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Some good recipes in here. I’m going to make the black bean and butternut squash chili tonight. Bring on the heat, and bring on fall-like recipes! nprfreshair: From NPR’s Kitchen Window: Confessions of a Sriracha Fanatic

Some good recipes in here. I’m going to make the black bean and butternut squash chili tonight. Bring on the heat, and bring on fall-like recipes!

nprfreshair:

From NPR’s Kitchen Window: Confessions of a Sriracha Fanatic

GPOYW - Best Weekend I’ve Had In A Long Time/My Boo And I Are Really Pale Edition

sostark:

Labor Day Weekend in New Hampshire.

Was an insane amount of fun. We all proved ourselves to be the nation’s top fun-havers. 

GPOY: Grateful To Be Alive Edition On Monday, I was driving to work in the heavy rain and the driver in front of me hit his brakes, and I hit mine, hydroplaned, spun around a few times and starting rolling. My car finally stopped rolling in the woods and I realized I was upside down with my music still playing. I started panicking and thinking that my car might explode, so I fumbled for the keys to turn off the engine. As I was upside down, I couldn’t figure out which way to pull the keys. I couldn’t open any of the doors and started kicking at the windows and screaming. Within a few minutes, I heard someone outside screaming, “Are you OK?” I saw through my window that a man was down in the ditch, trying to get me to calm down for a minute. He was able to pull me through my back window, into the muddy ditch; the rain still pouring down. He gave me a big hug and said I was really lucky. I shouldn’t have survived. Then, he went into my car, grabbed my purse, phone and a few other passing motorists were making their way into the ditch, a few pausing to take cell phone pictures of the crying girl standing next to her smashed up car. The police arrived, followed shortly by a tow truck. I only had a few bloody scrapes and I broke a nail. I saw the absolute best in people after it happened - a complete stranger, I only know that his name is Mike, rescued me. Later, I saw the absolute worst - crying on the side of Route 24, a passing motorist flipped me off for creating a traffic jam. I’m so grateful to be alive. Grateful for seat belts. Grateful for Mike. Grateful for my friends and family, and grateful for my boyfriend who hasn’t left my side since it happened on Monday morning. Now I know what Garfield meant when he said he hates Mondays.

GPOY: Grateful To Be Alive Edition

On Monday, I was driving to work in the heavy rain and the driver in front of me hit his brakes, and I hit mine, hydroplaned, spun around a few times and starting rolling. My car finally stopped rolling in the woods and I realized I was upside down with my music still playing. I started panicking and thinking that my car might explode, so I fumbled for the keys to turn off the engine. As I was upside down, I couldn’t figure out which way to pull the keys. I couldn’t open any of the doors and started kicking at the windows and screaming.

Within a few minutes, I heard someone outside screaming, “Are you OK?” I saw through my window that a man was down in the ditch, trying to get me to calm down for a minute. He was able to pull me through my back window, into the muddy ditch; the rain still pouring down.

He gave me a big hug and said I was really lucky. I shouldn’t have survived. Then, he went into my car, grabbed my purse, phone and a few other passing motorists were making their way into the ditch, a few pausing to take cell phone pictures of the crying girl standing next to her smashed up car.

The police arrived, followed shortly by a tow truck. I only had a few bloody scrapes and I broke a nail.

I saw the absolute best in people after it happened - a complete stranger, I only know that his name is Mike, rescued me. Later, I saw the absolute worst - crying on the side of Route 24, a passing motorist flipped me off for creating a traffic jam.

I’m so grateful to be alive. Grateful for seat belts. Grateful for Mike. Grateful for my friends and family, and grateful for my boyfriend who hasn’t left my side since it happened on Monday morning.

Now I know what Garfield meant when he said he hates Mondays.

Knit, Pearl, Pride, Prejudice

My crafting game has been way off for too long now, but that changes tonight. I’m headed over to my dear friend Sarah’s house tonight after work to get back on track and knit yet another scarf. We’re also going to order take out and watch Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice, so while she’s a more skilled knitter than I - I’m PRETTY good at oogling British actors and eating Indian food.

My dear boyfriend has already asked for a knitted suit for the harsh winters, so I’ll need to get to work on that as soon as possible.

Knitted Neck Scarf

The techniques needed for this scarf will hopefully push me into more difficult projects. Here is the link to the project if you want to knit along!

Mariachi Auto Re-Blog!

thedailywhat:

Just Watch This of the Day: Why the Internet Exists, Reason #143,106: “Mariachi Connecticut performing for a beluga whale at Mystic Marinelife Aquarium.”

[thanks tracey!]

Vacation Countdown

In one month, I will be on vacation for Labor Day Weekend at a lake house in New Hampshire. My friends and I have have been talking about this since February, had these reservations since March, and I just mailed our final deposit in yesterday.

I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS VACATION.

What’s going to happen that weekend is as follows: sitting on the deck, drinking beers on the deck, eating bacon on the deck, floating in the lake on an inner tube, going hiking (meh), cooking big dinners together, STARS, kayaking. I’m forcing everyone to make camp lanyards, too.

I can’t think of a better way to usher in my favorite season - Fall - than with beer, bacon and my bros.

GPOYW: All Day, Every Day Edition

GPOYW: All Day, Every Day Edition

My roommate and I went to Salisbury Beach on Saturday morning, and the kid working the Fried Dough concession looked EXACTLY like Michael Showalter’s character from Wet Hot American Summer. Also: A very terrible and racist couple chatted us up and were just all around terrible Salisbury Beach has amazing people watching, and we spotted at least 25 tribal and/or eagle/American flag tattoos around us Someone pooped in the sink in the bathrooms … <shudder>

My roommate and I went to Salisbury Beach on Saturday morning, and the kid working the Fried Dough concession looked EXACTLY like Michael Showalter’s character from Wet Hot American Summer.

Also:

  • A very terrible and racist couple chatted us up and were just all around terrible
  • Salisbury Beach has amazing people watching, and we spotted at least 25 tribal and/or eagle/American flag tattoos around us
  • Someone pooped in the sink in the bathrooms … <shudder>