this post is the table where you drop your keys

I remember when I encountered my first lifestyle blog. It was sometime in 2011, so I think I was pretty late to the phenomena.  It was a simultaneously crushing and enthralling moment when I realized that trolling through blogs satisfied the same compulsion as scrolling through facebook, but with subjects who were busier and more talented than my own facebook friends. 

In my defense, because I am totally defensive about my lifestyle-blog-reading-habit, I read a lot of things. Different things, varied things.  I try to keep myself somewhat up on the broadest of news pieces and pretty up on music that everyone else is listening to and detrimentally up on coats I want to buy.  But when it comes to blogs, I am BASIC.  I prefer extremely dull blogs, those that tell me exactly how to make ginger snaps, and lift the recipe directly from Mark Bittman.  Or those that go into grave and serious detail about their favorite non-chain running shoe boutique in a town where I do not live.

I realized I wanted my own space to talk about shin splints. My very own boring blog.  Focused on activities that everyone else is doing, probably better, definitely first.  But nonetheless, a way to track and admire my own vague and small accomplishments, and celebrate those of others!  Most importantly, with Heather.  I didn’t really want it to be my own.

Last night I made Pumpkin Chocolate Chip bread, with Emily’s help.  I almost didn’t make this bread, because Emily and I almost went to see Prisoners at Williamsburg Cinemas, but then we decided we wanted to go to bed before 11, preferably nauseous from 1000 calories of pumpkin loaf.

During the baking of this bread, I also removed my old nail polish.  I left the top off of the nail polish remover bottle for upwards of 45 minutes next to the cooling loaves.  I was tempting Emily, fate, and myself to spill the nail polish remover on the loaves and completely ruin the night.

The recipe for this bread can be found here.  It was recommended by my mother, who should probably start her own blog, because she’s really great at lifestyle.  

this bit is for Raymond and Paula, proprietors of said railroad

-fran