic Thunder and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People during our time off but I’ve been so busy doing other shit with Nat and helping out Adam at MinuteDesigns with a client site to write a proper review for either of them… Sorry about that. If you’re interested I give them both 3 stars. They were both entertaining but nothing more that average fare. I’ve got plans to see Max Payne in the next couple of weeks too and I hope by then to have enough time to give you a proper review.

On the subject of movies… I’ve actually managed to get Nat slightly into horror! Up until now she’s been dead against watching anything slightly scary but now she’s a self confessed fan of the Saw series having devoured the first three installments within the space of about a week. We’ve also recently enjoyed the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror together. I see this as a massive triumph and it means that there is still a chance I could get her into Lord of the Rings. (fingers crossed)

Following our trip to Leicester, Nat and I did something we’ve been meaning to do for aaaages and that is make our own sushi! We both absolutely love the stuff and thought it would be amazing to get all the bits and pieces to do our own. So We bought; Sushi rice, rice vinegar, mirin, sheets of nori, wasabi, pickled ginger and, of course the all important fillings (Salmon, tuna steak, red peper and cucumber). Seeing as it was Halloween night we made a night of it and settled down to some good old horror movie goodness after the delicious Japanese treats (pictured right).

What else, what else…. oh yeah. This Saturday just gone, Nat, Adam and I all went to Rock City in Nottingham. Was a pretty decent time. Saw a lot of my friends from out Birmingham way who I’ve not seen in ages which was nice.

So all in all the past couple of weeks have been awesome and very relaxing. I must remember to do this more often. A big thank you to my lovely girl Nat for making it such a great time.