52 Cupcakes: Dark Dark Chocolate Holiday Mini-Cupcakes with Peppermint Bark Frosting...Yummie!

my friend c sent this to me today... doesn't it sound like a great way to spend a saturday morning?

52 Cupcakes: Dark Dark Chocolate Holiday Mini-Cupcakes with Peppermint Bark Frosting...Yummie!

wonder if i can coat my chocolate kelvin in pepermint bark frosting... i'll not blog about that though.

first flurries

as i was walking back to the library a few minutes ago classes were changing and flurries were scattering all over the quad. it reminded me that i forgot to mention that we got our first flurries yesterday morning. they were big flakes but of course they didn't do anything buy flutter around before melting a foot or so above the ground. it was nice to see real signs of winter though; i thought it would never get cold.

i've come to realize that dealing with the cold is all about the scarf. all those years living in the south we always used scarfs as added color to drape under the collar of a coat, and i didn't fully come to appreciate scarfs until i cut my hair off-- when you're necks cold there is no warming up.

december already?

weeks keep passing me by, and i haven't kept up as i would like. i did get the tree up last weekend after our quick thanksgiving trip to detroit. this weekend i finally made it to the moravian bookshop and bought what i would consider my first official christmas present of the season. we'll be spending the holiday here with the fury kids, and i seem to have a hard time buying presents when i won't actually see the rest of the family on christmas. of course, this year, we'll see my family soon after for c's big day.