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hello people of the internet world ^_^

how are you doing?

good.  that's awesome.

SOOOOOO...I have so much I want to write but I have no idea where to start.  Hum.  Well....I guess, I could start off with the obvious.  #1 I haven't posted in almost a month, AND I also got a new design ^_^ Design courtesy of me, of course.  I guess you could say I've been MIA because I was trying to get the design up and going, and ran headlong into maddening issues.  Such as that tricky navigation bar up there.  UGHHHH.  Seriously.  why can't it just be sweet and work for me? yeah well...thankfully there have been so many amazing people who helped me figure out the kinks of my design, and I think one of the main people was Emily, so definitely go over to her blog and check it out.  She's so sweet.  But anyways, what do you think of the new design? Yay or nay? Is it better than the last one? I personally don't even know, I like it, but it's not exactly popping with neon colors and saturation and brightness. It's still not quite done, there's a few things needing to be tweaked yet,but what do you all think of it so far?
honesty's the best policy. PLEASSEEEEEE. ^_^
Actually though, this would've been a good design to put up in March.  All the green going on and whatnot.



So...on other news.  Umm... You know that food blog I was talking about in my last post? Chocolate Covered Katie? Well, I was literally obsessed with her blog (and still am :) and I started baking like crazy, and I've come to really, really love it.  It's like a stress-reliever.  It used to be something, that, yeah, it's great and  whatever, but I usually ended up burning every. single. little. thing. aka. cookie.  So I'm still trying to master that, but I've really come to love it.  And healthy baking is so my thing.  Okay, really, what gets better than Chocolate + Healthy + Yummy? HUH? =) haha, anyways.  that's that.  and I have a ton of photos to show you guys. i've been baking non-stop over the weekends, and yeah, i've burnt my baked oatmeal to a crisp. LITERALLY. but i've also whipped up some pretty (if i can say so) not-so-bad-tasting desserts.  that were relatively healthy too.  hehe, though, i've got this one friend i'm emailing, and she absolutely despises me [in a good way] for trying to eat more healthy.  her motto is that she's okay right now and so - so what? poor girl...XD But I guess I was a pretty tyrant friend when it came to lunches. i'd literally point out every single little thing that was unhealthy in her lunch and give her a lecture on healthy eating.
i guess i kind of get where she's coming from. knowing me...yeah, i do get where she's coming from.
at least she acknowledged that the pictures i sent her were good.  photography comes in handy sometimes.

but seriously. it's not all fun and sweet. (pun not intended) Earlier today I was attempting to make a double layer mint chocolate chip cake. haha. guess how that went? well, it's in the fridge right now, the icing is hardening, but honestly, it was so freaking difficult.  First I baked the two cakes and made the mint frosting for the middle, and then after taking them out I let them cool for like 15 minutes before throwing the frosting in the middle.  A little too late, Autumn realizes that the frosting is mainly composed of butter, and therefore the butter is melting on the still-somewhat-warm cakes.  She hurriedly runs to stick it in the freezer, and then goes on to make a chocolate frosting for the top and rest of the cake.  She feels pretty confident now.  Ten minutes later, she goes to take out the cake from the freezer, and plop! well, there went the whole top of the cake. UGHHHHHHHH THE STRUGGLE IS REAL, PEOPLE.                            

Anyways, so, yeah.  How are you all doing? I can barely believe that summer is basically over.  And I really haven't done anything on my summer bucket list done either.  Yeah well.  Honestly though, in July some of my friends were wearing jackets in the early morning because it was that chilly.  I thought it was summer? I'm just a little annoyed at that, and the fact that school starts in TWO WEEKS for me.  *breaks down* I'm so SO not ready for school.

Last week was so summer-ish.  I literally went swimming like four times, and it felt so good.  Just being with people you can trust, laughing over the silly things, and making good memories.  That was so beautiful.  "We live for moments like this." I was at my friend's place, and some of our other friends were there.  It was just pretty crazy, but all in all, a wonderful, blessed time.

oh wow, i never really realized how much i missed blogging.  like right now, i can just sit down and write.  write to you guys.  and that's so awesome.  we're all friends.  i think my favorite types of posts to write are like these.  just bombing the post with tons of pictures and writing randomly about whatever pops into my head. ^_^

 my breakfast this morning.  five minute chocolate oatmeal, MMM.

okay, so yeah.  this post was probably long enough, but i seriously plan on getting back to blogging more often.  i want to get this design totally finished by the time i get back to school and get a few new posts planned out. so please excuse all the mess you might see on this blog :) do you guys have any ideas for future posts?
thank you so much for reading and you all are the best.  ^_^


- autumn

oh and look! pinterest has some words of inspiration. what a shocker.