i've died and gone to...

...culinary heaven.  

Introducing the bacon waffle.

Thank you to magpie for bringing this amazing idea home. 

because sometimes you leave work...

...and feel like making fresh sauce, crumbling sausage, grilling mushrooms and rolling dough to make some pizza. 

she and her friends got talent

we could have sung happy birthday to you and been over with it, but there are so many other great hits and lets face it, we all just wanna be stars...

here are a few hits that come to mind...

happy birthday pretty, little lady.

a postcard, some snow and a few manatees

Postcards are one of those wonderful surprises that still find their way into a mailbox, not inbox, on occasion.  It seems like they could be the only hand written messages delivered by the USPS to survive the digital age.  E-cards, in my opinion, just don't hold a special place in my heart like postcards do.  

I returned back to my apartment after the post-christmas blizzard to find this treasure of a postcard.    The photos are fitting as they reminded me of the icebox I live in....as if the boots, scarf, hat, and mounds of snow were not a daily reminder.  On the other side, it gave me hope for warmer weather, travel to warm places, sand between my toes and the thought of being tan.  

I flipped it over to find nothing but a bunch of manatees playing a cruel joke on me as they pinched a nerve calling me "swan" after my cinematic scare in the theater watching Black Swan.  

Regardless, I loved this little postcard in my mailbox...I cannot wait to send the manatees one soon.