i went dog-sitting this weekend and internet use was sporadic at best (by which i mean "from one spot on the bedroom floor where i had to hold my computer on my knees whilst sitting perfectly still") and basically not worth it, so instead i watched my quarterly-required amount of television (this woman had a television. how novel!) and got ( Read more... )

it's actually spring and it's actually warm and i wore the swingiest skirt i own (it's also the orangest skirt i own, doubleplusgood!) and dangly blue earrings. i had fun biking around and now i am sitting in my room drinking mineral water and obsessively reloading literarytattoos and punk_knitters. the latter is really embarrassing, because there is nothing punk rock about ( Read more... )

a couple of days ago, i made a double layer cherry cake with chocolate buttercream frosting in between the layers and then vanilla buttercream frosting on the outside. also, alison said there should be chocolate piped around the edge to decorate it, so i did that too because i need practice with the pastry bags. it was kind of amazing. we went to ( Read more... )

my watch, which i have had since highschool, finally gave up and died on me a couple of days ago. it might be fixable, i don't know, but basically i have had it for ten years and, while incredibly functional, it was pretty much anything but stylish. i figured it was time for a change, so today i got a new one, which i am really pleased with! it ( Read more... )