Last week I went all out and experimented with my VCTOTW cupcake recipes.
I created what I refer to as chocolate mimosa cupcakes which consist of the VCTOTW golden cupcake recipe with McKay's orange champagne marmalade added into the batter and the VCTOTW chocolate mousse on top.
For Easter, I replicated the recipe and added some decorations that I picked up at Earth Fare: vegetarian jelly beans, cocoa dusted almonds, and Annie's Bunny Grahams (in Honey). Damn. Those Bunny Grahams just un-veganized the recipe. Wonder about the jelly beans, too. If they were vegan, it'd probably say that instead on "vegetarian". Oh, well! Almost doesn't count, but these tasted good! Finally, I have faith in the Golden Cupcake recipe!
I just got an email about a shoe donation drive and CBL malls (like Friendly Center) are participating in the drive for Earth Day. I just called Customer Service at Friendly Center but the office wasn't open, so here's the info I have.
Soles 4 Souls is a shoe donation drive coming up in the area. If you have shoes to donate, take them to Friendly Shopping Center, at Customer Service. The drive began over a week ago. Shoppers will be able to drop off their gently worn shoes during the month-long campaign which includes Earth Day. In exchange, Friendly Center is offering special discounts to stores such as Palm Avenue, Simple Meg's and Yankee Candle Co.
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I get it. I'm no fashionista but I get it: shoes are awesome. Functional, fun, fabulous, right?
I've gone through shoes phases for fashion, form and function: shoes for the house, shoes for work, shoes for recreation, shoes that can get wet without getting all...nasty...
I've got the high heels, the conservative (read: comfortable) heel, the heels I bought for one event and haven't worn them again. I have the pair of sneakers that were supposed to initiate my resolution to get more active. I've got the $5 pair of sneakers that I bought for the time being because I felt so bad that that first pair of sneakers is now four years old. I've got a pair of hiking boots that were almost as hard to purchase since I really didn't know what to look for. I've got a pair of rock climbing shoes that I bought way more than four years ago (and so, I had to beg my father to buy them for me since nay a job I had).
A few people criticize me because it seems like I have many pairs of shoes. Well, I don't think that that is the case. What one sees is the accumulation of shoes from years and years of trying to decide if I wear a size 8 or 8 1/2; what one sees is a pair that I bought for $40 next to a pair I bought for $10 over and over again; what one sees are the pairs of shoes that I got as gifts that had their practical uses...
Who buys shoes as gifts? I don't mean flip flops or anything like that...but, eh, I usually find uses for all gifts.
Anyhow, check out this presentation created by Sarah Embry, a student at at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory. It is called "Soles4Soles" and, well, I can't think of an adjective to describe how I feel when I read the presentation. I guess that makes me a weak writer, a poor poet. It's...nice. I remember in middle school they told us that now, as older students, we had to move away from the word nice and take the initiative to discover new ways of describing life. So, I will move on to say that this was an intriguing presentation. I know intriguing is my fallback/cop-out word, but it just fits so often.
Though it probably detracts from the presentation I just linked to, I am now reminded of an old New York Times article on the topic of, yes, shoes. Check it out:
I finally added a blogroll to TPI! Ok, and don't believe that I knew what a blogroll was before a month or two ago.
Luckily, Blogger also calls it a "blog list. :) I added the gadget which was super-easy to work with with the whole Google/Blogger deal since I could directly import the blogs in my Google Reader to the blogroll. I wish I could have organized the blogroll by category like in my reader, but they are now in alphabetical order and alphabetical order is sacred, so I'm good.
Basically, the blogs are a mixture of:
just fun/random/entertaining blogs I go to
blogs based out of and/or focusing on life in Greensboro
cake and food in general
languages and language-learning, and
media and marketing
Well, that's that. You now have a glimpse into where I sift through for information in life! But, hey, I must say, if it weren't for my RSS feeds and Twitter, I wouldn't read the local paper and consume local media as much--which was minimal to none in the past.
Partly because I didn't pay to even have the basic channels and I didn't want to pay for anything but the Sunday paper but now I gots da inter-net so...no excuses!
I heard the term "roach coach" on the radio today.
I almost didn't need context clues. I knew exactly what it referred to. And, damn if it doesn't rhyme like it's getting paid to.
I was taken aback at the cupcake trucks that were popping up in--yes--the cupcake blogs I subscribe to. I guess I knew all along that there were taco trucks or something of that sort. Hey, even my parents had a food truck as a more suburban upgrade from their hot dog stand in Washington, D.C. back in the day.
Anywho, I will peruse this Wikipeda page and wipe my hands of this random collection of information for the day.
I think it's ok, SlimCado. The fact that we are even in the produce aisle should be enough for a round of applause. I'll take the regular California and spare the mozzarella sticks or something.
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