current distraction: Smoky running ramped with a pen

So it’s been a while.  I have a valid excuse though and that’s that Comcast is to blame for setting up my wireless incorrectly and therefore I could not connect to the internet.  They fixed it yesterday and apparently all is well.
Anyway, what have I been up to... well, two weekends ago at this point we went hiking in the Smoky Mountains through parts of North Carolina and Tennessee.

It was a fun day, we did a four mile hike and met some llamas at the end.

So those are pictures displaying how beautiful the hike was, how terrifying that little bridge was, how plentiful the rhododendrons are.  Now here are my cool findings:

Cool finding #1: A natural staircase

Cool finding #2: Self Explanatory

Cool finding #3: Mayan God of Death??

Mayan God of Death for comparison

Then we found a llama!

So that was the hike.  Last weekend I went up to Connecticut to escape the South for mental stability purposes.  Aside from weekends Yeva and I have just been cooking deliciousness still.  Homemade mango salsa; couscous with zucchini, garbanzo beans, golden raisins, and pignoli nuts; etc.  I always want to take pictures to put on here but I’m trying to make it not turn into a food blog.  Anyway, I’m frustrated because the spacing and sizing and editing of this post has been a hassle and now I’m tired again.  I want to go out and take pictures today but it keeps on and off thunder storming so ehh not too sure.

current distraction: can’t wait for a week

I’ve been bad about posting, my apologizes. It’s been pretty busy here with all the cooking and baking that Yeva and I do.  She showed me the website tastespotting and it’s all been downhill from there (and now I just killed and productivity you all might have).  Anyway, Sunday we made vegetarian enchiladas again, and monkey bread, and white chocolate chip cranberry oatmeal cookies. Monday we made paella (amazing) and banana bread.  Tuesday was just left overs, much needed. And Wednesday was sweet potato wonton miso soup and scallion pancakes.

You would think we don’t have jobs... but we do.  Pretty much my life has consisted of working like crazy and researching a ton for it, baking and cooking, working out, and playing with Smokery.  This weekend we just shopped a lottt.  We actually went to the mall which was nice and I got amazing new eyeliner.  If anyone is eye liner obsessed and not afraid of liquid eye liner then please buy Kat Von B’s tattoo liner.  You won’t regret it and I want to hear how much you love it, so please tell me.  Anywayy, that happened and we went grocery shopping at about ten different places to try to find the right spices at reasonable prices.  Note to everyone: saffron is damn expensive.  So that’s pretty much it for now.