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Green Tea Powder (matcha) is IMPOSSIBLE to find. After visiting every "crunchy" store south of Hartford, I caved in and bought a powdered green tea mix made by Lipton (which turned out to be crystallized tea that smells like mint). As I was pulling out of the Shaws parking lot I noticed… Continue

Before I met Conor, Valentine's Day actually had significance in my life. I'd pretend to not care about the commercial holiday but really deep down, I was wishing I had a valentine. I would secretly hope some secret admirer would reveal themselves by buying me chocolates or sending me flowers. The truth is, I don't even like flowers that much and if I really wanted chocolate, I'd buy some myself.After I met Conor, I didn't feel the need to put so much energy into one day. Now, it's just an excus… Continue

I dread the drive to work but this makes it a little better.

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I'm making some progress on Blustery. More details in the next post.

By the way that's Mango Pickle Down River by M.I.A. featuring… Continue

Sorry I've been MIA. I had a great weekend in upstate NY and Northampton. I saw Neko Case for the 2nd time on Saturday night and it was incredible. She truly is my favorite musician. She sings so effortlessly. One second she's joking around and the next she's belting out a great song. I also love that she has such a great range. Just compare the songs she does with the New Pornographers to her solo stuff. The song that probably did it for me was " I Wish I Was The Moon". I remember seeing some r… Continue

Our original plan was so make these awesome cupcakes to ring in the new season of Lost. The problem was, we could not find those tiny toy airplanes anywhere! So we ended up with these:… Continue