1. Most of the bookmarks on my work computer are recipes that I found on food blogs. It's not that I sit around and look for food blogs to read, I just stumbled upon them while awaiting a call back. Apparently, this food blog thing is HUGE and I'm kind of glad I don't have one. There are a lot of elements that I think make a great food blog, such as good photography, correct recipes, and a enticing end product. I think posting about my recipe accomplishments via Facebook is good enough. This blog is definitely my favorite, by far. I'm going to make one of her recipes this weekend. What recipe, you ask? Chocolate covered beer marshmallows. (The cake on the food blog in the picture is the recipe for my mom's birthday cake, which will be finished on Sunday.)
2. When driving around the region, I know where a lot of the softball fields are located. Within the past six months, I've been on Interstate 40, Interstate 540, Interstate 30, and everywhere in between. Through all of that traveling, I could recollect playing softball at a number of the small towns along those interstates; and some of them I could tell you the exit. Those fields may not be there anymore, but I do know that some of my favorite memories of growing up have been spent on those fields or around those fields.
3. I think about mass communication a lot. I think about studies that could be done quite often, not that I'm going to do them anytime soon. For example, have you noticed there are more single dads in commercials now? I wonder how that has changed in the last 10 years? And have you ever noticed how many male voices are on the radio? I wonder how much radio time is consumed by male voices. Obsessed a little? Maybe. I blame grad school. I miss being in class this summer. Remind me of that when I blog in the fall about not wanting to be in class.
4. I don't know how to read for fun. In the last 10 years, most of the books I've read have been for school. In the summer, I read books based upon other people's recommendations, or whatever Harry Potter book had just been released. But now, I'm out of school (nearly), J.K. Rowling has stopped producing Harry Potter books, and some of my friends don't have the same reading tastes as I do. I'm a big fan of fictional history. I've been reading the stuff since I was a kid. When most girls were reading The Babysitter's Club, I was reading The American Girl series, which is American history told through the eyes different girls. I always liked reading the back of the book because it included the true facts about the time period of the book. I never read the Judy Blum books or anything along those lines. I read about the Holocaust, the Civil War and the Revolutionary War. These things were real — and they just made more sense. Reading the Harry Potter books was a big stretch for me. So now what should I read? Books I want to get my hands on this summer include; The Help, The autobiography of an execution, and The lost city of Z. So if you have these books from the Central Arkansas Library System, please return them so I can check them out. Thanks.
5. Being a grown up is hard. Do you remember when you thought that being a grown up would be cool? It's not nearly as cool as I thought it would be. Sure, driving your own car is cool; but putting gas in said car is not cool. And getting to come and go as you please to your own place is pretty rad. But paying for that place, and making sure that place has modern amenities takes some money. Luckily, I have a job that can be exciting, especially when you get to stand about 10 feet away from Kaley Cuoco (aka the hot girl on The Big Bang Theory), so paying those bills isn't as soul-straining as it might be for other people. Life would just be a lot more fun if those bills were all paid for and the car never ran out of gas. I want to live in the world. Oh, I know what that place is called — childhood. Damn.
