Take Five Friday: Best of the Best

Posted on September 3, 2010 by pepperedthought

♥ The pool is again cool enough to swim in. With the pool being cooler, that means FALL is on the way! So you know what that means? Stylish cardigans and knee socks up the yin yang!

♥ Pork rinds are good for you! Kind of. Okay, that sentence was a tad misleading, but they’re better than potato chips! Men’s Health article about junk foods that are good for you.

♥ Cherry LifeSavers. I rediscovered these at the store the other day. My favorite candy flavor, sugar-free and only 7 calories in one piece. I burn that much walking from the office to my car!

♥ Making a new little book to keep all my travel memories and future travel dreams together:That fortune card is from a pirate teller in Disney’s French Quarter.

♥ Lastly, Labor Day. Although I have to work tomorrow (saturday) I still get a pretty long weekend. So I am trying to brush off all the ick things of the morning and work as swiftly as possible. Makes the day go by fast and allows me to feel justified in taking a Labor Day off.

 

 

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Random Thoughts of the Week

Posted on September 2, 2010 by pepperedthought
  • Although I’m sure it’s lovely, I wish the Reading Festival was an actual reading festival. Bunches of people on picnic blankets, either reading to themselves, or aloud to others (as long as it wasn’t loud, or obnoxious writing)
  • I’m going to find a churro sprinkled with Imagineering powder, whatever that may be.
  • I love reading through backlogs of the KSK Fantasy Football/Sex Mailbag: “What you should give up on is falling in love with shitty people.”
  • I suck at waking up. I exchange being a night owl, goofy and charming in the evening for being a headcase when i wake up. Grumpy, fussy, easily angrable and most of all, more forgetful than usual. i remember my lunch? forget my gym clothes. Remember my gym clothes? forget to shut the bedroom door and the dog poops. remember to shut the door? forget my mp3 player so I have to listen to the Harpies at the gym. Why?!?!
  • Asked my stepdad about the last time he went to Magic Mountain. He said it was only a hill and smelled like weed.

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Joyeux Anniversaire, Cousine!

Posted on September 2, 2010 by pepperedthought

*the title is translated as “Happy Birthday, (female) Cousin”

My darling Arianna, I remember when you were first born and you were so delicate and gorgeous, like a doll. Not much has changed, except you are now much taller than me. I liked holding you and as you grew, you never wanted me to put you down. You were a mighty hair puller, the twist-a-chunk-around-the-fist-and-yank type, and I was relieved when you grew out of that. Your gorgeous curls were/are the envy of everyone you meet, and your eyes are so clear and glowing, with a special light within.

As you have grown I haven’t got to spend as much time with you as I would have liked, but I feel the Universe made us cousins because no matter how long it’s been, we fall back into a groove like we never left each other’s sides!

You are an amazing young lady, and I can’t wait to see what the future holds in store for you.

Happy Birthday and many joyous returns!

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End of Summer Party Ideas, 2010

Posted on September 1, 2010 by pepperedthought

A year ago I wrote about saying goodbye to summer in style, with a couple of great party ideas. Well, I’m back for more. A fresh crop of party plans, and even a little inspiration song for each!The Julep Joint Farewell - A Sourthern-styled party, complete with iced tea in mason jars, cornbread, fried chicken or pork chops, green beans and cole slaw, corn on the cob, teaglass chandeliers outside, lots of white sundresses and seersucker suits, and of course, mint juleps!

And the song courtesy of the Carolina Chocolate Drops (via saintpepsi)

Cubano Adios - Summer in Cuba is all about staying as cool as possible. Mojitos and rum help with that. After the sun sets, break out the dominoes and cigars while you practice your cha-cha.

Some lively Cuban jazz, with some gorgeous pictures!

Americana BBQ Send Off – maybe you don’t want to put away your Fourth of July gear just yet. So dust off your favorite buntings, shine up your Tarina Tarantino Lincoln necklace and put sparklers in everything! I love this color combo so much I would probably go overboard, hence the PBR and scouring the internet for RWB strawberries.

For music, the lovely Puppini Sisters. They sound like the Andrew Sisters, but sing some awesome New Wave:

What kind of “so long summer” parties are you planning?

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Tortilla Tuesdays

Posted on August 31, 2010 by pepperedthought

As I was cleaning up my digital archives, I noticed I had a lot of pictures of my dog, Tortilla. No, scratch that, a frightening amount of pictures of him. Enough to start my own photoblog of pictures of him. But since I don’t have the energy to create yet another blog, I have dedicated Tuesdays here on Peppered Thought to my dear old pup.

He loves his computer time. Currently watching.

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Summer Memories

Posted on August 30, 2010 by pepperedthought

Although as I grow older and summers aren’t as big time – wise (three months with no obligations?! Sign me up!), They still have their moments of utter contentment. But I just thought I would write about some of my favorite summer memories today, as the kiddies toddle back to school.

  •  Spending a month with my Nana in Prescott. That was always a major highlight, because of all the possibilities. My relatives would come and bring me things (I still have The Secret Garden book my aunt gave me when I decided to hang out with her instead of go to Mass with my Nana!), I would get to help my grandma in a garden that would actually sprout things, and all my cousins were here so if I ever got bored by myself (which rarely happened), I could go and freeze some soda for a summer slushie with one of them. Yes, my cousin Muffin and I used to freeze soda into bowls and sit on the stoop and scrape away at our ghetto slushies.
  • Swimming for hours upon hours with my dad and sister. My dad lived in an apartment with the best pool ever. It went super deep, was always clean, and we would never want to leave. I remember on more than one occasion my sister and I would be begging my dad to stay just a little bit longer, and our lips would be purple it was so cold in the pool.
  • Making summer foods. Besides the above Soda Slushies, my cousin and I would also get as many fruits as we could round up and slice them all up into mounds of fruit salad. My favorite were the blackberries and bananas, which there were never enough of! My dad would also encourage my sister and I to think up fruits to put in popsicles, but we usually just stuck with strawberries. I also recall making lots of pudding and being impatient for it to fully form in the fridge. That pudding was always amazing because the wait was so excruciating.
  •  Nothing. I am truly in awe thinking about the time of my life I didn’t have to do anything, with the exception of the odd-job (cleanup the house, wash the car). Summer was all mine. Discovering hobo castles in the wash behind my house, reading until my eyes crossed, trying to entertain my sister by playing dressup with my mom’s Stevie Nicks’-inspired outfits. Or, just lying around, listening to the fan spin madly. Truly magical.

What are your favorite summer memories?

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