Julia's French Onion Soup

You can't ever go wrong with one of Julia's recipes.

They're always guaranteed to be delicious, contain at LEAST 3 tablespoons of butter, and take twice as long to make as you thought they would.

But what can be better than cracking open that teal book, throwing some butter in a pan, smelling browning onions for 40 minutes, and pouring hot soup into a bowl to cuddle up on the couch with while you watch some tv with your  husband on a cold winter night?

Thanks Julia.

Pretty much every picture I take is going to have chapstick in the background. Get used to it.

Who doesn't love a recipe that calls for brandy and gruyere?

Thanksgiving in Pictures

What a happy Thanksgiving.

The weather was perfect.

The board games were funny.

The wine was sparkly.

The food was tasty.

The company was lovely.

All ready for the Turkey Trot 5K

This Week

I haven't blogged much lately because of Thanksgiving, family visiting, my current class is horrible, holiday Christmas craziness is upon me, and well I'm just sleepy.

Here though, is a bit of my week so far.

I now refer to myself as a running ninja because of my all black ensemble and you know...my stealth.

I finally started wrapping Christmas presents.

I know it's not November.

I'm usually mostly done by now.

Working at Hallmark ruined me for life.

We decorated for Christmas.

We took some cute pictures with our new camera.

But it's about a foot away from me and all packed away and I'm tired.

So you get these two.

Balls and Mickey.

About sums up our house.

I put on a pair of my husband's socks last night and around 11:15 on my way to bed decided to slide down the hallway on them at full speed and crash landed flat on my ass against our closed bedroom door.

It was loud.

I laughed.

A lot.

Mike slept through it.

Again I say stealth.

We cooked Julia's creamy crab meat soup and it is delicious.

8 tablespoons of butter later it better be.

I've been distracting myself from my awful class by reading this.

And I'm incredibly sucked in.

I love her.

And her potty mouth.

That's all I got so far this week.

It's windy.

I'm tired and full of butter soup and white wine.

G'night.

Awkward and Awesome

One of my most favorite bloggers Sydney at The Daybook has a recurring post called Awkward and Awesome.

She encourages all her readers to post theirs too.  

So here's mine.

Who wants to bet my awkwards always outnumber my awesomes?

Awkward:

• the husband presenting me proudly with the running clothes he bought me and realizing they are bright yellow, skintight, see-through pants and a bright blue muffler thing for my head.
• the next day biffing it on the sidewalk in the bright yellow, skintight, see-through pants in front of husband and skinning my knees.
• reaching to pat my manager on the arm to comfort him during a bad day and having him walk away while my arm hung in the air awkwardly after him.
• the dance I did after doing the first item under Awesome.
• yelling at husband, accusing him of doing something with my registration sticker for him to answer, "I put it on your car."
• the look husband gave me as I walked around the house carrying a glass of wine and singing "homework juice" loudly.
• watching the West Wing episode where Zoey gets taken and right at the part where they find the ransom note, husband turns all the lights off in the house.  May or may not have peed a little.

Awesome:

• being the one to figure out how to fix the lights being out in our living room before the husband did.
• having a husband that will compliment your butt in your new embarrassing pants, pick you up after you fall face first in them, clean the entire house, and do the laundry all in one day.
• tamales, left-over Chili's guac, and sour cream.  happy face.
• re-runs of West Wing while organizing my shoes and jewelry.

That's all for now, my brain is fuzzy from school and homework juice.

What I Wore Today (Rainy Sunday Edition)

I know today is not Sunday.

I'm busy ya'll.

School and whatnot.

This is what I wore on Sunday.

They can't all be winners.

It was raining.

Hence the fake Uggs.

And yes, I'm aware they aren't cool anymore.

Jeans:  KMart

Boots:  Big 5 (yeah, I'm pretty stylin')

Sweater:  Gap

Scarf:  Old Navy

What I Wore Today (Whiny Saturday Edition)

In an effort to distract myself from the awfulness that was my final, I'm posting a bonus outfit pic for this week.

Jeans:  Kmart (nope, not kidding)

Top:  JCrew

Cardigan:  JCrew

Boots:  Kmart (I get so many compliments on these Kmart boots, It's kind of nuts)

Necklace:  gifted, hair clip that I looped a ribbon through

What I Wore to Work Today (a couple days late)

I missed Tuesday.

I've been sleepy.

School kicks my ass.

How can one person possibly read this many chapters?

Especially a person as lazy as me?

And when there's tv shows to watch, angry birds to play, blogs to read?!

I have the attention span of an infant, I can admit it.

Anywho, this is what I wore on Tuesday.

Shirt:  JCrew

Skirt:  Gap Outlet, I loved it so much (it has pockets and the waist is stretchy and it was $12!) I bought two in different patterns.  And wore them less then a week apart.  With the same shoes.  I'm weak.

Shoes:  Nine West Outlet

Cardigan:  JCrew

Earrings:  Premier Jewelry Party (per usual)