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I have a cooking ambition problem. Towards the end of every week I start dreaming up all the healthy cooking/baking/freezer stocking I totally want to do over the weekend. Except, the weekend is only two days long and lately those two days have been incredibly packed with activities (yay, summer fun and socializing!).

So I end up doing things like this past Wednesday evening when I stood over the hot stove for a couple of hours making special hidden veggie meatballs and pasta sauce for West. It was worth the effort, though, he actually ate pasta with the new pasta sauce for lunch, which tricked him into ingesting mushroom, zucchini, carrot, leek, and red pepper! Last Sunday I made these paleo blueberry chocolate cookies (for the record, they are "tasty," I guess, if you ignore the fact that gluten actually makes cookies more cookie-like and almond flour is not quite the same.... also the photo on the blog? no idea how those cookies raised so much, mine were super thin and flat).

Now I want to make zucchini bread pancakes and blueberry lemon cookies and sweet potato cookies. Oh, ambition.

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Ahhhhhh!!!! Why do I insist on reading Metafilter threads about spiders??? OMG. Two posts in two days and I can't stop reading every horrifying story, and sometimes clicking on pictures that I need to unsee. Nature is horrible. And now the UK is marginally ruined for me, as I just learned about the UK's house spiders that are WAY TOO BIG. I can never live outside of New England. Sweet, sweet winter, killing the nasty critters.