Hands (Seriously?! Why hands?)

I have to admit, my hands are my least favorite part of my body. I cannot change the length or width of my fingers with polish or hand lotion, and therein lies the problem. My fingers stopped growing but my palms are a normal size. *Sigh* But they are functional, if not a little crackly and crampy in the winter. So here it is, the prompt for February Photo-A-Day.

I also tried taking some profile pictures to use in the about me portion of my blog, and inspired by My Suitcase Full of Tricks and her FABulous office pictures, I decided to take some where I do a lot of my work. The result was unfortunate.

I'm blonde now?

Real hair color but double chins

Slightly annoyed, one eyebrow up…okay I'm done face.

What's your least favorite body part? xoxo, Kate

Words

Today's February Photo-A-Day prompt was "Words." Being the over-achiever I am, I headed down to the beach to write my three different quotes in the sand. I did not, however, factor in the wind coming off of the water and my fingers went numb on the second word. And the first quote I started to write ended up being too long to write…So i went with this one. Don't judge- my hands were numb and by the time I finished I couldn't even feel the shutter button on my camera.

"It is our choices that show who we are, far more than our abilities"- J.K. Rowling

I also wanted to do these two:
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are"- Marcus Aurelius

"And in the end…the love you take…is equal to the love you make." -The Beatles

Coincidentally, these are also the quotes I used in my senior yearbook. Tomorrow's prompt is "Hands". I guess I'll be giving myself a manicure tonight. Darn.
xoxo, Kate

February Photo-A- Day

I am so slacking already on my February resolution- I found this on Pinterest and decided to join in, but inside of just tweeting them I thought I would include them in my posts or just make them a post by themselves (I know, I need to post more. I'm trying! Do me a favor? If you're reading this and it's been more than 48 hours since my last post, email/comment/tweet/facebook/text/send smoke signals/or even carrier pigeons and tell me to stop reading other blogs or pinning things and to POST something, okay?)
P.S. that might just be the longest parenthetical sentence I have ever written.

Here is the challenge- please tweet me or comment if you decide to do it too- I'd love to see yours!

 And here is my picture for today (we're pretending that it's still February 1st even though my clock says 12:37 A.M.- I'll post this evening and it'll all even out I think.) Full disclosure-I did not take this picture, but this was the most exciting thing I did today. Shmeegs and I went to our first personal training session at Planet Fitness! Woohoo! Yay for getting in shape and proving the Mii on WiiFit that I will get to my recommended BMI. I'll keep you posted…but not in that obnoxious "Today I burned 1583 calories" way.

Aren't you supposed to be sleeping? Get some rest! 

xoxo, Kate

Reworking the Blog

I'm working on updating and changing the look here- please bear with me! It might a little funky for awhile but I promise it'll lead to a cleaner, "more me" blog. Thanks and have a fantastic rest of your Sunday!
xoxo, Kate

Some Weekend Recipes for Trying…If you're anything like me.

This week, it has been terribly grey and rainy, with the exception of one nice, 57 degree day! I mean, 57 is a big deal around here in the middle of January. I spent it painting indoors, and have no pictures to show you of our hard work, because it was in someone else's house. All you need to know is sage green and J. Bieber purple. BUT I did do several other things this week of TERRIBLE importance. I got accepted to Western Governor's University! I decided that going to school almost two hours away from anything interesting was really not my style, so now I'll be online working on my BA in Early Childhood with Teacher Cert. I also went to Target, one of my very favoritest stores, and bought 3 shirts, some jeans, a Patriot's Jersey ($7.48? I'll take it.), and some lovely green totes to organize all of my old greeting cards/mementos/pictures that I can't bear to part with. The REALLY interesting part of my week is when I finally made two cookie recipes from my Pinterest account:

I got this bad boy over at Divine Baking. Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, but no butter and no flour? They're practically a health food. I'm joking. Kinda. But they're AMAZING! Definitely undercook them, because you want that gooey-ness you see in the picture. If you overbake them they're still good but a little hard and chewy.

I got these at LDS Living. They're Lemon Crinkle Cookies this time, but with butter and flour. Very soft, very lemony (but I added more juice and leon zest than called for. Okay, let's be honest, I didn't measure the zest or juice. But I used a lot.). These are an underbake or overbake choice- The overbake produces a crispier cookie and the underbake, well, I'm sure you can figure it out. I also added a little lemon confectioner's sugar glaze.

I didn't take any pictures of either cookie, because they were gone too fast. Yes, they are that good. Go make them! NOW! Or don't, and enjoy this lovely quote I found while cleaning out my desk yesterday.

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer" -Albert Camus

Have a fantastic weekend full of homemade cookies and summery thoughts!
xoxo, Kate

Thursday Thoughts

If you do one thing today, choose to be happy!

xoxo, Kate

Some thoughts for this week...

Hello lovelies! Just wanted to share with you a couple things to think about this week. My friend Jessica from Four Plus an Angel shared an amazing story about a family who is being threatened with deportation. This is a heart-breaking and I sincerely hope you'll check them out over at Our Simple Lives. Please make a call or write a note to Senator Robert Casey and/or Secretary Janet Napolitano, and tell them that this family should not be split up. I don't typically put things on here like this, but I was so touched by this story that I had to tell you about it. I'll leave you with this quote:

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love.  The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.  ~Rita Mae Brown



Love and kisses, Kate