Oh, but why not?

Sunday, certainly not the day of rest.

It is a nice transition into the week, though. Crash on Friday night and Saturday into doing absolutely nothing (usually), and then "recover" on Sunday by ratcheting up the work effort.

However, it IS nice to include some resting.... what better way than a tea time?

Here we have some Earl Grey tea with a pumpkin cupcake and a black and white cupcake (vanilla frosting with dark chocolate cupcake)... And yes, the cupcakes are from Sprinkles. The pumpkin cupcake is a seasonal one, and ohh it is so good. It is everything that is delicious about fall: spice-y*, and tastes like Thanksgiving! The vanilla frosting on the b+w cupcake hurts my teeth... so sweet!, but still delicious...

*A note on the word "spice-y:" though it should be spelled spicy, I spell it in this way to differentiate it from the other meaning of spicy. Spicy (without the "e") indicates muy piquante, in my mind, first and foremost before spice-y... Spice-y indicates that it is something full of spices. A curry can be both spicy and spice-y, but the latter word describes the dish as not necessarily being hot, but full of spice-like flavors, from cardamom to turmeric to coriander. Yes, some of these can impart a spicy taste to the dish, but they also serve to spice up the dish. For example, I make an oatmeal chocolate-chip cookie that I would describe as spice-y, not because it is hot, but because it has nutmeg and cinnamon in it. Apple cider (with mulled spices) is also spice-y!

Yesterday, I went out to see the movie "An Education." Moral of that story: stay in school despite whatever good-looking, suave, rich older man comes your way. School is better than a sugar daddy. But, aside from that, we saw the preview for the movie "Babies." It follows 4 babies in the world from when they are born to 1 year of age. These babies are from Mongolia, San Francisco, Tokyo and Namibia. Mackenzie made the comment to me: "You would totally make a movie like that." Good thing? Bad thing? Don't know, but there was one shot of a cat playing with a baby's foot. Yessssssss.

Something I learned was that I need to work on hooking my readers more. This blog is mainly for myself and for people who actually know who I am (who else would put up with the ramblings and talk about food and fish...), but it would still be a good thing if I started out things with a hook... a way to draw you all in and get you excited to read the rest of the post. I guess that's what pictures are for (for those of you that can see them...), but I hope that's something that I can work on.

2 weeks until I'm home for Thanksgiving, and a little over that until actual Thanksgiving day. So exciting... and delicious...