March 3, 2013
Question: Have you ever logged onto Facebook, skimmed through your News Feed, and then proceeded to spend the next 15-20 minutes looking at/ through your own page? (I’m talking pictures, old posts, the works.)
Welp, that sounded overly narcissistic.
For those of you who answered “no,” well, I guess I already lost ya. I guess you’re also a million times better at using your time productively. For those of you who answered “yes”… wait, did anyone else answer yes? Probably not – I’m just a weirdo, sometimes. Don’t mind me.
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August 16, 2012
Caution: You are about to embark on reading a long post. It might as well be a novel, with some pretty pictures and an awesome recipe to break up all the monotony of texttexttexttexttext. Consider yourself warned (but hopefully not intimidated!).
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September 15, 2010
Yesterday, there was a bowl of stone fruits sitting on the counter. Rich red plums, vibrant orange nectarines, and sunkissed peaches. It was quite a beautiful sight.
But today, the bowl no longer contains nectarines or peaches. We ate the nectarines in their natural, juicy glory, and I baked the peaches to enhance their natural, juicy glory.
Poor little plums . . .
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August 13, 2010
I blame my friends. That’s right, I blame them for this habit of mine – ours. But I suppose that’s okay, right? I mean, there’s not all that much wrong with a midnight snack . . . especially when it’s freshly baked!
I love our late night baking (even when that usually means dumping brownie mix into a bowl, whipping it with some eggs, throwing it in the oven, and then returning to the episode of Law and Order: SVU that we’re watching). And I love being able to enjoy the smell coming from the oven before the brownies are ready to be eaten. I even love the anticipation of waiting for them to cool down just enough so that we don’t have to worry about burning our mouths off on piping hot brownies.
I just love the tradition. It’s perfect.
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