Yesterday, I was one of six kids who were finalists in a painting contest to make paintings for the little boy character in a pilot for a TV movie called Locke & Key (based on a graphic novel by Steven King's son Joe Hill) - I had made three BIG paintings two weeks ago as a tryout and they liked them! The contest finals were at my school and my friend Natalka was the only other Waldorf kid there; my dad wouldn't let me look at the book that the movie is based on (he said that it was a graphic graphic novel), but I had to make one painting from one of the pages.

Because we were all so tired afterward, we decided to go out and celebrate with SUSHI! We went to the New Dumpling House in Squirrel Hill that has Chinese food on one side and an AWESOME sushi bar on the other. We sat at the sushi bar because I like to see the sushi chefs cutting the fresh fish and putting the sushi together. I also like the sushi at Plum in Eastside but this sushi is a bit more affordable at New Dumpling House and we enjoy talking with the sushi chef. My favorite is the super white tuna sashimi and our sushi chef Ching split it nicely and carefully put a tiny spoon of black tobikko (herring roe) inside with the tiniest thin slice of lemon. As my dad says: DEE-LISH!