Missing You

Hi my few dedicated-but-becoming-less-dedicated-as-I-never-post-anything blog readers. I miss you. And I miss blogging. I finally had time to sit down and look at my google reader feed and found that I had up to 800 posts that are begging to be read. As I'm slowly reading through my feed I'm once again amazed by the inspiration, vision, class, and creativity that exists in the blog world. My eyes are constantly being opened to new ways to cook, eat, think about food, decorate, make a home, and many other things. I love feeling inspired when I read others blogs and hope to some day inspire people with my blog. The first step to accomplishing that goal is to probably actually blog, and then blog consistently. Keeping up with my posts has always been my biggest problem and when I finally do launch my recipe / food site I promise the blogs will come on a regular basis. For now, all I can offer is a reasonable explanation to my lack of blogging and some iphone picks. Enjoy.

Reasons why I have been a horrible blogger lately:

1. I dropped my camera in water and didn't get a new one until last week. (Thanks Adam!)

2. While unemployed throughout all of March and half of April I busied myself doing other very important things... alright, I'll be honest I have no idea what I busied myself doing... but hey, I had no camera an no money to buy one! (This might be my least reasonable of excuses.)

3. The rest of April and half of May brought a 3 state road trip for work which occupied every waking minute of my time. Lucky for me I got to be around food all day and am now spending my days watching footage of said food. Details on this adventure to come later!

4. I've been working on the new site.

So now for the fun part - some iphone pics of my adventures over the last two months!

{David Eyre's Pancake - now a go-to item in my house for breakfast and dessert}

{Rainbow in Hollywood over the Academy Award's Red Carpet}

{Beautiful Oscar arrangement that I brought home}

{Working with Tabatha Coffey and Maria Sansone}

{Homemade cream cheese stuffed bacon hugged shrimpies}

{Delicious Dinner Party with Sabrina - Tri-Tip with my famous cream and ale mushrooms, kale chips, and mashed sweet potatoes}

{My Amazing New Bike}

{Long Beach beach evenings}

{Long Beach Grand Prix}

{Hiking with Mom in Havasu}

{Sharing Ice Cream filled Cupcakes with Crystal}

{Cuban Anniversary Dinner}

Thanks to everyone still reading! It has been a fun and challenging past few months, but I promise to share more about my adventures.

Check out the beginning of my new blog! Right now I have some of my favorite recipes up from "A Day to Play" - I'm not anticipating that it will be fully ready to go and have posts up everyday until the end of the summer. But I would love any feedback on what is up there now so I can start making tweaks before the "official launch". 

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peace, love, and blogging is happiness.