10 things that are red that I love, as inspired by oakenguy:

1. Pomegranate. The seeds, the juice, the color, the flavor - all so seductive.

2. Red wine. Currently I'm trying to finagle my way into the local wine industry, because I am just so in love with everything about wine. Last night I had an Italian Amarone that opened up to juicy, juicy berries ( Read more... )

Finally, a treasure trove of trashy tags! This week there was an original theme - that of people using clearly masculine names for baby girls. This is witnessed in poor "Mattingly", "Adonis" and "Sawyer" (oddly the amount of female "Aubrey"s seems to have dropped off). There were the usual mispelled words, such as poor "Manual", and words-that- ( Read more... )

This is a fantastic site for, well, the URL says it all: http://www.vinaigretterecipe.com/recipes/recipes.htm

This weekend I'm hoping to do some cathartic baking, including pumpkin chocolate chip muffins and Irish stout and whiskey cake.

If this is cold number three of 2009 I'm suing my immune system. At first I suspected allergies, but allergies wouldn't cause swollen, painful glands, would they?

Heh.

Busy shmusy, I do likes to procrastinate (courtesy of dolphingirl:

The rules are that for 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day. Tag 8 people to do the same.

My breakfast! It was a slice of multigrain bread with a slice of tomato and a slice of muenster cheese, toasted. Nom.

I tag thee, glimmerysea, claireh, morriganx3, mothinflight, pelethetart, persefoni, phoenixrose, and snailshells!

Ho ho ho, I just wanted to make a post to show off my holiday userpic.

If any of you were planning on stopping by for the xmas card thing today, I unfortunately have to cancel. I'm sorry for any inconvenience, but due to time, health and financial constraints it's just not possible. Sorry! I hope to see you all soon <3 .

-Noelle

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It is not allowed to be halfway through November already. That being said, weirdo that I am, I am already internally singing xmas tunes every time I see a snowflake descend.

Last night I dreamed I ran into two people from high school who are among those with whom I would not like to reconnect. Is this a sign I should move to a new city ( Read more... )