The Depravity

Laying here in goddess pose in bed as I wince over the undercooked salmon that I ate last night, wishing my study date wouldn't be weirded out by me asking her to not only meet at my house in our bedroom instead, but if she could also just recite the electrical-chemical muscle contraction sequence while spoon-feeding me tepid broth. Ug.

Saturdays 'n Pretty in Pink 'n Cut Copy

*Remembering the concept of "Them" vs. "Us" - it's all "Us."

So I Went a Little Nuts...

...but then it was really worth it.  Labor intensive, but worth it, and way better than the Christmas attempt.  I wish I could remember the recipe I used, but it was a basic sugar cookie that used both white and brown sugar.  Then I used sugar to roll them out instead of flour because, well, you can never have enough sugar, right?

Slippery Slope

Slippin' Sunday

Coco, the lead singer, has a fantastic voice and is utterly charming, and this may be in your head for days BUT YOU'LL LIKE IT.



Also stolen from my partner's music brain, but lovely.  And sparse:

The mailman almost just called his wife a slut to me while recounting her supposedly numerous tattoos, and then when he held himself back and called her "The Trampstamp Queen" instead, I did a raise the roof type move while like, staring him in the eyes with mine way wide open.

I'm going nuts.

Almost just said "Rock on, playa" to my 40-something boss - might have been awkward.

I Pickled FauxBoho!

http://www.wecanpicklethat.com/http://fauxboho.blogspot.com

Serious Food'rotica

"We ate and drank all day long. Brendan shucked eighteen very fresh raw Maine oysters, which we ate on ice by the fire with shallots in white wine vinegar and a sauce of lemon juice, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, and horseradish.

I dismantled 2 small endives and, on twinned pairs of the crisp, subtly bitter leaves, I slathered sour cream and loaded each with capers, fresh basil, and oil-packed artichoke hearts. We ate the whole plateful with a fresh batch of blini with slabs of two rather spectacular mild cheeses and some seedless purple grapes.

Then I steamed a bunch of slender asparagus spears and served them with a fantastic dipping sauce made of the rest of the white wine vinegar-and-shallots mixed with mayonnaise and Dijon mustard. After this, I steamed eighteen clams, which we dipped in hot butter.

Later, I melted a bar of very dark chocolate in a double boiler while I cut the stems off some eerily ripe, preternaturally juicy California strawberries. I dipped ten of them in the chocolate and put them into the fridge on waxed paper. While they set, we revisited the blini and cheese course.

And then, with small glasses of Marques de Caceres, to finish this day of insanely luxurious, happy eating, we ate the chocolate-dipped strawberries."

-via katechristensen, via orangette

#firstworldproblems

eau de toilette?



or eau de parfum???

Hindsight/Foresight

I'm glad to now know that it's not as creepy to go to the college cafeteria for a burger before class than it is to go for an intimate concert afterwards. Score.

You guys, I might seriously break out a one-person dance party if she does this song later on today.

Fulsome Friday!

Oh my gawd, I woke up with a headache and now two Minneeesohhhtahhhns are discussing how their kid's high school play should be censored or altogether cut because there are swear words and "like...sexual?" dance moves in it.  Guhhh.

Okay.  The one is also wearing a Jesus t-shirt that says "TIRED?" (I don't even want to go there) across the front of it, and is having marital problems.  I know this because she stated matter-of-factly that she's going to a weekend retreat with her husband to get it together again.  You can't make this shit up, people!

Also, I have come to a conclusion: mainstream country music is embarrassing to listen to because it's like baby music for adults.  Yuck.

TGIF! I feel like I'm in the book "Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis!

Totes Baller

Yeah, I'd Say So

Good to Know

"Ok who else thinks it borders on fraudulent that the makers of cold medicines (eg DayQuil etc) were able to switch out a medicine that works on congestion (pseudoephedrine) for one that doesn't work (phenylephrine) without changing the packaging or letting consumers know? What a racket."

-SS via FB

I'll Never Get Over You in the Morning