Baby Bunneh

This little guy was running around the parking lot at work last night.
The Press parking lot contains animal cuteness on a petting zoo scale, as we also have a family of Canadian Geese and their goselings living there too.










He (or she) are the cutest thing that will ever grace that lot, though.

Bread!

My boyfriend is on a bread baking kick.

It is awesome.

His first loaf was a flax/wheat concoction, made with whole seeds, left to rise for a few hours and baked a hair too long. The loaf ended up being a bit tough, and it didn't rise enough, but it was full of fiber, and filling. Spread enough butter on anything and it tastes amazing.

Undeterred, and faced with the rotting bananas in our kitchen, he made a simple banana bread a day later, and at the last moment, put an egg wash and sweetened flake coconut on top. The results were delicious. Three bananas made it more like a cake then a bread.

You're jealous.


Moving forward, we're thinking of attempting a semolina bread, and a sourdough. I like zucchini bread, but that's simple enough, and can be made alongside something more difficult. I wish we could have made something using the four now rotten avocados I bought last week and didn't use in time, but avocado bread sounds...yuck.

He mentioned that a good goal would be to make some bread every weekend, providing us with fresh bread throughout the week. I like this idea a lot, as processed wheat and whole grain bread is usually too spongy and bland for me. I still buy it though, because there should always be some bread in the house.

Hopefully we'll keep this up. Personally, I really want to make breakfast breads like popovers and muffins on a regular basis. I'd be a hit at work, for sure.

Monday morning

Just a short post for now.

From the Superbowl commercials earlier this year, quite possibly my favorite commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9beQh1yH5uU

Brooklyn's On Fire

In April, a car caught fire on the Williamsburg Bridge.

I was in a car below on the BQE, and was able to lean out the window and get some shots, as the holdup caused thick traffic. In an attempt to get away from it, cars were driving all over the place, even going the wrong way on exit ramps, causing even more of a tangle. It was insane.

By the time we were heading back, maybe two or three hours later, traffic has rectified itself and vanished, completely, with no signs of the previous mess. Gridlock, to me, is such a fascinating thing. It stops as quickly as it starts, getting knotty in some areas strictly because one car slowed down, then another, and another...

Anyway, summer is approaching, which means more traffic is definitely on the way. I am currently logging 40 miles each way to work, which works out to be about 45 minutes in the morning, and 60 minutes in the evening. Unfortunately, I am going to have to compete with beach traffic soon, made all the all the more depressing when you're hot and sweaty and burning gas to keep the AC on, and the drivers around you are driving with the windows down because they're nice and cool in their swimsuits, swigging iced coffee. D'oh.

I'm hoping to get at least one week down the shore this summer, and would really like to get a rental in Beach Haven or Ship Bottom, out on LBI. I haven't had a vacation in a long time, and would just like to sit around, being lazy and BBQ'ing for a few days. Because that's what summer is all about. Smelling like salt water, sun and charcoal.

Ba dah dah daaaaah!

I'm back. Expect more frequent updates from now on.

For now, all I'd like to say is that I finally started watching Flight of the Conchords and it's fantastic. If, like me, you are late to this phenomenon, get into it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0863046/

Christmas season stats

As of November 29:

Gifts bought - 3

Christmas trees acquired - 0

Attempts at acquiring a tree - 1

Halls decked with Christmas lights - 1

Pies baked - 2

Snow flakes fallen - 0

Days of Spring like-temperatures-multiple

Gifts added to wish list - 5

Trips to the mall - 0

Attempts at psyching self up to go to the mall - 2

Outbursts of glee over the ease of Christmas shopping - 1


Stay tuned for further developments, likely to include trips to see the tree in Rockefeller Center, cookie baking, a born-again like realization that online shopping is a gift from the heavens, and drinking way too much eggnog. Christmas!!!

An open letter to Mitch Clem

Mitch,

I am writing you today to let you know that you and I are no longer besties. It's over between us. Finished. Ka-put.

It's not because I didn't try. Oh Mitch, how I tried, checking your website many times and often, looking for updates, comics, little doodles, anything. Last year, when out of NOWHERE you started updating "Nothing Nice To Say" again, I jumped for joy and thought "That Mitch. He's full of surprises. It's cool that his updates come few and far between, he's probably busy. But this makes it all better."

After that spat of creativity ended, "My Stupid Life" held me for a quite a bit, but it became apparent early in the year that that was waning too. Around the summer, I finally tossed up my hands and said "Forget it. He's not coming back."

After checking out your blog today and seeing the origins-of-your-Razorcake-column comic, along with a ne'er fulfilled promise of a forecoming five page "My Stupid Life" comic, I broke down. How can you keep doing this to me? To all of us, who take such joy out of your goofy observations and usually funny paneled rants. It's time I moved on.

When you decide to pick up where you left off with the strip, I will come back, arms akimbo, waiting to embrace the latest socially awkward punchline that you want to dish out. But I will no longer keep you on my VIP list of sites to visit often. Please know this isn't easy, my friend, but life has to go on.

Enjoy your gig with Razorcake. Hopefully we can hang again someday.

-Jenny Experience