i made a tres leche cake yesterday, it was good, but not worth the stupendous amount of effort that went into making it (it took over 2 hours). it is pretty though, maybe i'll put up a photo later ( Read more... )

well my brother never called me back, so we stayed home this weekend and got things done at home. i'm assuming that means they didn't get hitched. i hope they take this opportunity to work things out and learn to communicate better before they decide to actually hold the ceremony ( Read more... )

so for the past week we've been going around grumbling, "lousy smarch weather." for example, on friday it rained 1.7 inches ( Read more... )

so the power just came back on about an hour ago, which makes it not quite 24 hours without power. they were predicting severe winds around 5-8pm yesterday, and boy were they right ( Read more... )

there, i re-did my stupid journal layout. at first i studied layout templates other people made, and then i just decided to play around with it. so there you go. unfortunately none of my italy photos are that lovely (since we used our old point-and-shoot camera, afraid someone might try to swipe the digital if we took it), so i had to steal one ( Read more... )

so the evening went better than the rest of the day yesterday. it was one of those "so ridiculous it's funny" days, especially since none of the craziness was actually a really bad thing. but then, thankfully, the evening was normal ( Read more... )

this was one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad type of days ( Read more... )

eli has eaten frog legs. i have eaten kangaroos. eli got giant, 1/2 lb shripmps for bbq monday. ew \ they are huge and gross ( Read more... )

oh my god. i am drunjk. we are singing tenacious d. we need to be a cover band. hehee! awesomneness ( Read more... )