What happened is, my friend had a blog, one that featured many adorable pictures of her little family. Then all of a sudden, right about the time I published my last post, she found another adorable blog - written entirely in Portuguese - also featuring many adorable pictures of her little family. Yes, of her little family.
So that's a pretty huge cautionary tale, and I grew terrified of ever using a first initial on this blog ever again, let alone publishing a photo of an actual human being in my life. I quit writing entirely for fear one of you guys would be totally creepy.
However! A big catalyst in the other direction is the fact that I have a) finally finished graduate school and b) not had much luck finding a job, as of this moment. So I sort of need something to pass the time. LUCKY YOU. So anyway, yes! Welcome back to my life, readers.
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In other astonishing news, I turned thirty on Friday. No! I'm still having some issues with this. I am not a person to get too worked up about age, but I am having some strong feelings about no longer being a twenty-something. Mostly, they involve my deepening wrinkles and increasingly frequent gray hairs.
To combat these emotions, I took a pretty solid break from carb avoidance to bake a chocolate cake with basil buttercream, a recipe I have been obsessing over for the past two months. It turned out AMAZINGLY, if I do say so myself. I am not going to recopy the recipe I used here - instead, feel free to follow the impeccable directions and drool over the gorgeous pictures here on the Vanilla Bean blog, like I did.
But I will close with a super hip Instagram of my warming basil as a consolation prize for your having to click over for the recipe.
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