Green for Go

I know I have been lacking major (here comes the excuse) 

 but

 with classes and studying 

my brain is mush by the end of the day

I haven't seen 6am for this long since I started driving in 

high school, needless to say

coffee = my best friend

I even broke down and got a toaster 

for bagels (whole wheat of course!)

Classes from 8-12 with two ten minute 

breaks, then comes the studying

I am not whining though

b/c

with the job market like it is

I am glad I am actually doing something

productive this summer!!

I still need a job thought...

I am learning alot...

like living in a small town 

is nice but not for me

I need more then a one stop light town 

Homemade Oreo's

Need I say more?! I found the recipe on Stumble-Upon and just had to try it! 

It is a keeper to say the least. I encourage you to try it, although it is time consuming. 

Homemade Oreos

From Smitten Kitchen

Makes 25 to 30 sandwich cookies

For the chocolate wafers:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch process cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) room-temperature, unsalted butter
1 large egg

For the filling:
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) room-temperature, unsalted butter
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1. Set two racks in the middle of the oven. Preheat to 375°F.
2. In a food processor, or bowl of an electric mixer, thoroughly mix the flour, cocoa, baking soda and powder, salt, and sugar. While pulsing, or on low speed, add the butter, and then the egg. Continue processing or mixing until dough comes together in a mass.
3. Take rounded teaspoons of batter and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet approximately two inches apart. With moistened hands, slightly flatten the dough. Bake for 9 minutes, rotating once for even baking. Set baking sheets on a rack to cool.
4. To make the cream, place butter and shortening in a mixing bowl, and at low speed, gradually beat in the sugar and vanilla. Turn the mixer on high and beat for 2 to 3 minutes until filling is light and fluffy.
5. To assemble the cookies, in a pastry bag with a 1/2 inch, round tip, pipe teaspoon-size blobs of cream into the center of one cookie. Place another cookie, equal in size to the first, on top of the cream. Lightly press, to work the filling evenly to the outsides of the cookie. Continue this process until all the cookies have been sandwiched with cream. Dunk generously in milk.

Gone like a Freak Train

    Gone like yesterday! I am off for a summer at Ole Miss! I don't know what is in store, most likely a lot of studying and heat. While away, Matt picked up another puppy from the human society. Her name is Isla (it is Irish) and I cannot wait to meet her, the pictures of her are adorable. 
   Also this summer I am living in my first apartment! I am super excited and am just might get used to the larger closet. I don't know my roommates all the well, one is a sorority sister and the other is a random. Hopefully, it works out. It is going to be so odd being on campus but not living in a dorm or going to the sorority house. Ahhhh I forgot to mention, I have to cook all my meals, so prepare for me to be sharing my new recipes!       
    

So much is changing so fast, it is so crazy! 

I am Sorry!

       Its been forever since I really wrote, and I am forever sorry. Life is pretty crazy while at home. Visiting friends from high school and catching up, it is so awesome to catch up with people again. It is rare that I am home for such a long period of time so I have seem almost everyone. In the middle of my two week summer, the girls (Kelly, Mom & Me) went to the beach house. We worked on the house in the morning, caught some rays during the days & had happy hour on the beach. It was just what the doctor had ordered. Everything is just so much better at the beach! I have three more days until I depart for Oxford  for two months!
    Putt Putt with Derek, my cousins t-ball game with the Leib Five & my Grammy tomorrow, Sleepover with my bestie &  a Nationals Game with the girls+ dad are going to fill my last days at home. It's amazing how time flies when you are having fun! 
    I will return to Oxford with two days to move into my new apartment and get ready for the June semester. It feels like I am moving in fastfoward yet I don't want to stop! 

7.15.11

Eight weeks until it is all over! How crazy is that I basically grew up with him and now its over. Don't know if I should be happy or sad?!?

Finally Home!

      It only took five days, seven states, a graduation and a pit stop in Clemson, but I am finally at home in Northern Virginia. I am only here for the week which is to be filled with appointments, SHOPPING & visiting old friends. It seems like forever since I was laying in my own bed or sitting poolside working on my tan. Oh glorious summer, to bad it is only lasting two weeks (I am spending another at our beach house).