This is my breakfast:
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My sister B is home from the hospital. My mom and littlest sisters drove out today to be with her. Sounds like everything's going to be okay. Her side had been causing her bad pain for a long time, so it's good to finally find out the reason and take care of it ( Read more... )

I did a bad, baaaaad thing by writing Chocolate Gash Tortoise, omg. Dessert cravings like you wouldn't beliiieeeeve.

Part of my family went to Illinois for a funeral today, so I had the kitchen at my mercy. I made baklava. This helped.

I have also been experimenting with Cake in a Mug to vanquish the strong desire for chocolate cake. It's not ( Read more... )

So I kicked the new year off to a good start by catching 140/140 possible mice in MouseHunt.

Also watching Shark Week on Netflix Instant.

Also mashed potatoes.

This pleases me.

Anybody have a favorite recipe for lemon poppyseed bread? We have lemons and poppyseeds. So therefore there must be bread.

Poll VERY IMPORTANT HOLIDAY QUESTION

I was somewhat high on Theraflu last night when I posted these tweets:

There is another problem in this house, and that is this: CANDY CANE MASSACRES ( Read more... )

Snow is pretty, y'all. Like, really, really pretty.

My family had better make some snow ice cream today, or I will be bitterly disappointed.

Or I'll just make it myself, come to think of it.

Wow, I am meeeeeedddddiiiicated.

ETA: Snow Ice Cream Recipe (from hereIngredients ( Read more... )

As noted in a recent post, I has been a-baking. My family gave lunch at church today, which is a big deal. (The way my church does it, we have morning service, lunch together, and then afternoon service. Families in the church take turns giving lunch, and we have enough people on the list that my family does it about once a year, so always around ( Read more... )

So this was my dilemma. My Thursday D&D group is doing like a potluck, in which the lovely hosts are providing spaghetti bake and the rest of us are bringing salad and dessert or whatever. And I was all like, "Bread! I will bring some kind of bread! Mmmmmgah, I love bread! Bread bread bread! I'm all over this, let me handle it ( Read more... )

Me: *is holding a bowl with some traces of caramel sauce, Sebastian-rattie sitting on my shoulder ( Read more... )

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