ridiculous lemon meringue cake

It’s ridiculous on several levels. It takes a ridiculous amount of time, a ridiculous amount of pans and dishes, and it is ridiculously good. And while I realize that I have posted the link approximately twelve million times, it bears repeating that I would not have neither seen nor made this cake without first reading […]

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birthday cake!

That cake was a little crazy and a lot awesome. I’m fighting with it to get photos, though, so you just get a teaser until I can do a little cake photo shoot later. The slices are too fabulous to have blurry pictures. Also, I may start torching more of my food because it’s just […]

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so about my cake

Previously, I’m pretty sure that I mentioned wanting to make a ridiculous lemon meringue cake that I saw on The Way the Cookie Crumbles. Yesterday, I acquired this: Then I trashed my kitchen. I’m pretty excited to make meringue today. Then torch it! I will, naturally, post pictures of that, too.

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a day at birch aquarium

The hubby has to work on my birthday, so we observed it today by going to the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Oceanic Institute. Guess what we saw? Gosh you guys are smart. We had a lovely time and my dear darling spouse was infinitely patient while I took photos (or tried to, at least). There’s […]

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hundred push ups – week 2

Oof. I’m done with week 2 of the hundred push ups program. This was on top of moving in to our new apartment, just my husband and me. My shoulders are a little sore. The last day has me doing 60 push ups! We’re going to run some errands and go to the Birch Aquarium […]

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home is where your tree is?

Sunday I spent the day unpacking while the hubby was at work. When he was done, we packed up the last of the hotel room and officially moved! Of course, the first available appointment for internet installation wasn’t until Wednesday morning. And here we are! We are settling in. A handful of boxes are still […]

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plan b: asceticism

We have an apartment! Our stuff is in it! My whole body hurts! Everything about getting this apartment has sort of been a pain, but we finally signed our lease on Wednesday and got our keys on Thursday. We also arranged for our container of all our earthly possessions to arrive on Thursday. It was […]

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hundred push ups – week 1

I’m still on track through day 3 of the hundred push ups training program. The sets from column 2 on day 3 are 8 + 10 + 7 + 7 + 10 or more (I did 12!) for a total of 44 push ups. Next up: week 2.

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breakfast from room service

To keep myself entertained, challenged, and distracted from the fact that I can’t cook for myself due to the lack of a kitchen, I have been photo-documenting our meals from room service. Part of the room service game has also been to order the same thing multiple times and see how different it ends up, […]

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one hundred push ups

I’ve got noodle arms. I always have. Even when I was a swimmer in high school, I had to work so hard at gaining any upper arm strength, and I was only semi-successful. Enter the hundred push ups training program. I actually started it a few months ago, but stopped, probably due to performances or […]

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