My Fourth of July Weekend was filled with studying, studying, a wedding, not feeling so good the morning after the wedding, and more studying. Jealous?

Other than the beautiful wedding, my highlights of the weekend centered around eating, especially these breakfast burritos (great hangover cure). It’s not the healthiest of breakfasts, but given that my idea of healthy when I eat out for breakfast is forgoing the French toast in lieu of getting the traditional eggs/toast/sausage/hash browns, it’s really not that bad.

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Is it normal that I already forget how old I am? Whenever someone asks (and given that people generally assume I’m anywhere between 14-18, it happens more than one would think), I always have to take a second to think about it. I accredit it to the fact that I have a summer birthday. By the time my birthday rolls around, whatever age I’m turning is old news.

Tomorrow I turn 25. I guess that’s a pretty big milestone since it’s a quarter of a century, but in light of the fact that I still get carded for rated R movies, it’s hard to take it seriously. To celebrate, I am going to New York for the weekend to visit friends and eat delicious foods so get excited for me to tell you allll about it when I return.

Since I’m going out of town, I’m trying to eat all of the perishable foods in my fridge, i.e. fruit. This breakfast is another staple in my family, and my dad affectionately refers to it as “gruel.” He even accredits it for helping him lose a significant amount of weight a few years ago after he started substituting it for his usual breakfast of eggs and toast.

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