Riot and Frolic
a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog
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"Healthy." I've been scanning Pinterest and the Googles for new recipes lately and it seems I have a very different definition of what "healthy" means when it comes to food. As I am a born-and-raised Minnesotan (with an inate love of hot dishes, Midwestern meat-and-potatoes sensibility, butter, and bread), I am surprised that I am the…
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If you haven't read Hyperbole and a Half, you're missing out on ALL THE FUNNY THINGS people are referring to while writing in all caps. The Minnesotans, or precisely The Twin Citians, of the world were snowed/iced/wintered-in last weekend in a storm that made most of the land look like Hoth, and everyone was in…
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Advent Adventures Day 20 : decorate "trees". Confession: I am a holiday bargain hunter. I pick out the majority of my birthday/summertime/Christmas/Easter goodies and then wait until after the holiday to pick them up for 90% off. All my twinkle lights? $1.94. Score. Last year, I snatched some little kid craft kits for…
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If you going to take private lessons for ballroom dancing, there are two main choices you have to make: studio or independent instructor. I took my first lesson at a studio, I taught my first lesson at a studio, I left that place, took many lessons from an independent, danced pro-am with that independent,…
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Full disclosure: this post does not relate to the prescribed schedule put forth by the editor, nor does it really have any point to it at all. I hate laundry. And washing dishes. And putting clean sheets on the bed. I did all of these things tonight begrudingly because it's MY JOB. I was one…
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Spring: Summer: Fall: I don't know, man. I love the tomatoes. And the sugar snap peas. And the flowers. But not the flowers on vines. Or anything on vines, including the tomatoes and peas. And why can't I grow herbs? Or lettuce? And why, when I think…
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Continuing the coffee rant, but this time, trying to save the world. We got this sweet little coffeemaker last Christmas and we use it … a lot. V has made several cups of coffee for me using this. After taste-testing several of the K-cup varieties, which dominate the coffee aisle in so many stores, I…
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Since my coffee routine has changed up a bit in the last 2.5 years (wait, that's how long we've been hanging out?!) and sometimes people ask me how to do it, I'll share my iced coffee routine with you. How to Make Iced Coffee (Coffee Concentrate) You will need a large French press (34 oz.…
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Hello, my name is Kate and I'm a coffee snob. I didn't see it coming. A couple years ago, I'd go out to breakfast with my dad and he had a very narrow list of places we could go, places whose coffee he had deemed worthy. It seemed ridiculous. "Dad, they have DONUTS. Who cares…
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Recipe for Awesome Sauce: – 1 part dijon mustard (Grey Poupon, duh) – 1 part plain Greek yogurt – salt and pepper to taste Mix ingredients together and eat on everything. Great on pork tenderloin, as fake hollandaise sauce on fake eggs Benedict (over easy eggs on toast), as a salad dressing, as…
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