Welcome Back Day!

So heeeeeeerrrrreeeee's Ashley! 

No! Not her! ME!!!

Yes, I AM back! Finally!

I know, I'm the worst! But there has just been sooooo much going on!

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So as you know, the last time there was anything new on this lovely green canvas was back in July. My boyfriend had come to visit, and being so thoroughly distracted, I took a mini vaca from a very young blog. I had so many more ideas for the site, and new articles, I even had plans for vid-blogs on here to show you how to do certain cooking tricks that other novices would slit your throat for. But sadly, when I returned to my precious newborn, she had been stolen. Well...hacked would be the better term. It seems that my fight for Pandora's Recipe Box was not over, but this time the war was not from within. I won her back though! After re-launching the site however, all my stories and photos were gone, and starting over seemed inevitable.

But how can someone start over a blog with a goal and a count-down clock?!?!
It had been brought to my attention that the goal, the original 1 year deadline, might be a negative instead of a positive. 

What if I didn't get to my goal, but still had an amazing journey? 

Nope, still failed. 

So FUCK IT! 

BOOM - Dead line gone! 

And now for the last nail in the coffin . . . To my dear readers . . . 

I am sorry . . . But . . .

SOME SHITS ABOUT TO CHANGE!!!!!!!!

Why? Well, because back in the beginning I wrote a lovely piece on why everyone should take that little voice in their head telling them that "you will fail", or that "you suck", and shoot it in the face. And i stand by that. So to behead that little bitch, I am changing the negative. There is no more time deadline for the weight loss. This is for me, and to be healthy I can't measure my many successes against one failure.

Now there have been a few changes in my personal and professional life. 

 

Firstly, I got into a graduate school. That's right people! I'm gonna get my Masters - British Style. I start this Monday. SOOOOOOOOOOO excited!

Second, I am moving into a new place, with the boyfriend. Never really lived with a boy before. Mostly only girls ever since I was eight and started sleep away camps. So that's gonna be weird.

And third, I finished reading all the recipe books form the summer reading list, and will post reviews on them within the next week. AND a new reading list will be up to replace the old one!

Bye for now!