and give everybody nice sweaters & teach them how to dance

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I’m taking a few days to do a little less of this and a little more creating and relaxing, because it turns out that when you don’t do that for a while, life is less fun.

I bought these on the way home from the grocery store, even though I clearly don’t own any vases. The weather here is gorgeous, and making it feel almost like summer. Even though I appear to have entirely missed daffodil season, which is tragically short (daffodils are amazing, I cannot mention this enough), flowers are important.

Song of the Entry: Ingrid Michaelson – You and I (Listen)

feel it in every cell

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Garlic and mushrooms and fresh thyme, in close-up. This is a progress shot from getting the ingredients together for dinner a few nights ago – chicken and mushrooms and wine, baked in tin foil, from Happy Days With the Naked Chef. This is one of the first cookbooks I own that wasn’t given to me by my mother or her friends (to ensure that I wouldn’t starve when I started living on my own), so it’s kind of a big deal.

Song of the Entry: Ben Lee – So Hungry