Everyone has a very strong opinion about where you should go on a honeymoon. Its one of the first things people started giving me advice on after we got engaged.
All I really want from a honeymoon is somewhere where you can see the stars, and breakfast. So maybe a cabin? Somewhere in the mountains or by the beach? Somewhere that brings breakfast to my door?
photo from here
There is something so satisfying about kneading dough. Also, it is a great arm workout, especially after you just did an hour of yoga and have rubber band arms.
We made “everything” bagels. The guy was in charge of putting the holes in the bagels, and making the spices and such to go on top. We used salt, sesame seeds, and some minced garlic. It was our first time making bagels, and it wasn’t really that hard at all. We followed these directions mostly, and ours turned out really good. We ate them fresh with a little cream cheese. Bagelicious.
I finally finished Gone Girl last night. Have you read it?
I usually read a little every day, but I get to a point in a book where I just want to know how it is gonna end, so I binge read the rest. That was my last night. I know how to have a crazy Wednesday evening.
I thought Gone Girl would have a little different ending than it actually did. But I can say that I did get hooked on it, and it reeled me in pretty good. It would be a good airplane book, except that it gets a little creepy/scary, and I am a wee bit paranoid.
Now what should I read?
My office sometimes has lunch brought in for meetings and such. Its usually never exactly meant for me, but sometimes, a leftover cookie finds its way into my belly.
But the white chocolate macadamia nut cookies from restaurants are always sooo good. They are like thick and chewy and full of delicious. So I decided to make some of my own. I used this recipe, and I highly recommend it. I mean, look at the nooks, crannies, and chunks. I still have some experimenting to do to make them come out just like the bakery, but I think this was a very good start.
PS- White chocolate is weird to me. It is a chocolate derivative. That sounds completely healthy.
My flame I am drawn to right now is a sewing project. Hand sewing. Its actually kinda obsessive and silly and no one will probably care, but it makes me happy and that’s all that matters, right? I’m just like one of these happy moths, I just can’t resist.
It’s the Christmas present that keeps on giving! I just got my second monthly coffee sample from the Craft Coffee present that the girl got me for Christmas. This month I got three different varieties of “washed” coffee beans from around the globe. The descriptions of each coffee is pretty entertaining sometimes because while I do love the coffee, I don’t think I have a sophisticated enough coffee palate to pick up on some of the flavors.
The 21st day of February calls for cookies. A new kind of cookie. An experiment.
To satisfy this requirement, I present the chocolate orange cookie. Which is really like 10% chocolate, 5% orange, and the rest is butter and sugar. Tasty little buggers, plus fun to make. I made mine mini sized, because we want cookies, but let’s not go crazy here.
I am having a hard time finding invitations that I truly love. Maybe I am being picky. I think I have a general idea that is in my mind somewhere, and I can’t seem to find something that fits that idea.
I found these AMAZING invites from Rifle Paper Co the other day. They are custom, so you can’t buy them, but I really love the idea of them. Is hand embroidering 51 paper invitations crazy? Yes, it is. But it would be crazy awesome….
Sometimes you just have to use your glass window that doubles as a dry-erase board to write a message to send to your girl.
guy and his girl 