Friday Favorites: The Sweet Life

It is some times hard to sift through all the blogs on the internet to find one that is worthy of your very precious time.  But I absolutely adore Jessica over at How Sweet It Is because of her blog.  In life I appreciate sarcasm, wit, beautiful pictures and a good drink. Plus I always appreciate Pittsburghers over all others.  Jessica is all of those things.

I've been following her blog for awhile now (after going back and looking at her archives even) and I must say it is one of the blogs I have followed the longest.  Not many people could incorporate cute babies (both human and furry) and adorable heels into a food blog, but Jessica sure does.

I think what draws me back is while some food bloggers seem pretentious like they never have a recipe attempt go bad or their kitchen is always immaculate Jessica is down to Earth.

I promise you will not be disappointed.  If you need a happy hour drink or a football  watching recipe pop on over to her blog today and you will be set for a happy weekend.  

I know my weekend will be happy - Shopping trip to Grove City (well happy until I take a look at my bank account Monday).

Enjoy :)  & If you have any great blogs I should check out feel free to email them over to me.

Friday Favorites

I know, I know.  There was such an uproar about Netflix that I almost don't want to mention that I still use their services for fear of being tarred and feathered by those who vehemently despised the increase of prices, but my $$ my choice right? Right.  Well todays Friday Favorite is Law and Order: SVU. This past weekend I finished watching all 12 seasons that Netflix has on instant stream.  Trust me this wasn't an easy task.  First of all it is time consuming to say the least, but it is even more so time consuming when you have to take in account you can only watch so many of those episodes at once because they can be rather depressing, morbid, etc.  

While there are cheesy one-liners and a lack of a plot that carries through this is a show that along with the original Law and Order is such a part of our pop culture.

It is even more important because as my sister and I were just talking about part of our memory of our childhood visit to my grandmother's consisted of hearing the credits of Law and Order.  even to this day when I visit I can be certain Law and Order will be on.  So I kinda feel like watching all of these episodes is a homage to my grandmother and those childhood memories.  

Is there a show that you have seen every episode of?

It looks like this weekend will be a great weekend to stay bundled up inside.

Happy Friday!

Friday Favorites

I had an event tonight and baked these to take:

with some self-dyed orange icing a la Halloween

While listening to some

Happy Friday.

Friday Favorites of the Week

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Bath & Body Works

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Starbucks.com

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iHeart

We all know I love my iPhone.  I am also quite enamored with my Mac. I think the fact that so many all over the globe showed love for Steve Jobs after his passing yesterday is the testament to his greatness.  

Everyone has always used the word VISIONARY to describe him and he truly is.  However, so many people can imagine what the future may hold, yet Jobs reached out and created it.  I'm telling you some day we will all use Jetpacks to get from one place to another, but as someone who probably should have failed physics ( and nearly geometry) I would never go out and create this.  Jobs did.  He took his visions and created amazing products that many of us couldn't have even dreamed about.  More importantly his influence and strides that he took with these products will just continue to spur other advances.

One thing I do wish is that medical advances were on par with technological advances.  The two are closely tied together.  So many people mentioned yesterday that they wanted to go out and get the new iPhone to support Jobs.  Imagine how much it would help if everyone chipped in that money to research Pancreatic cancer (or another cause close to their heart).

Steve Jobs is one of those people who honestly made the world a brighter place than it was before him.  Hopefully his family can find peace in knowing how beloved he was.

Friday Favorite

There is a little website, Pinterest.  Seems simple enough, innocent enough, but that is misleading.  Pinterest  is addictive. On this piece of internet fun you can "pin" all of your favorite things.  You can also "repin" other people's favorite things.  Life is good on Pinterest, well until you realize time has slipped by.  It is a good time killer though.  You can pin things like:

How glorious.  Do you pin?  -if so-  What do you pin?  If you don't pin already you can request an invite from them or email me and Ill send you one.  

Pin away.

Happy Friday

Friday Favorites: Happy First Day of Fall

Growing up if you would have asked me my favorite season without hesitation I would have said SUMMER. But as we grow up there are less summer days spent basking in the sun or spending the whole ENTIRE day in the pool.  While  Spring brings renewal and flowers I am not a fan of the rain.  Maybe if I lived elsewhere I would love winter, but minus a few days out of the year the snow and ice cause more headaches than a winterwonderland fairytale.  I still love getting swept up in the excitement of the first snow and the holiday seasons, but I think fall has moved into first place.  Fall to me is also about new beginnings and anticipation.  Until I get my Ph. D I am going to have many more first day of classes.  And with every leaf that falls you know the holidays are that much closer.

So since the first day of Fall fell on a Friday it was apropos that I tell you my Favorite Things About Fall.  This is not an all inclusive list so feel free to post or email me some of your favorites.

Drinks to warm you up: Coffee, Pumpkin Coffee, Apple Cider, Hot Chocolate (Even better spiking any of those drinks)

Colorful Leaves especially on tree lined roads

Football

Hoodies and leggings while lounging at home

Scarves for fashion not necessity

Little kids on Halloween

The comfort in the fact ABC Family will play the same exact movies as they have the past decade

Leaves crunching

Cuddling under furry, soft blankets

Pumpkin Patches

Homecomings

Haunted Houses

Cute boot

Happy Fall.  Enjoy some of your favorite things today!