Pumpkin Spice Cookies
Original recipe from Betty Crocker

When I originally did this recipe, I saved it for the fall. Because fall means pumpkin season! In the fall everything that tastes like pumpkin. And I had been. I tried a pumpkin cupcake from CRUMBS, pumpkin frozen yogurt from pinkberry, and of course your normal pumpkin spice creme-based frapp from Starbucks. I guarantee I’ll be making it again this fall.

This was one recipe I was looking forward to trying. I originally found it on someone’s blog, and when I printed it out, it says it’s a Betty Crocker recipe. I followed it fairly well.
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This is a variation on a recipe from America’s Test Kitchen, which I have done a half-dozen times before. It’s the perfect comfort food, really.
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This always happens to me: all of the the books I have on hold at the library show up at the same time, and I’m left with a huge stack of library books to read in only a few short weeks.

I don’t mind, really, as it gives me options (as though my ever-expanding to-be-read bookcase doesn’t give me enough options) as to what order I read the books in, but still. This week, 5 came in all at the same time, and I don’t even know where to begin.

My loot from the library:

The Fine Art of Truth or Dare, Melissa Jensen
Words to Eat By, Ina Lipkowitz
Uncommon Criminals, Ally Carter
The Name of the Star, Maureen Johnson
Keep Sweet, Michele Dominguez Greene

So I’ve finally started a new project, and I thought that as a way to urge myself on, I’d use my blog to track my progress. It’s obviously still very new, and in this entry in particular, I’m using day one as meaning all the days (of which I could probably count about 3) since I decided to buckle down and give this story a go. From here on out, I’ll be measuring daily (though more than likely not posting about it daily). And we’ll see what happens from there.

Word Count: 2,243 words
Chapters: 1, nearly complete
Day Two Goal: 500 words, chapter 1 complete

Favorite line written: Oh, I knew who he was: I was an Aaron Mayze Facebook-stalker. I knew (almost) everything about him, considering I’d been head-over-heels infatuated with him for the better part of two years.