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Gingerbread and Square Thingys*
I am so full I think I might roll over and pass out. I spent the entire day baking with Dee and [Drums] and it was SO fun. We made gingerbread (I had never made it before previously) and it actually turned out! It turned out so well that I ate at least 10 cookies before deciding I should stop. haha Dee also brought this recipe for these toffee square things with a chocolate top. I’ve only tasted a tiny corner because they have to chill forever but she’s coming back over to continue decorating our fun cookies and to gorge ourselves on cookies. haha I also have the best…
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Hot Hot Hot*
My day wasn’t actually all that hot, I’m just still listening/singing/dancing to my favourite song from the Polar Express. HOT HOT HOT! Today I enjoyed a nice late sleep in and then spent a very lazy morning, and DANG it felt good. I did do quite a bit of cleaning though, and am not yet finished. My closet has been driving me crazy, especially now that I’ve moved my desk into the bedroom and have to look at it every time I’m in here. So, I took the whole thing apart, cleaned it, and redid it. It looks much better. And I was even ruthless and chose 6 pairs of…
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Polar Express*
I am in love with this movie. The Hubster and I just had a date night and watched it together, and it’s SO good. Mind you, I’m very biased toward Tom Hanks, he is positively my favourite actor. But in general I love cute little movies like that– especially Christmas ones. My siblings and I used to wait ALL year for the Christmas specials to come on TV, then we would highlight them in the TV guide, and make sure that there was NOTHING in the way of our watching them. I recall skipping Brownies a few times so that I could stay home to watch! haha It’s so different…
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Catching Up*
I’ve learned over the past 2 years that I am not really a “phone” person. This actually distresses me because I’ve become more comfortable talking to people over the internet and I often shy away from making phone calls. It really needs to stop… the internet is so impersonal and I hate using it. It’s just so dang convenient! So when I finally do get on the phone with people they seem to be marathon phone calls… but there is one person that I could talk to all flippin’ night on the phone and it never gets dull (besides my hubby), and that’s my Telly. Telly and I have one…
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About the Author*
I am Shop Girl–a life (and shoe) loving 24 year old teacher fresh out of teacher’s college who has not eaten chocolate in nearly a year (CRAZY, right??). I am proudly Canadian and have lived in Ontario all my life. I grew up in a teeny tiny town in the Great White North until I moved south at 17, finally making my way to The City* at 19 where I began my first year of university. I had ambitious academic plans–studying English Literature and Political Science I planned to go to law school, and marriage was not even on my radar. I had a new boyfriend every week (I was…
