priceless

yesterday i was studying in the mc library.

and there was this larger guy fast asleep on a couch.

and he was sucking his thumb.

i. died.

i was trying so hard not to laugh, i snorted.

and it made my day so much better.

chocolate peanut butter cups

Ingredients


1 (11.5 ounce) package choco chips, divided
1 cup peanut butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
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Directions


1. Trim 12 paper muffin cup liners to half of their height.
2. Place 1/2 chocolate chips in a microwave safe container. Microwave for 2 minutes, stirring after each minute.
3. Spoon melted chocolate into muffin cups, filling halfway. With a spoon, draw the chocolate up the sides of the cups until evenly coated. Cool in the refrigerator until firm.
4. In a small bowl, mix together peanut butter, confectioners' sugar, and salt. Divide into the chocolate cups.
5. Melt the remaining chocolate, and spoon over peanut butter. Spread chocolate to edges of cups.
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Nutritional Information


Amount Per Serving  Calories: 290 | Total Fat: 20g | Cholesterol: 9mg


source: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-peanut-butter-cups/detail.aspx


mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

book dedications

i think the dedications at the beginning of books are always so interesting.

there are some that get your attention and reveal a lot about the author.

my favorites are the ones that are simple and sweet, and the ones that you don't quite understand but you know hold a lot of meaning to the person they are honoring.

they are so cool!

here are some that i've stumbled across.

let me know of any ones you like if you want!

in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis:

To Lucy Barfield
My Dear Lucy,

"I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be
your affectionate Godfather,
C.S. Lewis"

in Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman (which i have not read):

"You know how it is, you pick up a book, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the author has dedicated a book to someone else and not to you.

Not this time.

Because we haven't met yet/ have only a glancing acquaintance/ are just crazy about each other/ haven't seen each other in much to long/ are in some way related/ will never meet, but will, I trust, despite that always think fondly of each other...

This one's for you.

With you know what, and you probably know why."

[maybe a little cheesy, but i like the ending.]

kitchen

http://www.bhg.com/kitchen/eat-in-kitchen/eat-in-kitchens/

i love this. its a restaurant booth, in a house.

i love, i hate.

i love the rhythm, the schedule that fall brings. there's structure and certainity.
i love going to bed at night after a mentally and physically exhausting day.
i love that the cross country season is well under way.
i love the fall weather that's coming soon, and all the holidays and yummy, warm junk food.

i hate sitting inside at my desk all day, memorizing the definition of moist stratified squamous epithelial tissue.
i hate not going to the beach, going to the pool, and having all this free time to read good books.

i love that soon i'll soon be going on bike rides around d.c. on clear, sunny, breezy afternoons.
i love that school is strechting my mind, getting me mentally back in shape.
i love going to my county college and getting to meet new people and listen to new professors.

i hate that soon the sky will be gray instead of blue and that all the vibrant colors of summer will fade and become drab and dull.
i hate knowing that i will soon have to be trapped inside, that it'll be too cold or slushy outside.

i love the new things in store in this next season of life, coming oh so soon!
i hate that all the old, amazing things are coming to an end- summer, childhood, sunshine, pools, beaches, vacations.

i love that fall is coming, i hate that summer is going away.

til i hear you sing - RAMIN KARIMLOO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XegytVAM5WU

gahhh. i'm dying.

as the summer ends, i'm getting out of my country / bluegrass craze, and back into my old addiction to musicals... les miserables, into the woods, phantom of the opera, wicked...
SO GOOD.

siesta key!

well hello everyone. :)

its been a while since i posted here, and i've been meaning to do a post on our may vacation for many months now. oops. you see we came home in may, and it was graduation party after graduation party. then summer celebration. and then (yay!!) i got baptized on sunday, at our church, which was very exciting! :) after that it was local missions and then i had an internship last week... plus babysitting, finishing up school work from last year... ok, you get the picture.

but here it is, our third annual trip to siesta keyyyyyy! in sarasota, florida.
(on that same vacation, we also spent a week in st. augustine... that's coming later.)

i still can't believe how amazing and gorgeous and tropical this place is.

umm, pretty sure this was a cell phone picture snapped in a moving vehicle.

the soon-to-be marine biologist.

 the colors are so amazing.

cell phone pictures don't do it justice. 

 

the sunsets there... i have no words to describe them.

 "keep our beaches beautiful!! ...nudity prohibited."

mhhhhmm. naturally. winning.

coming up... week #2: st. augustine, florida.