today i am making my first foray into bread baking. i discovered a couple of weeks ago at poker night that the new roommate of our host is also half-portuguese. he and i proceeded to lament the absence of portuguese bakeries in new york city (literally not a one, people. it's tragic.) and i decided to take matters into my own hands ( Read more... )

this is awesome.

you all should know that instead of going out on a saturday night, i am finding gems like this while sitting on my couch watching movies on TBS.

apparently, there is another lauren faria in washington, dc, and she is ruining my life. i have two hotmail accounts - lauren_faria and laurenfaria - one for junk and one i just abandoned. apparently this stupidface just created lauren.faria and now she is haunting me everywhere i go... on hotmail ( Read more... )

in protest of bombast, saccharinity, and hyperbole everywhere, i have found the perfect reading for my sister's wedding ceremony.

I Do, I Will, I HaveOgden Nash ( Read more... )

two things that have unreasonably upset me in the recent past:

1. when i drove to JFK last night to pick up Z, i passed a salon called SpectaQular Stylez. i understand but do not tolerate the "z." but the "Q"? COME ON ( Read more... )

last week my best friend got into dartmouth medical school ( Read more... )

i went downright crazy with the cooking last night ( Read more... )

14-3 BABY.

it's sad how late in the season it will be til i can get myself to a game this year, but my undying love will carry me through the hard times.

in other news, monday night was my new pal billetdoux's birthday at 151. it was pretty awesome. not working yesterday meant being able to stay out til 3:30am on a monday-tuesday for what i think was the ( Read more... )

saturday night was Z's birthday celebration. as of yesterday, i was still recovering ( Read more... )