"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

Good luck! Celery is a negative calorie food, so if you need to munch on something to stem off the boredom, that might help.

I would hope those fine chocolatiers would have better taste than that.

..but…but…HE'S ORANGE!

After my last ex-boyfriend, I went on dates with about nine different guys and hated every single date and became super burned out and decided that I was just bound to hate every guy I ever met. Two weeks later I met up with a former acquaintance for happy hour and less than two years after that we got married. I…

Mr. Moneypenne and I will have been married for two years on Monday, which isn't much, but still seems pretty awesome to me.

Finished "Rose in Bloom" and just started "An Old Fashioned Girl" yesterday… the Louisa May Alcott parade continues!

I used to work there. I saw my manager drop an entire unsliced salami into the garbage, pull it out, rinse it off, and then slice it up for sandwiches. In other words, Jimmy John's is super gross.

Be prepared for a long hike if you want to walk the dunes all the way to the lake (also, it's uphill through soft-ish sand both ways).

Heading up to the U.P. for the Fourth.

Too much rain drowned several of my herbs, but we seem to have lilies of all sorts popping up around the yard, so that's nice.

3.5 day work week!

You can be both things.

NO JOKES!

Yeah, the only Dickens novel that I ever got through (and enjoyed) was Bleak House, but it still felt heavy in parts.

Have a few more drinks and it'll pretty up.

Growing a baby (in other words eating a lot and finding excuses to not get up from the couch).

I've read most of the Three Musketeer series and each one of those books is large, but I made my way through them pretty quickly too. Must just be Dumas' style.

I read The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More which is actually my first time reading anything by Roald Dahl (*hangs head in shame*) and it was fantastic. Also re-read The Scarlet Pimpernel in honor of watching the Leslie Howard/Merle Oberon movie for the first time. I'm about to get started on the Dorothy…

Kind of but not really relatedly: the day after we got married, our air conditioning broke, so we spent our first night at our house as a married couple on an air mattress in the living room. We left for our honeymoon the next day and the when we pulled up to the hotel, there was a billboard across the street that…