Despite having been a worthless bum for the majority of my summer, I did some fun things here and there: my first trip to Comerica Park,
some time at the beach (which included some pretty intense sunburn),
a random trip to Texas,
and most recently a completely irresponsible weekend up north with (most of) my college roommates. It was a fantastic weekend, lots of swimming, lots of boating, some beach volleyball, a healthy amount of Euchre... there should practically be a Kid Rock song written about it. :)
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| Picturesque, no? |
As part of this weekend of fun, Saturday night was a sort of pot luck for dinner, everyone brought a dish to pass. Now there are approximately 2 things that I can make with any sort of distinction (carrot cake is not one of them). One of these is lasagna, which I haven't made since I got back to Michigan because my mom lives here and she makes it better. The other is calzone bread:
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| We'll call this the before |
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| During |
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| After...aka just prior to speedy consumption |
It's magically delicious and so easy to make I'm not going to give you any clues beyond these pictures because then you'd be way less impressed with my skills, and I'm not really interested in things that would result in people being less impressed with me. It seemed to go over well, the two loaves I took up north were eaten in all kinds of haste. It relieves my soul-crushing fear that people will spit out the food I make them and throw it at me when there's no more left after 10 minutes.
Aside from my impressive culinary abilities, I also completed a baby blanket for some awesome friends who just had an equally awesome baby girl.
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| "Little Johnny's Patchwork Plankie" in Patons Shetland Chunky |
It stubbornly refused to remain rectangular when not pinned, so this is the picture you get. I fell in love with these colors, and I hope my friends get lots of use out of it!
And now I must prepare myself to return to the life of endless reading and schoolwork, not to be confused with endless reading for fun, which was pretty much my job this summer. After an unsettling phone call I placed on Friday in which the financial aid office informed me no financial aid package had been awarded to me yet and I feared I would not actually be able to take classes this semester, I'm happy to report that everything is fixed now, and to ask everyone not to be upset if you don't see or hear from me much for the next three months or so. It's because of these:
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| I'm pretty sure I'll be reading all of these in the next 16 weeks |
1 comment:
The bread was beyond awesome :)
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