Clearing out the Cache Part 1 [CoA 32-41]

So, we’re all well aware of my dramatic pause in keeping up with the Cache. Note to self: next time you decide to embark upon a year-long writing project, maybe have a contingency plan in case your primary means of executing said writing project winds up failing you a little better than half-way through.

I hope your year has been filled with splendid! And that I don’t utterly overwhelm you with this two-part mad dash to the finish. 🙂

Weeks 32 – 41

32. I have since had the length removed to make this possible, but the moment I could get my hair into a messy side bun, I was so very excited. It was so wee that I decided to call it a cream puff, instead of a bun. (the only evidence is a crummy cell phone snap)

33. Urban Decay always has a "sale" section on their website, but this particular week (August 14-20), I had been compelled to go there by Kandee Johnson on her Facebook fan page. They had *a lot* of stuff on there for AWESOME prices. I came away with 12 items for $26. And I’ve since learned it’s a good idea to check in on that section occasionally. There are some sweet deals, y’all!

34. I’d recently made banana bread and haven’t really been in a smootie mood in awhile, so I needed something else to do with overripe bananas. Some Googling and I finally found myself with a recipe for banana cookies. They’re more cakey than your standard cookie texture, but tasty nonetheless. And something else (that’s also easy) to do with your overripe bananas.

35. You guys, this summer was stupid hot for nearly the entire time. With fall approaching and it having been too hot to do much sunbathing, I wasn’t very excited about the possibility of becoming super pale before I ordinarily would in the fall/winter season. Thankfully it cooled down enough to get out in the sunshine for a spell towards the end of August. YAY! (I have a thing for sunshine and vitamin D production.)

36. So, of course, the week after, I finally break out my fall nail polish colors. I really like them. They’re so rich and saturated. Fall fashion and beauty publications and advertising had been going all "WOO! FALL IS COMING!" for long enough that it was getting difficult to resist, even if the temperatures weren’t reflective of this impending change. So I caved. And they’re mostly the shades I’ve been wearing since.

37. The week of September 11-17, I got my hair cut into a short bob again. Oh, how I’d missed it so. It’s different than my Bithia bobs, but still similar. As I’ve taken so long to update the Cache, I’m now nearing the need to head back in to the salon. I think I’m going to have it cut as short again, and then think about letting it grow out some (or not – I’m still back and forth on this and my appointment is only a week away now). In either case, dear sweet inverted bob, I think you are my favorite haircut!

38. So, yeah, I was one of those people that totally hated Facebook’s redesign they launched concurrent with Google+ going public/coming out of ‘invite only’. But within a day or two of that happening, I was on Facebook at the same time that Dorothy (mom to Awesome Baby [who is now Awesome Kid] and Awesome Baby, the Second) was up for a feeding with Awesome Baby, the Second. So, I got to IM with her and see Awesome Kid’s Halloween costume that he insisted putting on as soon as they got out to the car in the parking lot (he and his mama are so very rad)! I love that woman and her babies! So, despite its shortcomings, Facebook made it possible for me to have a wee hours chat with a beloved friend and that is so totally AWESOME!

39. I know they happen every evening, and they are generally beautiful, no matter where you happen to be. But I’m still fawning over the prairie sunsets.

40. Have you seen this? Even if you have, it is well worth a second viewing. (Thanks to the ever amazing Christopher S. Jennings for sharing this on the Twitter.)

41. My very sweet, very adorable Great Grandma has taken to sending me recipes. It started with a Mother’s Day phone call where she told me she’d run across some cookbooks that she doesn’t use anymore and was wondering if I’d want them. So she sent them. Since I told her in the thank you note for them that I appreciated having new recipes to check out to get ideas for meals, she started sending me just about any recipe she runs across, from just about anywhere she runs across them. It is so very sweet! One week I got a "Record" book from her. It was filled with pasted in recipes. While most of them are things I probably wouldn’t make, I love that it is so very much something my Grandma made. Also, I found it a brilliant idea for collecting and keeping track of recipes that come from miscellaneous sources and don’t otherwise lend themselves to an easy method of collection and sorting.

(outside):

(inside):
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