April 2009

Have you ever had McVities Ginger Nuts? In case you’re unsure, McVities is the producer of rolls and rolls of Digestive Cookies, and the cause of my incredible weight gain in England. For 99p, Alex and I would buy a roll of the Caramel Digestives – a digestive cookie with a thin layer of melty [...]

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April 16 2009

Classic Yellow Cake

(I’m totally avoiding doing work right now. I feel semi-bad. If you decide to make this cake and it makes you happy, please let me know – so I can take comfort in knowing that my shirking creates some good.) When Spends2Much and I sunk our plastic forks into the yellow cake with chocolate icing [...]

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April 15 2009

Life as I know it

I wake up and shower. Then I make & pack our lunches. If I have time, I eat breakfast at home, too. I’m out the door at 8, and I get to work. I go through the piles of stuff waiting for me at work, with many breaks in between to check up on my [...]

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April 13 2009

My Fierce New Bike

Since we got Alex a bike last year for his birthday, he’s been bugging me to buy one. (I should’ve seen that one coming before suggesting a bike for him.) Since Julia was in the market for a bike, too, we went to Chinatown on Friday after brunch for some serious (stolen) bike shopping. Seriously, [...]

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I wish I were the type of girl who could pull off glass slippers. I wish you’d look at me and think, god, she’d be a perfect fit for those shoes. Instead, I’m the kind of girl you look at and say, “Someday she’ll save enough money for her Louboutins.” This is a conversation Julia [...]

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