Thinking a lot about losing loved ones right now- but thankfully have not lost one of my own. Over on Tastespotting, a food/photo blogging website hub of sorts, I suddenly noticed a huge influx of people posting recipes for peanut butter pie. I noticed, on the captions under the photos, that they were all "for Mikey". I don't always go read blogs ( Read more... )

When I was younger, I had a large Hello Kitty plushie with a pull-string in it. She had 4 phrases, including gems such as "Let's have a tea party!" My brother and I used to hold onto the pull string and make it return slower than intended, so the result was a deep bass "Leeeeeets haaaave a teeeeeeea paaaaaaaartyyyyyy...." It provided hours of ( Read more... )

Despite the shitty morning, yesterday was really good. I forget that even though it wears me out, cooking makes me feel amazing. And yesterday was really a Day Of Cooking. Made the pie first, a chocolate pecan pie. It was a recipe I just pulled off the internet and it was pretty good, but it needs another level. Maybe cinnimon. Then I got to ( Read more... )

I wrote that big ol list of stuff to do... and well, then I went to London, and got sick, and blah blah blah. Basically I fail, and what jagienka said was absolutely right-- big lists with big goals make nothing happen. But really, I'm just putting myself in a situation where all the optimism and motivation in the world can't get me going-- I'm not in ( Read more... )

Well, last Thursday I finally received my BSc undergraduate degree. I finished my exams on May 28th or so, and there's a little bit of anticlimax in waiting a month and a half, but hey. The speaker for our ceremony had to cancel but she was pretty no-name as it was. Anyway, the Chancellor gave a good little talk, and there was British pomp and ( Read more... )

Well, as it's been over a week since we started our journey home, I should probably at least give some sort of highlight post of our trip ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to update for the past week or so and just haven't had a minute to sit down and do it. The sad thing is, I haven't really been that busy. Anyway, brief bullet point summary of happenings and reflections thereof ( Read more... )

Quick post because it's been a week since my last one ( Read more... )

I've been in the States for a few weeks, and am leaving tomorrow afternoon. The nervousness is hitting me pretty hard right now so I figured a good LJ entry would help me unwind ( Read more... )