VLOG!

Something new for the end of Social Media Class. Thanks for everything guys!

I don't really feel like being here right now.

My best friend Whitney and I LOVE explodingdog.com. We are always excited when new drawings come out and have often tried to email in our ideas for pictures. This has never quite worked out for us and while we always love to see others creativity with phrases to be drawn...we have always want to see a little bit of ourselves up there! This, my social media friends, is where twitter comes into play! we both follow @explodingdog so we know when pictures are updated... over the past two weeks or so we have submitted phrases and actually had them chosen to be drawn for the site! who would have thought 140 characters would be the best way to chat with celebrities both big and small... Here is the drawing for my phrase submission... feel free to make it your desktop background :]



So whether you think you are ready to take the plunge into the twitterverse or not... make an accnt now and start tweeting...you never know who you might connect with!

oh the perils of a college student!

I love blogging. I really do. I love to get my voice out there and be able to get my opinion heard. However there are some things I don't like... 12 page papers, end of semester projects before finals. You know... A girls trying to be a blog queen here and professors....you are not making it any easier!

Regardless... two weeks left in the semester and I'll be up on my social media all over again! and will try to squeeze some KatrinaAntionette goodness in there during my study breaks as well!

Thank a Veteran Today!

I'm usually not one for the wicked humor but... I think this is an important one.

"If you don't stand behind our troops, Please feel free to stand in front of them".

Veterans day is more then a day off from school or work, or a day to complain about NOT having off from school or work. It is about finding a special Veteran or Active Duty Military Member and showing them respect for defending our country whether you support this war or not. It's as simple as to just say thank you, or sending a friendly smile to a member of our Armed Services. And remember that they keep you safe, so you have the right to have this day off...or complain about working. ;]

My Pop, My Hero.

Thank you to my Pop-Pop, My Uncle Al, My Cousin Justin, and Friend, Mason!

These are a few of my favoriteee things!

Okay- from now till the end of the Holidays Sundays are "Thankful Sundays"...I'm sure your thinking... shouldn't it be "Thankful Thursdays?" the answer is for semantics sake yes...but time wise? I have class all day and work all night on weekdays....so no. This blog has Thankful Sundays! Sweet!

So today's Thankful Sunday all started with foodgawker.com. On Saturday I went with a friend to the mall and then saw This is it. Movie was great but food is just too expensive at the theatre! We went to the late show and when I got home at midnight I was starving but way too lazy to make anything, but then unfortunately stumbled upon foodgawker...it was FoodPorn at its best...great pictures of yummy desserts and food that was all pretty simple and great looking...all made by regular people! After following all the yummiest bloggers-- It inspired me to pass on take out for sunday and to make a great dinner and banana bread for dessert... deeelish!

My Weirdo Favorite-- Dr. P and Lemon :]
Mmmm!

Homemade Barbecue Chicken Pizza!

Mmm homemade Irish Nachos....just like at dysarts!
Served with sour cream just like the pro's

Heart-Shaped Banana Bread
with a little cinnamon and nutmeg in the mix...
mmm at the holidays! <3

An Open Letter to Maine.

Dear Maine,

I guess I don't have any right to complain. I am not a resident of this state and New Hampshire, My State, does support Marriage Equality effective January 1st. I canvassed for No on 1, I saw firsthand the amazing passion behind a movement for equality. Maine, for the first time in a long time made national news and had the whole world watching, we had the opportunity to become a trendsetter for the nation as a whole. Students and their teachers were using there time off for "Volunteer Vacations" to support the cause. I walked all around Orono, ME with a student from Colorado...who was not here for a relaxing trip to the coast or on his way to better places, he spent his week here ready to work. Sam & I went door to door, to encourage volunteerism and sign up residents to receive Absentee Ballots that normally would not vote. I didn't know much about referendum votes before this election, but I'm telling you this: It is nothing like your local city election, yes all elections are important and every vote matters....but on this vote there is are no "winners" and "losers". When any person will be left with a dated "seperate but equal" rule...we all lose, and no one should be celebrating.


To those that canvassed, phone banked, and took to your facebooks or twitter, Thank you. I've never been so proud of people working together to make something happen. &although the voters of maine did not decide in favor of equality, keep up the conversations, and we will all fight to make Marriage Equality a reality for Maine.

I don't often admit to being behind the times...

But I have to admit I just joined the tech world on signing up for and downloading Skype! This is a great resource for those who have relatives and friends in far flung places! And lets face it...Who doesn't have family somewhere they wish they could "see" more often? I was about to test-drive it with a friend of mine at UCONN but realizing him studying for a test may be a bit more important we decided to 86 that idea... I was left bummed when I had a genious idea! I know my downstairs apartment neighbor has a web cam... Maybe we should skype!? we tried it out and it was WAY easier then I thought... I am definitely a convert and hey...maybe if you become one too after reading this...you'll add me on Skype and we can start catching up...whether you are 3,000 miles away or...maybe just one floor down below!



Set up that Webcam and lets start a conversation!

The Wedding Singer!

Sometimes I think as college students we forget how important our family is...we drive 30 minutes or 3 hours away and settle into our dorms or apartments and are ready to be "on our own" yes we call home and ask to have 2o bucks in our account to order dominos...and go home to do our laundry for free...but do we take the time to spend with our family when your home? Some of us say yes... I have dinner with my parents or drop my sibling off at a friends house when I'm home. But now that we are in college...going towards 21 and truly being "adults" do you stop and think about our aunts and uncles...grandparents and our parents are on the same level as us? They are people who have fun and maybe even know how to party? This weekend I went to a wedding at the NE Aquarium in Boston and remembered how much fun it is just to be surrounded by family!

A Happy "Adult?" Couple!
(I'll admit I actually tried sangria in front of my grandparents--pretty gross!)

My Mom & I before they started "playing her song(s)"!

My Lola & I who later partied like a college freshman!

I have never seen my pop dance and this night he tried to teach me to cha-cha!

Best Friends can be "3 & 3/4" years old! :]
(Especially if they've both been pretty flower girls!)

I'm 92% sure all of my life can be expressed by explodingdog.com

I'm the kind of girl who likes things a certain way...perfect. It's not that I don't do things wrong. I do that all the time. This also amuses my mom when I call her to complain about what went wrong or who is currently making me mad. So today when I called to tell her I needed a name for my blog, and I want it to be clever... she laughed. I ran a couple ideas by her and we settled on Let her eat cupcakes-- a play on words for marie antoinette because my middle name happens to be the same as hers... Well... sort've... Once when I was very little, perhaps 3rd grade, we were doing our first day of school work sheets... first name....last name...middle name. as everyone wrote ashley or marie... I went to write mine but could not spell it. This led to an embarrassing trip to the my school secretary to find out something that seemed simple enough to figure out. I memorized my middle name and from that day always knew without asking anti-onette as a phonetic way to remember. While setting up this blog...I went to write my middle name but had a total brain freeze on how to spell my middle name... dumb moment but texted my mom and when she texted back antionette I typed it into google. When google came back with did you mean "ANTOInette" I was confused. I had always thought my family was just giving my dad a hard time when they poked fun at him for spelling my somewhat odd name on my birth certificate...but no, they meant it. &&then were just too baby-excited to go back and change it after they got my birth certificate in the mail. Sometimes you can't make everything perfect, and when that happens, you've just got to laugh.