baked oatmeal and my enemy (google+)

first of all, i tried this the other day and it brought new meaning to the word "oatmeal". i strongly suggest trying it out. i didn't add the cranberries and i used coconut milk instead, but it was still delicious and smells like thanksgiving.

• 3 cups rolled oats
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup melted butter
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup dried cranberries
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• preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
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• in a large bowl, mix together oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. beat in milk, eggs, melted butter, and vanilla extract. stir in dried cranberries (if you want). spread into a 9x13 inch baking dish.
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• bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes.
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• yum. :)
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• - - - 
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• and now let me offer a word of caution: do not delete any photo albums off of google+. i did because i had all these pictures (over 500) that had been pulled from picasa/my blog automatically that i didn't want up there (there were kissing pictures, people! had to go!), but because i pressed the "delete" button it got rid of every single picture on my blog from the past two years. no warning. none. my brother, the computer genius, told me how stupid i am. right. well, i still say google+ sucks. so now i have to try to go back through my blog and figure out what pictures i posted where.
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• i know it doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but my blog is my journal, basically. i've been trying my best to document my life and keep a little record of the day-to-day like our awesome general authorities told us to years ago (i am terrible about writing in an actual journal), and i was actually doing a good job. which became a hobby. and i loved going back and looking at the pictures i posted and everything i wrote (which is luckily still there). anyway, lots of tears have been spilt over this today because i'm just so disappointed. 
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• so for now, my blog is incomplete. i'm going to try to restore things to the way they were, but it's going to be a sad, sad few days. 
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• and now all i want to do is sit in a corner at kneaders with a cup of steaming hot chocolate in my hands (best in town, in case ya didn't know). a bath would feel great, too. but as it is, i lack a bathtub, so it's just going to be me and the hot chocolate tonight. because that's what us single ladies do when we're sad.
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• peace out.
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• (ps. if you follow my tweets, pardon my french. it was all very dramatic when i realized what happened.)