Made in Richmond

I’m so jealous of Matthew I could die.

Go Hokies.

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I moved into my new office today. It’s pretty awesome, I’m not gonna lie.

I’ve got a renewed love for Friends. It’s like how you can’t miss someone when you’re always together - I just needed a two-year break I guess.

All I want to eat is some szechuan broccoli and steamed rice.

I just realized that the 5th graders at the school where I used to teach probably just took their first SOL test. That’s when it set in the I don’t work there anymore. Not the whole spending the last 8 1/2 months working somewhere else. The SOLs.

Grilled cheese with a slice of tomato makes me happier than most things.

You’re it…

Do you see these?

These are one of the reasons why 1) Susan is awesome* and 2) my life is better than most.** Outsourced baking, friends. It’s the wave of the future.

*The recipe for these involves orange juice WHICH SHE SQUEEZED BY HAND.
**Please note the bowl from Urban Outfitters and the towel from Anthropologie. Yes, I have become that girl.

I keep a running list of foods that are so delicious that they will make you believe in God if you didn’t already. Whenever I eat something on the list or discover a new entry, I raise my fist in the air and say, “On the list!” Because I’m awesome.
Allow me to share a few of them with you…

1. Strawberries

2. Peanut M&Ms

3. Pigs-in-a-blanket

4. Garbanzo beans

5. Strawberry Nutri-Grain bars

6. Mashed potatoes

7. The chips at the Hill Cafe

8. Club sandwiches

9. Any pizza dip made by a member of the Creehan family

10. Ok, any food made by a member of the Creehan family

11. Chocolate chip cookies

12. Snow peas

13. Pineapple

14. Chocolate milk

15. Croissants

16. Cole slaw

17. Raw spinach

18. Almonds

19. Maura’s pizza

20. Peanut butter toast (on wheat)

And for you?

(Sorry for the crappy picture.)

I ordered this off Etsy shortly after it was featured on Mighty Goods.

It took a long time to get here because it was featured on the site, so I completely forgot it was coming. Fining it the mailbox was a nice departure from the correspondence from Huntington Mortgage Company and Richmond Department of Utilities.

Please take a moment to read this.

It didn’t start out so hot for me. I haven’t been feeling too well the last couple days, so I was unable to get up and help Ross and my in-laws do some much needed work in the backyard. Seriously, it was one of those things that if you even sit up you feel like you’re going to die. I got a lot of sleep last night and I think that helped somewhat. I got up and Ross and I puttered around the house for a while before we had to go and get ready for Cory and Tabatha’s wedding. Cory is the one who performed our marriage ceremony and we love him and Tab so much. They got engaged a while ago and the wedding has been a long time coming - needless to say, we were excited.

Weddings for us are typically like a VT reunion. I didn’t go to Tech but I spent many weekends there to see Ross (and honestly, just as much to see his friends). We don’t all live far away from each other but sometimes life gets in the way and we just don’t get to hang out that much. Weddings are the time that we all get to reconnect and be ridiculous.

The ceremony was beautiful and the reception (at the Jefferson) was so. much. fun. Cory and Tab looked so happy and we all had a great time. There was much dancing, drinking (on Ross’s part - let’s just say he finished the night be yelling lots of ridiculous things to strangers AND hugging pretty much everyone he knew and *didn’t* know at the wedding), and celebration.

We left the wedding at around 11 and went to the Village Cafe to meet up with MattWhite & co. We had good snacks and great conversation. A great ending to a great evening.

I’m going to bed with a sore face and a sore stomach from all of the laughing we did the afternoon and evening. Seriously, a great, great day.

Read the fiction. Seriously.