Post #50!...About That...

yeah, i realize i am a day late on my "sunday/wednesday schedule." i have a good reason though. i may not even post anything wednesday this week. i did want to make a little update though, just in case there are any people who read my blog.

things have just been a little complicated lately, and we are trying to sort things out. it sucks. it is incredibly painful. i am trying so hard to do the best i can, but failing. i hope that i can make things better.

for lack of being all not sappy and sad, i did go for a six mile walk on thursday with heather. we saw this super fuzzy caterpillar.

oh, and on wednesday i went to green lakes to walk, and i even jogged! i might have made it a half mile total, but that was over 5 or so increments of a minute or two. i might try again soon. maybe i will have a chance at my 5k in september.

so i dont know. i may or may not have anything for you wednesday. we will see what happens. please, just wish me luck, i am really hoping for the best.

thanks for reading and the support.

Summer Berries...And Muffins

i feel like days off are good and bad. i do enjoy a day off to relax, or dick around doing random things, or even get things done that i wouldn't normally be able to do. at the same time, sometimes i don't know what to do with myself, don't do anything productive, and feel like they are a complete waste of time that i could be getting paid for.

is that weird?

i don't know. that's just what i was thinking at the moment. i am always moving and feel like i should always be busy or else it's pointless. i am pretty sure the only time i am okay with not doing a damn thing is when i am laying out on a beach. namely in the outer banks, but since that is a good 12 hour drive away, i have to make due with what i have near by.

in other news, i made some blueberry muffins!

these are my absolute favorite. it almost scares me to try a different recipe, but i probably will anyways (i bought some greek yogurt to make muffins with, but i didn't use it for these. i want to make some super healthy muffins another day!).

while i do abuse pinterest, my other favorite place to find recipes is allrecipes.com. i found these streusel topped blueberry muffins a couple years ago and have not looked back since. they really are super delicious. just sweet enough. not overoladed with berries (i am very picky with fruits, and most fruits i will only eat in a baked good. i do not eat them plain. i know, i am weird like that). moist and fluffy. just try them if you get the chance!!

i just really like the way the batter with the streusel topping looked. something about it....i don't really wanna eat it this way like i would with cookie dough, but it looks pretty with the contrast. ♥

so yeah, this is what i did yesterday morning! muffins are one of my favorite foods, although i am pretty sure i've mentioned that before. otherwise, i am always working. except for today. these days off...i don't know about them...

yummm.

have i mentioned that i love muffins?

they got a little over done this time around, i was multi-tasking and cleaning at the same time, so they were in the oven for an extra 3 minutes or something. they didnt burn though, just a little dark. doesn't stop them from tasting delicious though!

i also don't know how i managed to eat the one with like two blueberries in it....if you notice in the picture, i cut it into quarters, because the first cut was all muffin, no berries. oh well.

still delicious. doesn't matter. ☺

hmm. it's only been a couple of days, so not very much has happened between sunday and today. i am not sure if i will bake anything else before the weekend, since i am still working on eating my massive cake, and now i have these muffins too.

i should be painting a t-shirt for one of my customers soon, though, so that will be fun. i always miss being able to draw and paint. i mean, i have these days or times off, but i always find something else to do. kind of like playing video games. i have a nice stack that i need to power through, of games i've started, games i haven't started, games that i have like 98% finished.....but i am always doing something. there is always something to clean. always something to do. not to mention access to any of my systems is limited sometimes because i have to share with my husband, who is usually on netflix, hulu, or any other games.

so painting! that will be fun!

not that cosmo has anything to do with painting, but this is what i wake up to every morning. he makes a newspaper fort, rolls around underneath it, and talks to himself, giving kisses and saying "i love you."

this shirt i will be working on, my customer is a dj, and plays a lot of classic rock/etc, and he has been thinking of what kind of custom shirt i could make for him for a while. he finally came up with an album cover from the cars. it's all purple and glittery, with electric green and orange pinstriping. i love secondary colors, so it definitely caught my attention. i am hoping i can pull it off!

i need more excuses, reasons, or projects to paint or draw. i stand by the fact that it is relaxing, and carries me far away from any troubles i may have, even if it's only for a little while. i feel like i need that a lot lately. try as i might to keep everything calm, there's always something that comes up.

le sigh. oh, if anyone reading this lives nearby, i may plan an end of summer ice cream party! i want to make a couple ice creams i found. have a little ice cream bar with all the toppings...you know. anyway, i suppose i will call it a day for my ranting and muffins. maybe i will have something to share by the time sunday rolls around again! as always, thanks for reading! come back soon! ☺

A Little Slice of Heaven and Hell

 

ohhh yeahhh. check out that slice of cake.

you like that? well you can't have it. its my slice of cake.

i would gladly share the rest of it with you though! it is huge. there is still a half of cake left, and that's after i shared it with whatever co-workers wanted some. i ate a piece for breakfast two days in a row. probably not the best idea ever, but whatever. i think i deserve it, and have every right to that, with it being birthday week.

everything went alright, had a pretty good day. i actually didn't even eat my cake until friday. i went to cheesecake factory on thursday, since my birthday happens to fall on the best holiday of the entire existence ever....national cheesecake day! well, technically its the day before my birthday, but they usually extend it to the day after, so it might as well be national cheesecake day part two. not complaining at all. they have a new flavor every year as well, and this year it was lemon meringue pie cheesecake. ohhh my goodness. so good.

aside from treating myself to cheesecake, i got more tea! and tea accessories!

 i have said it before. i super love tea. i firmly believe you can never have enough tea. ever. especially if it is super delicious, and awesome all over the place....which in my book, is mostly everything.

my friend heather got me two new flavors of herbal tea from teavanna: balsamic raspberry lime twist and caramel almond amaretti. i have had two cups of the caramel almond one already...coincidentally for breakfast the last two days while i ate my cake. holy crap its awesome. it smells almost like a snickerdoodle cookie or something, and if i could smell like that all the time i would.

the raspberry lime tea i had at the store, and it is gonna make an awesome iced tea. probably one of these next couple mornings i will make some.

i also got a nice tumbler with a tea infuser basket built into it and the perfectea maker from my husband. it's a nice big tea maker that, when you set it on top of the cup or whatever you are making it into, it strains through the bottom instead of pouring things all over and making a mess. they use them in the store to brew tea for customers.

super fancy! like a sir. *pinkies out* *get out your monacle*

i bought myself a comic and new socks, too. new socks are the best feeling ever. pretty much the exact opposite of wet socks, which is the worst feeling ever. i did not know that this series of comics, lenore (the cute little dead girl) was into series two, and they are all the way up to #10! which means i have to find 1-9. and then continue to hunt for the rest of them as they come out. i love roman dirge. if you are not familiar with his work, look him up.

have i ever mentioned that i love when my cats are being tortured, at least by their standards?

i think its absolutely hilarious. they drive me up the wall, so when people come over, like kristen, and snuggle them to the point where they look like this.....it's a good day.

they just sit there and take everything like a couple of little bitches, it is spectacular.

rufio was the lucky asshole to receive all the "love" on thursday. look at his dumb face.

hmm. i am not really sure where else i wanted to go with this. i kind of have a headache, which almost made me not come online and do this, right after i said i was going to start keeping a schedule every sunday and wednesday. blah. i am going to blame it on the weather. it started raining about four hours ago and has been pretty much all night. it is somewhat humid and feels funny all over. i really want to go to sleep, which i probably will after this. maybe even early tonight. hopefully by the time i wake up it will be all gone, and i can carry on almost like a normal person.

if there is such a thing as normal. i mean, i am ready for bed, but i kind of want to go eat some of my cake, but eating before bed is pretty bad, and i wouldn't go to sleep if i did that. i can't sleep on a super full stomach, it's so uncomfortable. i don't and never will understand how people can eat a crap ton of food and then just go to sleep. i can't even really sit still after i eat a lot. i need to get up and move.

and then i look at food some more on pinterest. just to make it better, you know. all of the things i want to make and eat. i love to torture myself like that. look at it again! ohh, i have never been defeated by a dessert. this one came close. there is so much cake, and the ganache...like woah. but i think because it's chocolate and peanut butter it made it awesome, and kind of required me to eat all of it.

this dollar, by the way, was in my register at work. one of my guys taped the note to it for me to find when i opened the store the next day. it's still in the register. i kind of want to see how long it will stay in there before someone gives it away.

i have no idea what to make next. i am thinking about those blueberry muffins, since i should probably make something good for me after all of the pizza, cake, and cheesecake factory i have been putting into my face the last four days. oh, speaking of trying to be good, i signed up for  a 5k marathon! it is the insane inflatable 5k in syracuse! heather and i are on a team, maybe with a few others, on the noon time slot. i just want to play in a giant inflatable obstacle course. i can't run my way out of a paper bag, so i am probably going to die. it will totally be worth it though.

in the mean time, i am going to leave you with this slice of lemon meringue pie cheesecake. it was delicious, and was one of the best birthday cheesecakes i've ever had. even if everyone had to sing to me in order to get it. stop back wednesday, i will hopefully have something to share! thanks for reading!

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