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A Crazy Link-Up!


Most of you may know that I’m a little late jumping on the H-train… you know, the HOGWARTS Train!  I’ve become super Harry Potter obsessed this past year because I finally read all the books and watched all the movies!!  So people think I’m a little crazy because I’m super obsessed with everything Harry while most people have gotten over it (Yeah, they obviously still think it’s awesome, but they aren’t considering buying all of these fabulous finds like RIGHT NOW!)

Harry Potter. Lightning glasses.Silver gold plated 18K ring.

Hogwarts Alumni Parody Shirt, Harry Potter Inspired - T Shirt

Harry Potter Mini Book Charm Bracelet (US Editions)

Harry Potter iphone 4 case, Deathly Hallows iphone 4 case

Harry Potter Onesie, Muggle Born Onesie, Muggle Born, Harry Potter Baby MORE COLORS
Etsy $13.99 – I’m totally getting this for my Monkey! (You can read about him here!)

harry potter necklace,retro bronze Deathly Hallows pendant necklace---N041

So, you may think I’m crazy too, but I’m seriously in love with everything Harry Potter right now, I’m just about 5 years behind everyone elses obsession! haha For real though, most of these things are seriously about to be bought! And if you really love them… please don’t buy them all up, I’d be super sad!!

So there’s my burst of CRAZY!

Oatmeal Raisinette Cookies! {#78}

First, I want to thank Brittany from This Beautiful Life because I won her giveaway and I will get my own monogrammed coffee mug! I’m so excited!

Who loves cookies?! I DO, I DO!  And I’m going to assume most of the rest of you do too!  Well I’m trying to get into this baking phase, I think it’s a really great stress reliever and you can make so much of something and give them away to people!  My boyfriend loves raisinets (I’m not a huge fan because of the raisins, but I like them enough for a cookie!) and so we decided to make this cookie recipe on the back of the raisinette bag!

If you have any questions about the recipe, feel free to e-mail me at heatherblack79@gmail.com because I had started out this post and had gotten 2 words away from typing the entire recipe when I somehow deleted it all and had to start over, so sorry peeps, I won’t be posting the recipe and I know the glare isn’t great (I’ll work on this with my pictures!) so if you don’t know what something says, and they for some reason took the recipe off the back of the bags when you go to make your cookies, feel free to e-mail me and I’d be happy to help you out!
 
We got started making the cookies and then realized that it says to BEAT… and I should have known it would since we were making “from scratch” homemade cookies, so I ran out to the store real fast to pick up a super cheap beater (to hopefully just last me through this next year until I’m ready to actually lay down some money for a good one!) and then got back to work! 
 
Like I said before, I’m not the biggest raisin fan, so I thought they were pretty decent, and my boyfriend really liked them, but he said he thinks they’d be better without the chocolate melted inside (the chocolate was the part I liked! haha geez… we are so different in food tastes!)  We also found out about one of his neighbors whose grandfather had surgery and they weren’t sure if he was going to make it, so we sent a bag of cookies over to him and his sister and they were super appreciative, which makes me want to bake more and more things for them!
 
Here’s a peak at what we came up with!
 
Nick made the ones on the left, he wanted huge ones.
 I made the reasonably sized ones on the right!
 
 
Overall, I think they turned out great and if you love raisinets and oatmeal cookies, then these would be a match made in heaven for you!! I’m so glad I experimented with this recipe, but I probably won’t make these very often just because I don’t like the raisins in them too much.
 
I can now cross off #78 on my 101 in 1001 list, I’m super far behind, but I’m another one down!

Friday Letters!

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Dear Friday: I feel like I’ve been waiting a whole month for you to finally get here, it’s been a long week!  Dear Weekend: Please treat me well, I’m exhausted, I need rest!  Dear bloggers: wow, I have 51 followers now, I know that doesn’t sound like much to a whole lot of you, but I’m so excited! I’m contemplating doing a 75 or 100 follower giveaway, it’d be my first!  Dear Emergen-C: I think I’m gonna need you today.  Dear Starbucks: Yep, probably gonna need you too!  Even though it’s Friday, finally, I still have to get through this work day and at this moment, I’m a little burnt out!  Dear mani/pedi: I splurged on you this week, but I’m so happy I did, I love your beautiful maroon color and the confidence you give me!  Dear sandals I had to throw away yesterday: I already miss you *sigh…*  Dear bloggers (again): Thank you for all the encouragement from my post yesterday, I’ve been blogging for a little over a year, sometimes heavily, sometimes none at all (I just noticed that I had only ONE post in the month of June, my bad!) and I have never gotten such a huge response from a post and I’ve never gotten so many new followers from a single post, so I thank you, because it definitely made my day better!! Dear Triathlon in less than a month: I’m still contemplating whether or not to take you on… I’m really nervous and my training hasn’t been the best, I’m still working on it, but I’m a little intimidated!  Dear 20 minute run this morning: You were seriously needed, thank you for being so nice to me on this lovely morning in Mississippi!
 
Happy Friday peeps, hope you have a wonderful weekend, hopefully my blogging will be just as extensive next week as it has been this past week, I’m not gonna lie, I’m pretty proud of myself!

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