Who's around?

Brie2010

It's been kind of a long, sad two days here and I could use some friends and distraction.  What's everyone up to?

Loopyseven

I am here.  Getting ready to go to bed.  Meeting a friend for a 15 mile walk in the morning. 

jamiefour

Hi Brie...Hope everything is ok. 

Brie2010

Wow, that's long!  Are you training for anything or going anywhere cool? 

september's bride

I'm here...finally taking a break from gutting the kitchen. BLAH! I hate renovations until they're done.

Loopyseven

Training for the Susan G. Komen 3 day for the Cure at the end of July.  

Loopyseven

Sept - It will be SO worth it when it's done.  

Brie2010

Loopy, that's awesome!  My SIL did that last year and she said it was an amazing experience.   We were just talking about it today--she said the worst part was the camping, the walking was easy!

September, I would be annoyed with renovations too.  I don't have the patience for them.

temerityjane

I'm here. I was debating finally starting Couch to 5k, but I made yet another batch of these instead:

http://aiminglow.com/2010/06/cake-mix-cookies/

I've been experimenting with different flavors of cake mix and frosting.

Loopyseven

My friend did it last year and said it was an amazing experience.  The camping part doesn't bother me too much, except that it will probably be HOT.

september's bride

It's already looking a jillion times better than it was, but not having a sink, stove or fridge is making me insane.

Brie2010

TJ, I've seen you tweeting about those and now I want to make some, badly, but I made cookies n' cream cupcakes the other day and we have about a bajillion of those left to eat first.  Not that that's a bad thing.

Loopy, the heat would suck.  Lots of water!

nda_roxybabe

Hello. I hope you're doing alright.

Loopyseven

Our kitchen reno lasted 3 weeks...  We had a spare fridge in the basement and moved the stove around the room depending on what part we were working on so we were semi-functional... we still pretty much ate take-out from every restaurant around, leftovers from said take-out or lunchmeat sandwiches for 3 weeks straight.

Loopyseven

sorry to chat and run, but I'm meeting my friend in 8 hours so I need to go to sleep...

Brie2010

Rest up and have a good walk!

Brie2010

Thanks, roxy.  It's just so, so sad.  It has been really emotional for us, as newlyweds, to see how incredibly attentive and loving DH's uncle has been through this process.

temerityjane

Brie, they are super fast and super easy. And super inexpensive, which is important to us and our grocery budget right now. I think I'm out of touch with grocery prices from shopping on base, though - we went to pick up some cake mix & stuff from a regular grocery store we were passing yesterday and I refused to buy them. Boxes of cake mix are about $.90 on base and frosting is between $1 and $1.50.

So far we've had:

Red velvet, no frosting - my first experience with red velvet cake at all. I don't like it.

German chocolate, pecan coconut frosting - amazing, Buddy's favorite.

White cake, lemon frosting - so so so good, my favorite. They taste like those lemon Girl Scount cookies.

It takes about 5 minutes to mix them, 15 minutes to cook them, and they cool super fast to be frosted. One box makes about 24 cookies, depending on how successful you are with even-sized dough balls.

mwhitson14

I'm here, for about 10 more minutes. I get off soon.

topchef33

I'm watching Season 2 of True Blood. Sadly I have no HBO so I'll have to wait a yr or so to watch season 3.

thesuninherhead

Anyone still around?