I have no idea what Hammer time is. Or how it differs from regular time.

My diet is going... not badly, but not well, either. I can't seem to make myself make good choices. I can't believe how many calories everything has, and how few calories I am allowed to eat if I want to make my goal weight. WTF? I know partly that's because I don't do any exercise, which would help offset some of the calories I love to consume, but words cannot express how much I hate working out. So I'm screwed, basically.

In the last 3 weeks or so, Pinterest has suddenly rocketed into my radar. It's cropping up everywhere, including work discussions around social media. Seriously I cannot keep up with everything. I've only barely just started using StumbleUpon! Anyway, does anyone who's already on Pinterest have an invite they'd kindly like to share with me? (Thanks, ropo!)

In the last few days I watched all of Dexter S6. Dexter is one of those shows that is not must watch for me, but when I do watch it I usually have a good time. ( Spoilers! )

I made a delicious pasta the other night. It's like, my mom and mine's absolute favorite. Anyway, while I was using my mandoline to slice mushrooms I got over zealous and totally sliced into my thumb. It was fairly deep and bled a lot (ewwwwww). I've never actually cut myself on the mandoline before, because I am usually super anally careful, as mandolines are notorious for cutting people. Sigh, first time for everything. Anyway, I want to share the recipe for the pasta, even though there are no photos because it was devoured too quickly. It's actually a recipe that I adapted from D., K.'s husband. ( D.'s Pasta. )

I'm baked. No wait, I mean, I baked.

It's Cookie Mule's bday celebration tomorrow. At first I was going to make cookies -- appropriate since he's my Cookie Mule -- but they turned out horrible. I made sugar cookie sandwiches with raspberry cream in the middle. Sounds pretty good, right? Except I only had wheat flour and used that, and they tasted SO WEIRD. I couldn't make anyone eat them.

I was inspired by rainpuddle13 and the idea of cookies & cream cupcakes, so I went looking for recipes and finally found one I liked. I really wanted to have the cookies IN the batter as well as the frosting. The speckled look of Oreos in milkshakes and what not is partly what makes them so delicious!


I need to go to bed before I go downstairs and eat every single one.