oatmeal raspberry chocolate chip muffins-

this is what they look like in my oven with no flash.

it looks like tron.

my after picture disappeared... i really dont know what happened to it. but trust me, they are wonderful. and wrapped in santa muffin holders (muffin holders? they must have another name...). when i went to the store tonight to buy butter (which i didnt need because i changed recipes) the old man in front of me was buying ice cream. i like where his head is!

this is the start of the blizzard.

stay tuned for eight more inches of snow!!!

(its cool to go to sleep knowing when you wake up it will be a winter wonderland).

shopping list.

yes, im boring.

- dish soap

-laundry detergent

- eggs

- sugar

- crest anti-cavity toothpaste

- bottled water (for giant storm coming tomorrow)

- patch for work pants

THE SUN IS SHINING and so are you.

let me tell you a story...

its a lovely day out and a couple has an hour between classes that they decide to dedicate to not school. anything but school. so they go to starbucks (and they see the pike place brew and talk about the restaurant they were at in pike place over christmas break and how good the macaroni and cheese was and how good the broccoli was and how good the company was) and they get drinks and they settle outside to read a good book and watch a good movie.

a summer dream yeah?

close.

if close means yesterday.

eight inches of snow tuesday supposedly, but tonight im basking in the extra freckles on my nose and how dark his skin looks next to mine when we hold hands.

im not that fond of summer but this mini-break was perfect.

going back.

in 273 days.

BUDDY HOLLY.

(do i have to write something else?)

home.

some mornings i wake up ready for adventure and new places!

this morning i woke up and saw this picture and my whole being yearned for home.

it hits at the oddest times.

(print via the daybook)

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A CHALLENGE!?!!!

Mister and I have extended a challenge to each other: getting healthy over the semester. But to add some umph into it we put some prizes behind it.

$100

and a bet ( if i win he has to read a

book a month with me)

We haven't decided how to determine who is the winner since we have different things we need to do to get healthy (I already gave up sweets... so sad right?) but those goals are enough to motivate me to do anything!

Here's to getting healthy.

And here's what I'll listen to while getting healthy:

Make fun all you want but when you get into a chapter you'll run an extra mile to hear the end.

(I really like that Harry is lego in that picture. I think it's really funny.)

influenza!

everyone is getting sick in nursing... so today in class when nothing was happening (nothing really important was happening i should say) me and miss k wrote a poem and sent it away on the wings of email to our sick friend david.

first the camera malfunctioned and took this.

we were preparing for sick faces but obviously the shot was waaay to early!

(try not to be jealous of how creative we are.)

much better sick faces.

BED.

i miss you.

(this bed looks like something you would never leave right? i will have a bed like this. someday.)

lady lust.

i totally dig jane birkin.

yum.

be honest.

these are wonderful arent they!?!

i know.

they were a christmas present (kinda.. i got money for shoes and chose these).

mm mm impulse.

a view from the bridge... can i scrounge enough pennies to buy a station wagon and get it home AND fly to new york for the night to see scarlett johansson and liev schreiber?

not.

but i so wish.

things i wish i had

patience

a desire to wear no shoes but heels

great cooking skills

a station wagon

i bought last months issue of real simple for 48¢ and read it on the plane yesterday. i came away with a recipe that im definitely going to make: COUSCOUS SALAD. is your stomach growling already?

that being said im an awful cook (see above). i could be good, but ive got little patience (also see above) and even less practice. but im going to take the leap and try a new recipe once a month. this one involves practically no cooking so obviously its first. baby steps. hopefully no lighting the kitchen on fire stories to follow.

since this is food mania post...

my grocery store trip today was part 1 of eating right.

i have to go back tomorrow for couscous but thats all! my theory is if im nipping for a snack and this is all i have ill either not eat or eat something good. solid plan right?

- 1 cucumber

- 3 heads of brocoli

- 1 stump (stalk?) of celery

- cheddar cheese

- 4 yogurts

- 3 apples

also, apples were $1.57 and last week i bought an apple for 37¢. oklahoma you rob me!

(i dont know who this is but i wish we were friends)

denver. legal pot.

we are sitting in the food court-

because outside it looks like this!

luckily my heart is warm because of baby love.

and her head is warm because of the new hat i made her while watching band of brothers.

it was very sad to leave home this time... so many people i want to be around (shes going to be walking before i get home).

the town of ports.

a busy wedding weekend.

more pictures and such later but i have ten bags to unpack and some sleeping to do!