yogurt, honey and mint tea

woke up at 3am with a huge bee in my bonnet to make yogurt from scratch TODAY (yogurt makers aren't that easy to find in stores.... and i refuse to pay crazy Williams Sonoma money when amazon has them for $18 shipped and no tax ;)

pored over amazon yogurt maker reviews for a reaaaally long time until the thought of making yogurt cheese too didn't seem completely unreasonable...

researched recipes on how to make yogurt from scratch and decided that the yogurt cheese is just too ridiculously hard but yogurt seems much easier and kind of fun and experimental (except for the stirring/removing lumps part... i am hopelessly impatient at stuff like that...)

somehow ended up at an autopsy website :|

was absolutely riveted by pictures of famous dead people :|

fell soundly back asleep until i woke up at 6am to a face full of Dannybear kisses

had chocolate biscuits and coffee for breakfast in bed

tried to find a FREE basketball hoop on craigs list (without risking murder)

made the alphabet out of lego

went to Good Will with bags full of ugly clothes and ill-fitting shoes - roamed around the store, but not a sausage worth buying today :(

made the most hideous french fries ever with frozen onions on top (i hate Ore Idea french fries and frozen onions on top are horrible too....)

inspired by Tracy's beautiful blog, i asked Aaron to pleeeeease try to pry the ugly fan shapes out of the garage door windows. and he did :) and it looks SO MUCH BETTER!!!! if we didn't already have a glass front door, i would be begging him to cut holes like this in it too :)

watched Property Ladder... two sisters made over a little cottage in Texas, which i fell instantly in love with (even the before was soooo pretty) it was only $119,000 and completely adorable :) i want to move to Texas to a pretty cottage with stained glass windows and a clawfoot tub

took kittens to Petsmart adoption thingie (but they didn't get adopted... brought them home again and assured them they are still very very precious and lovely babies, even though they didn't get new homes....)

drove to Superwalmart down the most hideous stretch of freeway on earth

vowed to find a better, less horrible way home because i REFUSE to drive on that snake of a freeway, the 91, anymore :|

saw a very tragic dead betta fish in the pet dept and said a prayer for the repose of his soul :(

spent a reaaaally long time picking a concealer. i am sure even after all that pondering and scanning, the two i bought will still underperform and underwhelm me :(

actually had coupons for things i needed - $7 worth no less!! (and horray for actually having food again ;)

in a moment of weakness bought a humungous bag of sweet chile doritos and ate far far far too many even though we didn't have drinks in the car :)

found a new way home!!! a magical, winding, quiet, never-seen-before country lane all the way home! it was 30 minutes of total bliss (and i so want to move to deepest Texas if it's anything like that - surely it's all farms, fields of yellow flowers and absolutely blissful country lanes?)

unpacked groceries - least favorite job EVER :|

Aaron called me 'my dahhling' which made it so much nicer (and made me very giggly and goofy :)

made mint tea with honey from Misty Meadows, Oregon :)

kissed little boys goodnight :)

had tea and scones for dinner :)

went to bed to watch a movie with my dahhling (i can't say it quite the same ;) xoxox