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I made bread! It is beautiful and delicious and so easy.
All you need is 3 cups flour, 1/4 teaspoon yeast, 1 and 1/4 teaspoons salt, and 1 and 1/2 cups water. Combine ingredients in bowl, cover, let sit for 18 hours. After 18 hours, chop up 3 springs of rosemary and knead into bread. Let sit for two more hours. Heat oven to 450, sprinkle flour or cornmeal on a cookie sheet, plop the dough on there and bake for about 25 minutes.
Boom! You have bread.
first loaf of bread (by sister reba)

I made bread!
It is beautiful and delicious and so easy.

All you need is 3 cups flour, 1/4 teaspoon yeast, 1 and 1/4 teaspoons salt, and 1 and 1/2 cups water. Combine ingredients in bowl, cover, let sit for 18 hours. After 18 hours, chop up 3 springs of rosemary and knead into bread. Let sit for two more hours. Heat oven to 450, sprinkle flour or cornmeal on a cookie sheet, plop the dough on there and bake for about 25 minutes.

Boom! You have bread.

first loaf of bread (by sister reba)

Riding a bike is having wings on your feet. Entirely free.

Do you know what life is about? Is about being happy! To ride my bike is my happyness. Are you quite happy? Why don’t you try it?

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Punk Goes Acoustic at Bonny’s is quickly becoming one of my favorite bar nights. Chill crowd, good vibes, nostalgic music, excellent bartender, and last night they played Avail and The Weakerthans back-to-back. What more could a girl ask for?
It’s all the music you loved when you were fifteen (and still do). No earplugs necessary.

Punk Goes Acoustic at Bonny’s is quickly becoming one of my favorite bar nights. Chill crowd, good vibes, nostalgic music, excellent bartender, and last night they played Avail and The Weakerthans back-to-back. What more could a girl ask for?

It’s all the music you loved when you were fifteen (and still do). No earplugs necessary.

This afternoon I was invited to two parties. A gnocchi party and a bacon party. Finger crossed that the invite for another whiskey party lands in my email tomorrow (Austin, I’m looking at you). Maybe we should also plan a workout party or a run a 5k party so that we don’t all gain 20 pounds this winter.
My friends are kind of the best. Just sayin’. 
(Photo from the whiskey party Austin threw two years ago).

This afternoon I was invited to two parties. A gnocchi party and a bacon party. Finger crossed that the invite for another whiskey party lands in my email tomorrow (Austin, I’m looking at you). Maybe we should also plan a workout party or a run a 5k party so that we don’t all gain 20 pounds this winter.

My friends are kind of the best. Just sayin’. 

(Photo from the whiskey party Austin threw two years ago).

Okay folks. I’m doing it. I’m baking bread for the first time this weekend.Kindly leave your best recipes in the comments.
bread brooch

Okay folks. I’m doing it. I’m baking bread for the first time this weekend.
Kindly leave your best recipes in the comments.

bread brooch

Brunch for one.
good morning Chicago 01-21-2012 (by sister reba)

Brunch for one.

good morning Chicago 01-21-2012 (by sister reba)

I am thirty years old. In general, I like to be snuggled into my bed by 11pm, if not earlier. I have to be at work and functioning at nine am every weekday. So.If I am going to stay out entirely too late chatting at the bar with friends while looking for the perfect damask wallpaper, and making new friends on account of our love for movie musicals and British period dramas, then I am definitely drinking the good stuff.
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I am thirty years old.
In general, I like to be snuggled into my bed by 11pm, if not earlier.
I have to be at work and functioning at nine am every weekday.
So.
If I am going to stay out entirely too late chatting at the bar with friends while looking for the perfect damask wallpaper, and making new friends on account of our love for movie musicals and British period dramas, then I am definitely drinking the good stuff.

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