• I had today off! and slept in until 10, stayed in bed until 10:45 reading (New book: The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance) and got up to blogs and coffee with a new favorite creamer: Chocolate Mint Truffle (I looked for Peppermint Mocha, Renee, and this was the closest I found. It's good, if anyone was wondering. Have I turned into a creamer girl?)
• I got out of the house on my day off! It was only to the bank for quarters and the grocery store, but I didn't sit inside my pajamas all day.
• Speaking of getting out of the house, I also took in my sewing machine to get oiled and adjusted. It's going to cost me $60 which I think is a bit much, but I really want to start sewing! I keep running across awesome crafters making awesome things and sharing awesome books. And I keep looking at things wishing I could hem them or take them in a bit. Even though I have no idea how to sew, I'm going to start teaching myself as soon as I get the machine back.
• I got an email telling me about a French meetup at my favorite little shop: Toots and Magoo. I was nervous and went back and forth all day whether I wanted to go or not, but I went and it was great! I got to meet some new people and speak French. It's nice to know the language isn't completely gone from my head.
• It's not today, but I realized that I'll be able to meet up with the Stitch N Bitch knitting group in the area this Thursday. Again, I'm nervous, but I'm going to go! It will be my first knitting group and I'm excited.
• I found a pretty cool job at a library that I feel I'm pretty qualified for and I'm going to apply for it after tweaking my resume a bit to reflect...
• A promotion at B&N! I've just started training for Head Cashier which is super exciting - more money + more responsibility. I really like working there and the people are awesome. Wish me luck with learning all this new stuff.
• And after a kind of flop recipe earlier today, I made these pumpkin muffins to use up the rest of my pumpkin puree after my pumpkin pie I made for Halloween. I've only had a nibble on the side, but they are awesome! The only cupcake pan I had was an extra big one, which is kind of cool, because now I have 6 huge pumpkin muffins to eat for breakfast in the coming days. Yum! (Side note on how I made mine: I used white flour, left out the raisins and walnuts and used a cinnamon, ginger, allspice combination instead of the pumpkin spice.)
  

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3 comments

1. Kim on November 11, 2009 10:47 AM

   Congrats on the promotion!!!!
   
   I'm glad you're blogging more regularly now. We missed you out here.

    
2. Becky on November 11, 2009 8:46 PM

   Steph I'm reading the same book right now!! Haha, we may not be in the Bend together anymore but we are apparently still doing the same things. Congrats on the promotion! I walked into a glass door at the library yesterday and fell into a hole today so that's how Pittsburgh's going :) Glad NC is sounding more fun and not all work!

    
3. Belle Renee on November 12, 2009 5:52 PM

   My mom LOVES the chocolate mint truffle creamer, so it can't be too bad. I haven't tried it yet. Congrats on being awesome!