This is part of my new baker friendly kitchen

The beginnings of a beautiful torte.

Chocolate torte right out of the oven!

Freshly ganach-ed!

I love this creepy little statue.

I <3 Ikea.

Blackened Chicken and Zuchini Rotelle pasta bake!

Delicious!

I got these glasses my senior year of high school.  I don’t know where the other half of the set is, but I like to think they’ve been taken care of.

Mmmm delicious….

I saw this on the mustang someone left at work overnight .  There was still frost all over the west side of the car and the front of the car at  8am.

I know all you northerners are like “we’ve been under 6 feet of snow for a month straight now” but considering how far south I am living now, I thought this was quite the meteorological achievement.

And exciting.  Winter has found me! <3

I pass this orange hut everyday on my way to work taking 441 around Mount Dora, Florida.  I decided to stop on my way home today.  It looks like left over kitsch from the 50’s or 60’s.  For some unknown reason Florida is a kitsch magnet.  This always reminds me of the signs for Orange World or whatever it’s called on US 301. 

At some point this building was used as a food hut of some sort- there is a sink, some counters and a window that faces the woods.

This is the cropped version.  I’ve included the picture below for full detail of the absurdity.

I bought a twin bed sized headboard/hutch at the thrift store last week.  It was such a great color.  So now I’m using it as my desk hutch.

I came home early today after not enough sleep the night before and a horribly boring day at work.  I wanted to go to sleep so I didn’t want to leave the house to take a picture- but I refuse to not take one.  Even if that means I have to take a boring picture and everyone else gets to suffer for it.

Also, I know I should have probably done something “patriotic” or Obama related today, but living in the one of the most Republican counties in Florida makes it hard to find parties to go to.

I bought a bunch of frames from the goodwill today to decorate my walls with.  The ladies there gave me weird looks as I took all the frames out of one bin, put them back in and then did it again on the next bin.

I did make out like a bandit though.  All but one of the frames was less than $1.

oh boy.

it was pretty much this or a lamp+book

who doesn’t want to see this?

This is my father.

He’s turning 74 on January 20th.

I visited my parents this weekend to celebrate my dad’s birthday.  I was following my mom into the garage and was “greeted” by this in her laundry room.  She had a wall full of masks and then two clown faces.  I was originally horrified by the whole thing, but then I realized that this little bugger was the actual culprit.

I mean look at it! 
It looks like it just got done munching on some children!

And I’m not even afraid of clowns!

This is where I sit and play.
This was all I got today.

I am trying something new this week.  I am not allowed to take pictures with the telephoto lens.  None whatsoever.

Oh boy.

This is a test pie.
This is only a test pie.
If this had been an actual pie,  you would have been instructed as to where and when the acquiring and devouring of said pie would occur.
This concludes this test of the Emergency Pie Committee.

Strawberry lights

I took 10 crappy pictures today.

This was the best one.

Flower Power at the Mall