spread the love

I generally like to let people know how cool I think they are. It helps that my friends, in fact, make up a large percentage of the coolest people ever. So when I saw these lovely cards on Oh Joy! I was pretty happy about it. What better way to express my true feeling for my nearest and dearest? Just look at the amazing but simple colors and the wicked cool fonts! I love them.

new funsies

So many things I've been meaning to write down and share...perhaps we'll just talk a little about how much fun I had at VegFest for now.

My super friend, Lauren, and I took her dog, Dakota, out to VegFest on Saturday and had a great time. I think she and I gave an interesting impression, just the two of us with the dog (people kept talking to us "together") and that gave us a bit of a laugh. We decided to blame that on Becka a bit since she was unable to come and would have made it a little more obvious that we're all just friends if she had been there. Go ahead, laugh about that a little.

We walked around and checked out all the really cool vendors. Some were really awesome, some were interesting, some were incredibly odd, and some were really fun to talk to. The best thing: all the wonderful, delectable, fantastic, delicious food. We tasted a bit of almost everything, including the vegan hot dog from a cart that is famous among some of my friends. One of them told me about him and said I absolutely had to try but we hadn't found him since (until Saturday, and she was right...how did I live so long without having tried one?). There was really good Indian food that we shared a plate of, I'm the wimp that doesn't eat spicy food that often and couldn't eat much without running for a water refill. And the soup! A local restaurant had tastes of theirs and it made me weak in the knees. I may be exaggerating a bit but it was really good. I'm a big fan of black bean soup, and this guy's was exceptional. Ooh, and naturally there was some pretty tasty hummus all around.

Dakota had a great time too, wore herself out. She was dragging us around more than we were her, I think. Lots of the people we met couldn't resist giving her treats (i.e. hummus samples). She's a fun friendly dog so getting out and playing with friends made her happy.

conversation with my mother last night:

"So we were in Valdosta, and Lauren's been wanting to get her monroe piercing and Brooke knew this apprentice that could do it for six dollars and I was like, 'six dollars? I'll pierce something for six dollars!'"

"Yeah well..."

"So I got this!"

"What? What did you do to yourself, what is that?!"

"It's a bar, it's an industrial piercing!" (The one that goes between two points of cartilage on your upper ear).

"Why the..."

"Six dollars!"

"Please don't get anything else pierced..."

"Well if it's six dollars I can't make any promises."

"Alexis, please!"

"Uh-huh, well I guess that means don't tell dad..."

"I just don't know why you do this to yourself."

"It's an ear, who cares?"

"I care, you didn't get that stuff from me."

"Yeah sure, like I got any free-spirited impulsiveness from dad."

And she proceeded to sheepishly shrug her shoulders...

I believe...

...that the most beautiful word I know is grace.

...in smiling at strangers.

...that I don't need to hear the words to know someone loves me.

...music is a superpower.

...creativity takes on forms of all kinds.

...in being who you are and liking it.

...in moving forward.

...that you should never take anything too seriously.

...in escaping to your own little world every now and then.

...it's refreshing when there's silence that's comfortable.

...thank-you notes are important.

...that boxes are for square-shaped things, not people.

...good things should be shared.

...you should cross borders as often as possible.

...patience with yourself can be harder to master than patience with others.

...that laughter is one of the most wonderful sounds.

sometimes...

...it just doesn't work out.

I tried to make sugar cookies today as I am going out of town and won't be able to post a recipe tomorrow. I was going to do it tonight, but I won't be.

They weren't awful.

I used soy flour, but I'm not sure that was the main problem. I think that if I had added bananas and nuts they actually would have been very good. Something about their taste suggested that to me.

I topped one off with some peanut butter and that one tasted good. Peanut butter tends to make a lot of things much better!

If anyone has a good vegan sugar cookie recipe, or snickerdoodle, they are my favourite and I would love to have one. Let me know.