Happy 4th of July!

I think that I always think every holiday is my favorite when it's here, but right now the 4th of July is my favorite holiday.  Come Thanksgiving I will probably say that is my favorite holiday.  Maybe they're tied.  Here are some reasons why I love today so much:

1. It's totally normal to spend the day at the beach.  I like any reason to encourage beach-going.

2. The holiday food consists of BBQ and other grilled deliciousness.

3. Fireworks!

4. Apple pie.  Or any other kind of pie really.

5. People dye their baked goods and other foods red and blue.  I love good use of food coloring.

Happy Birthday America!

Isn't summer supposed to be fun?

Life is crazy.

I'm finishing school, trying to coordinate starting a new lease, packing up and moving home, and preparing to move back to Tampa shortly after.  Like, a week after.  All because my apartment complex wants to make this as difficult as possible for me.

And trying to get someone to hire me.  Does anyone reading this want to hire me? Please?

If it promises to pay my rent for the next year, I'd do almost anything.

I said almost.

Be back with fun things in a few weeks. :) The nice thing about having super cheap furniture is that I can give it all away and I get to start over.  Yay decorating!

Well-Balanced Meal

Having a bowl of canned green beans and then a mint chocolate chip ice cream sandwich for lunch is healthy, right?

After all, they're both green...

Isn't that how it works?

Delicious

I made this soup yesterday.  I like tomatoes, I like making soups cause it's easy, I'm trying to like kale.  I love rosemary.  It seemed tasty.

I make soups in my rice cooker because it seems easier to me and I don't have to worry about if it's set at the right temperature or if I'm burning it.  It doesn't pop to tell me when it's done, but I just think of it as a crock pot kind of.

So to start, I put the onions and garlic and olive oil in the rice cooker and let them cook awhile.  It smelled great.  Who doesn't love cooked onions?  Well, probably lots of people, but I think they're one of the most delicious things in the world.  Then I added some white wine and the rosemary & thyme.  Oh my.  It was the most delicious thing I have ever smelled in my life.  It took a lot of self control to not stand there with a fork eating the wine soaked onions out of the rice cooker.

I did finish making the soup, and it was amazing.  So good.  I recommend it.  Especially if you're going to have guests over, your house will smell divine.

No Longer an Early-Twentysomething

I'm about to turn 24.  That sounds really old to me, and I feel a lot more adult-ish this year than I ever have before.  I don't think I'm old enough to be an adult yet.

Hopefully I will successfully be able to fake my way into adulthood.  Mid-twenties here I come! :)