Consume muffin top.  Bottom optional.

Most Sundays are spent lying in bed till about noon and then coaxing Jamie into taking me out to breakfast because the idea of have to make anything for myself (even toast) is overwhelming.  I don’t know what came over me.  A sudden rush of inspiration washed over me, and I decided that I wanted to cook…ALL DAY.  

• Homemade pancakes from Smitten Kitchen
• Baked bacon
• Scrambled eggs with scallions, tomatoes, sharp white cheddar, and sliced avocado
• Chicken pot pie with an Ina Garten pie crust
• Sauteed swiss chard (I think it was swiss chard) with a little salt and pepper
• Roasted brussel sprouts and turnips (410 degrees for about 45 minutes)
• Roasted beets and mozzarella salad with lemon juice and olive oil

1. 
   Honey’s Kettle Fried Chicken for lunch on Sunday.  It was absolutely sublime and the perfect gym deterrent.
    
2. 
   Two tickets to the Florence and the Machine concert at the Hollywood Bowl.  A lot of people scoff at the fact that I have an Amex, but it proved its worth today.  LiveNation is having a presale for Amex card carriers and if you have a super fancy Amex, you get the added perk of super preferential seating.
    
3. 
   One CSA box from the South Central Farmers Cooperative.  This week’s box includes: Black Kale, Collard Greens, Red Beets, Rainbow Chard, Green Romaine Lettuce, Turnips, Parsley, Broccoli, Navel Oranges, Gold Nugget Mandarins, and Bacon Avocados.  I avoid CSAs boxes because I never finish everything before it goes bad, but this week’s box was too appealing. Who can turn down BACON AVOCADOS?  Granted, they probably don’t come close to my vision of sliced avocados wrapped in crispy strips of bacon, but I still love avocados and I can wrap them in bacon myself.
    
4. 
   Packaged coconut water tastes kind of funny to me and it totally turned me off the first time I tried it.  One day, I had a particularly vigorous workout and chugged an entire box of Zico in one go.  It was ridiculously delicious.  Well, everything is delicious after you workout really, really hard, but now I’m hooked.  It occurred to me that I should take advantage of my Amazon Prime account and the discounted prices and stumbled upon Amazon’s subscription service.  I will now receive 12 pack of Zico on my doorstep every month for the low price of $14.62 (about $10 less than the list price of $25).  

me: It’s weird and not right!

Jamie: dude, that kid is 12.  that’s obviously staged.

me: He’s 4.

Jamie: yeah, next year will be his 8th 4th birthday. 

This is what happens when friends come from out of town.  We gorge ourselves on disgusting amounts of Korean BBQ at Honey Pig and top it off with glazed donuts from California Donut.  And then we endure intestinal misery for the next 5 hours.  Totally worth it.

I’m obsessed.  There is zero chance that I’ll ever reach the level of wealth needed to acquire a chateau or even a nice apartment in a great city, but a girl can dream.  

I think I’ve figured out what to get all my friends and family for their birthdays.  U Star Novels has a bunch of novels that they will custom publish using your name and the names of your friends in place of the character names.  BRILLIANT.

I also like:

• strategically [verb]
• high priority initiative
• would love to hear your thoughts on [crap]

cheapwhitewine:

Some people are great at organization and taking deep breaths. I’m great at making lists of things that annoy me. It’s sort of the same thing.

I’ve spent an embarrassing percentage of my life sending, receiving, drafting, and trashing work emails. And since being judgmental comes naturally to…

Likes:

• Cake Scraps:  My culinarily gifted former roommate, Kellie, brought over cake scraps from the cake bakery she works at and they were delicious.  What are cake scraps?  The trimmings from freshly carved cakes.  Why are they awesome?  Because they are delicious, there’s a lot of variety, and you can eat a lot of them because you can tell yourself that you’re eating scraps.

Dislikes:

• Rubbing my eyes after cutting up jalapeños.

I figured now that life has settled into a predictable pattern, this would be a good time to start blogging again.  Here’s some essential information to get you situated:

• I graduated from business school and am living in LA.
• I work in education.
• I still bake pies.