easter this year was lovely, despite the fact that my new shoes nearly killed me. since marshall and i live a couple of blocks away from church, we walked to meet my parents there sunday morning. my brand new (and super cute) shoes immediately started to dig into my toes. the stitching of the bow on top of the shoe ended up being very sharp and ( Read more... )

in the catholic faith, today is good friday. it is the day that jesus was punished by pontius pilate and crucified by the romans (not the jews, like some people *cough*melgibson*cough* seem to believe - read your bible, son). traditionally, between the hours of noon and three is meant to be the time that jesus died on the cross. during these ( Read more... )

there are some things in this world i just can't comprehend. one of them is how people go into starbucks order a quad-venti mocha-valencia with whipped cream, but insist on making sure it's made with non-fat milk. lady, com'on, your drink already has more syrup than coffee, just get the whole milk. you're not fooling anyone here ( Read more... )

as i mentioned earlier this week, we're trying out new recipes. we really enjoyed our pasta with garlic-almond sauce and the lemon-oregano chicken and asparagus with horseradish butter were no different. each was delicious. i love the taste and flavor of the chicken. it's like eating a lemon-herb roasted chicken, but it didn't take hours of ( Read more... )

alright this post ended up being WAY much longer than i had anticipated. here's a cut so i don't create too much of a wall of text. ( teal deer )

as i mentioned before, i came down with the sickness last week. i spent all day wednesday, thursday and friday on the couch watching TV and sleeping. i did manage to make dinner for marshall and i on thursday, but otherwise i didn't do much of anything else. i finally made it out of the house saturday morning for our weekly breakfast. after ( Read more... )

yeah, this isn't the good funky town either... i'm in a funk and it could be PMS-related. i know that i'm increasingly disgusted with how my body looks. on the same token, i'm not doing anything about it because my motivation has taken a vacation. i haven't had much motivation to do anything. it was like pulling teeth to finish my assignment ( Read more... )

but i'm not enjoying the side effects ( Read more... )

whew...i haven't posted in a really long time.

( it's really long, so i'm sparing your flist... )

when i was a little girl, around 7th/8th grade, i wanted to be a professional chef. i grew up watching the great chefs on tv: julia child, jacques papin, the frugal gourmet, the galloping gourmet (graham kerr - i even have one of his cookbooks), and all the others on PBS. when my mom and i cooked together, we would pretend we were hosting a ( Read more... )