Ahh...ahhh...aaaaaaaacccchhhhoooooo!

Grab your hankies ladies and gents,

Cold season is here.

Yes, I have caught the dreaded plague that has been going around. No matter how much hand sanitizer I manage to use or how many vitamins I take...there is always a bug that manages to dodge right past me and get me horribly ill.

Today was where the evil seed blossomed into something big and terrifying. My head turned fuzzy and dizzy, my stomach was queasy, and my nose became runny. And what did I do? I still went to school.

So put that in your oven and cook it!

Ahem, yes, I am quite proud of myself. I actually contemplated riding the bus back to my apartment several times during the course of this day, but I still managed to suck it up and pull through the entire day without tossing my cookies. I should like to call it a personal victory.

A word to the wise, keep your tissues close, spray everyone you come into contact with Lysol, and drink as much orange juice as possible. Seriously!

Watch out for the plague. Nibble on some pumpkin spice muffins, take many naps, watch chick flicks, and curl up with a good book where the prince and the princess live happily ever after.

(Achoo!)

Love you all, stay healthy!

~Piper

Ahhhhh Cashmere….

It’s that time of year again dear readers,

Where Mother Nature decides that there is no longer any reason for the weather to have a coherent pattern of temperature increases and decreases. It is scattered and all over the place.

So, armed with a vast wardrobe and a thick skin, I ready myself for the days that are above 80 and the days that are below 65. Us college students are a resilient bunch.
Aside from that, I absolutely must tell you about the crazy things that have been going on in my life!

Are you ready for this?

Last night I decided to make fried chicken, but since I was without a fryer, I wanted to improvise....

I looked up recipes for pan fried chicken breasts that had a nice crunchy skin to them. I immediately entered into my own version of “Iron Chef America”/”Chopped” where I only had select ingredients and I had to improvise with what I had. I was missing most of the bizarre spices that were mentioned, so I combined some chili power, paprika, and salt, then I tossed in the flower and bread crumbs as well as garlic salt and pepper. I was golden! I had a basic foundation that I could work off of, the rest was completely of my own invention…ahem…I mean…I totally knew what I was doing. And let me tell you, this fried chicken was FANTASTIC.

So after that strange episode, I also had a bizarre dream last night....

(Keep in mind that this is a dream.)

I had a landscape class in a forlorn building that was incredibly hard to find on campus. So I was a tad late, but the teacher didn’t seem to mind. He was a middle aged fellow with red glasses, a short dark moustache and beard combo, and a sassy attitude! He gave us all a list of places/landscapes to find, assuring us that we had never seen them before. And sure enough, he was right.

They were all drop-dead-gorgeous scenes that looked to have been out of a National Geographic magazine. The catch though, was that each and every one of those places had a difficult task assigned to it. For instance, one place was a steep hill that we had to climb up, but with very thin strings to use as rope. And then another was a long tunnel that flooded with water every five minutes, so you had to sprint. By the end of the list, we all came back exhausted and tired and dirty, and the professor just looks us over and said, “Congratulations, you survived the first day. See you Wednesday for the next list.”

BAH!

Strange dream. Very strange.

I also wanted to inform you that I am super huggable today. I am wearing my cashmere sweater and I swear to God…it is the most glorious material on the planet. Mr. Darcy would totally have attracted Elizabeth Bennet much more quickly if he had been wearing cashmere.

Just saying.

Well, I hope you all are relishing in the fall weather and are readying yourselves for scarves, crunchy autumn leaves, sassy boots, as well as warm snuggles with loved ones.
Much love to you all!

~Piper

"You have bewitched me body and soul...."

Dearest and loveliest readers,

Have you ever had one of those days where you just want to crawl into bed, make a fort out of fluffy pillows, eat an atrocious amount of ice cream and watch Pride and Prejudice over and over again?

No? Really? Weird….

We should really get together sometime and do that because it is quite the experience and is really fun!

It just so happens that I feel exactly like that today and need a movie buddy. Would you be so kind as to join me?

Excellent!

Unfortunately I will not be anywhere near my bedroom until later today, and then I may just grab something delicious to munch on and snuggle with my college-worthy stuffed animals and build a pillow fort. Why? Because I can.

Indubitably.

Yes, I vote yes.

Even Castle votes yes, because he knows when I am right and agrees with me 110 percent. Ask him yourself, granted, all he will do is wiggle and flap his fins really fast (since he is no longer a chubby little fish). That’s his form of saying “YES PLEASE!”

Ugh. I have one more class to go to today and all I want to do is…well…look at the first sentence of this blog entry. I’m sure you can figure it out.

Then it is off to the apartment and getting some homework done as well as looking over my notes for this week. And mayhaps cooking something delicious for dinner, what that might be…who knows?

Maybe something with chicken, I still have a chicken breast in the freezer….

To the internet!

Whilst I skim for some handy recipes for this evening, I bid you all a good day and I hope that you are looking forward to this long weekend just as much as I am! Renaissance Festival here I come!

So, you know what you are doing tonight right? You are coming over to watch Pride & Prejudice with me, as well as several other Jane Austen movies that involve cute and fluffy romances as well as a sophisticated lexicon sported by epic British accents!

You know you want to.

Love you bunches

~Piper