challin on the weekend

Sandwiched between weekends of travel, fests and guests, last weekend was the perfect stay-in-Atl-a-thon.

For the first time in a long time, on Saturday afternoon, I thought to myself: what should I do with these extra hours before I get ready for the evening?

I started the week with all of my orders in affair, a little bit of extra sleep, and pep in my step. Isn't it amazing what a few days like this can do for the week ahead? No humps to get over this Wednesday!

wanderlust

Something about the combination of this summer-hot March and sweet memories of our trip to Australia just one year ago has me itching to travel.

I've had a long-standing obsession with Santorini, which I try to attribute to the fact that my family is a little bit Greek, but I think it mainly has to do with images of sparkling blue waters dotted with white houses.

It might not technically be the best time to travel to Greece on a current events scale. But that's OK because it's not technically the right time to re: my budget either.

A girl can dream, right? Packing my bags now...

On Coconut Oil

Pretty basically everywhere I go lately, I hear about coconut oil. And so I figured it was time to try it out.


I picked up Dr. Bronner’s Unrefined Whole Kernel oil at Whole Foods and made chicken and peppers with it.


Pros: Easier clean up than olive oil, and if you accidentally use to much like yoahsss truly tends to do, it doesn’t splatter.

Cons: Contrary to what I’ve heard, the coconut flavor doesn’t cook out completely. The whole time I felt like I should have had some Malibu Rum in hand (+ possibly my swimsuit and a tan).

Re: cooking, I think I’ll stick with EVOO. However, I quickly transferred it from my kitchen to my bathroom, and it’s served as lovely lotion/chapstick this week.

Put the lime in the coconut, my friends!

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