After slaving all afternoon ... my food blog finally has a new layout!! (What a wonderful waste of time ... and, I can say that I accomplished something!)
After all my hours of work ... I think you all should go take a gander :) I love the way it's turned out ... very simple.
Basil and Buttercream: A Love Affair with Food
Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
This Just In:
My darling sister has started a blog! You should follow her, because she's pretty awesome.
(Also! I have new followers ... this makes me so happy! Hello to everybody!)
(And! For those interested in knowing... I did indeed drag Mark to the frozen yogurt place on Friday. I actually got frozen custard, which has to be terrible for you but is so, so rich and wonderful. I topped it with strawberries and granola. Yum!)
Friday, June 18, 2010
Friday update
It's been a nice, productive-but-lazy couple of days in the Skinner household. I spent pretty much all day yesterday cooking and cleaning the kitchen/dining room, and also found time to get some scrapbooking done.
The food blog will be a go hopefully in the next week or so. Andy (Mark's best friend) is showing me some kind of something on Wordpress where you can get your own domain name .... or something. April = not tech-savvy. But apparently it'll let me have a bit more control over what my blog looks like and what it can do, and Andy's going to help me with all that. Look for the link in my sidebar sometime next week!
Also, new discovery:
Pandora Radio has become my new best friend. I've been rockin' out to the Glee Cast station while cooking/washing dishes all week, and really, it's the only way to do either. Don't Stop Believin' makes soapy water and prune-y hands about 50 times better. Never tried it? You totally should.
Mark should be home soon, and we will eat the DELICIOUSNESS that is Pasta with Sundried Tomatoes (from none other than the Barefoot Contessa, of course - I love me some Ina Garten...) To me, summer is tomatoes and basil.
Maybe I can convince Mark to come with me to the new frozen yogurt place that has opened up close to our house. We've never been there before, and I have high hopes for it.
Hope everybody has a FANTASTIC weekend!
The food blog will be a go hopefully in the next week or so. Andy (Mark's best friend) is showing me some kind of something on Wordpress where you can get your own domain name .... or something. April = not tech-savvy. But apparently it'll let me have a bit more control over what my blog looks like and what it can do, and Andy's going to help me with all that. Look for the link in my sidebar sometime next week!
Also, new discovery:
Pandora Radio has become my new best friend. I've been rockin' out to the Glee Cast station while cooking/washing dishes all week, and really, it's the only way to do either. Don't Stop Believin' makes soapy water and prune-y hands about 50 times better. Never tried it? You totally should.
Mark should be home soon, and we will eat the DELICIOUSNESS that is Pasta with Sundried Tomatoes (from none other than the Barefoot Contessa, of course - I love me some Ina Garten...) To me, summer is tomatoes and basil.
Maybe I can convince Mark to come with me to the new frozen yogurt place that has opened up close to our house. We've never been there before, and I have high hopes for it.
Hope everybody has a FANTASTIC weekend!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
I forgot!!
In my long, detailed, picture-ful post yesterday, I forgot one important thing ...
Yesterday was my blog's first birthday! I can't believe I've been on blogspot for a year ... I had a livejournal for a really long time before that, but I made the change during the other major change in our lives. It's crazy how, a year ago, I was freaking out about not being able to find a job, I was still working nights, and Mark was still fairly miserable. But it wasn't all bad. We lived close to my parents, which was nice, and we had some really good friends in Chattanooga (who I still miss a lot), and I really really loved my job.
But it was the right decision for us to move to Birmingham. For a lot of reasons. During the last several months, I've felt hopeful about our future for the first time in a while. Not the future of our relationship or anything ... just, Mark's job prospects. And our home owning prospects. And our future child prospects. This master's degree (along with Mark's two internships) should (And I do say SHOULD, because it's still going to be a rough search, I'm afraid) provide him with a good job. Should. I don't know where we'll go, or what we'll be doing exactly, and that thought still scares me a little bit. But in a way, I'm glad it's all happened the way it has. Those 2 years in Chattanooga gave me some time to "get used" to being married, and made cutting the umbilical cord completely a little bit easier. It took me a while to get used to being part of somebody else's family, if that makes sense. Now, I'm ready. Ready to move wherever we need to. Ready to start our own family (in a few years). Ready to plant our own roots. SO ready for that. I want to settle. And hopefully I'll only have to wait another year to be able to do that.
I am so proud of Mark. He currently has a 4.0, he's holding 2 solid internships right now (which hopefully he'll be able to continue for the duration of grad school), he's a published writer (in fact, he showed me one of his college papers that is now in Samford's special collection! Crazy!), he was recently chosen to be on the board of editors for UAB's historical journal ... his resume is good. His credentials will be good, when he finishes everything. He has totally taken the initiative with this grad school program - and he wants to be an archivist really, really, really badly. I hope so much that he can find a job doing that.
(Or we may both have to be committed to some sort of institution, and heavily medicated...)
We've still got another year before we see all of this come to fruition, and that's fine. I have my days, but most of the time I'm content with what we're doing here. I like my job - in fact, I'd love to be able to stay in Birmingham. We have a great place to live, Mark likes school and his internships and all that academic stuff (which I still miss so, so much sometimes). I'm being patient. Hopefully in another year, when my blog has its 2-year anniversary, we'll either be in the process of moving for Mark's job, or he'll just be starting one here in Birmingham. I'm excited to see what happens.
But until then ... I've got him. And that's perfect for now.
Yesterday was my blog's first birthday! I can't believe I've been on blogspot for a year ... I had a livejournal for a really long time before that, but I made the change during the other major change in our lives. It's crazy how, a year ago, I was freaking out about not being able to find a job, I was still working nights, and Mark was still fairly miserable. But it wasn't all bad. We lived close to my parents, which was nice, and we had some really good friends in Chattanooga (who I still miss a lot), and I really really loved my job.
But it was the right decision for us to move to Birmingham. For a lot of reasons. During the last several months, I've felt hopeful about our future for the first time in a while. Not the future of our relationship or anything ... just, Mark's job prospects. And our home owning prospects. And our future child prospects. This master's degree (along with Mark's two internships) should (And I do say SHOULD, because it's still going to be a rough search, I'm afraid) provide him with a good job. Should. I don't know where we'll go, or what we'll be doing exactly, and that thought still scares me a little bit. But in a way, I'm glad it's all happened the way it has. Those 2 years in Chattanooga gave me some time to "get used" to being married, and made cutting the umbilical cord completely a little bit easier. It took me a while to get used to being part of somebody else's family, if that makes sense. Now, I'm ready. Ready to move wherever we need to. Ready to start our own family (in a few years). Ready to plant our own roots. SO ready for that. I want to settle. And hopefully I'll only have to wait another year to be able to do that.
I am so proud of Mark. He currently has a 4.0, he's holding 2 solid internships right now (which hopefully he'll be able to continue for the duration of grad school), he's a published writer (in fact, he showed me one of his college papers that is now in Samford's special collection! Crazy!), he was recently chosen to be on the board of editors for UAB's historical journal ... his resume is good. His credentials will be good, when he finishes everything. He has totally taken the initiative with this grad school program - and he wants to be an archivist really, really, really badly. I hope so much that he can find a job doing that.
(Or we may both have to be committed to some sort of institution, and heavily medicated...)
We've still got another year before we see all of this come to fruition, and that's fine. I have my days, but most of the time I'm content with what we're doing here. I like my job - in fact, I'd love to be able to stay in Birmingham. We have a great place to live, Mark likes school and his internships and all that academic stuff (which I still miss so, so much sometimes). I'm being patient. Hopefully in another year, when my blog has its 2-year anniversary, we'll either be in the process of moving for Mark's job, or he'll just be starting one here in Birmingham. I'm excited to see what happens.
But until then ... I've got him. And that's perfect for now.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
New Look!
Playing with fonts, colors, and backgrounds this morning - I think I like this one! Tell me what you think!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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