Flip flops, frozen toes, and cookies!

I think it may be about time to retire the flip flops for the season. It's one thing to have wet, frozen toes from the snow...but slipping around like a moron, that's getting too far.
It's hard though...flip flops are my favorite walking shoes.

Is it just me, or is walking the best thinking time? (Especially without music and phones and such). Just you, the path and your thoughts.
Today, I saw some McDonald's trash...from there I decided I really kind of wanted a McDonald's apple pie. I haven't had one for at least 3 years, and from my memory at least, I thought they were pretty delicious.
So one day soon...I will have one.
Then I remember thinking I wanted to watch Hercules. I'm not entirely sure where that train of thought came from...but it seems like a pretty good idea to me.

Recall from my last post, we had quite a bit of Halloween candy leftover. So to use up some of the Reese (even though there's certainly not a problem in that regard...), I made some cookies! And they were pretty scrumptious!
I've mentioned Sally here before (from Sally's Baking Addiction), and I'm sure I'll mention her again, but I basically followed this recipe for Ultimate Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies pretty exactly.
Chocolate, peanut buttery cookies stuffed with chunks of Reese and then drizzled with melted peanut butter! Mmmm~! So good...and also quite chocolately, so the good news is, you can't eat a bunch in a row (or potentially at least not AS many)! :D

Aren't they so cute all lined up on the right?? :3
Drizzling the peanut butter was the best part...

Those cookies on the left? Also a recipe from Sally.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies.
They were good....they just weren't AS good. But I'm not a huge pumpkin fan.
I wanted to be...I've tried it and don't mind pumpkin pie now...but alas, it will never be a favorite.

At the Early Thanksgiving dinner, I had some pumpkin cheesecake pie and thought it was SO GOOD!
So I thought maybe I would experiment with a few recipes using pumpkin. I went to Sobey's and the only pumpkin puree they had was a MASSIVE can...at least twice the size of all other cans. And I was excited!

The excitement soon faded away...

I tried a few recipes...I realized I kind of find pumpkin puree to be repulsive...and then I was just done and I flushed the rest away.
HEY! You try dealing with that orange mush!
Maybe I'll just stick to eating pumpkin things that OTHER people make ;)

(PS. Apple pie IS and will ALWAYS BE the #1 pie...just saying...)

So that's that.

What do you figure?

What do you think of pumpkin?
Have any experiences yourself?
Have you retired your flip flops? 
OH! Any plans for the weekend?

Enjoy your weekend.
Trudy out.

Love you too.

xo T

Hibernating + Coconutty + Ice Cream Cakes!

How was your Halloween??
Do anything exciting?

As I mentioned, Scott and I stayed in to hand out some candy to trick-or-treaters. And it was fun! We didn't get too many though...probably 30 to maybe 35 max.

Are there more in other neighborhoods? 
Or is trick-or-treating not as big anymore?

Needlesstosay, we had a LOT of candy left over...

Good thing Frances and Ben came over this weekend! It was kind of a birthday get together for me...but basically it was just hanging out ;) We don't get to see them very often anymore, so it was nice! We sent some candy home with them to balance things out a little more...you're welcome ;)

Of course there was cake...

Ya, ya...I didn't remember until I was mid cut to take a picture. You get the full picture though! A little morbid...but cute nonetheless. And definitely as delicious as usual! (standard DQ of course...)

The weekend before, I actually went out to visit some family in Strathmore and had a little hang out/birthday gathering again. It was a fun time for sure! And there was cake here as well...

Yes...another DQ cake. Equally delicious of course....and so dang cute!

So I've probably gotten my fill of ice cream cake for a little bit (you know, for like a month or two) once the leftovers are done of course ;)

So birthday festivities are done...and it's crazy that it's November! School has been going so quickly and it's hard to believe it'll be finals time in a month! O.O
Woah nelly...

That being said, school is going well. Though along with this November business, it has been looking winter-y the past couple days! Snow, ice, cold! Scott and I even had to finally pick up a snow shovel and some salt the other day. Boo snow....boo...

Though snow really isn't so bad when you can stay hibernated and all cozied up inside. In fact, it's almost peaceful to look outside at the gently falling snow.

Especially when you have fresh home made hot chocolate...

Nuuummmmmerz~! :3

We also have some freshly bathed, extra fluffy and coconutty smelling kittens! (Hey, it happens once a month!)

:D SO soft and snuggly!!

So Happy November to you!

Are you hibernated? 
Or what are you up to these cold, snowy days??

Also, did you enjoy FINALLY getting to turn your clock back??
Stupid daylight savings...

Love you too.

xo T

Thank You Subaru!

Oh hey there ;)
I know, I know ...it's been a while.

What do you want me to talk about?
Every day is exactly the same!
Gym or hot yoga, classes, relaxing, reading text books, studying, taking notes, presentations, watching Seinfeld, reading Jane Austen, snuggling kittens...the standard!

What's your standard? What's your day not complete without?



(google images)


Well Happy Halloween!
Tonight will be the first chance I've had to give candy to trick-or-treaters. To be honest, I still miss trick-or-treating...but this should be alright too. At least I'm not eating all the candy anymore ;)
Not that I'm not eating some candy....that would just be ridiculous.

Do you get trick-or-treaters??

Did you miss my birthday?
That's what I thought... It's ok.
At least my car cares...

Thank you!
Here I am! Birthday girl!

Bright eyed and bushy tailed! Even for getting up at 5:30...

And it was even Wednesday Edo day! And it was delicious :3

A not so swell component of the day was a birthday midterm...lucky me. I'm just glad it's over!

But it was nice to have Scott back in town though! He even made me a birthday dinner...so scrumptious! So scrumptious I couldn't take a picture. Also had birthday blizzards from DQ...hooray! :D

Not that there hasn't been ice cream cake... ;3

What are you up to this Halloween?

Remember this video?

Hope all is well!

Love you too. 

xo T

Day After Thanksgiving

Oh hey there! Happy day after Thanksgiving!

Sunday/Monday I ended up visiting Scott on the rig, which was nice. And to add to that nice-ness, Scott's parents and sister came out on Monday as well to bring some Thanksgiving dinner leftovers - yay! It was good to see them again, and it was also most delicious ;)
The only thing better than one Thanksgiving dinner is two :D
It was worth having those two food comas...

Although I did miss the little fuzz balls while I was gone...

I made sure I snuggled them up real good when I got home :)

Do you remember my last incident with no contacts in the shower? Well a similar thing happened at the rig...

Again, no contacts and I was washing my face. I managed to get through the washing part just fine, and then it was time to moisturize... I grabbed what I thought was Scott's moisturizer and slathered it all over my face. After it was on, it didn't take long to realize that it definitely was not moisturizer...it was after shave... -.-

In my defence, the containers looked very similar...

Well, it was a fun weekend, although I didn't get as much done as I wanted to...but things happen sometimes. 

Today it's back to yoga and then to school. Let's go day!

How was your Thanksgiving??

Did you get 2 dinners? Or at least some leftovers??

Love you too. 

xo T

Choices...

To work on Anatomy...

...or...

...to pet the fluffy, sleepy kitty...

What would you do??

Love you too.

xo T

Early Thanksgiving!

Oh, hey there!

How was YOUR weekend?

I tried to get lots done and to get ahead on things because Scott came home on Sunday and he'll be around until Friday - YAY!

Then on Sunday, we headed into Strathmore for one of these guys...

Just as delightfully cute and chocolately delicious as last year. 

(It's a turkey made of chocolate - duh...)

And then we got the full (real) turkey feast. (Yes, it's a week early...I was excited). 

It was fantastic. 

I was full. 

After a couple hours, dessert was served! Apple pie, and pumpkin cheesecake pie. What?!

Yes...so good. 

After all this, I was stuffed to the brim and almost to the stage of food coma.
So... standard Thanksgiving practise ;)

Oh! One more thing, my sweet little Subie (Subaru, yes) had its 1000 (km) birthday!

Getting old! Still loving it!
(Not the crack though... :<)

What're you looking forward to this Thanksgiving??
I bet you don't get a sweet little chocolate turkey ;)

Love you too.

xo T

Happy October!

Jeez... It's October.
I love October!
With October comes my birthday and also Nani's. Speaking of which, Happy Birthday Nani! :D

Another thing I used to love...Halloween! Getting dressed up, and then running around collecting all the free candy!
Hey, Trudy's like their candy sometimes...

So I don't know if you've noticed, but it's getting pretty Fall-y out there!
Trees are starting to look naked, the air is getting cooler and the heated seats in my vehicle are definitely getting lots of useage! ;3

I'm actually not even minding the Fall - it's nice to get cozied up sometimes! Though I will say, it's generally nicer to be cozied up at home ;)

What I'm not looking forward to, is slippery roads. That's just no fun at all...
But it's coming people! It'll be here before we know it. D;

What do you think of the Fall?

Love you too.

xo T