I’ve made it! You know you’re all official n’stuff when your diploma comes in the mail. Look at it. Just look at it. :)
Then I kind of celebrated by sharing a giant chocolate peanut butter cupcake from The Cocoa Bean with Tyler. Delish.
Jack Attack / january 23, 2011
Here’s some fun pictures of Jack in his 3 month clothes, lookin’ all studly. Except those ‘moobs’. I don’t know what’s going on in these pictures but it looks like the poor guy has man-boobs. I promise he doesn’t!
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| His doctor lets him take naps on his tummy now, as long as I’m watching him. |
Kindle Lending Club / january 20, 2011
Here’s an awesome website created by Amazon that allows people to borrow and share their Kindle books! It’s easy to register and navigate the site, and completely safe. :) This has been EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for!! I’ve already requested The Hunger Games and Ender’s Game.
**EDIT: The way it works is you sign in (I used my Facebook account) and then you can request a book you want. You just type in the title you want and then hit “request” and the system will find someone and ask them if they can lend it to you. You can also post your own books (manually) to lend. On the Kindle, you can only lend out your books once, and I believe it is for 14 days. But I see this as more than fair. :)
I am currently engulfed in a book called Matched by Ally Condie. It is about a “perfect” Society, where everyone’s choices are made for them: what they wear, eat, their vocation, and even their marriage “Matches”. Cassia is the protagonist who is matched with her childhood friend Xander, but also accidentally (due to a system malfunction) matched with a boy named Ky. This makes her really doubt who he true Match is and who she is supposed to be with. She also begins to doubt everything around her being controlled by the Society. Based on what I’ve heard, it’s sort of like a lighter-reading cross between 1984 and The Giver? It’s very clean and a quick read. I’m almost done and so excited to see how it ends! Five stars.
(I’m also excited to read Ally Condie’s other novel, Crossed
Kitchen Tips / january 19, 2011
Two kitchen tips that I wish I would have known earlier:
1. When measuring peanut butter or shortening, or some other sticky substance (honey?), line your measuring cup with plastic wrap. Spoon your ingredient in and drop it into your bowl. Then toss the plastic wrap and clean-up is done!
2. In Utah the climate is so dry that your brown sugar tends to harden like a rock within a few hours of being exposed to air. Drop a couple of marshmallows into your brown sugar jar and it’ll stay soft and crumbly, just like it’s supposed to. I also keep an open bag of mini-marshmallows (it’s what I had on hand) on the top of my large, 25-lb tub of white sugar.
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