Saturday, May 26, 2012

Workaholic, but True Baking Addict

Summer job time. My days are consumed with work. I must say I am quite spoiled and totally enjoy eating good food at the demos and when softshell crabs are in season I do not complain. It is starting to get humid though and that means the patio is open at work. Polyester uniforms and humidity is not my favorite combo but I enjoy the paycheck.

After work I am tired, but that doesn't keep me away from my friends. Yet again, I go downtown whenever I can =). My friend banana and I are going to make a tshirt blanket. I am so excited to do this. I have so many tshirts, and who doesn't? It's so much better use of the fabric. I wear mostly dresses and have a crazy obsession with rompers (currently wearing one ;-) haha). Tshirts are for events that hand you the shirt to wear for that event. Just my opinion. Haha

Alright, now to my baking =). I made my famous coffee toffee bars, my mom calls them coffee blondies sometimes, and she's already hogging them. I made them right before work and they should've had 10 minutes to cool. I don't think they were out of the oven 5 minutes before she took a knife to them and started eating it. Haha, I'm taking some to work tomorrow and the pastry chef already remembers them and she's told others, "Oh, you'll like them." I love having people enjoy my baked goods! =)

Tonight I'm going to make my kitchen sink cookies. I'm going to a memorial day thing after work (yeah, we have to work :-P ) and I think these will hit the sweet spot. I just hope no one is allergic to nuts. . . I'll have to post pictures of my finished bar socks and the cookies and bars after I'm done baking.

Until next time,

<3 Carly

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

21 & City Home

Well I didn't do a good job of finishing the countdown on my Blog, but I did a great job on my facebook. I had a friend give me cookies after a night class because he knew the next day was my birthday. I had a countdown of probably a month of facebook. I so enjoyed my birthday week, just couldn't have asked for a better birthday with great friends =).
This is my favorite shot from our shot night. At midnight we went to Tavern 245 and did a little toast.
My wonderful friend Banana made me morning cake the day of my birthday. If any of you have seen The Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood, this is what it is from. The week or two before my birthday my friends and I watched this in my room. They had to know who was throwing my birthday party the weekend of my birthday, haha. Well the mother always made morning cake for her children, but my best friends make it for me. I love my friends.
The next night me and my mother went to Le Mont in Mount Washington. I had delicious sea bass and sipped some wine. Not a huge wine fan I found out, haha.
This is me and half the table of Thursday night, my birthday dinner downtown. We went to Sharp Edge =). There was a really cute waiter with plenty of tattoos that waited on us ;-). I enjoyed a white russian (also known as a caucasian there)
After the dinner at Sharp Edge we went back to school and danced a TON at the Action Sports Club dance "This Party Thing". I was dancing in my birthday shoes and loved every second of it. After we all got tired enough though, we headed back to Banana's and made cake batter martini's. These were pretty strong and I would've enjoyed them a little more chilled. Still they had homemade icing on them and they were delicious.
Friday night was South Side night. We went to a couple different places and this is the night I found out my drink. A washington apple with tequila, as a drink. I must admit the blue drink from Kopy's was probably my favorite, but that was stronger than the tequila. I thank my friend and her man for a wonderful 21st bar crawl.
Saturday night, the last night, was the Yaya Birthday Celebration. Me and my mother finally drinking together. I quite enjoyed champagne. I thought I would though because at my work we've had countless holidays with a champagne jello and I've always enjoyed it. And now for the City Home part, I have come back home for the summer. Yet I have gone to the city at least twice a week since I've been home. Downtown is home to me now. I can't get enough and I just can't stay away from my friends. I had a wonderful birthday, but I have even better friends =). <3

Yarn, Flowers, Sun- ONLY 9 DAYS!!!

ORIGINAL date: 3/19/12 Oh my gosh, I have been meaning to blog for days now. I wanted to take a picture of all this yarn my Aunt sent me. But I gave a lot of it away before hand. Let's start off with the story first. I check my mailbox a lot her at school but don't get a lot of mail. I just like to check :) . Anyway, I was checking it Wednesday or Tuesday last week and I had a slip that noted I had a package. When I got the package I was raking my mind trying to remember if I had bought something off line or what. Couldn't remember. I look on the side and it says it's from Turkey? I was very curious now. Once I got to my room I realized it was from my Aunt in Ohio. I open the box thinking, oh it's close to my birthday, probably something for my birthday. No, I got a big box of YARN! Soft sparkly purple yarn. It's gorgeous! Just look!



I love how the sun has made this picture look ten times better, haha. Basically my Aunt had a big project to finish a little bit ago and needed a bunch of zippers. The company messed up some order and sent her all this yarn. She called the company to let them know the mix up and she asked if they needed her to send it back or to the proper recipient. The company told her, "No, just find a good home for the yarn". She thought of me and my Knitting & Crochet Craft Club at school =). <3