my time is running wild

from the ever truthful David Bowie:

Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace I'm going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)

Time may change me
But I can't trace time


And so it is. Changes are exposing themselves all over my life as I pack up this Asian life and move it to America (a strange place I'm not sure I know anymore). Oh, it's sad, and soon enough I will be clamoring for noodles and dumplings and fragrant eggplant and...it will never be the same, as I will also never be as I was.

Sorry that was a downer. Sometimes when I feel like the things around me are flying out of control, I need stability and comfort--Dad, of course, along with some other fun sites:

Tastespotting I've spent the vast majority of my internet time on this site this year...it's my aspiration to one day make it on there, preferably with cupcakes?

JNNPR I just recently found this, and it is HILARIOUS! Sex week was particularly enlightening...

1000 Awesome Things You try and find something on here that's not awesome! You will fail.

Orangette My favorite food blogger opened a restaurant with her husband!! Seattle weekend trip...anyone?


The next time I write here, I may be in California! Crazy crazy crazy. The finality of it all has not quite sunk in. Central Asia, by the way, was nothing short of amazing and you can read all about it from Jena.

recipe overload

Do you SEE that screenshot?! All those recipes underneath the folders, unfiled...they go on for a good 400 more!! I blame Tastespotting. (If you are able to look at that food pile of love and not feel at least a little tempted to bookmark one page, you are deranged. Or remarkably self-controlled.)

The strength finders test says that this is one of my strong suits, collecting things. I subconsciously decided that collecting physical things will probably lead to me being crowded out of my own house, so recipes it is. It has been kind of difficult recreating things I love here, but I've recently made tres leches cake for our cinco de mayo party and cinnamon espresso cake as a last hurrah for the roommates before Lent, and even peanut butter cookie crust with brownie on top (both box mixes)...the truth is that we're living it up here, albeit a bit creatively!