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Alternate Title: I'm So Vain, You Probably Think This Post Is About Me

We went to the D.C. temple last night for the first time.  It is gorgeous.  It feels like you have to drive through the woods to get there, so that was fun, too.  There were so many tulips and the temple seriously looked like it was glowing.  I couldn't stop smiling.

If you come at the temple from the freeway (a different way than we came) you go around a bend and all of a sudden out of nowhere this is what you see:

(photo from here)

I'm sure it has caused a few accidents.  As I recall, as you go around a freeway bend in San Diego, the temple suddenly pops into view as well.  Both temples are both show stoppers.  Anyway, we were glad we went, it was good for us.


I have had my nails painted bright red (well, red orange-ish) for the last two weeks.  I love them this color.  Every time I look down, they are just so much fun!

The nail polish color perfectly matches my new H&M dress that I bought in NYC.   Oh, what?  You didn't know I went to NYC recently?  Well, I did.  I'll blog about it soon.  I think. 

You can't tell where my nails end and the dress starts.  Oh, and I love these shoes.  You might remember them from their unique Christmas wrapping.  They are so fierce and surprisingly comfortable.  Also, my toes are not the same shade as my nails... Is that a faux pas?  I don't know.  Please discuss amongst yourselves.


Every week I make some kind of desert.  The last four have all been disasters.

1. First was maple spice bars that I imagined would taste like spice cake.  But they SO did not.  We each ate one then threw the rest away, they were so bad.  
2. Second was lemon graham bars.  I thought these would taste like lemon bars but with a graham cracker crust.  Not even close, though the crust part was good - it's hard to ruin a graham cracker crust.   
3. Next was chocolate chip cookies.  I used a new recipe.  T liked them, but I only ate two.  They were so not winners.  They were very flat and very bland.
4. This week was mini chocolate bundt cakes.  The cake part was fine.  But the mini bundt part wasn't.  I greased three of the molds by hand and did the rest with PAM since it was faster.  Only the three that I greased by hand came out of the mold.  The rest tasted fine, but literally had no shape.  Oh, I also ruined the frosting.  I can only make frosting if I follow my mom's instructions exactly and this time I tried to wing it.  Did I mention that I don't really like chocolate?  Disastrous (for me at least - T liked them just fine, even though it was essentially a bunch of big crumbs with drippy frosting on top).

You might ask why I keep making things that I don't know if we'll like.  The reason is I have 62 dessert recipes and 18 pie recipes bookmarked online and countless recipes marked in cookbooks to try.  I've got to start making a dent in that list.  Here's hoping that next week I can break my yucky streak.


We dyed raw Easter eggs tonight.  We dyed them raw because neither of us likes boiled eggs or egg sandwiches.  And since there are no little people about we don't have to worry about cracking the raw eggs.

You better believe that I'm going to make T hide them for me to find tomorrow.  Egg hunts are the best.  So is T for doing this for me.  We did this last year, too.  What?  It's not just for little kids.  Though, I am kind of bummed that I'm missing the big dying and hunt party with all the grandbabies in my family.


Last Saturday T and I went to the National Museum of American History on the National Mall.  That will get a separate blog post next week. 

And now you're all caught up on our ever so exciting lives.