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April 26, 2008

smell goods.

i think i've found the perfect perfume.

yesterday we stopped at whole foods to pick up some dinner items and while i was browsing through the health'n'beauty area i noticed some really pretty boxes of soaps from Pacifica.
so i walked a little further and saw some perfumes, also in really pretty packaging.

i sprayed mediterranean fig on my wrists and it was so, so good. i showed it to corey for future reference, but i think i'd like to buy it for myself.

i kept sniffing my wrists last night and had forgotten the name of the perfume so i had to find out what it was.

they also come in solid perfume style which i kind of like because it's $9 but i don't know if they had that one at whole foods.

i love the packaging.

for a while i really liked fresh sake, and i still do, but it kind of gives me a headache so i don't really wear it that much. i know smells are a really personal thing and what smells good to someone might smell like ass to another, but the pacifica fig seems like a good non-offensive everyday smell.

it reminds me of some incense that i bought at the mall store "natural wonders" back in high school called "siesta under the fig trees" by French Terre d'Oc which apparently isn't very easy to find on the internet.

it also reminds me of these scented colored pencils (why do color pencils need to be scented? i don't know) that brent had. i'm guessing he had the milk fig smell. i wonder what he did with them.

Posted by alison at 04:16 PM | Comments (0)

April 25, 2008

cookies'n'homeworks

recipe from everyday foods
flourless peanut chocolate cookies
these cookies are really easy. they have a short ingredients list and they turn out looking really pretty. plus they taste good.

i'm avoiding doing my homeworks right now by baking cookies instead.

i'm taking online classes this quarter because i figured it would be easier seeing as i'll probably be giving birth before the quarter is over. i also figured that the more credits i get get finished before little baby-doo was here would be best.

it's only been a few weeks but i can tell that i don't really like taking classes online. i really prefer being in the presence of smart teachers who have interesting things to say. school books are boring and not interesting. also, the website used to take these classes is lame and confusing.

all that said, i should probably quit farting around and start my homework/testing stuff which is due at 11:55 pm.

Posted by alison at 02:45 PM | Comments (0)

April 15, 2008

makin muffins

sunday night i made blueberry lemon bread which was yummsters and gone by last night. today i was going to make apple muffins but decided that since i still had some lemons and blueberries i should just make lemon blueberry muffins. i used the muffin recipe from how to cook everything, which turned out to be a really SIMPLE and FAST and EASY to do. the ingredient list is short and i had everything on hand which is nice. since i was going to need to go to the store to buy the stuff for the apple muffins.

last weekend we spent saturday cleaning the carpet. it is now so clean you could eat off it. i don't know why anyone (besides the cat) would want to do that though. on sunday me and mom-bones went to ikea. it's high time we eat our dinner at a proper dinner table and so that was something i wanted to get. i also wanted to get a chair for nursing the baby in. i really wanted to like the lillberg rocking chair because i like the way it looks but it's pretty much the worst rocking chair ever. it wasn't what i imagined it to be (too short and low to the ground) and so i ended up getting the poang chair with brown cushion thing. anyway, i am happy with it and we'll see how it works out. it has a much higher back and is very "bouncy" which i don't mind.

okay. it's time for lunch. i don't know what to eat since i really only want muffins and milk.

Posted by alison at 12:47 PM | Comments (0)

April 08, 2008

crap it's april

i can't really believe it's already april. it seems like the winter was over really quick, like in February, and all of these 'tweener months always get glommed into one. like marchaprilmay.

last night after our baby class i made choco chip cookies. last week after our baby class i made PB cookies. a few weeks before that i made oatmeal raisin cookies. so next week or the week after i need to make some cookie i've never made before. i'm waiting for the martha stewart cookie book at the liberry so maybe i'll wait until then to make something new.

in baby news: on sunday my mom brought over the bassinet that we're going to use for the bebe. it's really nice and not ugly or stupid and i'm glad we get to use something that has been "passed down" and not have to buy something right away. we are having a mattress made for it now because it's kind of hard to find stuff like that on the internet and when you do find it, it has to be custom made anyway. so i found a lady who makes mattress out of wool and cotton and she's going to make a sheet for it too.

each morning for the past week or more i've been making a smoothie for breakfast. it is the most delicious thing ever. EVER!!
here is a loose recipe:
-ground flax seeds
- frozen fruit "smoothie mix" (pineapple, strawberry, mango)
-blueberries
-vanilla almond milk
-blob of PB (this is a new addition...for added protein)
-'nilla yogurt
- reg soy milk left over from something that i can't remember

i really like it when it's runny and you don't need a spoon to eat it. this morning i ran out of the almond milk and soy milk and had to sub in some orange juice because there was also no regular milk. it was still really good and i wish i had some to drink right now.

Posted by alison at 10:38 AM | Comments (0)