That's right kids.
Winter.
Follow My Logic
Today is July 31st. That means tomorrow starts August- the last full month of summer. August stands in line next to September. September houses the 23rd: the official day of Fall. And do you know what happens after Fall?
That's right kids.
That's right kids.
Meet Someone New Today
Twitter: @sahans
Email: stephanie@cupcakeconference.com
Blog: The Daily Blarg
Hometown: It's a secret... shhhhhhh
Favorite Cupcake- I just like a plain old butter cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. But anything with butter is amazing... right?
Stephanie Hansen quit the fast paced corporate world about five years ago to focus on her one true love, chauffeuring, also known as: raising teenagers. Her spare time is spent reading, cooking, eating (obviously), blogging, tweeting and watching trashy reality television. All of course while cuddling up in her Snuggie and sporting a BumpIt.
Stephanie's upbeat and perky attitude, along with her silly antics, helped her launch and sustain her blog "The Daily Blarg" where she takes on social issues like the existence of unicorns and manscaping. Her love of food, fashion, fun and friendship provided her with the opportunity to write for the review site Sassy Scoops. And her insane need to hear "are we there yet" helps keep her family alive while on long family road trips...
Becky OlsenTwitter: @DomesticBecky
Email: becky@cupcakeconference.com
Blog(s): Utah Loves Cupcakes Project Domestication
Hometown: Orem, Utah
Favorite Utah Cupcake: Cupcakes are like children, I don't have a favorite...
Becky Olsen loves Utah and loves cupcakes. It really is that simple. After a short stint of living in Manhattan, the mecca of all things cupcake, she fell in love with the individual-sized treats. Upon returning to her native Utah, Becky knew the cupcake scene in the Beehive State was on the cusp of exploding, and she couldn't wait to be a part of it and share it with others.
Becky authors the blog Utah Loves Cupcakes --the voice of cupcakes in Utah-- where she scopes out the latest cupcake news in Utah, reviews cupcake bakeries and cupcake-related items. She loves using high-quality, local ingredients; especially if it means learning something new and being able to enjoy a special treat with those she loves. You can follow Becky's personal baking adventures at Project Domestication...
Ryley EatonTwitter: @ryles
Email: ryley@cupcakeconference.com
Blog(s): That's My Family That's My Cake
Hometown: Just ask her...
Favorite Cupcake: Coming soon...
Ryley is a mother, a baker, and a conqueror of corporate America. She tries to keep it all together while raising a 19 month old boy with the most beautiful eyes ever, running a growing cake business and working 50 hours a week in a high-profile corporate career.
Her story started in 2007 when she was determined that her calling in life was to be a food blogger... She breaks all the rules of the society she lives in by being the only source of income for her family while her husband stays home to take care of the baby they both love so dearly. Her favorite food is grilled cheese sandwiches, but she is currently living the life of a vegan who eats meat. (Thanks to said son’s allergies..) She misses grilled cheese. A lot.
Gina BéginTwitter: @sugaredmagnolia
Email: gina@cupcakeconference.com
Blog(s): 451 SketchDining Sugared Magnolia (website)
Hometown: Somewhere warm and sunny, which is why she likes cold & snowy
Favorite Cupcake- you know, those one kind... mmm, boy.
Gina is the proud owner of mad kitchen skills, a southern heritage, dual citizenship and K2 skis. She ofttimes can be found blogging her life secrets at 451. She owns Sugared Magnolia, an organic, fair-trade bakery in the 801. When searching for wisdom, she turns to Calvin & Hobbes; when searching for snow, she turns to Big Cottonwood Canyon and when searching for something delicious, she turns to her French family's time-tested recipes. Sugar pie made with pure syrup from her Quebecois family's maple farm? Mmmm... yes.
Gina's passion lies in food activism, but her alter-ego secretly loves a stolen bite of something greasy and dubious. This split personality explains the organization of SketchDining, her all-star epicurean daredevil team. But ask her on most days and she'll dive into a frenzy over growing and preparing food at home. Or, when you can't, she says, go with what's local and sustainably/humanely raised. Try it; you'll like it. She pinky swears.
First Day
New job, new bike, new philosophy on human dynamics.
Now you can imagine me at work more precisely... which is precisely how I like it.
Oh, P.S.- The bike? Free. Random good deed and I will do likewise.
I need my lunchbox.
My friendly first day welcome.
L3- My weekday home. 1/3 the size of my own
apartment but with rent reversal.
They provide a visitor chair and, in true Mr. Rogers style,
a place to hang your cardigan should you visit.
Starting my office library off right.
Two eyes = two monitors. Obviously.
P.S. Name the location of desktop photo.
Wall- to-cubicle-wall desk. Luxury.
Where I plan to hide out.
This will probably use up most of my time.
What I found out about the previous tenant.
These look promising...
Now you can imagine me at work more precisely... which is precisely how I like it.
Oh, P.S.- The bike? Free. Random good deed and I will do likewise.
This Morning
this is what I like to see at the end of my day... or the beginning.
"I say, if you knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”
- Calvin and Hobbes
(hopefully my heroes will allow a dirt substitution ;)
Once in a While
...there is a song that just clicks. This time the song also happens to reflect my beliefs. I can't begin to describe how much I love our incredible world and how much majesty is in it. I hear this song and am reminded of how much I have to be thankful for every night that I watch that big moon rising over jagged mountains- how grateful I am to have sight and a heart that is thrilled by flickering stars in an ink-colored sky. It's just all so amazing to me.
GSing
Ronald McDonald glove slapping some poser for not lovin' it.
from: http://www.appletreeblog.com/wp-content/2008/04/ronald-slap.jpg
My friend, Dustin, has an imagination and a sense of humor. Both are odd and awesome. I can say it's odd because it's very similar to the type of humor my family has and hardly anyone gets it (so don't get offended, Dustin; you're in with the cool crowd). Hence, I can also say it's awesome. If you don't find some odd humor in it, I guess you know where you stand.
P.S. This occurred through gchat. Thank you.
Dustin's Gmail status: glove slap
me: What is this glove slap?
Dustin: no idea. i just thought it was cool. Kind of a snooty and disrespectful-challenge sorta thing
me: I want to steal it.
Dustin: go for it
we'll start a status gang
me: wonder if I could get my mom to change hers.
and here I said something Dustin did not like, hence the following:
Dustin: I GLOVE SLAP you with my white isotoners.
me: what the freak are white isotoners?
Dustin: isotoners are/were rich people gloves back when.
me: you read a lot of Jane Austen, huh
Dustin: you're so totally cruising for a GS
me: (changed my status to "2handed glove slap")
I just doubled yours
Dustin: not possible. Double implies the number 2. Number 2 means second place. I am singular, meaning number one. I win.
me: that was goodness in its purest form
Dustin: i mean, just imagine getting slapped by a white one of these:
Biggest. Insult. Ever.
me: I want the man to wear tight pants
and step out of a carriage first.
And take off his monocle before slapping the heck outta someone.
Dustin: of course he would. but his name would definitely NOT be Mr. Darcy
me: Then he should promptly step back into his carriage
from: http://th04.deviantart.com/fs44/300W/f/2009/129/a/9/Glove_Slap_by_hpanna47.jpg
After which, we immediately began discussing rock climbing and Dustin getting jumped by his mountain bike & breaking ribs. His bike totally GS'd him!
Dustin: exactly
such pomp. such arrogance.
me: Who did he slap, anyway?
I have no idea. It doesn't matter.
Dustin: everyone.
all of them
me: The whole circle of people stood around, dazed after Mr. Monocle, in a 360 motion, glove slapped the entire audience.
Dustin: correction: the entire towne. Notice the elitist 'e' added to the end of the word town.
me: So the towne was standing arounde and got glove slapped downe?
Dustin: Yes.
me: This is a queer conversation.
Queer in the late-baroque sense of the word
Dustin: this is a queer conversation:
I suggest you begin using glove slaps to let people know you are offended or that they are encroaching upon your social class.
Wash Away
Every time I see this picture of my twin, I laugh. I love it. He doesn't care where he's dancing or how or who's there, he just lets loose. No troubles.
Go Ry.
Gonna follow your example, "little" bro.
I got troubles oh, but not today
Cause they're gonna wash away
They're gonna wash away
And I have sins Lord, but not today
Cause they're gonna wash away
They're gonna wash away
And I had friends oh, but not today
Cause they're done washed away
They're done washed away
And oh, I've been cryin'
And oh, I've been cryin'
And oh, no more cryin'
No, no more cryin' here
And I got troubles oh, but not today
Cause they gonna wash away
This old heart gonna take them away
