Spent the better part of this evening making chocolate chocolate stout cupcakes (with a white chocolate buttercream frosting) with Jamie. No regrets - it was kinda fun, and we haven't actually seen too much of each other lately. It's sadly easy to forget how important it is to simply spend time doing something with your friends ( Read more... )

Woke up at 7:15 even though my alarm was set for 9:30. I feel betrayed by my own body ( Read more... )

Tropicana has a really cute Boston-themed ad campaign going on at North Station (and perhaps elsewhere) right now, purporting its mini juice bottles to be "the good part of a Boston morning". The ads were as follows:

NO SCARF
NO GLOVES
NO CABS IN SIGHT

STUDENTS
LOTS OF THEM

FINALLY FIND A SPOT
A HYDRANT BEAT YOU TO IT

NEW YORK
WON LAST NIGHT ( Read more... )

About halfway through A Game of Thrones at this point, and it's really an interesting exercise. I never rewatched the first season of GoT like I'd been meaning to, so I can't really tell if certain little details are new to me because I forgot them or because they never made it into the show in the first place ( Read more... )

Because I feel like it's easy to forget all the nuances once the season is over, I thought it would be nice to at least have a list of the things I liked about this season, in the hope that it'll help me remember them as time goes on. So without further ado:

( Bits, pieces, and other reminiscences of the season that was )

"Those guys are twins."

Said as we waited for our tour of the chocolate factory to start, when two little identical boys wearing matching jackets walked in ahead of their parents. And it's not that funny just reading it, but the girl is 5, and the tone she said it in was so matter of fact, like "well there they are!", and just that she said it to ( Read more... )

Daisha and Yuzu! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ( Read more... )

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Welp, I've finally finished slogging through the rest of Phantom, and I saw Hunger Games today, and I never wrote up my impressions of POTO proper, so I figured I'd go ahead and knock everything out in one post.

( The Phantom of the Opera )

( Like really, really stupid )