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Today is another great day in the BodeLou annual calendar. National Cookie Day. Thats right kiddos, the one day a year when we can celebrate cookies 
what more could you possibly ask out of a holiday?
Amidst the grad school applications, room cleaning and decorating, I have found a sliver of time to whip up a batch of cookies. I hope you spend your time similarly! Check out Bodelou Bakes for my recipe and photos.
Happy Friday!
i hate to give excuses for my absence. not like any of you expect me to do such, but really, in this last month of chaos i realize that blogging grounds me in some weird little way. it provides the perfect moment for me to flex my brain, keep that dialogue going, sort through my thoughts, contemplate things that life points out to me (even the ones i don’t want to look at,) its a stree reliever and a perfect opportunity to socialize without socializing. the absence of blogging, makes me feel guilty.
so today, im blogging again. where do i begin with all that has happened? well, nothing too dramatic has taken place. ive spent my time working like a horse, cooking like a pro, entertaining like martha stewart and penny pinching to the very last cent. oh and did i mention working on that grad school application and personal statement? yeah. time consuming if you will. im ready for it though. im ready to take a little bit of a leap, no matter what the outcome and spread my wings like i used to.
in my former life, as in the one before i moved back home, i prided my self at being someone who was independent, a risk taker in the areas of life decisions. being here has stunted every part of that. i have come to rely on my friends too much, my family even more and i feel bored and complacent as a result. now i want to buy back that dormant piece of my personality. grad school is the perfect way to reintroduce me to my former self. and i”ve only come to realize that this decision is the best one for me, maybe not for anyone else, but that ultimately it is me that is the most important, right?
more blogging to come…
i am still planning for Sunday’s Friends Thanksgiving. its been a tad overwhelming, mostly because i have been spending the last 8 days house/dog sitting for my parents. they have two loveable, yet very high matinence hounds. combined with mine it makes for one hell of a time. I am anxious to go home and start cooking and cleaning for this weekend’s festivities. i don’t want to live out of a suitcase anymore, i want my own bed, my own closet and my own time back. tomorrow morning can’t come soon enough.
on that note a little help from one of my canine friends (okay, not one of my canines…but someone else’s)
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Ive been busy. like too busy to blog, busy.
here i am with a friday night off, i have dinner reservations with the roomie in a little over an hour and instead of glamming myself up for a night on the town, im blogging. finally blogging. (more…)
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updates to come…
food for thought (my mexican conquests)
the moment you have all been waiting for…my return to the blogosphere.
it will take me some time to catch up on my blogging and my commenting, so forgive me if you get comments from me that are beyond outdated. sincere apologies. my reader says 1000+ and i marked about 287 from the chicagoist “as read” and that statistic did not budge, so you know it may take awhile to catch up. i also am in the midst of thanksgiving planning, which is not only fun, but taking up a lot of time, energy and thoughts. so please forgive me for my slowness.
i can’t possibly give you a complete blow by blow of my vacation, but i will share a few pictures. if you want to see more check out my flickr. for now, heres a taste of that is great in Puerto Vallarta…. hope everyone is well (more…)
i have a lot of things i should be doing or in fact, i should have already done. and here i am, sitting on my couch wrapped in a blanket, in a food coma from a great breakfast, waiting until the last minute to get ready for work and blogging instead. (hopefully the boss man calls to cut me this evening.) i leave for mexico the day after tomorrow and just about the only thing i have done to prepare for the trip is locate my passport and accumulate a list of requests from the busboy staff at work including spicy tequila, mexican cigarette and specialty candy. i am way behind and show no signs of catching up. this procrastination wouldn’t be so bad if i weren’t scheduled to work a double tomorrow and leave for the airport at 3 am. eek!
instead of being productive i have decided to mull over asking past-professors for letters of recommendations and ponder the best way to write a grad school entrance essay. mind you, i have not yet actually started to write either. after the laziest day of my life, i am still unmotivated to get up and do something. yesterday, the roommate and i spent the entire day on the couch. this is no exaggeration, because we literally left only for food, bathroom breaks and to release the hound. it was rough, but 100% deserved. why is it that lazy days do not curb your need for a break, but only cause you to be lazier? if this is how i am after just ONE day of laziness, what is it going to be like after a weeks worth?
to make you feel better, i will be dragging my GRE study materials to Mexico. just because studying will be done poolside, does not make it more fun. if you want to read something i have ACTUALLY accomplished check out BodeLou Bakes. i wrote a semi-review on last week’s dining experience and started my journaling of the Friends Thanksgiving.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: food, letters, roommate, the publican, vacation, weather
all i have tonite is letters. i know its been a while and this may lack substance, but my google reader is at 560 and i have no time to blog serious things. HERE GOES! (more…)
