Things that are making me happy…
1. Baking - I made these sea salted chocolate chop cookies after seeing Andrea at Kempt Life tweet about them and they are shockingly good. I just bought a little $10 kitchen scale so it was a fun way to try out baking according to weight.
2. Thrifted housewares – This week I got the most beautiful little dish for all my loose buttons ($2.00!), and I’ve been loading a set of oversized mason jars ($1.00 ea!) with flowers every chance I get. Shopping is just more exciting when you introduce a hunt into the equation.
3. Podcasts – We don’t have a dishwasher (see: 101 year old home) so we all our dishes by hand every day, and it’s gone from a bit of a chore to something I love. This summer we bought an ipod dock so doing dishes = dawdling and listen to podcasts. My favourites are This American Life, Radiolab, Stuff You Missed In History Class, & The Moth.
4. My “Not a paper cup” – Mister got me one for Christmas (in the picture above) and using it is just too much fun. It’s my constant at home companion, good design just makes things better.
5. Cheesy Sci-Fi – Escape from New York & Escape from LA have been on TV lately and I cannot tear myself away. I love Snake Plissken! Combine Kurt Russell with an eye patch and an uncertain futuristic dystopia and you can’t go wrong in my books. We could all learn from Snake’s quiet dignity and determination, even when he’s having trouble finding the doomsday device because he’s been kidnapped by plastic surgery addicts. *tears up*
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I’ve been dying to get the Not A Paper Cup.
Also, I LOVE your nail polish!
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awww I love the not a paper cup . I want one !
Ahhh those salted cookies sound SO good!!
Your glasses are awesome! I worked in an optometrist part-time and love the crazy, bright or 50s style frames.
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I have never listened to a Podcast! I should really check some out – esp for my long drives home to North Dakota! I also have an iPod speaker docking station in my kitchen. Love it. Makes baking/cooking so much more fun!
Love these posts – so fun to think of the things that are making you happy. Have a lovely weekend!
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Ohh I love baking and cooking! It makes me relaxed! Love it!
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I love that nail color!
I, too, love doing dishes by hand – although I don’t like how dry my hands get afterward. Back in the old country, Ukraine, my mom always did dishes by hand. I don’t think dishwashers were around in the late 80s/early 90s. So when we moved to the States and got a house with a dishwasher, we just used it as storage. So I’ve brought the tradition into my family, although on days when my hands are really dry, I cave and use the dishwasher.
When I first started reading about doing the dishes by hands, I must admit I shuddered at the thought. But, then when you talked about listening to your favorite podcasts? It suddenly seemed like something that could be very calming and something I just might look forward to.
Just wanted to drop in and tell you your blog is so refreshing. I’m not in the “20-something” crowd anymore, but my teenagers try to keep me current. ;) I have my own blog and I also blog for amishcountryliving.com
Thanks for putting your lovely thoughts and ideas for us all to read. :)
I am glad that you found simple pleasures this week to make you happy. To me, thats what makes life so great. =) I’m going to have to check out the not a paper cup. Have a lovely weekend, Kyla!
Ohhhh I can’t wait til I can bake by weight again. I grew up with scales and could not FATHOM this whole “cup” system when I first moved here! We totally registered for a little electric one last week :)
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you are spot-on adorable.
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I have to try those salty cookies. I haven’t baked anything in quite a while. Usually I am making something every week.
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I often do the same thing when I’m doing the dishes. And I just discovered “This American Life” and am really excited to hear some more podcasts. Have you ever checked out “This I Believe”? I love it. And I’m also a fan of CBC’s “Tapestry” (well some of the time, I’m choosy about which one’s I listen to all the way through, but most of the time I dig the content”.)
Hey you are an interesting personality, u have a good style statement and you are very beautiful :-) cheers you give an inspiration to look good!
People at work have been talking about those movies. I have never even heard of them. Now you are writing about them, so random. I must check this out.
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Ohh! I love that cup!
I understand the no-dishwasher life. My apartment is nearing the 100-year-old mark, and it was a chore at first to hand-wash everything, but now I find it sort of relaxing, and I love having that clean kitchen once all the dishes are put away. I once heard that “a clean kitchen is a grown-up’s lullaby.”
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I want to make those cookies but I have no way of measuring by weight. Regardless I think some baking is in order.
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I have never seen either of the movies you reference. Perhaps that makes me a bad American? Though I do love me some Kurt Russell!
Glad you have a lot of doses of happy. You definitely deserve them :)
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How cool!! :)
Things that make me happy: any sort of warm beverage, good times with friends, and the return of all my fave TV shows!!!
ps: I’ve totally been inspired by that other post you wrote on how you finished all of your work: I’m trying to get all my papers done WAY before they are due so I can just relax :)
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Seriously, Kyla! What is that nail polish?! It’s to die for!
It’s “Hey! Get in Lime!” by OPI =)
- kr
My in-laws give us Sci-Fi B movies every year for Christmas, we have quite a collection and they are too much fun to play at movie parties. I love horrible B movies! All time Favorite… Deathrace 2000, they made a remake a couple years ago, but it can’t touch David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone.
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Look how cuuuute you are! And podcasts are such an amazing idea for dishes. I think my mister and I will follow suit ^_^
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Thanks for sharing your favorite podcasts. I’ve been listening to This American Life here and there. It’s a good thing to have on when walking my two hairy monsters! :)
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You look amazing!!! I LOVE how flowers look in big mason jars!
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I can’t get into podcasts. I don’t know why, but maybe it’s the same reason that I don’t much care for listening to radio hosts talk… Hm. Bizarre really.
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Looooove the glasses. Where are they from?!
They’re actually by the Canadian brand “Roots”! I didn’t even know they made glasses before I fell in love with these frames.
- kr
Did you see the PINK ‘I’m Not a Paper Cup’?? It’s cheesy but good cheese. Yay for happy and simple fridays :)
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:O I LOVE Escape from New York & LA! Old, terrible action movies= the best thing ever. Well, 2nd best thing, because your glasses are better!
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Can I recommend You Look Nice Today (http://youlooknicetoday.com) as a totally kickass podcast? I laugh so much when I listen to these guys.
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i want one of those cups sooo bad!! i saw one in chapters a couple weeks ago when i was in canada and just swooned! :D
and i would love to be a sponsor on your blog, but it looks like i’m a little late. :P maybe in the future.
<3 ya!!
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I love your Friday post. They are to die for.
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a.) Your outfit in that picture is obnoxiously gorgeous. Can we please go shopping together?
b.) I want a “Not a Paper Cup” so badly!!! I have a coffee tumbler and water tumbler, but the “Not a Paper Cup” just beats them out!!! Its an item I have been coveting for a while.
c.) I tried baking shortbread last night. Was that interesting. I love baking and discovering new things, but I get so discouraged sometimes. I think being a good baker might come with age. My mom is an amazing baker, and I just assumed I naturally would be too. False. But I am glad your baking things came out.
:)
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I’ve been seeing those ‘not a paper cup’ things EVERYWHERE and I love them! And I love the podcast idea – I’m such an Internet geek, but I’m so afraid of podcasts, how weird is that?!
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You are so adorable! I love the flowers on your neckline and you haircut is so cute! Not a lot of people could pull that off!:)
Happy Friday!
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Good design really DOES make things better! I love podcasts–that’s how we entertain ourselves on long road trips.
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oh i love that cup! it reminds me of the “we are happy to serve you” ceramic cup that resembles the paper ones.
also, loving your nailpolish!
i absolutely love baking, it makes me so happy, maybe i’ll do that this weekend!
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You are too cute! May I ask which brand and color your nail polish is?
By the way, as you may know, in (continental) Europe we only bake (and cook) according to weight. I do have a measuring container that also tells me cups (and I have measuring spoons as well) – which I use for American recipes. But to me, baking & cooking according to weight comes natural. The fact that most people in the US & Canada do not use kitchen scales is so weird to me. I couldn’t do it.
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Love this! This picture just made me smile.. and want a cup of coffee to make me simply happy too =)
1. I almost always bake by weight. I love it!
2. The fact that you got excited about a button dish probably makes you the cutest thing on Earth.
3. I wouldn’t trade my dishwasher for anything, but I dig the time I spend at the sink doing pots, etc…relaxing.
4. I am thisclose to convincing myself to buy one of those cups.
5. Cheesy sci-fi is way over my head. I like Battlestar Gallactica. Counts?
P.S. I absolutely adore your nail polish.
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awe sucha cute picture :)
oh wow, so amazing and cute. thanks for sharing
Baking makes me happy too and podcast? I’m hooked! Hope you have a great weekend!
We have a dishwasher at my house but I think the last time we used it was for Christmas dinner in 2008. My mom just prefers washing by hand and says they get more clean this way. She’s a little funny that way. ;)
Can I just say that I’m really enjoying your blog? You write so well, about such pertinent stuff for us fellow twentysomethings. So happy I stumbled upon your blog!
I too am a huge fan of podcasts. I love NPR music podcasts and I found out about a year ago that my favorite local morning radio show started putting podcasts of their shows up. Podcasts make EVERYTHING better!
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#3 made me laugh, because just a few days ago, I was crying over my dishes (no dishwasher here either) while listening to the episode of This American Life where the mother leaves letters for her daughter.
I just started listening to Stuff You Missed in History Class a couple months ago, but I think I’ve gone through most of the archives by now. I love it too.
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We also have to do our dishes by hand and I always dread it. Listening to podcasts is a great idea to make them more pleasant!! I’m going to take your recommendations!
I just joined Indie Biz and am trying to visit everyone’s blogs to get acquinted! Nice to “meet you” :)
xo
Those also sound so lovely. :) I saw the exactly same cup while I was working at Target. For a second I thought it was some cup that someone had left on the shelf and I started to pick it up to take it to the trash can only to realize it was made differently. I thought that was pretty cool! It would also be cool to order a custom designed one online somewhere.
I just baked for the first time if forever yesterday – chocolate chip cookies.
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I totally want to get one of those cups! SO cute! And those chocolate chip cookies? Sound absolutely amazing right now.
Happy weekend, lovely!
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I love thrifted housewares! They make me utterly joyful too. You’re my hair idol right now – love your cute pixie crop. :)
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Finding cute dishes while thrifting makes me giddy inside, the housewares section is the first stop I make when entering a thrift shop! I tend to have high hopes and end up getting disappointed but there are those few times when I find something great and walk away with a grin on my face :D
Those salted chocolate chip cookies sound SO GOOD. While I enjoy both cooking & baking, I must admit that I prefer cooking b/c I feel like it gives me more freedom to be creative. But my best friend Sarah LOVES to bake so when she has the time I often reap the benefits of her skills :D YUM.
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I love love love RadioLab & my “I’m not a Paper Cup.” Man, I wish you lived near me. ;)
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We have to get together and do vegan cupcakes. Those are now my absolutely favorite.
Also… how awesome is that cup? I must have one now. Where did Mister get yours? Was it at a local store, mall?
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Yay for podcasts and baking! I have been obsessed with podcasts, always have been more of an audio person. And that’s neat you like to bake. Is this a new love for you?
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