book a week geek

Post-Thanksgiving gluttony, I thought it might be important to get back to basics.  I have been altering this pasta salad recipe for the last few weeks, because I think it might be the most delicious food I have ever “invented.”  I am basically turning into your Italian grandmother.  Now, bundle up and consider this.

Measurements are, [...]

I would tell you about the books I’ve been reading if I hadn’t been so busy reading the Gossip Girl series (so what.  it’s summer.) and snuggling with a certain Halifax-bound young man.
For other things that tend to occupy my time wonderfully, see also:
a sneaky little buddy I discovered at my parents’ house:
epic hat fail [...]

I am trying to get a move on my knitting right now.  I know, this is CRAZY because it is 87 million degrees out, but if I don’t get this knitting done now, when will I??!  Before you know it, Christmas will be looming and I will be scrambling to write a million terrible papers [...]

I have a terrible habit of checking out 15 books at once from the public library of all knitting patterns, and then am overwhelmed and can’t get around to more than one of them without freaking out and using a whole pad of post-it notes to mark things that I-omg-need-to-make.  Inevitably I return them all [...]

Sometimes when it’s insanely nice out I get a little depressed, because I would secretly rather be inside reading. This weekend was one of those times. It pained me to do so, but I forced myself outside. I went to the dog park numerous times. I went on many walks. [...]