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10.26.08
Posted in General at 2:25 pm by Adriene
1. Cooked four sugar pumpkins and pureed them. Managed to burn all ten of my fingers in the process.
2. Upon burning my fingers, said a few words that I’m going to have to remind myself to stop saying soon, or else I’m going to have them repeated back to me.
3. Remembered that normal people use canned pumpkin.
4. Learned that four sugar pumpkins make a crap-ton of pumpkin puree. Will be baking muffins well into April.
5. Realized that I hate the smell of cooked pumpkin when it is not accompanied by pumpkin pie spice.
6. Baked approximately 5,987 pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. Beginning to think that these muffins are actually what Jesus fed the multitude, rather than the fish and loaves we’ve been taught since children.
7. Dropped one muffin on the floor and watched it fall apart during the act of transferring it from the muffin pan to the cooling rack. Wept silently for ten minutes.
8. Ate not more than four but not less than three muffins straight out of the oven. Felt my ass grow by a quarter-inch.
9. Stared blankly at my overflowing kitchen sink. Wished I had a magic wand and Molly Weasley nearby.
10. Sat at the kitchen table and typed this blog entry. Noticed muffins on cooling rack across table from me. Felt ass grow by another quarter-inch.
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05.07.08
Posted in General at 8:51 pm by Adriene
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Posted in General at 2:42 pm by Adriene
Yes, I am one of those people with an unhealthy addiction to Starbucks coffee. A couple of years ago, I was looking for a new credit card, one that would get me some rewards. I stumbled upon the Starbucks Duetto credit card, and I was sold. It gives me a portion of every purchase in Starbucks money, so I haven’t actually had to pay for coffee in about a year and a half.
A couple of weeks ago, I got an e-mail from them saying that due to a computer error, the balance of Starbucks money on my card was accidentally wiped out, but not to worry, they were fixing the issue. A day later, I got another e-mail saying the money had been returned to my account, and apologized for the inconvenience. (It really wasn’t an inconvenience, because I hadn’t been out to get coffee that day, so I never would have noticed if they hadn’t e-mailed me about it). I thought it was nice of them to let me know, though, and just kind of pushed the whole issue out of my mind.
Yesterday afternoon, I went to get our mail, and I noticed a box in our mailbox from Starbucks. A big box. I was a bit confused, so I opened it once I got inside. Y’all, it was a whole big bag of Starbucks coffee, along with a note apologizing for the whole snafu with wiping my balance out. How cool is that?
One more reason why I love Starbucks. 
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01.22.08
Posted in General at 9:29 pm by Adriene
OK - I’ll say I’ll take questions for one more day, then I’ll start posting answers.
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01.16.08
Posted in General at 5:03 pm by Adriene
(So, yeah… that whole once a week thing? Yeah, didn’t happen. Hope you don’t hate me.)
Since I’m at a loss for blogging ideas, I’m blatantly stealing something from Brandy. Ask me any question you want in my comments, and I’ll answer it in my next post. ANYTHING, people. Even if it’s embarrassing.
Fire away!
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