Foods I’m Consuming a Lot Of Lately 1. Rice cakes with peanut butter and shredded coconut 2. SoHo tea from Harney and Sons Things I Intended to Do in Our New Location The Week We Moved In, but Still Haven’t 1. Go for a run 2. Put away the collection of framed photos and decorative [...]

Excellent Things I Cooked In a Muffin Tin This Weekend: 1. Oatmeal Pear Muffins from Little Bitty Bakes 2. Old Bay Corn Muffins from Serious Eats Movies I Saw This Weekend For The First Time, Because Apparently It’s 2005 Around Here 1. Hellboy 2. Constantine Music Festivals I Would Attend if I Had Endless Time [...]
When I chose intentional as my word for 2013, this isn’t what I had pictured. I had imagined a more organized life, with items constantly checked off a to do list and less time just hanging out. But lately that’s not the form my life has taken. I’ve been choosing intentional relaxation and sanity instead. [...]
Attended my first food swap Enjoyed a lovely church service Met Heather and Alicia for amazing brunch in Pittsfield Saw the movie Oz, the Great and Powerful Managed to spend less than $30 on a trip to BJ’s Went to school on a Saturday Experienced the joy of a stuck speedometer Talked to my parents [...]

I had a fabulous conclusion to my winter break. I spent a couple days with my sister (and her new kittens) and then attended the wedding of one of my best friends from college. My sister and I had a great time hanging out in Boston, eating at the Melting Pot, watching movies on Netflix [...]

Last month, Relishments officially turned 4 years old. At the time, I was neck deep in end of semester projects and Christmas preparations, so I decided that waiting until January to celebrate another year of blogging would be more appropriate. headers over the years…Every year when I write my blogoversary post, I talk about how [...]

Television Shows I Used to Love, but Now I’m Ready to See End 1. Fringe (I realize it’s over, but we watch through Hulu and haven’t seen the last 2 episodes yet) 2. Bones Tasks I Accomplished Instead of Posting This Weekend 1. Visiting one of my college roommates, her husband and their 3 beautiful [...]
373 days ago, I began embarking on my goal of completing 101 goals in 1001 days. A year into the process seemed to be as good a time as any to post an update on my progress. Overall, I’m still really happy with my decision to jump on the 101 in 1001 bandwagon. I love [...]

There’s a trend of choosing a word, instead of a goal, as a sort of new years resolution*. Originally I wasn’t planning to do anything, because I have my 101 list going. As I have a tendency to overcommit, it didn’t seem wise to add more goals. But then I kept thinking about it. The [...]

Our belated Christmas celebration in Maine this year was wonderful. There was plenty of snow, we ate a lot of great food, played Quelf for the first (and second) time, checked off another brewery on the Maine Beer Trail, opened gifts and had a really wonderful time enjoying each other’s company. Even though we had [...]
