Now that I'm single and being thrown into the dating world like a helpless rag doll, I am seeking advice high and low from anywhere I can get it.  I haven't really had the chance to be in the adult dating world yet, and I'm finding that honestly, it's not all that it's cracked out to be thus far.
Who knew there were so many rules?!  Not I.
And knowing me, rule-breaker
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Toffee Snickerdoodle Dip
Let's talk embarrassing moments, shall we?
Contrary to the fact that my cheeks flush a tomato red 50% of the day, I'm not really embarrassed by much. I have that ability to laugh off something mortifying or crack a self-deprecating joke without feeling like I need to crawl into a hole and go into Witness Protection.
I mean, everyone eventually walks out of a bathroom with
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Homemade Tagalongs [5 Ingredients!]
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So, Girl Scout season is over now, right?
They've come in a flurry of colorful boxes and charming chants and leave fat, sugar-coma'd people in their wake.
I tell you, those girls are on some kind of agenda.
Anywaaaaays. I was good and didn't buy one box this year! However, that doesn't speak anything in the way of my willpower (as in, I'm woefully willpower-less)
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Rainbow Mini Cheesecakes
Not too long ago, I was petrified of scary movies.
Now, I suppose part of growing up is enjoying coffee after years of questioning why adults liked a hot, dark drink that tasted like death, and ultimately, enjoying scary movies. Respectively, of course, because I'm not grown up enough to enjoy coffee while watching a scary movie -- too much responsibility,
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Caramel Apple Bread
It's pretty apparent by the monstrous recipe index on this blog that I bake a lot. And "a lot" is a minuscule term to use how much I really bake.
Recipes are cranked out of my head and my kitchen as often as most people blink.
My family's become so used to seeing the oven on and smelling something sweet that they barely bat an eye anymore. Or mind eating stray, deformed
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Rainbow Pinwheel Party Cake
My current obsessions:
Cucumber melon candles--I feel like I'm living in a gigantic honeydew.
Gerbera daisies, per usual. The brighter the better!
...but tulips are having a Hayley moment as well.
Breakfast smoothies with peach in them, which is weird, considering I loathe peaches.
The banana bread French toast I made for breakfast over the weekend with
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