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Browsing through the images they curate is a great way to start your day.
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Much thanks to Miss Alta for reminding me of this glorious clip from Mary Poppins. I try to avoid getting really fired up during election season but there nothing that will make me more furious then those who avoid taking the opportunity to cast their ballot, especially women.
It was still less then a hundred years and two generations ago that women did not have the right to vote and I find it heartbreaking when the sacrifices the suffragettes and our soldiers fighting for this right to this day are put to waste.
I know you’ve received dozens of phone calls, hundreds of facebook posts and a seen a few thousand ”I voted’ stickers, but if you haven’t voted yet… go cast your ballot and earn your right to complain for the next four years.
Long overdue recipe post. I made these cupcakes for a girls night earlier this month as a tribute to the arrival of Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Starbucks.
While I love making cupcakes from scratch, I was in a time crunch and decided to take a doctored cake mix approach instead.
Ingredients
Cupcakes
1 box white cake mix
3 eggs
1 15 oz can pumpkin puree
2 tbs cinnamon
1 tbs nutmeg
1/2 cup vegetable oil (not pictured)
Cream Cheese Frosting (not pictured)
1 package cream cheese
4 cups powdered sugar
Pre-heat your oven to 375
1. In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, vegetable oil and eggs. Mix together until even.
2. Add in the pumpkin puree, nutmeg and cinnamon.
3. Scoop into cupcake wrappers and bake for 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center.
4. While cupcakes are baking, use a new bowl to mix the cream cheese and powdered sugar using a hand mixer.
Remove the cupcakes from the oven and allow to cool before frosting. Most cream cheese frosting is placed using a knife instead of a piping bag but you can decorate the cupcakes however you prefer. After frosting, sprinkle cinnamon on top to complete the look.
Trying to keep track of everything I read has gotten easier since receiving a Kindle but I still feel like I miss a lot of the non-digital books. I started a ‘to-read’ list in 2010 and the following list is books that I have read, and remember reading since beginning that list. Not counting those I can’t remember, I feel like nearly reading 100 books in two years is doing pretty good.
| A Northern light |
| Bel Canto |
| Birthmarked |
| Blindspot |
| Bridget Jones Diary |
| Catching Fire |
| Celia and the Fairies |
| Commencement |
| Confessor (Sword of Truth #11) |
| Crossed |
| Dawn of the Dreadfuls |
| Delirium |
| Devil In the White City |
| Divergent |
| Insergent |
| Dune |
| Elizabeth Street |
| Enders Game quartet |
| -Enders Game |
| -Speaker for the Dead |
| Faith of the Fallen |
| Gemma Doyle Trilogy – Libba Bray |
| -Rebel Angels |
| -A Great and Terrible Beauty |
| -The Sweet Far Thing |
| Going Bovine |
| Graceling |
| Heaven is for Real |
| Hunger Games |
| – Catching Fire |
| – Mockingjay |
| Knit One, Kill 2 |
| Little Bee |
| Love is a mixtape – Rob Sheffield |
| Lovely Bones |
| Matched |
| Matched |
| One Day |
| Patron Saint of Liars |
| Percy Jackson & Lighting Thief |
| Phantom (Sword of Truth #10) |
| Practical Demon Keeping – Christopher Moore |
| Prized |
| Rich Boy |
| Same kind of Different As me |
| Something Borrowed |
| Soul of the Fire |
| The Bluest Eye |
| The Book Thief |
| The Declaration |
| The Girl with a Dragon Tatoo |
| The Good Thief |
| The Handmaids Tale |
| The Help |
| The Hunger Games |
| The Life and Death of Charlie St. Cloud |
| The Namesake |
| The Pearl |
| Three Cups of Tea |
| Time Travelers Wife |
| Tinkers |
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Torilla Flat |
| Wideacre |
| Winter Sea |
| Untraceable |
| Open Minds |
| Fifty Shades of Grey |
| Fifty Shades Darker |
| Fifty Shades Freed |
| The Boy in the Suircase |
| Haven (War of the Princes) |
| The Scourge |
| The Selection |
| The Loom |
| Awry |
| Destined |
| The Wedding Gift |
| Hooking up |
| Psychopath |
| The Last Song |
| The Knife of Never Letting Go |
| The eleventh plague |
| The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake |
| Anew |
| The princess of the Midnight Ball |
| The Yellow House |
| Graceful |
| Unearthly |
| The Giver |
| Fire |
| Hollowmen |
| Smokeless fire |
| Hollowland |
| Eden |
| The Girl of Fire and Thorns |
| Leaving Paradise |
| Prized |
| The Warrior Heir |
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