I’ve been cooking and shopping and photographing and eating and stressing. But I haven’t been blogging. After only a week of driving around my 2001 Volkswagen Beetle, the AC suddenly died. It sat in the shop for 5 days before it was returned to me. This morning the engine light came on and now I finally understand: the universe, clearly, doesn’t want me driving anymore.

After years of avoiding the Ipod and other Apple related products, I finally broke down and bought an 4gb Ipod Nano. I usually listen to music on my laptop when I’m at home, but when I’m in my car, I have to have my mp3s with me and I cannot tolerate the radio. So, on a very impulsive shopping spree, I bought a very expensive car radio to go with my very expensive Ipod Nano that goes in a very expensive Betsey Johnson Ipod case. I know, I have a spending problem. I’m working on it.

But, since I’ve been cooking nearly every single day (and enjoying the shit out of it), I have fallen in love with video podcasts about cooking which I usually watch during my lunch hour at work. So I’m going to say something I’d never thought I’d say in all my years of living: Dear Ipod Nano, I love you. But, like, this is only going to be a one time thing. There will not be an iphone, itouch or iwhatever in my future. This is it.

I’ve watched a few very boring, very uninspiring episodes of Tori Spelling’s reality show which is so unmemorable and dull, I can’t even remember the title of it.

Every episode is like playing The Sims and watching the characters walk aimlessly around a half-empty house babbling in the same Simlish language about the weather, sailboats and closet space. Literally, really, the show spent 20 minutes on Tori’s hopeful expansion of her closet.

Also, her head is of epic, colossal proportions and it’s very, very distracting. There are often sounds coming out of her mouth but I simply can’t pay any attention because I’m wondering and waiting for the moment her neck will collapse under the weight of it all.

The baby phat shoes as well as the lacoste shoes will now be introducing new lines of men’s shoes on the lines of the bcbg shoes.

I spent the day window shopping without leaving the house which is, as the gas prices creep higher and higher, the best and only way these days. There are so many interesting, affordable treasures on Etsy.com, some are hard to spot.

Juicysweetdesigns is selling prettily printed cardstock stashes for only $1.00

Write your thoughts in quality printed moleskin notebooks by SugarStreetCafe , I always keep mine in the side pocket of my purse

forgetmenaught has a variety of vintage trinkets, I gave my mother a vintage souvenir plate of Puerto Rico

Find a unique, handmade card at Cardmaven for the same price as those mass produced ones at the pharmacy

Need some art? sunkitty7 colorful prints and original artwork will surely make you smile, her Summer Fantasy Print looks fabulous hanging in my home!

Tiny little plastic deer from lakeruby, perfect for your terrarium