ONE WEEK UNTIL BLEND RETREAT! EEEK! I got my roommates for BLEND yesterday. I’m so excited. I’m rooming with Vanessa from Fit Savvy and Haute and Gina from Running to the Kitchen.
I’m sad to say I haven’t been reading Gina’s blog. I imported it [...]
I was hoping to do a Humpday Blog Love post every week until Blend, but I didn’t get a chance to write this week’s post, and I wanted to let her review it before I posted it. So I will resume with the blog lovin’ next week!
Instead, I [...]
I need your help with something very important. But first, a quickie recap of Easter weekend.
I hung out at home by myself on Sunday because I couldn’t find anybody to watch Barney, and he’s not a very friendly dog, so I can’t just take him everywhere with me. However, it turned out that I [...]
Every family has traditions. Here are some of my new traditions my little “family” [ my boyfriend, my roommate and I ] has started.
Oh, and did I mention there’s a giveaway?
I give you the chimesmonster cookies. These are modified from a recipe I used when I was a kid. I may have perfected these. In my opinion anyway. Mark gave these a standing ovation. And I’m guessing that Adria and her beau will be grateful as well.
You voted, and the winner of the cookie for this month’s Cookie of the Month Club subscription was chocolate covered ritz peanut butter sandwiches, or as my family calls them: Bark cookies.
For the record, I really wanted to make Meltaways. Buuut I know my dad and Grandpa will [...]
I have a problem. I’ve pinned too many cookies on Pinterest.
I have so many I want to try.
The good news is that I can’t eat most of them (gluten) and I gave my dad and grandpa a “cookie of the month” subscription for Christmas. Which means I’m making a batch of cookies to [...]
What happens when advertising and our obsession with making everything from scratch leads to bad ideas?
This.
Nutter butter blizzards. Kind of. We were drooling over these at DQ a couple of months back when these were the special blizzard of the month. I refused to spend $5 for a [...]
So I love Pinterest. Did I ever mention that? I have a ton of boards, but one that’s always growing is my dessert board. So many naughty decadent things on there that I will probably never make.
I present to you the most naughty-looking desserts that I’ve got pinned [...]
I got a brilliant idea for Mark’s birthday cake from Real Simple. Of course, I had to modify the recipe, but the main idea is based on this recipe.
I asked Mark what kind of cake he wanted, and we talked a little about ice cream cakes and Better [...]

Hi there. I'm Calee. Not Caylee. Also known as chimes or the chimes. I'm 27, a designer, a runner, a self-proclaimed fitness queen, a craftster, a foodie, a music snob — some might call me a hipster. Here's the unabridged version.
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