Mint Chocolate Cookies & Cream Cookies

Well. It is official. I have decided I’m done spending money. I will instead be revolutionizing the world by re-introducing the barter system.

Amazon would like $49.00 for that external hard drive?  How about instead I send them this lovely cake stand I never use?

Caramel Popcorn Cookies

The working title of this post was, “How to have a wonderful birthday when you don’t have time to have a birthday.”

Sometimes your birthday comes around at an inconvenient time.   This probs happens more often than not, seeing as most of us have life generally going on around us.  This year, the big 2-5 was 3 days before our exam over the gastrointestinal system.  So, you know, no big crazy blowout on the sched.  But I had a fabulous day nonetheless, in between all the notes about hepatitis and ulcerative colitis.  Here’s how you do it:

Salted Mudslide Cookies

You guys.

I did it.

I survived my first half marathon!!!

The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap!

Well we are just swapping cookies all the over the place, aren’t we?  We were so excited to be able to participate in the 2nd annual Great Food Blogger Cookies Swap!  There is absolutely nothing better than a surprise package of cookies waiting for you when you get home at the end of the day!

Three Chip Cookies

I just finished watching this week’s Parenthood.

This means that, currently, I’m in a very fragile place emotionally. (I dare you to watch an episode without crying. At least once).

I guess that’s not all that noteworthy. Except… I kind of do this to myself intentionally. Like, it’s not even that I know it will destroy me emotionally. It’s that I want it to completely break me.

Normal people do that, right?

No? Is it just me? Am I the only emotional-masochist out there?

Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Moon Pies

Happy third day of fall! Welcome to my (Kate’s) very favorite season!

You know what’s super unfair about living in Texas, though?

The weather truly doesn’t care what the calendar says. “Oh, you think summer is over in the third week of September?! That’s real cute,” says Texas weather.

S’mores Cookies

Well. I’ve learned a lot of things in med school. But do you want to know the most important, real life useful thing I’ve learned?

It’s not a thing. It’s a skill.

I’ve learned – and I spent a whole year figuring this out – how to create this low-stress environment around me when I need to. This is good stuff people!

It takes a little time, but it’s not hard. You have to look around you and think, “What in this room is making me all fidgety and annoyed and 5-year-old-ish for no apparently reason? Is it that haphazard stack of 3 month old magazines? Is it the fact that I couldn’t find the TV remote right now if there was a gun to my head? Is it that it does not, in fact, smell like fresh peaches in here?”