I Walk In This World

Just a quickie (TWSS) post to highlight my attempt at 2009.

Promoting Ethical Eating

Hosting Fundraisers

Visits to Pittsburgh and eating the President’s Pancakes

Kickass anniversary + vacation to New England

Falling in love with yoga

Doing a book review

U.S. Open bragging

My sister’s wedding

Moving to my beloved PA

Wintry White Holiday-ing

and last but not least…starting this blog and joining this totallyfucking awesome community of bloggers!

Lest I not let one post go by without whoring out the furriest little love of my life!

And my fam…who make my world complete.

Husband

Sista

Dad

Bro-in-law

I wish you all a beautiful and fabulous New Year!

I’ll see ya next year!

Ok, I hate when people say I’ll see ya next year…so…I’ll see ya in 2010!!

Cripe!  I haven’t blogged in over 24 hours and I’m so behind in pics.  Sometimes, this sucks.

Let’s just get to it.

Just had Din after getting back from a 2+ hour fundraiser for local candidates running for City Council.  Hubz is the Campaign Manager so attendance is mandatory.  It was a nice time.  We’re far too busy prepping for our vaca (last minute) to make Din, so we ordered Sunday Pizza.

• brick oven pizza  w/onion
• green leaf salad with kale (good addition) + carrot + cukes + peppers+ pea pods + cranberries + goat cheese
• Smuttynose IPA
• water

I know I’ve said it a zillion times, but our local pizza place is so much better than everything else out there.  SO much better.  But, I was a good girl and filled up on salad first so I only at 2 slices (which I cut in half each to make it feel like more food) of pizza.

The fundraiser was fine.  I try to keep politics off my blog for sensitivity reasons, esp since Hubz is a campaign manager.  So I’ll keep my thoughts about the fundraiser quiet.  But it was a lovely day and I had some lovely chats with diff people! 

My eats…I started with a Rolling Rock (yeah PA). 

Check out the pretty food table.

My plate of afternoon eats was 1 shrimp, 1 slice of swiss + 4 crackers, 1 tortilla and salsa, some veg + dip, fresh fruit, white wine.

And then the desserts came out, which were many and oh so tempting.  But I stayed far away and just took 1 bite each of Hubz plate.  Then I did go back and eat 1 of the butterscotch walnut bars, which were SOO flipping good.  I think I’m a butterscotch addict.  Srsly.  I love it.

The centerpieces were flowers from the hosts’ garden.

Lunch was grab and go + an attempt to use up all the perisables in our house, hence the plethora of cheese on our sams.  Mine is the one with the ham tongue sticking out on the left, lol.

We had to eat while walking to the car to go to the mall.  Hubz needed new shorts and we had a supa Eddie Bauer coupon.  Of Course I manged to find 2 items worth purchasing.  I did good though.  1 fushia empire waist 3/4 length sleeve top (perfect for layering for hiking in New England) and a pair of black waterproof/sunproof hiking shorts.  And then a quick stop at Bath and Body Works for body spray (holla new White Citrus for $12!).

[insert Erin running around doing laundry between Breks and going to the mall]

Breks was a 100% repeat of yesterday.  Again,  I’m trying to use up all perishables, meaning muffins and fruit.  And yesterday’s Breks was SO good, so why not?

Got about 6 hours sleep, which is fine.  Not great, but eh, ok.  I plan to sleep more tonight, although it’s 10:30pm and I’m still doing laundry and have yet to pull out anything for packing.

<———–procrastinator

Last night’s dinner party was fun!  Our friends Dina and Jared visited and we had a lovely evening together.  Lots of chats + wine.  Dina’s Greek and brought this fantastic wine to have with dinner.

The spread was creamy pesto pasta + organic chicken sausge, salad, homemade cheesy garlic bread.  Honestly, the garlic bread was the evening’s Highlight!  So flipping good, and I totally made up the recipe.  Def going in my cookbook.

Ok, Hubz is gonna kick my ass if I don’t get off this computer and help pack for our trip.  Wish me luck!

Nite!

Good morning Auction and Bake Sale Winners!

To qualify for your winnings, each winner must click HERE, and donate your bid price to Beth’s Team for her Jimmy Fund Walk.  Be sure to clearly indicate WHO you are, in the comments section on the donation page, so we can confirm your donation, and then you can receive your winnings!

Once you have made your donation, email me at esavearth [at] gmail [dot] com to let me know you’ve done so.  Be sure to include your contact information (email, full name, address) so that I can send that info to all the contest donors (to put your winnings in the mail).  Once you’ve done so, I will pass on your mailing address to our donors, and they’ll get busy baking and mailing.

YAY!  Thanks again to everyone who played and to those of you who won.  We’ve done a wonderful job!

xo

Er

I will email you tomorrow with details about what you need to do to get your winnings!

WINNERS!

1 doz NY Bagels - $50 (Kelly D.)

2 doz Chocolate Chip cookies - $25 (Molly T.)

Chocolate chunk brownies - $40 (Meg S.)

6 doz White chocolate macadamia super soft cookies - $25 (Andy G.)

Blueberry jam & peach preserves -$50 (Sherilyn B.)

Buckeyes (2 sets) (Sally Ann M. & Stephanie G.)

Chocolate chip blondies -$40 (Melissa G.)

Pecan, chocolate chip, cranberry blondies -$50 (Jen R.)

Oatmeal raisin bars -$40 (Allie W.)

Mix and match nut butter cups -$45 (ME & The Hubz)

Fudge -$40 (Molly B.)

Molasses cookies -$25 (Meg S.)

2 dozen Snickerdoodle cookies -$40 (Erika C.)

Scotch shortbread + Bonne Maman Blackberry preserves - $60 (Megan L.)

Chocolate pecan & amaretto almond biscotti - $50 (DeAnna M.)

TJs gift basket -$40 (Sarah C.)

Arizona goodie basket -$50 (Chris R.)

Skinny Bitch Cookbook -$36 (Toby L.)

Handmade Swarovski bookstring (custom color), 30-handstamped recipe cards -$15 (ME!)

Poultry Cookbook -$25 (Kristin D.)

Jazzercise bag -$15 (Katie G.)

Deceptively Simple Cookbook -$15 (Kelly)

Harry Potter Art -$50 (Beth B.)

Handmade wool scarf -$25 (Megan L.)

Apples to Apples game (new) -$20 (Kate B.)

Pampered Chef loaf pan-$25  (Nancy D.)

2 DVDs, recipe box, cookbook -$10 (Megan L.)

Burp cloths -$30 (Carol T)

Baby blanket -$20 (Sally Ann M.)

Baby gift basket -$40 (Molly T.)

Personal nutrition consult -$50 (Chris D)

Vegan dark chocolate cookies -$25 (Kristin D.)

Handmade baby bibs -$25 (Kayla T.)

A zillion thank yous to everyone who bid, and to the winners for hanging in there.

This was a massively successful effort, and if everyone is a good boy & girl, and makes their donations, we’ll have raised $1161 to fight cancer!