Lazy Sunday

I was going to write a nice post about how we went to the zoo on Friday because the zoo closed early and was only open for foster parents from 6-9, and how we got to hang out with awesome people, and also about how we had an awesome party yesterday to celebrate my brother graduating from college, but instead of writing that post, I'm bumming on the couch with a snoozing baby and being lazy.

To keep you occupied, here's Sarah Von's awesome Web Time Wasters post for this weekend, which contains about one million awesome links. (I particularly want you to focus on this part about pay equality!)

Have an awesome day!

So busy and important.

UPDATE: I fixed all the weird busted links. Sorry about that. But no, really, try the corn fritters.

Tuesdays are the new busy day, so you’ll probably get a little less awesome from me on Tuesdays in the next few weeks. I have to leave work around 4, drive half an hour to get our CSA share, drive half an hour home, feed the dogs and let them out and give them a little love, and drive fourteen minutes to our classes, which start on 6 on the nose and which include having to go through a security checkpoint. So, you know, a little rushed for time. If I were a better blogger, I’d have posts set up ahead of time, but you all know that ain’t me.

Today the coworker who sits in the cubicle right next to mine spent, oh, four and a half hours scrolling slowly through pdfs. I am not kidding. I already had a headache, and my passive aggressive response of eating a box of strawberry Nerds as loudly as I could just made my stomach hurt too. Ugh. Teeth on edge all day.

But! I’ve been spending some slow moments reading the last year’s worth of posts from Stephanie at I Need An Adult (http://haygirlhay.tumblr.com/!) and can happily point you towards three recipes she has linked to, all of which I need in my life:

Thai-style corn fritters (I need instruction on when to put Sweet Chili Sauce on things, so this is helpful).

Mushroom, spinach, and asparagus pasta (I don’t even mind that the sauce is basically cream cheese thinned with milk) (ugh, and when you’re done with that, drool over the homemade ricotta. I don’t even care about making homemade ricotta but this looks so freaking good.)

Oh, and for those of you with a sweet tooth, I’ve got you covered too: S’MORES COOKIES. Not kidding.

Oh, and I just got home and discovered that the shirt I'm wearing should only be worn with a skin-tone bra (NOT WEARING ONE) and also that bending over to pick up the car keys I just dropped makes me feel like my head is broken forever.

Please, for the love of everything holy, share something delightful with me.

Link love

Damn, these look good.

Homemade Cadbury Creme Eggs. Dang.

Maybe even better: homemade Twix Bars. I had to talk myself out of making these for the Kid's shower, on the basis of us already having WAY more food than we need.

Recommendations for books that challenge preconceived notions, via Ask.Metafilter. So many more books on my reading list!

Bizarre or unexplained black and white photos. Number 4 is a strong candidate for the cover of my first CD, if they ever find a cure for lack of rhythm.

How are your apostrophe skills? Via my favorite grammar blog, Missed Periods and Other Grammar Scares, which, by the way, is a fucking funny name.

Holy shit. Blarter. An online community of bloggers who barter. You can offer shit, or respond to offers that are already up. SUCH A GOOD IDEA. (via A Friend to Knit With.)

Food links

I am taking a quick break from being useful and helping with painting trim to share these with all of you:

Awesome-looking granola recipe from La Tartine Gourmande. Lots of nuts and some maple syrup and stuff. She specifies that it's gluten-free, which is not a thing to me at all but I'm sure will be useful information for someone.

A whiskey/lemon/fresh ginger/honey/scotch drink so bracing and good for you (right?) that they call it the Penicillin Cocktail. For health purposes.

And a blog to read all the back posts from while you're eating that granola stuff and drinking that health drink:
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