I love choco chips in banana bread.

It's overcast here and has definitely cooled down. So much nicer than it has been in days and days.

what I do have? alone time tonight, tomorrow and half of Friday. mac is off with grandparents to visit gg and his cousins. I am getting a massage tomorrow and possibly adult socialization.

Woo for adult socialization!

Which means HOOKERS AND BLOW.

ION, xkcd has made me want to re-watch LotR: [link] Yup, all I need is that tenuous of a connection to want to re-consume media. (I heard Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want to Be with You" in the car on the way home and now I want to re-read "Welcome to Temptation." I really am *that* easily swayed.)

Yay adultness!

I am meh on raisins in my oatmeal cookies. I did however go to a little local bakery today with my mom and we got cinnamon rolls and sugar cream pie. Nom.

I am seriously gaining weight here at my mom's house. She believes I am otherwise underfed, appearances to the contrary.

Eh, I can take or leave chocolate chips in most non-standard places.

Whereas, I'm NUTS about NUTS!

I like nuts in almost everything, as well as by themselves, by the handful. Not annoying fake hazelnut or almond flavoring, but actual nuts. In salads, desserts, bread, cookies, on most breakfast foods (haven't found a good way to incorporate them in eggs and bacon yet), and even as a substitute breading on fish. Hmmmm. I'm noticing a lack of nut-related soups in that list. I'll have to do something about that.

Nuts should be ground into paste. I hate their texture. But their flavour can work for me.

Raisin oatmeal cookies are the one true cookie.

Jesse, did I submit a Batman link to the goodstuff tumblr?

God, I'm glad to be home. Now I have pear to eat in addition to the apple sauce.

Nuts should be ground into paste. I hate their texture. But their flavour can work for me.

Texture is why I don't like macadamia or Brazil nuts. But I like walnuts or almonds in most things. Cashews and pecans are hit or miss depending on the item. I avoid pine nuts since the dreaded pine nut mouth incident.

I like raisins in oatmeal cookies. I like chocolate chips as long as they are dark chocolate, in just about any sweet treat.

but don't get me started on what an abomination shredded coconut is!

I'm noticing a lack of nut-related soups in that list.

Peanut butter mushroom soup.

IJS.

Wooohoo, msbelle!

I've missed 2 calls from different neighbors and both went to vmail when I tried calling back. Hrmph. Both are no doubt about the weekend: porch supplies and my birthday. Which might be one and the same.

Had a funny conversation with the pool staff tonight. We were talking about the regulars (including the students in the lesson tonight, they were a hot mess) and mentioned one woman who swims for like 3 hours and how after like 10 years of a steady, slow pace, has begun doing sprinting laps here and there. But only when I'm sharing a lane with her. I was like "I thought I must be slowing down! I usually pass her every second lap, and then all of a sudden it would take 3.5!" Hah. And then they were giving me shit for missing last saturday, and I informed them I was cheating on them with Ellicott City. "So you really are crazy and never miss a day?" Then it turned to "some crazy dude" who does 3 miles on weekends. "You know I do 2 miles 3 days a week and 1.5 the rest ?" "OK, you are crazier. And have better hair." (This is a running joke because of course they always see me in a swim cap. But one of them, finally recognizing me pre-swim said "I didn't recgonize you" *flails hands* " hair!")

I like being part of communities.

and the extreme afternoon thunderstorem.

That's what monsoon season is in the Southwest deserts.

I don't miss the heat, but I do miss those thunderstorms every many days. A lot.