thingsorganizedneatly:

editor’s note: Joelson Bugila is blowing my mind right now. —AR

crimesagainsthughsmanatees:

I have new original comics for sale in my store! Free domestic shipping!

(via TheBloggess.com)

Ahhhh…

crimesagainsthughsmanatees:

20 days left on the Crimes Against Hugh’s Manatees Kickstarter campaign! 

this is for kyle.

This is what therapy is all about, Charlie Brown.

OH SWEET CATIE.  WHERE HAS THIS BLOG BEEN ALL MY LIFE?  THANK YOU.

This blog.  I hadn’t checked it for a minute, and now I just want to take the day off to bake stuff.

tobeginwhereiam asked: Do you have a favorite lemon curd recipe? I'm not sure why, but something tells me that you do, and I need to make a pavlova topped with lemon curd and berries or else I'll die.

Business voice: Nigella has one on her blog that a reader submitted.  It’s basically the one I use.

Spitting-milk-out-my-nose-laughing voice: GURL!  We has GOT to have some of the same chromosomes!  Seriously, can I come over?

**edit**

The recipe doesn’t mention it, but garnishing your finished product with lemon zest adds instant fancy points.

thepennilessfoodie:

Today I began using a new camera, a Canon T2i, which I am borrowing from a friend.  I honestly don’t know much about photography other than if you take 100 pictures, you can usually weed them down to one good photo.  At least that’s what I do.

Well I was sitting around trying to figure out what I should make for the inaugural usage of this camera and then it came to me.  Peanut butter cookies… except I wasn’t craving peanut butter.  In fact I almost hate peanut butter.  So what do I do with a craving which heavily relies on an ingredient I personally have disdain for?

Google, “almond butter cookies”.

And up came this NPR article about baking cookies with almond butter.  On top of that the recipe is wheat-free and there isn’t any added fat or butter (if you’re into that kind of thing).  Really its just a few ingredients, almond butter, sugar, egg with a pinch of this and that and some chopped up almonds and chocolate chips.  It couldn’t have been easier.  And, they were really tasty.  So enjoy!

Ingredients:
1 cup almond butter (unsweetened)
1/2 cup light or dark brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
Pinch of salt
1/2 cup slivered almonds
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Beat almond butter with the sugars until combined. Add egg and mix well. Beat in baking soda, maple syrup, vanilla and salt until dough is smooth. Stir in almonds and chocolate chips.

Measure dough into balls about the size of a tablespoon and place evenly spaced (about 2 inches apart) on a cookie sheet. Flatten slighty. Bake for 10-13 minutes, or until cookies are lightly golden brown. Remove from oven and let rest on the pan for 5 minutes, then remove cookies from the pan and allow to cool completely on a cooling rack.

—jk

godthings:

“Our lives are lived in relationship to words, written and spoken, sacred and mundane. They are manna for the journey. As embodied beings we take our whole bodies with us into the act of reading, which, at its best, is spacious, full-bodied, wholehearted, and infused with the breath of life.”

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (via bookofwriting)

Jenny Lawson rocks the free world.