As a huge Sex in the City fan I’ve always wanted to visit NYC. The shots of the city streets leave me in awe each time I turn on the tube. Over 8 million people all crammed into a 305 square mile city is something I can’t fathom here in my sprawled out desert home town. In the show Carrie and her girls are in so many great parts of the city and the one thing they all seem to do in every episode is share a meal and some gossip at some fab restaurant.

I’ve been researching this dream trip of mine for quite a few years now, everytime I find a new website of something I want to see I have a special folder in my bookmarks call ‘The Sex and the City Trip’ that holds all the links. Last night while messing around online I found something that totally fits right into my trip itinerary which I didn’t even know existed. Walking Food Tours NYC, you actually pay someone to take you out into the city and they show you the best food spots the Big Apple has to offer!

I fell in love with this idea because well, I like love to eat and they have a Greenwich Village Food Tour that includes a stop for cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery made famous from Sex and the City! Can you say AWESOME!?!

Vacationing vicariously though a t.v. show may be a little nerdy but when the day finally comes that I’ll step off the plane and step into Manhattan I know it’s gonna be one helluva trip! I just did a little evaluation of all of the links I have saved and if I tried to do everything that has caught my eye my vacation there would have to be for 3 months *chuckle* A girl can dream though can’t she?

A buddy at work turned me onto these Cutie Oranges and man I can’t stop eating them! I think I’ve gone through a 5lb. bag in less than a week…yummy! Seriously, if you see these at the store pick a bag up, they are WELL worth the price Anyone else had ‘em?

Due to my new found Etsy surfing addiction (thank you Mireio) I’ve found some rather cool cake websites. Don’t ask me why…I’m like a kid with ADD at a psycadelic circus when it comes to the ‘net – I’m all over the place.

In our house a “cake” is defined as something flat and rectangular or round-ish that I attempt to smear frosting on, make a piss poor attempt to write a heartfelt message of love and affection then throw sprinkles on the damn thing load it down with candles and torch the s.o.b. It’s a very Git-R-Done process that produces some of the ugliest cakes on the planet….so I thought.

Until I discovered Cake Wrecks.

Tacky frosting jobs, hilarious misspellings, freaky subject matter, and snarky commentary, uh, puts the icing on the cake (sorry I couldn’t help myself).

Seriously hang out over there for a bit and read the archives, the writer is HILARIOUS!

I now feel better about my lack of skillz with confections because even with my shitty cake making techniques I have to admit even I couldn’t produce the piles of crap some people are passing as professional cakes.

Once you’re done L’ing-your-FAO and whatnot check out Mike’s Amazing Cakes to see some really fuckin’ amazing cake-work

So in a moment of insanity and after much hullabaloo by the store manager who loves me I agreed to take on a second job at Pappa John’s! I know, I know, I literally don’t have time to wipe my ass anymore so I shouldn’t really be flouncing into another paycheck but I figure what the heck?

The Hotness’s daughter works there and they love her, and they love me so it’s gonna be good. Management has agreed to work with my hectic schedule and even though I’m making only half of what my “real job” pays it’ll be nice to have a few extra dollars every couple weeks.

Mind you, I’ve had to totally re-think my schedule and it’s actually a good thing because now I can shift around projects and family to make all of this a little easier on me. Now, I have yet to fit school into this little clusterfuck I call a life so we’ll see how that turns out, but I think I can swing all of this shit…

I hope.

Anywhoot, enough about my retarded spur of the moment decisions…earn yourself some karma points and free shit by visiting TrueLemon and requesting a free sample of their crystallized lemon substitute. Why you ask? Well for every person that requests a free sample of their goods they send 10 packets of TrueLemon to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan!

Pretty nice of them eh? I know for a fact those folks drink a LOT of water over there and eventually they’ve got to be sick to death of it’s taste. So go get it here and then pat yourself on the back for brining some lemony goodness to our brave men and women

I’m a lazy bitch in the kitchen, if I don’t have to do much of anything and still get a tasty meal out of it then I’m game. This usually includes eating things out of boxes, bags, cans and microwavable cardboard cartons. Thankfully, The Hotness does most of the cooking for us — he doesn’t quite share the same penchant I do for fast food.

But I digress. This year I’ve made it a personal goal to at least attempt to cook meals that require more involvement than just “set Power Level to High”. So, that being said…

Got any recipes that you’ve made that actually taste good?