Harmon's and cheese and mushrooms

Gosh i love Harmon's Grocery. They just have the best stuff. Today was just a regular grocery trip, but I made it exciting by sneaking some expensive indulgences into the cart (i just tried to spell that "kart"...i think its time for me to lay off the mariokart) like cheese from Germany ($3.96 for a slice that I have already downed half of), organic and locally grown tomatoes and peaches, and big beautiful organic portabello mushrooms. The only kink is I have never in my life cooked with portabellos and now that I think of it, I don't think I have ever eaten one. But Giada always cooks with them and calls them "meaty", and anything that pops up from the ground tasting like meat is worth a try. What to do with them...anyone have a delicious recipe for portabellos?

sacramento

Last weekend Hunter and I flew out to Sacramento for Kate and Tanner's west coast wedding reception. It was the shortest trip of our lives, as we flew in late Friday night and flew out early Sunday morning. Highlights include: daring my mom to use the word "grapefruit" in her conversation with the next person in the wedding line- and laughing so hard I cried when she actually did it, hanging out by the pool for the first time since my honeymoon, walking to In-n-Out with Hunter at midnight (we had a good view of it from our hotel room and couldn't resist), and talking movies, marriage, and mountain west with my Uncle B. Unfortunately I have been neglecting my camera lately but managed to remember it to grab a couple pics in front of the Sac temple before we headed to the airport.

lie to me

I like to play this game with Hunter. It's called "Lie to me." The underlying principle of "Lie to me" is that you may never acknowledge its existence, especially during play,else the purpose of "Lie to me" is defeated. The object of "Lie to me" is the questioner must be convinced that the responder is telling the truth. Although Hunter has never been aware that he is being tricked into playing this game, he usually wins! What a good husband. Here are some sample questions I find myself returning to every couple weeks:

-If I was as fat as Ruby, would you still love me the same?

-Do you think I am a good cook?

-Do you wanna go to the grocery store tonight?

-Do you like this jumpsuit I bought today for $7?

-Don't you think I could get into Brown for grad school?

It's really a fun game. You should see how your husband scores sometime.

Hey blogger friends, I need to complete our "friend's" blog list so if you ever peek at our blog and wouldn't mind if I occasionally peeked at your blog, would you mind commenting on this post? THX.

Today was a great day, except for the fact that Hunter is out of town and I miss him dearly :(.

Miracle #1: I woke up around 8am. I started the day off right with a couple hours of online TV and job hunting in my comfy bed. Then I had to crack down and get studying for my final, studied a couple hours, drove to school to take my final...GOT A 98! WOOP! Miracle #2. It was a very tremendous accomplishment for me, because I did the math and figured I have a slight chance of getting an A in that class (yes the same class I forgot to turn my final project in for last week) (yes it was both an overreaction and overstatement when I said I failed). So I rewarded myself with a big gulp and some milk duds, which I only planned on eating half of the box of but they are the freshest milk duds I have ever had so alas, here I am on the couch still eating them. Shameful. Then after moping around the house for a couple hours missing my husband and wondering what I will do now that I am done with my classes and my internship for the rest of the summer, I decided to go furniture shopping? Miracle #3: found a reasonably priced and perfect end table to go in between our couches. I must have looked compulsively for the perfect end table for months now. Day of miracles. And the day isn't over, so who knows what else karma has in store. Namaste.

UPDATE: Miracle #4 happened! Whenever Hunter goes out of town of course I am too lazy to cook for myself, so I was just sitting around feeling a little sick from all the milkduds and a little starving, when DING DONG here are my adorable neighbors with a mexican feast! They are divinely inspired. Bad things may come in 3's, but good things come in 4's.

Hunter threw a fit about what a terrible blogger I am tonight so here is my attempt at redeeming myself. I used to be really good at blogging, but now the task just seems daunting. I'm intimidated by all these other cool cats with cooking blogs and design blogs and fashion blogs and all sorts of fancy know-it-all blogging careers. I'm sorry faithful readers, if I have any, I'm just going to let you down. I promised Hunter I would be a better blogger, since now-a-days that seems to be part of the job description of being a good wife. No, it is not enough that I cook and clean and decorate and...cook and clean some more, no, now I have to compose an online photo journal to prove to the world that I am indeed fulfilling these duties. Could I just make a promise that I do cook and most of the time it is edible and sometimes it is even tasty? Will you just take my word for it? Thanks blogging friends, because unless I release myself from the self-imposed pressures of being a superblogger I will rarely be able command the time and energy to post anything that would hold a candle to my blogging competitors.

In other news, my older sister Kate got married this weekend and it was a fairy tale. Went off without a hitch, beautiful, romantic, slightly stressful for the stage crew, but a perfect wedding in the end. Hunter and I are also going to Sacramento for their west coast reception this weekend and another wedding in Denver the following weekend. Then school starts. WOW this summer went by too fast and now I think I want to cry. Summer don't leave me! I can practically feel the winter's icy breath breathing down my neck threatening to chase away the cloudless skies for murky grey snow filled sky blankets. I better go plan out my last month of summer day-by-day to take full advantage of every moment of the glorious heat.