Friday Five

This has been a pretty chill week around here . . . it might be the reason there are finally some blog posts up in this ghost town! I adore making lists and reading them, so I thought I'd give the whole Friday Five bit a shot. So, here you have it, five things that I'm loving this week.

1. Pittman and Davis grapefruit! 

My dad sent us a half bushel of Pittman and Davis grapefruit all the way from the Rio Grande valley, and you better believe I've been loving every blissful section of them. Grapefruit is one of my very favorite winter treats, and the only real drawback to living up here (aside from the obvious) is that citrus will never, ever be local. You can see that the grapefruit have joined the basket of citrus on my table. I always have a big basket of citrus on my table in the colder months -- it's cheerful and good for you, too! 

2. Pinterest

Adrianne has been telling me for months that I need to get on the Pinterest bandwagon, and I've steadily declined -- until now. Even though I'm even more convinced than ever that it's a tremendous black hole of time, I love it. It is so much fun to put all of your likes into one place. I'm not on Facebook, though, and that seems to be how you find friends on Pinterest. So, if you're on Pinterest, let me know because I'm an addict. I want to see everyone's boards. And if you're not on Pinterest, well, stay off or prepare to while away your days looking at pretty pictures. 

3. Whitney

The other night Dudley was watching the news and he did a big eye roll when the Whitney Houston segment led the evening's stories. But, you know, even though Dudley thinks he has impeccable taste in music it's narrow as all get out. And I looooves me some Whitney Houston, and she was pretty high in the diva-off my sister and I had this summer. She had to be either 1 or 2 on my list. So, needless to say, I've been pilfering my iTunes library to listen to my Whitney songs this week. And, if I can't be reborn as a surfer girl or a USC song girl, I'd love to get the chance to belt like Whitney. In the meantime I'll settle for singing along at the top of my lungs. 

4. Spring Cleaning

OK, it's not spring, but I've been taking advantage of my time this week to do a little (or a lot) of long-overdue cleaning and straightening. After all, it's nearly tax time so I'd best get my ducklings in one row. 

5. Warm Chocolate Chip Cookies

In an epic failure of judgment I made a batch of chocolate chunk cookie dough (I used the recipe from Flour by JoAnne Chang and it's fabulous, btw) earlier this week. At the time, I had every intention of baking it and giving the cookies away. But then, after dinner one night I wanted dessert -- this is NOT out of the ordinary -- and there were two options. The nuclear option was to bake some of the cookie dough and have fresh chocolate chip cookies. The non-nuclear option was a piece of fruit. Of course I went for the nuclear option. And the rest is history because we've had warm chocolate chip cookies for dessert every night this week. This is NOT a good idea when your jeans are already a little snug.