Stormy Monday

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We woke up this morning to thunder and it's been raining since then.  There is a ton of lightning, and it was very beautiful to watch as I drove in to work.

So what's going on this Monday?  We had our first fall-like days this weekend.  They were absolutely wonderful!  

Questions:

What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition?

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert?

Boots or booties or flats?

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer?

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include?  I already have an idea of what I want to do, but I'd love to hear your recommendations!

ETA:  I just want y'all to know that I am super excited that this is not a duplicate post... @Swazzle, you are SLACKING!!  

lavenderfields13

It's beautiful here today but it was raining all day yesterday. Saturday was pretty nice though. I thought it was supposed to be 70's this week but after today it's going to be low 80's. I kind of want to start wearing boots and sweaters.

Questions:

What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition? I don't have any traditions

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert? introvert

Boots or booties or flats? depends on how cold it is - if it's really cold i'm wearing boots

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer? i don't drink coffee

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include?  I already have an idea of what I want to do, but I'd love to hear your recommendations! hmm..cupcakes?

Swazzle

I was just about to post a Monday thread! I got sidetracked with planning my meals and exercise schedule for the week. You beat me, @CocoBellaF!

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On Friday, I got home from work and went straight to the gym where I did about 35 minutes on the elliptical. H and I had crockpot salsa verde chicken tacos and it was SO GOOD. Seriously one of my favorite dinners and it's so easy. The rest of the night was just relaxing on the couch. 

Saturday, I got up and cleaned the house, picked up my BFF from the train station and we met her mom for dinner at an adorable and delicious French restaurant. We went to the movies to see The Gift (which was really good!) and then back to my house where we drank all. the. wine and just spent the rest of the night chatting. 

Yesterday,  we went to breakfast then I dropped her off at her mom's, ran a mile, ate lunch, and went to the gym for Zumba. I liked it a LOT! I will definitely go back and do it again. I did my food shopping for the week then went home and cooked all of my lunches, showered, had dinner, and relaxed. H was at the Dolphins/Redskins game in DC and got home around 9:30 and I was already in bed. I watched Fear the Walking Dead and was out like a light. 

It's my early week so I'm going to try a new class at the gym (Total Tone) at 5 and H has hockey so I'm on my own for dinner. I'm thinking I'll stop at Panera and try to make healthy choices! Then I have to shower as quickly as possible because MY EAGLES FINALLY PLAY TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so freaking excited, it was torture yesterday! 

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What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition?

I don't really have any traditions. I was just excited that it was chilly enough for a jacket this morning!  

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert? 

I'm going to go with ambivert.

Boots or booties or flats?

I love all of them but I'm most excited about my booties.

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer?

Milk and a little sugar

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include? 

Ummmmmm something appley or pumpkiny!

lavenderfields13

Nice job with the workouts this weekend @swazzle! I didn't do anything Friday or Saturday. Yesterday I went for a walk and today I'm going to try to do a workout when I get home. 

I made sauce and meatballs yesterday and ate too much pasta for dinner and my stomach feels enormous!

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@Swazzle:  This is how I feel about beating you at the morning thread.

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What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition?

H calls me Leslie Knope because I make traditions for everything.  Our end-of-summer/start-of-fall traditions are:  

First Boot Weather Day - haven't had it yet, normally way too hot until October

Buying Fall Flowers Day - did that this weekend!

Buying Pumpkins Day - not yet

First Fall Coffee Drink Day - this weekend!

Pups Wear Fall Scarves Day - not yet, I have to buy some fabric and make them

Good-Bye Sandals Day - this will officially happen soon.  I've quit wearing sandals and switched to flats, but I haven't packed up my sandals quite yet.

Hello Sweaters Day - not yet

First Football Game Day - oh yeah!

First Chili Day - next week!

First Wear a Scarf Day - soooon!

It is really this bad: 

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert? 

Introvert

Boots or booties or flats?

ALL OF THEM.  I'm excited to wear my booties this year, though.

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer?

Black or with a little bit of full cream

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include? 

Right now I'm planning on: Pumpkin bread with a crumbly topping, snickerdoodles, choc chip cookies, homemade 1-hour roll recipe.  Now that someone said something apple-y, I'm thinking about also doing my favorite Apple Bundt Cake to show how to grease and do a bundt cake recipe with floating pieces of fruit in it.  YUM!!

Swazzle

CocoBellaF said:

@Swazzle:  This is how I feel about beating you at the morning thread.

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Swazzle said:

CocoBellaF said:

@Swazzle:  This is how I feel about beating you at the morning thread.

What's wrong?

untouchablets

What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition?
Celebrating my anniversary this year was a little weird because we celebrated the actual day early and we are doing our trip (which is our gift to each other) next month, but usually we kick off fall with our anniversary and enjoy the nostalgia that comes after!

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert?
Ambivert, but I lean more towards introversion.

Boots or booties or flats?
Booties! They look good with any outfit!

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer?
Black, no sugar. Drinking some right now!

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include?
I know nothing about baking, so I can't offer any suggestions because they are all boring lol

Omg... this weekend was awful.

I'm exhausted, stressed, and annoyed with how it went. Basically I underestimated how much time I would have to devote to my school work this week, and did stuff here and there at the beginning of the week but then I realized I had to do this two page financial report thing that I didn't account for and I wasn't even close to finishing my other stuff. I spent all of Thursday cleaning and decluttering and didn't touch my homework so Friday was when I figured out I was screwed and so I spent Friday, Saturday, and yesterday glued to my laptop. I left work two hours early on Saturday and one hour early yesterday because I NEEDED the extra time and I know my coworkers are gonna have a field day with that but what could I do?? I literally finished just before midnight last night, which was when everything was due, so if I didn't take those extra three hours I wouldn't have finished. And I'm afraid of my grades too. I am NOT doing well. /vent.

LizzyTish88

I am super cranky this morning!!!! I woke up with AF so I am no a happy camper today. 

This weekend was pretty good. Friday night we went out with BF's Mom and Uncle for his Uncle's birthday. Saturday BF had to work so I hung out and did stuff around the house. Saturday night we cooked food on the grill and watched Straight Outta Compton. It was pretty good.

Yesterday we had a game and it was cold and raining. Some drama came up, with two separate parents non the less, so I have to deal with that today and I am so not in the mood for it.

I apologize for being a grouch but I don't even want to answer the questions today.

speakeasy14

Morning everyone!!  

This weekend was great! I decided to chop off my hair.  I feel like I lost 10lbs.  I got a long angled bob, so the shortest part starts at my shoulders.

My mom's wedding was great.  I'm so glad she is with someone who makes her happy and who has become part of the family.  The ceremony was really sentimental because their rings were given by my new step-dad's parents (who are 90 years old and have been married for 70+ years).  I ended up making them a photo box with the Princess Bride quote. Some pictures from the weekend (the last is my favorite, we didn't know what to do with our hands):

What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition? Boycotting fall and wearing flip flops as long as I can stand.  Then once I accept the change, I love watching the leaves change.

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert? ambivert; I lean more towards the extrovert side though. 

Boots or booties or flats? Flats or heels for work; boots when casual

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer? Little bit of coffee with my cream and sugar

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include? Depends on the level of students... if its a beginner class I would stick with some sort of cookie... more advanced class I would do a cake/cupcake and focus on decorating.

beachyone15

What a busy weekend. I am hosting a girl's night at my house on Thursday so H and I spent the entire weekend cleaning. We STILL have a few projects to finish up. He was such a huge help and didn't complain at all. The poor guy even unclogged my shower. I won't go into details about that! I'm trying to think of a good way to say "thank you". I just want him to know how much I appreciate him, even though I've told him at least 10 times over the weekend! Any ideas?

Other than cleaning, we did have some fun. Saturday my parents came over and we tried out our new bbq grill. It was awesome! I really loved seeing my parents. I don't get to see them too often. On Sunday we went over to a friend's house to watch the Packers/Bears game. GO PACK GO! We had jambalaya and fried fish with brownies for dessert. And of course, lots of drinks. Then H and I went to go look at trees. We are thinking of planting one in our backyard to signify our first year married and first year in our new home. It will be fun to watch it grow!

Questions:

What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition? Pumpkin-everything and comfy clothes!

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert? Introvert

Boots or booties or flats? Booties. I have a black pair that are so comfy I wear the heck out of them every fall/winter.

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer? Flavored coffee. If I have to have regular coffee, I'll add in milk or cream AND sugar.

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include?  That sounds fun! I'm planning on making a sopapilla cheesecake this week, but it's such an easy recipe that it may not work for your class.

@CocoBellaF - We have had cooler weather here too the past week - I love it!
@lavenderfields13 - I'm ready for boots too!
@swazzle - so glad you liked Zumba!
@untouchablets - I'm sorry, I hope things get better for you!
@caseface5 - Sounds like chocolate is in your future today!
@speakeasy14 - LOVE your hair!

speakeasy14

@untouchablets oh no! Hopefully even though you scrambled all weekend, you did well and it will bring up your grades.

speakeasy14

I'm so excited I just figured this out! I guess when you upload photos to google photos it will automatically make gifs of sequential pictures.  So it made a few from the pictures from my mom's wedding and this was the first one I noticed ! 

labro

@CocoBellaF I'm giggling over all your fall traditions. It reminds me of my mom....she makes a super huge deal over her "firsts" for fall too.

@beachyone15 Funnily enough, my H ALSO cleaned out the shower drains AND the sink drains in our bathroom this weekend. Talk about nastiness! I just thanked him lol, I wasn't planning on doing anything extra. He did that while I cleaned the rest of the house so I guess I'm considering us even.

@speakeasy14 I'm so happy for your  mom! It sounds wonderful!

@Swazzle I'm so glad you had fun at Zumba! And kept up with all the workouts!!! You are doing amazing!

I feel really good after this weekend. On Friday H and I pickled all of our jalapenos. We picked with them carrot slices and cauliflower bits. I ate some yesterday and it was sooo spicy, but so so good. I also got in a run that morning!

Saturday morning I got in a second run with Cinders, another 2 miles! I still have a long ways to go to improve my time and distance but I was pretty proud of myself for getting out and actually doing it. H and I spent the rest of the day cleaning the house.

Sunday morning I woke up super early (for me) at about 7:15 and decided to just stay awake and go for another run. Afterwards, I got ready, curled my hair with my amazing new Beachwave curler (@Swazzle is seriously the best for recommending it to me) and then got my nails done with @southernpeach89, our  mom, and our other younger sister. Then we all went shopping at our favorite antiques store and got lots of cute things. Afterwards I went home and made pot roast for dinner (perfect for our first real feeling fall day!) and had my family over for the roast and peach cobbler!

Today I'm working from home because one of my best friends from college is in town. Her grandfather passed away so she came down for his funeral and stayed a couple extra days to visit ME! She's coming over this afternoon and we're going to hang out and have jalapeno popper chicken from ST for dinner, and then we're going to this Dave & Buster's type of place. I can't wait to spend some time with her!

What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition?

I don't really have any traditions. But I love pulling out my jeans and elbow length sleeve shirts! And getting to wear cute scarves without boiling!

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert? 

Extrovert. I probably make all my introverted friends uncomfortable.

Boots or booties or flats?

Boots and booties! I can't stand wearing flats.

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer?

Black with a little milk.

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include? 

Definitely agree with @Swazzle - make some adorable pumpkin or apple things. Or this!!!

MissKittyDanger

Well ... Friday I have zero memory of what we did. Mustn't have been entertaining hahaha

Saturday I planned on having a bum day {ie; do absolutely fuck all} but ended up being pretty productive. My mum doesn't drive, so we did some groceries with her at the super store. I planned on buying ingredients for a soup but found out we don't have a big enough pot. Since Matt's parents are out west on vaca, we can't ask them to borrow theirs. Ended up cleaning up our spare room. We collect shot glasses, Matt has a bunch of beer mugs/steins plus my funk-o-pops, I decided to use our shelves in the spare room and display them all out. Looks great!

Sunday I had a headache so I was couch bound. Watched netflix and Matt went to a buddy's place for football game.

All weekend was wonderful fall weather and now this week it's freezing in the morning but super warm by afternoon. Bring back my chilly weather!! *snarl*

Also, they released all the new show times and of course majority are on Mondays when I have my course!!! Guhhh. At least we have pvr so I can watch later in the week.

Questions:

What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition?
Usually it's pretty warm through September, but by Thanksgiving in October I'm making fall foods like soups, apple crisp or pumpkin pie. I also swap my drink orders. McD's it's hot chocolate, Starbucks it's Skinny Vanilla Latte with cinnamon and Timmie's it's either tea or french vanilla

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert?
ambivert but more introvert

Boots or booties or flats?
boots with heels or flats

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer?
french vanilla coffeemate

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include?  I already have an idea of what I want to do, but I'd love to hear your recommendations!
Something fall related. Maybe a pumpkin pie or cinnamon rolls or apple crisp!! {and now I want those .... dammit}

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@Labro - What is your pickled jalapenos recipe?  We have a ton too, and H loves pickled jalapenos.  And I LOVE those cookies.

minskat30

Good morning!  I just wanted to drop in and say "hi" but I'll be swamped at work today and can't play.  I have several hundreds of pages of documents to get through....and people wonder why I don't read for pleasure anymore.  I'll post a workout thread though for accountability purposes.

This weekend was busy...I worked out, worked a little (blah), cooked, cleaned and did all of the necessary chores basically.  

What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition?

I don't really have any traditions. I love the leaves falling though!

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert? 

Introvert.

Boots or booties or flats?

Flats....I love flats.

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer?

Black with a little milk.

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include? 

Agree with something fall related.

lavenderfields13

@speakeasy14 That gif thing is crazy! Glad your mom's wedding was great and your hair is cute! I went to get my hair trimmed this weekend and now it's super short and I'm kind of upset. She wasn't even taking that much off- my hair just magically disappears or something when I get a trim. Now I probably won't be cutting it for another year!

@labro I'm an introvert and I LOVE that my close friends are pretty much extroverts - I need them to balance me out lol. And that's really how I make friends- I'm too introverted to usually start talking to people.

eilis1228

@CocoBellaF I am loving this fall weather. I want it to last forever!

@lavenderfields13 I vote that you start wearing sweaters and boots ASAP. They are my favorite!

@untouchablets I'm sorry school is so stressful right now *hugs* What degree are you going for? How much longer do you have left?

@caseface5 I hope your day improves ASAP! Cranky Mondays are the worst!

@speakeasy14 1. I LOVE YOUR HAIR! Super cute! 2. YOU ARE SO PRETTY! 3. Awww your mom's wedding sounds so sweet, personal, and amazing. I'm glad you guys had a great time. Best wishes to your mom! 4. What is this Harry Potter sorcery you speak of?

@beachyone15 LOL true love is unclogging a woman's shower. Seriously. I gag every time I do it myself, so when FI volunteers, I can't stop hugging and kissing him. Very sweet of your H to help with that!

@TwoDimes Pics of fall decor?

@labro Way to go with all the runs! You are kicking ass! 

@minskat30 Good luck with all the reading at work today! I remember from my time at a law firm library how cumbersome legal research can be.  

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Questions:

What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition? Probably all the pumpkin spice stuff. I love diving into my pumpkin chai tea stash. I also usually make a loaf or two of banana bread as soon as fall hits. Can't this year due to the wedding diet, but I'm planning on making it as soon as we're back from the honeymoon.  

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert? ambivert. Right now I'm going through an introverted phase, but I tend to be a bit of both. When I take the Myers-Briggs tests, I'm usually 50/50 introvert or extrovert.

Boots or booties or flats? Boots or flats, though @CocoBellaF has gotten me interested in booties this season. Perhaps I will be converted!

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer? N/A I don't drink coffee. I take my tea "black" though. 

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include?  I already have an idea of what I want to do, but I'd love to hear your recommendations! Icing! Making your own icing is so difficult but really helps turn a homemade cake into something special.

This weekend was a lot of fun! It was also our first weekend in a while that had absolutely nothing wedding related, and we really enjoyed the break. Our Friday plans were cancelled because FI and I worked late (booooo), so we grabbed dinner at Texas Land & Cattle (yum, steak!), and then vegged on the couch all night. On Saturday we slept in, and then I went to the gym, and then we cleaned. We'd planned to make picanha and have some friends over to play the super long and complicated board game Game of Thrones, but everyone ran late, the butcher shop was out of picanha, and two of our friends wanted to leave early to watch the Texas A&M football game. We decided to scrap the cooking ideas and board gaming and just hang out at our friends' house while they watched the game. We grabbed take out from one of our favorite Asian restaurants and literally laid on the couch all night. It was glorious.

On Sunday I woke up with just enough time to get to my nail appointment, and then that appointment finished with just enough time for me to get home, grab FI, and for us to drive the hour and a half to his grandparents' house for his grandfather's birthday party. We were about an hour late, but luckily a lot of other people were late too. His grandfather has stage 4 melanoma, and no one expected him to see this birthday. A lot of FI's aunts, uncles, and cousins came out to celebrate. It was a lot of fun! The only downside was that he and I hadn't eaten at all that day, and the only food served was dessert (which I can't eat thanks to the wedding diet). We were STARVING by the time we left. We snacked on lunchables on our way into town, and then we stopped and got some BBQ. Om nom nom. We spent the rest of the night chilling on the couch watching Netflix, and then I went to bed early.

Today and tomorrow are super busy/exciting/overwhelming! Today at 12:30pm I go to pick up my wedding dress, and then tonight at 4:30pm I pick up my bouquet. I'll work out tonight, and then my mom will come spend the night with us. She and I will make the lovely and classy sheet diaper I referenced in my Friday post, and we'll go to bed suuuuuuper early. We'll wake up tomorrow at 5am, leave the house at 5:30am, and get to my make up trial at 6am. My hair trial is at 7am, and then we'll sit in rush hour traffic so we can get to the local arboretum at 9am for my bridal portraits! Eek! We'll be there until 11ish, and then we'll probably grab lunch and then go our separate ways. I need to get allergy shots tomorrow, go to the grocery store, work out, and then collapse lol.

Hope you all have a great Monday!

untouchablets

@labro @lavenderfields13 I LOVE extroverted people... in doses. I always need to go home and "recharge" for a day or two. I've always been like that, people always accuse me of not liking them because of it lol. I lived with an extrovert for a while and that wasn't good for me, I wound up spending most of my free time away from people because my job AND my home was always full of people needing to be talked to and it was so draining.

untouchablets

@eilis1228 I'm getting my degree in business administration with a concentration in entrepreneurship and I'm also minoring in management. I'm technically a junior but my classes are accelerated so I'm doing two weeks of work in one week's time so I don't actually know how long I have, it's easy to lose track lol.

lavenderfields13

untouchablets said: @labro @lavenderfields13 I LOVE extroverted people... in doses. I always need to go home and "recharge" for a day or two. I've always been like that, people always accuse me of not liking them because of it lol. I lived with an extrovert for a while and that wasn't good for me, I wound up spending most of my free time away from people because my job AND my home was always full of people needing to be talked to and it was so draining.
This is a good point- I also can only deal with "doses" too. I spend most of my time at home because I prefer being alone a lot. And I like my specific friends that are extroverted. When people try to talk to me at work I get so annoyed - like the people that need to make it a point say "Good morning" to me every day- please go away. 

labro

@CocoBellaF H actually combined a couple recipes. It was his project so I let him run the show lol! I know it involved a lot of vinegar and kosher salt and we tossed in some turmeric (for color) and some other seasonings.

@eilis1228 Good luck with everything tomorrow! I hope you get your proofs back quickly so you can AW!

@lavenderfields13 Good to know. There was an introverted girl when we were camping the other weekend with H's family and it felt SO uncomfortable to me. I just wanted to be friendly to her and she was super awkward about everything so then I felt like a horrible person. She's good friends with the family but obviously doesn't know me well...but ugh...I feel like if you're stuck together for dinner you might as well try to make conversation right?

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@Swazzle - So glad you liked Zumba!!  It's crazy fun, isn't it?  What was your favorite part?

@CocoBellaF - I am super impressed with your traditions, especially the one where you put fall scarves on the dogs.  I should try something like that with Smudge!

@untouchablets - Hang in there...you can do it!  I remember trying to work full time and go to school--it remains, to this day, one of the hardest things I've ever done.  It's something I really admire in my students now.  Keep your chin up and keep working hard and it will get better!

@beachyone15 - When I want to show BF how much I appreciate him, I usually bake him something or make a nice dinner.  Or buy a REALLY nice bottle of Scotch.  (Of course, since we're long distance, I usually do all those things in preparation for his visits anyway...but for the brief period of time at the beginning of our relationship that we weren't long distance, that's what I did.)

Morning everybody!  I had a fairly low-key weekend.  Saturday I slept in and then went to yoga, then did some work (reading, grading) at home for most of the afternoon.  Sunday morning was Mass, and I stopped at a cafe on my walk home and grabbed brunch to take back to my house.  More work and a nap, then yoga, then laundry.  Pretty boring.  I still don't know people socially here yet, plus money's been tight this month, so I haven't been doing much of anything.  I did enjoy a quiet run on Saturday night down to my favorite park and back.  My poor dog ate something that disagreed with her this weekend, so I spent a lot of yesterday cleaning up dog puke.  :-(

Something funny did happen though:  When BF was here last time, he not-so-subtly asked for my ring size ("Wow, you have such small hands.  What size ring do you wear?).  So, of course, I got a little excited (although I did NOT go into full-scale Historian BSC mode, which is something of which to be proud!).  Then, this weekend, I get an iMessage: "Didn't you say your ring size was 5 or 6?  I can't remember."  At this point, I was starting to get really curious, so I asked him why he needed it.  Well...he's buying me a rosary ring.  It's very sweet, because I do really want one, but I just thought the whole situation was funny.  I texted my BFF about it using the hashtag #catholicproblems.  Lurkers, take note: BSC is not justified just because he asks for your ring size!

What is your favorite end-of-summer/start-of-fall tradition?

Fall = birthday season in my world.  We kick it off with my nephew (9/27), then me (10/18), my dog (10/23), my youngest sister (10/28), my mom (11/6), my eldest sister (11/7), and my dad (11/18).  When I was living close to home it involved a LOT of my mother's special cold cheesecake recipe; this year I'm guessing it will involve a lot of Skyping.

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert? 

Extrovert, most of the time, although I'm a bit more of an introvert in professional settings.

Boots or booties or flats?

I love them all, but I'm going to try to figure out booties this year.  I love the look of them but haven't worn them a lot.

Coffee: black, milk, sugar, cream, creamer?

Usually just black, and the stronger the better.  Although one of my students brought me coffee from Dunkin Donuts with sugar and french vanilla creamer the other day and it was delicious.

I'm teaching a baking class this weekend... what do you recommend I include? 

That apple bundt cake.  My mouth watered just thinking about it!

untouchablets

@futuremrshistorian Thank you! I think I have too much on my plate but I like everything that I'm doing so I don't want to give any of it up! I am trying to take less hours at work because my side jobs are bringing in enough to stay afloat while I figure things out but we are short staffed so until my boss hires more people I'm stuck with my full time schedule. P.S. if my BF asked for my ring size my head might explode! Good for you for keeping the BSC at bay

lavenderfields13

labro said:

@CocoBellaF H actually combined a couple recipes. It was his project so I let him run the show lol! I know it involved a lot of vinegar and kosher salt and we tossed in some turmeric (for color) and some other seasonings.

@eilis1228 Good luck with everything tomorrow! I hope you get your proofs back quickly so you can AW!

@lavenderfields13 Good to know. There was an introverted girl when we were camping the other weekend with H's family and it felt SO uncomfortable to me. I just wanted to be friendly to her and she was super awkward about everything so then I felt like a horrible person. She's good friends with the family but obviously doesn't know me well...but ugh...I feel like if you're stuck together for dinner you might as well try to make conversation right?

I feel like people usually think this about me. Honestly, if I was that girl in this situation and I didn't feel some sort of connection with you I'd probably come off the same way. If I click with someone then it's different but if I don't then it's just painful for me to do the small talk thing.

eta: Now I feel like a horrible person lol. Although I don't know the extent of this girl's awkardness.

beachyone15

I totally understand that it can be hard to talk to an introvert, ESPECIALLY when you first meet. My BFF told me that when we met, she wasn't sure if I even liked her. So she decided to sit next to me in class everyday and MAKE me her friend! True story, but it worked. I need people like her in my life!

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@beachyone15- When I met my BFF, she thought I was a huge bitch and incredibly irritating.  (I'm an extrovert, she's an introvert.)  Then one day I came to class with a hickey on my neck and she decided we would be friends, and we've been inseparable ever since.

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Sometimes super-extroverted people come across as aggressive and I get intimidated.  H is an ambivert, but leans toward extroversion.  I am an introvert than can handle extroverts in doses.  I just got a book called The Genius of Opposites.  It talks about how introverts and extroverts can work together and famous introvert/extrovert couples and teams.  It's really good so far!

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CocoBellaF said:

Sometimes super-extroverted people come across as aggressive and I get intimidated.  H is an ambivert, but leans toward extroversion.  I am an introvert than can handle extroverts in doses.  I just got a book called The Genius of Opposites.  It talks about how introverts and extroverts can work together and famous introvert/extrovert couples and teams.  It's really good so far!

I'll have to check that book out! I believe FI and I are both ambiverts, but he leans more towards introversion and I lean more towards extroversion. I've worked in sales my whole life, so as I've gotten older, I've gotten more extroverted. Whereas he's an engineer, so he doesn't have to work with people much, so he's been able to stay an introvert.