Tidbits

I've been too busy/lazy to put any effort into blogging lately, but I've had a few things on my mind.

-I baked some delicious pumpkin Oreo cheesecakes a couple of weeks ago. I even took pictures so I could blog about it. But...I'm too lazy to deal with uploading pictures so if you're interested you can find the recipe here.

-Last weekend James made butternut squash ravioli from scratch. I think I picked a good one.

-Blair is arriving tonight for a weekend of major vegging out, football, hopefully some trashy reality tv, and pumpkin cheesecake muffins. (I'm really into pumpkin. And cheesecake.)

-A Panera Bread just opened up a block away from our apartment. Score!

-Last night we made the mistake of going to Panera before they had worked out all the kinks of their new location. They were out of bread bowls. Panera BREAD was out of bread. Arrrg.

-While waiting 30 minutes for our food to come out, I observed an interesting family. Their dynamic was unusual. It looked to be a mother, a father, a son, and a daughter around the ages of 10 or 11. The entire time that they were waiting for their food all four of them were playing/texting/reading/listening to music/who knows what on their phones. They didn't say a word to each other. Then their food came. Everyone put their phones away except for mom who didn't remove her headphones and continued to listen to whatever was playing while they all ate. I was trying really hard not to judge them...but it was difficult. I don't want my family to ever be like that!

-On my flight to Las Vegas for work on Monday I sat next to two women. I had my Coach purse. The woman to my left had the matching Coach shoes. The woman to her left had the matching Coach wallet. I felt so...uninteresting.

-I elbowed James in the nose while we were sleeping last night. Payback.

-James is going to the Philippines and Guam for two weeks in November. Depressing.

-Someone stole one of our flower pots off of our patio. A couple of days later James found it in some bushes behind our apartment complex. Not sure what the point of that theft could have been. The flowers were still in the pot and alive.

-James has gotten the O.K. from his doc to work out, and he has been a machine. I really need to follow suit. I need something to counteract all the candy corn I've been inhaling lately.

-It's Friday. Hallelujah!

Cheers

It's the weekend! It's the weekend! It's the weekend!!

I haven't been this ready for a weekend in a while. Maybe it's because I only worked two days last week and I'm still adjusting. Maybe it's because I didn't have Facebook to make my work days go by as quickly as they usually do. Maybe it's because James has the day off today and I'm jealous and ready to join him at home. Whatever the reason, I'm grateful that the weekend is here.

This weekend our only plans consist of making a huge breakfast, watching college football (OU vs. Texas tomorrow...apparently this is important), and baking pumpkin cheesecake muffins. With the slight chill that's been in the air these last few days and the millions of pumpkin scented candles I've purchased recently, I'd say a weekend of coziness and snuggling is in our future. And I'm ready for it.

Side note: James spent his day off setting up the new surround sound system that he bought himself for his birthday. We will probably never leave the apartment again.

Crafting Genius

When I was in fifth grade I sewed two pillows. By hand. One was for school and one was at camp. I felt like a craft stud-ette.

But for some reason when I look at cute craft ideas now I get overwhelmed when the necessary materials include more than just tape. It's kind of the same way I feel about cooking. I take one look at a list of ingredients, feel overwhelmed, and start preparing a Boboli pizza instead.

Anyway, I have recently started dabbling in the latest internet craze: Pinterest. There I found the inspiration for my latest holiday decorating craft.



Not even tape required for this one!

Okay, okay. I admit that this probably doesn't even qualify as a craft, but since it's on Pinterest I'm hoping everyone will just let it slide this time...

If you too want to complete this extremely difficult project you will need the following items:

1) Clear candle holder
2) Candle
3) Candy corn

Mix it all together and there you have it. Good luck everyone. And may you one day learn to be as crafty as I am.