November 8, 2008
Today I really had a strong craving for cupcakes. Betty Crocker in a box cupcakes just wouldn’t do. And so, I convinced the hubby to shuffle along with me to Manhattan’s Upper West Side (about 40 minutes away from us in today’s nasty weather), just to get a piece of the Magnolia Bakery’s claim to fame. I specifically went to the Upper West Side location because I figured that location would be the least likely to have a ridiculous line.
Something that I forgot to mention in the video: the vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting are the best! The chocolate frosted cupcake I was eating in the video was yummy, but mm mm mm, the vanilla cupcake was probably the most perfect cupcake I’d ever tasted, moist but not mushy and just sweet enough, except that the frosting almost gave me a toothache it was so sweet.
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November 8, 2008
I was quite a voracious little intellectual when I was a kid (I was always the one who’d sit in the library for hours poring over books on every subject), and I would have positively loved to have received a gift that would allow me to learn another language in the natural way that babies learn their native language. Even if you’ve totally ignored the bright yellow image at the top of this review, you have to know that I’m talking about Rosetta Stone, praised by Michael Phelps and other US Olympians and sold in a mall-kart near you, it’s the language learning software that guides you through the natural language learning process so that that foreign language comes to you effortlessly.
Rosetta Stone touts that their system of dynamic immersion as opposed to memorization of translations, the way language is generally taught in schools, is the reason why their software is so popular, effective and so loved by its users. There are 31 language courses available for Version 3 of Rosetta Stone’s Personal Edition software, from Spanish (both Latin American and European Spanish) to Russian, to Tagalog and Swahili. For those who need to learn English as a second language, they’ve got that too: American and British. It’s definitely a vast variety that will make you hunger to be a multilingual maven of language.
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